It's funny, I can't stand bad beat stories...or how someone shoves on the button with A9cc and runs into KK in the BB and they lose. All of these things are standard and I'm left unimpressed about how horrible your luck is as mine is just as bad, I just don't bother other people with it. But I do sympathize with negative variance, especially lots of negative variance in a short amount of time. It may seem unremarkable, or you may not believe me, but in 72 hours I haven't been dealt a pocket pair above 9's (I think it's actually 7's, but I'm positive I haven't had 10's so I'm being cautious with my estimates), a AQ (suited or not) that's hit the flop as well as an AK (suited or not) that's hit the flop. Now if you just play recreationally, this may not be a big deal...but in this time I've put in 3, 4+ hour live sessions. Played a live tourney (25th of 88th despite my bad run of cards - I won 2 races with 77 vs A10/AJ). In addition I've played 6 or 7 sng's, 8...maybe 10 MTT's and 2 full ring game cash sessions. When you have a cold deck for even this long it's as if time is standing still, you think you'll never see two kings in the hole ever again. You see your OPR stats getting killed and your BR vanishing and there's nothing you can do but hold on tight, play even tighter and wait for the poker gods to even things out for you. So next time you want to unload on me about how your flopped set of Jacks got rivered by some donk who flushed it up by calling your preflop raise with 53hh, just be thankful that you've seen a set of Jacks and hope you encounter that donk again.