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So you think you should adjust your playing style because you suspect that you are in the middle of a bad beat period? This is IMHO simply the worst thing you could do. If you have played your hands optimally (which I hope you are at least striving to do) there is no reason to adjust your style because you have been drawn out on the last 50 or 500 hands. Then it is better to just take a break from playing poker completely, because this will otherwise ensure you to generate your own losing streak.
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Well although I agree in theory with your proposition, in practice it is simply wrong. I have played well over a million hands of on line poker, and and there are times when things just go wrong and in fact at times it actually becomes somewhat predictable. I agree that most may not even be able to perceive it, and certainly it simplifies your play when you just continue to blindly play exactly the same way even though you are losing hand after hand, but in my world this is what sepeperates the very good from the good. Anyone can win when they get good cards. Very few can lose a minimum when the cards are simply your enemy. Now if it simplifies your world to play the same way regardless then by all means do it. But as for me I am always happy when I come out the other side of a bad streak with my stack still intact and don't have to worry about making up for losses that would have been easy to avoid if I had simply paid attention to run and not just the cards.