I am a newbie - and right now, the hardest thing for me is when I run what I call "flop dead". I can handle getting crappy hole cards because then I can just get out of the hand. However, I recently had a run of excellent hole cards that just never hit the flop. Like JJ and the board comes AKx - or AK and the board comes 789 - and so on.

Then, I started getting the worst cards to follow that - thinks like A8o, or KTo - hands that, under ordinary circumstances I probably wouldn't play, but which I am now going in on because I start feeling that SOMETHING has to hit for me.