do some people really have better luck?(rant... be prepared)

[jtr]

If you seriously believe you have worse luck than everyone else then why not start staking your opponents?

Less radically, it may help you to know that your paranoid fantasy about being the unluckiest guy in the world occurs to most players at some point, a bit like the way most 12 year olds imagine that everyone in the world apart from them might be a zombie.

Of course, someone somewhere really is the unluckiest guy in the world, but I'll lay odds of at least 10,000 to 1 that you're not him.