running good/playing bad?

Just stop looking at EV graphs, period.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/78...erused-314415/

One interesting point made there:

Another example might be that you get it in preflop with QQ vs a nits AKs and he rivers the K.

"Oh I run so bad and my greenline/blueline/whaterverline shows it" - Not strictly true, the nits range might have been QQ+ AKs so you got it in as a dog against his range even though you were flipping against his cards.

Also, EV graphs are absolutely meaningless in the short term. I played a 1500 hand session once, and was surprised to see that I had been running a few buyins over EV. I didn't recall sucking out on anybody. And I hadn't. Turns out I had just gotten in some big pots as a 70/30 or 80/20 favorite and held up each time. I was winning 100%, which is more than my share. And the bad players that kept getting their money in crushed might look at their EV graph and think that they ran bad, since they won 0% of that money instead of 20-30%. It's true to an extent, but doesn't tell the whole story.

Just winning or losing a few coinflips for stacks will make it seem like you're running super hot or super bad (which is a ridiculous conclusion to draw) if you look at it in the context of a few thousand hands.