Reacting to bad luck

My impression of the popular conception of the best way to react to a short run of bad luck at the table is to tighten up and hunker down. The thinking being that other players get used to seeing you lose so they'll both take more shots at you and will call you more often. So you want to make sure you only get involved when you have some extra strength to withstand that.

Random Shuffle has a slightly different take on that popular wisdom.

This advice may seem paradoxical, but when you've been running bad in No-Limit Hold'em, try raising more. And I mean more in both senses: (a) raise more often and call less often; and (b) make your raises (and bets) larger.

That doesn't mean you shouldn't tighten up and play fewer hands, you probably should. But it does mean you shouldn't hunker down.

I think that's closer to a good way to think of things than what popular wisdom seems to be on the subject.