Omg I'm in a session and I have been card dead for hours. I can't take it anymore. I don't have playable hands. I can still steal blinds and win small pots but this is ridiculous.

What to do when you're card dead? Except the obvious listening to music, etc

Fold pre.

Fold pre

force the issue. find something suited. raise or 3-bet.

barrel off.

rebuy or profit because of your image.

I think I've done too many of these. This is definitely my leak. I put my self in a difficult spot every time I do this.

I understand about find something suited, but every time I'm on late position, I got super garbage like j6, k5, 10-3 **** like this. I can't even make a move.

I don't want to make a move on early.

masturbate under the table

Make friends. You would be amazed how cool some of these people are.

Exactly. Be friendly and sociable. It's amazing what kind of doors can open for you in life and what adventures you can have just by being those two things.

Alternatively, focus on every single hand and constantly try to determine hands and ranges based on actions.

Take notes,
1) raise size pre from what positions
2) what hands do they play from what positions
3) are they one and done with their bluffs
4) what sizing is their Cbet with value hands or with bluffs
5) how do they play in 3/bet pots, do they call a 3! OOP just to smash the board and if they don't do they just c/f

Etc etc

And maybe you'll find a way to exploit some of their mistakes/leaks with ATC.

I think been card in any session could be positive if we put in some work on the felt even when we are not involved in a hand.

GL

Embrace the fold padawan

I'm going to have to strongly recommend against "forcing the issue" by "barreling off", your image is not "tight" despite the reality of the situation, your image is "not winning", and thus "not lucky", and this will inspire people to play back at you even if you haven't played a single hand for 2 hours. I learned this through experience.

Now I just fold pre. The suggestion to be sociable is a good one.

All good advice here. This is good time to 'test' yourself with hand selection, position and paying attention to the play that is going on to help you in the future. Try to guess the hands of others, watch their body movements.

Showing frustration will not get you far .. people will be way less likely to call down someone they are conversing with than the 'mad loser' guy that they want to get off the table. This will allow you to steal more ... "oh, you finally got a hand? I fold"

I've seen it, I've done it .. be patient and get all the bad run out without losing chips .. or change tables .. or go home .. or take a 20 minute break/layover if you can't control yourself. GL

Not getting a hand for 3 hours and only being down $30 in blinds is better than a session full of missed AK, beats, and coolers. The difference between us and fish is we lose $30 when they lose $150 with the same run of cards.

Attempt to think of the largest prime number that you can.

straddle/shove ATC if there's limpers. obv show after they fold

ez profit + you appear less nitty

and this

Take a break for an orbit. Go pee, drink some water, stretch, etc. No need to "loosen up" or play wreckless due to no cards. Be patient and stay focused. Also, ignore trolls and profit. #$$$$$$$$$$

Generally you don't want to change your overall game plan based on the cards that you are given.
What you do want to do is make small adjustments and take marginal situations and turn them into profitable situations.

A situation where you felt before you could shove a combo draw and it might be break even with fold equity + pot equity is now likely profitable as you have far more fold equity than you did before.

The opposite is true when you have been playing tons of hands and appear very laggy. When you shove with your combo draw you may instead have no fold equity as people are tired of you playing in every pot and and they are looking to 'get you'.

So, while it does occasionally give you mor eleway to bluff in spots that might not otherwise, it doesn't mean that you can juts do whatever you want with whatever cards you want. That's call boredom, and that's why forces a fish to play 75o vs and UTG raise and then stack off when he hits top pair. He was bored.

Don't be bored, don't lose your stack with 75o.

part of playing poker is you need to be patient. Sometimes it takes longer than we would like to be involved in a lot of hands. However,

this really needs to be in another forum.

OP just about every one of your "general" posts are already locked up.

I think these type of posts are hurting llsnl

See how they react to you open-limping with junk in EP.

I thought you were prepared, mentally, for this?

You have to fold. Watch the table. Profile your opponents. Observe what they're doing and what leaks they have to exploit. Then fold some more.

The best thing to realize is that folding IS playing the hand. It's a choice and an action just like any other. Many times its even the most profitible action.

I find that the best thing to do when card-dead for 2 or 3 hours is to change table or change venue. (Changing venues to "reset" your mindset can work well.) Your image is just not going to be very strong if you've been folding for hours and haven't got involved in many hands. Often bad cards equals bad play so when you do finally get involved, the good players are going to read you anyway and either not pay you off or see through your bluff. Only stay if you feel you'll get value from the weak spots when you do finally hit the board - but there has to be two or three truly awful fish at the table for this to apply.

seriouspoker (original poasters name)- is obv not serious about poker if asking this question seriously. Some fantastic troll responses. If you cant fold for 3 hours straight and have a bead on every player so you know exactly what to do to when playing that opponent you are doing it wrong.

11?

Whatever you do, don't do any of this.

Sit there, pay attention, and take mental notes of how everyone is playing. The information might not amount to anything if you continue to be card dead but if the correct situation arises the information you've gathered can be worth a ton of money. Pay attention to how much value each player is putting into top pair type hands as I find this to be the most valuable information of all. Pay attention to what players donk bets mean. Pay attention to what people are limp calling with. Pay attention to what each players opening size represents if the hand goes to showdown. I also like to put myself in villains shoes and imagine how I would play a hand if I had (insert hand here). Keep your brain operating. I struggle to do this at 2/5 because I find that beating it is fairly simple but I still miss out on tons of money because of my inability to pay attention at the lower level. My aforementioned advice is things I find myself doing at 5/T and T/25 and it keeps me sharp at the table.

This is bull****...he sits there staring into space picking and admiring his boogers.

His advice is sound however.