Join Date: Jul 2011
Posts: 3,876
Good question (and I see what you did with the title too, but humour in BQ...not so much)
I would have thought a sensible answer would be study other players, look for tells/reads and such like, see what they are showing down with, sweat their hands in your head and stay focussed.
Playing hands that are out of your ranges (assuming you have developed them) seems hardly a + EV move just to combat boredom? Fair enough if your live edges mean you can play a wider range, but even wide range gonna have many dry sessions.
I rarely play live, so feel to ignore everything above, but I've gone 200+ hands consecutively without seeing a flop at Zoom (and I'm 26/20/8.6, so not exactly a nit) dozens of times and I often find myself think "hell, live that's like an 8 hour session, how boring would that be".
