Won one hand, folded for 3 hours till I get kings in pre flop just to get them cracked. Anybody making a living from live poker hats off to you because to me it doesn't seem possible. Too much varience and it's too hard to put in a sick amount of volume! Eurgh, kings cracked tonight aces yesterday, maybe I'm just on tilt but it's just ridiculous waiting for a good hand in position when the best hands I was getting all night was j-4 off. Anybody got any tips? Might start playing online again but my local card room is so soft it seems stupid to stop playing live. I just need cards to work with. Also I tried to represent a hand by bluffing just the way if played a monster and got called by 10 high.

This isn't some whine thread by the way, i actually want to make it work, but how do i weather this bad run?

Sounds like you're whining. You expect AA every hour? Try about every 8+ hours on average. Give details on the 10 high hand. Bet you screwed the pooch royally there.

But yeah, when you get good you can pick up spots where your cards don't matter. Since you're getting picked off by ten high, you should just continue to fold and not try to make something out of nothing. Play HU online if you want to get experience at doing that.

Otherwise stop crying and stop thinking folding for 3 hours and losing with KK is a bad run. Try flopping 6 sets in 4 hours and losing them all. That's a bad session. You won one hand, lost one hand and folded the rest of your hands for 80 hands. BFD. Also, the variance is much lower in live games. That's why you are not wanting to go back to online, LDO.

OP, a few live sessions like this with such a miniscule sample size is hardly even a run let alone a bad one.
Keep playing, focus on making the correct decisions and hands will come.

Definitely recommend playing online as well as live so you can more than 20-30 hands a hour and learn variance is a lot more than that.

Fair enough it sounds like i am crying but i can't start playing j-4 OOP, i'm even folding J-10 utg. flopping 6 sets in 4 hours sounds bad, not sure if you lost them all because you played them bad or not but yeah. Do you play live or online because i'm not sure which is working out better atm.

Live i get payed off with most of my hands but online people get to know if you're a knit. My range is QK + any pocket pair from EP, and KJ any pocket middle, q9- j9- suited connectors late position, also depending on who's raised etc.

You have to sacrifice volume for a softer game, am i right?

People who do this professionally have MONTHS where they run bad, not a day or two.

You're going to have dry spells. Everyone does. But you can learn to play through it (Hint: really bad hands like J4 are better than second best hands). In all of your folding, you might pay attention and figure out who to bluff and in what spots, so that you don't end up in a position where you get snapped off by 10-high (which I'm assuming was a busted draw that still beat you).

Side note: Live is WAYYYYY softer/easier than online. Just have some patience and it is like printing money.

I played those sets well. It was limit holdem, so it's not like you can stuff your stack in the middle to price out a draw. Yes, I've been playing live exclusively since 2011. Before that I played almost exclusively online except for 6-8 weeks each year during the wsop.


Play the game that yields the highest expectation.