One terrible run of cards

[Johnny_Cash_Advance]

This past Friday I was playing a 2-4 Hold 'Em game in Atlantic City. I sat down at 11pm and played until 5am without winning a single pot. I was consistently catching rags, and on the rare occasion that I actually caught something worth playing (pocket pair, AK, etc) the flop was no help. The best I got was top pair probably 3 times at most in those 6 hours of play, and I was beaten by two pair or a set every time. Has anyone else caught a run this bad before? Any schmuck off of the street would pick up a pot in six hours, and I'm not a bad player.

[astroglide]

that's like 200 hands. i've had downswings or breakeven runs for 10,000 hands several times.

[sthief09]

If you played for 6 hours at 35 hands/hr, that's like 200 hands. if you have a 93% chance of losing each hand (winning 7% of hands at a 2/4 live game is probably pretty normal for a tight player), the chances of that happening are 2,000,000-1

[Arnie]

heres some advice, not really pertaining to your cold cards, but to your AC trip, get far far away from the 2/4 games in AC, if you are a decent player like you say, sit 3/6, 5/10, or 6/12 depending on where you go

[turnipmonster]

I've been 5 hours without winning a pot in B&M and thought nothing of it. it's not a bad run at all.

--turnipmonster

[MrGo]

be glad you were only playing 2-4. try 10-20 or 15-30

[andyfox]

It doesn't matter that you didn't win a pot. What matters is how you did relative to the cards you held. If you played well, and lost, say, $200, when, had you played poorly you would have lost $400, then you won $200 just as surely as had you left the casino with $200 more than you walked in with.

[lefty rosen]

That's a normal day at the office if you play live poker seriously. It's one of the reasons I don't play live anymore....

[tolbiny]

hey,
its not so uncommone. My worst single session i split one pot over 6.5 hours at 5-10, ended up down 700+. not a fun day and over the next 10-15 hours i won around 8 pots. It sucks, but it happens.

[lefty rosen]

Damn I must be a total rock because I would lose about 3 or 4 hundred at those stakes..........