[krimson]

Standard variance. Basically, you're not going to win as many hands with so many people going to the river, so slowly losing your chips is standard. When you do win pots, you take down mmasssiiiviiveve pots, and you catch nice little streaks for big upswings. This is what makes the game profitable, these huge upswings that will occur.

It should also be mentioned that your expectation here on average is much lower than you probably think. A solid player could expect to earn around $7-8/hr from a live 3/6 game. You sound like you have the idea in your head that you should be beating this game for hundreds a night. If this were true, we'd all be at our local casino's right now.