That doesn't make any sense. Live games are very soft, but not softer than 2c/5c ...

wonderland, you're starting to piss me off. Stop looking for your failure to beat the online stakes elsewhere... post more hands, review your sessions, and stop making stupid plays. You suck at poker... learn not to suck so much -> profit.


Dutch, if you haven't played for at least a couple of months regularly, you can't really know what your winrate is. Live games are so insanely slow. You can be a loosing player overall, but win over the course of 5-10k hands, just because you caught a surge of positive variance. On the other hand, even the best live players will have loosing months - if you don't even have 8k (that's not even close to the minimum for 400NL) then you're going broke sooner or later.

Read the starting hand requirement stuff (should be stickied in the beginners circle) - stick to that.
Most likely mistake: you're playing too many hands, and you're not playing your good hands aggressively enough.
If you're never ever folding AA or KK, they will still make you money - heroic laydowns are more likely to cost you money.