I know most of the people here play online a lot. I myself play online too but much prefer playing live games. It just seems more fun.

Now the thing I've noticed about playing live games is that you have to have a ton of patience in order to stick to any sort of strategy.

From my experience online playing SNG's you can easily play 50+ hands in around an hour. However in a home game with 10 guys all drinking, socializing, etc. we might take almost an hour to play 10-20 hands!

So one can easily sit there for an hour not even getting a chance to play a hand. Sometimes its even longer! I'll literally sit there for an hours and the best hand I'll see is a K8o. I'll sit and watch these guys trade their stacks back and forth playing just about anything. Guys will get busted and still have the nerve to razz me about not playing enough hands even though I still have a good stack in front of me.

I just find it interesting to see all these strategies for playing high ranking starting hands yet I can sit and play in a live game for 5 hours and see maybe one or two of these.

So my question for you guys is when playing live games do you ever have to loosen your play just to compete? Its frustrating sitting around for good hands. I'll wait for an hour and get dealt QQ only to have the flop come AAK and multiple people are playing it aggressively. Or better yet play tight for hours then just out of boredom start playing some marginal hands and piss away most of my stack. That's when I'll get dealt AA when I don't have any chips to make it profitable.

My success rate has been pretty good at my home games. I've been in the money 13 times out of 28 games. I sometimes just feel like I'm missing out playing so tight. Is this just the way it is?

Any thoughts, Anyone?