Patience Pays Off

Balance needed. U can wait until blinds eat you or watch flop every hand, both are bad.

Around 8 patient hours!

Houbi37 said:

Sometimes the best move in poker is simply folding and waiting for a better opportunity. Many players lose chips because they force action every hand. Staying patient and disciplined is often the key to long-term success.
What’s the longest time you stayed card dead in a tournament?

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More than an hour and a half!
Eventually my username saved me since I stuck to it’s ideology and my stack got revived! 😁

I’ve had tournaments where it felt like I was card dead for hours 😄 Sometimes you just have to stay patient and survive until a better spot comes. It can be frustrating watching your stack slowly go down, but forcing action usually makes things worse.

Houbi37 said:

Sometimes the best move in poker is simply folding and waiting for a better opportunity. Many players lose chips because they force action every hand. Staying patient and disciplined is often the key to long-term success.
What’s the longest time you stayed card dead in a tournament?

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Patience and discipline are always the key to good results. And this applies not only to poker, but also to your personal life or your career.

Yes, in poker it’s not just about patience or luck like some people say. Others say it’s only about skills, and so on. I think if you really want to achieve something, you need to improve in every aspect of the game — that’s when results come.
Just sitting and waiting for AA to solve everything doesn’t work. There’s no guarantee anyone will even call your all-in, while the blinds will eat up your stack much faster than those AA hands will come.

I’ve definitely had stretches where I felt completely card dead for over an hour. The hardest part is not getting bored and forcing weak hands just to feel involved again. A lot of my worst tournament busts came from impatience, not bad luck. When I stay disciplined and wait for better spots, the game usually rewards it eventually. Patience doesn’t guarantee a win, but punting chips out of frustration almost guarantees a bad result.

Houbi37 said:

Sometimes the best move in poker is simply folding and waiting for a better opportunity. Many players lose chips because they force action every hand. Staying patient and disciplined is often the key to long-term success.
What’s the longest time you stayed card dead in a tournament?

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I once went nearly three full levels without seeing a truly playable hand in a tournament. At some point, you stop thinking about building a stack and start focusing purely on survival and discipline.
That’s one of the hardest parts of tournament poker — staying mentally sharp while being completely card dead. A lot of players end up forcing spots out of boredom or frustration, and that’s usually where the real damage begins.
Sometimes folding for an hour straight is actually good poker.