Hi, was playing live poker after a constantly losing money since I began playing this month. Went in with 100, slowly went to 30 and back to 110 in 3 hours. On the last hand villain had 7/8, no flush possible and there were 2 10s, i put him on a low range and had pockets As. He went all in, so did I as based on my read. He had to hit a Queen to beat me and he did. I am devastated, dont know if I could've played any batter and thinking of quitting poker.
If you want us to review your hand, you need to post a complete hand history. What were your exact starting cards (if suits dont matter, just make them up), what was the preflop action, what was the flop, what was the flop action, what was the turn card, what was the turn action. Without this information your hand is basically just a bad beat story.
I also have to be a bit hard on you here and say, that if losing one hand makes you consider quitting poker, then maybe its not a game for you. You are going to lose or win an awful lot of
hands in poker, and especially live poker is really a long term game, because you only get to play 30 hands per hour.
So you have played for a month, but what does that really amount to, maybe 40 hours or even less? Lets say, you have played 1.000 hands. That might feel like a lot, because it has taken so much time, but its absolutely nothing. Variance in poker is huge, and you need closer to 100.000 hands, before you can really begin to estimate your true winrate.
If you play 10 hours per week, that is like 7 years of poker. Sure you are going to have some idea after say 15.000 hands or 1 year, but its very common even for winning players to lose over 15.000 hands.
I am playing online, and I can not even count how many times, I had a downswing, that lasted more than 15.000 hands. So as a live part time hobby player, you are absolutely going to have not just losing month but even losing years. This is just, how the game work, and if you are not mentally prepared and bankrolled for it, you should find yourself another hobby.
I honestly recommend learning the game online, because you can play so many more hands per month, and get to that "long term" much faster. You can also play for a much smaller amount of money, so that it does not haunt you, when you lose a stack due to a cooler or a bad beat.
When you are beating online games until stakes like 50NL, you have an extremely good foundation and hopefully a
bankroll to move into soft low stakes live games, if you prefer that format. Learning to play poker in a casino is going to take several years and cost you many 1.000 dollars of losses, before you perhaps become a winning player.