[MEbenhoe]

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Hey chesspain. why is there always some little puke worring about the way others spell? i cant spell so what!!!! does that make me a bad person? if i have to write something the "correct" way i just have my wife do it. so what. its little morons like you who think they know it all. oh well and i love to take advice thank you for saying i suck. that makes me feel real good.lol i am going to try a higher limit game and see what happens. in the mean while i will take your advice and keep reading and practicing...thanks a million for all the good advice you guys. great forum.......Jimmy

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If this is really your attitude you are headed down a bad path man. One that's gonna lead to your gambling losses snowballing. I'm guessing your wife already doesn't like the fact that you spend all this time at the casino and never come home a winner. She's may even be starting to question if you have a gambling problem. This isn't the time to get pissed, and just keep pushing.

I know you don't wanna hear it, but just from things you've said so far it is clear you don't understand poker enough to be a winning player right now, but you seem to enjoy and seem to wanna get better which is good.

So if you can put your ego aside for a minute and admit this to yourself then you're ready to learn. My advice to you would be to start playing online at the micro limits. You can learn a lot from these games without putting much stress on your income. Read Homer's post in the internet forum titled "building a bankroll for newbies", follow a lot of the advice in there to help you build up a bankroll. Read all the posts you can in the micro-limit and small stakes forum, and ask educated questions about aspects of your game. Post hands for discussion and attempt to discuss others hands.

Finally you say you've read books. A lot of players have read books, and a lot of players either 1. don't comprehend to the level that they can fully apply what they're reading or 2. are reading the wrong books. There's plenty of books out there that are completely worthless, don't trust everything you read.

Hope that helped.

P.S. the one thing you absolutely should not do right now is attempt to go play a higher limit.