[parttimepro]

Thanks for the suggestions. I think I'll try to recommend some books or try to teach him some basic strategy. Maybe try to get him to play at the play money tables or freerolls to get used to the online experience.

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Unless your friend has a problem with gambling addiction, I see no need to do anything. If your friend spent money on some other leisure activity would you feel a need to intervene?

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I'm not so much worried that gambling addiction. Poker's a little different from other leisure activities in that he's expecting to win money, rather than play for entertainment. I'm just concerned he'll lose $100 and half blame me for it, and/or be envious or resentful that I can make $50-100/hr.

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Has he actually read Small Stakes Hold Em? Does he get it at all?


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No, neither of us has read strategy books. I've browsed through Sklansky and a couple others, but for the most part I'm self taught. Is SSH applicable to fishy NL games?

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Try pacific poker- he can only play one table (maintain focus) and the competition is rather easy

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Yeah, I played at pacific for the sign up bonus. You're right about the soft competition, but that site is just depressing. If the Soviet Union designed a poker site, that's what they'd come up with. Plus, I found I got a lot better when I started multi-tabling. Each hand had a much smaller time value, so I wasn't tempted to play A6o just because I was bored.

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he should be good for some extra income per maonth-maybe his money could pay for say,...your monthly electric bill ??


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Well, he's already paying for my beer. I want him to win. There are enough fish online that I don't have to single him out.