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Mr. Davis,

Thanks for your reply. Could you please elaborate?

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im not Mr. Davis, but there is A LOT here you need to bone up on before reaching the mid limit games. the reference to JJ is one clear one...in low limit and mid limit it doesn't matter. what matters is the TYPE of game you're in ... a loose game is a loose game regardless of the stakes. JJ doesn't play well against 3-5 people for 2 or more bets. when you go to the river there be prepared to lose. you should be playing it like a drawing pair or a big pair depending on the # of people you're likely to be involved with on the flop. if there's a raise you can make it 3 to try to keep the pot to a few players. or just call and invite everyone and try to flop a set or have an overpair.

in terms of you're understanding of the concepts necessary to play mid limit, you're just not there right now. reading books doesn't necessarily DO anything for you. you need to apply the concepts correctly and from your QTs post its clear you don't even have the preflop and flop concepts down yet. easiest fold ever w/o some insane read on the MP raiser there. thats a losing play to call. also, if you remember the books you claim to have read, HPFAP specifically states that you need a BETTER starting hand to play after a raise than to raise yourself. further, you should rarely be cold calling a raise w/ nobody in between. reraise or fold a significant majority of the time. fold QTs without a read EVERy time.

Mr. Davis also referenced sample sizes for hands. 15 hands is about 3 orders of magnitude shy of being a viable sample size...ok, well maybe thats an exageration but it DEFINATELY needs another 2 orders (1500 hands) more than you have there. these are also concepts you clearly do not understand and simply need to study more and how and when to apply them.

best of luck to you on your studying and playing. this forum is here to help you and you can use it as such (but start with the lower limits)

-Barron