I'm not good at poker.

[Catt]

Lots of good advice in this thread. I'll chime in (and be somewhat repetitive) by encouraging you to respond to hand posts and join in the discussion. You will learn so much more by participating than by lurking.

Sometimes the more experienced posters will post one-liners or near one liners "C/R flop and lead turn" without any elaboration. If you disagree, explain why you prefer an alternative approach, and perhaps guess at why the other poster may have suggested his line so you can address the presumed benefiots of that line to your approach. Sure, you may have totally missed an important consideration regarding the other line or an important defect inherent in your pproach, but by thinking it through well enough to write it out and respond intelligently, you will really start to understand what's going on in the hand much more quickly. And honestly, although it can sometimes be abrasive around here, if you make the effort to point out the relative pluses and minuses of various courses of action (and perhaps sprinkling a few "I believe" or "it seems to me" phrases in your response) you'll almost certainly get a good response from one or more others and not a "idiot" sort of response. All of a sudden . . . hey . . . you're involved in a pretty good discussion with some fellow good poker players.