Quote Originally Posted by Robb View Post
Preflop, the idea is to open both premium hands (AA, KK, AK) and some weaker hands (TT, KJ, A8) with the same preflop raise. Sounds like your $15 open-raise bet. On the weaker hands that may cause problems postflop, we're happy to have them fold and surrender the blinds. + $3. But they know we're pretty likely to have a big hand, so it makes our cbets (continuation bets) more believable when we bet out on the flop.

If you wanna get better, may I suggest that you dump $100 online and play microstakes NLHE? You can play about 10x as many hands per hour as you can in the casinos and in home games, and you'll get tons of experience playing basic tight-aggressive poker.
I live in the U.S(philly). I thought online poker is done in the U.S? The only way people can play online poker is outside of U.S If I'm missing something, let me know, because I wouldn't mind playing online for fun.