Quote Originally Posted by bef99hwk
...consider myself a decent poker player.
like every beginner does

i went through the same struggle and then strarted reading books and lots of great advices here.

result: my selfrating as a poker player decreased from "decent" (if not to say "hell, i´m great") to "at least i´m doing better than last months"

the major things i had to learn in the beginning:

- it´s not about beating the best players, but to make the most cash
- it´s a long term game
- you´re never that good


if you need to build a BR big enough for $25NL try playing some sngs, in a tourney ppl are mostly not that suicidal. there it´s not a quarter or whatever, but all or nothing for them.[/list]