Hey everyone,

As you can see I'm new here - I've been playing poker for a while but finally came to the realization that I'm pretty terrible and want to improve my game. I've been reading through posts/hands/articles/training etc, and have started to try some of these methods out, playing tight and then trying to put my opponents on ranges and acting accordingly.

I'm struggling with some of this though: I try to put someone on a range, but when I get into tough spots, I simply don't have enough time to figure out the full range in the middle of a hand, let alone go and calculate my equity. Instead I just think to myself something along the lines of - "oh, there's a good chance he has a flush" when a third club hits on the river (maybe after the villain limped and then c/c-ed small bets on the flop and turn with a draw on the board).

I am curious as to how other people began learning to do this - are there any strategies/tricks that you found particularly helpful? Any previous threads on this? FWIW, I've been playing at 10NL tables.

Thanks...