Here's an example of what I mean. I've posted some pretty aggressive hands on FTR before. On this one I raised in late position with crap just to steal, or hopefully to take one or two guys to the flop and THEN steal. On this hand, I let it go after the first bet from someone else. No raise from me whatsoever. Why? Because I had been sitting & watching these guys, and I knew they were passive - there was no reason one of them would open without a very solid hand. There was no point staying in and hoping to suck out.

This is the kind of thing a new player is not likely to understand - that sometimes you have to let a hand go, even though you were the aggressor initially.

***** Hand History for Game 1950641814 *****
$25 NL Hold'em - Monday, April 25, 14:46:19 EDT 2005
Table Table 36570 (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 1: alan_e22 ( $27.15 )
Seat 2: LateLate ( $35.35 )
Seat 5: deep7 ( $2.9 )
Seat 9: strongbowyum ( $22.15 )
Seat 3: stressball10 ( $33.15 )
Seat 10: Squbb ( $59.75 )
Seat 6: VTR14 ( $24.75 )
Seat 4: str8ryder ( $23.75 )
Seat 8: unitking ( $8.75 )
Seat 7: Wally_2 ( $25 )
deep7 posts small blind [$0.1].
VTR14 posts big blind [$0.25].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to stressball10 [ Ts 7h ]
unitking calls [$0.25].
strongbowyum folds.
Squbb folds.
alan_e22 calls [$0.25].
LateLate folds.
stressball10 raises [$1].
str8ryder folds.
deep7 folds.
VTR14 folds.
unitking calls [$0.75].
alan_e22 calls [$0.75].
** Dealing Flop ** [ Kd, Jh, Th ]
unitking checks.
alan_e22 bets [$3].
stressball10 folds.
unitking is all-In [$7.75]
alan_e22 calls [$4.75].
** Dealing Turn ** [ Qc ]
** Dealing River ** [ 2c ]
alan_e22 shows [ Kh, Td ] two pairs, kings and tens.
unitking shows [ Qd, Kc ] two pairs, kings and queens.
unitking wins $17.95 from the main pot with two pairs, kings and queens.