First off, I'm new here and look forward to spending more time on this forum as my poker skills increase. I have played poker for many years, but only recently become aware of things such as how important pot odds and hand odds are. At the moment I play solely online, and to help me I use a poker calculator which churns out the pot odds against my hand odds to help me decide whether something is worth a good play or not with value.

I tend to find my playing post-flop is decent, and I don't get sucked into big bets if I feel I haven't got a better hand than my opponents. One problem which I do face quite often though is pre-flop calling relative to my hand.

Earlier I was sitting at a play money table on Pokerstars, 5/10 Small/Big blinds. Pre-flop someone bet 160 and I had pocket kings, I called. Was this the right play? According to my calculator the bet was value, the pot odds were lower (in percentage) than the win odds, so there was value, but I only had a 600 chip stack.

I notice this quite often pre-flop where people will call or raise big amounts, and sometimes I feel annoyed when I call and end up losing such a hand. I like to keep my poker as consistent as possible, and what I mean by this is to keep profits and losses consistent, rather than having huge swings of losses by calling sometimes silly bets.