Quote Originally Posted by biondino
Problem is, if the 10% of the time you're not playing solid poker is when you're calling all-ins with no more than TP and pushing all-in with ill-judged out of positoon bluffs, then that's going to eat away the profits you've got from playing well and then some.

You need to master the basics (by which I mean anything from not playing Ax to knowing when to fold an overpair to betting for information to taking advantage of position to giving your opponents bad odds etc. etc) and play with absolute, stone cold discipline.

If you are contemplating a non-tight, non-standard move, you need to know WHY you're making that move before you press the button, and you need to be convinced that it is at least as good a move as a more cautious, standard alternative.
Man did that simple advice ever help me. I started back @ 2nl after originally posting this. Right now im back in 10NL and my roll is at about 210$ and growing steady. I'm gonna keep up the 10NL till at least 400...maybe even 600-700. One thing that helped my cashgame alot was watching the cardrunner video's. They do preach a lag style but the talk about positional play really made it click and I find i'm "seeing" alot more than I did previously. I also bought poker tracker a couple days back. Once I pass 2500 hands I'll post my stats. So far its looking great tho.