Practice observations

Don't worry bout people giving you a hard time, this place is often heated due to loads of intelligent people all disagreeing about things. You do suck horribly at poker, but that's cool, most people in here do, that's why we're here. Honestly, if you just accept you sucked horribly and that you actually have no idea yet as to whether you can beat 25NL then you'll be fine and anything anyone says will bounce off you. Post hands here and get into the IRC channel and post hands there and you'll soon begin to both relaise just how bad you are at poker and how much you can improve by getting people's help; this is the first step to pwnage.

Good luck to both you and OP.

don't worry , I'm not picking on you to make you feel a dick , or to make myself look great. You have an EGO problem, thinking that you are a better poker player than you really are.

for example its easy to pick on peoples losing hands. Take this winning hand though http://www.pokertableratings.com/han...661/8995889320 . full house vs full house and only a meagre pot. If you are going to be check calling all the time you price your opponents in to suck out on you and let them check behind and take a free acard to do it.It kills your winrate if you don't get value from your monsters. You should have been playing that hand for stacks , not peanuts.I think one of the players at the table is an FTR reg (Boog69) maybe he picked up some reads that will help you.

You also had QQ, called a 3 bet pre then checked called down against Boogs AdKd and let him check behind on the river when his flush draw missed.It eems to be a common trait on the hands you played , you go all passive and lose lots of value. at 2nl you can get away with it , at 25nl it will cost you dearly.

Originally Posted by iamfilipe

So I dropped down under FILIPEIAM (note) to 2NL and practiced just that, steadily working my way up. I'll do it until I win my 2 buy ins back, then jump back to 25NL hopefully with better discipline.

Not to be condescending or anything, but a better plan would be to: win your 50$ back and move up to 5NL, win 20-30 buy-ins there and move up to 10NL, win 25-30 buy-ins there and move "back" to 25NL. You will have played at least 50-60k hands by that point and will be immeasurably better at poker.

I don't think there is a 5nl at cereus . He has to jump straight to 10nl ....but that means he ought to win more at 10 nl.