Quote Originally Posted by spoonitnow
Something that a lot of new players first start to discover is what starting hands to play in early/middle/late position. There are at least a dozen starting hand charts floating around on this site alone. As a result, players new to NLHE have a decent preflop game in comparison to other microstakes players. However, a lot of these players get frustrated because of players calling their raises with hands like A5s, flopping two pair against their top pair top kicker, and taking a good portion of their stack. They don't know how to play against players who are making such apparently terrible decisions preflop because they can't decide if their opponent has bottom pair or middle set.

Without knowingly doing so, these opponents have bypassed our new hero's preflop preparation and are taking the game into a place that these new players aren't as prepared for. The same thing happens when our hero learns how to c-bet, but his opponents start floating him left and right. Hero has been taken out of what he knows how to deal with and is forced to play a game he doesn't know so well.

Perhaps this doesn't have so much application in poker, but for new players it can definitely be a lesson of why you should learn to play well on all streets instead of just preflop and on the flop.
This is exactly where I am right now. Having moved up to 10NL through winning a tournament I'm finding that my standard "play" just doesn't seem to be getting me anywhere and for the moment I'm a losing player at this level (a small sample, 1K+, but when you're only doing 1 table it takes a while to grow). So yeah, I'm constantly having hands where I really have no clue where I'm at. Do I want to bet, if so do I want to be called. WTF does this c/c flop, c/r reraise mean?!?!

I'm actually really hating the fact that UB doesn't have a 5NL level because at times I feel as if I'm completely out of my depth at where I'm at.