After I started learning about playing and started learning about hand groups or levels or whatever you want to call them, I strated by only playing from the first 4 groups from any position. This left out mid-bottom pairs, and mid-lower suited and unsuited connectors etc. Then as part of learning I expanded a little aand added some hands from the next couple of groups in later position.

This was like a base of hands I played. Now as you play more and more, and are more observant of other players, I kind of tweak this base of hands, playing adding some hands and not playing some based on a wide range of things. You're in late position and there a lot of people in the pot, that 65s is worth a call or maybe a raise. I should clarify that I just play limit, and limit and NL is night and day. But, I think the concept might be the same. In a generic game, you have a set of basic set of hands that you play from various positions in different ways which ends up being pretty close to seeing the flop 15%- 20% of the time. Then you adjust this based on the type of table, the number of people in the hand, and the tendencies you've noticed or have notes on about the individuals in the hand, and perhaps most important, your position in the hand.

From the little I know, it sounds as if you've avoided the biggest problem learning to play, that being playing too many hands. There are a lot of very good players that post here, above all, that are willing to offer their advice. I appreciate all the help they've given me, I wish I could give help to people in return someday.

One thing you might do is because you are only playing so few hands, maybe post some of the hands that you folded, that you thought maybe you should've have played, and people will offer their ideas of whether you should've maybe played them and why. Remember poker is supposed to be fun, and getting answers to questions helps to make it more fun. These guys hae helped me a ton.