hand 1 (Qs Qh): Stacks are too short to really care what he has. You probably have the best of it here.

hand 2 (2d 2s): Stop watching the WSOP. Lead the flop. Lead the turn. Don't expect a flush to ever raise/reraise the river on a paired board, especially after an overbet of the pot. Think about it.. where is the value in it (what worse hands can call?) Of course this is very general and may not always apply, but it's a good line of thinking here. I think.

Hand 3 (As Js): fold preflop. The raise is ~10% of his effective stack size which gives you very shitty implied odds on a flush, and ace-jack really isn't good enough here, especially for a weak player. I also don't like your flop play. Part of that stems from putting yourself in a very marginal situation preflop though...

Hand 4 (As Ah): Min-raising a min-raise preflop. At first I thought it was a misclick, until I realized that you did it again later in another hand. Then I checked to see if maybe you mixed some limit hands in. Nope, still no limit. Hrrm. I recommend Sklansky's theory of poker and Harrington's Harrington on Hold 'em vol. 1. Generally when I give advice, I give advice on every street completely independant of another. It's hard to give advice on this hand with such horrid play preflop though...

Hand 5 (Ad Ac): Hehehe. This is cute. He min raises, you min re-raise, he min rereraises you. I bet even the NL10 players were laughing at you clowns. See #4...


You are obviously pretty bad, so your only objective really should be to just get better. First, get a couple books. Amazon.com. Pot-Limit & No-Limit Poker by Reuben and Ciaffone. Harrington on Hold 'em Vol. 1 by Harrington. Those should be a good start. Read those. Play a lot of low stakes games. Watch successful players, notice their betting patterns, how many hands they are playing, how they are using position, what they are showing down, etc. Come to FTR and read all the hand histories and critiques of hand histories that you can find. Don't take everything for true-- some people routinely give very poor advice. Take the genuinely good advice and understand that the people giving poor advice may be how your opponent is thinking.