HOW do I go about being a better poker player? I mean, WHERE DO I START?
I played mock games with no cash just to get the feel for it for about 5-6 months on my comp, as well home games (usually tournaments with 1st, 2nd and 3rd getting payed off) with $20 buy in each. I actually want to learn to play better poker so I suggest $10 tournment and play at least once a week but non of them had time and just wanted to play $20 a months.

With home games, I usually go home broke even when I'm playing my best. I'm not gonna blame it on bad beats or anything because I realise now that I'm just playing VERY badly. Most of my friends know me for being tight so most of the time against me, they always raise to 7-8 times when they have a reasonable hand, while against anyone else, 3-4 times. And because of that, I usually become the short stack of the table.

Throughout the game, I hardly recognized any tell. I did figure out that player 3 is usually very aggressive, the SB dances around abit and the rest are pretty loose.

IS THERE ANYWAY I CAN START BEING A BETTER PLAYER?