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What will probably happen is you'll get overly aggressive to make up for your scared play. You'll probably lose a little money doing that and then say, well wtf do I have to do to learn this game??
When that happens, be patient. You will have to find that balance between being aggressive and being too passive or scared. Thing about poker is that no one can give you a set of rules that say what to do when. People try to do this to help you start out by suggesting what hands you should play and how much you should bet etc, but you will not be a winning player until you realize that you can't play from a chart or by using generalizations.
When I started learning cash games (I already knew donkaments and therefore had a pretty good grasp on poker), I used Renton's guide and pretty much followed it religiously for a while (he wrote a FR guide and I kinda applied it to 6 max). It got me through 50NL okay, and then I went to 100NL and got whacked around by people who were way more aggressive. So I thought to myself, okay I gotta learn to be more aggressive or else I will never beat this level. I turned up the aggression, but I did it too much and still couldn't win. What it did was teach me when to be aggressive and when to back down, though. Right now I'm starting to find the balance, and now I find the game much easier. I was actually trying to figure out what caused the change and why I find it so much easier now, but I don't know why. It's just about playing and learning and losing a bit of money and then getting it back after you figure out why you're losing money.
I hate it when I make silly rambling posts. Hope some of that made sense.
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