How Should I Approach This? (BR management and game type)

[ledfut]

So you've been a member since 2005, yet here you are in 2014 limp/calling junk out of position and playing top pair shit kicker like it's the nuts.

You need to step down to 2nl, and post big pot hands, both ones you win and ones you lose. People will tell you why you suck at poker, and hopefully you get better. Or maybe you don't care and you're happy to continue to play freerolls for cheeseburgers.

While I registered in 2005, I have play roughly 25k hands with money on the table in my life. Before this past month, the last time I played poker was in 2010, and I only played for about a month and a half (Full Tilt closed to US players and I was on a free bankroll). I understand the basics and sort of know what I'm supposed to do. I lack discipline, and my post flop play isn't that great. If I didn't care about getting better, I wouldn't be here, and I wouldn't have spent $100 on Poker Tracker and another $40 on books.

You are right about not playing $10nl. I know I don't belong there yet. It's that lack of discipline combined with a good run of cards that made me think I could hack it. I lost one last buy in at $10nl when I ran a full house into 4 of a kind. I have since set up my lobby to only show me $2 and $4nl.

I will post some hands when I do my 10k update. How should I go about posting the hand histories? Putting them all in one post will make for a very long post, and I don't want to flood the forum with 10 posts.

[BigSlickBaby]

While I registered in 2005, I have play roughly 25k hands with money on the table in my life. Before this past month, the last time I played poker was in 2010, and I only played for about a month and a half (Full Tilt closed to US players and I was on a free bankroll). I understand the basics and sort of know what I'm supposed to do. I lack discipline, and my post flop play isn't that great. If I didn't care about getting better, I wouldn't be here, and I wouldn't have spent $100 on Poker Tracker and another $40 on books.

You are right about not playing $10nl. I know I don't belong there yet. It's that lack of discipline combined with a good run of cards that made me think I could hack it. I lost one last buy in at $10nl when I ran a full house into 4 of a kind. I have since set up my lobby to only show me $2 and $4nl.

I will post some hands when I do my 10k update. How should I go about posting the hand histories? Putting them all in one post will make for a very long post, and I don't want to flood the forum with 10 posts.

I'm new on these forums, too so I certainly don't want to be a dick to you but ....come on, dude. You've been around the game for years and you've been playing 25k+ hands. That right there is enough to prevent you from open limping with J8s from UTG. You open limped, called a raise, called a reraise, and then continued this behavior post flop. There is NO WAY you could do that after being around the game for as long as you have. That's why these guys are posting "omg" and what not. The hand you posted is probably the worst played hand I've ever seen on this forum. I'm new but I've been an on and off reader for several months.

Trust me, you're lucky you're playing on one of Jersey's networks with the rest of the fish. If you were playing on the offshore sites like WPN you would be getting absolutely killed for 6+ buyins every time you sat down to play 2nl.