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There's a thread somewhere called "this is my x number post, ask me anything?" (or something close to that) I think its by ISF of spoon or one of the other well respected regs here. There's a section in it where the question was asked - "If you were to teach someone poker, what topics would you have them study and in what order?". The answer maybe quite useful to you as it would give you a solid path of learning. I tried to find it but have failed maybe someone else knows what i'm on about..
anyway, I'm going to outline a plan of action for you, most of which has probably been said before. Follow it and you'll get better fast.
Your preflop leaks are a discipline issue. Pre-flop strategy is easy, anyone can learn it fast. Applying it consistently isnt necessarily going to happen. Maybe you're mentality is something like "its ok to limp here this once" - ITS NOT. beyond this, I have no idea what mistakes you are making post flop since you're not giving us anymore information about your play.
Based on what I do know, here's what you need to do.
Identify exactly what you're leaks are. Open HEM/PTracker and start filtering out groups of hands. You can look at how you're handling premiums, JJ+ AK, then pp's 22-TT, then say your strong non premiums like AQ KQ, trouble hands, TJ/TQ/QJ/KJ sometimes AJ and Axs.
Look at how you're playing these hands, are you winning with them or losing with them? why? If you made a big score with a trouble hand you still may have made terrible mistakes doing something like limp/calling out of position and making a bad flop play only to catch on the turn. If you're unsure about a situation post it here and ask. You can get a basic gauge here by looking at all the examples of a particular hand. For example, if you have coldcalled 4bb with 10Q 26 times and only made one score of about 10bb then there's a good chance you shouldnt be calling 4bb everytime. You can take this post flop, these kind of hands often lose even when they pair up. thats why your database is going to show more profit with AK that with KJ. or AQ over QJ. your kicker sucks so much that its not worth playing these hands alot of the time.
Further to this, identify whether or not you are playing crap hands like Qx, Jx, unsuited connectors, unsuited aces etc. etc. If you're seeing flops with these under any circumstance other than checking on the bb then just stop it right now or i swear I'll hunt you down with an axe. Strong players with massive databases have shown that you can not win with these hands. YOU CANT WIN WITH THEM (for emphasis because its important)... unless you have a super user account... but you dont so lets move on.
Next, consider starting a blog/operation diary and post in that forum your winnings/losses each week. It's true that its not exhilarating for the world to read tales from 5NL but for you it means telling people that you made stupid mistakes and lost money. For some people this means a sense of accountability, they stop having that "ok this time" mentality because someone better than them is going to read their post and tell them how stupid it was. Likewise, if you can write your story in an interesting way you're going to have people encourage you when your running bad, which will make a difference and remove that "screw poker, its such bullshit" attitude. It will keep you on your game.
Ranges. This is hard to do. Practice while you're playing, and then re analyse your sessions later. I assure you that you will not be able to accurately assess ranges quickly enough to start with so you have to do it away from the table to get better.
Maths. Make sure you can calculate equity and pot odds, practice it. I don't personally think that I'll ever be able to stove a range and punch bet/(bet+pot) through a calc fast enough to be able to do it all the time when multitabling. But here's the thing, the more you do it, the more you get to have a feel for the strength of your range vs villains range and the better you can make quick and rough but close enough calculations in your head. Its not going to be that often that a call is so marginal that you need to calculate the equity and call with 32.4% when you need to have 32.3.
Physics and discipline. -
TAKE YOUR HAND OF THE MOUSE. I'll bet you make subconscious decisions to call bets because you're fast mouse finger is right there and the mouse is right over action button. Its easier to stop this if the physical action required is greater. It will give you time to consider the decision your making and make the right move. Ask yourself "why?" everytime you do something, and if you can't back it up with good reasoning either don't do it or don't do it.
lastly, I'm going to lunch and dont have time to write anymore... Final point.. actually do it.
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