When I first started understanding poker it was fun. I was playing play money, learning as I went. There was a lot to learn about hands (I still have a dozen different starting hand charts somewhere), pot odds, position, etc.
Then I started trying to win freerolls, and that was exciting when I started to get [...]

.. on the new site. I think my difficulty with it arises from the combination of 1) overly aggressive players mixed with 2) calling stations, and 3) my lack of differentiation between how to play these different players (or, some degree of schizophrenic behavior inherent in the players themselves). Calling stations you have to [...]

Last night, playing my second SnG (having already started a 3rd on another site) I found myself not yet at the bubble, low but not desperate for chips, on the button with 99. Folded to me, I raise, get reraised by the SB.
I’ve played my usual TAG in the early goings, playing very few hands [...]

It’s sad, but I’m almost ready to give up.
Not poker in total, but my goal of focusing my play on the new site in order to collect as much of the deposit bonus as possible. SnGs I’m ahead but they don’t contribute very much towards collecting the bonus, and I cannot maintain a winning [...]

This is an interesting term that I don’t recall coming across before. You have your money bankroll, but you also have an emotional bankroll. This is probably more important than the money one, and in many cases, including mine, is probably much smaller than the real cash one.
There are preset ratios that apply to bankroll [...]

A theory, which I hope makes sense.
My theory is that the reason that I seem to get sucked out on as opposed to sucking out is that I tend to get my money in when I’m either a coinflip or ahead rather than gambling on catching something. Of course this doesn’t apply to late in [...]

Was watching an instructional video, and was struck by how loose and weak the “experienced” student was, and how she was not being coached to play better. Instead, she did all the talking, kept limping in weak hands, saying things like “I’m going to call here and see if we hit the flop”. Played too [...]