I went through a few evolutionary stages in my play. I’ve been playing daily since last August, so coming up on nearly a year.
When I first started playing, mostly I was playing a limp strategy, and my range was basically any Ace, any King, and any Broadway cards, plus suited connectors and gappers. I’d try to see a lot of cheap glops, get out quick if I missed, and apart from flushes didn’t play draws. I did well if I flopped top pair, didn’t care what kicker I hit it with, wasn’t aware of position, and would make a pot size bet if I hit top pair on every street until I won. I’d also fold when I could tell I was beat, mostly situations where I didn’t have top pair, or when I did but the board was flush against me, or there was a pair on the board for someone else to make trips with.
Lol, I did actually win sometimes with this approach, but I would typically finish ITM 1-2 games/night, playing about 6 on average. I’d like to play until I won chips in at least one game, and if I moneyed in my first, I’d play again until I lost one.
Back then I had a hard time seeing potential straights on a board unless they were obvious.
For the first few months I didn’t chat, didn’t show my hand if I won by folding, ever, and wasn’t aware of the forums. I learned by taking a game I had done well in, and replaying hands to analyze my thinking catch holes in my game, opportunities to win bigger pots, etc.
Early on, I would just throw chips in at any time I hit, and would lose value in early position because I signaled to the table that I had a strong hand, and they’d fold, and I would win, but a small pot. I’d especially lose value on draws. One of the first things I learned about the slow play, and then the check-raise.
I’d see I was getting beat a lot by straights, because I never saw them coming, and figured out how to see possible straights on the board, and also started playing for straights sometimes, open ended draws and flopped straights. I strangely found that I seemed to lose more with Two Pair hands than I did with Pairs, and I figured out why that was, and how to recognize a good two pair situation vs a bad one.
After a time I came to the forums and asked questions when I couldn’t figure out for myself why I was getting beat, or when I just wanted opinions. I learned a lot, was willing to try different things, and kept what worked for me.
I can’t give away too much, but eventually I learned that I should open up and raise my good hands, not play marginal and junk hands, and how to bet for value to maximize my pots when I’d win them, avoid playing on tilt and trying to play through cold streaks, and that for most advice there are situations when it’s ok to go against them.
bless your heart=you poor child, you really don’t know how stupid you sound.