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Thanks for the thoughtful reply, Pokey. You make a lot of good points, and the NL10 games are quite likely may well be so bad that even a thoughtful beginner can tread water while learning. (Bankroll considerations make it a little different for B&M, obviously, even though $1-2 is probably almost as beatable as NL10.)

I'll have to reflect more about your piano/Spanish points. We're advocating two different ways of looking at the issue of gradual learning.

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However, for every hand where your flopped straight/set/flush/full house beats TPGK, there should NOT be an analagous loss.

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100% correct. But those aren't the hands people cite to say, "Look how much you're losing by buying in short."

Incidentally, not that it matters, the last couple of weeks I have been playing short a few times when I thought I wasn't psychologically prepared to play my best. But I'm generally too conservative with bankroll, which combined with playing too little really has slowed my progress.

I wish we'd had this conversation instead of the 50 previous times this has been discussed. Then I'd be less defensive on this topic. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]