Re: What to do with $14000?
No ones reading this properly. This kid (im 20 myself so i use this term loosely) has either been very successful already at something or has rich parents.
Either way he must have much more money than 14k and has split the 14k off as 'gambling money'.
However what the others are saying is true, u must beat the lower level games first before moving up.
Put $13k in a bank and play with $500 BR at $0.5/1.
$500 should be for PT, books, and other software.
Play 1 month, and see how you do, hopefully logging at least 10k hands.
There are online schools where they charge like $40/hr(i've never tried, cant afford it)and a pro watches you play and gives advice etc; maybe it would be worthwhile doing this for a month.
Then buy more books, reread your other ones, and then log 20k hands at say LHE 1/2.
His BR means that he can afford to pay for things that will shorten his learning curve, like PT. I've heard many stories of people playing years grinding up from $20 or something, OP can just cut all this out.
In terms of books to start= ToP, SSE, HoH1, HoH2 and Middle Limit Holdem by Ciaffone. I heard Jones' book has some flaws to it and personally i didnt really like Hilger's book. Then again i play NLHE cash pretty much exclusively so take my opinions with a serious pinch of salt.
Certainly OP should be nowhere near the 5/10 LHE and up within his first 4-5 months of play, regardless of BR.
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