Re: Starting Over - I need some advice
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work on your preflop play mainly at first. go on a mission to figure out why your vpip is 18 and around here 25 is the norm.
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No! No! No! This is very bad advice.
Continue to play tight and work hard on your postflop play. Once your postflop play is solid and you are confident in it you can slowly start adding hands preflop. Playing tightly will not have any serious impact on your chances of being a winning player at 0.5/1. Most of your profits at that level are made by using strong starting hands to flop good hands and pulverize clueless opponents.
Postflop skills are where the money is. The only really important thing about preflop is don't completely screw it up. Any reasonable preflop strategy will work pretty decently.
The big advantage of playing tight is the hands between 18% and 25% are only marginally profitable for me. For OP they will be a constant source of losses because he doesn't have the postflop skills needed to make them profitable. They will also drive his variance up and it sounds like he needs some peace right now.
In summary let me say that in the bigger scheme of things it doesn't matter whether you open KJo UTG 6-handed or steal from the cutoff with JTo. It never did and it never will. Things like knowing how to value bet the river and when to get away from trap flops are what the game is all about. Not preflop nuances.
BTW, Mr. Wookie is dead right. I started this game two years ago literally not knowing the rules. I don't analyze other people's hands for their benefit. Doing the analysis myself has taught me almost everything I know about poker.
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