Starting Over - I need some advice

[jively]

I know it's important to learn 6-max. However, my suggestion to ItalianFX would be: if you are not sure you are a winning player in general, play $0.50/1 full for awhile. Play at least 10,000 hands. Your guide is SSHE, and you can follow it fully. Don't worry about blind steals or defense. Work on the post-flop skills. That's where you can work on counting the outs and the pot odds, and protecting your hands, and the really important small-stakes hold'em skills.

If you are winning there, then come back to 6-max. The game will still be there, and you can work on the pre-flop nuances, and being heads up with marginal hands. Counting outs when you have middle pair on the flop in 6-max is funny because you may have the best hand. Make sure you really know the basics by playing full tables.

Just my alternate .02.

-Tom