[fmsr]

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I read small stakes hold em and I just bought stox book, I read the posts in here all the time also so hopefully I'm off to a good start, I think I might take a break until the new year and read up and study more becuase even though I feel I have a significant edge against most players at my level I'm still losing alot, whether it's just been sick variance (which in part it is, I can't even begin to estinmate how many rivered gutshots and weird hands I've had to pay off lately) or a big leak but I think it's a bit of both so I'l keep at it.

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Listen to mvoss. You cannot possibly draw any conclusions whatsoever from a 1000 hands. Studying is good and necessary but I think you also need to play hands, so taking off until January might not be a good idea.