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Message: [QUOTE="absoluthamm, post: 1716148, member: 39314"] Like Zorfox said, it looks like you have a good grasp on poker, but online and live are two different beasts. You seem to know a lot of what you'll need to do, but knowing what to do and doing it can be difficult for the beginning player who just wants to play. As for your first two problems: "[SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]not enough time to evaluate the situation and not being able to read people". One big solution is to do a lot of this grunt work post-session. I'm not sure what site you're playing on, but many have hand replayers, so go through and see what you and your opponents were doing and make notes on them then, not while you're playing. That way when you play one of those players that you have notes on again, you will have that information at your fingertips without having to remember their username and what specific observations you had on them. As you get more comfortable, if you're only playing one or a couple tables, then you will be able to do this easily on the fly. One key word that makes your life a lot easier - abbreviate. Also, about evaluating the situation, you can also learn a lot about this post-session, but along with just using the hand replayer, put your opponents ranges into and do calculations with [URL="http://www.pokerstove.com/"]Pokerstove[/URL](a free program). Obviously you can't run every possible situation, but the more you do away from the table and remember, the better you will be when the situation comes up at the table. As far as using a HUD, in time, it will help you tremendously and I almost always advocate getting tracking software ASAP, but right now, you need to work more on getting used to playing online. If you aren't paying attention to chip stacks, then you won't pay attention to any of the stats on your HUD. So you would be wasting money right now. Lastly, your buy-in amounts. You say that you're normally playing $1/2(or 200NL) to $5/10(or 1000NL) live. The common idea is that the conversion in difficulty between live and online is about 10x the stakes. So according to that, you should start out playing somewhere between $0.10/.25(or 25NL) and $0.50/1.00(or 100NL). It may seem like you're playing for peanuts at first, but with the ability that you're able to play a lot more hands per hour and that you're able to multi-table(in time), it can add up to a much higher winrate than live play. Although, once again, I would not suggest that you start at these levels at first just because you need to get familiar with playing online and the software(missing chip stacks just keeps sticking out). I hope that helps out, if I think of anything else, I'll come back. [/FONT][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]

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