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[QUOTE="eazy489, post: 1782805, member: 83298"]
Hey digital,

I have been playing NL hold em for the last 5 years.  I play some cash but mostly tournaments, and have profited over 100k online.  Let me give you a bit of advice.

If you are saying you are a n00b, then in all honesty you probably are. (at least you are honest lol) That being the case, you should not be playing 1/2 NL hold em.  If you are playing poker even as a hobby, you need to abide by strict bankroll guidelines.  In all reality the minimum you should devote to poker for playing 1/2 NL HE is between 10 and 15 thousand.  If you deposit a few hundred or even 2 thousand or 5 thousand online, and think you can run it up playing 1/2 NL, you will lose it very quickly.

Bankroll rule of thumb: Most pros agree that you should have about 100 buy ins for the level you are playing.  I would say that at 1/2 and lower, around 50-60 buy ins is sufficient.  But you don't want to go much lower than that.

In terms of your stats, 1000 hands is actually a pretty small sample size.  If you were playing 28% of hands over a very large sample, I would say that that is actually a pretty good stat, as long as you are using that against your opponents.  28% vpip (voluntarily put $$ in pot) is actually a few %'s higher than your avg 6 max grinder..maybe about where they are.  I think your stats overall look pretty darn good, but again its a small sample size and you should work as hard as you can on your short handed NL game if you plan on playing a lot online.  There are training sites all over the web to teach you better poker.  I like deucescracked.com.  I'm not sure how much you have deposited, but if its something like 1k, then i would start at maybe .5/.10 and .10/.25.  Hope this helps.
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