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Message: [QUOTE="Chopped Out, post: 7102463, member: 1047370"] Hello, Just started playing / learning NL Holdem and looking for some advice Because I'm just starting out and don't have much in the way of any skill set yet, so I'm reading as much theory as I can and playing micro tournaments for practice (at the $1 - $2 buy ins level) The thing I'm finding is that at that level, huge numbers of players are madly keen to shove all in (seemingly with anything and 90% of times pre-flop) I have been calling these when I have monster hole cards (AA KK QQ AK) but even with maths on my side, it's still a bit of a coin flip - I understand variance now, but it doesn't seem to be my friend particularly - and I seem to lose far more than my statistical share (and often to absolute trash) than logic would suggest I also would rather learn to play poker well, than flip coins (certainly in the first hour or two of a tournament) I've tried to tighten up, play to my position, Isolate to only one caller, read my opponents (mostly VPIP 70+ all-in and don't take much reading) but I'm still not doing that well I even tried backing down at all in-coin flips (even when I guess i'm ahead) - but they're so common at my level, I just sit there watching my stack getting smaller until I don't have enough to worry anyone anyway. I'm about 2 months in to this and am getting a bit disheartened by the repetition Thinking about my options, I could ... - Buy in to more expensive tournaments - less lunatics, but I'm certainly not good enough for that level yet (and not sure I have the money to get enough practice at that buy-in level) - Keep doing what I'm doing rely on the maths, suck it up and wait for variance to level out a bit (eventually - 2 months already seems a long time), and hope that things are more like real poker in the mid / later stages of a tournament (and hope I don't lose interest regularly getting beat by 72o before getting there ) Or perhaps anyone with some experience could throw a few hints my way Thank you for reading, all advice is genuinely welcomed, and thank you in advance, for anything you have to offer [/QUOTE]

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