These are some relevant posts that I made in my blog (http://xpaand.blogspot.com)

Post #1 - Background Poker Knowledge

My poker knowledge is pretty limited. I have basic strategy down, but I have yet to learn much technical stuff. The only book I've read so far is Online Poker by Doyle Brunson. I didn't learn too much from it, as 90% of the material was very obvious. I recommend it if you just learned the rules of poker, but if you've played a lot of poker, it is pretty much useless.

Currently, I am reading a book called Theory of Poker by David Sklansky. I haven't actually started reading it yet, but I want to be able to get through at least the first two chapters by tonight, and I will post what I've learned from it. If you have read it or are in the process of reading it, feel free to discuss topics of interest.

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Post #2 - Bankroll Management and FTR

I can tell you first hand that this is probably the best advice you'll ever get (unless you're rich as hell and you just don't care about how much money you drown into poker). I have probably lost close to $1000 in my whole life playing No-Limit Hold'em, which isn't bad compared to others. However, if I had applied proper bankroll management, I would have lost $0! Even when I first read about bankroll management, I couldn't bring myself to play at such low micro-stakes ($.01/$.02 at the moment), but the more I played and the more I read at FlopTurnRiver.com, the more I realized that this is the ONLY way to achieve long term success.

If you have not already, you need to check out FlopTurnRiver.com. This site changed my view of the poker game and community completely. I realized that to be really profitable in the long run, you have to fully submerge yourself into the study of poker. You cannot just read a couple books and expect to make money. You have to apply your knowledge and grind out some experience playing many hands with the knowledge you've gained. If you ever encounter terms or abbreviations that you do not understand, go on FlopTurnRiver.com and check out the Beginner's Guide. Of course, you can also comment to any posts and I will clarify anything you need. And yes, I do realize that the resources on FlopTurnRiver.com are much more abundant than on my puny blog. That is not the point of this blog. The point of this blog is to direct you to abundant resources and to show you examples of how I will approach the task of learning poker so you can learn from my mistakes.