Quote Originally Posted by Ugly Ed
I usually dont bluff. I thought this time though I would try to take the pot with nothing.
So your read was a whim? Ed, you bluff because you feel you can make your opponent fold. Neither your reason nor method were sound here.

Also, you can learn to play poker at 25NL. People are sane enough not to warp your education, and bad enough to pay you off even when you make mistakes.

You've clearly demonstrated that your skill level and bankroll is below 100NL. What that equates to is that it's not a matter of if you'll lose your money, but how fast you'll lose a lot of it. Do you think that playing with higher skilled players will teach you how to play better poker faster? Like some kind of freaky abridged mail order brain surgery course? Bad logic. You learn this game by seeing a boatload of flops and situations. By analyzing betting patterns and tendancies. By defining table image and texture. These people you're sitting with have seen thousands upon thousands of hands and situations. they've been there and done that. Playing with better players is a much later stage of your development, after many other lessons have been cemented. Haste is waste. Be patient and do your time in the trenches like everyone else did. Then someday you can visit the penthouse when you're worthy.

P.S. Your first lesson should be "How do I beat bad min stakes players?" There's a definate answer.