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I'm new here but I've looked over a lot of the hands you did play, so I'll give you my two cents with specific examples relating to your play.
Based on what I saw, here are some of the basics that you really need to look into:
-Study the different starting hands and learn what hands you can play in general. More specifically, study what hands you want to raise with, what hands you can call a small raise with, what hands you need to fold when someone else makes a large raise, and how your position relates to all of these things, as well as the information you have about the raiser and other players. You are playing a lot of dead-end hands and occasionally folding a hand with post-flop opportunities. But you did show the ability to fold crap hands for a period of time and wait for something better, until you lost your patience.
-That being said, your post-flop play needs much more work than your pre-flop play. For one example, Ax suited can be played in many instances, but learn why you are not usually looking for a pair of Aces when you play A6s in a ring game, and why you have lost money doing so (HH#24).
-Learn about outs, learn about pot odds, and learn about the marriage of the two. A gutshot straight (one of your favorite draws) is not a very good one to spend money on in general, much less against an isolated opponent. Learn why chasing a gutshot is usually no good. Very few drawing hands are worth playing against a sole opponent who is clearly protecting a made-hand. I noticed two hands where you were drawing to some sort of straight, and when you didn't make the straight, you called a river bet on one with a low pair, and on another with nothing. Save this money for a hand where you can reasonably convince yourself you might see a return.
-Don't re-raise someone all-in preflop with 94s, unless you know exactly why you are doing it. Learn why. (HH #1)
-When you have 8h 10h and the flop comes K 6 10, no hearts, ask yourself whether or not it is indeed possible your isolated opponent has made a pair of Kings before calling his bets down to the river (HH#54). In this case your opponent did not make Kings and was on a draw, but either way you were not a favorite in this hand. You were beaten by 9-10, J10, Q10, K10, A10...not to mention Kx and other hands. When you saw the 9 on the turn you were romanced by the gutshot straight. You should have probably folded the flop... however, when your opponent showed strength on the turn you should have re-evaluated the hand instead of being drawn more into it. How did the 9 help him/her? As you can see, even if you made your straight on the river, it was the losing straight. Pay attention to more than just your own cards, and try to realize when you're drawing dead. But first, don't draw to gutshot straights anyway.
-Learn why slowplaying is dangerous and why you have lost money doing it (HH #29). Learn how and when to protect your hand. Learn how to snap your opponents pot odds. Don't play scared, don't be afraid to raise and re-raise hard when you need to. Don't try for a check-raise on the river against an opponent who is obviously not super interested in the hand (HH#37).
-HH#36 - You have an open ended straight draw and an overcard, good enough reason to call with two other people in the pot. It is super risky to semi-bluff bet this turn for a variety of reasons, but if you're going to do it, you need to be more aggressive to try and take the pot right there. It doesn't count that you are the one who comes out betting in this round if you place the same bet that you called on the flop. This only increases everyone's pot odds. On the other hand it was OK if you weren't trying to semi-bluff so much as set the tempo for your draw, but you were still potentially drawing dead already. If you bet aggressively and get called, watch out unless you improve. The river was even riskier to bluff because you didn't improve and you're looking at three possible semi/monster hands that will call if you bet. As posted above, don't bluff into the nuts. That said, the only chance you had of winning that pot was with a decent sized bet indicating you wanted to get paid off for the nut flush or a full house with a pp that hit a set, and even then you may be bluffing into the nuts. This representation may also be above the thinking level of your opponents in this particular game, and so may backfire. Regardless, as you can see, nobody was fended off by your fifty cent increase. Really, this is not the best hand for you to choose to try for a bluff or semi-bluff unless you have great reads on your opponents. Know your opponents and make your bluffs with precision.
-HH#35 - This is a good example to show how your position helped you here. Try to really understand position, and learn to play it.
-HH#33 - You decided to move up a limit. It's the first hand at the new table, you fold early. The hand finishes. Ponder the hand you just witnessed and compare the play to your reasonable self-assessment of poker experience. Stand up, go back to the lower limits (next time).
-HH#31 - Fold pre-flop. Post-flop, pay attention to more than your own cards.
-HH #29 - You are letting somebody else take control of your hand and allowing them the opportunity to draw to a flush or a straight (or other hands) at their preferred expense. You might think you are slowplaying, but this is not the time or the table. If the third heart comes, your opponent will often bet large whether he made the flush or not, forcing you to fold unless you have a read on him. Don't make it worth his while, raise and re-raise.
-HH#15 - You were correct in assessing that you were being sort-of bluffed. However not every hand can beat a bluff. Yours was one of those.
-HH#13 - You have gone on tilt. Haven't had any decent cards for a while and are pissed that when you finally get a playable hand it's raised more than you can afford pre-flop. It seems like they must have known you finally got something halfway worth seeing the flop for, and are trying to squeeze you out of it. How are they doing that? Well, you will show them by going all-in, and you will refuse to believe that anyone is raising with any one of the many legitimate hands worth raising preflop that destroy J10.
Here's your real problem: in a ring game, if you can't afford a standard raise with the chips you have left without getting pot-committed to throw in whatever chips are left after the flop, this does not mean that you should just go all-in preflop when you want to play one hand (unless its a high pp). It means that you should not be at the table anymore. When you're losing, something is going wrong. Maybe you can beat the players but you're in a horrible seat, maybe you're just not getting the cards, or maybe you're getting schooled and it stings your pride to admit it. Almost everybody has been here and done this at least once, if not 20 times, before they started improving their game, and even then it still happens from time to time. But eventually you have to realize that there really is no pride in getting smacked around and then asking for more. There is a slice of pride in standing up before you're taken for everything, and trying to learn from the experience.
HH#2 - did you not see the straight when you were raised? If you were trying to bluff the flush on the river, you needed to bluff a little harder and be pretty sure this guy would lay it down. What did you know about him? What did he know about you? If you thought your two pair was good you were not paying close enough attention.
HH#1 - I know you were on tilt at this point but that's why you needed to stop playing for a while.
Take the advice posted above and study places like this site. Get some books. You need to put time and effort into studying the game and teaching yourself. Realize that there there is no shortage of people in this world who have a head start on you. Don't expect to compete with all of them today.
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