Thanks for the great forum...after reading the "flopturnriver" site and this forum I switched to small stakes NL hold-em. I have a good sound base of the game...I have some questions that I believe others may have also.
Scenario--playing .50/1.00 NL table online...pocket QQ...early position so raise on lower end...flop: 3 Q 9...rainbow...here is where I made my mistake....rather than bet aggressive and narrow the players I allowed the play continue to the river....Yep opponent pulled a A to go with his other two in pocket...he went all-in on raise...and yep i called...lesson learned there.
Questions: Now I tend to play timid and that is costing me of course.
1. Any reccomendations on the mental aspect of playing?
2. when faced with monster pocket pair...and flop possible giving opponent trips how do you figure odds for that?

Thanks in advance
gacowboy