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Originally Posted by JimB
I could use a little help choosing a training site. I am retiring in a year and will be traveling full time in my RV and want to try to supplement my income playing live poker. I currently live in NC and there is no where close to play live, so I want to get my chops back online and truly study for the next year as to be ready to go live when I retire. I played for a living over a decade ago in Vegas and Atlantic City, but that was a long time ago. Can the forum recommend an online course that can get me back on track? Also, I have a account on Blackchip Poker so I will be playing there. Can anyone give me an idea of which stakes will translate best to playing $1/$2 and $2/$5 live games. I know some sites are better for online and live, so I would be interested in your expertise in which site to start with for online and then which might be best to move to for my live games in a year. Thank you so much for any input.
If you already play on WPN you're playing on the hardest US facing network so that's good for getting your foundation established. As for the best site that is going to mimic $1/2 live most effectively: Ignition. By far. The games there play even looser than the average $1/2 in the casino because we're talking micro stakes. If you can deposit on other sites, too - BetOnline, Intertops, and Global Poker all accept US players. I have avoided Global so far and I would suggest you do, too. Ignition, WPN, BetOnline, Intertops (Horizon). That's the best places to play for Americans.
Definitely deposit on Ignition, though. You can play 6max or full ring 24/7, it's anonymous, allows HUD's, and definitely features play most like the kind you'll find in the lower limit casino games.
Tip: You're going to want to read and review a lot of hand histories while you work on your game. You're going to find the games extremely aggressive and at first it's going to seem like "they always have it" until you begin to realize just how often you're being bluffed on later streets. Very often, that's the only real strategy the "better" micros players have. Once you begin assessing range v range correctly and getting into counting combos, etc you'll begin to see when they're repping things not in their range, and seeing where there's a ton of profit to be made.