Hi--

I'm pretty new here. Not sure if there is already some section of this site devoted to this question. If so, sorry. If not, then here's my situation. I have been playing NLHE for about the past three years or so. I used to play mainly live, but now I play mainly online on America's Card Room. I mainly play in tournaments, but I do also play some cash games as well. Over the past three years, I have done a lot of reading and studying when it comes to NLHE poker. I think that I have learned a lot. In a lot of cases, I buy my poker books used on Amazon, and I get them for almost nothing.

I tend to see a lot of ads online for various poker training sites. There seem to be so many of them that I just don't think that I have the time or energy to check them all out. I have checked out a few of them, however, and generally have not been too crazy about them. I did try one called "PokerSnowie" that seemed to be mainly for cash games, which I thought was quite good, but I am really more interested in tournaments. I see a lot of ads / emails for Jonathan Little's "FloatTheTurn.com," but I haven't tried that out just yet. To tell you the truth, I don't know why guys like Little keep pushing all this poker education stuff. I know that he is considered to be a very good player, but why spend all the time and energy on poker education and publishing instead of just playing poker? I guess that he must have concluded that there is more money in the publishing / education aspect of poker than in the actual playing of it.

OK, so at the end there, that was perhaps a bit off topic , but if anyone has had a good experience with any of the poker training sites out there, I would be very interested in hearing about it.

Regards,

Gene06825

if you wanna be really good at poker, i advice you to buy some good vods

I enjoy helping people who want to improve their poker skills and I also enjoy not playing poker all the time. I play the live circuit about two weeks per month and I am home the other two weeks. Life balance is important to me.

Lots of sites out there. RIO for more advanced players, there's card runners (haven't checked it out in a while), doug's site upswing that's geared more toward beginners i believe. There's some twitch channels if you're new, TPE is another site (tourny poker edge). Just google and you'll find plenty but the ones i mentioned should be ok. These are just a few so get a free trial or just 1month and check em out one by one see what you like.

I'd be most inclined to get an upswing membership (when I have the buckaroos lol). As Doug said two proven crushers teaching you in a course format is better than a bunch of random dudes putting out a bunch of random videos.

Playing poker and teaching poker are two different skills. The latter is saleable, the former is not. Fortunately, Mr Little has been endowed with both (god, given he's posted ITT I sound like such a sycophant).