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What should be my "learning path"?

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What should be my "learning path"?

I just joined Run It Once and trying to see what the site has to offer for my profile, before I decide to subscribe or not.

Here's my story. I am 44, father of a young kid, with a full time job. I have been playing poker for almost 15 years. I've played mostly online. I played around 1.5 millions hands online. I started playing limit from 25c/50c up to 5/10 and since I switched to NL, mostly NL25-NL50, sometimes lower, sometimes higher, up to NL200.

Globally I'm a slight loser, lost maybe 3-5k in those 15 years.

I own about 20 poker books, read most of them :) But haven't read anything seriously in the last 5 years. I haven't played much in the last 2 years, less than 100k hands I would say, mostly NL25-NL50 and probably a slight loser. I did have a nice winning streak 2 years ago at NL100 zoom for a couple months. Cashed out enough to pay for a nice Disney vacation for the family (humble brag!). But overall, I lost a bit over that period.

Decided that I want to go back to playing seriously. But I am really out of touch with the state of the game and modern concepts. Also my mental game is pretty weak, I tilt, I go from my A game to my F game really quickly when I get unlucky. Also I have a hard time focusing, I used to play at least 2 tables of zoom (sometimes even 4) or 4 to 10 tables of regular game to keep me focused. I knew I wasn't playing optimally, but I was making up some of it in volume, at least from rakeback (which I understand is not so good anymore).

I am in Canada, so have access to Stars, but not sure it's the right place to play anymore.

I am willing to start at the bottom to re-learn the game, work on my mental game and bankroll management.

I can probably only put 10-20 hours a month of both playing and studying, not sure what the right balance should be.

I have Poker Tracker 4, but willing to invest in different, newer or better tools if necessary.

I tried to learn PLO a few years back and really love the game, but I am much more used to Hold'em.

I also prefer cash games because I can start and quit whenever I want. Can't play MTT because can never play for long period. But I did play a lot of SNG and tried a few Spin n Go (positive ROI over a few hundreds games). But small sample size, I know.

So please, I am looking for suggestions on where to start, which videos to watch. Which article to read. Which more modern books to get? Which sites to play, which stakes, which games?

Thanks in advance!

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Bingo 123 7 years, 4 months ago

Stakes: Start low, the intention is to get back into it and sharpen your skill. Don't care about the limit just focus on the strategy. Then after a while and when you feel good move up and continue. It's great if you can just deposit additional funds this means you can take some short-cuts in BRM when the time is there.

Site: For the stakes you play it does not really matter in terms of "beatable-ness" all these sites are beatable for these stakes.
And since your objective is to just get better, not really the money I believe its best to choose a site that makes it easy for you to play, software that you can work with etc.

Games: Start with NLHE, still the most popular game and most available. Given the time you have, id say the only option is cash. Question is to play zoom or regular tables. This one just depends on your preference both have there positives and negatives. Zoom maybe a better place to learn because how quick you can play and see how your adjustments work out, you play more vs the pool and work with limited reads.

Study: Think RIO is a good source of material, I can't help you too much in pointing out books or anything. Personally like to learn more on a self-learning approach using PT4/HEM to review my own play and states and then also watch videos to see how others approach the game.
Asking the right type of questions to yourself and then look for way's to "solve" this question is a mindset I like to have. If you look under "Pro Video's" there is actually a "learning path" tool, this maybe of help to you.

Bonne Chance!

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