It 's a constant battle, mainly with myself because of the way i want to get ahead in the game.

It truely is not anything against what you say and the advice that you give.

In Poker there seems to be advice that you can take on instantly, then there is the advice that needs some work, mainly because at first it would be advice that you just want to believe is negative towrads your own gameplan, then slowly but not so surely you begin to understand.

When i started playing, i started from scratch.
I watched a little on t.v but didn't have a great understanding.

Came across Poker by accident, just walking down a high street. Even though i flirted with the idea of some mad re-buy going on in some dodgey Snooker club.

I asked my Uncle to come to the place with me, mainly because he goes to Las Vegas a lot to play some other mad type of Poker where you only play against the dealer, he says to me "if you want to learn, this is where you do it".

There are countless amounts of steps that i have made playing Poker the way i want to play, some good, some lets just say i wasn't in the right state to play, a hell of a lot of frustration, but mainly i have learned. I have turned corners and sometimes there has been a brick wall there. Here's an example, a few monthes into playing live i thought i had a great hand only to find Q, K, A, 1, 2 wasn't a straight. The thing is i can look back on that and think of the way i learned what straights were.

I also had to go through some major brain training in the beginning of me playing Poker by understanding that a plain straight is worse than a plain flush, then after that it's the understanding the highers and lowers. But again thes are relatetivly easy to learn.

Then there are the complicated ones, learning when to bluff (i believe it just comes to you), semi bluff is more of a learning thing because you need to learn when to do it mainly because of the betting strategies and chipstacks around you. However i do believe that the constant use of semi bluffing may of steamed from the raising before the turn to see a free river when drawing (just a view). But a semi bluff is also a great thing to have in your armoury because of the wide variety of cards this gives you to think about. It is just something that needs to be used wisely.