Well, I've gotten quite sick of Yahoo already. I never expected much out of it except for time filler, but having a table where everyone is a maniac raiser is just stupid, nobody even knows what they have and although you guys could probably clean up their I need somewhere with decent players to learn what's going on. Thus, I downloaded ParadisePoker, and I'm really liking it. I'm only playing Play Money atm since its my first real online poker venture, and I don't have the spare cash to throw out the door at better players before I get some idea of the online environment.

When it does come down to putting in a deposit and trying out some of the low stakes / NL games however I'll definitely be taking your guys' advice. You start with 1000 chips at Paradise, and playing virtually all day yesterday (a good 4-6 hours between work and much needed sleep) I lost ~250 of them. At one point I was up to ~1100, and when I called it quits for the night I was sitting at around 750. Again, not expecting to cash in first day, and I'm actually quite happy that I was able to 'stay afloat' if you will for so long.

Online is odd; I'm used to playing RL where you can stare the guy in the eye, with people who I know - I know who doesn't even know what makes a flush better than a three of a kind, I know who will raise nonstop just because they can, etc... here its a bit trickier. HOWEVER - from my day of playing yesterday I've now got a load more questions, hopefully gonna get them answered while I'm at work now, then go home and play some more! Loving it already... appreciate the info~!