I'm getting pretty good at tourney play so i recently switched over to ring tables. I think i'm a below average player so i started playing on the penny tables at PS. I was wondering if someone could explain some basic tips to making the change from tourney play to ring play.

You know for me tourney and normal tables are completely different games. I hate tourneys personally and only play tables. In tables you need 2 or 3 good hands to turn a nice profit. In tourney play you need a whole bunch of hands to come in money. Having said that, I don't necessarily agree with starting at penny tables. When I started play I played .5/.10 tables and now I don't even like those. My reason for hating penny tables is that people are stupid and don't play actual poker at those tables. They will call a lot with hands that no one would play with at hight stakes. Thus the learning is not really of actual poker. In pennies you know the bet will not be that big so you can make bigger chances and you have to river rat effect x1000. Anyway too much talking from me, good luck and enjoy.

In tournaments you're forced to be aggressive, in order to keep up with the increasing stakes and increasingly stronger opponents. In ring, you can play as passively as you want to without losing much more than a handful of blinds.

demex... I've read something about pokertracker. How do you like it, and how do you use it to help you play better?

PT owns! go to www.pokertracker.com and you can download a trial

Is it true that the trial only does 1000 hands? That's what I've heard, and 1000 hands doesn't sound like that good a sample. You'll only have each starting hand an avg. of six times... that's not even once in each position...

Yeah, but not $55 nice. That's a ton of money.

Pokertracker is very very useful. And 55$ is nothing, like 1 buy-in if you play 0.25/0.5 the minimum tables that you have to play if you think you have some skill in poker.