First of all please sorry for my bad english

My name is Aura and i'm a sport betting fan(mostly soccer), i like to take chances but i never place a bet bigger that i can afford to lose. Recently after cashing out a nice ticket, i saw a tv commercial with FullTilt Poker and decided to give it a try because i was already registered there for like a year or so...but never deposited, or played in fact never played online poker. I started to read some guides about texas holdem , no limit game, hand ranks etc ,deposited 550 and waited to "fishes" to come at my table..... friday i got one and won like 200$ with lucky cards, and ~300$ with a strait 8 high and he had 7 high couldn't stop and lost almost all in next hour.
however fulltilt closed my account eventualy, due to irresponsible gaming and remaining funds will be sent to me by check. can they do this? i mean its my money i can do whatever i want with them.
Can you recommend me some other poker site and some bankroll mangement book/article , i think i will play with playchips for a while until i improve my poker skills.
Thank you

If you're looking to spend your time at the Play Money tables I don't think it really matters at which site you're playing: the play will be about the same everyone anyway (not very serious). You probably would like to play at a site with good traffic though, such as PokerStars, Cereus, PartyPoker.

My recommendation would be to deposit a very small amount and play at the micro stakes (0.01/0.02). At the micros you can't really lose a lot of money but you'll at least get some experience playing with players actually caring about losing their chips (well, some of them at least).

Originally Posted by Porg

If you're looking to spend your time at the Play Money tables I don't think it really matters at which site you're playing: the play will be about the same everyone anyway (not very serious). You probably would like to play at a site with good traffic though, such as PokerStars, Cereus, PartyPoker.

My recommendation would be to deposit a very small amount and play at the micro stakes (0.01/0.02). At the micros you can't really lose a lot of money but you'll at least get some experience playing with players actually caring about losing their chips (well, some of them at least).

Pretty sound advice here IMO.