Hey Dew09,
Sorry to hear about the lack of poker available to you. What game type are you interested in? I think that playing 2-5 limit when you would prefer to play NL won't give you a huge learning curve.
What I would suggest is taking X$ out of our salary/disposable income a month and letting you treat yourself to one item if you manage to win a target amount of play chips online.
This way you could learn to multi table, table select, play with the software, understand variance etc. You are going to be playing ALOT more hands per hour meaning you will learn alot more. In the mean time you can continue to watch PokerStrategy videos and continue to develop your game. When a tournament comes near by if you have done well enough online to treat yourself then you can put your skills to the test and hopefully not before long, poker will be legal again.
Remember you can buy statuses at PokerStrategy.com to watch any video that you want to.
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You could even make a blog about the whole thing, think it would be totally different and something I'd want to subscribe to.
Want List
Camera
New Computer Mouse
Football Jersey
Meal for 2 at nice restaurant
Tournament ticket
You could allocate different amounts of play chips to each of the items on the want list and ofc change them to your desires.
Hope you enjoy my thoughts and think about going down this route!
Thanks
Patrick
