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I think that you should do what I did when I joined and my posts weren't garnering much interests; go read the archives.


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archives are where its at. its very tedius but if you go to the bottom of the page of older archives, you'll see many great analyses by the big 3 themselves as well as other fantasticly intelligent people like Abdul Jalib, louis landale, and many others whose names are not at the top of my head right now.

as to the OP's questions, 2p2 is a mere microcosm of poker studies.

a few of the now more prominent ones are UoAlberta in canada ran by Dr. Brian Alspach, "project mayham" (lol) which is just a collection of top pros like ms and mr fekali, andre prock et. al who reside in ljubljana (the wording there is funny, andrew does not live there)

further, 2p2 works on the groundwork up. it developes analytical skills to help you beat most opponents. thus its limited by nature as to how you look at the game. this took a long time to see b/c you get accostomed to what you are surrounded by. the best players dont worry so much about #s as they do about what any given player has at a particular moment and what that means for their current and future actions (live moreso than online although SH #s i also think mean less).

the other groups who study poker also dont make themselves as public as 2p2 (pasted on the back of every 2p2 book, and referred to by people such as brian alspach above).

also, the other groups look at the game differently and are capable of "outside the box" thinking as they were never "in the box" to begin with.

anyways, theres alot more to say on this issue. to be brief:

-2p2 is a microcosm
-other strategies can beat the game by the same or larger margin than us at 2p2
-its good to never have a closed mind.

one more thought, just because you read and post on 2p2 doesn't mean you play winning poker.

Barron