Creating Value in the Forum

[NoahSD]

I'm pretty sure I learned to get good by reading a bunch of very short posts in MTTF. You can learn a ton if you just go through MTTF and read every time a good poster writes one a one sentence response like "You're never ahead here" or "I always bluff here" or "Raising here doesn't accomplish anything."

There are two obstacles to this actually working:

1) It's hard to know who the good posters are. I'm not going to list good/bad posters because a lot've people'd get pissed off. One way that you can figure out who's good is by looking to see who almost always agrees with the posters who everybody knows are like never wrong--Ansky, MLG and Strassa are probably the best.

2) It's hard to extract the information out of these posts. You just have to work backwards and think why you're never ahead in a certain spot or why a raise makes no sense, etc. For me at least, thinking like this made thinking the other way ("I wonder if I'm ever ahead in this spot?") a lot easier.

Like ansky said, learning to be great (not that I'm there yet) requires a lot of talk about individual hands that you don't really find on 2p2. But most people who are complaining about this forum can learn a ton just by doing what I said.