Aok,

Nice post. Yeah, I'm a kool ade drinking, 19 hand strategy using disciple.

Seriously, I believe that those who have something against you should address it in the manner in which it needs to be addressed. As for the situation that may or may not have happened between you and Mannerboy, as far as I can tell, it has been addressed and FORGOTTEN. I am of the opinion that this post stems much in part to what took place in a post over the weekend. While it was brought out, I believe that one individual had underlying motives or deep seeded resentment that should have been addressed in another thread.

As for your style, I have used some of what you have taught and dang gone it, guess what? I started to make a profit at cash games; whereas previous to that, I totally sucked at cash games and constantly went busto. As a black man, I see the differences between what AOK teaches and others objections as, the same as Dr Martin Luther King and Malcolm X had in their teachings (stay with me for a moment and I bring this around to poker). Some thought that MLK was too passive(tight) and others thought Malcolm was too pushy(aggressive). Well, the debate raged on for decades as to who was right, but ultimately, EACH MAN HAD HIS OWN STYLE. Same for poker, I was reading on another forum last night, 2p2, and I was amazed at how some of the members were ragging hard on Dan Harringtons' Vol 2 of his book. Posting how wrong he was on his strategy, his hand examples were poor, blah, blah,blah.... And I am wondering to myself what in the world are these people thinking. Here you have a guy who has a bracelet from the WSOP, multiple final table finishes and a feared cash game player and they are giving him hell! Now, what is that? Because we all see things from our view and our own ideas of what is right or wrong.
Aok, has provided a much needed guide to man of the beginners in this forum. A much welcomed show of hospitality for those who aspire to be great at poker, like myself. I do not personally know him, but I have found his work to be of A BENEFIT(+ EV). So thats my take on some of this.


ps. it was said that he attempts to suck people in, and get them for money. Well, I wanted to address that also. I PMed AOK once, told him of who i am, what I was attempting to do and asked would he coach me. I even offered to pay for his time. And he kindly said that it was best to allow me to rail him at the tables and talk across Skype. So if money was(is) his motivation, he's not too good at taking the opportunities to get it.