Hey Lambchop, I just read your post, good arguments. I will not defend Aok's charts/advices anymore because Aok probably will do it better, I just want to write about MY experiences with everything that Aok put on FTR forums.

I didn't learn postflop strategy from Aok, bu I did learn a proper discipline, tightening up and all basic stuff. Posts like "Psychology of losing" or "So, you want to be a pro" and other stuff "Tony Robbins style". Those posts were very eye-opening for me, so fundamental and to the point. That is what I define as "Aok teaching" - he harps on patience, discipline, willingness to fold a hand when it seems to be second best, fighting with tilt.

Another valuable entry is about "counterplay", too bad that post is removed because Counterplay if applied properly can tear apart standard $50NL table. At least on Boss Network

That chart about postflop play and very tight preflop play, limpfolding UTG KJos, mucking overpair against flop raise, half-potting pairs and potting stronger hands etc: Let's be honest, that system sucks on almost every table dynamics and even bad players can find exploiting lines against it if they think a bit. You know it, I know it, every other FTR'er knows it and Aok knows it too. Playing it against table full of FTR'ers would be a suicide and brings no point, I can see all that badass floaters that are ready to run over poor "19 hands defender" and push him off almost every hand. So much for those 25BB pots haha.

But following that chart is not to have strong non-exploitable game, it's just a crashcourse, tha SIMPLEST and LEAST COSTLY way to get going and starting to evolve. Hell, it doesn't have to be winning, just breaking even is fine. It's just for tightening up, fixing basic loose passive leaks and not spewing chips on hopeless situations. Maybe get some small profit on most donkish tables but it's just nice addition. Then and only then you go further, open up, grow some teeth etc. Unfortunately, Aok still haven't written "how to get past 19 hands" so that learning system is incomplete. But the first step did work for me, I tightened up, learned iron discipline and improved from big poker sucker to marginal winner. That's was HUGE step for me because I got fundamental psychological groundwork. That was THE purpose and it worked well.

I have some stats manually written in Excel, most of it is played by basic nit-style strategy which is SIMILAR to that one Aok presented. The difference is that I drop the hammer more often with overpairs and steal with reads against nits. If you want, Lamb, I can e-mail it for you. It's about 30-40k of hands.