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Originally Posted by rpm

i disagree with almost all of this. but that's just my personal preference for attempting to learn about poker. i'm not saying it's necessarily the right or wrong approach for OP, just saying that he can learn how to do ALL of the above things you mentioned:
- understand position
- learn to avoid dominated situations
- learn to bet for value
- learn to steal blinds against appropriate opponents (and develop more positional awareness in the process)

via learning about ranges/equity/fold equity (yes it does exist even at 2nl) rather than through rote learning some system without learning why that system works.

Have you watched the videos refered to and considered who they are targetted at?. If not how can you say its a rote learned system and judge them?. The whole point of them is to stop losers losing money at 2nl and give the beginner a baseline that will be profitable. IT IS NOT THE MOST PROFITABLE WAY TO PLAY AND STATES THAT IT ISN'T. its a starting point. The videos explain why they are doing things .Everything else can then be built onto it.

obv this is my just my opinion and it's a matter of preference. i just think you can learn how to play +EV style of poker, with a tiny bit more work, and have the added benefit of knowing why you're doing things, and having less trouble when the time comes to move to higher stakes.

Thats the whole point of the videos though, they are just a first step , to stop people losing money and avoid putting themselves into spots where they end up spewing money. Once they get used to playing tight aggressive postionally aware poker , they can then do that extra bit of work and start adding hands and putting themselves into marginal spots, going for more value knowing that they have a profitable base to support the changes in their game that will allow them to move up.

@DavidDem - they aren't my videos or site lol