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lolz. Learn to speed-read, I guess. I'm not editing.

what the heck?? I was going to introduce myself but after reading this particular thread, I am thinking wtf did I sign up for? I was looking for poker, not a load of crap and whinging. Am I mistaken? Hello to any sensible people reading this.

This post is from the popular off-topic poster of the previous PokerCrack.com version. I've left him cause some members like to read such things. But certainly the main topic of this forum is POKER. So, poker-man, please introduce yourself.

Hi poker-man, my name is jonny vincent. Prior to posting OT genius all over the world's forums, portals, news article comment sections and blogs (genius that, as it turned out, was a little too insightful to be tolerated by those who confuse poker-men into thinking they should - or even could - compete in a game which is 100% about exploitation - big word, look it up; or if you're too lazy, you should take my word for it and run from poker like an illiterate blonde runs from a 'wall of words' - I'll never insult you, like the IT industry which tells you not to touch something you don't understand, just leave it, unless you know what you're doing - those filthy creeps! Or what? I'd ask them. Would I face a nasty format / reinstall? Gosh. They're more terrified in their 'caring' for you not to investigate your 'system' files than any creep in their 'caring' has ever been. I'm not a creep. I'll tell you to think, for yourself. You should read my arguments and then you tell me if you think you should be competing in a world where there are many players who are surely much better than I was when you would be very ill-advised to compete against me.)

But before I became one of the most insightful OT posters in the world, I was actually one of, if not THE, most prodigious GIVERS of advanced poker strat away.

But only in the entire world. You won't see too many MHSNL players, who answered as many strategy questions as I did - truthfully. And truthfully, I doubt anyone would care to handle the endless offended morons who thought a HSNL player could possibly have a motive to 'denigrate' them. You understand? Motive, I mean.

If you can, you'd be a rare genius in this world of people who cannot. Or pretend they cannot, when they sentence confused 'criminals' to 'rehabilitation' which consists of gang-rape and incarceration rather than education and enlightenment.

I would tell morons all day to give up poker. This was the most honest Truth anyone could ever give them, and you'll only ever be given things of value. Because why would anyone have a motive to sell you value? One would think, if what they knew was valuable, they wouldn't need to sell it - right? One only has to think, instead of dream.

See, the thing that morons can't understand, is that you cannot buy anything of value. And what morons will never understand, is that Truth is in their best interests, and cannot possibly be unpleasant or 'rude'. You can demand I lie to you, but I won't. It's not in my best interests to exploit you. So you can steam and swear and yell and stamp your little feet, but I'm not going to bullshit you - you're not bright enough to not get exploited playing poker. If you play, you will be destroyed by people like me. Trust me. Run. This is "good news". Truth cannot possibly be bad news, ever.

If you're confused, read it again. If you're still confused, answer this question:

Why would anyone who has anything of value - need - to sell it to you?

I'm not saying you cannot learn things from the information sold by those who have a motive to sell, but it's usually a great deal more creepy than morons can imagine (I subscribed to CardRunners and learned a great deal - only watched four videos; but in four videos by some of the best online players in the world at the time, I learned I was brighter than they were; or brighter than they were pretending to be - they were making idiotic mistakes, which I'm not for a moment suggesting I wasn't capable of making; but rather than laugh about how idiotic the mistakes were, Taylor Caby and CTS attempted to use what would have sounded a lot like genius to someone like you [if you could even follow their 'logic]; but to someone who does logic at a very advanced level, it sounded a lot like lol_bullshit - because that's what it was). CTS is no moron, don't misinterpret my point, but he sure did sound like one trying to rationalise why he 3bet A7 rather than AQ in a spot where one of his plays had to be wrong [using his own 'justifications' for making them]. I was not the only player to instantly pick up on this one random example I remember, but the only reason I remember it [from the dozens of examples during these 4 videos where the 'best' players were seemingly incapable of making the logical case for their actions, without sounding like idiots] is because other players started threads 'asking' about it because they were confused. If memory serves, I think CTS came out and corrected the record, admitting his logic was flawed; because he's a pretty decent guy and a brilliant player who didn't need to get 'defensive' because records [and logic] speaks for themselves.

What's my point? I didn't need to start any confused threads. I wasn't confused at all, and I learned from those 4 videos everything I needed to learn in order to break out of the confusion which had been trapping my (somewhat ridiculous, in sheer torque / power) mind from getting anywhere near optimality. I learned, quite simply, that everyone was either full of shit or too stupid to be taken seriously. So I ditched everything I'd 'learned', and went about seeking optimality by simply ignoring everyone who was an 'authority' and talking intelligently instead with intelligent players who could do logic. I stopped trying to look for 'cheat' sheet answers, and started showing my working - basically. And when I do that, watch out. You'd be well-advised to start reading.

A few months later, I broke Cake 5/10nl. A few months after that, you could find me sitting on Prima 5/10nl and 10/20nl on a dozen tables alone, with stacks as high as 20x the max buy-in - with no one willing to sit down (but of course, this was a slight illusion and a trick of perception - if you can't understand why sitting with 20x max is effectively meaningless, you shouldn't ever play poker. Period.)

In completely unrelated (as in, its value is 'standalone') advice, some simple Truth that only a creep would refute. Don't, ever, play deep out of position against a non-moron. You will get destroyed. Fact.