Quote Originally Posted by ChezJ
Sorry to beat a dead horse, but UIGEA passed in Oct 2006 and came into effect about 6 months later. Renton's guide is dated July 2006. It is clearly pre-UIGEA.

Personally, I tried using Renton's guide to beat $2NL when I finally made the switch from LHE last year. I'm sorry to say it is woefully inadequate and I lost a shitload playing penny-level games. Furthermore, when I went into the forums to try to understand what was wrong, all I read about was ranges and stats and pot control... none of which are discussed at any length in Renton's guide.

So don't tell me the existing material is adequate, it's just not true. I'm not asking for a spoon feed, either. I'm asking for either a new guide with modern material or a reference list of useful articles/books that provide the correct concepts needed to beat NL and post intelligently in the forum.

Bottom line, the "Beginner's Digest" needs to be updated, or newbies will keep coming in and posting stuff that drives spoonitnow crazy. Don't believe me? Go ahead and read the sticky yourself.
http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...re-t36037.html

ChezJ
Far from wanting to piss spoonitnow off, whom I have partially reconciled with (he has replied to my PMs without a hint of animosity) ChezJ's post is pretty much what sums up my own thoughts on this.

there's no denying that 2nl on the main two sites is more difficult, the plethora of threads and co-signs by even pooh-bah posters on 2p2 is further evidence of this and I've found the current digest, which I am re-reading regularly, to be quite outdated in *some* of its assumptions/assertions.

If you're not currently playing there, then how can you comment that it "hasn't changed since the UIGEA"?