Hey all,

I "played"some poker and "tried" to go serious ..
Lost about 300 dollars by now

FTR, Please help me become a wining 2NL player.

I started for fun, read trough the "theorie of poker" and started to do more volume. then I read renton`s article`s in the Beginners Digest. I know I can play a winning game with that in 2 NL but with marginal winnings only. But as I boought poker tracker I saw that the best winning players that I have a lot of hands on, have some verry tagg like numbers. PFR of 4% So I tried to imitate that a bit but I also read through some articles of Spoonitnow. I got lost and, I lost ..

After all I read I think spoonitnow goes by far the most into detail with his exercises and articcle`s / post. I wil start all over with his line and exercises. Recharched my acount and I will do the exercises here in this thread.

My posflop play is already becoming stronger as I do have played over 50.000 hands and lost mainly because of bankroll management errors !!! Also I now know for a fact that OPEN raising doesn`t mean raising AQo OTB with three limpers aleady in.

As I started my study today I noticed that in pokerstove spoonit`s line is quite loose, up to about 37% for the button. Another strange thing in pokerstove. At 6% AQo still isn`t in it but it does give ATs, which spoonitnow places for open raisingon MP2.
Are these cards really better than AQo ?? So I matched them in pokerstove and it gives 69.368% equity for the AQo Anny comments ??

I`ll give playing a little rest for now and start with the exercises in moment. When I do start playing it will be 4 tabling at the max jsut to get a feel with the much looser open raising line and at the same time calling less raises and calling raises with SC`s in position.



Exercise #1
1 - Well acording to spoonit`s line and not much wider despite the tight OTB because of the loose maniak 6% three bet pre SB and not much smaller to as with SC`s you just might win a big hand of him So :
T9s-65s(maybe even 34s), AXs, all broadways, All pocket pairs.

2 - 55, 66, TT+, A5s, A6s, ATs, JT (would I play JT as a broadway or only suited and then QJo+ ??) Also (new to me still) I might be in there with 78s

3 - 55, 66, TT+, A5spades, A6sspades, ATs, JT any broadway suited spades 78s (spades or other suit)

4 - 55, 66, TT+, A5spades, A6sspades, ATs, JT any broadway suited spades

Hope to post exercise 2 tomorow and do about an exercise a day if my hectic life/wife will let me.

Greetings
Tha fish