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Played for the first time today in what feels like ages. Video is coming — 80 minutes of me 2-tabling $1/2 6m.

I’ll post one hand, real quicklike. I’m working on taking reads since I have no real “poker” software and am trying to get a good grip on the table by 2-tabling and paying lots of attention.

I open in the SB with As8s. The BB calls. I don’t have much on him at all; he seems a bit aggressive but my reads are fairly limited. His stack is shorter than average but not short enough for me to believe he’s a stackoffmonkey.

The flop is Ac6c6s. I bet, and he calls. The turn is the 6d. I check, he bets, and I call. The river is the 5c. I check, he bets, and I call.

I just got all of the parts for a new computer (I’m building a fully dedicated computer so that I will only have poker applications on the installation of this computer, for security reasons and also for a few projects I’m working on). I played a bunch with Daver the other day at .5/1, and while I recorded it, the quality of the video was nominal at best so I’m not going to put it up on Deuces. If you could’ve seen all 6 tables I was playing, it would have been a bit better, I think, though impossible to follow; I lost 65BB, then shortly thereafter, won almost 70BB to finish a session that started out with me winning at showdown ~45% of the time for my first 600 hands.

The games at full tilt are definitely exploitable, but I’m going to have to write a lot more, I think, on the differences between microlimit games now and microlimit games “back in my day.” LOL. Oldtimer.

In the meantime, here’s an article (reposted without permission, though I have emailed Abdul in the past to try to get his permission but it doesn’t seem doable) that has so much material in it, it should keep y’all busy for a while. Keep in mind that I don’t necessarily agree with all of his conclusions because of changes in game texture from when this was written, but it’s the process that is important. If you can figure out why he’s making a lot of the recommendations he makes, you’ll be well on your way to a successful career in poker.

Here’s a link to the post: http://roadtorobusto.com/?p=8