Spenda, I fully agree with your post, and in fact I get pissed off when I see people trying to apply specific rules to a dynamic game.

I seem to have failed miserably at clarifying the type of leak in my post - I find myself making the mistakes outlined in my OP, yet I'm fully aware of REM, commitment thresholds, etc.

It's more of an emotional leak than anything else, and it's something I see in many microstakes posts - probably discipline is at the root of my post and maybe I should've written about that instead.

My post was meant as an initial stop-gap until micro players become aware of true poker fundamentals (which I sincerely hope you teach at grinderschool!), and a good base to start. I still can't believe that I beat 20NL thoroughly when my thought process was shit like "I have top pair and that is probably a good hand".


FWIW, I think aok's 19 hand chart is an awesome place to start playing poker.