Re: A review of your pre-review
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I don't think so. Assuming you're a below break-even player when you first sit down which i guess is standard for many beginers you'll lose a lot more on a $4/8 or even $2/4 casino game than you would playing nanolimits online even if it deals three times as fast.
Getting more time to absorb things at the table is a sligth plus from the learning perspective but is more than offset by the fact that you can get a detailed HH to go over your plays after the session.
/Bjorn
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I could not disagree more.--it is a perfectly valid approach. I never argued for optimality and am not sure where that lies given the many factors involved. I personally would recommend a low limit home game...but I am not writing a book so that is neither here nor there.
In any case, have you seen the .01/.02 type games(?)...they are crazy and you are not likely to learn very much about your average low limit game in that or similar fast paced games. It's almost like people are playing with play money in the one's I have seen!
Getting to actually think thru your hand, position, see your opponents and their mannerisms and actually have the time to calculate odds...is offset by looking at hand histories (you only what your opponent played to the end in any case)??
Sorry, I don't believe that Monday morning quarterbacking is any substitute for taking the time to work things out in real time and reflecting upon that experience. THAT would be the quivilivant of me telling a kid starting out in chess to play lots of speed chess online and disect his games afterwords. That is a very bad alternative to trying to apply the knowledge of others via playing a fairly slow game in real time where you have more time to actually 'live' the experience.
---Leavenfish
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