Starting hands: Article contrary to the "Book"

[mvernon851]

Has anyone tried the starting requirements advocated in Phil's new book, "Play Poker Like the Pros"? I tried it in a low limit game and got killed. The problem I found is that in low limit, nobody really folds so even the basic strategy didn't work out.

Here's an example:

You're dealt 99 and "raise it up" from any position, a bunch of people call/raise,lo and behold out flops something like J42 and inevitably somebody has a J.

Maybe I was just having a really rough night or two but I managed to blow about $300 in a $1/2 game and that was after about 10 hours on the sim. Note that I was also able to read the opponents hands pretty well.