Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 20,589
You're not going to find any solutions cheap/free that are super relevant and helpful.
Charts and solutions are more widespread today than ever before, but nobody is handing out reliable up to date stuff for free or even for something cheap like $50.
At around $200-400 you can start find video packs with solutions that were cutting edge in the last 1-3 years. Things like the Mersenneary book are even older, but even at that time, Mers was always an advocate of the process. If you learn how to build charts or how to analyze your database, you can constantly do it and be up to date and relevant no matter what. If you're just blindly following a chart based on population tendencies from 3 years ago, it could be very relevant to you or it could be bad. It could've been great or bad when it came out too, you're at the mercy of someone else giving you information there.
Joining a stable would be another way to find what you're looking for, the top few stables keep up to date charts and teach you how to use solutions and think for yourself. There's obviously a cost there in giving up a % of your winnings guaranteed for x games. There are other stables that will more crank out robotic chart players, with a lower edge per player but adding it up is good business for the stable and in some cases good for the player too. In that case it can sometimes be tough to ever play on your own again because you're learning to copy rather than being taught how to find information out on your own.
This isn't a new decision or debate, even when HUSNG.com opened we had some very popular video makers that would basically say "do what I do, I crush" and plenty followed it and did well. I always favored guys like Mers that would give you the why behind their decisions, talk about how the decision might differ if the situation were not the same and beyond all that taught you how to analyze these situations for yourself so you could learn on your own. Few of the top guys I knew that taught and thought that way are struggling today, whether they're in poker or doing something else. Problem solving is a really valuable skillset to have.
