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- > but it's only been written down and analyzed in the last 10 years or so
I agree with you overall points.
For historical reference for folks who are interested in the poker boom of the 00s but were not there, it’s more like 20 years, if not more.
The book Let There Be Range was published in 2008.
High stakes players were discussing the issues covered in that book amongst ourselves (live and online) with quite a bit of sophistication for several years before that.
All that said, and supporting the point made above, advanced computational support for ranges (esp. via “solvers”) didn’t really start becoming a thing until the early 2010s.
- I have a theorem which I refer to as the Fuzzwah theory, it goes like this:
"The more you know about a topic, the more it will annoy you when it is covered by the main stream media."
Once you realize this with regards to topics you're knowledgeable about you start taking coverage of ALL topics with a grain of salt, knowing that someone who knows all about it is probably cringing and / or yelling at how poorly it is being reported.
PS: I was obsessed with online poker a few years back and was an avid 2plus2 forum reader. The 1st person which I recall giving excellent advice about putting people on a range was Cole "CTS" South. He even sold an ebook called Let There Be Range for (initially, from memory) something like $5,000 a pop (it still sells for $1400 on amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/0982402252 )
