Poker Video: No Limit Hold'Em by sthief09 (Micro/Small Stakes)

awesome

I really like this format.

this is the best format ever, hopefully more vids will be made in this style

sweet, glad you guys like this. there is one more like this that will be for 200nl.

also, sorry about the audio quality. we're trying to figure out what the problem is.

Hey, this is awesome stuff.

One minor lol tho, in the hand where you advise against raising up the T7hh from the hijack with a 50 VP$IP on the button you somehow missed the fact that hero had just stacked that guy and he had left the table, so in fact hero is now in the cutoff raising a 22.5, 23, and 23.5.

Great video though, keep it up!

enjoyed the vid

one thing tho. at around 21:00 hero had QTs against a fish in the blind, isolated preflop & the flop came rags. You said hero showed good restraint by not cbetting the flop, and the rest of the analysis was based on this, but he did cbet the flop.

Indeed this is my favorite format. Please do more of these.

5/5 for this video and I've only had time to watch half of it.

I think this is the best possible format for coaching/review/sweat type videos. It worked better than one of the others I saw, where students were asked to comment while the coach was playing, leading to a lot of timing out and rushed situations.

Here, the video's done in advance so the play isn't influenced as much by the reviewer and it also let you pause and go into much more detailed analysis of some trickier spots.

Bonus its NL50 and also 4 tables

I didn't like this video too much.
First of all the technical difficulties. The sound quality is bad and the play is not in real time. That does not allow us to see any timing tells and generally it is difficult to follow the action on all the tables (also lot of table changes, stats popping up, sudden cuts in the middle of hands etc.) Then you seem to miss the action at some hands and comment on them anyway (e.g. T8 hand where the button sits out, QT hand). Perhaps 4 tables and super speed is a bit too much?
Concerning the play there are some comments I didn't agree with like completing the SB with KJ when the button limps, calling raises in position with JQ and KQ etc., no 3bets, calling 96s against a bet and a raise on a 9 hi flop. But then suddenly T9s is a solid hand UTG?
In my opinion such videos only make sense when you are sweating the player. He can explain why he plays in a certain way and you get some kind of discussion going.

really like this particular video and more importantly really like the concept of the video, would love to see many of these across limits and poker variants

Bro, he did cbet the flop at 20:50 He bet 3 into 3.5.
I see absolutely nothing wrong with this cbet though.

better than any Cardrunners video i have ever watched

regarding the c-bet that he made when I thought he checked (where I said he showed good restraint), I agree it's fine. at some point you have to show players like that that you're capable of not betting every time they check to you, and I thought that was a good time to do it. it was a very dry board, so if I noticed he bet, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have commented, because betting is fine and standard on such a dry flop. but it's a spot where it's good to sometimes check vs. someone who's almost always calling with A high and often with K high. so since again, at some point we have to not c-bet, I felt like this was a good time to check. And checking the flop in no way means you forego your chance to take the pot down.

I still bet the river, but it's not "trivially easy." His most likely hand is a flopped pair, and a small (~1/3 pot) bet should get him to pay off. Anyway, not sure how this slipped through, and I apologize for that.

I noticed the T7s hand when I was giving it a final run through. The button was actually in the hand with like 5 or 10 BB, but insta-left as soon as he folded. I didn't think it was worth editing in the audio there, as it's usually pretty noticeable when I do that and try to only do it when I 100% need to. If the button wasn't in the hand, I agree shawn, good spot to raise with tight players behind.

I didn't like this video too much.
First of all the technical difficulties. The sound quality is bad and the play is not in real time. That does not allow us to see any timing tells and generally it is difficult to follow the action on all the tables (also lot of table changes, stats popping up, sudden cuts in the middle of hands etc.) Then you seem to miss the action at some hands and comment on them anyway (e.g. T8 hand where the button sits out, QT hand). Perhaps 4 tables and super speed is a bit too much?
Concerning the play there are some comments I didn't agree with like completing the SB with KJ when the button limps, calling raises in position with JQ and KQ etc., no 3bets, calling 96s against a bet and a raise on a 9 hi flop. But then suddenly T9s is a solid hand UTG?
In my opinion such videos only make sense when you are sweating the player. He can explain why he plays in a certain way and you get some kind of discussion going.

Timing tells are definitely important, and you're right that speeding up the video makes that tough to notice, but it enables me to fit many more hands into a given period of time, and minimizes the amount of sitting and waiting people do for the next interesting hand to come up. For this series, my goal has been to cram as many hands as possible. Watching hands play out helps gain experience without playing, and more importantly sharpens your hand reading skills.

You may be right about the conversation, but this particular person wasn't interested in being in a video. That would've reduced the number of hands we're able to go through also. Entity and I did that for I believe episode 3 of my first season series, and we were only able to go through 4 or 5 hands. Great, in depth analysis, but again that moves away from my goal of showing tons of SSNL hands.

And regarding your hand comments, it's hard for me to find them all without the times, but yes all those things sound fine to me. The 96s was a minbet and a raise. A minbet is closer to a check than a bet, especially from such a loose cannon. Rarely is it a sign of strength. If there's something in particular you don't agree with, I'd be happy to defend it here if you provide the time or the entire hand.

thanks for the critiques. they are much appreciated, and I hope you like the rest of the videos more.