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Poker Video: No Limit Hold'Em by BalugaWhale (Mid Stakes)

BAD QUALITY ALERT! Stacksizes and cards are barely readable

Please DC coaches USE FULL HOLE CARDS!

I think that beepbeepimaajew guy just had a evil plan of BalugaWhale saying that phrase in a video couple of times.

On like 40min, that 22 hand, on a QJTK2, dont you think hed bet Ax and sometimes 9x on the river, and hes ch/calling with two-pair and 9x, so itd be a valuebet a river?

Great video, am waiting for the next one.

BAD QUALITY ALERT! Stacksizes and cards are barely readable Frown

Please DC coaches USE FULL HOLE CARDS!

It was not a bad quality, lil worse than usual but Andrew said everything youd need to know about stacksizes and he named his holecards.

Let's be fair, DC is such a high quality site that something like this catches people off guard. It's still better than 90% of the content on other sites, but for DC this is low quality video. That said, I don't think anything you couldn't see well was important. Baluga videos are concept videos regardless of action, he's the type of person that knows why he's doing things, and explains them as they come up. The hands are more so reminders of concepts and examples, kind of like a guideline for discussion.

That said, I think it was a pretty good video, I liked the breakdown of different limits. I think this video would have been fine as just a mp3.

Guys,
Sorry about the resolution on this. BalugaWhale is travelling in Australia and limited to his laptop for the time being. Hopefully next video will not be a 4-tabling video so the resolution won't be as bad, but unfortunately I cannot do much to fix this one.
-Rusty

That said, I think it was a pretty good video, I liked the breakdown of different limits. I think this video would have been fine as just a mp3.

+1.

For example the 3bet seminar makes a pretty nifty mp3 for a car.

Next video anything from 200nl to 1000nl would be fine.

It was not a bad quality, lil worse than usual but Andrew said everything youd need to know about stacksizes and he named his holecards.

it is very bad quality, this is worse than VHS this is not 'a lil worse than usual' at all, the difference between this and other videos is huge!

Let's be fair, DC is such a high quality site that something like this catches people off guard. It's still better than 90% of the content on other sites, but for DC this is low quality video. That said, I don't think anything you couldn't see well was important.

i don't care about other sites. i don't pay for other sites. i pay 30$/month for dc. something like this catches people off guard because they don't expect to see bad quality like this when they pay real dollars! do you not pay money to see this? if you are how can you be happy with this vid? would you pay the same for a 2 year old car as you would for a new one? am i the only critic on this site?

Sick vid Andrew. TYVM

I'm not sure if this was on purpose, but I did notice a bet sizing tell of yours (could have been accidental the few times I saw it tho). I won't reveal it here in case it matters, but feel free to PM me

As for next vid, I would like to see 200NL, but 100NL would be good as well. But like you said in this vid, it doesn't really matter what the stakes are as it's more about the concepts than anything else.

it is very bad quality, this is worse than VHS this is not 'a lil worse than usual' at all, the difference between this and other videos is huge!



i don't care about other sites. i don't pay for other sites. i pay 30$/month for dc. something like this catches people off guard because they don't expect to see bad quality like this when they pay real dollars! do you not pay money to see this? if you are how can you be happy with this vid? would you pay the same for a 2 year old car as you would for a new one? am i the only critic on this site?

You are entitled to your own opinion sir, but I care more about the audio quality in Baluga vids than the video quality. His thought process is one of the best out there and you don't necessarily need to have a pretty view to learn from them.

it is very bad quality, this is worse than VHS this is not 'a lil worse than usual' at all, the difference between this and other videos is huge!

i don't care about other sites. i don't pay for other sites. i pay 30$/month for dc. something like this catches people off guard because they don't expect to see bad quality like this when they pay real dollars! do you not pay money to see this? if you are how can you be happy with this vid? would you pay the same for a 2 year old car as you would for a new one? am i the only critic on this site?

It can sometimes be hard to understand what people are really trying to say when they are communicating via a forum.

Just like you I'm very surprised to see a video where the resolution is so poor and just like you I would ask what happened. Maybe I would have used different words but that is not really important.

Taz has explained the poor quality IMO.

But that does not mean that we cannot learn something. Under the given circumstances what should DC in your opinion have done?

As simple stated, I think we can actually get value with a bet on the hand where we river a set of 2s on KQJT2. He might look up a small bet with top pair or 2 pair, but was too afraid to bet it himself. If he has us beat, I don't think he would have played it this way. So other than seeing his cards and learning how he plays, I think there is no reason not to bet. We pretty much always have the best hand and can get called by worse if we bet an amount that he can call. And it's an easy muck if he raises.

It can sometimes be hard to understand what people are really trying to say when they are communicating via a forum.

Just like you I'm very surprised to see a video where the resolution is so poor and just like you I would ask what happened. Maybe I would have used different words but that is not really important.

Taz has explained the poor quality IMO.

But that does not mean that we cannot learn something. Under the given circumstances what should DC in your opinion have done?

well, under the given circumstances, dc couldn't have done much more i guess..

these circumstances aren't given at all, quite the opposite i would say! andrew is probably travelling for his own amusement, so i think he should have thought of this and made a proper video before leaving.. or, in this case maybe better since it's a ghost video, get someone else to make a ghost video?

well, under the given circumstances, dc couldn't have done much more i guess..

these circumstances aren't given at all, quite the opposite i would say! andrew is probably travelling for his own amusement, so i think he should have thought of this and made a proper video before leaving.. or, in this case maybe better since it's a ghost video, get someone else to make a ghost video?

I agree that Baluga should possibly make more of an effort to make high quality vids, even if he is on vacation. But I prefer a medium quality (video quality) Baluga ghost vid over a lot of others.

As far as I know ghost vids are bonus content anyway, only complementing the official content of DC. So this ghost vid in bad resolution is very much like the cake they give you for free in the bakery in addition to your regular purchases, because they didn't get that sugar icing thing right. Often these kind of cakes taste especially delicious.

So regarding baluga's vid we have only a label problem. If the vid would be labeled as: "Extra vid of poker baluga! He is amusing himself in the desert down under but still can't resist to share some thoughts with us! Good content but öäch-quality! Watch it anyway if you like! Otherwise have a nice day!", then who is going to complain about the sugar icing?

No one ever complains about sugar icing.