Thanks for the video, really informative and very appropriate for my current situation.

solid content, bad vid quality (checked FLV and WMV version)

I checked out the WMV version and it looks maybe a little less crystal clear visually than some videos but the audio quality was good. Can you be more specific about what quality issue you were seeing so Josh can be aware of it for future vids? I think one thing that might have caused a lower visual quality is that he is re-recording the table as he says at the beginning of the video, going over his own video and analyzing his own play after the fact, so you have an effect of like making a copy of a copy, degrading in visual quality.

-DeathDonkey

Yeah, we're aware of the bug that caused the problems with video clarity in this one though it's still quite visible if you set it to proper resolution (full size, 1600px wide). The bug shouldn't be an issue in the future from what I can tell, though.

Rob

Hi sthief09, can you please post your hud from FT + the theme you are using? Thanks.

a few comments/questions. very good video overall.
first the J8 hand vs mclovin is nasty, just nasty. definitely had me smiling for a while :)

a few hands i had questions on though.
first, what's the deal with the openshove from the SB w/ K9o vs the shortstack? i can't figure this one out at all... it happens pretty quickly and you don't comment on it at all.

second, you CO open 66 and see KJ7twotone vs the 15/12 BB. i didn't quite get your reasons for betting the flop instead of checking it back. wouldn't checking back be the standard play here, or is this flop too wet for that?

third (and most importantly)
the 3bet with KQo vs the 19/17. isn't KQo usually a bad 3betting hand, b/c we're trying to 3bet a polarized range - just premium hands and speculative hands. why is 3betting a more marginal hand like KQo better than flatting here?

thanks a lot for your time

a few comments/questions. very good video overall.
first the J8 hand vs mclovin is nasty, just nasty. definitely had me smiling for a while :)

a few hands i had questions on though.
first, what's the deal with the openshove from the SB w/ K9o vs the shortstack? i can't figure this one out at all... it happens pretty quickly and you don't comment on it at all.

second, you CO open 66 and see KJ7twotone vs the 15/12 BB. i didn't quite get your reasons for betting the flop instead of checking it back. wouldn't checking back be the standard play here, or is this flop too wet for that?

third (and most importantly)
the 3bet with KQo vs the 19/17. isn't KQo usually a bad 3betting hand, b/c we're trying to 3bet a polarized range - just premium hands and speculative hands. why is 3betting a more marginal hand like KQo better than flatting here?

thanks a lot for your time

1. yeah, I meant to point that one out but I guess I didn't see it while I was talking. that was a mistake. I wasn't used to the stakes and thought he had a much shorter stack than he had. IIRC he had $10 and it just didn't register that it's 20 BB for whatever reason.

2. my hand itself doesn't have much value. I don't remember this hand and how passive the BB is. if he's very passive, then I can see checking it down. but vs. someone capabe of betting draws on the turn where I can't call, my hand has little value when I check. so I c-bet basically has a bluff, hoping that he'd have a pocket pair below JJ, which I think makes up a very large part of a 15/12's range calling the BB. Pocket pairs and premium unpaired cards like AQ and KQs. I think he folds just about everything else.

3. no, I think that's kind of an old school misconception. first, look at the player. 17 PFR is pretty high, and 19 VPIP is pretty low. so it means he's the type to raise a lot but not call much. so I can expect to pick up the pot a lot. but say I'm wrong, and he calls 3-bets with a wide range. KQ is a very strong hand vs. that range. he'll be forced to float some flops and play back at me, so if I flop top pair I feel very confident with my hand. the type of player I'd be more comfortable callign the KQ against would be a 16/13 type. he's raising a tight range, so 3-betting light in general is not profitable, and KQ is an especially bad hand to 3-bet with since he's only calling better hands.

but think about how this changes as his raising range gets looser. but for someone on the other end like a 30/24, he's either going to call with only good hands, and I'm turning a profit just by 3-betting (since he's raising so many 52s and T7o), or he's going to start defending his raises, and my hand becomes a monster. (the exception is if he 4-bets a lot. then I don't want to 3-bet hands with value that can't get it in because I won't get to see a flop)

haha first time ive ever seen myself in a video. just to let you know, im not a nit like you kept saying i was :] and that J8 was hilarious. also if anyone plays 50nl regularly then follow niitikitktit or whatever his name is around because he is soooooooooo bad.

Great vid.

Totally irelevant but I still think you should put a warning sign on the nikitikita guy. I accually made a player search on the guy and found out that he was 9 tabling 6-max on NL50. So I sat down at 4 of his tables and got completely different stats on him. VPiP/PFR/TA 20/16/3 over a 500 hands sample. Wich seems more standard solid TAG to me then the LAGTard maniac you played against. Guess he was on mega tilt or someone had his account hijacked or something.

This was a bit of topic but still an intresting note I felt.

for some reason i can't sync this video to my ipod. something about wrong encoding. is there a "proper" mp4 encoded version available anywhere?

We don't provide Ipod versions for 2-tabling and 4-tabling videos. The MP4 version that is provided is for Mac users/PC users, and you can convert the WMV to an Ipod version on your own if you want, but we've found that 2-tabling and 4-tabling versions look sub-par on Ipods and so we haven't provided them.

Rob

really good videos, wish we had some 6max Omaha PL Hi & 8.

apologies. I tried to edit the above after realizing that I got your video, which I did watch believe it or not, mixed up w/ bottomset's FR100 video, but was too late I guess.