I had to figure out exactly what was the best way to go about making a fullring live video. With less than 4 tables running it would probably be full of tons of dead space (lol nitaments obv), but I also wanted to keep it 1-table size for the ipod users. I think next week I'll make it just a 4-table fullsize video. But I'd like to hear yall's opinions on that: would you rather have more like this, or a full 4 tables on the screen?

Also, people, keep sending me fullring hands for the bonus ep: djsensei@deucescracked.com

You referred to JTo as being a reverse implied odds hand.

I guess I need some straightening out on the concept.

Every straight that can be made with JT is a nut straight. That seems to me to be a rather positive implied odds feature of the hand. And JT can make a lot of straights.

Admittedly, flopping a pair may be dangerous, but is one pair EVER positive implied odds? I thought even top pair top kicker was a reverse implied odds hand.

And, although it can be quite nice to have a suited connector for a redraw to a flush, it seems to me that the suitedness of a middle connector can be a reverse implied odds feature as one can easily be up against a better flush draw.

I'm confused. Please clarify for me why JTo is a reverse implied odds hand and why you only recommend playing suited connectors and not unsuited connectors in your starting hands chart.

Well JTo is a fine hand in some situations (namely when you're in late position and its unopened to you. But against an early position raise, its pretty much bad news all around.

Anytime you're up against a very strong range, you need to play hands that can beat very strong hands (and hopefully can do so before putting a lot of money in the pot.) JT being suited adds a lot of value in that regard, because it can make flushes, and flushes are pretty good at beating big pairs.

Regarding RIO's: The problem with hitting top pair with a hand like JTo is that not only do you stand to lose a good amount to a higher pair (or a higher kicker) but you probably won't make much money from worse one pair (or no pair) hands. If you have AK and make a one pair hand, you'll quite often be against a worse one that will pay you off (most likely a top pair worse kicker). Also, making a hand better than one pair (well actually, more like making it early enough that you can play it in a +EV manner with stacks behind) is pretty unlikely with JTo. I wouldn't worry too much about flush over flush until we're much deeper than 100x. Though I might also be more likely to play JTo if we're that deep because we stand to win a lot more when we make the nuts against a strong second-best hand.

Thanks DJ, much appreciated!

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Because he's only playing half a stack (and the other guy is even shorter), I probably would shove here. If he was deeper I might call one barrel and give up if he keeps coming.

Reads on his play make a bigggg difference though, if he's 10/2 over a large sample you can snapfold it, if he's 40/30 over any decent sample you should stack it off.

I thought the format of moving the screen was fine. It's a trade off in not seeing folded hands on the other screens, but being able to concentrate on the important hand at the moment was nice.

Well I think I'm a pretty patient person to begin with, so I don't have that much trouble folding and folding and folding. But here are some things you can try if you aren't so lucky:

1) Add more tables. Only do this if you feel that the quality of your gameplay has not decreased significantly, though.
2) Strictly adhere to a preflop strategy, and don't decide to play a hand that isn't on the list "just this one time". Not to say there aren't situations where you should make exceptions now and again, but in fullring games the vast majority of your preflop decisions can be mechanical.
3) When you do finally get a hand, don't overplay it just because you haven't gotten one lately. People may have noticed you folding so much, so when you finally do wake up with something and happen to face some heat postflop, well your small overpair may not be as good as it looks, dig?

I think I enjoyed your advice in the last two minutes, than everything else in the whole. Not saying that the video was bad, on the contrary. But it was the last piece about the grind that really helped me understand the thought process of playing at these stakes. Out of curiosity [and if you don't mind answering], how long did you grind at these or lower stakes before deciding to move up in limits, and what was your bankroll when you did?

Thanks and great video yet again, looking for the next two in the series!

I had to figure out exactly what was the best way to go about making a fullring live video. With less than 4 tables running it would probably be full of tons of dead space (lol nitaments obv), but I also wanted to keep it 1-table size for the ipod users. I think next week I'll make it just a 4-table fullsize video. But I'd like to hear yall's opinions on that: would you rather have more like this, or a full 4 tables on the screen?

Also, people, keep sending me fullring hands for the bonus ep: djsensei@deucescracked.com

I also prefer four tables, although like you said this would be nice for ipods. However, it just feels too much of a mess switching tables in and out and its hard to follow table dynamics.

Hi,
I have already watched 1/2 of the 2nd episode, but had to go somewhere. Is there anyway to pick up where I left off without having to start over?

Unfortunately there's no way to do this in the flash videos -- those are best for one time streams. The downloadable options are great for picking up a few times.

Rob

I had to figure out exactly what was the best way to go about making a fullring live video. With less than 4 tables running it would probably be full of tons of dead space (lol nitaments obv), but I also wanted to keep it 1-table size for the ipod users. I think next week I'll make it just a 4-table fullsize video. But I'd like to hear yall's opinions on that: would you rather have more like this, or a full 4 tables on the screen?

Also, people, keep sending me fullring hands for the bonus ep: djsensei@deucescracked.com

Very good work/explaination on the videos, I am up to #2 right now, but I think doing a video with 4 tables at once is good but making it 1 tables I prefer because I can see the cards better for one and 2nd I can see the stats #'s on the opponents your are making your moves on.

I tried watching the coaching lesson videos were they were sweating a session with a 22cracked fellow playing 4tables of 6max, and I was lost and confused. They used some format to display stats that the whole tables had #'s, then it was difficult to follow the action and because so much action was going on I couldn't understand what either coach/player was saying on what tables.

This series is very good with big tables big cards & stats that I can see...lol

thank you

my stars HUD is up on my blog along with the FTP one: http://www.senseipoker.com/?p=28

It depends on your style (I expound upon this in episode one if you haven't seen it already). I started at FR and switched to 6max as I moved up, and it worked out pretty well for me, but if you're naturally looser and more aggressive then you may be better off just getting right to the 6max.