Good video and insight but its very hard to see stack sizes. Can this be fixed? Thanks.

I have noticed this too on the new seasons videos. It was VERY apparent on the RBK and DJ Sensei Mad Potters video. It is as if you have encoded it at a different size that you used to and it is causing it to reduce it on our screens, thus making the details fuzzy.

Same for me.
The resolution on both full size and normal size is a bit screwed.

Not looked through the whole video yet so maybe you have put it in at the end but is it possible to show your pokertracker stats at the end?

Thanks

Emil,

Like 12 minutes in on the right you pick up AA OTB when some clown had just posted in the cutoff and checked his option. At your normal stakes I'm sure no one posts before the BB but this happens all the time at lower stakes and if you have a monster it is almost always correct in my experience to limp behind as one of the blinds will raise light in that situation almost 100% of the time.

Are you guys watching them in full screen mode? I agree the names of players and stats are not really readable in the default flash player view, but when you have two tables side by side condensed to fit in our website frame that tends to happen, when I hit the full screen mode version of the flash player the names and PT stats are clear and readable for me. Also the downloaded WMV and MP4 versions both are fine but again I watch those full screen.

-DeathDonkey

I am watching them on my MacBook and never had the problem before, just on recent videos. I have always watched them on Full Screen in the flash version on the site and never had the problem until now. I am not sure what the authors of the videos have changed but they definitely changed something on their end.

I am watching them on my MacBook and never had the problem before, just on recent videos. I have always watched them on Full Screen in the flash version on the site and never had the problem until now. I am not sure what the authors of the videos have changed but they definitely changed something on their end.

Deathdonkey: I have taken a screenshot of the video on Full Screen (using standard flash video on site) to let you see how badly the stack sizes look and other small details. It did not used to look like this.

http://img411.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenrh8.png

i like how spiteful you are when berating the fish. keep up the good work!

why don't you take notes on players? you got 4bet on the left table at 55 min mark by the same player who got it in against you on the right table with AQo at the 47 min mark and if you were aware that it was the same guy (play4funn) you didn't mention it.

I've had the clarity issue on my 13.1" MacBook but everything shows up very clearly on my 20.1" desktop monitor.

coach me!!!

zzzzzzzzzzzzzz WAKE UP EMIL!!!!

edit: i have no problems with being able to see stacks or names, dunno what you donks are talking about.

edit 2: Mr Lime, i dont know if you took a bunch of xanax before you made this video or something, but you did seem very disinterested throughout.

Hey guys -- we had been experimenting with settings in the Flash player to make less load on your computers and it turns out having smoothing off (yeah I know tech mumbo jumbo) was responsible for this. Let me know if you still have issues (especially people with resolutions of less than ~1400px wide) but I just tested with two vids and they both look great now.

Rob

Perfect now, back to normal. Thanks mate!

Emil,

Like 12 minutes in on the right you pick up AA OTB when some clown had just posted in the cutoff and checked his option. At your normal stakes I'm sure no one posts before the BB but this happens all the time at lower stakes and if you have a monster it is almost always correct in my experience to limp behind as one of the blinds will raise light in that situation almost 100% of the time.

I completely disagree. People raising limpers out of the blinds is very uncommon unless they are holding premiums. On the flip side, if you see someone iso-raise or steal-raise to try and pick up the dead money in the pot, there is a very good chance you will get reraised. The only argument for overlimping is in the event that someone does raise, your hand is insanely well disguised.

Emil,

10 minutes in you play a8 vs rakata's a3 and pay off his trips on the river. After the hand you said he's terrible - could you explain how you'd play his hand differently?

Haha, I was probably just annoyed I lost a pot. I chked the HH and rakata played the hand fine. The only gripe is I think he could've bet reasonably bigger on the river and still gotten paid off.

I was wondering about this particular hand as well (A8 vs rakata A3). Also, your betsizing seems to be particularly varied in different situations. You did explain your reasoning on betsizing in some spots during the video but there were some others that left me scratching my head. All in all great vid, looking forward to the next ep.

If you want to point out specific hand histories where you are particularly interested in my betsizing, I can definitely give you some insights.

the video disappointed me, first 15 minutes was as if you were waking up, recording a video cause you had to

I had a hard time getting past all the berating of fish, donks, idiots, terrible player comments...I loved the comments and plays related to the poker, just seemed to hate the world in the video.

I had a hard time getting past all the berating of fish, donks, idiots, terrible player comments...I loved the comments and plays related to the poker, just seemed to hate the world in the video.

I hate berating at the table, but I don't care at all about respecting donks in vids. I like to hear when moves are donkish (although I usually spot them fine by myself) and how/why to abuse them, for example on the AJ4r board where he got c/r'd and 2.5x 3b air.

Good vid overall. The games you were in seemed pretty good, hopefully you get in some deep stack situations or in tougher spots w/ regs.

ratings wise i thought this video was going to suck, it is actually very educational

What was my specific hand? I'll chk PT and respond when I find the HH.

The hand was 87dd and you called his preflop raise BvB.

As said it was 55 mins in.

Excellent vid. Looking forward keenly to the rest of the series. Also any chance you might play part of this series on stars ? We could do with some LimeAid over there too !

Nice video, learned a lot.

Very good video ( again ! ).

I play NL200 and my question is :
do you play the same way at NL200 or do you make some adjustment ( and if yes what adjustments do you make ? ) Thanks a lot !!

All,

Just download the video and watch it in winamp. I have a 1600x1200 monitor and the quality is excellent this way. The videos also download very fast.

Emil,

Why exactly were you trying to fold out AT/KT on the AQsp Vs. QQ hand at 5:40 in the video when we're a favorite over both of those?

I haven't done the math but I'd bet that winning the dead money in the pot is more +EV than just getting it allin as a slight favorite.

Very good video ( again ! ).

I play NL200 and my question is :
do you play the same way at NL200 or do you make some adjustment ( and if yes what adjustments do you make ? ) Thanks a lot !!

I really don't know...I'd have to play a bit at NL200 and see what the regulars play like. I'd imagine the games are a bit less aggro and the regulars have more leaks like 100% c-betting.

I haven't done the math but I'd bet that winning the dead money in the pot is more +EV than just getting it allin as a slight favorite.

Hand 0: 64.424% 64.06% 00.36% 9513 54.00 { AsQs }
Hand 1: 35.576% 35.21% 00.36% 5229 54.00 { ATo, KTo }

sweet vid, you explain your thought process very well

question: 13.40 mins in on the left, you fold K9o OTB after viking47 limped UTG, if you feel K9o is not a profitable open here, what would you open?

viking47 didn't seem like a particular strong opponent, note that he also limped the hand before

also: would you open more or less hands with a limper in the pot, compared to if it was folded to you?

I'm also quite curious what your vpip and pfr numbers are in each position, would you be willing to post those numbers?

Around the 9:40 mark. You 3bet from the BB against an UTG raise from a tight player (12%-14% total pfr) with AQo, what was your thought process here? I know you say you want to establigh an aggressive table image. Could you explain how this benefits us in metagame? What do you do if he 4bets you? How lightly do you expect to be called?

At around the 11 minute mark you are on the button with K9o and UTG limps. You click the auto-fold box. Why?

33:34 Really good stuff on the 3bet post flop with Q9s on the A J 3R board. I had never really thought about how hard it is for him to have a hand there. AA-JJ, AT+ RR pre usually. 33 is really the only thing you need to be worried about there I guess.







Regarding the dead time silence. Personally I prefer silence to fluff. So just do what feels comfortable to you.

Around the 9:40 mark. You 3bet from the BB against an UTG raise from a tight player (12%-14% total pfr) with AQo, what was your thought process here? I know you say you want to establigh an aggressive table image. Could you explain how this benefits us in metagame? What do you do if he 4bets you? How lightly do you expect to be called?

At around the 11 minute mark you are on the button with K9o and UTG limps. You click the auto-fold box. Why?

33:34 Really good stuff on the 3bet post flop with Q9s on the A J 3R board. I had never really thought about how hard it is for him to have a hand there. AA-JJ, AT+ RR pre usually. 33 is really the only thing you need to be worried about there I guess.







Regarding the dead time silence. Personally I prefer silence to fluff. So just do what feels comfortable to you.

The AQo is one of those spots where all three of our options are close in value (RR, call, fold). Metagame-wise, I like having an aggressive image because I feel I can manipulate my opponents into calling when I flop a hand. Against a player that tight, I wouldn't expect to be called too lightly. A range of 77-AA, AQo/ATs+ seems reasonable.

The K9o I may not have been paying attention. If utg was a big fish, I think it's worth isolating. If he's a good player, I'd fold. If he's in between, I'd probably fold K9o and isolate w/ KTo.

Agree 100%. I thought this video was very instructive and I enjoyed it.

Ditto - thanks for a great video.

It was instructive but quite negative on the commentary. You kept saying that everyone who short-stacks is a fish. Your right table went decent due to the large coinflips and also AK vs AQ, along with a fish who calls A2T45 board with 8T. But shortstacks often make for easy shoves 99 TT JJ AK etc.

Also, you say some of the bet sizes of the players are bad but I disagree in a few instances. When you call the players fish it seems to need some substantiating, especially when your commentary is counter to what happened (they won the hand and you called down with weaker hands) - especially on your left table which did not go well at all...