Starting to watch now. Looking forward as always with Josh's videos.

OT question @ Marcos: You have notes on yourself?? WTF??? And how is that possible anyway? When you right klick yourself @ party you just get the option of displaying your stats.

notes on himself prob come from hold'em manager

Nice vid, good play and some interesting sports (e.g. checking with flopped 2 pair).

So true Sankar, I can play @ Party too, but I play @ Stars.

Now FullTilt is a terrible place, I agree.

Another great video :)

I am really enjoying my DC membership more than ever, between king and late night I am learning so much, and it is showing at the tables.

(about this off topic euro sites vs usa sites convo)
I have thoughts on this, if someone wants to start a thread on general discussion I will gladly join in. But not here.

The 87o hand at 09:00
When we know the limp-reraiser has a super strong range, there has to something to be said about implied odds?
Calling 3,5$ to almost always win about 70$ when we flop two pair or better. Obviously we never put any more money in without flopping good.

87o is just too trashy. and sometimes we need to protect us from ourselves, if that makes sense. when you flop top pair, some thoughts sink into your head. "top pair is pretty strong." "what if he just has AK?" even if you could play it perfectly, I just don't think 87o flops tons of equity often enough. even when you flop 2 pair you're not a lock to win:

Board: 8h 7c

equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 28.697% 27.87% 00.82% 177702 5256.00 { AA }
Hand 1: 71.303% 70.48% 00.82% 449346 5256.00 { 87o }


and trips:

Board: 8h 8c

equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 13.101% 13.10% 00.00% 71592 0.00 { AA }
Hand 1: 86.899% 86.90% 00.00% 474888 0.00 { 87o }


so it'd be one thing if when 87o flopped big, it flopped our opponent almost dead. but he'll often have some equity, cutting our implied odds significantly.

I didn't mean to offend anyone regarding Party. I don't remember what I said. All I know is he was sitting at some good tables, and that I love that interface. I know the biggest part of the game deterioration has been the American fish who now either think they'd be doing something illegal illegal, or just don't trust it. but I don't claim to have any clue how soft Party games are in general.

You just said you love watching Party poker -- and the same goes for the rest of us. The interface is what we grew up on, spent years on, built our bankrolls on, then we got the boot. So I still love seeing their default tables to this day (and I think that's what you were alluding to).

caderousse,

I have to say yes and no to your post.

Yes, we don't have the time to pause the action while playing, so live videos give us a chance to listen to the thought process in the heat of the battle.

What you forget, though is that thorough postgame analysis (especially when this analysis is brought to us in such a brilliant way, as Josh and other instructors here at DC are doing) is what makes you more confident and most importantly FASTER at the tables.

If you thoroughly analyze your own sessions and listen to analyzes by expert players here you will recognize certain situations as being somewhat similar to spots you have seen before by pausing the action. You are then able to transfer this similar situation to the one currently at the table and all you have to do is find what is different to the situation you have seen before and make your decision instead of thinking it all through from the start.

DC offers live play videos and postgame analyzes. Both formats are great and important in my opinion.

Sugar Nut

what exactly do u gain from seeing an instructor click a certain button within his 15seconds and then giving a quick not detailed explanation of why he clicked that button lol

Are you seriously this dense and you need me to spell it out? What you get is a real time response. Sthief said it himself in the opening of this video. When you have a vid and have seen it you have a certain results-based biased.

Are you really saying that having an infinite time period to think about/make a decision would have no impact on the QUALITY of your decisions?

Look, I just threw my comments out there. They ask for input, I gave mine. I know there are a lot of people who look at the SLIGHTEST criticism/suggestion and freak out. For those people, I say "Oh well". I could just be a sheep and say "5 stars no matter what you do I'll love it!!!" or I could give a real feedback. You have the right to disagree, but it doesn't invalidate my opinion at all.

Hey guys, I don't know but someday I put a note on myself by a bug on party's software. Couldn't grab it out since then.

it happens when you export notes from Poker Tracker, specifically when you export stats. there hasn't been a need to do this since HUDs though so not sure if that's what it is

Are you seriously this dense and you need me to spell it out? What you get is a real time response. Sthief said it himself in the opening of this video. When you have a vid and have seen it you have a certain results-based biased.

Are you really saying that having an infinite time period to think about/make a decision would have no impact on the QUALITY of your decisions?

Look, I just threw my comments out there. They ask for input, I gave mine. I know there are a lot of people who look at the SLIGHTEST criticism/suggestion and freak out. For those people, I say "Oh well". I could just be a sheep and say "5 stars no matter what you do I'll love it!!!" or I could give a real feedback. You have the right to disagree, but it doesn't invalidate my opinion at all.

sthief also said himself that he didnt view any of the videos before analyzing them, and this was only the case for this one because he lost the initial recording.

selective memory ftw eh? dont call others dense when ur too retarded to remember 30seconds of intro.

oh and its fine for you to criticize, then also take others criticism of your suggestion tough douchebag

the midstakes nlhe forum needs some more support any maybe you want to post some hands yourself? thatd be awesome

Hi Josh! The video is great, tons of good info etc etc.

However you sometimes seem to get so swallowed up in a hand that you miss other important hands on other tables, and don't go back to them.

For example, at ~36 mins, you are focused on the AThh hand in a 3-bet pot on table one that you miss a hand at table three where marcos 3-bets AKs BBvsCO and c/f a 883 flop. I would very much like to have heard you're comments on that. :)

Great vid, but please be more aware of this in the future. :)

Sthief. I know im in late, but i really want to hear about the hand you played around 26.55, where you said you would prefer a checkraise on the river. Our opponent is loose and passive, so i think a bet should be best?

I replayed the hand. betting is the safe play, but checking gives him a chance to bluff or make a bad pairbet that bad players tend to do ("i have the best hand so i bet") and get himself stuck if we raise. the whole 120 is probably too much but if we've been playing aggro at him, which i noted there, he'll call it off with a lot of the hands we'd bet. a raise would be 5 or 6 times as big as a bet so it only has to work 1/5 or 1/6 as much

Thank you.

Good videos all around btw