Help?

Cactus Jack · #1 10-18-2007, 08:40 PM

Is there any way you can make me a better poker player?

I really suck.

Great to see the forum up and running. Well done.

CJ

Entity · #2 10-18-2007, 08:51 PM

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Is there any way you can make me a better poker player?

I really suck.

Great to see the forum up and running. Well done.

CJ

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Thanks. It's nice to have it up -- looking forward to putting up some more videos in the near future.

As far as the better poker player part goes, well, we're trying... [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Rob

slamhound · #3 10-18-2007, 09:33 PM

Wondering if you've done any vids HUD-less?

Entity · #4 10-18-2007, 09:59 PM

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Wondering if you've done any vids HUD-less?

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I've done a couple (I play HUDless about 1/2 the time overall), but most of them are me playing more than 1 table so we won't be able to post them here (just due to the physical size of the recording). If you want I can check out our library and figure out which ones have been played with and without a HUD.

Rob

slamhound · #5 10-19-2007, 12:06 AM

Yeah, I'm thinking about a membership. I've been playing a lot of 3-4 handed games without an HUD, and seeing how you guys develop reads and take notes would be great.

DeathDonkey · #6 10-19-2007, 03:00 AM

Hey slamhound,

I humbly believe I am pretty good at getting reads on my opponents, and since I have started doing single table videos I find my reads / notes on players have been much more accurate and useful. I would say even if a video has a HUD used do not dismiss the value of the "getting reads" idea presented in the video. I use stats and observational reads in my play to learn about unknown opponents.

-DeathDonkey

Joe Tall · #7 10-19-2007, 03:07 AM

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Yeah, I'm thinking about a membership. I've been playing a lot of 3-4 handed games without an HUD, and seeing how you guys develop reads and take notes would be great.

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Most of my older videos are HUD-less, I say nearly 20 of them are.

FUJItheFISH · #8 10-19-2007, 08:49 PM

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Yeah, I'm thinking about a membership. I've been playing a lot of 3-4 handed games without an HUD, and seeing how you guys develop reads and take notes would be great.

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our team winning micro HULA under my captainiship wasnt enough? [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

pig4bill · #9 10-21-2007, 02:15 AM

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Wondering if you've done any vids HUD-less?

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Is that the stuff with all the numbers? I play 99% live and I see those numbers on the players hardly at all, so I wonder if these videos would be helpful to me at all.

DeathDonkey · #10 10-21-2007, 02:54 AM

Hi pig4bill, yes HUD numbers are a visual representation of statistics, and we do frequently display them in videos. All 3 instructors play a decent amount of live poker in addition to online, so I certainly don't think of myself as an "internet player" only. I refer to the stats in the general way that I would refer to a live player as "loose", "tight", "passive", or "aggressive" but I use many variables that are observable in making all my decisions, and hopefully I'm able to express that in the videos. I definitely feel like our videos would improve the poker playing of a live player as long as he is able to apply concepts on a virtual screen to his normal game (the same skill needed when reading and interpreting a poker book IMO).

-DeathDonkey