What poker videos do you like?

[couriermike]

What poker videos do you like? What authors or sites or stakes do you watch? Who don't you like? Do you like HU videos? Do you think the HU videos help you with your 6max postflop game?

I've watched a ton of videos and for the microstakes player Trikkur's are really the most helpful. My favorite vid tho is by James Davis at stoxpoker where he plays super-laggy at 200nl and goes up 5bi's, he's a great hand-reader and really funny. Krantz is really good and funny too. I can't watch too many mid-stakes videos tho because they really screw up my ABC game. What are your favorites?

Beat: I cut my hand at work today and had to get stitches, so I'm trying to decide what vids to watch.

[urbansprawler]

Sorry to hear about the beat, but it depends on what style you're looking to learn. For a groundwork of NLHE at the micros, trikkur's vids are probably the best and they're good even for LAG players. The "Break Out! Escape From 25NL" series by SavvyChris with some help from Andrew Arnott is great as well; they go through a lot of 25NL hands and even play one LAG video where they raise every single CO/BTN. After this, there's a lot of good lectures on grinderschool. Sugarnut's 3-betting and CodeRed's "How to Play AK" are both awesome for cash games.

To learn 6-max (or just solidfy your preflop game), spenda's 8-part 6-max series was the nuts imho. He played 10NL during the live parts, which sucked a bit because that's a very low stake, but stressed and reiterated position, aggression, etc and was able to impart some great concepts. All of spenda's videos are great actually. Sugarnut is another great player with a funny accent that makes his videos more interesting sometimes. He goes off into a lot of tangents , but is able to explain his thought processes very well.

AApoker has some cash games on GS, too, that I loved. Most of his vids are MTTs and those are great stuff, too, but I'm watching his 2-part 100NL cash game vids ATM and he has a lot to teach for sure.

I think that's it for all of the micro-stakes 6-max I've seen. There is a ton of good HU stuff on deucescracked, though.

[ShoveOrFold]

Aejones' videos on leggopoker are the nuts. He's very strong in poker theory and always keeps it pretty interesting.

You also can't go wrong with FoxwoodsFiends videos on deuces cracked. His Movin On Up series does a great job to illustrate the differences between levels and how to adjust. I also recommend The Coaching Tree with Baluga Whale and Tubasteve if you are just starting out. I feel like Baluga Whale does a great job at explaining the "Why" behind his plays and once you understand why some plays are profitable, it will help your overall game.

If you want to learn/watch HU videos I hear MasterLJ's HU video's on Cardrunners are the nuts.

When people say they can't watch a certain stakes video because its not applicable to their stakes, I have to disagree. When you are watching videos you are learning the theory behind why certain plays work against certain villains. Should you play at 50nl the way Krantz plays at 1000nl? Probably not, but if you can understand the reasoning behind each play, you should be able to utilize it into your game when necessary.

[Vantek]

Haven't really subscribed any place that costs money because I feel I haven't nearly exhausted Pokertrikz vids. I guess my progress is slow considering how much time and effort I can and am willing to spend on poker.

Out of these my favourites are the leak finder vids, and then loltrickedu's mass multitabling vids.

When people say they can't watch a certain stakes video because its not applicable to their stakes, I have to disagree. When you are watching videos you are learning the theory behind why certain plays work against certain villains. Should you play at 50nl the way Krantz plays at 1000nl? Probably not, but if you can understand the reasoning behind each play, you should be able to utilize it into your game when necessary.

For one, I am probably simply not capable of understanding what Krantz does at 1000NL. His vids are probably 100% useless to me apart from entertainment value. I just won't understand jack. If I did, I'd be capable of playing profitably at at least 100NL.

And if I was say winning at 100NL then your average 10NL vid would probably be useless for me because I would already know everything of that level.

[ShoveOrFold]

I know when i was grinding microstakes I would have a hard time finding applicable videos. Every 10nl-50nl video I saw would say the same thing. "Value bet, don't bluff, and don't pay off obvious big hands". I understood this concept, but I felt like watching the same concepts over and over again didn't help my growth as a poker player. Watching the higher stakes videos helped me learn new tricks that I could encoporate into my game.

If you play on FTP, I recommend signing up for trulyfreepokertraining.com You can get free stox and Cardrunners videos if you accumulate enough points, and it truly is free. Does not cost any MGR or points, and it should really help with your game and give you a motivation to play more.

[given1982]

Obviously PokerTrikz videos. Trikkur helped my development so much. Also Deuces Cracked 7-day free trial. You can download every single one of their videos and watch them at your leisure--it's brilliant.

[chinz]

I probably watch more videos than I play... I've even watched TONS of videos on games I don't even play (LHE HU, 7cs hi/lo etc).

Anyway, some of my favorites... The reason why most of them are from DC is because I've been a DC member for last 8 months, and thus watched more of them than other sites' videos.

DeucesCracked:

Dogishead (AKA. Haseeb Qureshi AKA. INTERNET POKERS) - Best poker teacher ever. No one gets even close. No one. Nowadays making vids for CR.

KRANTZ - He's a solid player, good teacher and also entertaining.

mdm13 - Very solid midstakes LAG videos by one of the biggest online MSNL winners.

FoxwoodsFiend - Also great 6max videos.

nolan - Good low/midstakes FR videos.

(series) The Eightfold Path to Poker Enlightment - Video series, where no poker is played or poker theory discussed. Teaches the right mindset for poker.

(series) From Donk to a Stud - Gives you the basic strategy/knowledge to play all the stud games (hi, hi/lo, razz).

(series) PLO - This is DC's collaboration with BlueFirePoker, featuring Jman (yes, Phil Galfond!) and Whitelime... Definitely worth watching if you're interested in PLO.

(series) Mad Potters - funniest series ever, RiverBoatKing and DJ Sensei having fun (= playing LAG at PLO1k-PLO5k). DJS & RBK both have excellent sense of humour and they're very entertaining to listen/watch to. I can't really explain it, just see for yourself.
DJS: What should I do here?
RBK: POT IT!

CardRunners:

MasterLJ - Great HU videos

cpar1 - Also good HU videos (only seen 2 so far)

Dogishead - Once again, his videos are perfect.

Stoxpoker:

Don't really remember too much about them. I guess Leatherass makes good videos (they were the first poker videos I watched - my opinion may be skewed). I'd also be interested in viewing some LHE videos by Bryce Paradis, but I don't have stox account anymore.

LeggoPoker:

Not too much interesting videos (at least HU), except aejones' videos, which are great. On the same level as KRANTZ's or Dogishead's videos.

PokerTrikz:

Trikkur & loltrickedu vids. You've probably seen them yourself, so you don't need my opinions.

[chinz]

Originally Posted by Vantek

For one, I am probably simply not capable of understanding what Krantz does at 1000NL. His vids are probably 100% useless to me apart from entertainment value. I just won't understand jack. If I did, I'd be capable of playing profitably at at least 100NL.

KRANTZ often goes very deep into detail explaining the moves he makes. It's not like NL1k (or even NL5k) would require some kind of sick nonhuman skills, just about everyone can understand it. The problem is being able to push all those small edges as often as possible and while playing.

I believe that avarage NL50 grinder has all the required theoretical knowledge to beat midstakes. The problem is that you can't stop to think one hand for 5 minutes and pokerstove ranges while you play. That's the difference between a decent player and a great player.

[Vantek]

KRANTZ often goes very deep into detail explaining the moves he makes. It's not like NL1k (or even NL5k) would require some kind of sick nonhuman skills, just about everyone can understand it.

OK, I guess would be able to understand if I analysed every hand he played like twenty minutes, but it would be very expensive and often be not even very applicable to my 25NL. When I watch a 50NL-200NL vid, I am constantly like, "yeah, that's what I thought", "OK I'll adjust my play at this spot", "hmm maybe I should try this out" etc etc, within two seconds after the hand happened. If I were to watch Krantz, I'd be like, "wtf is going on here". OK, maybe I could understand what's going on if I put some huge effort in it, but even if I could muster such a huge effort for poker, I'd put it into pretty basic ABC postflop, not some very advanced plays.

Every 10nl-50nl video I saw would say the same thing. "Value bet, don't bluff, and don't pay off obvious big hands". I understood this concept, but I felt like watching the same concepts over and over again didn't help my growth as a poker player.

OK, watch 100NL and 200NL then. I play 25NL and I like 100NL 200NL vids best. But I think they will more effective than anything higher and far more effective than high stakes.

Also Deuces Cracked 7-day free trial. You can download every single one of their videos and watch them at your leisure--it's brilliant.

woww really? I must do that!!

[nawhead]

Trikkur's videos helped me to become a much more deliberate, patient player, so of course I like them.

But I really respect loltricked's videos more. They're not vastly different from Trikkur's as far as play, but the difference is how no beat, or wierd random sucky spot, or misplay disturbs him, and he hardly acknowledges it, or more precisely he acknowledges it positively, like what went good what went bad, what can be learned, how we can use this hand that didn't go so well for future profit, etc., and keeps chugging along just as aggressive, just as cool headed, just as happy as before.

I actually think Trikkur runs better in his videos. In some of loltricked's videos he's actually down a bunch at the end, but you wouldn't know it by his demeanor, and his play never degrades, and I think a microstakes player can learn a lot from that.