04-24-2008, 06:39 AM
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 How about you explain your thought process in detail?
Well, title says it all. How about any you video makers sometimes explain the exact reasoning behind your decisions in a hand? Not necessarily a whole video about it, but just pick a few hands in the video, especially interesting ones, OR exactly the contrary - very standard and boring and textbook stuff. Really deep in detail - what's your opponent's hand range, what is your bet trying to accomplish (ABC value, not allowing your opponent to draw cheaply etc.), why are you betting that amount and not less and not more, are there any other good alternatives, would you do anything else if something was slightly different and so on.
It's actually probably a bit of a tough thing to do, because for your pros 90% of the thought processes are pretty much subconscious. You'll probably have to do something like, pause the video after the hand or the whole session, then dig out the hand histories, think it through and lay down the explanation, and then unpause and present it.
I've watched like ten videos on this site and haven't seen this as much as I'd like (in fact I haven't seen this anywhere at all), but I really feel it would be a wonderful way to learn theory. When I watch the video of 4-tabling, I pick up bits and pieces but it's somewhat hard to work them into a big picture if you're a n00b. I'll get lots of information a la "you should generally do that in a situation like this", but not so much why I want to be doing it. Knowing the whats is good if your target is to not suck but if you want to become good, you have to know the whys.
So if you could add a few thorough explanations of thought processes, that would be just great. Observing the thought processes of the pros is a very valuable learning tool in any strategic task, including poker.
Last edited by Vantek; 04-24-2008 at 06:41 AM.
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