Wednesday, July 1, 2009

filling up on PLO videos

The last 5 days I've watched so many videos on Cardrunners. I've stayed away from high stakes games where possible and just watched lower limit videos still trying to cram the basics in. I've got 1 week of Stox now and starting with their beginner videos but I really think I've got a lot of the basic preflop stuff down and quit in the middle of a couple of their videos cause I really feel like I know a lot of the preflop decisions and need more work on post flop. I still feel lost sometimes on my flop decisions. I'm through about 6 videos now and really not impressed with them. They do have a lot of videos and a lot of them seem to be lower stakes. From $25PLO to $100PLO which I do like. Instead of Card runners where there is a lot more high stakes games. The quality of the videos are good but the content seems a little bit lacking so far. I watched 2 of the Robert Williams III videos. I didn't think his video was bad but it wasn't that great either imo. I kind of expected more from him I guess. I think it was probably good if you had never played PLO before and were coming over from Hold Em. But he only has 2 videos on the entire site. I thought he was more of a contributor there.

I watched 2 other videos from who I think is one of the NLHE pros but I can't remember his name now and they seemed to be pretty basic. Nothing really interesting. Watching Ribbio's video now. Has what I believe to be a British accent which is odd if you aren't used to it. I'm going to get used to it today cause he has a bunch of videos and hopefully they are good enough for me to watch them all. The full table video I'm watching he seems to be playing too loose and calling raises but then who am I to say someone is playing bad when I'm just learning the game myself?

I'm also planning on getting Omaha Manager this week. They have a 2 week free trial and I can get a discount through Cardrunners as well. I'd like to use it to analyze some of my previous hands from the last 2 weeks but I'm really planning on watching more videos and reading Jeff Hwang's book more than I focus on playing this week. I want to do some of both to try and use what I've learned from the training but I'm wanting to cram as many videos in this week as possible.

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