Yesterday, I was a little tired from the weekend grinding so I decided to take the night off from playing.  Instead, I signed up for Leggo poker and watched like 7-8 videos.  Pretty masochistic - I know.  I still haven't done a CardRunners review yet, but since this is more recent, I'll start with Leggo.  I still don't understand how the sites can charge $30 a month to watch unlimited videos.  Videos are so much more informative than books (unless you are a true beginner).  That pricing is so bizarre, but I won't really get into it, so as not to rock the boat.

I think I've probably seen almost 100 videos across the four major sites (still haven't tried Bluefire yet).  I have fairly low standards for a video.  All I want is to see at least one thing different - whether it's how a hand is played, or a thought process or just anything.  In general, I would say 50% are not worth watching (actually this number is probably waaay higher, except I don't watch videos that are lowly rated or those made by break-even players).  I think 40-45% is fairly "standard," in that people play mostly ABC poker, with an occasional interesting play.  What separates the better videos in this category is how well the thought process is explained.  And I would say only 5-10% of videos are just outstanding for fresh content.

REVIEW

So yesterday at Leggo, I saw THREE videos that were "fresh" - at least to me.  The main reason I signed up was to check out BoyWonder's video.  He's been crushing mid/high stakes for the past year or so.  After watching his first video, it's clear to me he's put a lot of work into thinking about the game.  He's fairly regimented in his routine and thinks through all the different options on every street before making a bet.  Then I saw the only Nutsinho video on the site.  He's done very well in the higher stakes games.  It was interesting to see two different successful approaches to the game in back to back videos.  To be honest, if I didn't already know he was a great player, I would have guessed he lost money at the games from the way he plays.  But having a great "feel" for the game is pretty hard to measure.  Finally, I saw OldJude's first video.  Some of his plays seemed a little spewy, but his video is probably the best example I've seen of someone imposing a metagame at the table.  He's not concerned with playing each hand optimally, but he's willing to do things that may be a little -ev to get the game flow more in his favor.  Not sure if this is ground-breaking, but as a mass multitabling grinder, one of the things I had been thinking about lately is that I'm not paying attention to my image as much as I should.  So maybe *I* found this more interesting than some of you would.