Sunday, November 28, 2010

Since I've been a little under the weather, I've been playing a little less and watching more videos.  I decided to take another look thru CardRunners (since my membership is free thru FT).  There are always the "standards" for mid to high stakes - like jcl, iRock, Rask, NuteDawg, and PoorUser (my favorites, probably in that order).  Anyway, they are all good watches.  I'll also watch DamnRinger once in a while (since I know him from the forums), but he does mostly small stakes stuff.  But in the last 6 months or so, they seem to have added a bunch of new mid-high stakes people.  I was pleasantly surprised that a few of them in particular seemed pretty good, so I thought I would give a few shout-outs:

Nicolak - He's probably the winningest 2/4-5/10 reg (in terms of dollars at those stakes) CR has in their lineup, so if you want to learn to mass multitable, he's your guy.  He's all about the fundamentals, and watching his videos you begin to understand that winning is not about making the fancy plays... it's all about consistency.  He also writes a regular blog (link in my blog links), and cohosts a podcast called Cash Plays, so he's a good read/listen.

In general, I'm not as keen on guys who don't have a long track record of success.  But the following two new guys seem to make some educational and entertaining videos.

Matthew Janda - Normally, when I've never heard of a guy and I can't look him up on PTR, I tend to put him on the bottom of the "watch" list.  But I was really blown away by some of the "fresh" ideas he's had in his videos.  He does a "sweat/replayer" format where he goes thru all hands in a session where he VPIPed, that I think is an interesting twist on some old ideas.  He's also fairly thorough and organized on his theory videos - not sure if I agree with everything he says, but he's thought provoking.  You definitely need to move him out of the bottom of your list.

D_Zoo - I vaguely remember him from another training site.  I guess the thing that stands out the most about him is that he's pretty animated in his videos.  I always laugh when he gets raised on a low equity c-bet and he says something like "Psst.  If you want it that bad, take it."  His commentary almost makes up for having to watch those shitty iPoker interfaces for an hour.

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