New SnG Video Added (26/6/05)

http://gen-xxx.com/poker/vids/stars%...%2026-6-05.avi

Thoughts/comments/questions go here

[hydroseeds]

I'm lovin it.

Keep 'em comin, D-man.

[BobbySalami]

Are you able to stream these videos, or download only?

Are you able to stream these videos, or download only?

Download only I think, sorry. You can try to stream?

[Knytestorme]

download only at this stage I'm afraid. Would have to change to a Win 2k3 Server to really do streaming in an easy fashion and that won't happen soon on my end.

[Crackpot666]

Again...GREAT VIDEO...!!!

Till heads-up the luck was on your site...!

[elgrkn]

download only at this stage I'm afraid. Would have to change to a Win 2k3 Server to really do streaming in an easy fashion and that won't happen soon on my end.

If you encode the movie with the windows media codecs, then Windows Media Player will stream it with no problem. Although, you will have to watch it straight through with no skipping ahead. Alternatively, you could encode it as an mpeg, then you could skip around as you download it. Neither of these require anything extra on the webserver. As far as the web server is concerned, you're just downloading files normally. Although, Windows Media Player will play these formats, even before they've completed downloaded.

[kingnat]

These videos are a really interesting watch. Looking forward to seeing more.

I would like to comment on your hand selection during heads up.

Hand 1.
Raising his call (probably a bad play on his part) in the BB with QQ, definitely the best move. Min raise here hoping for a call and a quick win with a huge hand.

Hand 2.
The next hand you raise from the SB with A2o, again I'd say a good play.

Hand 3.
You get K3o in the BB. After posting his SB and ante, he's left with 1520 (less than 2 BBs!). If I'm this guy and find myself in this position, I'm going to push with almost anything at all. Hoping for a coinflip that will give me some chips to survive with. You have $1120 to call with the pot at $2820. I'd strongly suspect you're K is good here. Any further info as to why you folded... "wanting to get him absolutely dominated" seems like an odd goal at this point with such a big lead, and high blinds.

Hand 4.
The raise with T6s is fine, I understand that since he's folded before you've got outs in the fact that he might muck right there. But it struck me as odd...

I'm obviously not an expert, but I'd like to here your hindsight comments about this play.

Thanks a lot!

I should add that i really like many of your plays, and respect your commentary very much.

Hand 3.
You get K3o in the BB. After posting his SB and ante, he's left with 1520 (less than 2 BBs!). If I'm this guy and find myself in this position, I'm going to push with almost anything at all. Hoping for a coinflip that will give me some chips to survive with. You have $1120 to call with the pot at $2820. I'd strongly suspect you're K is good here. Any further info as to why you folded... "wanting to get him absolutely dominated" seems like an odd goal at this point with such a big lead, and high blinds.

Hand 4.
The raise with T6s is fine, I understand that since he's folded before you've got outs in the fact that he might muck right there. But it struck me as odd...

Hey kingnat, thanks for watching!

The reason I folded that K3o when heads up is because when I'm out-staking someone HU and the blinds are big so he is almost dead, I always like to get a more connected, and preferably suited hand. K3o can be completely dominated by hands, whereas things like 97s are always in with a decent chance against pretty much any hand. T6s is a straight and flush possibility, so I decided to go with that one.

Also, that was the first hand the guy had raised HU, note that last time he was on the SB, he merely called with his tiny stack, so by raising and not calling with his tiny stack again, I can make the assumption that his hand is above average, and that therefore it beats my K3o.

[kingnat]

Hmm, I guess that makes sense. I might take me awhile to wrap my brain around that. Is there any way to show that in a nice compact statistical way? I tried simulating those two hands vs a range of different hands on Poker Tips, and it wasn't completely obvious that what you say is true.

So are you saying that even though K3o has a sharper peak, in that it will win a high % of the time against a select number of hands (60/40 favorite), but is dominated by many holdings (30/70 underdog), and T6s will win a slightly lower percentage of time (45/55 underdog) but over a much broader range of hands?

I can appreciate that, and use that information. I still would love a program or simulator that would allow me to see all the results for this comparison as opposed to a piecewise comparison using the Poker Tips simulator. (anyone?)

I am curious... What is the lowest x (from Kxoff) you would play in that situation? Would holding K7o, be enough for you to push?, or would you need higher still? If it had K3s instead would that be an instant call?

Even with that new bit of info, I still think a call on with the K3o is warranted, though I respect your decision to fold much more than I had previously. Thanks for the reply. Looking forward to discussion on further videos.

I am curious... What is the lowest x (from Kxoff) you would play in that situation? Would holding K7o, be enough for you to push?, or would you need higher still? If it had K3s instead would that be an instant cll?

I really hate KXo in general, I wouldn't have liked to play anything other than K9o and above (although I probably would have put him all in with K8o and K7o, while grumbling expletives of course).

If it was K3s, my chips were probably going in here, even if I am dominated by an AX or a pocket pair, I have major bonus outs to a possible flush. You'll rarely see me limp from the SB when heads up, I like to raise/fold. I decided that a fold would be best on the K3o (reasons in previous post of mine). I really like to make people have to make tough decisions, that's how I scare the living poo out of people sometimes. :P

Hope this helped.

[Bad Beaten]

Your QJo play was really interesting and illustrates the potential dangers of falling in love with marginal face card hands early on...

A hand like AJo or KJo is very reasonable to cold call your raise, and the play up to that point had been reasonably tight...That being said, I can buy the pot-committed/pot-odds argument, especially since the texture of the flop did not make two pair a reasonable holding under the cirucmstances, and a bluff-raise is a reasonable continuation play if he cold-called your raise with something like AQs and didn't think you had hit anything (although why he wouldn't is a bit beyond me, as you've been the tightest player at the table, and hae been value betting all tourney without any sort of bluffs. And you have been pushing your edges aggressively enough to scare people, but modestly enough to give yourself an escape hatch...)...

[daluchy]

Encoding these videos to an mpeg would cut down on the filesize bandwidth alot if you can't stream them. I'm not sure what's a good program for it though. I haven't done any type of video work.

If anyone's got a program for it please share. It would be nice to have these videos more accessible to people. Watching them have definately helped my game alot.

Encoding these videos to an mpeg would cut down on the filesize bandwidth alot if you can't stream them. I'm not sure what's a good program for it though. I haven't done any type of video work.

MPEGS = Bad quality, no?

They are only 40 megs, it only takes like 5-10 minutes for someone on a Broadband connection, which I assume most if not all people on FTR have.

[SnoT_III]

I have divex and winamp and neither will play the video. Where can I download the codecs I need to watch these?

I have divex and winamp and neither will play the video. Where can I download the codecs I need to watch these?

Go to www.gen-xxx.com/poker/vids/ and download and run TSCC.exe.

[Robert]

Snot: http://www.techsmith.com/products/studio/codec.asp

[daluchy]

Encoding these videos to an mpeg would cut down on the filesize bandwidth alot if you can't stream them. I'm not sure what's a good program for it though. I haven't done any type of video work.

MPEGS = Bad quality, no?

They are only 40 megs, it only takes like 5-10 minutes for someone on a Broadband connection, which I assume most if not all people on FTR have.

Eh well as much as these movies are great, they aren't highly-graphical productions that need full quality .

For what's being shown, they would look perfectly fine. Yeah most have broadband, but for the server's sake and maybe some less fortunate people it could help.

Beside's, we're in a McDonald's fast food time now, I want my movies now. Not in 5-10 minutes, lol.