Long poker videos without edits/commentary?

Like many people here I'm a big fan of the various TV shows, but sometimes I'd rather see them without all the editing for dramatic effect. For example, maybe a heads up match with a splitscreen of each player and their cards so I can practice looking for tells and try to disect their logic on my own. I'd want an entire match, not just handpicked sections like most of the shows have.

Does anything like this exist? I'd pay a reasonable amount for some DVDs if they were available.

Some exist. Live at the Bike is the first one that comes to mind, they show every hand over a three-hour session (almost always cash games) with hole cards.

Sometimes you can find the webcasts of things too, though often they don't show hole cards - I've got the complete and unedited final table webcast of the 2007 wsop-E HORSE final table somewhere in that format. Never got around to watching it, 12 unedited hours of limit poker just seemed a bit like hard work.

Poker After Dark shows most (though not all) hands if you want something in between.

From the OP I guess you're looking at this more from a live angle than an online one, but I still would recommend signing up at one of the main coaching sites on the web, cardrunners, stoxpoker or pokerxfactor. CR is mainly geared to cash game players, PXF to tournaments and Stox is somewhere in between. I think Stox and CR are linked, so signing up at one will get you a significant discount at the other.

Coupling the videos there with literature such as Caro's Book of Tells would most likely be a better learning aid for you (even if you only play live) than watching LATB or something for hours (nothing against LATB, I used to watch it occasionally at silly times in the morning over here a few years back and had no idea it was still running).

There are also some videos on here of an online games with players holecards all turned up. I've posted two tournament ones and zachvac has done a cash game one and there may be others I'm forgetting. If you search the forums for "holecards revealed" or "holecards exposed" or suchlike i think you will find them. Just turn the volume down if you don't want our awesome commentary.

Dorkus Malorkus said:

Coupling the videos there with literature such as Caro's Book of Tells would most likely be a better learning aid for you (even if you only play live) than watching LATB or something for hours (nothing against LATB, I used to watch it occasionally at silly times in the morning over here a few years back and had no idea it was still running).

Click to expand...

I'm already reading and watching instructional videos. I just don't really learn things fully from instruction alone - I need to put something into practice before it really sinks in.

I lean more towards DVDs because the quality is higher, rewinding/jumping around is easier, and because where I live the internet connections are metered. A few hours of video will put a sizeable dent in my monthly GB quota.

I'll check out the other stuff mentioned - thanks!