there are a few things i want to comment about in this video, but i should be making a disclaimer first
please take the following as constructive criticism; i am not trying to belittle your work, you did a great job, the video is mostly great stuff and people will benefit greatly from it (me too, for some of the parts), which is the entire point, after all. however:
- wouldn't it have been much more useful if you could use a little longer period / bigger database selection to show your thoughts? in 3k hands, that can basically all be variance at work
I agree, however the video was intended to show players how do use PT3, not necessarily to see my stats. I got a new computer due to my old one crashing. So, there wasn't any other hands at the time I shot the video.
- please try to make the sound volume (your voice, the music was already fine to loud) a little higher next time - i had to strain to hear your words, and i didn't enjoy that a lot (this may have been a noisier environment for me, so take other opinions).
I had one other person say that, but then he realized the volume on his computer was set too low. I would check that.
The music will aways be loud, there is no way around that. I manually lower the volume of the music as low as possible when producing the video. Think about when you watch a movie on TV or DVD, the music is always louder than the people talking.
Also, I don't have a great mic and the sound is recorded in 8 bit stereo to keep the file size as small as possible. Only way to make my voice better quality is to get a better mic, which I'll do in the future. I could always record the audio in 16 bit stereo, but that can cause the file size to be too large to upload.
Unfortunately, it's not a high budget project being produced to a DVD. With the limits in equipment I have and technology offered by free video hosting sites, there is not much more I can do to make the audio quality much better.
- (most serious, although still debatable) your analysis of the positions where you lose money is somewhat flawed. we can see that you are basically only behind in the blinds (awesome), but then again, your basis of comparison should not be the same, i.e. while in the rest of the positions it does not cost you anything to see your cards, here it does. and since most of the time you would be folding anyway, that means your baseline is not 0, but somewhat lower. for example, -2 or -5 cents, depending on the blind (this is also a little simplified, but i think closer to the truth than your POV). this is why PT3 has the awesome "without blind" column. there, you can see that you are actually winning money from the big blind compared to always folding, but your SB play could use some work. and now, you need to look at that more closely. at first sight, it seems that your VPIP from the SB is about the same as on the button, and that does not make much sense if you are mostly completing the BB, no matter what odds you are getting/how many limpers there are. if, however, it is mostly blind vs. blind situations, then i would suggest slightly toning down the aggression in that particular spot. :angel:
You know, I've never seen the Without Blind column before. It's been there the whole time, but I've just ignored it. Interesting. You are right, it's hard to have positive stats in the BB. I don't believe I said they should be positive. However, the lower we make that number the more profit we will have. Also the biggest leak most players have are in the blinds.
I watched the video again and agree I should have made my thoughts more clear on that. And now looking at the without blinds column, the work needs to be done in the SB. I'm actually embarrassed that I've never noticed that column before.
Yes, the VPIP should be lower in the SB and I do mention that in the video. If you look at your VPIP by position it should be the lowest in EP and gradually raise the later your position is.
i hope all this made sense and it wasn't overly critical. those are really minor points that i thought should be discussed a little further, but overall you did a really good job with the video and explanations. one more time, thanks for all the effort!