Small Stakes No-Limit Hold'em

So I've done a few live sweat sessions in the past, but the recurring theme of every one of them was that while we were discussing an interesting hand, a. the player still has to focus on playing or focus on the discussion, but he can't do both b. interesting hands might come up while we're discussing a hand from the past, so we either move on and cut the discussion of the last hand short, or miss/ignore the interesting hand going on right now.  So instead, I was thinking about recording my screen while I played for a few days and then compile a video of interesting hands that we can record audio over, pausing and discussing without any other distractions.

Not sure why I didn't think of this from the get go, but I'll just replay the hands in HEM while we talk through them.

So since I'll be sharing my screen and going through HEM, this also allows me to show hands from other people as well.  So to make this more interesting and much more beneficial to all, can anyone who wants to participate please send me a hand history of a hand that you feel pertains to Session 1 (The raw hand history text so I can import it into my HEM), as well as any reads/stats(yours and villain's)/notes/questions on the hand (stats especially, since I probably won't have any history with you and villain in my database), and then we can schedule a time to all hook up via Skype and Mikogo (both free) and walk through all of the hands?

So if you're interesting in either discussing these hands (If you intend on joining, please make sure that you are going to participate, as there is a max # of people who can join due to software limitations), or just want to submit a hand and see what others have to say about it, please shoot me a PM with your hand text or a PM saying you'd be interested to review/comment on hands, and also let me know what time zone you're in and your general schedule so we can try to get a time when most people can participate.

If we run out of room, I'm just going to take the first x PMs (I think max capacity for Mikogo is like 8 or something), so hustle up, but please also be serious about discussing the hands and not just sitting on the line taking up a spot.

PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR HANDS!  If we only review hands from me, we'll only see things from one player type's perspective, and we'll only see hands that I deem interesting.  Even if you don't want to be a part of the discussion video, the more hands we have, the better this will be.

And of course, I'll upload the final video to a file sharing site like MegaUpload so all can download and watch.

Post edited 10:24 pm – June 28, 2009 by jz1014

I think this is a great idea and I would love to be involved, but I typically work evenings so I don't think it would work well scheduling wise. I eagerly look forward to the end result though!

This was great, thanks for setting it up RML. JZ, thanks for sending interesting hands to review.

In hindsight, I said some things that I no longer think were correct, and I've thought of other stuff I would've liked to have said as well. I guess that's the great thing about making this sort of videos, they make you listen to your own thought process and sometimes you'll learn from your mistakes. Thanks to the contributors that made me see my mistakes as well.

Hope to do more vids in the near future.

This sounds like it went well, I look forward to the video! Hopefully I will be able to make it to one of the future discussions, but if not I will definitely try to get more hands turned in. I had a hard time finding interesting hands that fit the topics being discussed over the first 61 pages, but I do think the future chapters in the book will cover a lot more dynamic spots so it should get easier as we go forward. Anyway, I'm glad I could be of some help… hopefully you guys didn't tear into me too hard. ;)

Sorry fro leaving after 20m…Was really exhausted…Looking forward for the vid…And for a new session at a different hour! :)…