hey rio!

imho PokerStars replays are very undervalued. It's very entertaining and sometimes extremely funny to watch them. But these replays also have a lot of educational potential and value. Just think about it: you can watch best players winning in today games with their hole cards revealed!

So, you can watch these replays directly from your PS client, but there are a lot of disadvantages:

● these replays are starting not from the start (most of the time)
● you can't pause or rewind it
● you have no information about tournament payouts
● you have no information about player bounties (in PKO tournaments)
● replays are available for a limited amount of time in the client

but fortunately for us (poker players) there are good people who spend their time to record, edit and upload these replays on YouTube. There are couple of this type of channels on YouTube but i prefer and recommend this one: Series Player. the main reason i prefer it: this is the only channel with player bounties (at least in recently added videos) and payouts, plus it has some additional info in the end (like top50 finishers and tournament lobby screenshot with tournament ID).

in this topic, it'll be nice to hear your thoughts about replays in general and let's discuss the most interesting hands from specific replays. hopefully, author of this YouTube channel will upload weekly replays (Sunday Million, Super Tuesday, Thursday Thrill) on a regular basis and we will have what to discuss :D

PS. to get a better idea about what i'm talking about check out the replay of Thursday Thrill (Feb, 16th) - https://youtu.be/K4UIrgpKHEE