Personally I prefer watching you comment on other peoples play. Often when you step down and play lets say 2,5/5 zoom the dynamic changes a lot, which does not happen when you review other regulars. Also other players make more mistakes and you should be able to spot them more often than mistakes you make in your own videos, so that's more +EV for viewers as well.
Great series, enjoyed it a lot!

How would you contruct bluffing range in spots like one above? Check/raise some Ad99, Ad8xx and we should be good or .. ? It seems like he if villain is cbetting high % (any OP, any fd) it could be a good spot to make his life a little bit harder.

Hmm...

(1) Member reviews are the most useful for improving my own game.

(2) The most entertainment value is from live play videos at high stakes.

I vote a healthy mix of both.

Phil,

Cool vid as always. It also happens to be the one where I had to pause pretty often, if not the most often, for screen capturing (and asking questions). Before throwing those questions at you though, here are my thoughts on the video format.

I personally like other members' footage review for two reasons. Firstly, these tend to be at the same or similar stakes where I (and other RIO people) play, and there are lots of spots that I can relate to. More specifically, it is especially helpful when you are commenting on some mistakes made by these players and how to fix them, because those are the mistakes that I rarely see in your normal footage, and you just can't comment on the mistakes that you didn't make - that would turn the vid into a "what-if's" fest. In the same context, it is both interesting and inspirational to see you trying to maximise the edge against the pool by making good, exploitative plays, because lots of those are innovative ideas that would have been a bit hard for me to come up with myself. Again, I might not be seeing much of these in your normal footage though, because you are facing opponents of a different calibre and might not try the same line against those different opponents.

Secondly, this is rather a minor consideration, but it's always nice to listen to your unbiased, fresh thoughts on poker hands, which usually seems to be the case for these member reviews. When you are commenting on your own footage, we get to hear a deeper analysis and interesting thoughts, but at the expense of this "freshness" because well, you have played the hand(s) already, and it's probably difficult for you to give a completely unbiased opinion on them. Please note that I am not trying to compare freshness and depth (they are both important and valuable), nor do I think biased opinion on a poker hand is necessarily bad (it is certainly not). However, precisely because of this, I would like to see a mix of your own footage and member reviews, so that we can listen to different aspects of your poker thoughts and learn from them.

It's not easy to explain this well, but that's just my 2 cents. I'd love to hear what other people think about it.

As for some screenshot questions, I'll do that later today because I don't want this reply to be a tl; dr post. :)

-- midori

agree with all three comments above.

-when you step down limits, opponents don't play you as they play us, dynamics are different
-you don't make the same mistakes we do and thus can comment on new stuff