Hey Richard,
Great vid as always. In the JT75 hand analysis, toward the end you mention the solver would rather use the T for its showdown potential, and instead pair an A blocker with the open enders for its bluffs. This seems like a common mistake. I must be forcing relevant showdown combos into bluffs all the time without realizing it. When I'd rather wait and bluff the combo that replaced the showdown element with a removal element. But to try to fix that across my whole game seems complicated. I wouldn't want to overapply it and start checking every medium strength draw + mid pair (not pocket pairs, but with board interaction). Can you think of spots that would tend more toward this mechanic, and spots that would tend away? Or a thought process that might help approximating in those spots?

To your question about preferring the video series interspliced with solver dives. I find it hard not to get value out of your content, whatever the format, as my plo game is still catching up to the post-solver years. Maybe better players would feel differently.
I do like seeing your monker sims b/c I'm looking at vision outputs, ie predominantly single betsize strategies, all day. And that doesn't always show where the rubber meets the road. Thanks

I like this format of mixing solves right after you play the hamd.

I would say 2 tables of zoom is best as it makes it easier to follow the action and your commentary at the same time. It also allows you to expand a bit more on hands without having to deal with 3 tables.

I know a lot of coaches like to avoid dead air that comes with only a couple of tables, but the RIO editors fast forward through those lulls in action already. Besides, your analysis is always very thorough and you fill the time very well.

Thanks.

I like the format and I really like the re-caps after each solver dive

To start, I always get a ton of value from watching your content Richard. Just as TheRedWind posted, any format you use will be educational regardless. That said, I think that my preferred format would be something like 2 tables with post-voiceover analysis and solver dives immediately after hands with questions.

To explain, I prefer 2 tables because I struggle to follow which table is the focus of your thoughts at any given time. Despite narration, only you can know exactly where you're looking at any given moment, and I really only have your curser to follow. It's different when I'm the one in the pilot's seat as I can control my own direction of focus. Having hands be slightly covered/uncovered by the bottom 2 windows can sort of "surprise" me mentally as I may not have chosen to move them from foreground to background in the same timing as you use so it throws me just a bit. Having everything visible simultaneously might be helpful as well.

Voiceover narration seems important to me because it gives you a bit greater control over the pacing of the content. While it does cause us to miss out on some of your live thought processes, I'm sure you can still recall with some great detail what you were thinking at the moment when at decision points. Being able to more effectively speed through simpler decisions seems valuable for more time-efficient video content. It's possible that you may not even need the replayer table displayed as well which would make viewing from the 3rd person even more simple. Any moments you need for expansion of thought, you can either just pause your playback or switch to the solver window.

And to me, the in-the-moment solver analysis is more valuable than a summation at the end, mostly because the thought process I was having at the time is still fresh in m mind. To wait and summarize several hands at the end seems like an inefficient use of time in needing to rehash the background of the hand, and I essentially have to catch back up to where I was in my thoughts when the difficult decision arose in the first place.

Regardless, I find you and Phil to have the most valuable and in-depth PLO content and analysis for my own educational purposes. Please, keep up the great work!

Hello Richard,

I very much enjoy your educational content. Your videos are relevant and in depth in interesting spots thanks to the solver dive downs (I like them more immediately after the spot).
You also almost always get me chuckling with comments like the one with not being sure if your notes may be "undiplomatic" :D
So keep up what you are doing please and up your fees with RIO!