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Very glad to see John Daly has similar thoughts as I have about Stars monopoly. I play on 7 different clients daily (very few games on Stars actually). I think this is a topic that needs to be highlighted more in the poker community for the sake of internet poker future. For example Party offers 12min levels with the same rake as Stars for their regular tourneys, also their turbos are 8min levels opposed to 5min on Stars. iPoker network doesnt rake rebuys and add-ons, Stars does rake them. All these little things add-up and Im sure Stars isnt going to slow down their structures or reduce rake anytime soon, Im expecting the opposite from them. If Partypoker or the like would get closer to Stars traffic it would only be natural for Stars to offer slower structures again to compete against them. Although there is a possibility that any site that gets enough traffic will eventually turn greedy and start promoting turbos mainly, who knows.

Best part in the series. Now I know alot of people will disagree with me but I would have personally preferred 5 hours of this format rather than 3h PP slideshows, 1h Piosolver and only 1h actual HH review. I mean its good to be thorough with the subject but I think you got stuck on repeating the same thing in some slideshows and esp. part 4 on piosolver. However I did enjoy the series dont get me wrong!

Hi Sam, after watching a couple of your videos I have experimented a little bit with backdoor flushdraw + overcards or bdfd + gutshot hands, getting aggressive with them, cbetting them even on some boards I know hit my villain fairly often and barreling turn if my draws get stronger and try to check it down if I hit second pair on turn. I often barrel turn if my overcard becomes top pair, Im not sure if I should though, maybe its good enough of a hand to just try and get to showdown with? IP barrel turn, check river seems reasonable but OOP is harder because I have to check/fold to a lot of river bets if I check river OOP with top pair.

Backdoor flushdraw questions about the video:
At 06.55 if you had AhQh instead of AhQs as in the video would you make the call on flop which you described as a close spot? Would you ever consider raising in this spot with two overs + bdfd?
At 30.26 if you had KsQs instead of KdQs would that change your approach to the hand? Opponent has more flushdraws to bluff with atleast. What if you got a spade flushdraw on turn after calling the flop? The turn jam would be alright and not a "mistake" as you put it?

Thanks for the video!