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!
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!
Feb. 25, 2021 | 7:42 p.m.