On the Ground Floor - In this first episode, you’ll learn everything you need to know to get started in backgammon: how to set up the board, how to move the men according to the throws on the dice, how to make points and hit checkers, how to use the doubling cube, and how to win double or triple games. If you’ve never played before, or you’re not sure you were taught correctly, this is the place to start.
Start to Finish: A Sample Game - In this episode, we take a look at a sample game from start to finish. We’ll see the benefits of aggressive play in the opening, and why passive play doesn’t work. We’ll also see how to trap your opponent by building a prime, and how to offer sound, aggressive doubles. In the endgame, we’ll see how you can use a big positional advantage to go for a gammon, instead of settling for just a simple win.
Brent plays the early stages of the PokerStars Wednesday Quarter Million and details methods of accumulating chips in the early levels of a tournament, taking advantage of the weaker players that often are only available at the beginning of a tournament.
Brent plays the portion of the tournament leading up to the bubble and afterward. It shows how to play a larger stack and how to approach the bubble based on the type of tournament, as well as post-bubble adjustments.
Rakes discusses the different approach to this growing popular SNG format. The video contains good and heavy bubble play that will help you improve your DON skills. Also provides good fundamentals for beginning DON players.
David uses the DTB replayer to walk through the beginning stages of a 30+Rebuys tournament.
Hunter's series on big late-street bluffs in No-Limit. Lesson I he covers overbet bluffs. Through a few slides and then some hand examples, he explains why they can be so profitable and how to work them into your game.
A Pot-Limit Hold'em heads up match where the opponent plays too tight, so Hunter explains his adjustments of increasing aggression and pressure postflop. He also discusses how to use the pot-limit betting structure to increase his edge against an unwary opponent.
This event is the 2nd Chance event for the WCOOP Main Event with a very deep stacked structure and a $1k buy-in. In this 4-part series I will explain a few key dynamics in deep stacked poker, and I will demonstrate some ways to best deal with aggressive opponents during the middle stages of a tournament.
You will see an example of how playing aggressively on the bubble in a short-handed tournament can help build your stack and put you in a good position to win it all.
Milwaukee2 discusses how to use notes and opponent tendencies/reads to help make decisions on each street.
Milwaukee2 breaks down opponent's lines to try to put together accurate hand ranges.
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