Stox videos for Ipod

Feels like I've had a break from serious poker again. Thursday was the last night I played 6 max, and apart from that I played a little HU SNG's and a few $1 tourneys while having a couple of drinks. Both were risking very little money, and in fact turned out +ve cashflow.

I'm going on holiday midweek so this week won't be much better, but an interesting trail led me to joining up with Titan poker. First of all, this holiday will be computerless, but not ipodless. So it seemed reasonable to cram the ipod with some videos. I remembered converting avis to ipod format before, found the program (Videora) and converted a couple of music videos. I then tried a Cardrunners one, but the DRM stops that happening. So I did a quick search, and low and behold, Stox announces they are putting up their next videos in ipod friendly format (Cardrunners to follow soon). They posted this literally two days ago. Cardrunners will also follow. So anyway, I reconsider the Cardrunners deal, which is Cardrunners members get Stox 12 month premium membership for $150. Not bad, not even $15 a month. I go to their site to decide if those ipod videos are ones I'm interested in, because I'd instantly join up if thats the case, and I notice (you can't not notice) they still have affiliate deposit bonus plans, but now to get 12 months free. The cost in terms of Titan Poker was 90 points, or about 12 $10.50 HU SNG's. Now I don't claim to be a mathemagician here, but playing even Phil Ivey results in a guaranteed +ev compared with the discounted $150 cost. Not even to mention I play OK at HU SNG's when I try. I joined up and played some. Unfortunately their point tracker was lagging, I think I only needed to play one or two more, but I was just too tired to keep going anyway. I finished down, but I had my share of bad luck, and at least a couple of the opponents were semi decent. I still nearly cracked the free membership for under $15 loss so far, so it can't all be bad. I hope once it's cleared I'll get the membership up quickly, but either way, I'm pumped that for the next 12 months I'll be getting poker videos onto my ipod, as I spend at least an hour a day with that thing, so will only benefit from having more poker content coming in from it.

Other than that, things are brewing. I'm working on a situational spreadsheet, as a sort of test to my own understanding of the game. It's difficult to really just blanket statement things, but it comes down to keeping a Verneer like set of villains. From memory old man (nit), TAG, drunk, tourist. Then on those villains working out what lines mean on certain boards. So if drunk donk leads a drawy board after calling preflop, what range do we give? Polarised between strong and air, always strong, always weak, etc. Now if he check calls that same flop? Now if he check raises? The answer in poker is never 100% correct and it's never going to work out 100% of the time, but the point is to get the money moving your way much more often than it's going the other way. So understanding which players are which player type, then understanding their standard lines, then adding personal reads on top of that, should lead you to +ev if executed well. We'll see how we go, but I hope this will help me extract more value and further understand what substance their is behind some of the common lines I take.