I suppose this thread has kinda turned into my personal "goals" thingee for the month (like JD and Boobie's 90 and 60k nonsense), so I'll update you all.
Last night, at the advice of Penguinfan after he read this thread, I decided to sign up for and see what they have to offer. Yes, that is my referral ID you see in that link there... I don't think I get anything for the referral, but whatever (if there is something, Chip should know, since I signed up under him (he asked first, Penguin)).
Anyway, the site has tons of stuff, but for me, it's all about the videos. I browsed through their selection last night and went on a downloading rampage. The videos have a license key, so as best I can tell, you HAVE to view them in Windown Media Player
and you HAVE to be online (to get connected to grab the license.
That kinda sucks.... but I don't blame them of course. I just wish I could view them with a better media player than WMP. Yuck. Once you get the license (by signing in after you try to play the video), it seems as if you can then view them offline - on that computer, anyway. I browsed their site and it sounds like the licenses are good for 14 days, so I guess you need to stay a member for long term repeat viewing. Makes sense.
Anyway, I've watched 4 videos so far - two on that I kinda had running in the background while I was doing other stuff (and yes, I did learn a number of very cool things - that program ROCKS), and two on EXACTLY the game I have been trying to master lately - 6 max NL (3/6 and 5/10). I'm not even kidding when I tell you that these videos have already paid for themselves. In fact, I'm guessing 15 minutes in to the first Green Plastic video, I felt like I had gotten my money's worth.
Yes, I KNEW that I was being too loose in the SB and BB, but I didn't know why. Now I do. And yes, I suspected I wasn't being aggressive enough in Late Position with junk and that I was overvaluing suited connectors after a raise, but now I get it - Well, I'm getting there anyway. I'm not saying this has turned me into a better player overnight or anything, but I think it may have given me the push I need, and I'm going to make watching a video or two per day part of my routine.
So, back to my goals: It's time for me to get serious about poker. I've been a winning player for 3+ years now, but I still don't play enough or take it seriously enough to REALLY be getting good (as in "great"). I'm going to the Borgata next week, so I should probably be focusing on tourney play, but I'm pretty comfortable with my tourney game right now, so for now, I'm going to focus on cash games. I want to be dominating them like JD and Boobie within a few months... and I'm hoping these videos are what I need to give me that little boost... the small (?) tweak to my game that I need.
So far so good.