11 Responses to “Ben Reason Premiere Series – Member HH Review (Part 1)”

  1. MJ23STYLEz

    was so stoked to hear you were now a part of the team!…really like how you go in depth with hand ranges and overall just how clearly you get the point across. Def a great addition to TPE and an awesome first vid homie!! lookin forward to the rest

    **I’m curious, for your first series why’d you choose to review a member HH rather than one of your own?? Although we still get to hear your thought process we wanna see how YOU play! this is like a tease lol no offense Frenchie ;P

  4. BigG

    As it is my tourney being reviewed I am really pleased with the thought process here. Been through the first episode once but will do so again and try and provide my reasons for why I played the hands the way I did.
    As Ben says I have played a lot of STG 27 mans and STG Hu’s and this probably does give seep into my MTTs, with a more rigid fold pre mentality to ensure I don’t waste chips before getting to push fold mode. I do remember that I late reg’d for this 5d 2r tournament after bricking a lot of earlier ones and this may have affected my play.
    Really looking forward to the rest of the series.

  5. Reasons14

    Hey Corey, really glad to finally be here and thanks for the kind words.

    Yeah the HH review of a member was purely intentional. My initial series I had in mind was far far different from a HH review, so I wanted to keep things a little bit different still. Aside from that, I think doing HH review’s of a subscriber/student/not myself, is better for many reasons, specifically from a teaching perspective.

    Whenever we (me, you, anyone) watches a teaching video, its easy to agree with what the instructor is saying without actually deeply embedding it into our framework. Where as, if a student is allowed to make a mistake, then consciously corrects it, he/she will learn that concept/idea much more effectively. Think of anything that you can learn/play such as basketball, algebra, underwater basketweaving, etc…will a student learn much more effectively when he just listens to what an instructor says, or if he practices than gets critiqued? Probably the latter, which is why I think doing a HH review is just that much more effective in regards to learning. If Frenchie has a few leaks (which we all do) and has a few friends that are subscribers as well, it wouldn’t be too far-fetched to say his group might have similar leaks as well, so hopefully him and his friends can collectively learn as a group from this,

    Also, it’s extremely rare or impossible for one’s in-game play to match up with their out-of-game technical knowledge due to a multitude of reasons. So aside from it being more of an exhibition of the instructors play in the event of doing self review, I think it’s a bit more productive to review a students HH and fix their leaks or do a concept oriented video (where more drastic fixes will be realized).

    Anyway, that isn’t to say that I won’t be doing personal HH reviews of myself in the near future, I just wanted to do something different at the get go. Although, If I was running a training site of my own, the breakdown would probably look like 50/20/15/5 as (concept and theory, student HH, live instructor videos, instructor HH review).

    Gl ourselves,

    -Reasons

  6. Reasons14

    Great observation in terms of realizing bricking may = tilty play toward the end of your sessions. Would you said you are more the type to go on “tight-tilt” per se?

    And yes, I totally know what you mean about tendencies seeping through. I have observed myself playing PLO and coming back to MTT’s and playing absurdly spewy, and also have played some sngs after MTT’s for a while and again, still spewy. Just remember that the early portions of MTT’s are more chip ev which gives you more incentive to play way wider.

    Glad you are enjoying it thus far and please feel free to shoot any questions you have if you feel I didn’t elaborate on anything enough. Thanks again for submitting the HH for review!

    • Carlos

      “Just remember that the early portions of MTT’s are more chip ev which gives you more incentive to play way wider.”

      Can you expand on this a bit?

      I’ve heard one school of thought that says to play tighter early because there is less in the middle to win pre ante.

      Another (the one I prefer) is to play it like a cash game where you are looking to play speculative hands and hit against guys who overvalue marginal hands post flop.

  7. lafauriea

    great thinking about teaching, I’m 100% agree with you and looking forward for your concept vids and less about your own deep run in tournament

  8. Reasons14

    There are a few things to bring up when talking about this broad statement I guess. In that quote, I’d say that I was referring to that in a more technically correct aspect.

    If they blinds were 100/200/25 at the start of the tournament and were still the same 3 hours later, it would be more correct for hero to play “wider” at the start because of the diminishing value of chips the deeper we get into an MTT (cEV transitioning to $EV).

    Some other things that I think influence changes in this are the psychological tendencies for people to tighten up deeper in mtts/closer to the money where it surpasses the need to play tight. Also, HUD manipulation, where you purposely play a certain way at the start of mtts and manipulate your perceived HUD stats later on. I don’t think this is that relevant until playing in more concentrated player pools (though may be more relevant if you playing the US on sites such as Merge and WPN).

    I think its a natural tendency for sng players transitioning to MTT’s to miss a few wider opens either because they just don’t know or out of fear of post-flop play.

    So yes, that statement was from a pure mathematical perspective, though there are other things in these tourneys that could influence otherwise. Maybe someone is convinced that playing more tables and missing early preflop spots is conducive to a higher hourly (could be the case)?

    Okay, was sort of all over the place in that reply, hopefully that was able to answer your question, lmk if not.

  9. JD

    Content wise I think this is great. I’m a relatively new member so I haven’t seen a ton of series yet. Unfortunately this stands out as having the worse audio quality of all the videos I’ve watched so far. It sounds like you were recording this while taking a dump. Please consider upgrading your microphone for future series (from my very limited understanding the Yeti Blue is top of the line for podcasts and videos like these, and the Yeti Snowball is really good too at half the price). Or if you are in fact taking a dump while recording you can simply wait until you are finished.

  10. klayriver

    at 21:30 A3o from the lo jack is not a shove. Not plus EV and even if it was barely plus ev i dont like taking the spot in a $5 tournament where if we dobule up to 20bb in such a soft field we have a huge edge with that stack size. yeah not a shove. hopefully people that watch this are shoving it though. $$$

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