After a video series recommendation during a thread on 2+2, I eventually directed my browser to the Deuces Cracked , DC site, and I was very excited with what I had found, the titles and brief descriptions where mouth watering on their very own lol.
I needed to get hold of some of this stuff. Thankfully, for those of us on a micro budget, DC offer a very generous 7 day free trial. In an odd way I think such a generous free trail is (unrestricted downloads) worse then a a more restricted one, because it forces the potential member to spend some time exploring the site and they are going to be more focused on comparing their offering to the competition, etc rather then just downloading as much content as they can.
I’ll confess I was firmly in the second camp, being on a very tight near no existent budget, I couldn’t afford not to grab what I can whilst I had the opportunity. I do feel a bit guilty though lol, hence the review.
I really like the layout of the site, the home page is very inviting and is easy to navigate via the menu system at the top of the page. Similar to Poker Savvy Plus, DC offers a wide selection of DRM free video’s, articles and a forum. All video’s are downloadable in an MPEG-4 format, with many also available for the Ipod. I haven’t done much beyond a test play with the video’s yet, so a review of certain video’s may appear later on, but the audio and video quality was exceptional in all that I tested.
Also similar to Poker Savvy Plus, you can view the video’s within the site (using Flash) or download them. I had one issue with the details page for each video, and also with the articles, where a “reply window” would float above the main page and forced me to scroll a lot to read the articles. I am told however that this a problem with my flash installation. Viewing the site from another computer was fine, so to get the best out of the site make sure you have the most current version of flash installed.
DC, also offer a podcast called DeucePlays with Bart Hanson, coaching (including several coaches / mods from 2+2) and rake back.
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June 2nd, 2009
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Bit of a delayed update this. As some of you know, I’ve been experiencing problems with my eyes for well over a year, since my sng days in fact. I have now come to accept the long term problem as dry eyes, and unfortunately it appears there is no real solution.
A tilt induced 72 hour mad marathon of sng’s in the darkness of my apartment as now left my eyes permanently damaged! There is a few tips to avoid this online, I haven’t done much reading on it yet, but avoiding straining the eyes by maintain a single fixed point of focus can help, as well as giving your eyes plenty of rest and ensuring your have enough ventilation while your working long hours at the computer, to avoid your eyes drying up.
I had a “minor surgery” on them a week or two ago, where my tear ducts where “blocked” to help my eyes retain their moisture, but it hasn’t made much of an impact. The sad fact is that while I seek to use my computer more, play longer sessions read more 2+2, etc… I need to spend more time away from the screen… and that just sucks.
Look after your eyes!
June 2nd, 2009
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The trend of loosing 3 buy-in’s per session has now continued into June, and my sessions now being 2-3 times longer then previously offers no comfort from the situation.
In short my game has gone to shit… I’ve gone from 24/22, which admittedly could very easily be a bit too loose to a 17/15. The continued loss and my vpip/pfr seems to support my hypothesis that I totally suck in “standard spots”, so by lower my vpip, my game has become more polarized to these situations and consequently my wr has gone through the floor.
Maybe it was the long break in may, maybe it was a loss in confidence… maybe I was hindered by trying to play longer sessions, now 4-6 instead of 1-2… maybe it was trying to play for a living, when my game or my life isn’t ready for it. Maybe its all of the above… I’m more then a little lost.
The really irritating thing is that, I used to have almost a fear of taking a break from play, expecting my game to fall apart just has it has done… but if only I stopped playing more, and put in some study to improve my game and keep my confidence the likely hood of my game falling apart would have been drastically reduced. I mean I have access to literally hundreds of hours of video’s on poker… and I may have watched 12 hours worth!
I’ve been here once before, though that was in my sng day’s… it was really stressing then. Its still pretty devastating for me, but less so, I am in a far better position to turn things around then I was then. The most frustrating thing is perhaps even with the confidence of knowing that I can get back to where I was, their is an upsetting and obvious awareness that this is going to take time, maybe a large chunk of my summer away from uni, exactly the time I was looking forward to grinding up the limits.
I don’t know where to begin to re-build really, I’ve got a sweat with Split Suit from 2+2 later tonight if Skype decides to cooperate as part of my Leak Finder session, so I’ll take it from there. Wish I had a job, because one months wage will go straight on various coaches to get my out of shit I’ve gotten myself into.
June 2nd, 2009
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