I've been playing these exact games and this is the perfect video that I have been looking for :)

Greetings Skates,

I was totally taken aback that you made you this video.  Thanks.  It was nice having you subject these somewhat simple opponents to sophisticated analysis.  I've adopted a modified strategy of tuning down my preflop aggression and limping a lot.  When I first started playing I was trying to 'man handle' my villains with unnecessary preflop aggression.  Your video should help me further tweak my game.

I particularily was fascinated by your analysis of board textures, opponents ranges, and value.  Also, thanks for clearing up the misconception about 'thin value' being based on bet sizing.  There was a lot of valuable material to swallow; I'm going to replay this video several times and try and digest the cornucopia of import concepts.  This video is a great asset to the HUSNG collection.  

Thanks again,

Jeffrey 

 Hey, thanks for the positive feedback.

On the topic of preflop aggression, you can absolutely play LAG preflop and beat these players.  However, if we're trying to maximize our winrate, this is not the best approach.  I wrote an article on this concept not so long ago here .  Since it seems like many low stakes players have become aggressive over the years (maybe from watching other people play?  I don't know... I seem to recall people being more weak-tight in the past), a strategy where you open-limp 60% of buttons, raise your top 20%, and fold your bottom 20% is probably a very good starting point.  I think this is the type of strategy that Cog Dissonance adopted early on and has continued to use successfully throughout midstakes.  Since most of these players liked to bloat the potsize post-flop, I didn't have to do any work preflop in order to induce bad plays and get value with my strong hands.  One example is the 52s hand where I limped, called the minraise, then just full-potted it on an A34 board.  Was I balanced there? Nope.  Did it matter? Not one bit.

Please let me know if I jump around too much on concepts.  It's hard for me to focus on one thing when every game is a constant battle of 50 different things going on simultaneously.  When you make a preflop adjustment, it changes how you have to play post flop, since both players have different ranges on each street.  Same thing with when you adjust your flop betting size or frequency.  It's hard to squeeze it all in before the time bank runs out.

I really like your individual hand analysis...and especially your reasoning for the calldowns when you believe his line doesn't make sense. Thanks :)

I watched through these videos twice, taking notes both times.

Compared to other videos of yours I have seen, I wasn't too impressed with the content of these videos the first go-around, but did find more useful concepts upon viewing it for the second time.

I was originally going to rate the video 3 Stars, but after the second viewing I changed it to "4 Stars-Great". As always, I am very tough with my ratings.  Good job!