Quote Originally Posted by Deuce Blue
Man is this still a go even though Slev drunked off his roll. I'm sad. Not overly suprised but sad.

Get his check cashed quick.

Shit, i just took myself out of the running didn't I??
Hehe this wasn't paid out of my bankroll so it's safe of course.
I'm absolutely nothing to do with judging of the entries GS are doing that, so you're ok. Even if I was, you'd still be in the running

Quote Originally Posted by Ragnar4
I'm torn.

I had a GS account, and I watched a lot of videos, and I can't honestly say my game was helped. In fact, I believe my game may have suffered. I leveled this charge at GS and their reply was cogent, and believeable. "Ragnar4 was only a microstakes member. We are certain that if he were to join and view the real content, his game would improve markedly".
I can only speak from my own experience, but I can honestly say that the micro stakes subscription is definately more than capabale of standing by its own merit. There are dozens of videos available to watch, aside from lecture videos where concepts are explained, you get the benefit of watching winning players crushing their stakes, come down to 2nl, 5nl, or 10nl (or sngs if that's your flavour)and play optimally. You get not only to watch them doing this for hours, but you get to hear their thinking as they do it and explain why they are doing certain things. It really is the best thing anyone wanting to improve can do for their game.

I recently made the mistake of buying into a few $50 dbl up sngs, lost three and now have to rebuild my bankroll, ldo. Before that for the week and a bit I was griding 2nl and 5nl. I played about 14,000 hands and averaged 17BB/100 over the sample. This isn't a brag, I didn't make any amazing plays, and I didn't run particulary great. I just followed the advice from the GS videos. The micro subscription is first class IMO and very worthwhile. I certainly won't be upgrading until I hit 25nl, at which point I wont think twice about paying a bit extra and taking the full membership. Gl!