Ryan's SNG Building Blocks (1)

oh man i hope BFP i not gonna turn in crappy other sites model with 10000 authors putting huge amount of w/e vids. keep popping nlh/plo cash pls * havent seen this vid (no offence to these SNG guys really) Phil, Martin and Niman is who i`d love to see mostly if there are gonna be like 4-5 vids/month on SNGs/HUSnGs i`m fine with it, but not more pls, to kill other authors schedule/traffick

I agree halvadron, I didn't pay money for a site to get the same information I could get for free from youtube/full tilt academy. This video was good and well organized, but the information is so generic and most people already know these strategies. I do like that a few sng videos are being posted, but at the same time you can find things like this anywhere for free. I believe most of us signed up for this site for the in depth analysis and ability to take our game to the next level by having Phil and the other bfp pros help explain how to make decisions that are extremely marginal and difficult to decide. We didn't sign up to learn the basic strategies of poker like starting hand ranges in a sng.

I appreciate the critique and I full well understand your points.  While making this video, I struggled with just how basic I should make it.  This is the first of a planned series of videos, and it is the most generic and simple of all of them, as it is the intro.  The rest of the series will get much more in depth and will be focused on very specific topics.

In all fairness though,this video was titled "Basics of SNG's" and it is aimed at those that are completely new to this type of game.  As someone that is obviously familiar with these games, I wouldn't say you were exactly my target demographic. 

I decided to do a series like this because when I was learning these games, I could not find a good comprehensive series on any other site.  After input from many friends and students, I decided that I would try to produce the kind of series that would have helped me (and them) the most when I was just starting out.  Frankly, watching some guy play 6 tables never did anything for me.  There are so many nuances to the game in SNG's that can't be covered in a live session, and I want to provide as much information in a concentrated form as I can.

Any ideas you have for future videos are always welcomed.  After all, you are the customer and without you, I wouldn't be here.

Long, long ago - ok, actually an eye blink ago in terms of human evolution, let alone this history of the planet - there were school marms tasked with teaching every child in an old red school house regardless of the child's age or grade level. That must have been a pretty tough job, because simultaneously teaching someone how to read and teaching someone what a fused participle is are two entirely different occupations. I'm sure if the children in that old red school house were polled, they would have said, "please teach me exactly what I need to learn!" But exactly what they needed to learn would have been different for the 8 year olds and the thirteen year olds. In that respect BFP is a lot like the old red school house - we're not all at the same level. I've paid the same amount to be a member of Blue Fire as everyone else, and it's quite a bit larger as a percentage of my bankroll than most, I expect. Because I play smaller stakes, there are a greater percentage of videos made that are not applicable to the games I play. (I really don't need to be worried about balance since no one notices what I'm playing - Phil going on about balance in high stakes PLO is certainly interesting, but it's nothing I'm going to use in micro NL, nor is it something I SHOULD.) I hope Blue Fire teaches everyone to the exclusion of no one. To complain about a video like this is like a sixth grader in the old red schoolhouse telling the teacher that he already knows how to spell 'cat' and the first graders shouldn't be taught 'cat' because that he, himself, needs to learn Latin. It might be ideal for the sixth grader, but it's still not right. I'm sure someone brilliant could come up with a solution - here's a level of free videos, prove you can beat nl5 and have an opportunity to buy the videos teaching you how to beat nl25! - but I'm not that smart. I am smart enough to know that other people have paid the same amount that I have to get better at poker, and they deserve instruction. If that means me shaking my head at videos of someone losing a buy in at PLO200 even though they played well, then it can mean you shaking your head at the obvious basics of SNG's. The point is that ALL of the videos on this site are quality. They may not be of much USE to you, but that's not the same thing. They're not all of use to me, either, for the opposite reasons. I applaude BFP for starting this series, and for starting where they should - at the verrrrrrrrry beginning. I think that at the core, this site should be pedagogical, and not just for railing high stakes adventures. But that's just me, I guess.

too basic for me but still its great that bfp have taken a course to teach some sng and mtt/s too. as other series here this will be nuts.

I think everyone needs to cut Ryan a little slack. The info may be really basic, but you have to start somewhere. It is a series, so if you feel you already know the stuff he is talking about, go to the next video, dont bag on Ryan because you already know what he's talking about. I have no SNG experience so I found it very usefull. Looking forward to more.

Nice first episode. Will this become an 8 part series or mini series? Thanks