Education Review August: Crushing NL50 with hasenbraten
August saw a total of 33 new videos launched for PokerStrategists, alongside four new strategy articles, 3 columns and four quizzes.
Recommended videos
33 new English videos have been released in August, including an all-new Fixed Limit Diamond video series featuring byronjacobs and kobeyard.
Here are some of our best videos from August:
| Status | Type | Name | Producer |
| FL | First Steps | benido | |
| SNG | Getting started on SnGs | chenny8888 | |
| NL | Microstakes Maniac | ge5sterne | |
| FL | The Mathematics of Limit Hold'em | leader22 | |
| PLO | PLOmahaha | twicet | |
| NL | Change – Yes, we can | osmium | |
| MTT | Early Bustouts | jonathanlittle | |
| MTT | 6max tournaments | aaronlambert | |
| NL | Grinding Midstakes | somnius | |
| FL | kobeyard meets ByronJacobs | kobeyard & byronjacobs |
Latest strategy articles
This month's strategy articles include the first four parts of six-part strategy article series "Crushing NL50" by hasenbraten. No Limit Hold'em beginners should definitely not miss out on reading them.
Below find the strategy articles we published this month:
| Status | Type | Topic | Author |
| PLO | PLO for Beginners (1) - Basics | huckebein | |
| NL | Crushing NL50 (1) - The Preflop Play | hasenbraten | |
| NL | Crushing NL50 (2) - Postflop: Concepts and applications |
hasenbraten | |
| NL | Crushing NL50 (3) - Postflop: Advanced Concepts | hasenbraten | |
| NL | Crushing NL50 (4) - Opponent Specific Play | hasenbraten | |
| NL | The Yeti Theorem | huckebein | |
| NL | Bluffs (4) - River | miiwiin |
Previous quizzes of the week
We continue to release our weekly quizzes in August. miiwiin created two new BSS items for the benefit of PokerStrategists, while opabumbi and huckebein each contributed one new quiz for Fixed Limit and Pot Limit Omaha players respectively.
Test your poker knowledge by taking part in these weekly quizzes:
| Status | Type | Subject | Author |
| PLO | PLO for Beginners (1) | huckebein | |
| NL | Donkbets (4) - Confrontations in Multiway Pots | miiwiin | |
| NL | Button Steals | miiwiin | |
| FL | Playing suited connectors | opabumbi |
Interesting hands from the forums
Taking part in our hand judging forums is another way to improve your game. Even though there are many threads posted in these forums, hand judges like dawnfall26 or kaitz20 can give you some extra advice regarding difficult hands you may have played.
Here are some of the featured hands from our forums:
| Status | Type | Hand | Hand judge |
| NL | NL10: QQ from UTG | maestroofzerg | |
| FL | FL 0.05/0.10: Pocket Tens | dawnfall26 | |
| PLO | PLO2: KKTJ | pokermarcel87 | |
| NL | NL20: Classic Float? | kaitz20 | |
| NL | NL100: A3s bluff 5bet shove | bierbaer |
Preview for next month's content
In September, PokerStrategists can expect a set of new articles, including part 3 of "Mathematical Concepts for No Limit Hold'em", a new article series about playing with Statistics, an SnG article about Nash-Ranges and the new parts of the mid stack Strategy article series.