
Essential Pro
Shaun Pauwels
Shaun Pauwels takes a look at a bunch of hands from one of his students to try to find the major leaks in his game and offer some advice to plug them up.
May 28, 2023 | 5 p.m.
Shaun Pauwels utilizes GTO wizard to help him drill his defense strategy after missing his c-bet opportunity on low textures in a blind vs blind setting and develop some heuristics for success.
May 7, 2023 | 5 p.m.
Shaun Pauwels uses a session at $50NL as the backdrop to explain how he takes notes and how to use notes to your advantage during a session and future sessions against the same players.
April 6, 2023 | 5 p.m.
Having laid the groundwork by discussing the benefits of database analysis in the first part of the series, Shaun moves on to illustrate his process of analyzing a player's database for leaks that you can exploit at the tables.
Feb. 23, 2023 | 5 p.m.
Shaun Pauwels drops down in stakes to analyze some of the differences between NL50 and NL100 live as he shares his thoughts on the action.
Feb. 11, 2023 | 5 p.m.
Shaun Pauwels utilizes $100 zoom as the backdrop to explore various ideas for extreme exploitation that are both specific to this stake as well as applicable to higher and lower stakes.
Jan. 21, 2023 | 5 p.m.
Shaun Pauwels plays a morning session in the $0.50/$1 zoom pool on Stars explaining his thoughts and encouraging you to think in advance about your lines both pre- and postflop.
Dec. 29, 2022 | 5 p.m.
Shaun Pauwel starts a new series discussing everything evolving around database analysis. The first part lays the groundwork by listing the reasons to build your database skills before introducing the most important stats you should keep on your radar.
Dec. 7, 2022 | 5 p.m.
Shaun Pauwels hops into the pool which is teeming with regs and seeks to play his A game commenting in real time as he navigates the choppy waters.
Nov. 3, 2022 | 5 p.m.
Having recorded the session, Shaun utilizes the pause button to go deeper on certain hands that are particularly troublesome and discusses his approach on tables that are a bit higher stakes than typical for his other videos.
Sept. 26, 2022 | 5 p.m.
Shaun Pauwels pulls the hands that saw at least 13BB's getting into the pot and breaks down the action analyzing what he could have done differently with the benefit of hindsight.
Aug. 7, 2022 | 5 p.m.
Shaun Pauwels grabs some hands from recently played sessions and reviews them first providing his in game thoughts before turning to the solver to see if and why he deviated and what can be learned from the deviations.
Aug. 1, 2022 | 5 p.m.
Shaun Pauwels discusses six core poker concepts that should shape your strategy in various situations that you find yourself in at the tables: merged vs polar, elasticity, value betting, nut vs range advantage, aggression in 3bet pots and overbet jamming the river.
July 9, 2022 | 5 p.m.
Shaun Pauwels first introduces the concept of counting hand combos before going into detail of how this is used by players of all skill levels to help guide them in their decision making process.
June 26, 2022 | 5 p.m.
Shaun Pauwels plays a session at $100 zoom sharing his thoughts on all interesting hands and on how to deviate actions based on the player types that we face. He concludes the video by reviewing the most interesting hands in more detail.
June 5, 2022 | 5 p.m.
Shaun Pauwels utilizes GTO Wizard in an effort to drill specific situations and find a few key takeaways that he can implement to his strategy and improve in these common situations.
May 23, 2022 | 5 p.m.
Shaun Pauwels offers an interesting format where he provides stats and data before instructing you to pause the video and think about how you would adapt based on this information.
May 9, 2022 | 5 p.m.
Shaun Pauwels discusses the topic of implementing a leading range in single-raised pots on the turn. He starts by breaking down the fundamentals of when leads can make sense before deriving heuristics from an aggregated solver study.
April 25, 2022 | 5 p.m.
Shaun Pauwels highlights numerous areas outside of studying poker that can significantly increase your win rate.
April 8, 2022 | 5 p.m.
Shaun Pauwels is back with another edition of a live play and explain at $100 Zoom. Shaun touches on the differences between reg tables and zoom, plus shares some stories from his recent home game adventures.
March 31, 2022 | 5 p.m.
Shaun Pauwels fires up another play and explain session at $100 Zoom. Before jumping into the action, Shaun explains the HUD stats he uses while playing.
March 14, 2022 | 5 p.m.
After receiving requests for a live play and explain video, Shaun Pauwels mixes things up, fires up a $100 Zoom table, and provides his analysis in real-time.
Feb. 24, 2022 | 5 p.m.
Our old pal Shaun Pauwels continues his series focused on developing a strategy by recapping some of the lessons from previous installments and then diving into today's lesson which focuses on taking theory into practice.
Feb. 7, 2022 | 5 p.m.
Shaun Pauwels continues his "Building a Strategy" series this time turning his focus to how he studies and develops his strategy based on his findings.
Jan. 17, 2022 | 5 p.m.
Shaun Pauwels returns with part two of his series teaching how to get started with a baseline strategy that uses simplifications wherever possible. In this episode the focus is on turn and river play. At the end of the video Shaun launches a NL25 zoom table to illustrate how to apply the newly learned simplifications.
Dec. 23, 2021 | 5 p.m.
Shaun Pauwels tackles the topic of multiway pots and discusses how they differ from a HU pot and how to approach these often less studied and more complex spots.
Nov. 28, 2021 | 5 p.m.
Shaun Pauwels launches a new video series aiming to help beginning players to quickly establish a solid strategy. The series teaches the most valuable simplifications for different topics and will also discuss how you can improve that basic strategy over time as your knowledge increases. Part one focuses on preflop and flop play.
Nov. 7, 2021 | 5 p.m.
Shaun Pauwels dropped a request for some theory based questions that were giving members some trouble and he uses this video to explain some of these in the hopes of adding some clarity to difficult poker concepts.
Oct. 17, 2021 | 5 p.m.
Shaun Pauwels discusses the importance of learning from players better than you and how to examine the results from your database to take note of their tendencies and implement them into your own game.
Oct. 4, 2021 | 5 p.m.
Shaun Pauwels dives into the mathematics of EV, a topic that he's studied for quite some time and is fluent in though he attempts to slow it down for the viewer in this theoretical examination.