 | Cost: | $ 30 per month and $ 100 for registration; discounts for subscriptions of 6 or 12 months. | ||||||||||||||
| Videos: | over 2000 videos; 10 new videos per week. | |||||||||||||||
| Main variants: | Cashgame Hold'Em | |||||||||||||||
| Core instructors: | Daniel Cates, Brian Hastings, Taylor Caby. | |||||||||||||||
| Download / Streaming: | Yes | |||||||||||||||
| DRM: | YES (some selected videos have no DRM) | |||||||||||||||
| Videos in French: | Not | |||||||||||||||
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Details
CardRunners is probably the ancestor of the internet video poker. Taking advantage of the growing interest in online poker, CardRunners was founded in 2005 by Andrew Wiggins, Taylor Caby and Brian Townsend.
Since 2008, CardRunners is partnering with FullTilt Poker: many members of Team CardRunners became "red pros" on Full Tilt Poker. The same year, CardRunners has also acquired StoxPoker.
Today, CardRunners is probably the video site with the most members and thousands of videos are available.
Instructors
Son in years, CardRunners has hired nearly 100 different instructors, including Brian Townsend (sbrugy), David Benefield (raptor), John Kim (Nicolak), Andrew Wiggins (Muddywater), Isaac Baron (Mr. Menlo), Daniel Cates ( jungleman12), Matt Matros (jacksup), Taylor Caby (Green Plastic), Ed Miller (author of several books on poker), Cole South (CTS), Brian Hastings (Stinger), Andreas Torbergsen (skjervoy) Micky Petersen (mement_mori ), Colin Moshman (colinmosman), and many others.
Today, some left (Cole South, among others), but the team of instructors CardRunners remains strong. Instructors are generally not only good players but also good extension and good coaches.
Videos
Members of CardRunners have access to over 2000 videos. Many videos are added every week (at a rate of about 10 new videos per week).
As CardRunners uses DRM, you can not continue to play a video downloaded your subscription once CardRunners completed. Most videos are unfortunately not compatible with your IPhone / IPad, except some selected videos.
Costs
A subscription to CardRunners $ 30 per month; registration fee of $ 100 shall apply.
CardRunners also offers a 7 day trial versions. It is possible to have free access to the videos of CardRunners , you're already a member on FullTilt Poker or not. New players can take advantage of rakeback on Full Tilt Poker and receive free, without any deduction, a subscription to CardRunners ; current players can also take advantage of this promotion. You simply need to accumulate 5000 points FullTilt. No points are deducted from your account, and no deduction will be made to your rakeback.
Benefits
- Awesome content.
- Good coaches and pros.
- Serious site with a professional approach: the videos are very professional and are added on a scheduled basis.
- Opportunity to have access to free videos.
Pitfalls of
- Emphasis on CASHGAMES
- CardRunners is the lack of quality: the site is so big and online for so long that sometimes you find good videos always present among several ways videos or videos that are clearly not relevant.
- There are so many teachers that it becomes difficult to know what / who to listen to.
- Using DRM: it is not possible to listen to most of the videos on his iphone, ipad, or on a PC with no internet connection (with a laptop on a plane, for example)
Closing
The cash game players will certainly be well served by CardRunners . As it is possible to have free access to videos of CR by simply playing on Full Tilt Poker (while continuing to take advantage of rakeback PokerCollectif) CardRunners can become an attractive option for players with a limited budget or players who want to invest financially for the site subscription video coaching. Despite some negative points, PokerCollectif recommends abonnemment site CardRunners , especially for players who like to listen to a large amount of video each week.
