Hey wtfpwnage,

"How to Play from the Blinds" is about 4 hours in length.
Outline... http://yourdoompoker.com/YourDoomPok...-included.html

"How to Play Optimally With and Against a 40BB Stack" is about 5.5 hours in length.
Outline... http://yourdoompoker.com/YourDoomPok...-included.html

I could of made them longer just to make them longer but I didn't want to waste your (or my) time. Every concept is thoroughly explained with plenty of additional examples in the form of end of courses quizzes. And there is absolutely no "filler" material in either series.

The free sample videos are here... www.YourDoomPoker.com

I had now 20 hours of coaching with Ryan and he was definitely worth the money! Generally I'm one of the more the skeptical persons but I have to say he definitely delivers. His voice is super clear and sound and he obviously he knows the stuff very well! He got me asking new question and thinking a little bit harder about the game!

I think in one posts in the beginning he wrote that he likes to coach people more than playing and he enjoys watching them improve and succeed. This is definitely true, all the time I felt like he had an active interest in my progress and overall how I'm doing

Once in a while I was asking him questions about a specific hand / math forumla via email and he responded super fast with a good explanations.

I'm very happy I decided to commit to this coaching and it I'm going to get another checkup in a month! If you have some spare money to invest and you want to improve your game Ryan is the guy!

By the way, all the sessions were fun too. He has this way of explaining stuff in a interesting way what creates curiosity!

Hi, this is wpr101. I just finished the In the Blinds series and really enjoyed it. Definitely worth the money for me, as it answered a lot of questions that I've had over the years.

It is both comprehensive and concise - both of which are good because there is no filler material that most videos have. Another nice thing the videos address how opponents will begin reacting to you once you change your style.

The concepts are explained quite clearly, I don't recall any points where I thought wtf is he talking about. Overall, a great series for improving play.

Hey guys. Thanks for all the awesome reviews!

Hello, as you can see, I am not a regular poster here although everyday I visit twoplustwo, especially the News, Views and Gossip section xD

The reason I post now, is because 2 days I bought the series of "How to defend your blinds", and I really felt obliged to let everyone know that they are a really wonderful series.

At the beginning, my thoughts where the same as many others here, the videos where too short and there where so few examples. But after carefully taking notes of everything YourDoom said (even thought the videos are only like 13 mins long, I have like 20 pages full of notes), everything seems to make sense and I realized that there were really no need of more examples.

Everything in his strategy seems to fit perfectly, and I'm confident that I will soon have the amount I paid for the series, plus a lot of interest. I will let you know how they decreased by blinds loose-rates when I have the decent sample.

I'm even considering buying too his series on the 40bbs strategy, just to play perfectly against all the ****ing spanish shortstackers ratholers out there. (Obv I am a 100bb player)

Finally, for the record I'm only some random mexican wannabee highstakes 6-max nl player, slighty winning at 100nl, and definitely beating 50nl, with obv no relation with YourDoom, I only know his name is Ryan because of some other likely jealouos couch naming him after saying the series where bad..

Thank you for the review!

In light of the recent sentiment surrounding a few poker coaches here on 2+2, I'd like to express my own thoughts (in my own thread as to not pollute other coaches threads.)

I believe that all coaches should routinely provide updated current, relevant, unfiltered results. This is not a critique or criticism of anyone in particular, just my general position on the matter.

Personally I'd like to see a standard set to have a coach officially "PCFT Approved" (Poker Coaches for Transparency ...I just made that up.) Perhaps a 2+2 mod could do a private results analysis over teamviewer in order to certify such coaches the same way that many video training sites audit and vet their prospective coaches. Now I know it's not perfect, as results can be altered, but I like to believe that no coach on 2+2 is actually altering their results (deleting bad sessions, etc...)

I do believe that if anyone was ever caught posting fraudulent results, that they should be perm banned from 2+2, have their poker accounts frozen and be prosecuted for fraud.

I'm not sure how feasible this all is, and I'm really just brainstorming here, but perhaps all PCFT Approved coaches could be listed differently or color coded in a certain manner apart from non-PCFT Approved coaches.

Here is every online hand I've played since BF. This graph resumes seamless tracking of my online play without interruption, as you can view a graph of my final ~107k hands leading up to and ending on April 15th, 2011 on my website.

www.YourDoomPoker.com

I'm sorry that the sample is small as I've just resumed play recently. I will update these results every 12.5k hands or so...

Aw shoot, I had a huge post written up addressing your points, adding a few more of mine and I was going to turn it into a coaching forum thread.

Until I get some time to regather thoughts, a few points:

- Prosecuting fraudsters is more of a legal issue, and often one that has to do with the victims of the fraud (IE students) and the jurisdiction of the perpetrator. I believe some poker scammers have been brought to justice in the past.

- There have been some coaches that have lost their listings due to being unwanted. Sometimes a coach gets approved, has no apparent issues with their services, but then a community member brings to our attention a previous scam/unwanted behavior and the listing is removed. This is often done quickly and via PMs, so it's not as noticeable to the greater community, but it does happen.

- There have also been plenty of coaches rejected when applying for ads. Common reasons are issues in the past that reflect poorly on the applicant and would be a clear cause for concern (example: A potential coach that rolled a stake or previously scammed somebody in the 2p2 community).

- Showing results is great, but I don't think requiring results is necessarily a great answer. Currently, coaches that show good results get more business than those that do not, particularly good results in the last year or so. Therefore, coaches already have incentive to be current winning players, and those that are not (or do not show that) will not get as much business.

- Verifying results/sns. This is a community task the way the system is setup here. I'm one person who has volunteered their time for the coaching listings. But my tasks are mainly changing thread titles and original posts for coaches, moving misplaced threads to the correct place, deleting spam and trolling and moderating issues between the community and coaches. That takes up more time than I really like to begin with, so adding "verify these coaches" to my list of tasks would be too much.

- Adding to the prior, I would absolutely refuse to put my name on anything that said verified coach without knowing that quality, objective players had verified that the strategy these coaches teach in videos/sessions is good. And it would likely cost both time and money to make that happen. Verifying a few sns or that you beat a level isn't verifying if a coach is good, at least not in my book. The process I go through when verifying coaches in my own business and domain (heads up sngs, the only thing I'm qualified to really judge or analyze) requires that I speak to many people in the community, spend hours (myself and other coaches) analyzing sample videos and public work from the coach, and then I follow them closely as they release content into the community. That's a full time task that falls under "site owner" in my specialty business. I think it's probably impossible for any one player to do anywhere near a satisfactory job verifying that coaches are qualified in these 2p2 listings, since coaches teach in so many different game variants.

- Training sites do verify coaches often, at least their stats or screen names (to an extent). But that is a result of users telling them (whether directly or by their buying habits) "Hey, look, we won't hire your coaches or buy your products if we don't know more about you, less selling and more listing of information." But training sites live and die by the products they sell, and a majority of that product has to do with the coaches on their site. The coaches in the 2p2 listing, however, are not "2p2's coaches." They are community members on this site that want to advertise and if users in the community tell them the same thing "hey look, we won't buy your services if you don't clearly beat today's games" then they will either adapt or die. It's up to the community to verify, question, bring attention to and so on when there are issues though. I'm one person in this community that helps, and I've volunteered to do my part as a mod, I've also taken a close look at every heads up sng coach that has ever advertised here (though in fairness that is aligned with my actual non 2p2 paid job).

- Overall, there are some signs that the system is working effectively. Two recent issues involved coaches that weren't so clear about results or marketing practices that weren't well received in the community. Players in the community, in some cases led by rival coaches, aired their thoughts and issues, and it appears that the coaches in question are altering their services and marketing and information to better reflect what the community is telling them they want to see. And that's the way it should be in my mind (and honestly is the only way it's going to realistically work in this type of system).

May have mistyped or come across wrong on a few of these thoughts, but I lost my original post.

The common theme here is: The more community members that help out, the better the listings will be. Current and former students can be honest about their experience, rival coaches can give REAL analysis of the strategy of a coach (not "I don't think he's very good" that type of comment is weak from a rival coach), good regs that do not coach can also comment on the strategic wisdom (or questions about) a listed coach and community members can take a few minutes to read a listing or two, ask any questions about anything that is unclear or potentially missing from the listing. And of course, if any issues arise out of any of the above, you can always PM a moderator such as myself and I'll take a look at the situation (and in serious events forward the information to an administrator).

All good thoughts Ry. Again, I was just brainstorming a bit. I know we'll never have a perfect system.

And I agree that looking at recent results and reading customer reviews are the best two ways to gage the caliber of and to select a coach.

And with regards to my recent 41-60BB Stack stats, I just have to say that there is a ridiculous, easily exploitable game out there right now since almost no one has any idea how to play with or against a midstack.

Think of it like this. If you could go back to 2008 with the poker knowledge that you have right now, how would you do in the games? I think if you're a 2bb/100 winner at NL100 in 2012, then you would CRUSH NL600 in 2008 with that same skill set.

The same thing is happening right now, but only with 40BB poker. Maybe in a few years everyone will catch up and by 2014/2015 it will be the standard to be proficient with and against a 40BB stack. But right this second, there is a gold mine out there for the taking. 2012 poker is so easily crushed with my 40BB system; it's really the same as playing 100BB poker in 2008 imo; mainly because no one knows how to do it well.

Is there a refund policy if I don't like the series? ^

Also, can I see a large sample of 40bb hands played?

Hey Jeremy,

Thanks for your interest. Yes, if you decide to buy and don't like the course I'll give you your money back. But I doubt that will be an issue.

I have always offered and continue to offer a 100% Satisfaction Guarantee.

My OP is now updated with all recent results.

Hey Ryan, do you plan to make more series about 100bb play? something like "Double your 6max winrate" but made by you?

Yourdoom,

Your results are impressive.

What do you think about profitability of 40bb strategy in lower stakes? Winrates from shortstacked play are always lower than from playing deeper (I assume that from what ShortStackHero wrote), so I suppose rake might make beating lower games really tough. I've also heard that cap games players are really struggling with rake. So what is the lowest level you would recommend the strategy for?

And second question which is kind of connected to the first one - what are bankroll management requirements for 40bb strategy? Does it allow to play higher than 100bb strategy with the same bankroll?

(I can't edit previous post.)

I also have a question regarding your video introducing the series (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=aFO82ieHWOE)

At 11:47 you say:
With all due respect, I think your reasoning here is not correct, because by checking you give villain infinite odds for his drawing range which is obviously better for him than good odds you would give him by betting small. It is a misconception that if calling with draw is +EV for villain then we should check.

I don't say betting turn in that situation is better than checking - you might be totally right, but this argument you used just doesn't seem right to me.