I was making a joke obv. Thinkitthrough is the best HU coach I know. I have no idea what your coaching is like Harry. I've never written anything about you. I've never written anything bad about any other coach ever, no matter what I think about them.

The difference between me and you is, even IF I suspected you had fake reviews in your thread, I would never say anything in your thread without real evidence.

I've been on the high road, being respectful, answering all of your questions this entire time but do you really want my honest take? I think your business is in decline, you are losing new business as I continue to gain new business, and you think that by cluttering up my thread w a new novel every few hours and creating some kind of mud flinging match will somehow get you a lot of free attention or hurt me in some way.

I respectfully answered all of your questions. Now please stop cluttering my thread.

Thanks Eric, I really appreciate that.

Even though I hate giving negative feedback I feel like I have to because of the recent (probably unjust) accusations in this thread.

I'm a poker player from Germany so I don't post very often on 2+2, but feel free to look me up on PTR on Pokerstars under the same name. I play NL100 and NL200 FR as a midstack. I have been midstacking for over a year so I was familiar with the differences to fullstacking and already had good results.

I always look for the next great coach or video series and when i stumbled upon YourDoom it seemed clear that I had to take at least one session with him.

My first coaching session for $502 was in July and was held in Skype chat only, which was okay since it was a lot of numbers and percentages about his approach to midstacking (mostly preflop) including betsizing, ranges and some in depth stuff. He pasted a lot of the content but always asked afterwards if I had any questions and we had a very fruitful discussion about all of the topics. He types really fast so we got a lot out of the 90 minutes, though not all that is required to play poker. I would say it was a very good introductory course but you wouldn't be able to just start playing with the information, you need a few more elements that weren't included. I don't know if this was done on purpose but for the price and the length of the coaching you certainly get enough out of it so that I would recommend it to anybody thinking about midstacking at NL100+.

After the coaching I started to employ his advice and everything went well. Since it was only a minor change to my prior experience and mostly a confirmation that I was doing the right thing I didn't see a major increase in my winrate but I never regretted taking it.

I also watched all of his Pokerstrategy videos which will be relevant later on.

A few weeks later I discovered his Blind Defense Course on Bestpokercoaching and snapbought it. For the cost (397€) I didn't even think about it. You can do the math yourself. If it only helps your winrate from the blinds a tiny bit it is easily worth the purchase. My results from the big blind are pretty bad (they still are) but I am confident the course will give you a very good outline on how to play from the blinds, not only against steals but also in multiway pots and versus tight ranges from earlier positions. I am very happy with the content and while I haven't implemented all of it and probably won't fully for a few months (it's a big change and basically impossible to do if you're masstabling like me at the moment). As with all coachings you have to put in a lot of time thinking about it and consciously making the changes in your own game.


Now to the bad part.

When I take coaching it is always about a specific topic, something that has been troubling me or something new that I want to learn. I wanted to learn his approach to midstacking and I wanted to learn his way of defending the blinds. I don't like sweat sessions and I don't like hand history reviews since they only show a fraction of my play. Which is why I made the decision to shell out another $650 for 2 hours of coaching from him on a very specific topic that has been a problem for me. I'm not going to mention it because I'm not too eager to expose it here but I made it very clear in my email requesting the coaching what problems I faced and what I wanted out of the coaching. He replied quickly saying that he would "tailor a session around the topic" and after the first coaching we had I thought it would be of equal quality with a lot of ranges, numbers and tangible information. By the way he asked me if I wanted 90 minutes or 2 hours and I decided on the 2 hours, giving him more time to explain everything since there was some stuff missing in the first 90 minute coaching. There was no talk of me preparing anything in advance.

I paid for the coaching after his holiday 2 weeks ago and the coaching took place last Thursday.

Before the coaching he mentioned that we would do the prepared content on his pc via Teamviewer and then switch to my pc for some hand history reviews which took me by complete surprise because this was the first time I heard about it and didn't know if I would even be able to find good spots to talk about on the fly. Still, I didn't say anything and we started the coaching.

When I looked at his screen I immediately knew what was up. I looked at a hand he had already talked about in one of his Pokerstrategy videos and I was very familiar with it but it didn't even fit into the coaching because a) he was playing 100 bb stacks and b) it didn't match what I wanted out of the coaching. I immediately stopped him and told him I already knew what he was going to say. Even if I hadn't known about the hand he should have told me beforehand that he was going to use content that had already been published on a very popular german pokersite that I am a member of. Also, talking about the hand in the video only took him about 10 minutes which would have left another 110 minutes for other stuff. After I stopped him he was a bit baffled and when I asked he told me that was all he wanted to talk about and that we should go on to the hand histories.

I complied but this totally wasn't what I expected.

What followed were about 60 minutes of random hand history reviews (I was lucky to find some good ones) and a little bit of chit chat. Before the time was up we both got bored I think and he offered to use the remaining time by evaluating some more hand histories via email in the following days.

He also asked me to write a review but he never asked for it to be a positive review. He just wanted some feedback and some attention to his coaching which is completely understandable as an american citizen in this state of online poker. To an outside spectator it looks a little bit like scam but you have to realize that a very profitable job was taken from him and he is trying to fill the time and make some money. I would only be suspicious if he was still able to play but chose to coach instead like many other coaches out there.

How should you interpret my review? I think he is a great coach when he is talking about his style of poker and if you're struggling with any of those aspects and can afford him I would highly recommend him. I was only disappointed when I asked for a specific topic. That might have been a function of his inability to teach the topic to my requirements or that he just wasn't prepared for it after going on holiday. Obviously I am very unhappy about the high price I had to pay to find that out. $650 is a lot of money to someone midstacking NL100

Jafeeio

If your going to spam yourself on PTR, just admit it...I personally don't think there is anything wrong with it until your start claiming that wasn't the intention. So basically you just misclicked? lol I mean idk...Your first two testimonials look suspicious too....if coaching doesn't work out for you I'm sure you'll have a career in marketing

Jafeeio,

I just sent you an email. First, thank you for calling me "a great coach," I greatly appreciate that.

This is the first non-glowing review I've ever received and I want to rectify this immediately.

It sounds to me more like a misunderstanding as to how the lesson was going to be conducted.

Your satisfaction is guaranteed; with my course and with my coaching. Please get back to me on email whenever you get a chance, about what I can do to make sure you are pleased with your investment.

Whatever it takes, I'm here to ensure that you are satisfied.
Ryan

Ryan -

Here's the conversation, again:

[12:01:32 PM] Me: In my post, I said that I believed your product was good, and your skills were high level.
[12:01:47 PM] Me: Despite you essentially calling me a "mediocre midsteaks coach" charging $325/hour.
[12:01:54 PM] Me: lol
[12:02:04 PM] Ryan D: i obv did not call YOU that
[12:02:09 PM] Ryan D: directly
[12:02:11 PM] Ryan D: haha
[12:02:16 PM] Me: Who else plays midstakes and charges $325 an hour
[12:02:25 PM] Me: Have some intellectual honesty
[12:02:27 PM] Ryan D: thinkitthrough


Now, did you call me that directly, or indirectly? The conversation and your response indicates it's one or the other. You were either referencing me, or taking a pretty direct shot. No?

And which coaches were you talking about when you talked about coaches putting earnings in their titles and how "stupid" that was because someone who 4-tables (you) is a better coach than someone who 16-tables (me). I was the first coach (or one of the very first) to put PTR earnings in my title. Were you talking about everyone else, and not me? Or was it just a general musing that had no purpose?

Point is, both of those were going negative towards me, or people who did similar things to me, and I never responded. The only time I responded was when my post was deleted last night. Please understand t hat.



Taken together, I had reason to believe you were criticizing me. Now you say you weren't and it was all one big joke, or had nothing to do with me. That's not what you said during our conversation earlier at any point.

To be fair to YourDoom, it appears that while he was asking for another post showing his PTR spam to be deleted, mine was also deleted because it referenced the original post. I accept this explanation obviously, and acknowledged that I believed that during our skype conversation this morning but wanted clarification from a mod because I'd never had a post deleted in 6-7 years on this site.

I STILL DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY YOURDOOM DELETES ANY POSTS TO BEGIN WITH AND GETS TO WHTIEWASH HIS THREAD TO APPEAR THE WAY HE'D LIKE IT. HE STILL HASN'T ACKNOWLEDGED WHY HE WAS DELETING WHAT HE CALLED "TROLLING" FROM SOMEONE ELSE, WHEN THAT PERSON WAS SIMPLY REPORTING (ACCURATELY) THAT YOURDOOM WAS SPAMMING, AND HAS DONE IT MANY TIMES IN THE PAST.

That answer (why are you deleting people's concerns/questions) along with a verification of the veracity of the reviews, is all I asked for in our conversation this morning. Nothing else.

And yes, business is very bad. Never been worse. You're right. Especially when I'm getting off 12 tables of internet poker in Argentina to respond to you...When's the last hand of online poker you played, speaking of business?

Doesn't seem like Harry's post was particularly accusatory, and the questions were straightforward and reasonable...Also, I don't understand why you would be deleting people's comments in your thread when you don't like what they say or ask

1) I apologize for my use of sarcasm/joking around earlier. I thought this was obvious, but just to be 100% clear... I write comments on PTR under my own account and sign my name (YourDoom from Pokerstars) to them in the hopes that allows more people to find me and what I have to offer.


2) PTR was notified and replied that they have a lenient policy on this matter. Most of my comments are still on the site to PTRs full knowledge. Still, this offends some people.


3) People have falsely and unfairly accused me of faking reviews in this thread. I responded by contacting the mods and asking them to verify each post. 100% of my feedback on the course and my private coaching in this thread will soon be confirmed by the 2+2 mods as 100% legit.


4) My new e-book video series "Advanced 6max Poker with YourDoom - How to Play from the Blinds" is now for sale and has so far received 100% (soon to be fully verified by 2+2) positive feedback.

Thanks to everyone who has purchased so far

Please check out the free sample video on my website here: www.YourDoomPoker.com

Ryan

Hello there!

I'e always played with 100bbs and wanted someone to introduce me on the mid stack strategy so I decided to take 90mins coaching with yourdoom.

It's been great as he had all very clear about every topic (I guess he had the strategy written with notes and he was copy-pasting them and explainin when needed, which I do think it's great because you save time). Yes, it was skype-written but as it has a lot of info about percentages and so on I do think it's the best option as you can then order your own notes rather than be writting what he would say or recording to review it afterwards as it would be very high consuming.

I liked it a lot because it was very time-efficient and he was answering all my trouble questions that I was shooting continually.

For me, I got exactly what I wanted, so nice coaching I missed a bit something about postflop lines but I do think there's no such a biiig difference from 40 to 100bbs play (just a few readjustments) so I'm fine with it Didn't expect anything else.

Here's my feedback about the coaching we got !

Samy

I don't want to unfairly go after you Ryan because I am sure you are a great coach and a nice guy but I have also noticed on tableratings someone under the name of 'Ihas51outs' (something like that anyway) who has commented on a number of players saying that your free video was the greatest they had ever seen. Now if this isn't you posting under a different name then it is at the very least a good friend of yours because your free video is basically a sales pitch and hardly full of GREAT content.

Another small point that has annoyed me is the fact you have stated in the past that you are making a loss with the hourly rate you charge for coaching. Now this is ridiculous because coaching money is variance free for starters, but also on your free sample video it shows your hourly is actually much lower than your coaching rate!

I understand you are just trying to generate business for yourself but I think you are stepping over the line a little.

I've deleted a few of the redundant posts and false posts (Nilay's charge of 20 posts on PTR being removed for example). If anybody has any questions they can PM me or post in this thread that is discussing some allegations about YourDoom's conduct on PTR, his initial response and his coaching reviews.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/10...mmy-me-1097121

My post will be edited and in its place there will be left a permanent summary of the above thread, once that thread and questions in it have concluded.

I have had some one on one coaching from Ryan aka Yourdoom, and I also just completed the advanced blinds course he has just released on his new website. I went through the course twice and it is awesome. I enjoyed it very much and learned things you just don't see players including myself do, which makes it so profitable. I started applying these concepts at the games that I'm currently playing in and immediately saw results, especially to my redline. I have learned a tremendous amount from Ryan just from the heads up coaching and the course, and I plan on getting some more education from him in the future. I would also like to add that Ryan is not only extremely knowledgeable and successful at this game, but he is a great teacher as well, and explains things very well. I recommend this course to anyone looking to improve their game and I have no doubt you will see results as I have.

this was posted based on the evidence of the ptr reply which YOU pasted. i can now see that i misread the contents as ptr posted all 20 posts but may have del a lot less.

I apologize