I would like to state that I think OP is not being forthcoming about his current capabilities as a player or as a coach and it seems that he is duping many beginners and low stakes players into purchasing his products and services thinking they are coming from a much more qualified individual. Below I will dissect the information he has supplied in the OP as his qualifications for coaching PLO which would be seen by anyone that enters this thread looking for a PLO coach.
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Current Results:
In 2015, I have won at slightly over 10bb/100 playing PLO400-PLO2k and occasionally higher with PLO1k being my most common game. My last 100k hands including some other variations I ran at ~12.5bb/100
If you'd like more details, I am happy to provide current graph, feel free to PM me for whatever you need.
First of all you are being very unclear about what games and winrates you have, a regular player would very easily be able to state exactly how many hands and at what winrate both actual and EV they had obtained over a certain sample size. These players would also not think that 100K hands is a reasonable sample to judge their approximate winrate on, you also mention nothing about your "EV winrate" for that sample which is a very pertinent stat in PLO. In PLO over small samples like 100K hands you could easily be winning at 12.5bb/100 and have an AIEV adjusted winrate of 2bb or less. These statements about the games he is playing and his winrate in them could be entirely false as afaik OP has never publicly released any of his screennames, which is incredibly rare for a longtime midstakes cash game player, there are also no graphs or stats that would confirm the statements about his stakes and winrate. OP could also very easily be lying to potential students about the screennames he has played under as well as supplying fake graphs and stats of other legitimate winning regulars in those games to them in his private message exchanges with them.
I currently play in the games OP says that he does (400 - 2K) across many different networks (PokerStars, ACR, 888, and others) and based on the information he provided I find it very hard to believe that he is a current regular in those games based on "knowing" a lot of the regular players I am playing against. Quite often when I am playing on smaller networks I will know other regular's screennames on other sites we both mutually play on. What I am saying is that if I have 3 opponents on 3 different sites from the same geographical location as has very similar stats over a reasonable sample size, that it is very likely that all 3 accounts are being operated by the same person so that would be their screenames for those 3 sites. I can't think of any player that matches OP's description based on the games he says he plays and the winrate he says he has that isn't "known" to be someone else. It would also be very rare for a player of this caliber to play 0 volume at those games in 2017 on Stars and as he has said in this thread he doesn't play on Stars.
If OP is not currently playing 400 - 2K in 2017 as his OP states he was "in 2015", that information should either be updated to reflect what games he is currently playing with a confirmation of said games and winrate (graph and/or stats) or be removed entirely.
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About me:
• Two-Time PLO Player of the Year on PTR
OP "won" this contest in 2010 and 2011, but this was not a merit based competition for either year. This was simply a contest about who got the most votes and OP actively looked for random people to vote for them to win the award which had nothing to do with his skill as a player. The only qualification to be eligible to be voted on is that you played 10,000 hands for that calendar year at certain stake levels. For the levels that OP won at, "Low Stakes" it simply meant that the minimum requirement for being voted on was playing 10,000 hands at .50/1 over that year.
http://www.rakerace.com/news/online_...ear_2010_vote/
poker software.com/articles/2010/12/pokertableratings-opens-2010-player-of-the-year-voting.html (banned url, combine poker and software)
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• Very Successful Online Player at PLO200-PLO1k and occasionally higher
This is very debatable and would almost certainly fail peer review from current 200 - 1K (and occasionally higher) regulars on any network. This statement also means nothing if you don't clarify any names you play under, you dont even go so far as to say what site(s) you are playing on which would be the absolute bare minimum information which would need to be released to help confirm that you are a player in those games. For example I dont think there are any players who say they are a 200 - 2K regular on a site that doesn't even offer 1K in 2017.
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• Featured in Bluff Magazine
I would expect that this isn't a lie, but I was not able to find anything upon a quick search of google, this also doesn't really pertain to your ability to coach a winning PLO strategy in 2017.
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• Poker Strategy Writer for Poker Player Magazine
I would expect that this isn't a lie, but I was not able to find anything upon a quick search of google, this also doesn't really pertain to your ability to coach a winning PLO strategy in 2017.
What you forget to mention is that you made 3 videos... in 2009... for SNGs. This also doesn't really pertain to your ability to coach a winning PLO strategy in 2017.
I would say this is a blemish if anything, it has been well documented about how the owner of that site was also not forthcoming about his current results and at one point supplied a graph from many years prior and tried to pass it off as a current graph. This is very scummy behavior and it appears that OP is doing something very similar in this case, I'm not surprised to see that the two people are working together.
Op should likely be avoided as a coach in PLO unless you want to waste your time and money until he clarifies the points I have brought up.