I'm not saying a coach as in you pay him money and he teaches you poker. I'm talking about if you had Phil Ivey or Tom Dwan as your close friend or relative. Like imagine you were one of Ivey's cousins and he asked Ivey for some tips on poker. Surely he would not object right? I recall Tuan Le had Barry Greenstein as his poker mentor where they said it in a WPT episode many years ago.

Who would you choose?

Many names i can think of is Dwan, Ivey, and Antonius. I don't know much about the other players but probably some of those guys from Cardrunners or Deucescracked are definitely good since they play online poker.


However, i wouldn't choose ivey though because to me he seems to be a live player. I know he wins a lot online but does he use pokertracker or HEM? We hear internet players use poker slang like VPIP, Continuation Bet Percentage etc. Does someone like Ivey even know these stuff? Does he calculate those calculations in his head with EV and all that? I always feel that Phil Ivey is a feel player and I don't think he knows all those calculations that these online players do. Am i wrong for jumping to this conclusion?


But for me i choose Dwan because he seems to look like he knows everything online. I heard he calculates those EV calculations in one of the threads where he was discussing a hand. I do not know how to calculate anything besides how many outs i have

Phil Galfond

Pokey or Boy Wonder

+1

There's so much wrong in this paragraph I refuse to believe a poker player wrote it.

yep

Phil Ivey

eskimo clark.

You can`t go wrong with Clay Aiken. So ....+1000

i only oppend this thread to say this

just because phil may not be familiar with ev, vpip, cbet% (which i am sure he is , just maybe not in the same terms) doesnt mean you cannot learn in other ways and through different methods from him...I mean after all, whatever he is doing is working fairly well

Agreed!

One more vote for Galfond, the guy can articulate his thought process so well

galfond

+1 for Galfond