This problem affects most poker books, self-published or not.

People who say that they have read the book should remember that IP in this case stands for Intellectual Property and it should be respected.

you could have decent threads if those writing poker books would just man up and out their SNs

If you want the money and prestige from a book, that is the trade-off all of them should be expected to make at a bare minimum.

Someone said coaching is not the same as playing. Quite true. But, how many successful coaches do you expect to not be able to beat their game. No one is asking for the writers to be duurrrrrrr, but they should be solid winners over a decent sample.

If you out your screen name and play professionally, you let your opponent know how you play. That will cost you money.

Haven't really read any print publications but If we talk about ebooks I can't really agree with that sentiment. Easy Game or Daily Variance's stuff for example are well written and make the same complex content easy to digest.

While I don't think it's necessarily to be a winner player in order to give good advices I agree a big percentage of losing players give bad advices and I agree that if that's what the customers want, it's a must for them to out their SNs. I'm not interested in SNs but the majority of customers are. You can't write an over-priced book and expect people to don't want SNs. If they want SNs and you don't give them what they want you're insulting your customers.

"Especially compared with Baluga's Easy Game which I would rate as the best poker book I have ever read."

I agree. I also was dissapointed by Improva's book and Easy Game is the best over-priced book that I've read. I don't reccomend Improva's book. There are better books someone can buy.

bumping because I am torn here as I've listened to a lot of Improva's audio (the three podcasts with Bart Hanson & the 3 free sessions he posted on DC) and yet he is down like 30 grand over a decent sample size on the three accounts I'm pretty sure are his on PTR...

anyone have any opinions or knowledge on him as to whether he is a winning player?

Yeah he doesn't post his screen names etc. I really think your better of with the baluga books..he has 2 e books

the book is actually very good. regarding improva's skills, grindcore and morgauth (blah234 i think) both said he was their coach or still is.

well blah234 displays his sn right..does the improva do that

yes improva's screen name was visible in his DC videos and from what I could find on PTR he was combined down like 30k at mostly 1-2, 2-4 and some 5-10 which is pretty bad... and this was over something like 100k hands so the chance of it just being variance isn't too high.

I'm more convinced about blah234, although I have tried to look his SN up on PTR a few times over the last little while since his Apex Predator videos came out and it always has said "error" (tried to check his results as Morgauth, the sn he's using on Carbon Poker (Merge))

yea i got that error too. interesting.

Yeah... I use PTR a lot and his is the only one that repeatedly gives that error. I know it's a cynical-as-**** thing to say but I wondered whether he found a way to block it or contacted them or something

almost certainly not but online poker is shady you never know... the microNL - 1000NL in a year thing is marketable and would be worth protecting possibly

He could be using some type of non-visible character in his name. I know some other player did that, forgot his name though

nah, he's just morgauth

/offtopic

Don't be paranoid. I saw his profile a while ago and it looked legit. The issue is probably on PTR side.

about improva... i was thinking that he's actually just playing on that account for videos purpose (he's from Denmark and iirc they can't play on Stars due to tax reasons). like friends' account or so.

i think blah has a link to his ptr or hem stats in his bio

yeah i found that

(edit: I posted the link here but it was filtered out, it was an old HEM graph showing ~70k profit)

I did say that it was "almost certainly not" true, but with recent developments I think it's best to be skeptical about people's claims (girah, etc.)

On Improva, In Sweden where i live, you can't play on stars without cheating on your taxes, since you are supposed to pay 30% of each pot that you win in taxes and you can't subtract losses. Consequently, if you payed your taxes you end up paying well over 100% of your winnings in taxes and thats if you win, if you loose you still have to pay.

IIRC its even worse in Denmark, so if he lives there, his real screen names on stars or ftp are guaranteed to be secret, if he even plays there.

Mvh
Inga

in my opinion, if you can't prove your results then dn't coach

so, with no intention to sound cocky, let me ask you this.
if he can't play on Stars due to previously mentioned reasons by myNameIsInga he can play on euro sites, right? PTR is tracking only iPoker and ongame from euro's and it's missing a hell lot of HH's for these two. fwiw it's not even tracking ipoker lately.
there are numerous other networks like entraction, boss, microgaming etc. but not tracked by PTR.

ofc he can show his graph but it can be filtered/shopped and it's not reliable as solid material to prove his own results.
basically, he's ****ed no matter what

that gives that almost no euro player is able to coach/make vids; only US and rest of the world guys, right?

Why would almost no euro players be able to coach or make vids

because most of them won't play on Stars when they can get way better deals on other networks and some of them needs to pay taxes for non EU sites so can't play on Stars anyway.