I think every poker book/ebook released these days or video package has to include the word "crushing" in it. It must be law.

SiQ - I am not going to argue you point by point. I just don't think it will be productive. If you are only seeing 400 18 man SNG's then your numbers are simply way off. I played 18mans for Team Moshman and was playing 800-1000 a month. And yes I am well aware that your ROI is higher in these games typically. I was posting win rates in the low 20'%s.

Other than that, I appreciate your feedback and opinion. Although my original post was deleted by mods, I feel that my resume is what it is. There is plenty of information that I have put out for free over the years, or that can be accessed to verify whether or not my SNG Analysis skills are good or not.

I would like to send you a copy of the book and videos. I would hope that you judge whether I am a qualified coach based on the material. Any criticism you have you are welcome to post publicly. It may not change your mind, but I certainly hope it does. If you PM me your email, I will ship you a download link and maybe we can chat outside of this thread a bit.

Respectfully,
zero

I know. I kind of cringed when the other one beat me to the punch. I have actually been working on this (slowly) for a very long time and this has been the working title for at least a year. I almost changed it at the last minute, but couldn't come up with something I thought was better.

zero

Destroying.

Pwned twice in one day by PP! I actually might consider changing it. I do have that power.

zero

No offense to zero since he posts here, but I found his video (along with most on DTB) to be very lacking.

I think the time, work and general personality type it takes to make videos or be a coach makes it so the best players, who are actually crushing, arent the ones that make videos and coach.

Tell that to sippin_criss then! The guy crushes sngs, but still has time to make vids for cardrunners. I'm afraid I disagree with you, if I may.

Its cool man, no offense taken. I am particularly open to feedback so if you have any please pm me.

One thing about DTB is that I have been encouraged to make a lot of classroom videos. At the time I came on they thought it complemented the other coach who was with the site since he was doing mostly HH commentary. This format may not resonate with some people as much as it does with others but I am also getting a lot of positive feedback on them. I have stuck with this format because I feel that it gives my videos a different twist that you might not see at many other training sites.

Regards,
zero

Youre honestly gonna list one example to the contrary to disprove my point? Theres a guy in this thread who absolutely crushes and is(was?) a training site pro. Theres tons of people who crush and make great videos. But i know a lot of pro sngers and from my experience the top guys are generally more concerned about getting better and making money playing than they are marketing themselves. A lot of the coaching/training site world is filled with guys like zero who havent played enough games to prove themselves and focus most of their energy trying to make money and get notoriety from things other winning money from the tables. Guys dont become site pros and training site pros and coaches because they are they best; they become those because they put the effort into marketing themselves.

You also have to account for the fact that someone who was crushing even a year ago might not be that good anymore. There were guys that crushed high stakes hypers on FT that cant beat lowstakes hypers on Merge.

From my own experience ive backed away from coaching even though i was able to charge a large rate and had a ton of interest, because my time was better spent improving my own game and grinding.

btw, Sippin is an absolute stud at both making videos and playing; and being funny.

I'm going to start a training site and maybe write a book. The words eek out a profit will be in both.

Normally $99 but for a limited time $69.99. :P

Go to Barnes and Nobel and wander around and look how many books are priced at $69.99. There are hundreds of awesome books priced well below the price of this book.

If this were a $20 book I play a ton of low limit SNG's on Merge it would be an easy buy but at the post "black friday" Tim Ferris 4 hour workday because I can't play online poker poker pricing of $69.99 or worse $99.99 past 4/1 it's an easy pass.

It's also not like is Andrew Li (azntracker) writing a SNG book either.

The market for poker books is really between $30 and $50 dollars. Some ebooks (ed miller etc) have gone for up words of $100 (that's what I paid) before the prices got into outlandish territory.

Also, I am not sure that the comparison between a book and a book with videos is really a fair comparison. Poker videos alone are priced in the $50 range so the package, which is a book and video's seems well priced to me. I will continue to evaluate whether the price should be adjusted but I think that it is reasonable.

Regards,
zero

By your logic it certainly should require some psychological or fitness achievement.

This whole argument is basically a red herring. The bottom line is if the book is good, it's good. You don't need any "qualifications" at all to charge money for anything, as long as you deliver what you claim. He's not practicing law or operating on your brain.