Quote:
Originally Posted by actyper
Of course these sites rely on affiliate and advertising revenue, if not whats the point of having them up. I also agree that this forum section is a great source of info for training sites. But when you attack the legitamacy of my site (pokertrainingguide) I do have a problem with. Check out the rankings and tell me where I have been biased in the results. I think its a very good representation though I'm always welcome to comments and suggestions.
I am a high stakes no-limit hold'em player who is affiliated with one of the training sites that is talked about in this thread from time to time and reviewed on poker training guide . com.
I am also, however, able to be unbiased when I make the following remarks. These are off the top of my head and were simply the first few things that I saw.
1. In the Pot-Limit Omaha Rankings you have Poker Swat
and Stox Poker ahead of Blue Fire Poker. I am under the impression that Phil Galfond, also known as Jman, makes the best Pot-Limit Omaha videos out there. Countless poker friends and students have told me this. I also think they have people who have been directly influenced by Phil making midstakes PLO videos. Perhaps it is because you are ranking quantity over quality? I can't imagine any other video reason, but for the record, I would be shocked if one of Phil Galfond's videos is not more helpful to someone's PLO game than two dozen of any PLO instructor on Stox Poker or Poker Swat, none of whom I have ever heard of. A ranking like this immediately loses your credibility.
2. In the Heads up No-Limit Hold'em Rankings, you list Poker Savvy Plus
and Stox Poker above Leggopoker. Leggopoker, in fact, is no where to be found in the Top 5, despite the fact that they have three videos from 25k NLHE HU tournaments, and a handful of Heads Up videos at 100-200 and above among almost 100 NLHE HU videos. Despite that, it is listed as a weakness in the Leggopoker review, along with the blurb that: "Apathy is a great addition to the Leggo lineup and will be producing some high quality videos." This is listed as Leggo's only HU pro-- no mention of MYNAMEIZGREG, aejones, luckychewy, Zugwat, theashman103, etc. All high stakes or nosebleed heads up players who have many heads up videos on Leggopoker. Additionally, Apathy has made exactly 1 training video for Leggopoker in the past calendar year-- how outdated is this site? I don't know anyone on Poker Savvy Plus or Stox Poker who sits at high stakes NLHE and waits for action all day, whereas I know multiple who make videos for Leggopoker who do that. In fact, I bet people who worked for Stox Poker and PSP would just concede NLHE category to a site like Leggopoker.
3. In the "Other Games" section you appear to count PLO twice, unless I'm missing something. The reason I am confused, is because you list both Poker Swat and Stox Poker above Deucescracked. DC, however, has 80 "other" videos, 26 stud videos, 7 Razz videos and 123 Omaha videos by what is likely a higher quality than Poker Swat, who has
only 2 "other" videos, and ~40 PLO videos (these numbers are taken from pokertrainingguide.com). I am confused about this, and perhaps I am mistaken, but I thought that Deucescracked was built on "other" (limit, horse, stud, etc.) games. It seems weird that a relatively new site like Poker Swat would have the content already, which to me seems like only 2 Horse/08 videos, to overtake someone like DC who has been making these videos for such a long time.
These are only the most egregious things that I saw.
Additionally, there are 5 advertisements on your homepage alone for either FreePokerTraining.com and their two sponsored poker training sites. Although I can imagine that you
could theoretically be unbiased with these advertisements, I just don't see it shine through. In pokertrainingguide's defense, there are very few people who are qualified to review multiple training sites, and pokertrainingguide appears to be in the majority here.