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Originally Posted by Dreamstrike13
Perhaps you need to think about a new funding model.
My strategy packs sell quite well and I put a ton of work into each one and that balance means that I am well motivated to create more of them and I believe at the same time that most of my customers feel that they get good value from them. To me this is a good outcome and is how the free market is supposed to work.
The strategy packs are designed to give the viewer an amount of information that is equivalent to many many hours of individual, independent study and to give people guidance and focus in how they can use equilibrium calculations to improve their game, all while costing much less than an hour of private coaching from most coaches who coach midstakes+ players (including me). I consider myself an excellent coach and I would still say that many people who want to improve their c-betting would get more value from my IP C-betting strategy pack than they would from an equivalent $ amount of private coaching from me.
As an example, in constructing my last strategy pack I ran well over 100 CO vs BB and BTN vs BB scenarios with a wide range of sub-optimal strategies for each opponent to exploit, I then studied the examples, picked out the 30 most clear and illustrative ones, and made over two hours of video explaining the key take aways and how to apply the results to your game. Constructing all those game trees / ranges / exploitable strategies / etc and thinking carefully about all the results and organizing and presenting that material is a huge amount of work and is not something that is suddenly instantly free to someone if they buy an equilibrium solver.
The strategy packs are designed to complement other software, they are not designed to be a replacement for SPF / Pio / CREV / GTORB. In fact I highly recommend that my viewers go out and run their own equilibrium calculations in conjunction with viewing my strategy packs with whatever software they choose, many of the GTORB flop library submissions from users are modifications of calculations from strategy packs. A big part of my goal with my strategy packs is to give people with access to their own flop calculations an idea for new high EV impact scenarios that they should explore and a good theoretical framework for how to study and analyze a type of situation so that they can go out and use those software tools on their own to further explore the topic that I present.
Clearly something like the book the mathematics of poker has value even if I already know the mathematics required to derive their results. The book presents interesting specific uses of the mathematics that I might not come up with on my own as well as an example approach of how to analytically use mathematics to study poker. Similarly I believe my strategy packs have value regardless of what existing software the viewer owns because it presents specific solutions of interest with in depth analysis and provides a template for how to use software tools for independent study.
Obviously some people may feel differently and I don't expect everyone to buy my strategy packs, if you don't think you'd get value out of one then of course do not purchase it. But suggesting that my content would not have value if you owned CREV/SPF/Piosolver is not accurate I believe. Regardless, its a free market, I can make my content and price it as I wish and customers can decide if it is worth purchasing or not as they wish.
I respect your opinion and of course you are free to not buy my strategy packs but I also ask you to respect that other people may have their own opinions on the value of my work and that you let the free market take its course.
Last edited by swc123; 07-02-2015 at 11:43 AM.