Has this guy figured it out? lol, do you make $25 an hour?


https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnJ...WWrBkOsBMX15Ew

What do you think of his advice? I have played with him a few times before and was not super impressed and when I heard he was releasing a poker course I had a rather decent laugh. He seems to be taking it pretty seriously releasing something like 20 videos now but i'm sure you can get an idea from just a few of them.

I'm curious what does the esteemed members of the 2+2 community think of this game? it seems to me it is just tight = right m i rite?

I watched 2min of his 1st video. He said his advice comes from a coach playing 1/2 for a living. I don't think I want to learn how to get to heaven from someone refusing to leave purgatory.

It depends on the venue and buyin max. A couple years ago I played 1/2 for income. At Tampa Hard Rock, I averaged $33 an hour for a good sample but in Cincinnati, I averaged only $22 an hour. The max buyin at Tampa is $300 and in Cincinnati it is $200 and obv there are a ton more tourists in Florida to make the game much softer.
As for this guy, I hope he explodes so I can make $100k in coaching next year.

I think his videos are pretty awful. Actually, video quality, etc., is good. His advice, however, is way too simplistic. In fact, some of it is flat-out wrong. At least the way he is stating it in his videos.

I.e., he says 'I'll call up to $15 with a pocket pair preflop, but I won't call $20.' Well, this is fine if you are heads-up and stack sizes are $200. But what if stack sizes are $600?

I think he limps way too much and is just way too passive preflop. At one point he limps 99. Sorry, if you can't raise 99 then I don't have respect for you as a player.

Also, he claims to be beating the game for $25/hr.

Where? What is the sample size? Show me some proof. Until he does that, anyone can start a YouTube channel and make claims that they are crushing.

OP, where did you play with him?

Are you from Vancouver? I think I've seen this guy grinding 1/3 at Edgewater

Yep, definitely the same guy I see grinding at Vancouver's Edgewater casino. I've played a 4h session with him

Haven't watched the video so no context.

I disagree that not raising 99 is always wrong. At a lot of tables I'll just limp it up front. It's either that or go 7 ways to a flop with an spr of 0.73.

I limp 99 plenty of times. I also raise 53s plenty of times. I 3 bet a guy with T7s yesterday. It all depends on the situation. I dont respect people who think poker is cookie cutter and you have to raise a certain hand because its a certain hand.

I watched the first 6 videos and I would say that they are pretty basic, but most live 1/2 players would improve their game by watching. Of course that's not saying much because most live 1/2 players would improve their game by doing anything other than what they are doing.

If I had to wager a guess, I'd say the before graph he played like every other donkey and the after graph he plugged some of the very easy, glaring leaks bad player have + some run good

As for limping 99, entirely table dependent

Obviously it depends, but he said it is his 100 percent default play to only raise pocket pairs JJ+.

The fact that he's not even thinking about it does raise some
Flags. It's not a bad thing for a beginner to avoid rough spots post flop that raising 99 in EP would present. But if you're making videos you should be able to work this out.

It's funny, when I first played poker 10+ years ago, I was trying to play a "cookie cutter" way of always doing some things, to simplify my strategy.

Then, as I got better, I thought that your cards don't matter as much, and that almost any play can be justified because I'll just "outplay" them post-flop.

Then, as I got, much, much, better and really learned about proper ranges and balanced play, I find myself playing much more "cookie cutter" than in the middle stage. This isn't because I used to be better. I am better precisely because I have learned what doesn't work and isn't good theoretically.

And this guy is advocating a complete cookie cutter format in his videos.

I'm sure this guy is laughably terrible but that wasn't really the point I was making.

Yeah, sorry. I wasn't replying to you, but to MikeStarr.

Obviously there should be thought behind what you do. That's the difference though. This guy doesn't know why what he's doing works or doesn't. He's just memorizing rules.

I watched 2 random videos. In both, he limps in LP, 55 and 99, BTN raises, 3 callers including himself. Both flops he hits sets, both on pretty wet boards, 456hh and AK9ccc. Both boards his advice is to not donk as the last person to act before the PFR. Both examples he gets super lucky and the PFR actually has a hand worth cbetting, 87ss and AK.

It's just hilarious advice because the second he moves to any descent game, both of those boards aren't auto cbets for a BTN opener. His value will just go way down.

He also mentioned the whole "always limping 99-" thing in the video with 99. Apparently he doesn't understand that will make it super easy to play against him.

Kinda curious why he has over 12k in winnings and he's playing 1/2

He says at one point in one video he doesn't have a job.

If he did this over 3 months, that's only $4K a month. That's good, not great, when you are living on it. Plus, let's face it, he was a loser/breakeven player a few months ago, so he's probably not ready to move up either.

Agreed with my Chinese ex-lagtard brother.

If you are going to be coaching people, you need to convince people you are good. He put up a random graph that isn't verifiable and has no indication of how many hours it took him to get to $12K. The fact that he shows $12K as his proof and not his hourly plus total hours says a lot about him. He's either too dumb to know better which disqualifies him from coaching or he is smart enough and is hiding his hourly which probably disqualifies him from coaching. If he's hiding, I doubt he's hiding an hourly that is too high so he is hiding a low hourly.

The hands he describes seem to work out perfectly for him. When he shoves, he gets called by a flush when he hits his boat. Any player that doesn't make money on a hand like that is an idiot. I didn't watch all of the videos but of the eight I watched, he fails to explain his rules fully and takes a very basic approach to the game.

I'll watch the rest later and will return if my opinion changes. I see this as him seeing the poker vlog bubble and trying to take a different approach by offering direct advice and then trying to sell a product once he gets people hooked on the videos. Although the advice seems low value and plain bad in some cases, I feel that for an elementary player this might seem valuable and they will pay $20 or $40 for a video series.

I only got a minute into the first video then got busy at work, but I might check them out later for the sake of curiosity.

If he's claiming this strategy will make you $20/hr, then that means he would have made this $12K in only 600 hours, so fairly small sample size (i.e. even a recreational reg could get those hours within a year).

Honestly, if I made $20/hr over my first 600 hours at 1/2 I'd probably be pretty convinced my strategy was a decent one too.

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If this guy was 45ish I would have sworn he was you.

Lol, I checked him out just to see if I recognized him.

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I've played a little bit with him at river rock and Edge