Hi Cobweb,
Thanks for the comments, we welcome any honest feedback, as we try to improve all the time.
Now, different coaches have different styles. Our community of students is very friendly and helpful and positive. They help each other in all possible ways. But the role of the coach is different.
The coach is not there to be your »poker buddy«. The coach:trainee relationship is something quite peculiar, and not many people get it right. That's why not many great players are great coaches. And this is not unique just to poker, it applies in any field.
Since you're from England, let's take a football analogy. Sir Alex Fergusson was famous for his »hairdryer« sessions. He didn't mind telling his players if they f****d up very directly, and from what I know, he didn't use the censuring **** while he was doing it.
Was he not a coach, or unprofessional for doing it? Quite the contrary. Some say he was the greatest coach football ever had. He was not popular with everybody, but they respected him. His teams were dominating, and had a fearless winning mentality. In poker terms, they were crushing.
Now, let's take somebody like Arsene Wenger. He is a very friendly and polite-mannered gentlemen. He doesn't scream at his players. People generally like him. His teams play a nice, pleasant-looking style of football. And win nothing.
At BPC, we don't like to be politically correct. It's not just that we don't want to conform to it, we actually think it's damaging. So we don't sugar-coat things. Sometimes tough love is necessary to bring across the point. This is nothing personal at all.
What we are all about, rather, is this:
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Originally Posted by Cobweb
I thought the advice that was being given was excellent. I was very impressed. I also liked the systematic approach that seemed to be used to determine what route to take through the hand. In fact it was something exactly like that I was looking for.
We care about the quality of the lessons, and we care about results. And we get them for the student. In fact we get them so well, that people have a hard time believing it, like you mentioned. That's why we post everything publicly, from day 1. One of our goals is also to bring transparency into the poker coaching industry, and raise the level of it as a whole.
You chose another option, I hope it works out for you well. If not, you know where to find us.
Good luck.