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Originally Posted by AKingdom
Great post and I'd also like to add something wrt what WCG was saying on Joey's podcast yesterday. WCG was saying that yeah it wouldn't be smart of him to give high stakes level strat because it would potentially affect his bottom line, so these guys give strat applicable to lower stakes. So basically the top guys make money by making the games below them tougher. They make money by making things worse for others, that's not really cool IMO. Also, Doug mentioned how his parents have careers helping others and framed his starting a training site in that vein which is pretty disingenuous IYAM. He also used the popular argument that if he didn't do it someone else would. Well that could just as easily be used as a justification to deal drugs too.
I just want to clear up a couple things about this.
When I was talking about my parents helping others that is far different then me starting a training site. I was using it as an example of saying how when I began poker I had no money, and was explaining how I used poker to go from being very broke to where I am today.
I did however, help people for free a bunch (Examples such as
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/32...forum-1368796/ , I made a bunch of threads here to help beginners.) I also ran an aim group coming in stakes where I coached and helped people learn poker.
I am not saying that the training sites purpose is just to help people. The sites goal is to make money, because its a company. However that does not mean that because my company is making money, I don't care about my customers or how they are doing with poker. I think those two things can exist together, or I wouldn't have started a training site to begin with.
I don't understand the drug dealer argument, because that is against the law. What I am doing is a legitimate business in a highly competitive space.
If you have any questions for me you can pm me and id be happy to explain my viewpoint. Also keep in mind I understand that this makes your games tougher, and I am sorry that my business is having that effect on your career.