If it's not a level then I don't get what audience they are targeting.
Seems like their audience is either gonna see right through it or will simply not understand a single **** of what is being discussed. Maybe some people in the middle will be impressed by the sophisticated lines in which they drop their bullshit concepts, but this seems like too small of a group to build a coaching business on.

Solve4why is the Dan Bilzerian of poker coaching. It's a mystery.

Man idk why you guys are hating on S4Y. They're helping make a whole generation of bad regs for us. Just chill out and spread the content

Think I played with this Chris guy at Bellagio a while ago and saw him 6bet all in for 400bb with JJ

Makes a lot of sense now

fwiw it got the fold

Global range? Wtf

He was 4-bet inducing but when his opponent min 5 bet him, he merged his global range into the realm of the seismic pivot.

Needless to say, his live game clairvoyance won him the meta war.

Solve4Why is the poker equivalent of those investment seminar scams

it did seem like a mix of basic concepts and mistakes in some of their thought process (not all of them) that coupled with a lot of fancy words was somewhat entertaining to say the least

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It's basically an AEJones theorem strat circle jerk.

It seems like Berkey is aways hyper aggressive when his opponents are at top of their ranges. I can't believe he won 5 million in a game at Aria.

Has it ever crossed anybody's mind that some high level coaches and players are smart enough to put out misinformation intentionally and dust off on video in order to massively increase their long term ROI?

Get with it. You've all been leveled for years and it's been hilarious.

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They're essentially the Pete Buttigeg of the poker world.

There's a lot of good content but I agree with this in some videos
There was one where a student who looked mid 40s ish started throwing a bunch of terms out there for why he chose very obvious and inconsequential moves like a standard check in a dirt or and threw a bunch of poker terms out in the process to try and sound smart


For whatever reason Christian just strikes me as a poser who doesn't make much from poker

I can he's a very good lag (who granted does dumb **** sometimes) who bc he gives a ton of action gets to play nosebleeds in the best games in the world

Wound he do well in 100bb nl at a table full of gto nerds? Hell no but who cares

would these gto nerds do well in the best nosebleed games in the world? hell yes they would **** down their throats but who cares

Whenever staking/backing is ever brought up its just bizarre.

If you are a truly great player why would you need constant staking and backing?
Wouldn't you just "win" and build your own roll as most people in the gambling world that I know have done?

I could be totally wrong but the illusion of greatness could be just a way to hustle rich people (backers) into free rolling situations in big games.

If you win you are a brilliant player......

If you lose its just variance........

well let's take for example the WSOP main event, someone may be be playing an average buy in of 22$ tournaments online and beating it, he probably wouldn't have the roll to play the main event and would most certainly be massively EV+ thus making it a good investment for the backer and an opportunity to make a bigger hourly for the stakee

to be honest in my experience lifetime I had a lot more fun when I had a piece of someone who final tabled a live event than when I actually final tabled a live event myself, so there's that too

IMHO, the vast majority of people overestimate their edges in tournament poker.
From what people I know tell me the fields are not nearly as soft as some would believe.
The "soft field" hype is often made by players who are looking for backing.

The same hype applies to those looking to be put into nosebleed cash games.
The claim is they need backing for this super soft game.
If the games are really that soft then why do they need constant backing?
Put a good player into 2/5 games and they would build a workable bankroll pretty quickly. Again maybe the "soft field" hype applies as well to nosebleed cash.

I know a few people who make a good living from poker (and never need backing) None of them are tournament players FWIW.

There are a number of cash game players who make good money following the various poker tournament events. Make of that what you will!

As I can see there is something really important missing on both the "S4Y content" and "stacking/backing" discussions.

Poker is an entertainment game that allows you to win some money sometimes.
Either for the ones playing, watching or having a piece of the action.

It´s a game. It should be fun.
Yes, some people make a living from it (because there is money on the line), but it´s on the entertaining industry.

So, yes... Maybe S4Y material isn´t the best to make you a great poker player, but aren´t there a lot of other contents that can´t do that either?
And how could it be a bad thing if you are playing to win on a game that gets harder to beat through the years?

But is this entertaining?
I guess it will depend on who is watching.
I liked it.
You can´t improve your game by watching PAD, but it´s entertaining...
Now S4Y is producing a high quality content on a studio, with professionals, marketing investment and opening it on a plataform (YT) that can reach many people.
High quality content is attractive and opens the range of people that can get interested into the game.

Some years ago was implanted the cameras allowing cards to be face-up and that helped with the Poker Boom.
Now we have player´s thinking process being face-up and I can only think that it will be positive for the game overall.

Do the thinking process needs to be +EV?
Who cares... It can be entertaining and that´s what counts.

The poker community should be encouraging anyone that´s willing to put some money on high quality content (not necessary high quality strategy) and not the opposite.
This thread just made me sick for that reason.

Regarding the stacking/backing, it´s more of the same.

If there is people willing to put some money on the pool that wouldn´t be there if they needed to be playing the game... Let it be!
Maybe they like poker, they don´t want to be playing, but want to be part of it somehow, have some fun and maybe win some money on the path...
Just let em.

And one more thing being that the guys playing are students.
They are not selling crash courses, they are learning.

They have big flaws (or maybe they are just leveling against players they have played before, we will never know), but who doesn´t?

I bet that if we all had to put some headphones on and talk about our decision making on a poker table, there would be a hell lot of flaws too.
Come on.
You all sound like you could play like a bot (that could have flaws too, but nvm).

Made you sick lol.

Get out of here dude. First off you sound like you work for Solve4WHY with all this shill nonsense. People are coming to Solve4WHY trying to get better - THAT IS THE PREMISE.

So it is disingenuous to promote something as strategy when it isn't.

It's so funny because it is always the bad players that come in to defend sites like this. It is not a coincidence.

So you were trolling with the OP/title?
Forget exactly what OP said but it’s deleted now. Didn’t think you were when I first read it.