To continue off of my last post about criteria for choosing a good coach, here is a real world case.
A few weeks ago I came across the website
www.mttdatabasereview.com randomly. It is the website of a poker coach, with the nickname "Like a G6". During the same day I found it, I happened to have been watching a poker stream on Twitch (It may have been Spraggy' stream, but I am not sure), and that player was on a final table on GG Poker.
I admit that, the first time I read through the content of the website, I got a very positive impression about his coaching skills. He seemed professional and experienced in his coaching. I was particularly impressed by the customer testimonials, and software reviews.
2 weeks ago I found out that he is currently an active member of this forum as well. He even replied to one of the threads I started!
However, here is how I would assess that poker coach with the method I suggested in my previous post:
Criteria for a good coach which "Like a G6" fulfills :
3: He has a clear method about how he does coaching, which he explain on his website: A review of a certain number of hands
4: On his website, he reviews numerous pieces of poker software, old and new, and even makes recommendations about each (Under the tab "Study tips")
6: One his website, he presents a dozen or more graphs and comments from players he coached, and they are all winning players (Under the tab "Testimonials")
Criteria which he doesn't fulfill / dubious:
1: He hasn't posted his tournament results on his page.
Also, I looked up on Sharkscope/Playerscope and, although he is a winning player - mostly on Winamax, it returns that last time he cashed large in a tournament was in 2015
2: He most likely hasn't ever written at least a single half-decent strategy guide. There is no such information on his website, and I didn't find any briefly searching Google & Youtube either
Irrelevant
5: You can't tell from his website whether he has a positive & motivating attitude, since there is no information about it. However, since he doesn't interact with video calls with the players, and only does hand reviews, perhaps this skill is not relevant, since it is not necessary to have.
Given the results of my research, my impression about how good he is became less positive than originally, but now it is based on information. I have doubts whether I would pay $250/hour to get a review with that information, and mostly, because of not fulfilling criteria 1 & 2.
In addition to those, since the value of his coaching is based on a review of hand histories, I think it would be better to add a SAMPLE of a review of some hands on the website, so that prospective clients can get an idea of what that's like beforehand.
Note: I did this review only to demonstrate what I think is a good research to find a good coach, for the purposes of this thread, and I tried to be as objective as possible, as if I would want to hire that coach by myself. I hope if you are reading this, "Like a G6" that you won't get mad, and, instead, that you may use my comments to improve your website.