Quote:
Originally Posted by tilted9042
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.
Hahaha, how am I mentioned in a thread like this? Just found out today. I am not aware of anyone with more solid list of testimonials than what I have. You have pretty weird criteria for a coach. Why would I even write strategic guides? Or make videos or write books? I don't need to create free content that will be seen by tens of thousands mostly recreational players, just to hope 1 in 5000 buys my shitty product. I don't target clueless masses like Jonathan Little and similar clowns. 90 % + of my clients are winning regs, many of them playing highstakes, dozens of them are coaches themselves...
Show me one MTT coach that does 1on1 and has more solid reputation than me. I don't think there is any. Yes, I am saying I am the actual #1 on the market.
And don't focus on tournament wins so much. I don't even bother sharing my nicknames (unless someone is paying for coaching by ACR transfer, then they learn that nick) because it just isn't as relevant. Sure, the worst types on "con-arist coaches" don't even win in anything, but after them there is lot of mediocre players who just happened to win some big stuff and they are immediatelly charging hundreds of usd per hour. And people are buying because "wow, 5m on Hendon, must be top notch coach".
The best coach is not someone who wins the most money (which is extra **** criteria for me considering absolutely idiotic poker regulations in my country
), but someone that can coach many different highstakes regs with $500k+ or $1m+ lifetime profits, offer them to pay after the coaching, only if they think it was actually worth it, and have a 100 % success rate with it. And thats me.
Btw the rate isn't $250 anymore but $300 per hour (of recorded video review)
Quote:
Originally Posted by justscott
That is the guy I asked about in this thread.
After that obviously fake/supect reddit post that showed up last week, under the guise of being an AMA.
He didn't even have is his name in the original post. It was then quickly filled with softball questions and positive reviews out of nowhere. Of course, the r/poker trash mods have to make money so they left it all up. I don't care if he is on 2plus2 it was all shady.
Why would I have to pay off reddit mods? Yes, I went there to make a promo (and got like 10 clients from there), but I also provided much better strategic content than 99 % of that sub with my answers. Should soon make a new thread.
edit: here is 3 days old testimonial of WPT Main Event 2022 winner ($4,136,000) and online crusher:
If you want to see more -
https://www.mttdatabasereview.com/ It is in no way full list, because I am way too lazy to update the website, but still much more than any other coach I have seen.
Quote:
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.
Not mad, more amused. But kindly don't mention me in a thread about con-artist coaches
(the thread is definitely needed though, poker coaching market is a huge joke).
Last edited by MTT DB Review; 09-10-2023 at 09:06 PM.