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Originally Posted by Kebabkungen
Everything Ive said about Berkey is clear to anyone who has the ability to judge the worth of different poker products. And nice reddit tier pop psychology there at the end.
Thing is whenever someone comes with an appeal to authority argument like "you cant talk trash about Berkey because you dont have his credentials in poker" like you do its a statement that just says that you yourself think Berkey is some kind of person worth looking up to. Its like saying "I know I couldnt become as good as Berkey even if I tried". Appealing to authority when the "authority" is someone like Berkey who is completely mediocre at poker considering the amount of time he spends on poker is pretty funny and says a lot about your own poker ability.
I can see that Berkey is a charlatan and much worse at poker than he tries to present himself. Maybe I dont have his credentials in poker, sure, but thats because I have other things I focus on in life, like a career outside of poker. Im just a rec funplayer who takes the game seriously when I do play. If my life revolved around poker like Berkey's life does, I would have no problem crushing him HU, of that Im 100% certain. Its a completely dumb argument anyway. I live in Europe. I dont have "100k", or whatever you proposed to challenge Berkey even if I did think I could beat him. To think that its some kind of concession from me that takes anything away from my arguments if Im unwilling to challenge Berkey to HU. Im pretty sure any intelligent rec who is given 6 months to study with an actual good coach (not solve4why) and takes the task seriously, would beat Berkey. Berkey himself couldnt coach someone else who dedicates his entire life to poker to beat Bill Perkins for 4bb/100...
Thinking that Berkey is some kind of person whose poker acumen deserves so much respect as to absolve him of criticism is lol worthy.
This is one of the more delusional posts I've read in a long time. I'm actually starting to wonder whether this is some kind of Kaufmanesque bit.
Apparently, the only thing preventing you from "crushing" Berkey in a heads up poker match is that, well, your life just doesn't "revolve around poker." You have a career, after all, so an extra $100k or whatever just isn't worth the work it would require. But if you wanted to, sure, you'd crush him. And, as it turns out, so would any other intelligent recreational player who studied for a mere six months with a coach other than Berkey.
For the record, my objections to your posts in this thread have nothing to do with caring one way or the other about your opinion of Berkey as a poker player or as a poker coach, though you're quite obviously not qualified to make these judgments. Rather, it's your repeated insistence that he is a "scumbag" and a "charlatan" for selling his coaching system. He is not a scumbag in any way. He's not cheating anyone out of anything. As others have noted, he offers a service, he extends a free trial so customers can decide for themselves whether his services are worthwhile, and he posts free content on YouTube to once again give people a sense of what they're signing up for. Some may think it's worthless, others may like it, but it's completely transparent. The fact that you have decided that it's not worth what he charges does not in any way make him a scumbag.