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Originally Posted by MoViN.tArGeT
This is insane he is charging 120$ an hour for beating Ontario poker games while 4 tablin and table selecting without a real sample. Ontario poker is the easiest in the world and his win rates and hourly's are terrible compared to others doing the same. He has not given a big enough sample to prove hes even a winning player and even if his winrate is true its not that impressive and misrepresenting since it would be massively different in a row site
IF your playing in the row pool know that beating 2/5 in Ontario is like beating nl50 before you buy
I'll write a long response so that I only have to do it once.
You'll see a comment like this on YouTube/2+2/etc for just about every public-facing person in poker, especially coaches.
BrokenStars got some savage comments about what a scam he is when he started, which you can still see. Pretty soon after, QY has a comment about how BrokenStars is a better coach than him! Pete Clarke has some really committed haters despite having coached countless students for roughly a decade and building a wildly successful business. Matt Roberts has a blog on here where some random accused him of botting with 0 evidence. So, unfortunately baseless random shots is just part of the price of doing business in the poker community, no matter how qualified or successful anyone becomes.
It's pretty clear this guy has an emotional bias of some kind, because he's blatantly making things up. He has no evidence to support the claims that I table select hard or play 4 tables, it just makes his case sound better. I'm actually quite bad at being disciplined with table selection. I'll play whatever is running. As for 4 tables, again this is just not true. I play 6-8 tables. You can see me on YT playing 5 tables while talking, with 1-2 additional tables sometimes off-screen, which I comment on. MovingTarget also can't seem to decide if my graph is "terrible," "not that impressive," or good enough to be fabricated.
As for the question of geo-fenced winrates: yes, ON is softer. I disclose in the second sentence of my post that I play in ON. I also offer a free consultation and a money-back guarantee, so it seems like a pretty bad scam, if I'm running one. How much softer is ON? It's tough to say. I've heard regs who played ROW for a long time say they notice a difference at 200nl, and they find 500nl to be about the same. While ON is definitely softer, I think it is way overstating it that 500nl ON is the same as 50nl ROW, because most of the regs at 500nl play full-time and there is usually only one fish.
Obviously, there are plenty of regs that are better than me. If they're also charging less and are good teachers, you should go with them. The free market suggests that such a coach is rare or non-existant. My rate was not always 115. I started at 50/h, and even gave out free sessions to promote myself. The rate went up as I built a reputation and demand continued to rise. Of course, Aner0 and QY are more qualified coaches, and their prices reflect that.
End of the day, I have been a successful coach because students keep coming back and keep recommending me. I coach tons of students at 50nl ROW. I have also coached multiple former pros who needed theory after returning to the game post-PIO. You can read their reviews above. If my knowledge was at a 50nl level, they would not stick around for long. They're learning and their winrate is going up, so they stick around and recommend me.
As a student/consumer, your own personal assessment + reviews is most of what you have available to make a decision anyways, because there is no way of knowing if someone's graph is legit or not. You have to judge the coach for yourself. You'll notice, there are no negative reviews of my coaching, which you'd expect if 115 was a rip-off. I am not saying I am the greatest coach ever, or the best deal ever. I think my rate is fair. If you're not sure, it's free to book a call with me and decide for yourself.
That's the last I'm gonna say about it in direct response. Guy can have the last word if he wants. I know my reputation is good enough at this point that I'm gonna be fine regardless. I have words of endorsement from Qing Yang, I'm an affiliated coach for the
CarrotCorner subscription library (
https://carrotcorner.com/our-coaches/), I'm the mindset coach for
CGC, and you can read plenty of reviews from students. I am backed by pros and students alike, and I'm grateful for where I'm at.