Using hyperbolic metaphors doesn't help your case, its simply a manifestation of your polarising character/behaviour.

1) What you're looking for (cheat sheet) "does" exist in the some sense of creating heuristics for different spots BUT it is quite useless if you don't know how or why you are taking a certain action or using a certain sizing - i.e. if you don't know how and when to apply them and when to deviate.

This imo is VERY common. I've seen a 500z streamer (that I will not name bc I have nothing against him) who plays up to NL20k+ online + live making mistakes of this nature.

In a SRP mpvbb, on some monotone Qxxttt flop, he range bets and gets called. Turns [Atttt], so 4f. Now, its common in on 4 flushes for the PFR to overbet (leveraging nut flush advantage - assumption that both players have lose to equilibrium pre) BUT it almost never overbet on 4f ott if the A is on the board but he misapplied this concept by overbetting [AQ] as semi-bluff. Now he would not have made this mistake if he actually understood WHY you overbet instead of just blindly following heuristics. You would also NEVER do this against a someone who doesn't know how to defend appropriately (as they will overdefend their middling-strong flushes which generally folds and def more of 2p/sets) and you're going to own yourself. Hope this helps you understand why silver bullet or magic pill DOESN'T exist in this game.

2) What you're asking for takes a hell lot more than 1h or 2h or 5h to teach. For example, teaching a spot, say srp btnvbb, to teach you the concepts and heuristics for flop can be somewhat taught within a few hours, BUT once you start adding turns, good luck lol. Just a FYI, it takes me >30m to nodelock, try to learn a concept, test it and make notes IN ONE SPOT - probably bc I'm slow but whatever lol

3) There are 3areas of knowledge imo - things you know you know, things you know you don't know, and things you don't know that you don't know. The last one is the TOUGHEST leak to resolve - this is why you get a coach and talk to others - TO COVER YOUR BLIND SPOTS. Trying to put constraints on your coach by telling them - focus here and here is fine, but to be so ignorant as to tell them, NO I'M GOOD, PLS DON'T SPEND TIME HERE BC I PLAY WELL is beyond me. Its one thing to tell your coach, okay I looked through my db and identified that I struggle on playing 9h- boards in particular in 4bet pots AFTER either you or he recognises that its a major leak, BUT its another to tell them, NAH I'M GOOD HERE after he tells you that you are leaking a lot of $ here.

My input re: Knaxis's character and ability as a poker player.
- I've only had few sessions with him so my input re: his coaching ability specifically will be rather limited
- BUT I talk to him QUITE A LOT. Despite his schedule, he always helps a brother out when I need it (free of charge), interpreting outputs or understanding a spot etc.
- His ability to understand a bunch of spots, theory, adjustments etc. IS VERY GOOD IMO. Evidence of this? He basically won't be able to grind the volume he does, winning leaderboards on a site with arguably the toughest pool, whilst retaining a WR.
- I've also played a bunch with him, not a ton but enough to get a good gauge of his competence - he is good imo, but that is only my opinion.

Frankly, I'm not sure I would not have had the same degree of patience that he's had with you, but to come on here to try and sabotage his business is quite disgusting imo. I'm not saying don't provide negative feedback, but there is a right way and a wrong way to go about doing it. I'll keep it at that.

Let me start by saying that I do not know Kanaxis at all, I don't even play cashgames. I stumbled through this thread and it looks extremely clear that student is impossible to work with and has insane, unreasonable expectations. I've actually never heard of a student asking the coach to write down all the notes FOR him but obviously that's just the icing on the cake. Calling this coach a scammer and having his name posted in Negative Feedback thread is just ridiculous.

I just stumbled upon this thread as well and completely agree with you.

I'm sure this was about the hardest $400 this coach ever made in his life, lol.

I can't imagine ANYONE ever wanting to coach Sammy in the future if they read through his posts here (aside from a scammer perhaps, lol).

Can you imagine having to work with Sammy??? ugh!

Think part of the problem here is that you don't get rolexs for $90 mate

110% this.

Now even proceeded to Post into negative Feedback for transactions etc, showing off insanity even more, probably because he didn't get the Feedback he wanted in here. He's just disgusting IMO and the worst thing Kanaxis did was putting up with this for the full duration. It was pretty clear after the 2nd coaching at the very latest that this dude is unable to be worked with in a cooperative manner and won't be satisfied either way

Also, to note, no Relation to Kanaxis at all (so not "one of his friends backing him up), but been following this closely out of Curiasity. With the post in negative Feedback Thread Sammy now made this a public debate IMO so I guess it's fair to give opinions even not being directly involved now

"Poker is easy, just tell me the golden rules so I can win already!"

"That's not how this works"

"Scammer!!!!1one"

For me, anyone who is against my position and defends the OP has either not read carefully what I have written or is a friend and part of the CFP. The same one which OP is part with 100+ members. There are no other options! Instead of waging his war for Mr Coach , let him do it himself. He has never done it so far. ONE MORE TIME FOR ALL THE LOW IQ people here who flame me. He acknowledged that he did not do what I wanted and apologized for that, but he also said he had nothing more to do.... also admitted that what he gave me is not good quality. There is nothing more to add. If you didn't read the whole story or your friend of the op please stop floating with useless posts in this thread like "look student is horrible to work with, so it must be okay?!!? to give him terrible stuff and steal his moniez yeee, I am a low iq monkey.. yee"

You don't, but OP should have made this clear before proceeding ahead.

Great.

The concern of the student is that he has specified what he wanted, and then you've agreed and underdelivered. I can sympathise with you, as what the student wanted far exceeds your $90/hr bracket, but all the same, you shouldn't have agreed to it and accepted payment. Therefore, the fault is ultimately on your end. That does not make you a scammer, though. Every coach has undelivered at least once and hopefully improved after.

This thread serves as a recommendation for the coach as he way more patient than 99% of people would have been.

I am not his friend. I have not even heard about him and don’t play online anymore. However, I too think that you seem to be very hard to work with and your expectations are unrealistic.

The point I’ll give to you is that he should not have accepted the coaching in the first place. It’s true in many industries, when faced with a customer who’s expectations are not in line with reality, it’s best to pass.

Anyway, you lost 400ish, it’s not the end of the world. Seems to me that moving on is what any reasonable person would do and I advise you do just that.

You also did not order a Rolex, you ordered a cheap watch advertised to be just as good. It gives time like a Rolex, materials are similar, but it won’t ever be a Rolex.

Willing to serve as an arbiter if both sides are interested. Have a lot of experience buying/selling coaching hours + posting history on 2p2, decade+ as a professional, etc. Do not know either party nor have an affiliation with OP's group.

I understand you came into this thread with the express aim of playing devils advocate but the student really did not make clear what he wanted, most of his dms are just a garbled mess.

Furthermore, when a coach has a huge sample winning in games and the student asks for stuff which isn't really going to help him improve I actually think the coach has some duty to tell him this and deliver what actually works in practice instead.

Maybe I'm looking at this too much from the CFP background where it's a big problem if we provide the student with useless material and 'ignore his preflop leaks because he isn't interested in improving them', and agree the correct approach here is just terminate all contact and refund the residual after one session or maybe a few skype messages.

From a pure semantics POV, yes the coach didn't provide exactly what the student requested I guess (which I also believe fwiw doesn't exist in any useful form if i'm reading correctly, wtf even is a cheatsheet on heuristics?). Kanaxis coaching probably isn't as good as a bootcamp with Makeboifin or OTBRedbaron either but it's $90 and he's got insane receipts that what he does works + a lot of coaching experience and references, I personally can't see anyone else coaching outside of CFP that's providing this kind of things.

EDIT: I have no connection to Kanaxis whatsoever fwiw

I will send you the full convo including the 5 videos ( full sample ), along with the full leakfinder file trough PM right now, I appreciate you taking ur time for this ( and appreciate you going over my 5 hour footage ), hope im not wasting ur time.

Cheers

For the record, I did not agree to that! Another annoying situation for me.
I said that to the arbiter too, but I guess he dosnt care?!? LOL
What a site, what a mess...

Not at all.

Almost nobody is giving the student the light of day because of how he comes across.

Imo, no matter how you look at it, even if the dm's were just a "garbled mess" (agreed), OP should not have agreed. OP has since recognised this.

Nobody has been scammed here. However, a negative review seems fair given OP had the choice to accept or decline the offer. The student is essentially a very hard to deal with customer, that does not make it OK to accept payment and then not fully deliver on it.

Lastly, I am not explicitly against OP. If anything, I think the service he provides is very undercharged. Imo he would be better off charging more and then taking more due care to his work, to avoid episodes like this.

Stop talking nonsense without thinking bots...
Quote exactly where I speak at the beginning "garbled mess" Quote what was not exactly clear in my request !!!!
Dudes what is the name for something you agree to, you get paid then you get something completely different and when you make a remark about it, you are told that they will do it next time, but they never do it.
What is the word for someone doing something like this?!?!? please tell me.. bots...
I have no more nerves to read you, you are tragic..

Everything would have been much easier and more pleasant for me and the coach, if he had not decided to take my money and do whatever he wants, right? He had the opportunity to do so several times at the begging and after that..
But he decide to cont. scamming me and now this..

If I were Kanaxis I wouldn't worry one second about my reputation being damaged because of this, is very obvious to anyone sane that this SammyR guy is a loser that will never make it in the poker world due to his toxic attitude and because of that he's blaming someone else for his failure.

And no, I don't know Kanaxis, don't even play cg, came across this story after SammyR post there trying to thrash op's rep.

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another low IQ ape, Hello, buddy learn to read.
In the beginning it is said that the student is an amateur and plays for fun.
And please stop projecting, I saw your blog! : )
K, TY, BYE!

Arbitration happens when 2 people dispute something.
If the arbitrator considers my videos " trash ", your negative feedback stays.
If he doesn't, it will get deleted.

Also for the record, the student is crushing NL100&200 at non tracked site, and is breakeven- winning after the rakeback at B50, so stfu

Of course you didn't, why would you ever do that? Because you already notice you are in the wrong given the numerous opinions that don't match yours, but your narcistic (and, as other already mentioned, totally unlikeable) personality and behaviour would never let you admit that. It's pretty clear those $400 would have been a better investment into some mental care rather than Poker coaching, wish you all the best

It's funny that you misspelled both undeserved qualifications for me. GJ!
Thank God I'm not liked by people like you, who make those judgments based on what I did write here. People who like me would never write something like that, cuz its stupid and ignorant.
I prefer to have burned this $400, as I did ( deleted everything OP sent me, it's not good enough even for the recycle bin )
I would really need to consult with a psychiatrist, how not to pay atention to stupid opinions and be more zen in those spots... It's very hard at the moment... I will try..

Sammy I just want to point out that your negative feedback is welcome, but you have blown this out of proportion by calling me out to be a scammer and liar, the public consensus and incoming arbitration will form an opinion on its own regarding this.

Had you just taken your time to leave a normal negative feedback, this case would have never exploded and I would like to let you know I have benefitted from the view count of this thread doubling within the past week, cheers.

Sorry to sound arrogant, I'm a toxic kid myself, but recently I've made some effort to better myself, anyone can change.

why delete

Just to be clear, these are the two PMs from Sammy after I agreed to arbitrate/Kanaxis sent me the information.

At that point I started looking at the Skype conversation and went through that + the first video. This morning I received this PM.

I'm honestly not sure what's going on here, but I'm not going to watch more content/etc if the arbiter role is in question. Still happy to provide my thoughts on the situation as I feel I've got a decent handle on the situation because of what I've seen/read and my experience as both a coach/student.