Sometimes you'll get a message at 3am "hey, I'm waiting for you at 1knl, bring your money". If you can handle that then yeah, I recommend his coaching.

I know knaxis well and can vouch him as being a good player and honourable person.

From my perspective it seems clear that Knaxis went above and beyond in his coaching sessions. He even made the lessons in a way which better suited the student. What the student wanted would have been **** coaching. I'm sure some coaches would happily pat the student on the back and give him this but Knaxis was real with him.

This thread has been derailed... I'ts unfortunate for knaxis that his thread is marred by someone who couldn't learn good strategy if it was spoonfed to them.

Knaxis did not scam, he completed his work as a coach to a good standard and is verifiably a good winning player and in my opinion a good coach too.

Imo all of these posts should be deleted so knaxis doesn't unfairly lose business over an internet troll.

FWIW, I do not know Kanaxis. I have never had coaching from him or any business relationship with him at all. He doesn't know who I am either. I just came across this dispute while checking out the reformatted forums here. I thought I would give my thoughts since it seems like a lot of the people defending him are people who know him and thus somewhat biased.

Reading through Sammy's initial paragraph describing his experiences with Kanaxis showed a lot of red flags. In addition to the terrible formatting and grammar that made it very difficult to read, he says a lot of weird and questionable things, that made me think he was the problem and not OP, even before reading OP's response. For example, suggesting that he isn't interested in fixing his pre-flop game is very questionable in my opinion. Preflop is the first street and foundation of poker, and if you have obvious leaks there, they will be magnified as you go on to later streets. I can understand that Sammy may not have wished to focus on pre-flop, but to just suggest that a coach ignores what could potentially be a big leak is very questionable.

Also, his other approach and ideas seem very questionable, suggesting that he does not want to study with pio or learn theory, as people don't play perfectly in his games. This does not make sense at all, and as nobody plays perfectly in any games, yet there is still an immense amount of value in studying with the solver as it is very applicable even if you played mainly weak players.

Sammys original post is overall very unclear about wanting some weird instant cures for holes in his game. He seems to want a impossible solution to beating poker in five or 10 minutes, which is obviously impractical and impossible. He seemed impatient and he does not seem to want to put in the work, and he seems to blame OP for being unable to deliver this.

Having read OPs response and the Skype messages, it is very clear that OP is not in the wrong whatsoever, and that Sammy would have been unhappy regardless of what will be delivered, as he believed he was paying for tips that would turn him into a high-stakes crusher in 10 minutes.

I think OP has handled this rather well and professionally, and my opinion of him is not harmed.

While I think you are not in the wrong here, I want to add that I disagree with this and believe it should remain in this thread as it is related to your coaching.

If positive coaching testimonials are allowed in these threads, why not negative.

I honestly think it reflects relatively positively on you, as you have handled it well and I think it could show potential students that you are reasonable.

I think the vast majority of people looking for coaching will look at this thread and see infinite spam of some deluded imbecile flaming Kanaxis with keywords like 'scammer' and immediately go to the next option which is why I think stuff like this should be removed considering every reply maybe besides 1 seems to agree with Kanaxis. The guy paid him 400 but might have cost him thousands in future business with this complete drivel.

Clearly at 90$ an hour someone who has played, won, and posted receipts in tough midstakes games is very good value as a coach, you're probably paying him less than his hourly at the tables.

This other guy is clearly impossible to work with and extremely deluded about what it means to be a successful poker player.

The correct response imo would be to offer a refund for the residual sessions and do everything in your power to never have to deal with this guy again after the first Skype interactions, but looks like the material provided thereafter is still very fair and good value.

Kanaxis is by far the best value cash game coach out there at the moment. Have had a few sessions and he is very easy to deal with. To anyone worrying about the negative feedback I would urge you to book a session you will not regret it.

Hey guys, former Kanaxis student here,

I have had many sessions with Kanaxis, and not only was he polite, kind, cooperative and very helpful, he is also an extremely good poker player.

Unfortunately, a few imbeciles in the comment section have made me feel the need to reiterate this.

If anyone is looking for a good coach, with insane value and a good guy, then you have come to the right place.

I would recommend him very highly.

The student is clearly very hard to work with. With that being said, I'm surprised nobody is picking up on the coaches inability to tailor a service (perhaps because they are giving him the benefit of the doubt, due to the incompetence of the student). Even if the coach could not/did not want to provide a cheatsheet on heuristics (they absolutely do exist) that the student was asking for, then he should have declined, instead of making videos that were not well enough tailored to what the student was after.

In 3 of the 5 videos the coach has:
• done DB analysis on a 20k hand sample, instead of re-filtering correctly
• not specifically honed in one topic as per the student's strong recommendation. And then after consistent reminders, decided to hone in on a topic that was not identified in the DB analysis
• openly admitted that one of the videos he made for the student is trash, but was not willing to re-do it

Refund is out of the question. But imo, OP should seriously look to improve his coaching. As far as I am concerned, if you agree to make a video, and then admit to the recipient that it is trash, without being willing to do anything, you are not doing a good job.

- the DB analysis was on his full sample
- the topic was honed in the DB analysis, along with many others
- heuristics are in the leakfinder text file, I showed you 20% of it and not 100%
- the only " trash " video I made was number 4, all other videos were legit, even video 4 is not as trash as it seems, also I have an hourly on the tables so I cant afford to spend more than 1 hour on a service that I am undercharging, I can assure you though that I put my everything during the time spent on those videos

If this is all true, then I don't know what the student is complaining about

The fact you openly admit to it being trash is what should inspire you to do something about it.

That's on you for undercharging. You still owe it to your students to do a good job. Again, if you admit to it being trash, you should look to do something about it.

Well, it wasn't trash imo, I think I failed to deliver what was asked from him, and at the same time I realized he asked for something worth 1000 USD / hour ( a full course like presentation of a topic with full preparation for 90 USD ) .

This is outside of my service but I will make sure to talk it out in detail next time, thanks for mentioning it.

Regarding the student complaining about the other videos, as you can see from the conversations he is a toxic red flag, I feel like he was out to out me whatever I did, also he threatened with a 2plus2 negative feedback, can tell what kind of person he is.

I need to emphasize also that the videos created by me are anything but " trash ", our student just has a diff way of learning ( the use of golden rules/heuristics which he couldn't filter out of my leak finder / videos probably due to a lack of understanding of english language, I use those heuristics quite alot tbf ) . But this is just my response to this negative feedback.

I'm not better, I'm a bit toxic myself, but when I'm in a business relationship with someone I paid or has paid me I try to stay formal most of the time at least

I'm really happy that there are poker players / teachers who immediately understood what I wanted, and not like someone else here who says I want impossible things.
I can't figure out where the conclusion comes from that it's hard to work with me? I think it is very easy to work with me especially in this case.
I have said exactly and clearly several times what I want from the coach at the beginning. I just wanted to get my biggest problems found and wanted a coaching video or videos like a presentation without the shiny things of graphs and stuff for my problem spot.
Although I firmly believe that I deserve a refund for my lost time watching his trash videos and wasting time writing with him on skype and now here.. plus my nerves.. I have never mentioned to him or here that I want one.


PS. Thanks to everyone who insulted me for no reason in this thread, you are awesome.

You should probably contact Clanty for coaching since your very reasonable expectations match his opinion of this product being easily deliverable. WTB LINUS COURSE $90

OP should tell his friends to stop trying to "defend" him, coz the red flags are just getting worse and worse lmao

I was quite generous in saying that not all videos are bad. But now I will say that they are useless and that they were far from what I wanted! You promised not to lie, but you do so in every post here. Excuse me but you act like a f scammer in our business and now here.
You never in the video looked at my whole database, the whole database review looked at my hud with 20k hands and started to look at my hands. Every video is trash, not only the 4th one. TERRIBLE!!!. You're so delusional and bad, that AGAIN!!! you can't understand what Clanty tells you when it comes to heuristics.. you give me zero value, you just give me trash learning material that is useless and the other part that is not so useless I don't ask for.. YOUR TERRIBLE COACH if you say you put everything in my coaching...

Be careful cuz, if you attack him for something, many new accounts atack you back. Happens here 2 me, happens on another scammy situation involving his coaching. ( can be looked in his old threads )

word!

I do admit there is 1 friend being out of line here, the rest are honest reviews, anyways I would really love for a mod to take care of this mess....

I defend him because he was my coach and genuinely helped me beat poker. I wont have my reputation tarnished by some piece of **** toxic ****** who cant do pot odds to get out of 50nl and looks for an excuse as to why his peabrain is too small and cant grow bigger. Look when my account was created, do you think im some troll or fake account or something? Im a real person with a valid opinion that is justified by past actions unlike your subjective trash youve been spouting.

Keep replying to this thread bro all youre doing is bumping it so OP gets more students. Such a nice guy.

feedback noted and wont be deleted, dont worry. the way you attack me personally though is a bit cringe, I know ur not native but please mind ur language, u just give me the russian mafia vibe

i took kanaxis coaching about a year ago when i was playing 50nl and it took me from slight losing there to beating 200 in a few months, he always answered any questions i had for him outside of sessions and was very up front the entire time. if u played vs him u know hes solid, i havent seen 1 reg say otherwise about him. its easy to point fingers about why ur stuck 50nl but kanaxis aint why dog

Do not act like a victim, I am the only victim in this situation! I never attacked you personally. I did attack the way you do business and the way you present you here. You lied a lot. Everything I said is based on facts and a pretty easy conclusion based on what you are saying here!

lets not derail the thread, so ur negative feedback doesnt get lost.
If u have a personal issue with how i run my business or how i make money at poker open a thread on the " transaction feedback/dispute " channel and I will get back to you there, for now id just like to see either positive or negative feedback here and less flame.

Also calling me a scammer is out of line, If my intention was to scam you I woulda not made the videos in the first place

That's right, you leave the dirty work ( flaming in the thread ) for your 2nd account or on your friends.
I order and pay for a Rolex and I get a watch from a kinder surprise. Was I scammed or not? Eh..