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Originally Posted by Pasterbator
All of those guys essentially had coaches. They all had very close friends who played and thought about poker on a very high level. They didn't have to pay for the help but they certainly used all the sources they had available to them.
The people who really need coaches are those who do not have high stakes friends to talk over hands/situations etc.
i think having friends who play poker is huge. i can imagine coaching being a very good choice if you don't have alot of fellow pro's to throw ideas around with
i think the problem with coaching is that the prospective students aren't really qualified to choose a good coach, so their only choice is to see who crushes the games, and hope they will be a good coach (obvious problems with this approach...1)they might be great players but poor coaches or 2) they might not be great players and be lying about results 3)they might not be great players but have ran hot)
or they could read reviews from other people who aren't really qualified to analyse how good a coach is, and also have selection bias where the people who didn't have a good experience tend not to write reviews (good example being the breathweapon case)
in general i'm with isura on coaching, but only on a practical level, in theory IF you can find a coach that charges a reasonable price and is very competent, then there is no reason why it won't not a good decision to get coaching from them. but i think these coaches are pretty rare.
i think instead of paying for coaching, paying to relocate somewhere where you will be in close proximity to some good players will make you more money in the longrun, and be more fun