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Zalfor United States. Jun 20 2010 11:16. Posts 2236

Hi everyone, I'm trying to formalize and set up a good coaching program for everyone's benefit.

I want to offer coaching for nl5-nl50, but mainly for nl25 and nl50 players struggling to win monies because they have been stuck at the rut where they become rakeback pros or just want to improve so that they can get the guidance they need to beat these games.

My background is that I started poker October 2008, and until January 2010, I never had a coach in poker. I achieved SN status in 2009 and played over 600k hands of poker. I just got my lifetime graph, and it seems that I earned $3000 in poker earnings before 2010 and $13000 in rakeback. So, in essence, before I received coaching, I was a rakeback pro who played 12-16 tables of 6 max and had huge swings and was literally getting nowhere. I would win at like 2 BB/100 for a while and then somehow go on tilt and/or DS and lose it all over and over. My redline was horrible.

I decided to enter a staking-coaching deal starting 2010 and I really wanted to step up my game. I restarted from nl50 and took the grind to go back up from there and my graphs and stats below show that it's been a positive experience. I want to share my experiences, the things I learned from all this and things I continue to learn from poker with my students.

Do you need coaching? Maybe, maybe not. The biggest thing I got from the coaching was not how to play, but rather how to think. I used to go over hands with mikeymoo and talk a lot about hands, but one of the most fundamental problems I had was I didn't approach poker in the right way. Coaching for me really helped me understand where I was approaching the game from the wrong perspectives and how to break down the problems and reach a logical conclusion.

For me, coaching was really helpful and I think it really opened my eyes to playing thinking the right way. As you can see from the results, it's been really effective and I think I can help my students with the same.

As for the charge, I remain adamant that $35/hr and $150/5 hours is a fair price. If you are interested in the coaching but have financial troubles, I guess PM me and we can work something out. I will be taking 4 students max, and if we get 4 students I think we can have group lessons (for much cheaper or free). We will also have a skype chat so we can talk about hands all the time.

The format of my lessons will consist of live-sweating and then hand review. Hand history reviews, database breakdowns and mock-play/live-play will also be included. (Given the needs of the student)

Given my history as a rakeback pro, and my improvement from coaching I think that I have a lot to offer the up and coming players. Also, this is not a jib, I mainly play and am not expecting to turn into a full time or even part time coach. I just want to teach the lessons I think are important to me and pass them down to those who could use it at a cheaper price (I paid a significant amount more than what I am offering).

So, if you are interested shoot me a PM and hopefully you can gain as much from coaching as I have. Thanks for reading through all of this =)

[edit] more hands from PS indicate that I was less of a rakeback pro than I thought, but still a rakeback pro

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Last edit: 20/06/2010 11:30

luddite United States. Jun 20 2010 12:19. Posts 398

-13 BB/100 at NL2

By.Elite Canada. Jun 20 2010 15:26. Posts 25

I sent you a PM. Hope to hear from you.

Good luck with this project and good luck at the tables.

Zalfor United States. Jun 20 2010 17:43. Posts 2236

oh, that was the hardest game of .01/.02 ever (was a mock with my coachign group)