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Wow. Those chat logs are atrocious. Snowbank clearly has zero interest in coaching which means he's only doing it for the money which also probably means he's not a particularly good poker player. There's a similar situation in chess. There's alot of poor grandmasters who are charging rediculous fees to patzers (chess equivalent of fish). The grandmasters have zero interest in trying to teach players who are invariably well below their skill and put zero effort into doing so. Moral of the story is that image is nothing. Make sure you're actually paying for a coach and not just some guy trying to make an easy buck off his name or image. From the posts in this thread, it looks like with a minimal amount of research you could've easily found out that snowbank is a less than stellar coach.