How big is the poker coaching market?
 

Excluding books and videos. Nobody seems to have a guess.

Re: How big is the poker coaching market?
 

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Excluding books and videos. Nobody seems to have a guess.

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A lot bigger than most imagine. Post "poker boom" we seem to be on this "poker education" boom. Many players who joined poker sometime during its population height three years ago up to now are approaching poker in a different way. They aren't just sitting down and "gambling", "learning as they go", etc. What they have seen over and over in interviews, articles, and on TV is how successful players got educated, how they were coached, what books they have read, etc etc.

The "Rounders" mentality is over. The, "catch a mans tell" mystique has been put aside by EV calculations, PokerTracker, Databases, books, videos, and one on one coaching. Granted the top players in the world put all this together to make their decisions and sometimes throw it aside on a tell but the data cannot be ignored.

A player now a days can play a what was a "life time" of hands in a year. I'm sure over the last 40 years Sklansky has played a lot of hands but there are players that post here that have played nearly that many hands over the last 6 months. This rate of experience has accelerated the poker learning curve beyond comprehension. This demand to improve, and the ease of learning tools, the speed of online poker has shifted the poker-boom to the poker-education boom. As more and more players learn what is needed to succeed, they embark on the task with a plan. A coach can guide them. Sklansky is one of those coaches and has been for a long time.