An offer of coaching/mentoring

[luke4130]

Wow this is going to be tough to choose....

[Snafu'd]

Well, I may as well throw my name in the hat.

Background:
I started playing online poker around 2003 or so back on Party. I mostly played donk n goes in the beginning, redepositing every month. Then I found this website after picking up TOP. The first game I started taking seriously was limit shorthanded. In fact, that used to be the only forum I posted in. But with the rise in popularity of no limit, I decided to make the switch. After switching, I haven't looked back. I've played up to NL100 prior to the Neteller crash. I cashed out all but $300 or so and didn't play much for a while. I got back into it and transitioned from NL25 to NL30 deep to NL50 pretty quickly. My winrate at NL30 deep is 10.8ptbb/100 over 14K hands. I haven't been quite as lucky at NL50 though where my winrate is 1.5ptbb/100 over 11K hands. I'd like to think that most of this is running bad but I'm sure the bad run has contributed to bad play in some situations.

My status:
I'm 29 years old and actually have a regular day job. I play poker in the evenings and quite a bit on the weekends. I'm not somebody who is going to log 30K+ hands a month. I'd say a realistic average for me is anywhere around 15K hands a month. I play 4 tables at a time b/c that's how many fit on my monitor with no overlap w/o having to resize tables. I think I could realistically play more, but I chose not to.

Why I'm a good candidate:
I think I'm a pretty good player but I have a lot of room for improvement. This is where coaching would help me a lot. I contribute to these forums and always try to explain answers as best I can instead of giving one liners or just quoting others. I'm very realistic when it comes to my poker dreams. Mine is simple. To be able to play part time w/o having to ever use my poker roll for anything other than moving up to the next level. I'd like to get to MSNL stakes and make a nice side income w/o ever becoming a full time player. This may or may not be something you are looking for, but the plus side to this is that I'm going to be able to move up quicker than others that cash out their roll for spending money/living expenses/whatever (obviously this is assuming I remain a winning player). I'm also a coachable person. I've never had an ego issue and I'm always looking to learn from others. Something that may be irrelevant - I live close enough to a casino so I get to play live a bit which is nice b/c I can play higher stakes with worse players. So if you play live we could discuss those dynamics as well. Good luck with your search.

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For future reference, I dislike these threads cause what is to stop other coaches to do these to get their name out there for free. I will leave this one cause ama beat me to it, but I dislike them

[Pokerdemic]

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For future reference, I dislike these threads cause what is to stop other coaches to do these to get their name out there for free. I will leave this one cause ama beat me to it, but I dislike them

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While I understand the concern with spam and advertising, the offer listed like the one above is something that most microstakes players, myself included, could never afford. Luke is offering something that would go for about 1k.

Anyway, wish there was some way to reconcile the generous offer with the concerns mods have of spam.

[EMc]

Pokerdemic,

While OP says this is just being nice, I dont truly buy it. PR is great advertising. With the rates coaches charge taking out an ad in the classifieds isnt too outragious. On top of that Id guess 10% of these actually pan out like te OP says.

[ddrstel]

I'm 21 years old and I've been playing poker online for close to 4 years now. I started off playing tournaments with decent success, but wanted to get good at cash games, mainly because I can sit down at a table and play anytime and am not restricted to a set MTT time schedule.

I began playing cash about 6 months ago, jumping straight in at 100nl and finding after a 40k hand sample, I was a break even player. Afterwards, i withdrew my money to take on holiday, leaving my BR at 0.

After getting back from holiday, I found $160 in my account, which was Rakeback from the previous month. So i sat down at the 30nl deepstack tables on FTP, and within a few short weeks, my $160 investment had turned into $1000 through a combination of cash games and $5 and $10 MTTs. Over a short 10k hand sample of 30nl, i was running at 10ptBB, and utterly convinced it was sustainable.

I proceeded to the 50nl tables and in 16k hands, running at ~6ptBB, I found my roll was large enough to start taking shots at 100nl once again.

I went into 100nl understandably apprehensive and it showed in my results, only barely being a winning player over a further 20k hands, being kept alive each month by a mountain of rakeback.

I moved out into my own place fully convinced i could support myself full time on poker, but taking enough money out for rent and bills each month left me very very short, and i found myself once again with only a $200 bankroll.

I'm a very stubborn and proud person, so dropping back down to 30nl was hard, but i dug my feet in and persevered, and in 1 week turned $200 into $540 which is where i stand now. It's definitely a confidence booster to know i can beat the lower limits, but i would love to beat 100nl. It seems like a mental brick wall for me.

I guess then my goals from a coaching session would be to plug some leaks when moving from uNL to SSNL. I'm fairly confident in my game but it slips at times. All i want from poker is to be able to support myself, and a decent winrate at 100nl would do just that.

As I'm not working, I can pretty much work to any time you find easiest. It would be great insight into a winning player's game and i would very much enjoy and relish the opportunity, hopefully building a BR big enough to head to Vegas for 2008.

Thanks,

Stel

[luke4130]

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Pokerdemic,

While OP says this is just being nice, I dont truly buy it. PR is great advertising. With the rates coaches charge taking out an ad in the classifieds isnt too outragious. On top of that Id guess 10% of these actually pan out like te OP says.

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i understand your concerns and apologise for making a thread you feel is inappropriate. But i also think that someone will miss out if I wasn't able to make a thread like this, I can assure you my intentions are pure. If you see me offer coaching for $$ ever, ban me on sight.

[valdiesel]

Here's why you should choose me as your student.

I'm 27 and have been playing poker about 2yrs now. I won a 3+R and used that as my bankroll when I switched over to NL holdem. I have been playing NL50 and NL100 since. Going up and down up and down. I have taken shots at NL200, but I hasn't worked out for me. I hired a coach earlier this year and It improved my game, but I could not afford the prices with my small monthly gains (2-4PTBB/100).

I dedicate about 4hrs a day 5-6 days a week to play and study poker. My goals are to find my leaks, plug them, and continue to grow as a player.

If you want someone that is hard working, dedicated, and motivated to succeed I am your guy. Help me take my game to the next level! You will not be disappointed.

Thanks,

Val