I've had a ton of interest in the past, but in general have decided against coaching as my schedule was fluctuating so much and I felt I couldn't give the best value to students. for the first time in over a year however I plan on being in one place for the next 6 months, and plan on keeping a regular schedule as well as playing more hands than I have the past few months. Being more focused on poker I think I will be able to take on 1-4 students, perhaps more, in varying capacities.

First of all, I want to get one thing straight: while I do enjoy teaching poker, poker is first and foremost my job, so the goal here is to make any hour I spend coaching more +ev than time spent playing my main games (25/50 to 200/400 nl, sprinkled with PLO and HA)(note to me: say NO to 500/1k). I'm also adding to the fact that any time spent coaching people playing slightly lower than I play now will eventually make games tougher for me down the road. Spose' I sound like a bit of a Machiavellian fckhead, but there it is. In the past when I was making videos or coaching for well less than my hourly rate I constantly had this feeling of regret which caused me not to put 100% into the time I spent. So realize that while these rates might seem outlandish I have to balance my time so that coaching is a good poker-business decision. It's going to be up to you to see if my coaching is worth your money.

I also want you as the student to have a ton of options. Here they are:

1. Sweat via Mikogo/Teamviewer: $175/hr if you don't currently play in my 25/50 games, $1000/hr if you do. No skyping or direct interaction. If you can get a group together of enough people to supplement my hourly I will play as low as 2/4nl, though I'm guessing this would apply mostly to 5/10, 10/20nl regulars.

1b) Take notes, ask questions, note specific hand histories and send me an email after one of these sweat sessions with those questions. I will respond with descriptive answers of my reads and logical reasoning, but without in depth pokerstove theory discussion. I haven't thought of accurate pricing for this yet as I want to shy away from a $/hand type of thing as that would induce you to ask only a few specific questions and not for instance things like "why did u fold 97dd in the BB to X's CO raise?", I also want to shy away from a $/time spent by me because that would induce me to overbill you or work slowly and just leads to dishonesty. Any ideas?

1c) Sweat w/ discussion via Skype. 450/hr. I will try to answer your questions as fully and honestly as possible during the session, but reserve the right to say "I have to think!" at any time as I'll be playing 4+ tables usually. I also, will have the right to end the session at any time, but you won't be billed for the nearest hour to the time I stop it , for instance if we do a 40 min session and I decided I'm not able to continue talking you won't be charged a penny unless it's some ridic angle shoot where someone is blasting Britney Spears through their headset or something. Also, we will take a 15 min break at the end of the hour to talk through anything we might have had to gloss over. I donno, I've always wanted to do this, would be like watching a poker video, but instead you are able to control the discussion as the observer. You can also split this with multiple people with the base price being 425/hr+ $225 for each extra person.

2. HH analysis via email. Same problems as 1b regarding pricing. Don't really want to do $/HH just because that would again induce me to work quickly through your hand histories:: this needs to be different from regular forum posting and requires a lot of thought. I'm sort of shying away from this option right now, just because of the prevalence of forums etc but wanted it listed.

3. Private Sweating. The typical "poker-coaching" arrangement. I sweat you in your games while we talk on Skype and discuss hands post-session. Since my playing hourly is completely cut-out from this it all comes out of your pocket. $1600/hr. Includes sporadic AIM questions and email questions. Can also focus on theory.

That's it for now, I'm going to think on this a bit more and see what else I can think of. Probably the most advantageous thing for most is going to be some kind of sweating me. The only other option not covered here is some kind of arrangement where I take a percentage of your winnings over the long terms in exchange for coaching, probably 5hrs/week+ at the start and downhill from there. this is just plagued by trust issues, so if I don't already know you well, probably not. Have heard so many horror stories.

I'm a good poker player, that doesn't necessarily make me a great poker coach. If your looking at value per dollar spent, for SURE your best bet is to watch all of the video coaching sites, 50$ for the amount of videos on Leggo is just such a steal if you put in the time to study them thoughtfully. Nothing I can do will guarantee you getting to the next level, but I probably think about poker a bit differently than anyone who you have talked to before. I've been happy with all the poker coaching I have ever received in totally different capacities, from Krantz and Tommy Angelo.

Again, people have asked about coaching, I have the time now, just wanted to write this down at least in rough form so that your questions are answered. If you think of anything else, float it by me.

-Ben