Subpar Coaches/Misleading Bios

[Hatya]

Originally Posted by JamesMa

. One of the nice things about hiring coaches who have videos on sites is that its a pretty decent show of their coaching abilities altho 1 on 1 coaching may be quite different (either good or bad)...whereas if you just hire someone off 2+2 or something cuz they have good win rates ur not guaranteed that they will coach you properly.

Without bashing 2+2, but as listed in there coaching section

"Listed coaches are not in any way endorsed by Two Plus Two. They have paid a fee for their listing. Before choosing a coach it is highly recommended that you do your own research. Spend time looking at their posting history, for instance. Talk to them. Talk to their previous students. Etc., etc...."

So basically if you pay 2+2, your a coach..

[harangutang]

Originally Posted by klink-

about 1/2 of the ptrs of leggo coaches (or coaches in general) look pretty terrible, i don't think is super accurate., and i don't think a graph is really good at determining coaching ability.

I do think that coaches making videos need to be liable to provide results that they are still winning players, perhaps every 3-6 months they should have to present hem results, live results or a synopsis of what they have been doing poker related including screen names and sites. I have a feeling a some just aren't winning much anymore, since a lot of people haven't had results posted or verified in the past year or so.

Very good post, I fully endorse this and feel that this kind of transparency really helps Leggo members trust Leggo coaches.

Any sort of results/synopsis can always include past hem results side-by-side since it's obviously possible that someone could only put in like 50k hands in 3 months and have broken even.

[the fox is bak jak]

nice point but if you only put in 50k hands in three months it proves how un enticing poker is to that player,if you can't make money beating the games surely you can't coach people to beat the games.

its also immoral imo charge people your service based on a winrate that was when there were ALOT more fish in the market.

just my 2c..

[the fox is bak jak]

on my last point i'd like to elaborate that i mean anything pre 08,also if you've been doin heaps of coaching from 08 onwards and everyones happy but you haven't put in many hands thats cool,just don't make out like ur a nutsinho of the online world more but so a hallingol turned coach!

[the fox is bak jak]

no coach wants to admit that the games have changed and that charging nowadays what they used to charge is not logical in that theres less money to be made playing online holdem,if i was at the top of the game and made x an hour theres no way i'd coach anyone really,it's just plain self destructive!!

but maybe i'm just not as compassionate as these people that choose to coach or maybe i just miss where the value to the coach comes from

[stockton]

scrutiny is obviously always a good thing. So I could never get on someone for trying to bring scrutiny to an area of the market that has been shady to say the least in the recent past. (so don't feel like a douche at all). Updating Bio's seems semi-mandatory.

I think LeggoPoker does a great job overall, but there are always going to be places to improve.