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Message: [QUOTE="GiantBuddha, post: 1435534, member: 66495"] [B]Why "GiantBuddha" ... are you Buddhist? [/B]I'm not Buddhist, per se, but I'm pretty zen (not to be confused with littlezen). My screen name on Paradise Poker was GiantPanda, and it was taken on Stars, so I went with GiantBuddha on account of an old card protector I used live (which was actually a tiny buddha). [B] How rewarding has it been being a poker instructor? Any great success stories?[/B] I love it. I probably enjoy talking about poker more than I enjoy actually playing it, so I get paid to do something I love doing. Making a living playing poker affords great freedom, and anything I can do to help others achieve that end makes me very happy. [B] What do you consider good BRM for limit holdem? I mean I've always heard 300BBs but that just doesn't seem like enough to handle the swings.[/B] In today's high variance online games, I'd say 300BB is pretty light. It's fine for low variance games in which you have a huge edge, or if you're a recreational player (in which case it's not really a [I]bankroll[/I]). But most players should have closer to 1,000 BB for limits that they need to keep playing. It all depends on your winrate, standard deviation, and risk tolerance. I currently won't play any games that I have fewer than 1,000 BBs in, although I think taking shots with 500 BB is fine. [B] Do you think coaching is really worth the exuberant rates that most coaches charge? Sure, people make the assertion that its just 1 buy-in at their current limit, however, IMO winning poker is much more than having the information on how to beat games. Tilt control, talent, intelligence, experience all go into the soup that creates a winning poker game, but its quite hard to teach that stuff in a coaching session.[/B] I don't think [I]all[/I] coaches are worth the exuberant rates that they charge. I haven't worked with many other coaches, but I do think there is a fundamental flaw in the way most people think about poker coaching. It takes more than a winning player to make a good poker coach. I think it's unreasonable for every player making $100/hour to assume that their coaching is worth $100/hour, or even $50/hour. To be a good coach, one must actually know how to teach. Poker skill and knowledge are requisites for sure, but they are not the only requisites. The ability to communicate knowledge is not a widely held skill. While some people may have more talent at it than others, working to develop the skill of teaching is just as important as working to develop the skill for poker. I started out teaching friends how to play a decade ago. I taught my girlfriend how to play six years ago. I taught martial arts for six or seven years, and did a good number of session review swaps with other players. All of this was before I ever charged anyone for a poker lesson. Still, I only charged my first student $25/hour at the beginning. Only after testing out a large number of coaching methods, trading sweat sessions with other players, and coaching a number of students did I feel justified in charging anything resembling my hourly rate from playing poker. As for whether or not the value is there, I believe it is. I don't know how to teach intelligence or experience, but a good coach can show a student how to make the most of their intelligence and experience. And I can recommend a guy for working on tilt control. [/QUOTE]

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