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I agree with the general premise of your post. Also, I am not saying Jkidd1084 may not be right in some of the points he has made. But it’s clear he had a bad relationship with KillaB in the past and has a personal vendetta/agenda/grudge here. Proven by him saying “burn less bridges” in his initial post. In that case, it’s tough to take all his comments at face value.

My wording was pretty bad and I should have explained it better. My point was RotoGrinders serves as the platform between the coaches and students, and is not a part of the actual coaching sessions or the arrangements made for the sessions.
We also do no allow anyone to post a coaching ad. There are requirements that have to met before we consider allowing a coaching profile to be added.
In the future we may get more involved in the process and change the way its run, but at this point we are still gauging interest and feedback from users.

Been years. There is no agenda. I didn’t go out of my way to ruin him. I frequent the site and stumbled across this thread and felt like I had to say something. You can think it’s a selfish act all you want, but that isn’t the case. I think the more he speaks, the more you realize he is embellishing, the more you realize he hasn’t profited at the game in years, which was my only intention here. To enlighten the people that he is trying to mislead into thinking he is some elite high stakes player, when it is so so so far from the truth.

Sooooo isn’t it blatantly against TOS to pool money and work together? Weird.

he hasn’t profited at the game in years

So you know this as a truth even though, from your words and from his, its been years since you’ve talked to him?

Ok, I told Ross to repost your original thread, so I could personally address it. I don’t have a lot of times for rebuttals as I have a business meeting at 12:30 and then I’d like to dive in to tonight’s slate, but I’ll probably be popping in from time to time. Ok. Here we go:

Backstory: So Jkidd1084(mike) met each other in January of 2010 At the Poker Stars PCA event and our friendship ended in September of 2013 when the investors decided to let him go from our company.

1)I guess this matters what you define as a “reg.” It’s very true that I have less than 100k online hands at the 25/50nl stake after looking at my database, since games didn’t run often enough, but I did play plenty at Cake Poker and Carbon Poker. After those sites removed higher stakes I was left Playing 10/20nl over on Boavada(Ignition Casino). Playing in a casino setting I always played at leas $10/25nl which usually straddled for 50 up to 50/100nl. To be honest, there usually was more action at the 10/25, straddle 50 Bellagio games than the 25/50 or 50/100nl games. Also when playing 50/100nl I usually would sell a piece of myself.

2 )I don’t have much of a poker teaching history. I just went back into 2 +2, Cardrunners, and My prop site (rakebacknation) forums/messages and counted less than 10 students. Curious as why you’d think or care to have any knowledge of this.

3) Back in 2013, I decided to start up a company after talks with my accountant and how much the DFS space had blown up. I went to mutual friends of ours pitching the idea and showing them my successful database of results. After pitching the idea, me and 3 other investors threw in $50k for a $200k bankroll reserved only for the 2013 NFL dfs season. In 2013 we profited $145,000. ~13% ROI. 2 million invested. I invited my brother and mike to be a part of the team that year, since they had a passion for sports and I thought I could train them pretty easily. I want to say in week 4, Mike kept on complaining about how underpaid he was, so after multiple talks with the investors we decided to let Mike go and we hired Luke (giantballofoil) to replace him. Luke was a great fit for our team and what we were trying to accomplish.
In 2014, we added an investor and me and 4 other investors threw down $100k for a total of 500k for the 2014 NFL DFS season. I still had my brother, Curt and Luke as the other employees. It was quite roller coaster year to say the least. At one point our Bankroll was over 1 million, but we had a brutal December and took a depressing -$33,000 loss. After this year, the investors and I agreed that there was a lot of variance in NFL and they’d rather invest their $$ in something else. I’m still friends with all 4 investors and have traveled and played poker with all of them in the last year. We are also in other business ventures together.

4) I have signed up 10 students already for $150/hr currently. I didn’t expect this much demand, but maybe you are right I should charge $250/hr. Thanks

5) I could easily do this, but it doesn’t make much sense for me to do it. I invest usually 20k+ on most nights and nearly 50% of my investment is on Fantasydraft in high stakes HU. If you question my profitability, why don’t you lock in a series of slates with me like I did to another twitter troll?

6) Far from the truth. We haven’t spoke in 4.5 years. I have focused a lot of attention to starting up side businesses since my poker days are in my rear view mirror. I’m actually going live with a company on friday (ICO), hence why I don’t have time for this.

I wouldn’t consider myself nitty, But I’m definitely well aware of my bottom line. I started out in poker building a bankroll through deposit bonus whoring from over 80 sites. I then became a prop on rakebacknation.com (which led me to DFS). I have picked up a lot of useful tools and have totally changed my process since I hired you as an employee.

I do want to say this. I didn’t handle the firing the best and I was still a pretty immature guy back then. I have no ill will towards you and hope you can move on from this. It does sound like you still hold grudges to this day which isn’t healthy for anyone. Have a good one Mikey!

Brett

My wording was pretty bad and I should have explained it better. My point was RotoGrinders serves as the platform between the coaches and students, and is not a part of the actual coaching sessions or the arrangements made for the sessions.
We also do no allow anyone to post a coaching ad. There are requirements that have to met before we consider allowing a coaching profile to be added.
In the future we may get more involved in the process and change the way its run, but at this point we are still gauging interest and feedback from users.

Is one of the requirements paying RG?

Is one of the requirements paying RG?

Not sure what difference it makes, but they pay a fee to post the ad. Outside of that there is no charge.

My wording was pretty bad and I should have explained it better. My point was RotoGrinders serves as the platform between the coaches and students, and is not a part of the actual coaching sessions or the arrangements made for the sessions.
We also do no allow anyone to post a coaching ad. There are requirements that have to met before we consider allowing a coaching profile to be added.
In the future we may get more involved in the process and change the way its run, but at this point we are still gauging interest and feedback from users.

Just my two cents but JKidd1084 has brought up a good point. If your going to offer paid coaching services (esp at 150 an hour) their should be some transperancy. It is very easy to post a spreadsheet showing your ROI in each sport for each year. I have seen non-touts in chat sites do it and if you are a tout and claim to be capable of building advance projection models then you are more than capable of posting something showing how well or not well you have done in DFS over a certain time span. You can claim how profitable you have been until the cows come home, but with no actual tangible proof then it is meaningless. RG rankings are based strictly on volume played and not highest ROI in any given sport or year, so it is false advertising when you use a RG ranking as a selling point. I think the one thing that is apparent in the industry is that their needs to be much more transparency from people trying to charge for coaching/advice than just “taking their word for how great they are”. Post a spreadsheet showing your ROI. It’s really that simple and the only selling point you would need.

That said anyone interested in DFS conversations DM me. I have 1099s I will gladly share.

what is the fee, maybe others want to provide you with $$$ so they can offer their coaching sessions