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Hey RG Members, I’ve decided to dip my toes in the DFS coaching arena. I’ve missed the days of helping students crush NL Hold’em back in the day. Coaching was essential for me to improve my overall poker game and I would not have reached the levels I did without some grooming/tutorship from fellow pros. I always want to be a student of the game in certain aspects(constant need to improve/learn) and teaching the game to others. Coaching has helped me stay hungry and refocus my attention to the process(long term) and not the results (short term).
With that said, I have to be one of the first ever players to find the great game of DFS back when I was full time poker grinder. I joined a site called Instant Fantasy Sports in 2007: http://instantfantasysports.blogspot.com/. I have over 15 million invested in games since my software/computer/sites started tracking results in 2012. With my background as a poker player, I understood the nuances of Bankroll management, risk, variance and game theory that has helped me be super profitable in this industry. I’m excited to unlock some new concepts to future students or plug up certain leaks(known or unknown) that you have in your overall game. Each student has their own strengths and weaknesses and I will construct my teaching around that specific individual.
In this dfs age of higher rake (18%, c’mon man!), it’s not as easy to profit. Lets plug your holes and make you the best dfs version of you. Here’s a link to view a more in depth coaching profile outline: https://rotogrinders.com/articles/killab2482-s-coaching-profile-2357554. Contact me via twitter: @killab2482 or through dm on rotogrinders (killab2482) and we can set up Skype or Google hangout schedule that works for the both of us!
2015 FanDuel NBA Playboy Mansion Finalist
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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.
Do the requirements require paying RG?
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Still coming off like severe sour grapes no matter how you try to justify it
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What does RG community hate more anything? teams of pros(investors) playing together or pooling money to form a company(cartel?).
And he already has 10 signups….
Maybe drop the whitepaper for your ICO here so we can see how high level of scammer you may or may not be?
I think its pretty clear that Killab wants to play DFS using other people money, apparently he can’t find anymore backers so now he’s turning to “coaching” to get peoples money he can use for DFS.
A common sense test is if he is and has been so good and has been crushing the highest stakes why does he need backers, why would you want to pay out a % instead of keeping it all for yourself.
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Thanks for clarifying Ross
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That said anyone interested in DFS conversations DM me. I have 1099s I will gladly share.
It’s wasn’t at the time I don’t think. Plus it’s barely a “rule”
So you know this as a truth even though, from your words and from his, its been years since you’ve talked to him?
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We have a lot of mutual friends. I don’t need to hear it from him. Especially when his volume drops, his buyins drop, his winnings drop, and he just so happens to be offering coaching when I start hearing he is broke. And he’s embellishing everything. Oh yea, and he was barely winning when games were soft 5 years ago..
2015 FanDuel NBA Playboy Mansion Finalist
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Just to point a few things out. He acknowledges a friendship for years (even lived with the dude for stretches), yet he continually refers to me as “Mikey” to insult me, his “employee” at his “company”. He acts as if he’s a superior. You make football lineups, man. Speaks volumes about how he treats people. This is why it may come off as having an attitude in some of my posts. Definitely someone to give your hard earned money to..
Good Luck Killab, fun playing u on Fantasy Draft!!
you say you “hired” luke, wasn’t he your roommate? And by hired do you mean he gave you money?
Is one of the requirements paying RG?
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Not sure what difference it makes, but they pay a fee to post the ad. Outside of that there is no charge.
what is the fee, maybe others want to provide you with $$$ so they can offer their coaching sessions
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“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.”
Can also confirm with 100% certainty that they are not involved in any business ventures with you. Can also confirm that they quit, it wasn’t you deciding the “variance of NFL was too much”. “Still friends”.. maybe, but it would most definitely be a stretch at best. I know one of them doesn’t even remember your name.
If you’re going to embellish and lie in literally every paragraph that you type, you should probably write less of them.
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Well, that is obviously is a big difference
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.
Ross would you mind telling us what the requirements are?
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Perhaps he offers up that info for people who express interest in the coaching sessions? Don’t know, just a thought.
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I have a very interesting question…. I can show you 6 figures of 1099s the last 3 years. 95% cash game player. Will gladly share them with anyone.
Does this make me more qualified to be a DFS “coach” than KillaB?
My point is- results do matter. One can preach “process, process, process” all they want, and OF COURSE process is a huge part of success. But charging an unreasonable amount of money (in the eyes of most) without providing documentation of being a “winner” causes this conversation to happen.
Is it fair? I think so, in a nutshell. Is it fair to Brett? I’m not sure. But I think the people have the right to at least ask the questions.
Can you teach me how to file the 1099? I just got one a few days ago… No idea how to file taxes…
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Coaching is not open to everyone at this time, but we can take a list of interested Coaches for the future. Like I said earlier this is still a test run of the coaching platform and we have added very few coaches during this time.
The feedback and suggestions we recieve from users will determine what happens to it in the future.
If the user feedback is good we will likely rework and improve the current system so it can be opened to more coaches.