Week is going very well thus far. Finished one video for Stox due out 1week from this Saturday, and only have 3 left to do! The video was fun. Recorded a 1hr 25NL Rush video and did the audio after. Had some fun spots and talked a lot about how to approach Rush tables as they currently are. I am very interested to see how the Rush tables do in the long run to be honest. O well, they are fun and profitable now, so no reason not to enjoy it.
Not sure if you guys keep up with Stox news, but this Jason Ho thing is nuts. (not sure if the link will work, my apologies if it doesn’t) Weird stuff. Allegedly, he scammed quite a few people out of money in a bunch of different ways (shit coaching, terrible and overpriced strategy guides, investing into a fund that went pretty much into his pocket, etc). I will wait until all the facts are in before I give my comment on the whole thing. The whole thing comes with terrible timing for Stox (after having lost Leatherass, Jared, and Mbolt), but is terrible for the coaching community which is always on pins and needles in the first place. Hopefully things get straightened out quickly, but it sure makes for some nice drama at the moment, lol.
Everything else this week is going pretty well. Got some students done on Tuesday and have been prepping a video package I am going to release (under my name, not the Stox name). It should be fun and very unique. More details will come on that as I get more and more of it completed. As it stands now, it should probably end up being a 2-3hr video package (with a bunch of different and fun topics). I’m not sure on the pricing, but it will be very reasonable given the value. Speaking of that, Mpethy is co-coaching The Tank session with me this weekend. We will be going over using HEM to uncover some leaks and talk about how to patch said leaks. If you are interested, just let me know and I’ll give you the details!
Gonna head to bed in a few. My sleep schedule has been really odd. Randomly woke up at 7:30 the other morning (well, not that random. my roommate was grinding in the other room and I woke up to the bleeps and bloops of full tilt, lol) and then today woke up at noon exactly. O well, I’m still feeling really good which is all that matters. Doing the gym a few times a week and also eating decently (I won’t say great, but not too many calories per day and minimal junk food). Going to go play frisbee golf with some friends tomorrow and then work on getting another video done for Stox. Hope all is going well with everyone!
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That link is no good for non-Stox members; however, after the usual moderator shenanigans I’ve come to expect from most of 2+2, their thread on the topic seems to being rolling on here:
“Where did the Jason Ho thread get moved to?”
No HEM here, BTW, but when you do the PT3 version of that tank, I’m in!
One minor web-developer note: Firefox currently is having issues displaying .png files, so consider using any other graphics format where possible. Your Tank page is a bunch of whitespace to me. :-/
yea…i would expect that thread on 2p2 in the upcoming days…but don’t quote me on that =)
not showing PNGs? how the hell does the biggest web browser have issues showing one of the most well known image file types?!
Actually, scratch that, it might just be a Fedora specific problem, although I thought I was seeing this at home on Vista too. Maybe not… I just spent all day thinking it was Friday, so I’m just not all here today….
Forget it: everything’s peachy keen with the same Firefox version on Windows; I guess I’m surfing at work on my Linux box a lot more often then I had thought (Shh!). I’ll just fire up ye olde Konqueror if I need to see png’s — they are fairly rare beasts. And, OK, I’ll still pay even the $35; this isn’t the start of a bidding war, however.
The Jason Ho thing: well, he’s certainly a bad apple and a degenerate gambler from what’s been said at 2+2 — the government documentation from his UK bankruptcy seems to say it all — and it looks like mistakes were made here by Stox, but I can’t imagine they’d be culpable in any way (coaches are basically independent contractors, imo). Hopefully Stox will take the opportunity to ratchet up their background checks, etc.
Yea, this should be good for ensuring quality from future coaches. Hopefully it helps increase the standard on all sites.
So you do want in for the Tank? I are confused =(
I was kidding since the price tag is only in the png. Whenever the PT3 one is, I’m in!
Noted. Will email you when I know the details of that one =)
yeah that link did not work for me.
Cliff notes?
It was in the private forum, so I’m not surprised. My bad =(
Cliffs:
many ppl come forward and tell their story
Lots of people ripped off for what looks to be like $5K+ (most looked like $40K for a person) per person
Stox is still figuring out what to do
i just read some of it on other forums and i hope other coaches dont pay because of him, if allegations are true. there are coaches including yourself who are good for poker players who are just learning and want to improve the game faster.
I hope the same thing Pedro. The coaching market is always under heat (from personal 1-on-1 coaching to training sites)…and things like this suck. Stox made their official statement today…I think they handled it as best as they could over the last few days tbh.
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None of these links are working for me, as I am no longer a paying Stox member. Where can I read more about Jason Ho?
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/101/coaching-advice/where-did-jason-ho-thread-get-moved-695466/
somewhere in that thread is the meat of it all I believe