Great thread, this non-sharing stuff is very valueable information.

Delete this thread immediately!

Now I get what you were doing on the video against midori.

But I am sure you didn't feel this way when you were improving from a fish to a winning reg. Sounds very selfish/hypocritical to me.

There's a certain level of irony in this post when you post it on a training site. :D

But yeah, it is a valid point. We can also come to a conclusion that a lot of free poker advice is often not that great (cough twitch cough) and you should always think with your own head and at the same time search the best possible learning material out there.

You have to use money to make money. Poor people use their money on stuff that doesn't make them more money. Rich people invest their money and make more money. Getting coaching or paying for learning material is in a way an investment.

Couldnt of said it any better Samu Patronen.

Oh snap!!!

Did you say money over education?

Great!... This is just what ive been looking for ever since that Going Clear video messed my shit up.

Sign me up... Im all in!

a) knowing stuff and executing at the table are a lot different
b) the assumption that being maximally self interested is the definition of rational behaviour is questionable
c) video producers get paid to share their info which counterbalances their incentive to hold valuable info back

thanks for making the games tougher guys.

All views of 'keep the info to yourself' are terribly short-sighted.
Even a great, selfish player at higher stakes would be greatly incentivized to teach lower stakes guys to get better and better in order for him to get action in the future. In the time it takes the lesser player to get as good as/ surpass the coach is a huge ev time period for the coach. The clearest example is actually guys like Phil Ivey/ Galfond: they, in particular, are GREATLY incentivized to help high stakes guys take the jump into the nosebleeds as their player pool is so shallow. Players will get better and better (more action) but still not as good as their counterparts for a very profitable window of time.

One can even see the effects as a whole: Prior to training sites the mass player pool across all stakes is X; after the training site 'boom' the pool is 10X+ (?) and growing...

Bye Felecia.

boomer--Despite her abilities as a writer, Rand's philosophies are, at best, questionable"

not saying anything about her philosophy being good/bad, just that it sounded familiar to previous arguments about self interest and rational behaviour.

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The game for sure becomes tougher. As for 'valuable information', this changes all the time. You may try to keep your secrets, but that won't make you resist to the change of time. The most valuable advice in poker is that you should always adapt and improve. Preferably doing it before everybody else does.
'Top of the wave'.

Why do some of the best players give coaching? Because thinking about the game, interacting and teaching make them more accurate players, they get to know the game and themselves better. So what they lose by sharing, they gain it back by being one step ahead of 'what's catching up' in the game.
Knowledge is perpetually relative. That's true for poker. So it's not about 'having knowledge' and keep it like a squirrel with his nuts. It's about surfing.

I half agree with mushmellow.
I agree that there are some info that you need to keep to yourself because it will give you a great advantage playing, but i also disagree with mushmellow because there some info that you should share to people.

But, i'm not saying it should be free.
You know the information you hold is valuable, so you sell it.
That's why there are coaches, they sell their knowledge.
That's why there are training software's like ace poker drills .

In any case you cant hide your "valuable information" for long, somehow you will have a leak somewhere and everyone will know.

So just sell it when its still has value