Hi everyone, my name is Kevin and I’m Barewire from the twoplustwo forums. I play as KRab42 on most US friendly poker sites, where I’ve focused on heads up no limit for the better part of the past two years. From late 2008 until early 2010 I played sparingly from 50nl to 400nl cash games while going through my sophomore and junior years at the University of Chicago, studying Economics and Statistics. I was able to play about 85k hands of heads up and won at 3ptbb/100, which is a fine winrate for those games but nothing great. I felt that my theory was much stronger than my results implied, and it was during this time (starting roughly summer of 2009) that I began coaching. Over the next year I coached over twenty students, and all of them had good things to say about my teaching. Many of these players are now very successful in small and mid stakes cash games, and one of them was able to move up to playing higher limits than I do very quickly, continuing to seek my advice even at 1000nl.

During 2010 I devoted significantly more time to my own game, and feel that I’ve improved greatly both in theory and in practice.  After spending a good amount of time in the last 12-18 months studying husngs in addition to cash, I feel ready to offer my coaching both to those of you who are looking to transition from husngs to cash, and also anyone who is struggling in the 50bb+ areas of their sng game.

If you're interested in my poker background, you can check out my player profile, listed under Barewire.

Here are some links to my recent graphs and stats:

Post Black Friday Graph

2011 Stats

Pre Black Friday Graph

My coaching will primarily focus on deep stacked situations, may that be in sngs or in cash games from anyone trying to make a transition to that structure. The amount of students I have has dropped a ton since twoplustwo stopped offering free coaching ads, so I’m available to take quite a few students as soon as possible. I offer the following options:

Video Review:
Using Camtasia or any similar screen recording program, you can record up to 30 minutes of gameplay silently and I will return the video to you with my commentary. Generally a 30 minute video will end up being around 75 minutes long once I’ve commented on it. I encourage you to record all of your sessions until you find a few players you struggled against, so that you won’t waste your 30 minutes of video with only 5 minutes worth of questionable situations.  If you feel comfortable recording audio while playing, feel free to add your thought process to the recording and I’ll return to you a written report rather than a video. This will be particularly useful if you want comments on the way you think about hands, rather than the hands that happened to come up during a session. For both options the price for one video is $150, and anyone who has already done three videos with me will get their fourth video for $50, for a total of $500 for four videos.

HUSNG.com Video Review:
Identical to the above, but if you submit a silent video and are okay with your video being posted publicly on husng.com after I’ve added my commentary, you will get a $50 discount on every video. In this instance, your first three videos will be $100 each, and your fourth video will be free, for a total of $300 for four videos.

Hand History Review:
You can send me a text file of a raw hh from a match, and I will add my comments to every hand, regardless of how important the spot may seem or how small the pot may be. I will do my best to give you overall advice on your game based on this compilation of hands, but to get to most useful advice about your overall gameplay and adjustments, I recommend sending many consecutive hands against the same opponent. If you prefer, however, feel free to compile a series of fragmented hand histories that you want general advice on. One review can be as long as 100 hands, and you can combine two 50 hand matches or any other combination to reach that total. The price for one review is $100, and anyone who has already submitted four hand histories will get their fifth review free, for a total of $400 for five reviews. If you’re interested in a review of much less than 100 hands, contact me and we can work out a price.

Live Sweat:
We can use a screen sharing program such as Mikogo to allow me to watch one of your sessions, and we will chat over Skype throughout the session. Generally I like to spend 45 minutes for every hour actually playing, and use the other 15 minutes to review hands that might have merited longer discussion but was skipped over during the session. I can also use that time to give you general thoughts on your game, as that will be difficult to convey during a match. I will also record my screen/audio during this session so that I can provide you with a copy of our sweat for later review. I find this format is primarily useful if you feel you need to work on gameflow related adjustments, and also your general thought process to ensure that you’re focusing on the right things in game. The price for each hour is $150, and anyone who has already done three sweats will get the fourth for $50, totaling $500 for four hours.

I’m really looking forward to working with some of you in the future, and if you have any questions at all, please contact me through one of the following methods:

Aim: kmr1742

Skype: krabi23

2p2 PM: Barewire