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Are you looking to take your game to the next level fast??? The quickest way to go from a losing player to winning player or from being a winning player to pwning the game is with personal coaching. The best players in every sport have a coach.

What can a coach do for you? They can give you a personalized analysis of your game picking out your leaks and showing you ways to fix them. They can provide in game coaching for cash game or tournament poker. Coaching can allow you to see inside the mind of a truly great online player and much much more. If you'd like more info on coaching with one of our poker professionals please fill out the form below and we will get you set up with one of our pros for coaching.

rdcrsn

Russell "rdcrsn"� Carson started playing poker in university with friends for fun. Then he moved to online and lost small amounts for a while until developing his skills to the point that he could maintain an online bankroll. Belive it or not he actually started out playing limit holdem before switching to NL holdem mtt's. After finally making the switch to mtt's Russell's game really began to blossom. In February of 2006 he got his first major score taking down a tournament on Party Poker for $65,000. In the past 12 months or so he's had a number of huge scores including winning and chopping the 200r, 100r, 3rd in FTOPS 2.5k, 4th in FTP "Million", and 1st in Mansion 500k. Russell generally stick to a TAG approach for the most part but is quite capable of switching gears depending on stack size and table He has been ranked as high as 2nd in the pocketfives online rankngs and is now currently 8th.

Sketchy1

Jon "sketchy1" Eaton began playing poker in college back in 2002. It quickly grew from a hobby to an obsession. After a trip to Los Angeles in 2004 after turning 21, sketchy1 dropped out of college and moved from Missouri to Las Vegas. From '05 until early '07, sketchy took different jobs reporting from poker tournaments as a blogger, and also dealt at the 2006 World Series of Poker. Finally, at the LA Poker Classic in 2007, sketchy1 chopped a $1500 event for $136k and began his professional poker career. Since that trip to LA, sketchy has racked up multiple wins in the stars $100 rebuy, the Full Tilt $150, and also the Wednesday Stars $320

TitanTom32

Tom "TitanTom32" Braband started playing poker with friends in high school. Various games turned into Hold 'em and then he started playing small stakes online cash games and was a losing player for a year or two before getting introduced to tournaments and picked up a $1200 score followed up by a 9k win in the full tilt 150 in November of 2006. Several small wins followed that in the next 4-5 months before taking 2nd place in the Sunday major on full tilt for 91k. He has progressed through the pocketfives.com rankings since that time and has been as high as his current ranking of #18. In September and October of 2008, he recorded two wins in the Pokerstars 500, a win in the full tilt 65k, a 5th and 6th place finish in the full tilt 1k monday, and a 4th in the pokerstars 200 rebuy. He is currently finishing up his last year at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and will graduate with a degree in psychology. He hopes to play professionally for the next few years and continue to adapt his game and help teach those around him.

GhettoFabolous

Currently ranked 13th in the world in MTT's on pocketfives.com David "Ghettofabolous" Randall has a highly successful online track record with win's in super tuesday, the 100r on poker stars and the 100r on full tilt, along with numerous other scores. He splits his time between his girlfriend, poker, and school. His teachings are geared more towards an aggressive playing style but this aggression is very controlled. In addition, he will cover content based on lifestyles and mental aspects of poker as well (putting his psychology minor to use).

Assassinato

My name is Alexander Fitzgerald, and online I go by the handle Assassinato. Right now when I am not travelling I split my time between Seattle and Seoul. I quit my day job when I was 18-years-old to attempt to make a living playing poker online. At the time I was playing $30 SNGs for from dusk till dawn. Over my first 1,000 MTT tournaments I had a -20% ROI, but once I began seriously studying with my friends I put up considerable results. In 2007 I final tabled the $20.00 rebuy multiple times with one win on Full Tilt, the $50.00 rebuy multiple times, the $100.00 rebuy multiple times with one win on Tilt, chopped the $200.00 rebuy on Stars, final tabled The Nightly Hundred Grand multiple times as well as the $55k on Tilt, the $10r multiple times, the $5.00 rebuy, won the Tilt $30.00 rebuy and finished 2nd place twice, and won the UB 11k twice, amongst other finishes. Additionally, I played and cashed in tournaments in the Philippines, Ireland, Italy, and Brazil. My new challenge right now is cash games, and I've been playing up to $5/$10 live and $3/$6 online. It is because I started as such a poor player that I believe anyone can become a professional with enough hard work, positive thinking, and study, and that is why I teach at pokerpwnage.com. When I'm not playing poker I like to read, work out, hang out with my friends, write, watch movies, play video games, go to concerts, check out different restaurants ,or just walk aimlessly throughout Seattle. I'm also a big fan of travelling and living in different places, experiencing new cultures, and writing about my experiences on the road.

Nsinger

I'm Nathan Singer and I go by nsinger on all the sites online. I've been playing poker for 6 years and as my main source of income for over four years now. I started out with $100 on partypoker and ground $5 sngs and small mtts for a long time and built a bankroll without ever having to redeposit. I played lots of no limit cash games at 1/2 and 2/4 pre UIGEA and then have focused more on mtts since that point. In the last year I've really focused on PLO and PLO/8 and crushed the mtts and lower limit cash in those games. Recently I won the Full Tilt Weekly $216 plo and then got 2nd in the following one as well as winning a Binion's poker classic PLO event in vegas. Last year I was ranked in the top ten in bluff's online tournament rankings for midlimit plo, midlimit plo8, and high limit plo.. I also have tons of experience playing 2/5 and 5/10 live games which are tremendously lucrative in the Bay Area where I live. I also love six max tournaments and have won every 6max tourney FTP and Stars spreads between $11 and $109 at least once. When I'm not playing poker you can find me playing ice hockey, hiking, or fishing.

HerschelW

Jerry "herschelw" Watterson is a 26-year-old professional poker player from Jacksonville, FL. Jerry started playing semiprofessionally in 2005 multitabling 2/4 through 5/10 stud cash games. He used these funds to provide income through college. In January '07 Jerry had the greatest success of his poker career so far finishing second in the live final of the moneymaker millionaire tournament winning $300,000. This tournament has aired on The Score television in Canada and was also aired in Europe. Over the past two years he has been playing professionally he's been dominating middle and at time upper limits on Pokerstars, Full Tilt, Absolute, Ultimate Bet, Doylesroom, and at times Bodog. He's been a solid winner on every site he's played and has focused on finding the best values online rather than pushing to play the highest limits. Herschelw has recently moved his attention to coaching with great success including one of his students winning an FTOPS event for $150k+ and another with 50+ final tables this year by June.

Chardrian

I began playing about 5 years ago when I was in law school at the University of Wisconsin. Due to poor bankroll management skills I was basically a break-even player up until last year. My wife and I moved from Wisconsin to California last year when she started her residency and as I was waiting the 4 months for my Bar results to come in we agreed that I could play poker fulltime during that wait. Fortunately, I made a 6 figure score when I came in 3rd in the FTOPS main event last August and with that my 'shot' at playing fulltime has continued (with the nice safety net of being able to practice law if poker doesn't work out). I do not put in the volume that other pro players do and although I play some of the bigger buy-in tourneys, I continue to play many low/mid-level tourneys as I believe they have great value. I have won many of the $26 freezeouts on Fulltilt as well as the $10 rebuys on both Stars and Tilt (I have also won at all of the levels above that up to the $163 on Tilt). I hope to provide some insight into how to play these lower/mid-level buy-in tourneys as well as the mental aspects that I believe are crucial if you want to move up in stakes.

NeverScaredB

Ben "NeverScaredB" Wilinofsky is a student in his final year at the Richard Ivey School of Business. A casual SNG player since 2007, Ben picked up the game seriously after being unable to find a job in the summer of 2008. In the 8 months since, Ben has become an accomplished MTT Sit n' Go and tournament player, including being ranked on several sharkscope.comleaderboards and collecting numerous five-figure scores.

bballwiz

Brett "bballwiz" Fox is a 22 year old Hospitality major at NYIT. He uses his income from poker to pay for school. Brett started playing back in high school in 2003. After putting together some good months playing mtts including a $15,000 month in June 2006, he switched to playing exclusively sngs to ensure a more steady income. First starting of playing the $60 9 man turbos he found his niche playing 6 max sngs. Starting out playing $39 6 max's and worked up to $78's is currently ranked on the sharkscope leaderboard. In recent months he has moved up to the 119's and has a 14% ROI in them in just under 500 games. bballwiz currently has just under $50,000 profit on sharkscope and plans to finish top 5 in total 6 max profit for the year in 2008. Since joining Poker Pwnage, the pro's videos have vastly improved his mtt game as well. He has had several final tables in the first week of watching videos including a 1st place on a Full Tilt $26 mtt for $3,400. bballwiz hopes to expand his game to more of the live forum in the next year. Having played in many local card rooms for many years including running his own home game, he hopes to play some live big buy in tournaments in the near future. In his first trip to Atlantic City he took 2nd in a Borgata daily $150 for $2,300.

USCPhildo

"Phildo" first started playing poker in college with his friends, occasionally playing small stakes SNGs and cash games online just for fun. After grinding $.25/.50 for six months in late 2006, he got his first big MTT score in January of 2007 for over 7k, and soon started playing cash games as high as $5/10 online. After graduating the University of South Carolina in May, he turned his focus to online tournaments, starting at the $24+2s on Full Tilt and grinding his way up to the biggest tourneys on the net. His largest score to date is a first place finish in the $1k Monday for almost 70k in January of 2008, and has numerous high finishes in the 100 rebuys on stars, a 2nd place finish in the Wednesday 150k for 31k, and a Sunday major win in the Stars 2nd Chance tournament for 48k. He is currently top 10 in every OPOY race for 2008, and is on the brink of entering the top 10 on pocketfives.com as well.

zedveron

Damien "zedveron" Elsing is a poker player from Melbourne, Australia. He began playing online MTTs in late 2007 and plays mainly at the small- to mid-stakes level, predominantly on Pokerstars and Full Tilt. He amassed over $40,000 in profit from online MTTs during 2008 while completing an English degree at LaTrobe University. Now a full-time player known for high-volume play, zed has won many of the small to mid-stakes nightly tournaments across both sites, including the $70K guaranteed, the $11 1r1a, as well as the $28K guaranteed and several of the Big Doubles on Full Tilt. His biggest win came when he outlasted a field of almost 2000 players to take down the Pokerstars $80K guaranteed $11 rebuy for over $13,000 in February 2009, the same month he had a total of 111 cashes across the two sites.

cardsfan04

"My name is E.J. Folks and I go by cardsfan04 on all sites. I started playing poker in 2003 right before going to college. In May 2008, I graduated from Quincy University with a history degree. After college, I worked at AT&T, and played semi-professionally until March 2009 when I started playing full time. 45 and 180 man SNG's have always been my specialty. I started with the $12 turbos on PS, but now I'm a regular in the $75 45 mans on FTP and am currently ranked in the top 5 on Sharkscope, and ranked on 5 Sharkscope leaderboards overall. Additionally, I've made a transition into playing many MTT's with great success, including nearly a dozen 5-15K+ scores in the last 6 months."

+ to the EV!

Carder '+ to the EV!' England has been seen in tournament lobbys now for going on 4 years. In 2007, the transition to professional from semi-pro was made. Hailing from just outside of Atlanta, GA and now residing in New York, the twenty-one year old has a Pokerstars Warmup and Sunday 500k guarateed final tables along with multiple Nightly 100k final tables, including first and second place finishes. In addition, he has also won the Pokerstars 50 rebuy multiple times, once for $24,000, Fulltilt $109 one-rebuy one-addon for $22,000, Pokerstars $109 freezeout twice, and Pokerstars $55 one-rebuy one-addon multiple times. Although the majority of his sample size is in full-ring, six-max has come much more naturally and his ROI has reflected this. Having played roughly 45 live tournaments, he has a 4th place finish for $16,000 during March Madness at Turning Stone of 2009. Aside from poker, Carder is generally listening to music or watching some form of sports. Basketball, football, baseball, you name it and its on a TV somewhere in the house.