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Coaching has been a norm in the poker industry for the past few years, largely because of the growth of the online poker-playing community. However, coaching in other industries including finance, publishing, and business has not been the norm. The term, “time is money” has been given a whole new meaning by the website Expert Insight which was founded by high stakes cash game player Brandon Adams, and the whole premise of the business is to offer up hourly coaching by experts in a variety of trades.
Brandon Adams is ranked #44 overall on RotoGrinders for Daily Fantasy Sports. Brandon was Harvard University lecturer in economics for nine years. His career live tournament poker earnings exceed $3.5 million. George Brandon Adams is not only an accomplished professional poker player with over $5,000,000 in earnings, but the Harvard Business School graduate is also a self-published author. Adams still lectures at Harvard and has recently launched his own podcast called “The Brandon Adams Podcast.”.
For $400 an hour, Jeff Miron, a senior lecturer on economics from Harvard will be at your service to inform you of the latest policy conflicts worldwide. Or, for an unpublished fee, you can discuss marketing secrets with Daymond John, CEO and founder of FUBU. As for poker, you can pick the brains of some of the most accomplished players in the world. Patrik Antonius charges $6,000 an hour, while Tom Dwan's price is a bit steeper at $6,500 an hour. The unique website is quickly gaining interest. PokerNews spoke with Adams about Expert Insight.
When and how did you come up with the idea for the site?
I came up with the idea for the site in April 2010. I was doing some one-to-one coaching myself, and it struck me that the way these calls were set-up was pretty primitive. I envisioned a web platform such that every aspect of an expert call - the scheduling of the call, the payment for the call, and the actual audio-video conference itself - could be handled on a single site.
The benefits to the expert would be assured payment, minimal back-and-forth time in scheduling calls, and privacy (no need to give out email/phone/Skype info, as everything is done within site).
Expert Insight is always looking for more 'experts.' What is the application and approval process like?
Many of our experts are actively recruited by the Expert Insight team. But it is possible for anyone to go to www.expertinsight.com and create an expert profile. Every couple of days, we look at the new expert profiles that have been created and we decide which ones we'd like to add to the site.
For someone who is an expert on your site, how is his or her price calculated?
The experts choose their own schedule and price. Most experts choose a price that is too high. I am always encouraging my experts to lower their price. I think everyone would be happier if all prices were halved. The users would find more value in the site, and the experts would do a lot more business.
If I were to book you for an hour, in general, what could I expect from our appointment?
I do a lot of calls. At first, about half the calls were related to poker and half were related to economics. Now I'd say 80 percent of my calls relate to economics or finance. The market for poker calls is largely dead.
I've taught economics and finance via Skype to a lot of top poker players like Tom Dwan, Brian Hastings, Ben Sulsky, Chris Sparks, and many others. The word has spread that I'm good at that, and that is a lot of my business now. Usually the first lesson is exploratory. We talk about a little of everything, and I gauge their area of interest. At the end of the first session and every subsequent session, I'll usually recommend a book that we'll use that book to frame our next conversation.
For those who have booked an appointment with an expert, what advice could you give them to get the most out of their experience?
An hour can go by quickly. It's a good idea to have a list of four or five items for discussion. The user should feel free to move the expert along to the next item when he's ready.
Is there anything else you want readers of this article to know about Expert Insight?
On the poker side, I'm shocked that we don't do more calls. I feel like we have the best poker coaches in the world, by far. It's stunning. Our site includes Tom Dwan, Patrik Antonius, Matt Hawrilenko, Ben Sulsky, Cole South, Brian Hastings. The most under-priced poker coach on our site, in terms of value provided, is probably Phil Newall, author of The Intelligent Poker Player. Patrik and Tom are overpriced, but users can shoot us an email through the site, and if we are not busy we will relay bids to Patrik or Tom that are lower than the ask price.
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Poker is a thinking person’s game.Given that the brainy and strategically savvy among us usually prove to be the most successful on the felt, it should come as no surprise that many of them are moving from the best schools in the world straight to the elite levels of high-stakes poker.Here's our look at the five schools responsible for pumping out the most professional poker players.In many cases the pros-to-be didn’t make it all the way to graduation day but it’s tough to blame them. Most of us would trade a mortarboard for a million-dollar score seven days a week.
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The Best Universities and Colleges for Poker Players
1. University of Waterloo, Canada
They don’t call Waterloo University the Poker Factory for nothing. This Canadian institution has produced what is arguably the biggest group of world-class players ever to come out of a post-secondary school.
So many successful players are from Waterloo, in fact, an article was written about it in one of Canada’s national newspapers.
Mike 'Timex' McDonald, who won an EPT major for over $1 million, happened to play his first dorm-room game at Waterloo with none other than Steve Paul-Ambrose, former million-dollar winner of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure.
Xuan Liu, Glen Chorny, Scott Montgomery, Matt 'Ch0ppy' Kay, Mike 'SirWatts' Watson and Nenad Medic all came from Waterloo as well and they’ve all had scores of well over a million dollars.
They take math seriously there. So much so that they were the first school in North America to create an entirely separate faculty for it.
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- 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: Around $8,000
- Bonus Points: It’s really cold in Canada in the winter. You know where it’s not cold? In your room in front of 10 online poker tables.
2. UC Berkeley, USA
With local card rooms like Bay 101 and Lucky Chances and some of the best publicly-educated students in the country, UC Berkeley has a thriving poker culture.
Home games are common among sports teams and fraternities, and there's even a course in poker and blackjack.
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Games are organized through word of mouth and social media and are usually in the neighborhood of $1/$2 to $2/$5 for cash and $20-$200 for tournaments.
A long list of successful poker pros cut their teeth during their time there including Joe Sebok, Prahlad Friedman, Bill Edler, Bill Chen, Ali Nejad and Lauren Kling.
Online poker must be a big thing at Berkeley seeing as how the school felt the need to create something called the Online Poker Addiction Forum. They use the word “Forum” pretty loosely considering the site consists of a series of five pages about the scourge of internet poker, and not a single place to discuss the issue.
Along the way it mentions that a walk through the Berkeley campus will reveal hordes of seemingly disciplined students hunched over their computers, not studying but rather trading bets and raises at their favorite online poker rooms.
UC Berkeley, you’re all right.
- 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $12,000 (In-State Resident)
- Bonus Points:Click here to see another kind of poker self-expression done at UC Berkeley.
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3. Harvard University, USA
The words Harvard and poker have been spending a lot of time together lately and a big part of the reason why is Charles Nesson and his organization, the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society.
Promoting the idea of using poker as a platform to teach strategic thinking, Nesson even appeared on The Colbert Report to spread the good word about the game we love.
Alumni of Harvard who number among the ranks of pro players include Andy Bloch and Richard Brodie. Full Tilt Pro Brandon Adams is also an economics instructor at Harvard.
- 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $33,696
- Bonus Points: If you can afford to go to Harvard you can probably afford to lose some money learning to be a good poker player.
4. Yale University, USA
Poker’s big at Yale. Whether it’s the proximity to Foxwoods Casino or the generally brainy student population, Yale pumps out gifted poker players.
Yale has a chapter of the Poker Strategic Thinking Society just like Harvard and the two schools have even created an annual tournament, carrying their long-standing rivalry over to the felt.
Alex Jacob went to Yale and he took down over $650k all the way back in 2006. Matt Matros has three World Series of Poker bracelets and has earned over $2.3 million in poker tournaments since he studied there.
Vanessa Selbst told us it was her introduction to the biggest cash game at Yale that was the difference in her making the leap to being a pro.
She’s already racked up more than $5.4 million in tournament earnings, including two WSOP bracelets and an NAPT title!
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- 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $36,500
- Bonus Points: Living that close to Foxwoods and not playing poker just doesn’t make sense.
5. Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Even Irish post-secondary institutions serve as breeding grounds for the next generation of poker pros.
Legend has it that it was with an organized group of rounders called the Junior Common Room Poker Club at Trinity College that Andy Black began taking the game seriously.
Other members of the group include Donnacha O’Dea and Padraig Parkinson.
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- 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: €6,000 - €10,000 depending on faculty.
- Bonus Points: It’s easier to win money from people who have been drinking. Cha-ching!