Re: Coaches
You ought to look into TruePoker.com. They offer the Sklansky and Malmuth poker tutorial. Pardon me if I don't remember all the details, but here's the gist of it.
If you sign up for the tutorial, you will be seated at a $3/6 ring game for an hour with a table full of people there for the coaching session. You play (for real money and at full rake, of course) for an hour. The site will then forward the logs for each player to David Sklansky and Mason Malmuth for review and analysis. Probably a week later or so, you'll recieve an analysis of your play as well as the play of your opponents. You'll all be playing under assumed names so you don't have to worry about someone else learning too much about your game. You have to pay a fee of $20 and one hour is an awful small sample size, but it looks like it may be interesting. I can't give a personal testimonial because I don't play at $3/$6.
On a side note, they have some other promotions at TruePoker that are definitely worth looking into. They have new player Sit-N-Go freeroll tournaments that pay cash. You can play up to 4 of these tourneys in your first two weeks on the site. With the top 3 of 9 players making money for nothing, it's worth signing up just for a good shot at the free money. I consider myself to be an above average player at best, and I finished 2nd in two of them, netting an easy 30 bucks for nothing.
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