How much would you be willing to pay if you were a newbie?

[Joe Tall]

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The last two times I've gone anywhere to hang out with you have cost me about 2 dimes, a pair of sunglasses, and a pretty nasty hangover...


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Not sure about the sunglasses but the rest of it sounds right. I'll be in SF in May, so you have plenty of time detoxify your liver and get ready.

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[jakethebake]

I'm not sure what I'd pay, probably not $20, but that doesn't mean plenty of fish won't spend wall over $40. I could go buy HOH or SSH for $20. I could also buy one of these...





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[scrub]

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The last two times I've gone anywhere to hang out with you have cost me about 2 dimes, a pair of sunglasses, and a pretty nasty hangover...


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Not sure about the sunglasses but the rest of it sounds right. I'll be in SF in May, so you have plenty of time detoxify your liver and get ready.

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I've pretty much narrowed down losing them to the Fairway Club...[img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Glad to hear you're on your way back out here--I'm looking forward to it.

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[James282]

Make sure you specify that it's limit hold 'em.
-James

[Blarg]

Less than $20, if the basics are really basic.
Spending money for that kind of thing is not appropriate until you're past the total newbie phase.

Figure the Q&A time as worthless, because usually good questions are overwhelmed by stupid and worthless ones, and anyway having random questions answered is no help; what matters is that YOUR questions get answered. Also, 15 minutes of Q&A is incredibly short, so you may never actually get your question in, or if you do, have no time to develop it and answer other questions it naturally brings up. So you're talking 45 minutes of content.

I'd like to see an outline before considering attending, much less playing. If much of the time will be spent explaining really basic stuff that I could get by 10 or 20 minutes of flipping through a book and wandering around watching the tables, I wouldn't be interested. Sorry, I'm a hard-ass and find most introductory presentations on any thing to be total crap and mostly about creating a "feel good" vibe.

I'm thinking five bucks, if not free. Add in material like preflop hand selection charts, odds charts, and high quality written discussion of things like pot odds versus drawing odds, maybe even implied odds, and then you're providing some real value. But anything complex that is just discussed without paper back up might well be quickly forgotten, and if it isn't immediately understood(as math often isn't), you won't even know it enough to forget it in the first place.

I know others are different than I am. If I'm interested in a subject, I like to really study it, so I'd be comparing what you might have to say versus how much I would spend to have a great resource like a 2+2 book to explore things in depth and refer to again and again. Unless you provide very detailed personal one one one interaction and good materials, I'd much rather spend my money on a 2+2 book. In short, for me, you'd have to really deliver extremely solid value, not hand holding or fluff or a mere lecture. Your average doofus would probably be content with an awful lot less, and I can't claim to speak for all of them. After all, lots of people believe you can beat roulette. For them, I'd say $25 bucks or so would probably make them feel like born ass kickers, and they'd pay you for that privilege.

[GrunchCan]

Maybe you could charge $50, and included in the price was a 2+2 book, like maybe SSH.

[Joe Tall]

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Make sure you specify that it's limit hold 'em.
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It's going to be more of a general play, for players new to the game. They know how to play, have played a few times but have not studied proper play. A non-beginner, is the term I think.

However, if the first one runs well, this will likely expand to more specific topics like casino limit hold'em play.

[gamblore99]

Hey Joe, If you are doing this, some things to consider about your poll.

1. The options you give are very leading and frame the question a lot. The order you give them, lowest to highest makes it more likely to get lower numbers. All the options also lead a person to pick in that range. If you did something like 150, 100, 80, 40, 20, you might end up with something like 40 as the average.

Also, experts really have trouble seeing the perspective of a newbie, so they probably have poor judgement of what a newbie would be willing to pay.

best of luck with it.

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When I first started, at which time I was eating up all the information I could get my hands on, I would for sure have paid $40.

[mybutthurts]

QUESTION?
why would they pey to listen to you,do you have a name for yourself? are you known?
if so of course they will pay.
if not, well.....