Coaches / FoxwoodsFiend

Ariel "FoxwoodsFiend" Schneller is best known for his screen names "DaEvils" on FTP and "Vick Is God" on PokerStars. After graduating from Yale with a degree in Philosophy in 2006, FoxwoodsFiend is currently a professional poker player and an Executive Producer for DeucesCracked.com.

Ariel has played in some of the biggest games around, playing as high as 300/600 NLHE on Full Tilt and playing in games varying from 25-50 to 100-200-400 NLHE when he goes to Las Vegas. For the most part, FoxwoodsFiend plays 10/20 NLHE as his regular game. FoxwoodsFiend has extensive coaching experience. He currently has 6 students with whom he works on a consistent basis, many of whom he has been working with for 3 months or more. FoxwoodsFiend takes great pride in the continued level of interest in his coaching service expressed by those who have started lessons with him.

Q. What do you enjoy most about coaching? A. I enjoy the mutual learning process that is involved in coaching. I learn a lot from my students because they are good enough players that if I offer questionable advice (which is inevitable when one talks about poker for 20+ hours a week with students), they take me to task for it. This helps me assess holes in my game or ways I'm thinking about poker improperly, and helps me to grow as a player. At the same time, I like to know that my students feel they are getting something out of the coaching (as evidenced by the fact that most of them come back for coaching for weeks or months at a time) and I love to hear their responses when I offer a line or a move that they'd never thought of before: it's moments like that when you get a very salient example of what it is you're bringing to the table as a coach.

Q. What do you find most interesting about being an Executive Producer at DeucesCracked? A. I think that the great thing about DeucesCracked is that we can start providing entertaining and informative material to people who may not be able to afford elite coaching services. By making videos entertaining enough to capture the attention of people who may otherwise get bored listening to poker on the Internet, hopefully I can help a lot of people who may not be where they want to be at in terms of poker by getting them to absorb instruction more easily through video.

Q. If you weren't playing poker what would you be doing? A. I think I'd probably be in law school. Thank god for poker!

Q. So are you Prahlad or not? A. That joke just got way out of hand. I figured if I pretended to be Prahlad while playing 200/400 it would give me an excuse to make some funny freestyle raps in chat. Unfortunately the raps were too good and too convincing so then the whole rail decided I actually was Prahlad and I didn't disabuse them of the notion because having railbirds randomly swing by my FTP tables to say "what up prah?" or "good to have you back prah!" was just too funny. But now the joke's old and I wanted to just clarify for the record: I am not Prahlad Friedman, nor has he ever played on "DaEvils." I've never even met the guy.