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you mean King for a day ?
There are 4 series of that already, I mentioned it to sthief that it would be nice to keep going.
I would prefer King for a day to be an ongoing series with various coaches, released week after week

Cant say i have watched the series.

Slowjoe, is your complaint about the structure of the schedule that you want there to be more mixed game content? Or that you need more variety among the NL content?

Mixed series, not mixed games.

I'm trying to constructively address the complaints that "DC is unresponsive". I personally believe that Joe/Entity are extremely responsive: how often do you see COO/CTO guys responding to customer service talk? But equally, we see in this thread that members have a perception that they aren't responsive enough. So what gives?

It takes 2 months minimum (while the current season is in play) to address a content gap complaint. If the next season doesn't meet the request, we're talking 4 months. OTOH, some series (in different ways, Pr1nnyraiding, Solid State PLO and Coaching Kristy come to mind) DEFINITELY need 8 episodes to tell a story, or cover a game variant. Some ideas (like, to pick something out of the air, Search and Destroy or Math Attacks) probably get limited by the 8 episode format. Seems to me that we have 3 options:

1. Stick with the current season-based schedule.
2. Add flexibility to the season-based schedule.
3. Get rid of the season.

Since seasons can make sense, I like option 2.

So that was what I was writing about.

Personally, I would like more focused, niche material. Where do I go for stuff on dealing with donk bets? (I'm sure that it's probably covered in one of the Pr1nnyraiding episodes, and probably in one of Baluga's shows.) Where do I go for building a balanced (and likewise, unbalanced) flop CR ranges? (Might be in On Balance, but I don't know.) Where do I go for examples of the kinds of hands that make Krantz or you or Blah or DJSensei IM your poker buddies and say "WTF do I do here?" To plug an idea for the third time this month, I think a "DC Dictionary" series would be great, although it definitely wouldn't fit an 8 episode season schedule.

Oh, and I'd love you to bribe Ansky to make more videos with Googol!

nice post slowjoe. I def agree that the long seasons is what gives members the illusion that they are being ignored, when in fact it just takes a long time before certain requests are taken care of. But at the same time, the season thing definitely works for a lot of different series. So keeping the current system as the basic structure for releasing videos, but adding more flexibility to that structure, seems to be a nice solution.

Pretty much just reiterated what slowjoe said lol.

Okay, just clarifying. I really have no input on this then because I don't play NL outside of a mix and I don't really understand how complicated the games apparently are.

Maybe there should be a paying members' forum, which the coaches could devote more time to. That might help.

I don't like this idea at all. The "free" forums would completely die out and make attracting new members who are on a basic subscription much more difficult. Also, I think it should be the responsibility of coaches to stay active on the current forums. I don't see how making a bunch of new forums for "higher level users" would increase a coach's forum activity.

Generally, I would say DC already does a good job of this, however; I can't comment on all the various forums and some coaches seem to be more active then others.

I don't like this idea at all. The "free" forums would completely die out and make attracting new members who are on a basic subscription much more difficult. Also, I think it should be the responsibility of coaches to stay active on the current forums. I don't see how making a bunch of new forums for "higher level users" would increase a coach's forum activity.

Generally, I would say DC already does a good job of this, however; I can't comment on all the various forums and some coaches seem to be more active then others.

Coaches don´t earn anything for being active on forums afaik, so I guess it´s just kind of a chance for the coach to advertise himself, and some take this chance and others don´t - for whatever reason.

I don't like this idea at all. The "free" forums would completely die out and make attracting new members who are on a basic subscription much more difficult. Also, I think it should be the responsibility of coaches to stay active on the current forums. I don't see how making a bunch of new forums for "higher level users" would increase a coach's forum activity.

I agree with the first half. DC is built on converting free forum members into paying subscribers. This saves on advertising for members, so private forums would be silly.

The second half is a little unfair. Coaches volunteer here, and I defy you to pay them enough to require them to stay active. And if that moral requirement were imposed, it might mean that otherwise great coaches, with great integrity, who couldn't commit to staying active indefinitely, would be lost. For three quick examples, Shuttle is travelling at the moment, and FoxwoodsFiend and Vanessa have both spent time in law school recently. It would be really tough for them to keep up with the forums continuously. That's not to say they're not active, but just to highlight that my dumb forum posts aren't always their highest priorities.

I am really surprised by some of the negative comments here about DC- I think some of you may be past the stages of learning poker and entering into a more advanced zone that I'm not sure any coaching or video can really be helpful for in a practical way.

There is so much content on this site and all of it that I have seen so far in my short time here has been helpful- all of it quality- and I think most impressively there is a passion from these coaches that really shows. I'm not kissing anyone's ass here this site is really well done and the videos are great.

I think the problem is its probably tough to get past some sort of intermediate skill level without something other than videos and forums. All the videos in the world won't make you Tom Dwan there is another element there.

Poker is like a living thing it keeps morphing but at the core there is only so much you can teach a person and if there were a video series that could make you a 15bb winner at 10/20 we would all be living on our own islands in the South Pacific.

The second half is a little unfair. Coaches volunteer here, and I defy you to pay them enough to require them to stay active. And if that moral requirement were imposed, it might mean that otherwise great coaches, with great integrity, who couldn't commit to staying active indefinitely, would be lost. For three quick examples, Shuttle is travelling at the moment, and FoxwoodsFiend and Vanessa have both spent time in law school recently. It would be really tough for them to keep up with the forums continuously. That's not to say they're not active, but just to highlight that my dumb forum posts aren't always their highest priorities.

I was under the impression that DC paid their coaches to produce videos and part of that contract is to stay active in the DC community. Obviously, its unfair to ask coaches to stay active indefinitely or be constantly available to users, but I don't think its unfair to ask to coaches currently producing videos/receiving coaching referrals to have a presence on the forums.

Note: This is by no means saying I don't think the coaches are active enough on the site. I actually think they do a good job in general. I was more posting initially because I don't think creating a tiered forum system would have any increase on a coach's forum activity/presence.

I was under the impression that DC paid their coaches to produce videos and part of that contract is to stay active in the DC community.

It is encouraged, but afaik not part of any contract.

Honestly not trying to toot my own horn here, I'm just a little surprised my original comment was overlooked. In short it said if we all take a Haj School approach to the vids there should be very little complaint. And now that I'm thinking of it, if we were taking a EPTPE approach to the site this threa would have very little complaint and everyone would say "I choose this site, accept it for what it is and will make the most out of what is provided"

Honestly not trying to toot my own horn here, I'm just a little surprised my original comment was overlooked. In short it said if we all take a Haj School approach to the vids there should be very little complaint. And now that I'm thinking of it, if we were taking a EPTPE approach to the site this threa would have very little complaint and everyone would say "I choose this site, accept it for what it is and will make the most out of what is provided"

You may have earned the under-title to "DC Dalai Lama"...

You may have earned the under-title to "DC Dalai Lama"...

I'll take it!

I personally believe that Joe/Entity are extremely responsive: how often do you see COO/CTO guys responding to customer service talk?

great point BTW

im so happy that the management here is so receptive

Honestly not trying to toot my own horn here, I'm just a little surprised my original comment was overlooked. In short it said if we all take a Haj School approach to the vids there should be very little complaint. And now that I'm thinking of it, if we were taking a EPTPE approach to the site this threa would have very little complaint and everyone would say "I choose this site, accept it for what it is and will make the most out of what is provided"

There is nothing wrong with critique, so long as it is rational and respectful. Without it, how would the site know where they need improvement?