| 14 Dec | Poker: Pay To Watch VideosPosted by PokerBarney on 12:02PM, 14th Dec 2006Permalink |  Send to a friend |  RSS feed |
So you might have noticed the poll that's going on in the navbar over there.
"Would you ever consider paying for video poker tutorials?"
The results have been mixed: basically it's pretty even across the board, with 20% of people going for "not interested", "no" and even "are you mad?"
I must say I'm surprised by this - or perhaps the question wasn't explained well enough.
The idea is this: poker players like you and me can record our games through sceen recording software. You see these videos (with commentary) on YouTube, Google Video and the like.
There are even coaching programs appearing now in which you sign up to a website and pay a huge fee to watch these videos from one or two online pros.
Some friends and I figured it would be better if you could make your own videos, and charge other people to watch them. This works because pro players are provided with an avenue to teach (and profit!), and us leaners are offered cheap and affordable training from people who really do know what they're talking about.
Anyway, in polls across some of the larger poker forums, we got something like 50% would be happy to pay $10 or so for a video. In my poll we got 24% said "Hell yes", while 16% said maybe. Combined that's a 40%, so I suppose we're not that far off our other results.
We're doing something about this, so keep your eyes peeled in the next few months. Something wicked this way comes... :)
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