Dutch Boyd doesn’t exactly have the greatest track record when it comes to his fellow poker peers. After co-founding the PokerSpot online poker site, Boyd received a lifetime black mark when the room shut down, and over $400,000 worth of player deposits were never paid. Boyd has plenty of excuses why his site failed to repay the funds when it shut down in 2001, but the bottom line is that a lot of cashouts went unpaid.
Relating this all to the present, Boyd seems to be resurfacing in the poker news lately by offering 1-on-1 poker coaching sessions through Skype for a measly $20. You sign up for the sessions through his site, PokerClinic.com, and he works out the details with players from here.
The biggest thing worth pointing out with this story is how far Boyd has fallen in recent years to be offering $20 poker coaching sessions for half an hour. As stated on his site, he’s a two-time WSOP bracelet winner, and Boyd has over $2 million in career live tournament winnings. Plus people with half of his experience command much higher fees, so it’s surprising to see the low fees that he’s charging.
But even with this being said, assuming you pay Boyd’s fees and think that he is full of sh**, you can get a money back guarantee. Of course, it’s hard not to laugh at the irony here when looking at how the whole money back thing at PokerSpot worked out. But hey – at least he’s not asking anybody to leave deposits on his coaching site.
