what matters pitch
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A new way to enjoy online poker
whatmatters
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What matters?
• Powerful vision
• Highly-skilled diverse team
• Robust execution plan
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Problem
• Online poker is fun, engaging and addictive but at the same time very complex
• Even amateurs strive to become better at the game they love
• There are no effective tools and methods to learn online poker
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Effective learning• Focus on what really matters
• Establish a regular training practice
• Set goals and track progress
A good poker coach can do it for you...
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But robots can do better!Your personal robot-coach will
• know who you are, what motivates you to play and where you need to improve
• create a training schedule and guide you through it
• never get tired of you and your questions
And we can build this robot
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The TeamEgor AzanovPro poker player, Yandex (search ranking)Vision, strategy, machine & human [email protected]
Timothy TsvetkovEvil Martians, Nimbler, Prophotos.ruHigh-load web [email protected]
Ivan SmirnovPh.D. Math. Finance, University of AlbertaMachine learning, high-speed [email protected]
Sergey PetrovYandex, Mail.ru, inTaxi.ru Making a product out of it [email protected]
Ivan BogatyyPro poker player, YandexMachine & human [email protected]
Serge KryukovinTaxi.ru, Tutu.ru, Arcticbear.ruWeb and mobile [email protected]
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• How poker players think and make decisions
• How to find meaning in tons of data
• How people learn and how to teach them
• How to build beautiful products
We combine unique knowledge and skills that are hard to replicate in one team
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Competition• People spend on poker
more than $2 billion every year
• People spend on poker learning only $20 million every year
20
2,000
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Why so little?
• Cheap for many but expensive for most
• Ineffective and non-scalable learning models
• Unfriendly to amateurs (i.e. 90% of all poker players)
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Our planA simple and highly-viral service (1–2 months)
• cheap but not free, expected revenue more than $50,000
Closed beta (4–8 months)
• targeted at professionals
• 100 invites for $2000 each (got 4 pre-orders already)
• refine learning algorithms and adapt to usage patterns
Public launch (10–18 months)
• targeted at all players
• fair pricing scheme, product will be affordable for everyone (but not cheap)
• improved results of beta participants will be the best marketing tool
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Is that all?Of course not, think about
• Independent rankings of poker players by their skill not luck
• Google Glass as your companion for both online and live poker
• Robots specifically designed to entertain and help you while playing at the same poker table
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Numbers• We don't want to raise a lot of money, buy
ourselves new iPads and do nothing in a year
• We prefer to work in small steps
• We have already invested $50,000 of our own money in our company
• We need another $50,000 to build a viral service and a beta prototype in 2 months and go from there
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Want to hear more?
Please contact Egor Azanov
krondix
@krondix
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