New Mid-Stakes NL Coach

I'm very excited to announce our new mid-stakes NL Hold'em coach, Natalie Ratchford. Natalie has an impressive background to say the least. She graduated from Columbia in 2007 with neuroscience degree where she was also the 3-year captain of the Volleyball team. After being introduced to poker by her now-husband and fellow DTB NL coach Paul, she quickly took to the game and her high level of competitiveness drove her to improve rapidly, staring with a $50 deposit and never looking back. She says her style utilizes an analytical approach to the game and is centered around a very high level of preflop and postflop aggression.

Natalie is an outstanding poker player with an exceptional winrate. She played mostly on Full Tilt as "FishyFish12" until last march when she switched to the European sites, but this is her Full Tilt PTR page. That's a 3.9 PTBB/100 average winrate for 277,000 hands at $2/4 and $1/$2 6-max, a huge achievement that speaks for itself and puts her in a very elite group of players.

I've been very impressed speaking with Natalie and getting to know her, she has a deep understanding of No-Limit Hold'em and is very creative when it comes to exploiting different types of players.  She is also very adept at managing risk, knowing when she's off of her game, and she rarely tilts.  Those  qualities are critical to successful poker.  Most of all, she's very driven and wants to win no matter how much work it takes.

Natalie will be making mid-stakes NLH videos at $1/$2 NLH and above.  Her application video was really strong and I think she will be an excellent teacher and a great addition to DTB.  She has years of tutoring and coaching in other disciplines under her belt so teaching poker will come very easily and fluidly for her.  She explains her thought process clearly and concisely, and I think she brings a unique teaching style and perspective to DragTheBar.

Please take a few minutes to read Natalie's background told in her words on our coaches, and join me in welcoming her to DTB.  Feel free to ask her any questions here.