TwistedEcho United Kingdom. May 02 2008 18:48. Posts 3539
So as most people know, i'm staked by ket/tom for live poker. So far i've managed to drop maybe $20k in makeup, which is clearly really easy to do.
Since im playing ~$70k worth of wsop events, i suggested maybe they wanted to add WSOP sats to my staking to be nice and reduce their variance. Well obviously i went 0/4 so far in $650s, and just lost even more of their money.
The other day while pretty drunk/stoned (bigred will confirm how drunk i can get based off AIM convos we've had i dont remember, and luckily for me he didn't save logs!) I suggested to ket/tom that maybe they wanted to add some steps to my staking deal - since mig has won double figure seats, and i've watched tom play a few $2ks that seemed sick soft.
So a few days ago they agreed to stake me for $700/$2k sngs. I played a $700 the next morning since it looked soft and won, and got myself a nice $2k ticket. I played a $2k the next day which looked soft, along with a 700. The 700 went pretty bad (it has a worse structure than the 2ks, 1500chips 10min levels instead of the 3k starting stack the 2ks have). I finished 4th in the 700 i played when UTG shoved 12bb and i called with AJ and didn't win vs AK.
The 2k however went well as the random idiots played every hand, and i was patient and finally ended up HU. HU was a touch rocky, but i finally destroyed him when he tried to bluff me, and then once he had ~6bb it didn't take long. SHIP THE WSOP SEAT
Anyway, i played my second $2k sng earlier today, and while it went a lot worse than the last one (i got allin AJ v KK and 66 v KK) i won a second seat!
So currently nowhere near mig since he has 10+, and tom has 4 i think but i'm hoping to win maybe 4/5 before the WSOP rolls around.
Sorry this post isn't more interesting, i just was kinda happy to go 2/2 in $2k sngs and win two seats, so thought id let you all know! If im feeling nice/less lazy i might upload HHs.
so cliffnotes, played two 700s and won one, 4th in the other(which gives me a retry at another $700) and won the two $2ks i played
(oh and for anyone still wanting a FR video... i kinda got bored of FR and making a video seems less fun now, so who knows if i'll get around to that, sorry!)
if poker is dangerous to them i would rank sports betting as a Kodiak grizzly bear who smells blood after you just threw a javelin into his cub - RaiNKhAN
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nutshot United States. May 02 2008 18:55. Posts 4539
TwistedEcho United Kingdom. May 02 2008 20:44. Posts 3539
On May 02 2008 19:34 bane wrote:
So far i've managed to drop maybe $20k in makeup
what exactly does that mean
The way my staking deal works (and its pretty standard) is that ket/tom pay for all my live tournament buyins. The aim was ~50 tournaments and see how its going after the WSOP. All profits are split 45/55 (55 for them) and all losses become makeup.
So if i play 10 $1k tournaments and don't cash, im -$10k in makeup. If i win my 11th $1k tournament for $50k, i have to pay back the $11k makeup out of that $50k BEFORE we split profits.
However, if by the end of WSOP i haven't won money and am -$Xk in makeup, and they decide to not stake me anymore, the makeup just vanishes and i don't have to pay it back. So basically i have to pay for all my buyins out of future winnings, but if i don't win anything, i don't have to pay
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[vital]Myth United States. May 02 2008 21:04. Posts 12159
echo's drunkenness is truly epic
Eh, I can go a few more orbits in life, before taxes blind me out - PoorUser
United Kingdom. May 02 2008 18:48. Posts 3539
