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Well its the Brighton festival next week. My live results are excellent.
The last Brighton festival I chopped 3 events and took away £8500 although my online has gone tits up due to about 60 bad beats over 3 weeks. Only once was I behind!! Typical!

I'm looking for a backer for 3 events as below. The £50 rebuy £155 maximum needed £100event £320 maximum and £220 for the freezeout. I will give 55% of all winnings to my backer and will also write a trip report on the events played.

If you are interested in being my backer please email me or PM   .  Email address is available from my profile

Mel



Major Tournament - Schedule
Harbour Lights
Rendevous Casino, Brighton, England
10 Oct - 16 Oct 2005
R = Ranking Event


Mon, 10 Oct
7:15PM Pot Limit Holdem
Unlimited Re-buys + 1 Add-on 90 Minutes £ 50 + 5


Tue, 11 Oct
7:15PM No Limit Holdem
Unlimited Re-buys + 1 Add-on 90 Minutes
Final next day at 3:00PM £ 100 + 10 R


Wed, 12 Oct
7:15PM No Limit Holdem
Freezeout
Shootout (Dealers supplied) £ 200 + 20 R

Sounds like an interesting proposal.

Total Poker would like to sponsor you. We will send you double what you need. No need to tell us how you got on, just make sure you have a great time.

Will pm shortly

SHAABOOM AND THE HONEST CREW ARE ALSO INTERESTED....... :)up

Need a Backer for a £50 re-buy? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ???

Madness......

Thrapton,

Care to expand on why you feel the OP is mad for asking for backers for ALL events in a festival?

I'd say it was more sensible and a better deal than just doing one event.

You look very confused - this is a friendly place, sit down and have a rest, and we'll help you understand :)

Heid
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Heid, If I had the money to back someone in a £50 re-buy I would be playing it myself... (I do but thats another story).

I am confused as to why anyone would want to back such small stakes tournaments, if the player was a good winning player they would easily be able to pay the entry fees for all these tourneys themselves IMHO. ::)

Is this a joke?

Yes.

Moving along.....

It's all good publicity if you ask me :)

All these people coming on asking for money and they aren't even singing us a song or letting us pat their dog  :-\

you can pat me...

Heid,

Good Publicity ???

Saying that you cant afford the buy-ins for £50 re-buys and £200 freze-outs, quite the opposite I'd say!

Nah for the backer, if they were a poker type firm :)

And possibly a nice little earner for an individual  - it's in some ways a nice way for the smallish investor who wants to take a chance?

Hey I promised no Moustache jokes, not fair for you to dangle one under my nose... (<- that wasn't a moustach joke honstly  :D )

HEY RED HOW DO YOU CHARGE FOR A PAT??

SHAABOOM

...and you still need a backer??? Shame on you!!

But some of you missed the point, she's good live player who's been stuffed on line, hence, I assume, bankroll, issues.

Robert,

I think u r missing the point, no-one really wants to back players with 'bankroll problems' unless they are name players.  She is not a name player and the actual stakes involved are small for live events so why would anyone part with their dosh.

If I wanted to put money into this event I would enter myself (dont need backers) and keep 100% of my winnings. :)up

Also have you considered that last years decent show was a fluke and she has been living off it ever since?

Is this written right?? If it wasn't a moustache joke, what do you want dangling under your nose?

Thrapton, no, because she's done well before.

However I hear what you say and I'm sure she'll take your "no" in good spirits  ;D

you behave mr dik9  ;)

This all brings an interesting point - isn't it the person's business what they do with winnings/if they ask for backers? Everyone is very quick to judge, as Robert said, and assumes wrongly that people are pants if they ask for backers, for small amounts!

I for one would love to be able to back a good player in a comp I wouldn't do well in, or couldn't attend, but I can't do big backings cause I don't have that sort of cash to give out like that, so something like this would be perfect for the likes of me!

It's all a bit off really!

Mel, I am sorry this has degenerated into a bit of a bash on you!

it's possibly a good idea if people think before they judge IMHO :)

Heid
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IMHO, there is no obligation to back this lady, neither is there any reason to be derogatory

This is ridiculous.

I have neither been derogatory or personal.

If someone goes on a public forum asking for money off strangers I feel I have a right to question it, especially when they are boasting of winnings then asking for sums that are a fraction of those winnings, maybe I should just have been facetious like dpommo.

I notice it is the 'Global Moderators' who seem to be jumping to this ladys' defence and doing a bit of Thrap bashing, is she a friend or connected to this site?

I wasn't being derogatory. Not in the least!

As has already been pointed out in these posts that I, and others, merely question an individual who claims to have won £8500 and still needs backing in relatively small events.

If this person, whom I don't know from Adam by the way, had have come to this forum and asked for backers for an EPT event (like Simon Trumper did) then I can understand the reasoning for this...£8500 win or not.

Its like all the posts that go on RGP which read 'please put $1 in my PS account'...its sad to see!

Just my opinion.

Some of the best players in the world have gone skint for one reason or another and been backed so it took courage to ask for this. If I hadn't had such a bad run lately I would buy a peice but I'm in a similar position. Another thread ends up with people chipping- what is blonde coming to?

hope your luck changes soon mel.

There's been quite a lot of percentage buy threads on Blonde :) This is by no means a first :)

I'm jumping to anyone's defence who has been attacked - Thrapton I'd jump to your defence if you were attacked and didn't deserve it - I'm not fussy :)

looks like rain again :D

your other option if not impressed or interested in Mels request is of course to ignore the thread

Thrapton - players who regularly play on the circuit tend to help each other out, she is not linked to the site but a friend of alot of the regulars on here which I assume who the post was aimed at.
Mark can't believe I am bothering to respond to you but just because you don't know her from Adam doesn't mean she isn't a known player. She has played a lot of the high profile events this year and done a lot of work for sponsors (she has also been on TV games on at least 3 occasions this year). The comment about allegedly winning £8500 is just ludicrous- check the results and they are there in black and white. £8500 may be a lot of money to you and would probably get you into alot of 10 or 20 rebuys in ireland but to play circuit events it wouldn't even cover a months expenses/buy ins.

The whole point adam is that I interested in this whole backing lark but not impressed would be a fair comment.

If I disagree strongly with something then surely I have the right to question it in a civilised manner which is what I think I have done. :o

Gone a bit cloudy. Wonder if it will rain?

Heid,    fair enough, although I did not feel I was attacking her.

Ariston,  I play on Betfair and respect you immensely as a poker player and a s a poker brain.

I did not question that she had won the £8500 but I questioned whether that was her only major win.  I have not questioned her integrity just the wiseness of backing players for small stakes events who should be able to pay for themselves.

I have nothing personal against Mel nor have I made personal remarks but if you go on an open forum making these sorts of requeats then you must accept that people will question it! :o

This thread is now locked in the intrest on maintaning harmony on the forum, new threads on this subject wlii be removed