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First staking thread ever. Any interest in staking me for the £500 deepstack this weekend?

What:
This weekends £500+60 DTD deepstack.

About me:
I'm David Craigon. This is my first staking thread. Live tournaments are my main game, and I have a solid winning record in these, and although my sample size is not that enormous, it's difficult to play a lot of liveaments in a short period of time.

Some Results:

Super 50s: Played 39, won £8281.50, ROI 369%
50 evening comps at DTD and Genting Derby: played 36, won 1345.50, ROI 75%
DTD £300 deepstacks: Played 4, lost £744, ROI -55%
Assorted comps bigger than £50 but smaller than the £300 at DTD:  Played 7, won £1336, ROI 124%
Assorted micro comps at Gala Nottingham: played 53, won £1025, ROI 76%

One offs: I won the £110 Genting Derby opening night comp (which they added £1000 to) for £4176 profit (beating Rastafish, and how many people can say that?), and came 9th in Sky Poker Tour Luton for £880 profit in Feburary.

I also finalled the first £150 deepstack at DTD- you can read about it on the live updates section of this board. My hendon mob is http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=188311.

These ROIs are quite nice, but I've definitely run good in my tournaments on average, so maybe take them with a pinch of salt. The good news is that the run good is included in the price of the stake.

Onlinewise I don't have accurate results to hand but, when FullTilt was still alive and kicking, I was beating the $8 and $15 90 mans, and $12 Rush tourneys. I tried 180 mans on Stars for about 100 games for an ROI of about -100% :-(.

Cashwise, I've pretty much broken even playing 0.50p/£1 live, and in online cash I couldn't beat an egg.

£500 is larger than I normally play, and the standard of this tournament will be higher than I normally encounter. I've played the £300 before, and didn't feel overwhelmed- obviously there are going to be some very good players in the field however.


Why this tournament:
DTD is my "home" venue- I am very comfortable with the surroundings and the dealers, floormen etc. all know me. I think this tournament is likely to be softer than the average £500 tournament due to DTD's excellent value satellites. I am particularly interested in playing this since DTD have guaranteed it at 500 runners. It's inaugural running attracted 292 runners, and I think they will struggle to attract that many more this time, although there is no Genting tour to compete against this time there is the normal range of other events.

Why I'd like to be staked:
I don't have the bankroll for £500 comps, and I think turning it into a £250 comp via staking makes sense for me.

How much:
I'd like to get rid of 50% (or maybe 60%) at flat (1.0), so 10% = £56. I don't have any operating costs other than shoe leather to get to DTD. I'd like to play the saturday only. I won't be playing unless I can sell at least 40%.

25% please.

Bank transfer ok?

You've seen me play? Are you sure?

Yep, no probs. I'll PM you if we get over the 40% play/no play threshold.

 It's because I have seen you play that I am investing. How could Thewy wake up with K-K there?!

I'll have the other 25% please.

Il take the other 25

Ah......

Nick, Dave, happy to spread the 60% evenly between the three of us if you wish?

Obviously Nick has first refusal but will let him decide, I'm ok with 20% if that's fine with him

Yup, if not, you and I can split the 35% down the middle, I owe you a drink after that dog tip!

Let us see what Nick says.

Gl skippy and co

Thanks everyone for the faith! 60% of the action is now booked. Hopefully Nick can come on and we can sort out who has got what.

I'd prefer paying either by bank or cash at DTD- anybody want to do anything different? I'll shoot out PMs when we finalise the %ages.

Thanks for the good wishes George- are you joining us at DTD?

I will ship by Bank TX if you PM me the details, please.

I will hold off until Nick has agreed, or not, as the case may be. Either way, you are fully booked, good luck, see you Saturday. There may well be wsome serious overlay in play this weekend.

reserve me 20 pc of next 3 months 500s if you play please

At the las vegas team challenge mate

Excellent! What a shame.

Gl Skips and stakers. Would happily have gotten involved in this if I had seen it in time. If anyone drops out I'll take 10% unless anyone has a spare 5% going now?

Hi sorry abroad so not been online. Yes that's fine 20% between the 3 of us.

GL!

Right so that's Redbull, Tikay and Dubai all booked at 20% each.

Thanks very much for the stake.

What do you want in the way of updates- chip counts, hands, anything?

Have just shipped the £112 by bank TX (see PM), tyvm, & thanks to Nick, too.

Updates? Up to you, don't do anything which will mess up your focus though. Anyway, if you run deep, we will be able to follow via the blonde Live Update.

Ideally, just send us a big lump of money on Monday morning......

Got Tikay's funds.

Sounds a tad sinister, that......;)

All paid. Gl us!

For a trip report of me not winning this, see my posts in the live updates thread. Sorry guys.

No need for sorry, just run better next time.

No regrets here.