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Hi guys, in case you don't know me I'm wazz or Michael Piper.

So first up, I'm selling this package as a share system. I believe that when a package contains tournaments of significantly different values, the standard system of buying a flat % of each tournament at once benefits neither seller nor buyer; this system means that the seller has more of himself in the smaller tournaments, and the buyer has more of an interest in tournaments with bigger buyins and bigger edges. Here is my schedule:

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Each tournament is marked up separately, and weighted according to how big the tournament is and what I perceive my edge to be. So to clarify, for every $1 you spend on this package, ~6c goes on the $3k PLO, 18c goes on the $5k PLO, 16c goes on the $5k NLHE and 60c goes on the main event. If this is confusing for anyone please ask away and I will try to clarify but hopefully this makes sense.

I have included the $5k NLHE because I believe it will be somewhat soft - the last big NLHE mtt before the main event, so some recreational players will fly in for this and use it as practice for the main event, a lot of grinders will be burnt out by this point and choose to swerve this mtt, or play it badly, and by this time a few recreational players will have been running very hot and want to enter everything they can.

Next up we have my resume. I've been playing poker as my sole source of income for 7 years. The majority of that time has been spent playing PLO online, with my second focus being on live cash, and then on holdem mtts, both live and online. In the last year I've played very little online as I perceive my edge to be much smaller than it used to be and quite frankly I'm quite naused by the thought of spending all my time in front of a computer screen when I could be socialising and working at the same time.

Here is a sample of my stats from a period of about a year, spanning 2011 and 2012.

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My hendon mob (http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=80410); not included is my £15k win in the first International Rake Race (http://www.londonpokerguide.com/news/view/93).

One of my biggest selling points is that I have experience making it deep in a big tournament, and in front of the cameras. In 2011 I made the final table of EPT San Remo, a 6-day event (the one that Liv Boeree won), playing in front of the cameras for the last two days and being up against some very good players. However, I made a number of mistakes in the aftermath, leading to some investors having to wait up to 5 months to receive their payouts. The thread is here (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/184/staking-selling-shares-live/ept-san-remo-package-742434/), more details are here (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/184/staking-selling-shares-live/wazz-michael-piper-marketplace-reinstatement-1078670/), there have been a couple of threads on blonde about it and I can find them if anyone wants. I am obviously very happy to answer any questions about this debacle here, but it should be noted that 2p2 gave me back my marketplace privileges as a result of that second thread linked a year and a half ago and since then I have sold a couple of packages with no issues. It should also be noted that in my 7-year career this is the only 'compromising' situation that I've been in. 

I've also coached PLO to a lot of students ~ 50, both face-to-face and online (one guy even flew me out to Hungary!). I've done videos for Cardrunners and articles for both Cardplayer and Poker Player.

This will be my 4th time in Vegas and as such I feel much more comfortable dealing with the novel pressures it gives us. For example, last year, I went for three weeks, and drank only three times the entire time, two of which during my weekend off in LA. I will be working extremely hard this year, with no plans to party (skipping EDC, for example, which I'd love to go to) other than another weekend off in LA/SF. I will be working out a lot, keeping regular, healthy sleeping patterns and eating well. I am already fairly fit, having run two marathons in the last three years. I believe that to be very important to playing WSOP events, especially the main event.

Some of you may know my staker, Dave Burn / MrBIond. Prior to that I have also been staked by Stu / currylover / honeybadger who I count as a good friend. Hopefully both would be happy to give me a character reference. I am not coming up with the rest of the money all by myself, I am currently 'part-staked' with Dave such that I put up a quarter of the money, but I am in profit at the moment so it's a higher proportion of my own money and I will be putting some of my own money up separately. How much, I'm not sure at this point but probably $2-3k extra.

Online screennames are wazzbot on stars, wazzockbot on ftp, wazzock2 and kingsergei74 on party where I have two decent scores, 2nd in their sunday mill and 1st in their highroller.

In the case of a big score my intention is to carry physical $ with me on the plane back and change it at thomas exchange in London, but I'm welcome to better ideas.

Sending online is acceptable but at this stage I'd prefer a bank transfer - if you note that you prefer this option I will PM you.

Twitter is https://twitter.com/wazzbert. If I can get the Rio wifi to work with my iPhone I will be updating every break, otherwise once a day (unless I make a FT in which case I'll splurge on international texts :D)

Who had June 11th 2pm?!

Oh and just to mention that I'm also selling on 2p2 where I've sold 20 shares, so 30 more are remaining from the 50 shares originally available.


I did! Ship $7590 please

As much speculation as there is surrounding this staking thread I do have to admit it does look to be good value.

It's a shame that a lot of people will prolly feel reluctant to buy cos it defo is one of the better value staking threads on blonde for the summer, the reason I'm not investing at this juncture is purely because I HATE staking "packages" much prefer bigger chunks of individual events but Mike if you don't sell this out I'll take all 18% of the $3k plo and 10% of the PLO 6max.

Hope this isn't a de-rail hope you sell it.

I'll take 1 share please.

PM me bank details and let me know how much that is in GBP.

Dung

Will take 1 for effort.  Send bank details.  Cheers

To be fair to wazz, he hasn't hidden the fact that he was gonna put a thread up once he reached 300, most of his posts have had decent content, and the package looks decent.

Good luck to wazz and anyone who decides to Bi ( see what I did there?) in him. :)

Agree.

In light of the ribbing Michael has taken over the last few weeks, I would like to write a few words in support of his staking request.

I have known Michael for about 7 years and have staked him to play live cash games, as well as buying pieces of his action in tournaments many times.

The San Remo thing was a train wreck, and Michael disgraced himself. But I want to make it completely clear that he never ripped anybody off, or acted with any malice or bad intentions. It doesn't excuse what happened of course, but I think everyone should understand that what he did was caused by 'life-fail', procrastination and silliness rather than any under-hand dealings. He also manned up and took the consequences, learned from it, and has always acted properly since. I believe he has been fully re-habilitated over the last 3 years. He is an honourable guy. And he has finally grown up.

Not to say that he will not ever do something silly again. That's part of the deal with Michael; he makes silly errors in judgement from time to time. I genuinely don't think he will fuck up in a 'serious' way again though - he will handle all important (esp financial) stuff with professionalism. He had better do, or I will kill him. But he might still make a doofus of himself in some other trivial way. Hopefully this will just give investors a laugh at his expense rather than causing them worry and stress like happened three years ago. I personally want to see Michael make a TV table and say or do something ridiculously cringeworthy.

As regards Michael's poker play. He is not a great poker player, an online sicko or an MTT whizz. But he plays well, and has a fair chunk of experience in pretty much all formats of poker (which is all I'd say about myself tbh). When Michael is running good and in the zone he plays very well indeed. In the past Michael has sometimes not played his absolute A game when things have been going badly, but I suspect he is a lot better in this respect now. Moreover, this is reflected in the very fair price he is selling at IMO. If he had tried to sell at more than 1.3 I would not be writing this. But this package looks really good value to me. Especially since Michael is a lot more experienced and grown up now.

I am not 'vouching' for Michael - because I would not vouch for anyone... perhaps Lil'Dave I might make an exception for. I cannot promise he won't run off with your money and spend it on a year's worth of massages lol ;). But I would make the chance of him doing anything untoward on this stake ridiculously low. I also know that Michael will make a huge effort in Vegas with regard to all the crucial stuff that is often overlooked: routine, eating well, sleeping properly, exercise... and playing his best. And his best is pretty damn good.

Also, I really like the way Michael has handled the ribbing he has got on Blonde. He has made himself look a bit silly in his rush to 300 posts. That is Michael all over, bless him... part of the value you get is to laugh at him when he does stuff like this. But he has taken the ribbing in good spirit, and has not got all defensive about it. He is one of the good guys. And he will continue to post on Blonde after his Vegas trip is over. If he doesn't then I will give him a bollocking.

I am not buying any action in anyone at the moment because I am sick of the whole staking thing, the exorbitant mark-ups and the fact that no-one wants to punt properly on themselves any more (this is only my personal standpoint BTW and I am not saying it is correct... it's just how I feel right now). However, I am going to make an exception in this case and buy 1 share. This is partly because I think I am getting value, and it is also partly because Michael is a friend of mine and I trust him.

So 1 share please Michael.

Additional: Michael, one thing that you should definitely do to 'give value' to your investors is to write regular trip reports on this forum (not just quick tweets so we can follow your progress in the tournament, although these are good too). This is part of the package for investors... we get a sweat, but we also get fun trip reports to read. Hand histories are fine, but much better is funny or interesting stuff that happens whilst you are in Vegas. Especially if you make a fool of yourself in any way ;)

You might like to take 2 minutes to Phone TEG and ask them if they will accommodate you if you walk in a month later with decent 6 figs....

GL with the stake & in Vegas.

Cheers, PM sent


Done & received, ty!


Done. Regular trip reports is a very good idea. Will try not to include too much in the way of details of me winning the lot at cash if I'm doing the lot in this package....


They told me they just need some form of proof (doesn't need to be concrete) of where the money is from or what the money is for - didn't specifically ask them about 6 figures but will do so when I go in tomorrow to do my initial change.

A pink slip from the Rio with a 6fig score on it is perfect proof (for customs and TEG) as to why you are packing heavy money ~ so no issues there.  As TEG are usually at least an extra cent or more wider on their USD buy rate (i.e the rate you have to sell to them) they may do it, but worth checking as it obv isn't a standard transaction for a retail FX bureau.

only way to improve this post would be to have a pic of you with your tasche on tbf.


1 share pls, have not been buying pieces recently but think this is excellent value and I like have plo actions.


Watch out for davesB, he has a tendency to go out for drinks with you, offer to pay then just walk off with the tab still open. real gent!!!

pm me and I will bank transferament.

1 share please.

What % do I have in the massage action?  ;whistle;

Just to confirm, you are the same guy who used to occasionally play at the gutty/int yeah?

So just to double check is 1 share $260?

regularly yes.  1 share = $260 yes woodsey.


YOU WOT MATE

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Cheers, PM sent. I'm not selling action for any of my massages I'm afraid, but if I run good early I'm considering getting two hookers back to my studio suite, I'll have to sell action to that on the side though I'm afraid! Yeah I played at gutty/int, would describe myself as a semi-reg, knew all the main players, we played together then I assume?


Yup!

Can I nit up at 0.5% please?

I want to do lots of small things if u don't mind.

No deal, sorry, but if anyone else wants to go in with you for the full 1 share I would be ok with that ofc.

lol ok  ::)

Will split a % with anyone that want to btw  :)

Have had a change of heart! Half a share is fine.

gl wazz glad you made the 300 good posts (well about 299) and glad people are buying into you

but FFS will people stop hinting at a story about a massage and PM me the details i never get any of the good gossip

It's all in the OP links.

Cliffs:
Wazz was staked for EPT
Ran deep and had painful shoulder, Got 2 x $100 massages
binked for $400k+, charged the massages to the stake
took a lot of stick on thread.... and ever since

haterz gon hate

That tazzer is outstanding.  Doubly confident about my investment now :)

Shipped. gl pal

Alright, I'm having trouble selling and I'm not sure where my last 20 shares are going to.

If I sell 15 more shares or more, I'll grow the tache back for the $5k NLHE and ME.

how the fk do you win at 20bb/100 in your main game? thats  6max is it? Do you coach plo online? gl w sellout, looks decent.

I'm playing in a crazy private cash game tonight - if I don't do my pods I'll take a couple more shares.  Will confirm tomorrow. 

Have sold 36 shares and considering I've run very hot to begin with out here I'm going to close it out at this point. Updates will be here (http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=61476.0). First event is on wednesday.


Thanks! I used to coach - haven't played online properly in about a year and a half though.

Lmk if you wanna swap 1 in main

Done

From the wazzblog

Woke up at ~ 3.30 for the 5pm start in the PLO $5k 6-max. Happy with my sleep timings. Made day 2 with 33k, average is i believe 48k, blinds coming back at 400/800. Gonna get a good sleep and a workout in tomorrow morning before we restart.

gl Wazz, sounds like your crushing this game of the 4 card variety :D

Busto the $5k 6-max, 6 off the money, sigh, there were probably a couple of spots where I made small mistakes but I made a couple of great plays (imo) and overall played pretty well. Bustout hand was 9865hh vs AK72cc allin on a 742cc flop, hit the turn but a club came on the river.

Thinking I'm gonna swerve the $5k NLHE, so you'll all be due some refunds.

Skipped the $5k, played the venetian $1k instead (on my own, but bricked!). Refunds are obviously due, those who sent to me via bank transfer please send me your deets and I'll ship, but most likely after the main.

Gonna sell another 5% for the main, @ 1.25 so $125 a pop or $625 for the lot, no reserves!

Refunds after you run super mega deep in the Main will be fine sir. gl

One ball please. Stars ok?

Sure!

So extra shares sold:

1% rfgqqabc
1% Mintewek (2p2)
1% Sleepis4beginners (2p2)
1% mo3rtelmu (2p2)
1% neverscaredb

Sent via stars btw (demonic16) was done day we booked i think so def in. Run good!

Yeah the above list is all received, thanks

I'm currently finding it hilarious, but I do feel bad for my investors:

UTG 225, UTG+2 call, CO 700, I make it 1800, he jams, I call it off:

(http://i41.tinypic.com/10fzuvr.jpg)

Will refund via stars all those who sent stars, for others will send PMs for bank details.

Why would you refund?

Can't send on stars while in the US but will be first thing I do when I get back to the UK which will be on the 15th.


I didn't play the $5k.

Ohhhh I thought you Kent for busting level1.

Ul dude :( sucks

Meh, good for your hourly long term, obv happens too.

God my money is so bad. ul son