starting or answering a thread in the staking forum.

[AndrewT]

I can from experience give you an example of a bitter pill swallowed by stakers including myself, its when you have staked an individual for a few k in several comps and they win one when you haven't staked them

Boy oh boy they have short memories.

Sounds like they have very good memories - they remembered which tourneys they were staked for and didn't pay out on the wrong ones.

[The Camel]

I can from experience give you an example of a bitter pill swallowed by stakers including myself, its when you have staked an individual for a few k in several comps and they win one when you haven't staked them

Boy oh boy they have short memories.

Sounds like they have very good memories - they remembered which tourneys they were staked for and didn't pay out on the wrong ones.

In one deft move Andrew effortlessly beats off TightEnd's impudent attempt to usurp him as the funniest poster on blonde.

[The Captain]

Not quite keith, I did think you asking for staking was (without wanting to upset you again) a little odd because I thought you could afford it and was then trying to square away in my head why you would want to give away your hard fought winnings to stakers when IMHO there is no point?

As for your second point NO absolutely not it should of course be available for anyone to post in,its interesting to read peoples requests for staking.

[Chompy]

Great thread. WP everyone.

What are your thoughts on swapping percentages in tournaments Birders? Is this a good idea iyo?

Depends who with chumpy, on the whole I think its a good idea but beware there is the occasional childish girly poofter who sends schoolgirl texts to alleged friends and pisses them off .
I'll let you know if i see such a person.

But you'd need a genuine reason not to go through with such a deal isn't it? Should said deal ever reap binkage?

[Delboy]

Birdforum,

I'm confused.

Your view seems to be that you only stake those that cant afford it, yes?

surely thats loosing a lot of ev?

People who can afford it have built up the money by winning, most probably, so in general would be a better bet to back.

Am I wrong?

[The Captain]

Chumpy I have only done it a few times,mostly successfully, you do though in life find things dont always work out the way one would of hoped for, or indeed wished had happened differently, life as they say is too short.

[Doobs]

Dunno if you are reading the replies.  I am a decent winning MTT player with a sharkfin on every site I play.  

I have two 49 game losing streaks on st ars.  If I played £5k tournaments, this would have cost me £250k.  I have seen very well known internet pros with bigger losing streaks than I have managed.  Hence playing these tournaments regularly with a £500K roll is probably imprudent.

So contrary to the OPs implication, even with staking Keith there seems a reasonable chance Keith is playing outside his roll.

Though I rarely stake people, I'd far rather stake someone who can "afford" the entry rather than one that can't.  It is just common sense to me.

[The Captain]

Delboy,I stake people who genuinly cant afford the buy in, this doesnt mean i wouldnt stake someone who could afford it,as I have said I am interested in the situation the poker world finds itself in which is why someone who can patently afford to buy in would rather risk a bit of someones elses money in a tourny rather than all there own?

Is it unreasonable to ask this question?

[Delboy]

Not Unreasonable at all.

So why not just ask it in the op, rather than insulting the blonde community, and The Camel in particular?

[The Camel]

Delboy,I stake people who genuinly cant afford the buy in, this doesnt mean i wouldnt stake someone who could afford it,as I have said I am interested in the situation the poker world finds itself in which is why someone who can patently afford to buy in would rather risk a bit of someones elses money in a tourny rather than all there own?

Is it unreasonable to ask this question?

It was the tone of your original post which riled me.

If you had civilly asked the question you wanted answered, I would glad have done so, in full.

[The Captain]

Delboy I apologised to keith did I not? and who in the blonde community have I insulted, odds are a lot of people who are reading this know me personally and wont take offence, If you think this is insulting you might want to get out more?

[RED-DOG]

Delboy I apologised to keith did I not? and who in the blonde community have I insulted, odds are a lot of people who are reading this know me personally and wont take offence, If you think this is insulting you might want to get out more?

For what it's worth, I think it's, insulting, and I get out a lot.

[Delboy]

So to the point: if I had posted 500 post's of absolute crap about me for example "going into the office" or being "stuck on the train" or "retiring for the 1000th time from poker" or what "Mrs BF or young BF might or might not be having for breakfast" or "Depending on whether my DSS giro clears on time  I may or may not  go " or "whether there is enough time in the day to write a load of bollox about how depressed I am on the one hand yet how good life is on the other hand." or writing in code something like "much lolage or cabbage or whatever the words are, I could go on but you get the picture.

You're right not insulting the community at all! It conversations like these that help form a community.

PS. I don't need to get out more, my wife would kill me! (-ev see)

[The Captain]

Well Red Dog, your just spoiling for an argument with me well you lucked out, i'm not in the mood,so your going to have to be disappointed, you could of course ban me but i dont think that would satisfy your burning need to take Steve kirk on in public, so as i said your out of luck and will have to find someone else for your entertainment.

Do you know there was a time that I would of taken the bait, how times change.

[The Captain]

Before you reply red dog notice the non lack of tolerence from the other mods, as I said look for a fight elsewhere.