Prose from a Poshboy

[GreekStein]

There are a good few fallings out jase!

Anyone link herbie to the thread where moorman (staker) falls out with jymaster (stakee) on pocket 5's?

With regards to big makeups jase - commonly now backers will give horses small %'s of what they win if in a lot of makeup in order to give the grinder life money and keep them motivated to grind out of it.

[smashedagain]

There are a good few fallings out jase!

Anyone link herbie to the thread where moorman (staker) falls out with jymaster (stakee) on pocket 5's?

With regards to big makeups jase - commonly now backers will give horses small %'s of what they win if in a lot of makeup in order to give the grinder life money and keep them motivated to grind out of it.

Ok. Thanks. This really interests me Ty.

[DMorgan]

Worth mentioning while we're on staking 101 that vast majority of people that are staked for mid/high stakes games are not staked because they're busto and have no cash for life expenses

[zerofive]

Worth mentioning while we're on staking 101 that vast majority of people that are staked for mid/high stakes games are not staked because they're busto and have no cash for life expenses

Yeah normally still separating life/poker expenses and are probably playing ring games on their own dime etc.

[smashedagain]

Worth mentioning while we're on staking 101 that vast majority of people that are staked for mid/high stakes games are not staked because they're busto and have no cash for life expenses

Yes. This took me a while to sink in as I assumed that you got staked because you could not afford to play.

[EvilPie]

Worth mentioning while we're on staking 101 that vast majority of people that are staked for mid/high stakes games are not staked because they're busto and have no cash for life expenses

Yes. This took me a while to sink in as I assumed that you got staked because you could not afford to play.

I'm staked Jase and I'm minted.

As Dan says it's just nice to keep poker and real life separate.

It means I have to give up half of any profit but I'm happy enough at that as it's totally stress free.

[EvilPie]

As well as being staked I also stake a couple of players. I've got one online low to mid stakes mtt'r and half a live donkey.

Staking people to me is a bit like a Christmas club fund. You keep ploughing a few quid in to them and every now and then you get a chunk back.

The £250 I send occasionally doesn't mean too much but when I get a few grand back it's quite delightful

[Dubai]

I thought everyone just clicked "withdraw" when under it and blamed OPR for constantly being slightly wrong

[paulhouk03]

U gonna start a stable herbie

[smashedagain]

U gonna start a stable herbie

no not an official one mate as I already invest in enough people. It's just that so many players seem to be backed either by firms like Brs/pokerfarm/blackbelt  or players like KnK and mr moorman. I just wondered if a lot of the money was leaving the poker community or it was getting re invested back in.

I understand that the best players sell action to combat variance but does a time not come when you say "I am XXXX  XXXX and I am a consistent winner and selling action is just giving money away "

[giveyourcash]

In some ways I agree. But people make -ev decisions to reduce variance all the time. Anytime you buy insurance that's what you're doing and just watch any episode of deal or no deal to see huge examples. People who's ev is 50k taking 15k offers so tilting but probably worth it to them on terms of utility ev.

[smashedagain]

I never knew you were backed either Matt as I did know you backed others.
Just had a flashback to the Jonny Depp film blow were everyone's an air hostess.

Lol. The bad decisions on DOND are really tilting, so much so I never watch it now

[mondatoo]

Them "bad decisions" don't tilt me at all, if I couldn't bare the thought of losing such an important amount of money to me I wouldn't risk it either.

[cambridgealex]

Prague Day Four

Worst day so far. Had a swim before the comp, very nice and relaxing - excellent preperation. Made me sleepy though and was struggling to keep awake for the first 2 levels. Sank a red bull and got my game face on. Had a soft table and played really well. Everything was going smoothly I was chipping up nicely, making some hands, getting paid, 3bets getting through etc, always hovering around 1.5x average.

Then the key hand, the hand to get me to 70k when the average was 30, allin with a flush against two pair on the turn, she finds the 4 outer to send us back to starting stack. so depressing after 7 levels of playing so well and grinding a stack out.

Now all of a sudden I'm back to where I started and have 30 bigs. JJ into AA to double up to average, but we can't get there and are busted in level 9. Big disappointment.

Relaxed in the room with the team for a few hours, fired up some tables, ran horrific, played pretty bad and once I got really deep in the hole started to tilt, lost a few more buyins then quit. Lost 1.5k

Still, a bad day in Prague, pretty much better than a bad day anywhere else.

[cambridgealex]

Team update - Stato & Keys bust too, Thigh through with 45k, Mitch 58k, Keith not sure, average maybe. Have 12% of thigh so sweating him the most. Big prizepool as well, defo the biggest I've ever played in live - $750k. Probs over 100 bags sterling ftw. gwaaan boys!