Let me start off by saying thanks.
(sorry in advance of getting names wrong or incorrectly spelled)
Thank you to David Nicholson, Patrick Leonard, Daniel Morgan, James Keys, Keith 'The Camel' Hawkins, Rupinder Bedi, Jason Herbert, Dave Shallow, Milligan, Claypole, Mantis, Paul Houk, Rockstar, Alex Goulder (pm'd), Evil Pie, Nirvana and of course Fraiser.......
There is only a single comment in this thread that I think is unhelpful and that was the mention of the luton league on here....
I'm apparently not a regular enough to be on it, however I won the £100fo two weeks in a month last summer, I have regularly come down and played in the cash game... most often taking a more than fair chunk of the chips with me and yes I've had disagreements with some of the regs there. This is due to my confidence in my own views and opinions and the ability of voicing them..
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HOWEVER - I have never been rude, offensive or out of line to ANYONE... Even when Hamid was screaming at me, I merely said to him "Hamid, you can play how you like, but I'm frustrated that you hit that gutshot.... so what?" (Daniel Best, Raj, George, any of the staff there I'm sure would back me up as saying I may have been involved but I was never the one out of line)
- And Aidrian getting pissed off that I trapped him with KK on Qxx after he slowrolled me and rubbed it in an orbit earlier.... well he got what he deserved imo. And yet I still did it politely, quickly and said "thankyou for your chips" afterwards.
I have ALWAYS maintained a 110% attitude of being polite and courteous and friendly to the dealers and staff in any casino as they have a tough enough job as it is.
Got side-tracked there.... sorry.
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The whole point of the thread was the gauge the idea, the point, the concept and to get a better understanding of staking/ backing in general.
I will firstly apologise for my use of the words 'insane edge' because apparently that has gotten a few feathers ruffled. This phrase was used because I have only played a handful of Super50's and £100fo's in the last year and I believe I've finalled somewhere north of 50% and won close to 15%. I feel that in the generic Super50/ £100fo games in live casino's I have enough understanding of the game/ players and try to choose the best structure to give myself a decent enough chance to have a good stack and to build a good stack all the way through the tournament.
No, I don't have any online results in MTT's. I have only played a small sample of satelliting into everything >£150 I've played this year and been pretty successful so far. To do so and to improve my game I have taken up a tournament specialist site's membership and studied a decent chunk of their literature and media content, trying to watch twice the most important concepts I've come across.
With regard to the idea in general I think you're all absolutely correct and that I should be putting all my time into my Pleno staking agreement which I am certain will start to produce +$ results very soon already. Just a few little tweaks about the spew and how and why is already making a massive difference and I'm glad he and Lil'D are able to see me changing session by session.
This was my consideration when I put up the thread... I don't think I have enough results or proof to warrant a single backer putting £000's into me, which is why I tried to think of a way to work it that a 5 or 10% chunk wouldn't cost that much...
With regard to the 300 posts and "give me money" comments, it was more a case of timing than anything.... anyone that has read my blog will know I've just bought a new grind PC in order to fully and completely commit to my staking deal and online poker long term, unfortunately for me a messup with the paperwork and misunderstanding about PC Monitor resolutions has meant I'm £2k out of pocket more than I had planned right now. THIS AND ONLY THIS is the reason I've considered staking.
I played my heart out in the UKIPT Day1A, getting into a ridiculous CL pot for 180K with AQ vs K10 aipf and couldn't hold, this was a tournament I'd sold 42.5% of myself in and obviously with the crazy DTD GTD meant it was easy to not worry about the money since it was so far away and such monstrous amounts any % would be tasty.
I can't say enough how awesome and useful and solid the advice on this thread is for both me and all aspiring amateurs, whether poker prodigy's in the making or break even wannabe's.. But I am getting a better understanding of MTT variance, both live and online from the more experience I have either directly or through sweat or strategy sessions with friends.
Also, I think DMorgan wins the thread.. but Keys is very close behind. I feel almost disciplined and I don't know whether your post is in anger, frustration, wanting for Justice or something else sir but I have the utmost respect for both you, your game, your comments and I apologise for causing offence. Its tough to work on your poker game to get good enough and put enough time/ hands/ volume in when I'm doing a 9-5 job that also takes me to the proper 4 corners of the world (im talking Sao Paulo, Afghanistan, Melbourne and Beijing styleee - not shagaluf, vegas and paris)
BUT I'M TRYING AND WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO....
Thanks again and please continue to post ideas, comments, suggestions for better OP posting in future and better ways to 'begin' the long journey to serious poker player with regards to MTT's both live and online.
Not really sure what else to say....
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