I wasn't going to post again maybe I'm wrong to, there's been more than enough drama on this board recently, but I want to just point out a few things out. Hopefully Mike will learn something from this and others will see it and learn too and we will have a better staking board because of it. Who am I to go about policing things? Nobody. I don't have Key's badge, nor Mantis' rosette. However, I hope you'll realise I'm posting for the benefit of Mike, others wanting to be staked, as well as stakers like myself and many others. NOT to cause an argument.
Firstly, I just wanted to say that I'm sure you've not set out with any bad intentions whatsoever and the mistakes you've made are through lack of experience rather than malice. To be frank, I think nirvana has nailed it on the head with his "infant burglar" analogy.
To most of us this is what it looks like:
1) You've asked for £250 worth of staking in a £500 tournament in return for 25% of the winnings. This is absurd. That is a "mark-up" of 2.0. Almost every thread on here is sold between 1.0 and 1.5, the vast majority being between 1.1 and 1.3. One of your responses to the questions about this was
just thought 25% of £70k would be nice
I mean really? Yes it would be nice. So would 10% of the lottery but doesn't mean I'll pay £500 for a ticket. It wouldn't have taken much effort to work out what price you should sell at. £250/£500 = 50%, so if you thought you were good value, maybe sell the 50% for £300, or selling 40% for £250.
2) Your OP has no online results, no links to your hendon mob, no graphs, nothing other than "Two nice cashes in the last 4 weeks at dtd, 6th in Grand Prix, and 3rd in Last weeks £150.00". You've put no effort at all into convincing people that you are worth investing in.
It wouldn't have taken any time at all to look at just one of the other threads on this board and see that you've done this totally wrong. Every thread more or less has links to online results, graphs, hendon mobs etc, as well as a clearly set out structure showing what they're selling. You've clearly not looked at a single one, (or if you had, just ignored it completely) and what's more incredible is that when Dan suggests you look at the "Ground rules and Disclaimer" post, you respond with
ty dan, did i miss summat?
Yes of course you missed something! That's why you've had all these comments and suggestions! Why don't you read it instead of asking if you missed something! It's so insulting.
3) You've cashed for 3k and 5.5k in two comps in the past 5 weeks. Yet you're asking for £250 for this weekend. I appreciate there will probably be a good reason for this, but I believe you should state what this is. And laughing off Fraser's totally reasonable question concerning this was also insulting to him I imagine.
3) may be wrong, maybe it's not that important, but it doesn't feel right to me.
Anyway, hope you don't mind me posting this.
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