Few suggestions
I would like to see TK/Flushy/Tighty add a new rule to staking on here - ie stakers give a % their mark up to Blondepoker for advertising their services, or Blondepoker get a % in the player.
I also think stakers should publish their returns to investors over x period - maybe last 12 months, players showing -VE shouldn't be charging mark ups
Mark ups should reflect experience and success at the level staking is being offered Eg Players who have not cashed in an ept shouldn't be charging mark ups for an EPT
Cheers rob
There's just so many flaws to this though.
Let's have player x and player y.
Player y is a live cash game player playi in London getting the lot. He sometimes plays online but just on Sunday's in very high variance fields and is break even over a non significant sample. He plays online and beats mid stakes pretty comfortably.
He has sold for 5 tournaments and has a -17% roi in those tournaments.
He post quite a bit on blonde mainly in PHA.
Player x is a live tournament player who has cashed 1/17 tournaments but the one he did cash he bunked for 120k. He doesn't play online because he think it is rigged and posts on the forum mainly in tikays blog.
Why should player x be allowed to charge a mark up and player y not.
Also what if I hae sold for 8 tournaments at dtd or for small stakes online, this now allows me to charge 1.5 in the main event.
The market decides itself fairly due to blonde contribution and past performance look at Mitch, Alex and Liam's threads for balance here.
The point about stakees having to pay blonde a fee or percentage seems ridiculous too. Is t a privilege to be a member of blonde? How does t work the other way? Per 100 pages of blog traffic do we get a percentage or a sun of money from blonde too?
The reason blonde works is because it's a community te community gets together and helps out, thy pay for Tighty to play a tournament, thy wear blonde bages in love tournaments when provided ad they try their very best to give blonde partners as much exposure and help out as much as possible.
The op is absolutely correct IMO, the markups are getting v large and if your true value is 1.5 then you should sell at 1.2 but the people selling at 1.5 think they are vale at 2.0 probably.
One thing that I think is important is that anybody who sells for a tournament puts up 30% of the money hems elves. So if the ornament is 10k they put up at least 3k if the tournament is 330 they put up at least 100 etc etc
If somebody was selling in an Ept without a markup then there I probably a reason why. There is a tonne of value and underselling yourself is not going to be shrewd.
Also like the points in the other threads about to referring to buy in those who buy in others rather than just sell.