Hi guys, in case you don't know me I'm wazz or Michael Piper.
So first up, I'm selling this package as a share system. I believe that when a package contains tournaments of significantly different values, the standard system of buying a flat % of each tournament at once benefits neither seller nor buyer; this system means that the seller has more of himself in the smaller tournaments, and the buyer has more of an interest in tournaments with bigger buyins and bigger edges. Here is my schedule:
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Each tournament is marked up separately, and weighted according to how big the tournament is and what I perceive my edge to be. So to clarify, for every $1 you spend on this package, ~6c goes on the $3k PLO, 18c goes on the $5k PLO, 16c goes on the $5k NLHE and 60c goes on the main event. If this is confusing for anyone please ask away and I will try to clarify but hopefully this makes sense.
I have included the $5k NLHE because I believe it will be somewhat soft - the last big NLHE mtt before the main event, so some recreational players will fly in for this and use it as practice for the main event, a lot of grinders will be burnt out by this point and choose to swerve this mtt, or play it badly, and by this time a few recreational players will have been running very hot and want to enter everything they can.
Next up we have my resume. I've been playing poker as my sole source of income for 7 years. The majority of that time has been spent playing PLO online, with my second focus being on live cash, and then on holdem mtts, both live and online. In the last year I've played very little online as I perceive my edge to be much smaller than it used to be and quite frankly I'm quite naused by the thought of spending all my time in front of a computer screen when I could be socialising and working at the same time.
Here is a sample of my stats from a period of about a year, spanning 2011 and 2012.
My
hendon mob; not included is my £15k win in the first
International Rake Race.
One of my biggest selling points is that I have experience making it deep in a big tournament, and in front of the cameras. In 2011 I made the final table of EPT San Remo, a 6-day event (the one that Liv Boeree won), playing in front of the cameras for the last two days and being up against some very good players. However, I made a number of mistakes in the aftermath, leading to some investors having to wait up to 5 months to receive their payouts. The thread is
here, more details are
here, there have been a couple of threads on blonde about it and I can find them if anyone wants. I am obviously very happy to answer any questions about this debacle here, but it should be noted that 2p2 gave me back my marketplace privileges as a result of that second thread linked a year and a half ago and since then I have sold a couple of packages with no issues. It should also be noted that in my 7-year career this is the only 'compromising' situation that I've been in.
I've also coached PLO to a lot of students ~ 50, both face-to-face and online (one guy even flew me out to Hungary!). I've done videos for Cardrunners and articles for both Cardplayer and Poker Player.
This will be my 4th time in Vegas and as such I feel much more comfortable dealing with the novel pressures it gives us. For example, last year, I went for three weeks, and drank only three times the entire time, two of which during my weekend off in LA. I will be working extremely hard this year, with no plans to party (skipping EDC, for example, which I'd love to go to) other than another weekend off in LA/SF. I will be working out a lot, keeping regular, healthy sleeping patterns and eating well. I am already fairly fit, having run two marathons in the last three years. I believe that to be very important to playing WSOP events, especially the main event.
Some of you may know my staker, Dave Burn / MrBIond. Prior to that I have also been staked by Stu / currylover / honeybadger who I count as a good friend. Hopefully both would be happy to give me a character reference. I am not coming up with the rest of the money all by myself, I am currently 'part-staked' with Dave such that I put up a quarter of the money, but I am in profit at the moment so it's a higher proportion of my own money and I will be putting some of my own money up separately. How much, I'm not sure at this point but probably $2-3k extra.
Online screennames are wazzbot on stars, wazzockbot on ftp, wazzock2 and kingsergei74 on party where I have two decent scores, 2nd in their sunday mill and 1st in their highroller.
In the case of a big score my intention is to carry physical $ with me on the plane back and change it at thomas exchange in London, but I'm welcome to better ideas.
Sending online is acceptable but at this stage I'd prefer a bank transfer - if you note that you prefer this option I will PM you.
Twitter is
https://twitter.com/wazzbert. If I can get the Rio wifi to work with my iPhone I will be updating every break, otherwise once a day (unless I make a FT in which case I'll splurge on international texts
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