The Bear is back: Rolling Sunday staking deal. (punters only)

Hello, my name is Jamie Sykes, I like reading and long walks on the beach. We don't have a beach in leeds so i just wander around the bus station with my eyes closed pretending that I'm on a beach.

After reading through Dan Carter's staking thread I found myself quite inspired by the idea of a community sweat and enjoyed how everybody rallied around for a bit of a spin and to help one of the team out with some action. It was quite heart warming and with that in mind I decided to offer my own deal out there for a bit of a lark.

Background

I am a 25 year old professional cash game player who cut his teeth playing MTTs for four years before making the transition into cash games.
I first started playing low stakes MTTs live and online when I was 18 with the legend that is Lil Dave back in Harrogate. In fact, Dave created my Full Tilt name for me (theGroooouuuch) almost prophetically in order to compete in a $10 one day spin prop bet, which i inevitably lost and was forced to wear a t-shirt of his and my malicious friend Rob's design. Obviously the design was mainly based around a penis.

I digress. After making money playing freezeouts at the local club i went to University where I continued to play and met a small group of players who also shared a passion for the game. These players would go on to be some of the best in the country and I was very fortunate to meet them so early on in my "career". After having reasonable success I left University and pursued MTTs full time for the next 3/4 years. I say full time, I was more of a full time drinker part-time poker player but I did enough to allow me a fantastic lifestyle and some cherished memories.
Due to some poor financial decisions involving backing Canadian strangers with a passion for photography I ended up having to get backed and after 2 years and some heavy swings in both directions our arrangement came to an end and I decided to move to cash games, essentially starting again from scratch.

In that year, I have learned more than I had in the previous 4 about poker. I have been getting regular coaching and doing some coaching myself, and I feel that I have a solid understanding of not just the game, but where other people make mistakes and the unquantifiable aspects of being a top level player. I am now able to comfortable beat the games I am playing (albeit only currently playing $100nl and $200nl) putting up high win rates.

I really have my friends to thank for this, I am very fortunate to get to chat hands with the calibre of players that I do.

Major credentials

Since this is a deal focussing on Sundays, I feel like I should provide some relevant information.

$1.5M in cashes online.

1st place in the Sunday Million for $204k~
6th place in the Sunday Warm Up for $24k~
6th place in the Full Tilt Poker monthly $1M GTD for $40k~
Six FTOPS final tables including finaling the round of each FTOPS twice and a 6th place finish in FTOPS 1 for $40k~

Proposal

Because I have been out of full time tournaments for just under a year, and because this is my first package I feel like I need to build up some trust and rapport before I start putting up big packages. Basically I want to play a schedule (as featured below), keeping 30% for myself and taking 4 weeks worth of money at time. At the end of each 4 week period we will amend the schedule and refund any money owed or chop any profit unless the investor wants to roll his stake into the next 4 week period which is an option. I think a 70/30 split in the investors favour is fair because of the nature of Sunday tournaments and how high variance they can be. Because of reasons mentioned above, I want to start with a relatively small schedule:

Stars

1pm $11 rebuy ($51)
1pm Sunday Kick-off $109
2pm $109 freeze
3.30pm $55 freeze
3.30pm $8.80 rebuy ($40.80)
4pm $215 Sunday Warm up
4pm $54 KO
5pm Bigger $22
5.30pm hot $11 turbo
6pm Bigger $109
6.30pm: Hot $16.50
7pm Bigger $11
7.15pm: $22 1r 1a
7.30pm $215 Sunday Million
8pm Bigger $55
9pm Bigger $162

Total = $1297.30

Full Tilt

1pm $55 Early Fiddy
2pm $26 mama said Knock You Out
3pm $26 freeze
5.22pm $44 Super Stack
6pm $26 freeze
8pm $26 Triceratops

Total = $203

Grand Total = $1,500.30 x 4 weeks = $6001.2

I will round this down to $6k and flick the $1.2 in myself to make the maths much easier.

I feel like I have selected a schedule which captures the most value trying to avoid reggy tournaments, replacing some of the slightly bigger buyins ($75 freeze at 3pm) with $26's on FTP etc.

This would be on a 70/30 Make up arrangement. This means that although the stakers are putting up 100% of the money, I am retaining 30% equity for myself. This is because the schedule that I have selected produces the highest ROIs. Combining this and my commitment to fully throw myself into this deal, I think a 30% freeroll is reasonable considering the time I am investing. My hope is that this becomes a long, successful staking thread and we end up amending the schedule to span all of the majors across sites and give everybody involved a return. I really believe in the idea that the poker community should look after itself, which has resulted in me coming here instead of trying to find a 50/50 backer because I think that it's a good thing to give the lads a spin from time to time.

Since this is a 4 week rolling investment, pieces are as follows:

1%= $60
5% = $300
10% = $600
15% = $900

Anything that is cashed will be divided into chunks to leave me with 30% equity when we do the chops.

The gameplay

I know that these numbers can be a bit daunting, and is a little bit of a punt, but I have done a lot of work on my game, getting the opinions of the best players in the UK almost every day. They believe in me and I'm hoping you will too.

I will promise to be well rested, well fed and relaxed before my sessions and hopefully we can go on a little spin.

Payment can be by bank transfer or by Stars (Bear4rms) or FTP (theGrooouuuch).

I will be starting on Sunday the 27th of October. If anybody is unsure and needs people to vouch for me, I can give references when requested.

Investors

Stato: 10% PAID
Flushy: 10% PAID
TL900: 10% PAID
Trigg: 10% PAID
millidonk: 7.5% PAID
Toddswain: 5% PAID
Junior Senior: 5% PAID
rfgqqabc: 5% PAID
Pinchop: 5% PAID
Redbull: 5% PAID
Redarmi: 5% PAID
Tomsom87: 5% PAID
Stuart Hopkin: 5% PAID
Doobs: 5% PAID
jakally: 5% PAID
borntobubble: 1% PAID
George2nitty: 1% PAID
ForthThistle: 0.5% PAID

Reserves

Jamie Burland
Dan Carter
Yiannis Liperis
Sunny Nagi