I am looking for Coaching + Staking for NL200 (deep) or NL400+. Some background about me and why I need staking.
I'm currently 28 now. I got my BA in Economics in 2001 (3yrs of college) and MBA in 2002 (1 year afterwards). Since graduating from college, I've worked for a company for 1 year, the rest of the time I've done my own businesses. I have been working on a Sports Arbitrage program for the last 3 years with a partner to take the product to market within the next 1-2 years. Our website is
www.juicetrading.com (don't bother to DL the software b/c we haven't updated it).
To make a long story short, last year, we used our software in-house and made about $130k (here's a sheet of our
daily profits). However, if we had the roll to maximize our profits, I think we could have made ~500k. I borrowed about $300K (interest + principle) so that we can invest the money to do the Sports Arbitrage, as well build other business softwares. Unfortunately, we let one of our bankroll grow too large with 1 book and that book ended up being insolvent, so I lost ~170K. Since I also spent about $250k to build up my other businesses, I'm now completely flat broke with very little left and am in debt close to 300k.
Our Sports Arbitrage software is currently built only to do football and basketball, so it's a dead season during the summer. Since I'm overqualified and underexperienced to get a job, I don't have any means to generate any income, and still need to try to build up a BR for the upcoming Arbitrage season. That's when I turned to poker.
I've played poker about 3years ago on Party, but stopped to build my businesses. I just got back to playing in April since I needed a way to make money, and am not doing so well. Overall, I lost about 5600 between April and May, but if you add in rakeback, I made about 2800.
In June, I've decided that because I can't afford coaching nor can I take the risk of learning the game since I owe so much, I had to do what I knew would work. I decided to just grind it out for rakeback - buy in at 1/2 for short, play real nitty and safe, and just grind it out to be slightly profitable or even. For the month of June so far, I've logged in over 135k hands and am down ~1000 in play earnings. However, I've generated ~4000 in rakeback so far and should get to 5k by the end of the month, and if I can win 1st on raketherake.com's FT rake race (currently in 2nd - sn: 12pp), that would add another 2500 to my income, for a total income of 7500 for the month assuming I win back the 1000 I'm currently down in actual play.
For a businessman, this is not the ideal nor productive way to make money. Not when 9 months ago, I was sitting back, watching TV, and letting my program make me 130k within a few months. I want to improve my game and hopefully build a BR soon as well as play a stake where the returns are worth it. Plus, I think playing poker while doing Sports Arbitrage can significantly increase my income.
I currently have an ~1800 BR, but cannot drop down to a lower stake than 1/2 because my situation does not allow me the luxury to do so. I am looking for a coach that is willing to teach me and stake me for 1/2 (deep) but preferably 2/4+ with a LAG style of play. In return, I can provide you my knowledge and experience if you ever want to venture into the business world, and I'm assuming you do, otherwise, you wouldn't be looking to stake me. I am also open to discussing and negotiating some form of deal with my businesses and Sports Arbitrage program, possibly combining our roll for this upcoming season.
I can provide the following: A faxed copy of my BA and MBA, any contracts you want to secure your roll, my PT DB for the month of June, a live look at my Sports Arbitrage program via Radmin or logmein.com.
I do not have a job, so I can put in as many hours and at whatever time of the day you want. I currently set my alarm clock to get up at 5:30am so that I can log in the hours needed, so my work ethics and dedication is there.
I'm not sure what else information I can provide, but if you need anymore, you can PM or AIM (SN: iTDHi). I prefer AIM since I'm at my computer about 12hrs+ a day, so odds are you can get in touch with me instantly.
Thanks for your time,
FTP: 12pp
Last edited by dis4timmy; 06-23-2008 at 05:00 PM.