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Originally Posted by Loose Larry
Great idea. Let some guy actually owning 100% of his action win a bracelet. Same thing with the $565 BI. I don't like watching a bunch of mediocre poker players/extraordinary beggars get all the glory for winning WSOP events when they are paying 30-50% of the buy-in. Can't wait until the LV ban on staking goes into effect. Random rant, sorry, but I'll definitely be playing this deepstack turbo.
What difference does it make to you how someone gets the buyin? How does that change the "glory" of a win? Isn't the accomplishment of winning first place still a remarkable achievement requiring a great deal of skill and luck regardless of who fronted the money?
For the record, I never get staked in what I play but I don't have anything against those who do. As previously asked, where did you hear about a ban on staking? How would such a ban be enforced? I think your anger towards staking is bizarre.
EDIT: I googled "poker staking ban" and it seems Nevada had a bill in 2015 that seemed like it would ban staking. Legal experts weighed in and said it would not ban it. I don't have the time to dig further to see if it passed or not.
Last edited by Dr. Meh; 02-05-2017 at 01:29 PM.