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Originally Posted by JohnnyDough
Welcome back my man. This is the year to ship it. You should let us buy a piece ��
I am giving all of those who invested in 2013 in the Staking forum thread a free roll in the Main Event for sure.
I am also honoring what is left of "The People's Bankroll" from my staking forum threads, which I never spent. I tried to pay it all back to all those who invested and they all said "Keep it. Thanks for the posts."
I took a three to four year break from posting, but checked in periodically on my DMs, no one still to this day has asked for any investment back, so I'll definitely be playing a few tournaments on that bankroll and if I bink, all investors will have access to their % profits.
I want to do everything honorably, please all those who followed me/staked me over the years, and also offer some new fans of my writing the opportunity to invest. But, I don't want to run deep and run into possibly playing at same final three tables or final tables with someone who is an investor.
I did have a stable, back horses for a while, but me and my partner always immediately made horses table change when sat at the same tables.
During the pandemic, I went to some home games, and was absolutely appalled at the amount of bankroll chopping, % swapping, etc that goes on at these games. It was absolutely disgusting to me. I saw where players who were worshipped as "Pros" in the casino games, who always thought played mediocre, amassed their poker fortunes.
Literally luring in whales to their home games, getting them drunk and high on drugs, then harpooning their asses for tens of thousands over and over. I found it about as awful as getting a college girl strung out on "HERON" so you can fukk her over and over for drugs.
Much respect to all who built their bankrolls the right way. I know I can say I never sat at $10/$20/$50 PLO or any big game like that, but I built my bankroll from live $1/$2 NLHE and have sat as high as $5/$10/$25 and never once had to do it on anyone else's dime or a bankroll built on scamming and colluding.
I am not proud of all I've done in my life or my past, but I am proud to say any level or variant of poker I've beat, I've beat it clean.
I believe the future of poker is cleaning up the game, cleaning up the scamming, and making the game more fun for the recreational player. It is also appalling to me how the big name pros can't even take the time to play some $1000-$1500 events and have some beers with the rec players who worship them.