yeah, i mean its something you need to come to a compromise with, but the backer just cant say "no, you gotta just play stars and stars only". just doenst seem fair.


It can be a little tricky, but if both sides are open and honest and are willing to work together (not saying staking on all sites, but compromising), everything should go ok.

Perfect Zima!

We (my backing group) do it the same way (different mechanism but same exact result at the end)

Some players, specially in Brazil, have a real hard time getting it - they just don't get that money won in a sattelite is money won playing poker, regardless if it's a $10k win on a regular MTT or a $10k package won in a sat.

Winning a package sattelite doesn't all of a sudden make them "entitled" to getting a freeroll hotel, (because at the end the backer is paying 50%, or X% of it), but for some reason deep inside a lof ot them think it does.

Most of the times I tend to think it's better to only let the players play seat-only qualifiers, since sometimes the hotels are overpriced and the players end up in a big -EV spot for themselves.

yeah, we are lucky that we only had to encounter this problem with close friends at the start, so we just worked through it.

Been a struggle to explain it at times, but i just link that thread now and let all the smart people explain it for me.

satties are so ridic. got like 6 horses with pca package, 2 with prague, 3 with the "any choice satty" thing.


so much cash locked up at the moment making this swing look bigger than it really is.

Sundayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy


playing some live poker, and then coming back to sweat a major win. betudontbet and probirs, jymaster been going deep and playing well lately, so looking for them to do big things tomorrow.

gl today brah

tyty you too

Ur horses playing the mm me?

yeah

Is muka82 one of them by any chance?

Interesting thread! Thanks for sharing.

nah (dont think so, hard to keep track of every horses name on all the euro sites/ftp/stars...obv have them all in some database though)

tyty

It would be cool to see more graphs. I know you have some information you just don't want public. How about a weekly graph of Sunday from all your horses? Would be pretty fun to see the swing from the biggest day of the week.

Yesss, what dog said

i will post some sunday graphs again i suppose.


i really hate the new sharkscope and cant really figure out how to do a new player group. also, doing all names from stars/ftp/euro sites would be a bit of a pain. will just do stars and maybe ftp.

You basically have to search someone with no filters on and then add that 'search' to the group. Incredibly annoying if you are building a huge group.

sounds like i wont be doing it than.

sigh

it's pretty simple Zima. search all of your horses. at the bottom, next to "Add Other Statistics," there is a section called Groups then Create New. Under Search Results, you'll see all your horses names. Add All and save it. Easy game!

I really hated the Sharkscope switches at first but now I think it's definitely an improvement.

i miss the multi line graph. They need to bring that back. (or someone needs to tell me how to activate it)

Well, on the way to really failing again this year for my weight/healthy goals. it really is pretty dumb of me. it just doesnt make sense why i cant stay on a routine and just get it done. its weird, when i was dating this girl in high school she was a smoker and i actually despised it. i just couldnt understand why she would do that to herself. why would she knowingly kill herself slowly/do something so destructive. She was a smart person who understood the effects of cigs. i pretty much pleaded with her one night to stop smoking and killing herself slowly. and that i cared about her too much to watch her do that to herself. she ended up quitting (i like to think i was the deciding factor, but for the most part i am sure it was just time for her to quit). anyway, why do i do what i do than? why do i continue to slowly kill myself each and every day? most of the population wants to live a long healthy life, but people just dont change their habits. I am a smart person (or so i think), and yet each time i eat some terrible food i am basically just taking time off my life. Being overweight is pretty terrible all around. everything is worse when you are fat. I cant understand why/how i am still the way i am.

Its all so easy when you think about it. I have probably thought at night around 500 times that "tomorrow, it changes" i wake up that day, and just end up not giving a **** and just eat what i feel like, dont workout etc etc.

its pretty saddening now once i think about it all, and how i have spent the last 5 years in the state i am in now. how can i be the way i am in some ways in my life, and so different in other ways. maybe one day i will change. i sure hope so, and its gotta come from within myself and rather than doing it for someone else, i gotta just do it for myself.
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Poker is going ok at the moment i guess. downswing still there, and we seem to have ridic shots each week, but nothing ever is working out. we have ran well (tcoop/milli/WU stuff), but seems like we arent running to well at the moment. poker is so much more fun when you are winning (playing/investing). Staking and dealing with horses can take it out of a person. i am back home in st pete florida atm, and its been pretty great to be home. the work never stops though. it would be pretty nice to just go a week and not do 1 thing related to staking. pretty sure the book keeping would pretty much fall apart though, ha ha. horses just take a few days off when they want too, never any rest for the stakers though. always stuff to do, always problems to solve or favors/stuff to do for horses.

tokyo09 still hasnt settled up with us. so many of the guys who owe us money just dont even acknowledge us. we are gonna get aggro with it all here soon, so should be fun i suppose (or, just another mind numbing staking thing that idiots force us to do). I really cant fathom what goes through peoples mind when they do what they do. Elio trusts me a lot in our situation, and not once has it ever crossed my mind to not do anything but whats "right". I couldnt live with myself if i did it any other way. Do these scammers not even think about the money they scammed from us? is it even in the back of their minds, or do they just steal and move on and never think about it again. i am happy i cant do that...

One thing i am excited for is a horse of ours is going to be going for a pretty big goal this next year. his swings will be big, but the rakeback he will get will be nice. not sure if he wants it public yet, so will let him do what he likes in that regard. will be fun to have this "bigger sweat".

I was talking with a friend back home recently and he was asking about poker stuff, and i just started rambling about stuff and about how its nice to always have sweats going. always having money in action etc etc. I thought about it, and its gonna be pretty boring when i have no more sweats. after having a ridic amount every day for the last x years, going to 0 sweats wont be fun. hopefully there is a bigger business sweat going at some point in the future.

Prolly not that interesting cause i wont say the actual number, but MU # is as big as its ever been. think this will happen a lot as stables grow etc, but would be sweet to go on a lil binking spree here for some of the guys in big MU. one day, jy will return to the glory days of his FTP reign. he got 15th in the ftops hyper turbo (da ****, its on ftp and he still ft bubbles it).


sorry for the rambling, just wanted to update and started just writing stuff down that came to mind.

imo, ramble as much as you want great thread

Nice update

I think half the battle with your weigh loss/getting healthy goals is finding a method to tackle it that works for you. I know its the same for me when it comes to filling my day and not being a lazy ******* the entire time. I must have tried dozens of different ways to motivate myself and pretty much failed/given up on all of them before I found what worked.

As you say you've got to do it for yourself but you also need to find a way of enjoying the process and getting fulfillment out of it as its super rare for someone to be able to carryout such a life changing task when they don't actually want to.

I know you will figure it out just got to think about the way you are going to get there and really appreciate why it will be so much better when you do

You need a reason to lose weight, other than the obvious health benefits
I was like you for a long while and then met a fantastic girl and she liked me anyway but it gave me the impetus to want to be better for her.
In under 6 months I lost 56lbs and went from a size 40" jeans to a 34", considering I am 6'5" not bad.
Everyday I went on the treadmill and ran 6 miles before work and had a good gym session 3 times a week. I got a personal trainer for 2 of my gym sessions a week and had a good rapport with him and it helped to beat goals to lift more etc.
In general it was a life changer in so many ways. Looking great makes you feel wonderful and buying clothes becomes fun etc. Obvious benefits on the dating side too.
You sound very down in how you wrote and I urge you to try and find something to make you snap out of it as it is difficult to maintain a good self esteem like this and if you can do it you will find benefits in all parts of your life I am sure.
Good luck.

Zima horse going for the TLB? Trying to figure out if anyone I know would be crazy enough to attempt that.

He is going for 1st to SN, 1st to SNE and the VPP record, pretty sure hes trying to get 6mil