Hello marketplace,

I am going to be playing the main event of the World Series of Poker this year. I am looking to sell up to 50% of my action at 1.2 markup but I will be playing the event regardless of how much I sell.

Poker Background Update

In the last year I took a term off university to play online poker. In this time I lived in Buenos Aires with three other professional poker players including rbracco, who I will get to vouch for me in this thread. I moved up to playing $5/10 hunl on a variety of sites before returning to university in January and focusing on school work.

I was supposed to be living in a poker house in Vegas this summer. As a consequence of Black Friday, I decided to sell my place in the house so that I could grind online which I didn't have much time to do at university. So, I am living in Costa Rica this month and flying to Vegas on the 30th June to play a few $1.5ks and the main event. I probably won't sell action in the smaller events but if I do I will give priority to investors in this thread.

Unfortunately, as I am in Costa Rica I only have my laptop graph. Thus, this is mostly my play when I was travelling, such as in Buenos Aires:


PTRs:
http://www.pokertableratings.com/ful...mggarycaldwell (missing $25k winnings)
http://www.pokertableratings.com/sta...ch/shareh0lder

I have made around $120k in cash games online.

MTTs

Although most of my play has been at hunl cash games (as this is where the most money is imo) I came up through playing 9 max sngs and understand late game ICM considerations. I'm also comfortable with the implications of prize pool equity and changing stack sizes in mtts. The thread linked below under references has my sng graph.

Taxes

I'm from Scotland and don't pay any taxes on poker winnings. If you are from the U.K, neither will you on any return on your investment. All other investors are responsible paying the taxes in their own countries.

Payment

I'm charging 1.2 markup so $10k becomes $12k so:
10%=$1200
5%=$600
etc

I don't want to sell less than 2% at a time.

I can accept Stars (shareh0lder) and FTP (OMGgarycaldwell).
I'll be in Vegas for cash from 30th June but would prefer minimum 5% investment for this method.
I can also accept a bank transfer to my Halifax Bank of Scotland account (probably only useful for people from the UK.) PM me for details of this.
Investment is for tournament equity only (doesn't include sponsorship money.)

References

As I said above, I will have rbracco vouch for me in this thread. I have sold action once before on 2+2 in this thread, which contains more background information and multiple references:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/18...-1-1-a-852925/

For those who don't want to trawl through it, I'll copy my previous references/vouches from that thread below. I have met all of them in real life other than gman06, who coached me for a DC series.

alaplancha: Met tony before at UKIPT Coventry (he has mutual friends from his university) and he seemed like an honest guy and very competent at poker from the small amount I spoke with him (obv his stats speak for themselves). This is not a vouch as such because I don't know him very well but more just a sort of recommendation.

Birkin: I can vouch that Tony is a very solid and disciplined player, and definitely +EV in this field.

gman06: Tony=the nuts. Good investment w/ an awesome guy

glpmurray: I'm a medium/ high stakes player and I just want to back up everything tony has said- very honest and trustworthy guy - i've done numerous transfers and dealings with him live and online - i'm sure he'll give 110% in any tournament he plays.

I hope my post isn't tl;dr, I just want everything to be translucent for all parties. Please post if you have any questions or if I've missed anything out.

Cheers,

Tony

I lived with Tony in Buenos Aires and can definitely vouch for him being a solid player and a great guy. Definitely a +EV investment.

I'll take 5%.

I also lived with Tony in Buenos Aires and can vouch for him being reputable. He is a solid player and I got a lot out of discussing hands with him. I'll take 5%.

res 10% please, will ship on stars at some point. if I havent, just remind me

res 5% if you are happy with a bank transfer (i'm UK)

met tony in real life. he is a stand up guy and has a very annalytical poker mind

5% please

All of the above reserved. Thanks Sam, Rob and Tom for the vouches.

c4m1k4z3 I will pm you regarding bank transfer. Just don't want to make my bank details public. Assuming you can't send in dollars, we will use the xe.com exchange rate at the time. Is that fair? Cheers, Tony

Also, once all is sold I'll give all investors my twitter and keep you updated on my progress.

30% sold, 20% left

Both of these are confirmed. Money received thanks

5% reserved privately by pintoelbajon

15% left

$ received, action confirmed cheers.

Just for the sake of clarity, I wanted to publish before the event that this is not booked yet but is still reserved for you if you want it. I'll pm you.

I bought into the event through Betfair yesterday and will be playing day 1D.

15% left

yeah, if you prefer cash in vegas I can do that as well, dont really bother playing online atm, arriving the 7th july

Ah sorry pmed you before I saw your post. I'm indifferent between pokerstars or cash in vegas, whatever is easier for you. I'm playing day 1D so yeah I could pick up the cash from you on the 8th or 9th of July. I'll pm you about exchanging mobile numbers to arrange that. In fact I'll pm everyone who buys action my mobile number

Hey I've sold about 50% now so I'm done selling Main Event action. I'll make a bigger post tonight to make clear to everyone who all has action and how much. You can follow here me on twitter (pending functional wifi in the rio): http://twitter.com/#!/BaggieT

I'm playing the $1.5k tomorrow, willing to sell a some action if anyone wants it let me know

Ok the event is coming up soon now so I'll make this post to clarify who all has how much action:

ultramasherguru - 5%
rbracco - 5%
hotkarlmc - 10%
c4m1k4z3 - 5%
Tamas6 - 10%
Achim Klindworth - 5%
Pintoelbajon - 2.5%
Non-poker friends not on 2+2 - 2.5%

All of the above are confirmed and paid apart from hotkarlmc who I'll pm to meet for cash on vegas. I posted my twitter above and if you want to check pokernews for updates.

5% still available for sale

I'll take the last 5%, will send at Stars

Received thanks.

Now sold all 50%. Hopefully I'll provide you all with a good sweat