I’m offering shares in myself in the £550 UKIPT Edinburgh main event at 1.1 markup. I’ve spent a lot of money in real life recently and want to preserve my bankroll to concentrate on moving up stakes online. Furthermore, I’m considering playing the WSOP next summer and would like to build a solid reputation in the staking forum. I am therefore looking to sell up to 50% of myself in this event. I will be playing the event regardless of how much I sell. I'll be playing on Friday the 20th August.

Poker Background

Heads Up

My current main game is heads up no limit 100-400nl. I am OMGgarycaldwell on full tilt and shareh0lder on pokerstars. I was lucky enough to get free coaching from Gman for a DeucesCracked series in the summer of 09. This completely changed the way I think about poker and has helped me become a much more analytical player. More recently, I played Wiltontilt heads up for a three part video series on DC. Its listed as Wiltontilt vs Tony on the site. This match is a more accurate reflection of my current game if any potential stakers want to take a look.

Here are my PTR links:
http://www.pokertableratings.com/ful...MGgarycaldwell
http://www.pokertableratings.com/sta...ch/shareh0lder

With this experience, I am particularly confident in my ability post flop in +50bb situations.

Tournament Credentials

Currently, I only play the occasional tournament when I want a break from HUNL. My stars and full tilt screennames therefore only have a small sample of high buy in tournaments which I've ran bad in. However, when I first started in poker, I built my bankroll through sngs and mtts on the old Betfair site under the name shareholder (graph below).



In this time (late 2008/2009), I had some decent scores including winning the daily $11k gtd on Betfair for $3.3k. Unfortunately, Betfair doesn’t seem to track scheduled MTT results.

So, I have a decent knowledge of ICM and late game tournament poker.

Live Experience

When I first got into poker I played a lot at my local casino where I used to play tournaments and cash with a lot of success (albeit at small stakes.) I still have most of my tournament winnings slips which I can scan up on request, though its a bit academic as you don't get a slip for the times you lose. In 2009, I came 4/287 in the UK Student Poker Championships:

http://www.ukstudentpoker.com/main-c...kspc-2009.html

I also satellited into the UKIPT Coventry main event and made day 2 but didn't cash.

Anyway I'm pretty outgoing so don't have too much trouble handling live poker compared to online.

References

glpmurray will vouch for me in this thread. I have done 5 figure $ transfers with him.

Conclusion

While I don’t have a large sample size of tournament success I’m confident that my understanding of deep stacked poker from my heads up experience and my knowledge of basic late game strategy gives me a pretty big edge vs this field.

I'm charging 1.1 Markup so the £550 seat becomes £605 so:
10%=£60.50
5%=£30.25
etc

For simplicity it would be good if people could pay in pounds on stars to shareh0lder (location Madrid.) If this is a real issue I can accept $ on stars or ft or maybe a bank transfer in pounds but I'm currently on holiday in Santiago and the internet is pish so it won't be easy for me to organise this until I get back to Scotland on Wednesday. Any questions please ask.

Cheers,

Tony

10% after vouch

5% please but I can't do stars right now. Can do any of ftp/bank xfer/cash in scotland. Thanks

5% pending references. Will send on stars

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.

3% please. Will send ££ from Feeder77 on stars

3% will come from rupert too

5% please, my stars transfers are maxed out so will send when sorted, or i can give u cash in edinburgh

All of the above reserved. I'm struggling to get onto pokerstars on my friends university halls' internet but I should have it sorted by tomorrow and be able to confirm any money sent.

Cheers, Tony

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


And I'll take 3% please

sent on stars

Sent on stars gl

sent for tufats 3% too

Tony=the nuts

Good investment w/ an awesome guy

5% please.

glglgl

5% please if it is left - shipping on stars now.

sent £30.25 on stars gl!

send for 3% from NewHallPoker on stars.

think there's 3% left? sending now on stars, if none left just send back.

Sending from oaTTrane

All of the above confirmed

Could you post your screenname you sent it from so I can confirm cheers.

Ledders, I'll send you a PM about payment by bank transfer.

Matt2120 your 5% is reserved

Thanks to alaplancha, birkin and gman06 for the references. I facebooked glpmurray to post in the thread and I think he might be on holiday but I'm sure he'll vouch when he gets a chance.

3% left

I'll take last 3 aswell, sorry didn't realise there was still more left.

Came from ipp147 on Stars.

Could you also pm me your full name and/or twitter so I can sweat. cheers/

5% sent on stars in GBP.

Can you post or PM name/twitter (if you have one) for tracking.

glglgl

Received from above. Full 50% is sold out and received now. I just made a twitter account:

https://twitter.com/BaggieT

I'll try to update it but I'm not sure how much access to the internet I'll have. My name is Tony McShane if you want to follow through the ukipt site.

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.