I agree

This is probably a silly question, but since I'm totally small stakes and all that I'll ask anyway... If you're backed and you're in make up and you're a professional player that pretty much means all your winnings go to your backer right? So how do you eat?

this has already been covered in the thread, but many people keep their own action in sngs/cash.

6max no limit hold em cash games

and about to sound pathetic, but i payed my bills the last two months with fpps

fml

You're right in that it was implied, but I wasn't sure how deep the threads of backing went, ie do backers have a piece of that action as well.

Thanks.

Yup

I feel ya bro.

never been backed w/ makeup

I can't tell whether this thread is making me want to get a backing deal or NOT get a backing deal if I were to go pro playing mtts. cause like man it would suck to be 200k in makeup, but it would suck even more to be down 200k with your own money!

wat?

if someone had 0$ when they were getting staked. then they would have no money for food anyway. how does getting staked make a difference?

Obv thread makes it clear that you don't wanna go pro in MTTs.

oh yeah, that

I never been backed as being self employed I had the luxery of spending all my companies money!
And having a - ROI isnt exactlly an exciting thing for anyone to looking at me for potential backaments.
Now the credit crunch has litterally destroyed my recruitment business im being alot more carefull about the games I play and starting to focus on winning sattalites and hitting the live events as live im + ROI.

I think If i was backed by someone other than my business id feel the presure alot more but I think that would help my A game.

Do any of the people being backed feel alot more presure to hit the scores when there deep in make up and has any backers put presure on you to hit the scores?

to be fair to yourself, are you really +ROI live? or have u even played enough to know? if you've played like 500+ live tournaments you might have an idea.

not trying to be a dick, just saying, most ppl say they're a loser online and a big winner live because A) live poker doesn't have a pokerdb.com or tableratings.com to prove otherwise and B) ppl don't play enough live to know if they're +EV.

i haven't eaten since last July =\

by my estimation that means your last meal was one of the following in order of likelihood

1. hamburger from rio poker kitchen
2. salad from rio poker kitchen
3. donut from rio poker kitchen
4. cockmeat sandwich



lolz j/k on #4

bax and sheets horses have found plenty of different creative ways

you can also get backed by 2 different people and bust all your tournaments, ship the 100% ROI

most players that beat 6max cashgames for any decent amount don't need staking for MTTs though

the real answer (not referring to anyone in particular) is that there are a lot of mediocre poker players who are marginal winners at whatever they play, that never go busto or lose enough to not be able to find staking because they aren't terrible, but who never really make enough money to get anywhere either

these people are the reason backing is hard, and there are millions of them in the tourney world because people can always cite variance as the reason they aren't winning

the list of people *actually making money* is way shorter than people imagine, and the list of people hanging around freerolling the gravy train, getting to play for free forever, but not actually taking any money out of the game, is very long

0$. But losing quite a bit of my own money currently.

ive played maybe 20k hands >200nl though in my life, so tournies definetly provide higher earning potential, maybe i just suck though

This is an amazing thread. Really really helps me feel better haha.

Now for the players in make up for $000,000's if you where to just say **** it and walk what are the consequences?

You get branded as being a piece of **** in an industry where doing so is really really bad for you. It's just really unethical to do.

never been backed, will never be backed