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[poker_Elmo]

I am thinking of trying for a WSOP ME seat. Would anyone possibly be interested in staking me if I played a few $500-$700 events one weekend? The stake would only return money should I win my WSOP ME seat and then later cash in the main event.

I may be interested in selling up to half my action. If anyone might be interested, let me know. If there is enough interest and I go through with my plan, I will put a more-formal plan/proposal together in a week or two for your evaluation.

Some background on my tourney results:

- Played at WSOP in 2005, 2006, 2008 (four events, one cash)
- Won two WSOP main event sats (for ME in 2005 and 2009)
- Won two other WSOP seats (one through Bodog, one through ITH player of year several years ago - both for 2006 WSOP).
- Have more cashes of over $1,000 than I can count, with several cashes of 4K or more.
- Many cashes are of screen names I don't even remember from old sites but you can look up pokerelmo on stars - also might try pokerelmo (paradise poker), and fortytwolong (party skins) for some evidence of the old cashes. Pretty sure a bunch of ITHers watched me win my WSOP seat on bodog when I was playing under the screenname "Friskymuffin".

Note - if you indicate you might be interested, naturally you aren't committed to staking - you can reevaluate once a formal proposal/plan is presented later.

[nsidestrate]

I'm interested.

[osmosis21]

I'm interested (but only if you change your ITH name to friskymuffin)

[dankimball]

I'm interested (but only if you change your ITH name to friskymuffin)

+1

[krazytxan]

I remember watching you, Friskymuffin, win that seat.

[Fenris78]

I'd be interested as well

[Willem]

I'd be interested as well

So would I.

Any idea on handling things in case you cash. (In terms of taxes, etc. Like what happened to Yankees). I don't want to ruin my chances, but I suspect you prefer US stakers over Euro stakers.

[Bullajami]

+1

[jrspm]

Yup, I'd be keen too.

[yankees31]

You gonna be in vegas at all? I'd be much more interested in staking you in some 1k WSOP live sats. But count me in for this as well.

[Bullajami]

By expressing interest, what I meant to imply was I will ship you $500 tonight.

[poker_Elmo]

Thanks for the interest. I am working on a political campaign for one more week, but then my schedule eases up and I will put together a more formal plan, perhaps playing a few sats the weekend of the 22/23 and 29/30.

Yanks, I am going to Vegas to play the WSOP event on June 16 - a live sat around then is an option too. (Hopefully I win my seat earlier though.)