ITH Poker Forum

[Bullajami]

I have participated in quite a few staking deals here at ITH. Outside of SharkDaq, I can only remember losing money once. Amusingly, it was on Matthew when I had bought up some stakes in him for the WSOP - I think 2007.

[mchilger]

You should have been there with me in 04!

07 was a painful year, but I was probably the happiest guy on the plane who had just lost $8K (I won $51K in the main event to prevent me from losing $59K that summer).

Matthew

[Bullajami]

You should have been there with me in 04!

I had a piece of you in '05 and it paid nicely.

[taz115]

I'm definately way up in my staking deals thus far... mostly because of two big scores from staking toro. When he finished 5th in the Million I scored 5k for a $43 investment and I got 2.2k for $53 when he went deep in the FTOPS ME. Those were some nice BR boosters.

I also made some smaller wins in staking players over a series MTTs. In one of my deals my stakee was able to move up limits which was awesome.

Going the other way I was staked in two of my big finishes when I finished 8th in the 100k and 3-4 different people had a peice of me there. Obviously my best performance while being backed is when TP and I swapped 10% when I won the Million, his payment was over 15k which was great.

I was very seriously considering getting 50% backing from the SharkDAQ when I won the Million but I felt tilty and my SharkDAQ record at that point had been a bit spotty so I took a pass. As long as the result wouldn't have been altered that would have flushed the fund with >75k of cash... a huge cash for many many ITHers. Although that would have been awesome for ITH, obviously it turned out better for me in that instance.

I've been lucky for sure, but staking and being staked by ITHers has turned out to very profitable for me.

[toronexti]

I think I'm down staking on ITH . . . up overall on staking though

[chrisjp]

I'm ahead but it's all due to one player. Gee I wonder who that is?