What % of major tourney players are backed by sheets/bax?
 

Seems like every online player who plays in these except Alex Jacob and Strassa are backed by these guys.

How many horses do these guys have? In a standard WPT tourney, what % of the field is playing for sheets/bax?

Also, what about Ivey? Seems like every other non-online player is playing for him. How many horses does he have?

Anyone else besides these guys have big chunks of the fields?

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Seems like every online player who plays in these except Alex Jacob and Strassa are backed by these guys.

How many horses do these guys have? In a standard WPT tourney, what % of the field is playing for sheets/bax?

Also, what about Ivey? Seems like every other non-online player is playing for him. How many horses does he have?

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with all of the different backing/endorsement deals what stops tournament poker from turning into team poker?

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Seems like every online player who plays in these except Alex Jacob and Strassa are backed by these guys.

How many horses do these guys have? In a standard WPT tourney, what % of the field is playing for sheets/bax?

Also, what about Ivey? Seems like every other non-online player is playing for him. How many horses does he have?

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with all of the different backing/endorsement deals what stops tournament poker from turning into team poker?

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If you watched the Habib/Tuan Le v Maxfield final three at the WPT championship in 2005, you saw team poker in action. It wasn't very edifying to watch.

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Doesn't seem like any backer ever has more than 3 or 4% of the field, and probably 1-2% more more typically.

I wasn't aware of Phil Ivey being a high-volume backer.

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with all of the different backing/endorsement deals what stops tournament poker from turning into team poker?

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What about backing/endorsement deals makes tournament poker conducive to team poker? There is no incentive to help members of your "team" out whatseoever, backer or sponsor.

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Barry g backs a lot of people I think.

I would be willing to bet (not literally) that Bax/sheets dont have the most people put in pca out of the backers, or at least that it might be close

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shaniac,

What's the % of a field a backer has that starts to give you the heebie-jeebies?

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Whoa, really? There are individual backers out there w/ more horses than sheets? Damn.

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with all of the different backing/endorsement deals what stops tournament poker from turning into team poker?

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What about backing/endorsement deals makes tournament poker conducive to team poker? There is no incentive to help members of your "team" out whatseoever, backer or sponsor.

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This really isn't correct. There are plenty of spots where the backer would benefit greatly from team play.

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shaniac,

What's the % of a field a backer has that starts to give you the heebie-jeebies?

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Again, unless the backer somehow designs his stable to play as a team, it seems irrelevant to me.

If I found out that a backer was offering profit-sharing or another type of incentive to advance the "team's" interest, then I would insatntly have the heebie-jeebies even if they only had 2 horses in the event.