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Old 06-11-2007, 02:37 AM
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Default Re: Poker Hedge Fund

Ok, the reason this simply won't work is that:

1) If you try to stake a player for the stakes he's already playing, theres no incentive for him to accept the deal because if he's beating it he's already rolled. If he's already rolled this means that he doesn't need someone to stake him because a stake deal does nothing.

Think about it. If a player gets staked for a game he's already rolled for, he basically plays like he always would but now has to give up 50% of his profits. Theres no benefit for him other than if he loses the whole stake he doesn't owe anything but that probably won't happen anyway. There will still be variance because he's playing how he always would it's just that now when he gets out of his downswing he owe's 50% of his profits to someone else.

2) Then if you are staking a player to play higher stakes than he's rolled for (since thats the only time someone would really benefit from being staked)he likely isn't a winning player in that game anyway, otherwise he'd have been moving his way up already.
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