Staking/Make-up question: What to do with lower prize-pools?

[WarDekar]

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am i the only one who thinks this is lewis carroll "through the looking glass" stuff ?

you have an agreement with a backer where you have significant make-up to attend to before you see cash. you state you want to play these lower prelims (he's not forcing you to play them), but you want the make-up not to apply to them ??? wtf ???

i'm not a very good player, but i did run my own small corporation for 29 years, so i know a little something about partnerships and employer/employee relations.

your backer assumes all the risk. you put up your time and expertise for a piece of the net. implicit in this deal is your backer has the reasonable expectation you will play your "best" game every time you sit down with his money riding. unless you have an agreement to the contrary, and he allows you to play on the side for your own money, he's in and you are morally obligated to play your very best.


for you to say you wouldn't play your best and rather gambool it up or it wasn't worth your time if you weren't participating in the cash profits of that smaller tourney would be a firing offense if i were your backer.

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The issue is I have a backer for bigger buy-ins that I obviously am not rolled to play in. This I consider to be like $500+. I will probably be playing some big buy-ins in the future, $10ks, etc. So far I have only played 1 major, a handful of other WSOPs and some other various $500+ tourneys.

You're right, he didn't "ask" me to play these events per se, and I don't have to play them. I would kind of like to play live again before I play another major since it's been a while so I thought I would go to these circuit pre-lims which I played in last year (bought my own way in). I guess just the issue with me is I got backing for bigger buy-ins that I can't afford, but it's obviously not fair to play in these on my own bankroll, so is there any better solution available?

I mean, the alternative is I play online all day on my own bankroll, so isn't it better for him to somehow at least split the action with me? I'm willing to pay for part of the buy-ins for these tournaments for a part of immediate winnings, does that not seem fair to essentially "buy back" a piece of myself?