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

[WarDekar]

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Clearly you aren't understanding the situation.

Do you not see that it would be incredibly demoralizing to play in a tournament knowing you see no cash unless you win? Do you not see how this will affect my play?

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No, I think he understands it clearly. I think your mind is a little warped because having this mindset makes you a pretty poor investment imo.

Part of making profit means eliminating makeup, and if that means playing tournaments where if you finish third you still make no money, then so what. You're just that closer to making money of your own.

This reverse martingale mindset of yours is hazardous imo. Just work the grind, and play until the makeup is erased. 300 dollar tournaments, 1k tournaments, the nightly $162, whatever.

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I understand the grind, I mean I do it day to day for myself. The thing that's bothering me about this I think is the disproportion between the buy-ins I'm looking to play here ($300-500) and the buy-ins/prize-pools that were played to get this make-up in the first place.

Since the staking deal was made for "bigger" buy-ins that I couldn't afford, naturally the make-up is going to be bigger. I think I've played 1 live $300 tournament under him at the very beginning of the summer (1st tournament played just as a warm-up for WSOP).

We never really discussed at the time the chances of me playing tournaments like these going forward. Also, over the past 12 months (prior to this summer though, before he staked me in anything) I bought myself into several $500-$1k events at Circuit events and at PCA pre-lims. Is it "fair" to me to not let me buy parts of myself back? I mean I don't know what's fair when dealing with such a high-variance game. I could very easily have a huge score online on my own roll - I'd feel really bad about my backer not getting a cut since he's put money up for me, is that fair?