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12-23-2006, 09:45 PM
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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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#2
12-23-2006, 09:49 PM
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Re: What % of major tourney players are backed by sheets/bax?
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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? [/ QUOTE ] with all of the different backing/endorsement deals what stops tournament poker from turning into team poker?
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12-23-2006, 09:54 PM
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Re: What % of major tourney players are backed by sheets/bax?
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[ QUOTE ] 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? [/ QUOTE ] with all of the different backing/endorsement deals what stops tournament poker from turning into team poker? [/ QUOTE ] 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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12-23-2006, 09:56 PM
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Re: What % of major tourney players are backed by sheets/bax?
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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12-23-2006, 09:57 PM
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Re: What % of major tourney players are backed by sheets/bax?
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with all of the different backing/endorsement deals what stops tournament poker from turning into team poker? [/ QUOTE ] 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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12-23-2006, 09:58 PM
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Re: What % of major tourney players are backed by sheets/bax?
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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12-23-2006, 09:59 PM
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Re: What % of major tourney players are backed by sheets/bax?
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[ QUOTE ] with all of the different backing/endorsement deals what stops tournament poker from turning into team poker? [/ QUOTE ] 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. [/ QUOTE ] This really isn't correct. There are plenty of spots where the backer would benefit greatly from team play.
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#10
12-23-2006, 10:01 PM
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Re: What % of major tourney players are backed by sheets/bax?
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shaniac, What's the % of a field a backer has that starts to give you the heebie-jeebies? [/ QUOTE ] 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.
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