Financial Backer
I’d play a lot better if it weren’t my own money all the time. Not that I’m playing with money I can’t afford to lose, but still, I’m not overflowing.
I wonder where all those old school players found their benefactors. How you go about that.
Maybe they had poker blogs and asked nicely?
Some of them still are super-donks.
I just read that Matusow has been on Poker After Dark 6 times and not won yet. That’s $120,000 in the hole. Boom.
It’s funny to watch those guys on High Stakes, losing six figures on a hand and hardly shrugging.
I heard something about Jennifer Harmon talking about how she can remember the first time she lost several thousand in one evening, back when she was still learning how to play, and how she cried and cried. And now how it’s just another thing that happens.
Losing happens.
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5 opinions for Financial Backer
Durden
Jan 13, 2008 at 10:43 pm
When U find A backer send him over my way.
Jereme
Jan 13, 2008 at 11:31 pm
Hahaha, you guys don’t want a backer.
Unless you have a rich grandfather who is too senile to understand what you are doing with his hard earned money.
The backers I know are guys who you can’t lose with their money.
Not a stern talking and then get over it kind of bunch if you savy.
And those are the type of guys the old school pros used to borrow money from (when it wasn’t borrowed from each other).
All the old pros lend each other money. I remember Danny Negreanu talking about how he had to borrow 13 or 15 thousand dollars from huck seed.
And doyle talks about it in his books.
What we need is a support network of solid players.
The odds are one of us would be up and could support the others on their down swing.
It could work.
Pmack
Apr 14, 2008 at 2:40 pm
thats a very interesting idea poker players network for support.
Blake
Apr 14, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Pmack, let’s get it going! ;)
Pmack
Apr 14, 2008 at 3:47 pm
How would u even go about doing something like that as far as not being able to meet ppl in person for trust reasons etc.
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