Staking/getting staked, specific to PTP

[Wes]

People make bad plays all the time. It is those that later admit to their own mistakes to learn upon later that will achieve greater success in the future. Players that blindly put their own fortitude in the way of a greater understanding are players that I would not want to be staking.

PTP really just puts me on tilt, and I'm going to give it till the end of the year for my own particular issue to be resolved or I will talk about it openly.

[herschelw]

First, trying to cash is basically worthless. The top player will be playing a much much riskier style on the bubble in many cases. The plays you described where the player is calling off with allins in front with small pairs generally are very bad.

2ndly, imo when looking at a players stats you must do at minimum 2 things to get a more accurate picture of the player. First, remove all buyins that aren't part of thier normal schedule. So for most player basically remove all the $200+ buyins with huge fields from the results you're looking at. Second, consider stats from both stars and ftp at minimum.

3rdly, when deciding whether to invest in a BAP consider thier BR management guidelines and previous history.

If you really study before making investments it can be very profitable. I currently manage a $30k mutual fund there and am up $13kish on it at the moment. However, I only invest in very low risk BAP's.... generally by players who have good results but haven't quite broken through to the point that they can sell out the $5k+ BAP's.