Making SuperNove Elite...

[JDMcNugent7]

well can I bet through you then? I don't want to have $ locked up for a year but I do want in on the bet most likely.

I'll prob bet 2k or less

[MAYHEM45]

Is he giving 1:1 odds? that just seems so ridiculous, does he hate money and/or life?

[Spuddy]

Reminds me of

And we all know what happened there.........

[Wes]

are the 180 person sngs not counted? cause without them it is going to be impossible for him to win.

[Talking Poker]

Correct. No SNGs. Only "scheduled" (meaning not SNG-style) MTTs.

[JDMcNugent7]

did every1 get paid? never saw that thread before

[Talking Poker]

Yep, he cracked and shipped the $$.

[Talking Poker]

Yes, 1:1.

IMO, he's delusional, but I think he really thinks it is possible and is planning to play poker for 18 hours per day. Without the restrictions (just play what you want when you want to), I'm sure he's the type that could do this no problem...

[Talking Poker]

I'd rather not... nothing personal, of course. I just wouldn't want to be on the hook if anything happened... then again, when he fails, I guess I'd get your winnings. Hmmmmmmmm...

Seriously though, think about it as an investment. I doubt it will last until the end of the year, but if it does, think of it as "investing" $x for less than one year and looking at a 100% ROI (assuming he fails). Not too shabby.

Any other investment you could make, like those things you were talking about with your financial advisor, is going to require you to actually hand over the money, and no way are they going to return you 100% in a year.

If you don't trust him to hold the money and ship back double, which I totally understand, I'd be happy to escrow it for you. I'm sure he'd be cool with that.

[JDMcNugent7]

Ya well see if you can escrow the $, if so I'm in, and maybe up to $5k.

[Talking Poker]

Here is the official bet thread on PTP, so we can always find it easily. I'll put it in the first post too:


And yeah, I'm sure he'll let me escrow for you, but when you decide on a bet amount, tell me and I'll get him to book it.

[Wes]

I'm planning on beting 10k against basically ensuring that since i am a prop bet fish that i will lose. Escrow with tp?

[Wes]

and you have a lot of posts on that forum tp.

[MAYHEM45]

He's given up on this one obv.

[Talking Poker]

His response to your $10k post:

I'm gald, TBH... didn't really want to escrow that much anyway. Scaphism has like $120k invested in the site and is totally trustworthy, so no worries there.

Seriously though... you taking this bet just cost me $1000, didn't it???

[Wes]

He has to play like 120k hands a month minimum at 1/2 to do this. He's going to burn out way before then I think, and when he is playing wsop he'll set himself back by quite a bit. Like April I'm sure I'll be fucking shitting my pants cause he'll be ahead of the pace, but like in october there's little chance he has that fortitude to continue doing it imo.

btw, I have to play roughly 150k hands a month to get to supernova elite at 2/4. Like 5k hands per day is going to get a little daunting unless I don't burn out on this 20 tabling business.

[Talking Poker]

Brutal.

Also, I shipped JD's $. I didn't really like that $5k sitting in my account all year, honestly. I always needed to remember that it was there and wasn't to be touched.

[2Tone]

I had forgotten about this. I can't imagine he had a very fulfilling year, but I’ve got to hand to him for determination. Hopefully he uses the money to recharge his batteries and do something – anything -- other than just jump up in stakes.

I count myself fortunate that I didn't have it together to take any action on this, because I would have bet big against him. Even reading the thread and following it all play out, it is still hard to believe he could do this.