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Should You Play Staked? A Pro – Con For Players
Chris Grove : June 27th, 2009
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Staking – one person giving another person money to play poker in return for a share of any profits – has undergone a massive and rapid transformation in the pokerverse over the last few years. What was once a collection of largely private agreements mentioned primarily in rumors has evolved into a standard, public part of the poker landscape – especially for tournament poker. Several private staking consortiums exist, alongside websites that offer staking or (like ours) match players with stakers and a large collection of individual players who may stake a small team of other players as a way to generate additional income from their poker winnings.
With so many camps vying to back good players, it’s essentially inevitable that any quality player with a reasonable history of success (more so online than live, more so tournament players than cash players) will be offered the opportunity to play backed at some point. Should they accept? As with most things in ...
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