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Player Info
Total played	0
Total staked	860
Player points	0.00
Staker points	1638228.26
Makeup owed	$0.00
Makeup you owe	$5.50
PokerStars account	Alcswab
Full Tilt Poker account	Pringleman

Open BAPs (View all BAPs)
BAP ID	BAP Raised	BAP Amount	Date started
32789	$0.00	$5200.00	09/17/10
Totals	$0.00	$5200.00
BAP Investments
BAP ID	Player	Shares	Share value
36643	brandanpoker	40.00	$40.00
36607	NateTrib	2.00	$20.00
36490	takesallcash	100.00	$67.81
36442	mossified84	6.00	$42.15
36412	xmorbidx5	30.00	$23.03
36399	zenman	10.00	$109.86
36367	Misc	100.00	$100.00
36361	GridIronJesse	4.00	$56.94
36339	bc38	4.00	$16.24
36331	mossified84	10.00	$14.10
36212	Pokketkings	10.00	$108.40
36172	MrHice	100.00	$66.74
36109	Goatman2121	10.00	$3.69
35929	brandanpoker	40.00	$57.26
35753	BrandonPL	3.00	$21.66
35694	mynamespat	25.00	$36.50
35219	ReedMoney	75.00	$37.07
33654	Misc	200.00	$77.24
28502	StLPride	5.00	$1740.43
28335	TurnRiva	10.00	$9.87
27895	JustBlazed-MF	220.00	$3276.55
24853	ABigfish	86.00	$0.88
24081	pokershark0920	2500.00	$2500.00
Totals			$8426.43

Stakes Playing
Stake ID	Amount / Bankroll	Staker
Totals	$0.00 / $0.00
Open Stakes (View all stakes)
Stake ID	Amount / Bankroll	Player
337718 [rail]	$2500.00 / $41.76	Aje221
330197 [rail]	$2500.00 / $2500.00	callitkarma
329429 [rail]	$2500.00 / $2500.00	GSUdrunk
328486 [rail]	$2500.00 / $2500.00	feitsch
313300 [rail]	$1500.00 / $1500.00	Kishi_Poker
309574 [rail]	$4000.00 / $4000.00	edmoney111
302849 [rail]	$6000.00 / $6000.00	Affrokjell
300751 [rail]	$1500.00 / $1500.00	satfat
299828 [rail]	$2500.00 / $2500.00	slideby
297058 [rail]	$4000.00 / $4000.00	ghoonit
295337 [rail]	$1500.00 / $1500.00	misschung
289705	$600.00 / $600.00	lildavefish
289494 [rail]	$2500.00 / $2500.00	B18GsrR
285670 [rail]	$215.00 / $215.00	bsu champ
281874 [rail]	$6000.00 / $19952.00	justakid69
277429 [rail]	$1500.00 / $5612.12	Logan12348
272911 [rail]	$8000.00 / $19496.00	justakid69
272909 [rail]	$8000.00 / $8000.00	hartwith
Totals	$57815.00 / $84916.88

Your PTP history? 

I joined PTP in 2007 when someone linked me to it.  I quickly forgot about the site.  About a year later I rediscovered it when I got interested in staking and backing people.  I only bought shares in BAPs for the first 1-2 months.  I was amazed at how badly some of these guys played even though they somehow had +ROIs.  I was even more amazed that people were able to sell packages with -ROIs at the games they were selling.

After the first several months I started taking all of a specific players action, this allowed me more control over how the deals were structured.  Which in turn allowed me to find players with potential in the stakes games, and back them into those games.  That's the majority of what I do now - providing players the ability to realize their potential.

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What have you been doing for the last year?

I'm pretty active backing people.  I've also been engaging in the equity markets.

You are 2nd on the stakers leaderbaord what is your secret? 

It's not hard to get onto the stakers leaderboard.  The way that PTP counts Staker points is flawed.  You can make a private "stake" for $3 million, "send" a guy $100, have him "send" it back and close out the stake and you'd now be #1 on the leaderboard.

How to pick good horses? 

I use sharkscope a lot because their filters are amazing and they keep adding more great stats and features.  I used to use OPR a decent amount, but sharkscope has incorporated all the best features of OPR - but with better filters.  On top of that, I look at how players play and try to understand their thought process.  It doesn't matter how great your stats are, if your thought process isn't there your stats probably won't be there in the future either.  If there's something wrong with their thought process I (or another coach) will work with them to improve it.

The other primary things to look for are sample sizes and outliers.  MTTs and MTTSNGs (the things I primarily back for) have huge, almost unimaginable, variance.  Having large sample sizes helps reduce the noise in the results.  Outliers in MTTs generally consist of large scores (though if your ABI is $1 and you play a $5k MTT that's also an outlier).  Winning $30k in the Sunday Storm for example, doesn't mean that a player is better than someone else who's won $10k over 5k games in the last 6 months. 

Bottom line, you want to see that the player can beat the limits he's going to be playing.

Your favorite player on PTP? 

Danger0us
http://forum.parttimepoker.com/members/danger0us.html

Is the poker your primary job? 

I don't really play much anymore, but backing is my primary occupation. 

What is your biggest win ? (staker, player)

Staking = ~$100k

Playing = ~46k 

How to be successful investor?

If you want to succeed you need to have a process, and you need to question your process to fine tune it over time.  You also need to be willing to accept losses, and to accept that sometimes things don't work out and are beyond your control.

Your message to players on PTP? 

The current environment is tough and getting tougher.  If you're having trouble finding backing you need to figure out why people aren't interested, and improve on those areas.