Sit and Go grinder has big decision.

One of our regular forum posters has become so proficient at sit and go poker strategy he is now getting offers for sponsorships and poker bankrolling. In that however has created further complications in making a decision:

From Raz in the fourm: I posted last week in my SNG grind thread about me not playing very much online due to exams. I also happened to be in the midst of a 62 buyin downswing (about 1.5k) which didn't exactly provide much motivation to play.

I've also been playing at the local casino a lot in the last 2 weeks. Basically working in the day and playing at night. It turns out that live games are ridiculously soft. In the 10 trips that I've made there, my original $360 is now $4k. 60% of the winnings from poker tournaments, the rest from cash games.

With live poker going so well and online going so badly I was seriously considering withdrawing my bankroll from full tilt and playing some bigger live games further afield, travelling with a friend (that will make an appearance later).

So this morning I check my emails and find an email from a company that sponsors poker players to play on a range of different poker sites, the main ones being iPoker skins and Mansion. I had heard of this company from some other people at the casino and they have offered me $200 a day sponsorship to play the $20 STTs on ipoker. Then once I make $500 total profit I move up to $500 a day playing the $50 games. I keep half of the profits. No rakeback deals until I'm up to $1,000 a day sponsorship.

When theres a 1.5k downswing going on, playing with other peoples money sounds like a very good idea.

Later that day I get an email from the friend that I mentioned earlier. He plays the highest level SNGs on poker stars and cake. He wants to stake me 100 buyins for the $55s on FT for 50% of the profit and 50% of the rakeback.

So really I have no idea what I want to do. Technically I could take both staking offers, but then I'd have pretty much no time to play live, which has been extremely profitable. Rakeback playing the 55s would be pretty substantial and playing higher would be nice (I know that the games are still soft at the 55s).

So yeah, just thought I'd throw that out there. If anyone has any opinions or any thoughts on this, please, go ahead

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If you are this good at the game, I really don't understand the benefit of playing fro someone else. Not to mention the added pressure of having to post results and play when you really don't want to play (or shouldn't be playing). This decision in Poker is an odd calculation of new variables you have not yet encountered. If you do go ahead with it, start very small and give yourself a test period of say 3 months or so where you can walk away if you have to.

Someone watching Turtleknife in a Sit and Go

A contributor From the forum questions one of my hands online he was watching: oniondan wrote:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2914758 That is the beat but after watching the videos saying you should keep it tight early on id like to know what you had when you put your entire stack in with this hand http://www.pokerhand.org/?2914761 did you think people would fold or did you have a monster and begged for a donkish call? thanks, dan

This is a multi-table sit and go tournament.

I have this tournament recorded, but I dont remember the second hand - however sure looks like a mid pair being protected here. I dont think its a mistake to protect your hand against loose players by shoving after the flop if I figure they might be waiting for an ace or king to fall. I am big odds favorite here and way ahead there with the best hand, and I want to make it very expensive for a wanker to want to look for his card.

The alternative in this spot is to value bet, and then see an ace on the turn or river.... I am usually screwed! It is all relative to my profiling of the players too in that I got TWO full tilt kids to fold there.... I was probably better off with that result.

Poker After Dark Sit and Go Table?

Poker After Dark tables are essentially sit and go tournaments. I saw annie duke recently donk of her stack to kristy Gazes when she still had a Yellow MZone stack. Her brother, Howard Lederer who was also at the table was looking on, none too impressed.