https://www.pokertube.com/article/he...y-in-300k-shrbThe Poker Brat posted an ad on YouStake, a poker staking platform, seeking a 30 percent investment in Event #2, $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Super Turbo Bounty. Poker staking is common especially at the high stakes levels, but Hellmuth’s approach has many questioning his character and intelligence.
Hellmuth is asking for a 1.8 markup from investors on YouStake, which means a $1,000 investment, for example, would cost the buyer $1,800 (18 percent of $10,000) while only returning 10 percent of Phil’s payout if he cashes.
Hellmuth has gotten futher shit over the turbo event from various players on twitter as he (as always) showed up fashionably late, blinding off 25% of his stack, then immediately gave up another 60k to Steffen Sontheimer, then call/folded down to 10bb when he was busted out by Reinker Kempe. Of course, all of this was followed by a Hellmuth rant where he said these weren't even the best players, talked crap on the Germans, the best players don't travel the world to play high rollers, called them a fraternity where "these guys play for very little of themselves", and finished with "he was playing at the highest level".
The markup discussion was always a big debate in the poker scene, but this was the first one in a while where people flipped their shit over it, especially after Hellmuth's less than optimal play today. Also LOL to any investor who pays that, but to each his own