[Staking] MyBacked. Staking management for players and backers. [-20% First Year]

Website: mybacked.com
Pricing: Free tier available. Pro $9.99/mo, MyBacked+ $19.99/mo (founders' pricing locked through Aug 1, 2026)
Contacts: [email][email protected][/email]
Promocode: TWOPLUS20 (20% off first year for 2+2 members)

I'm Dustin, PLO pro out of Vegas, mostly plays 10/20 PLO online. Long-time reader here, finally posting because I built something to share.

MyBacked is a staking app. Players log sessions, backers verify, makeup tracks itself, settle-up is one click. Launches officially at WSOP next week, free during launch.

Every staking deal I've ever been in has eventually broken at the math. Someone's spreadsheet had a formula bug. A session got logged twice. Two parties ended up with diverging Google Sheets and by month three nobody trusted either set of numbers. The mechanics of staking aren't broken. The math infrastructure is. And it's been broken since the day spreadsheets existed.

So I built an engine. The scenarios I cared most about getting right.

Multi-backer slices with different deal terms per backer. One backer at Backed 50/50, another at a Piece deal with 1.3x markup, the player on a self-backed 20% piece. Each slice has its own makeup math, its own profit split, and they all aggregate cleanly at settle without anyone having to do a side calculation.

Tournament packages with per-event commitments and re-entry caps. Backer A is in on events 1-5, Backer B is in on events 3-7, both capped at 2 entries each. The engine respects those commitments per-session. Sessions on events nobody committed to absorb into the player's self-backed action at cost. Player never charges themselves markup, which sounds obvious but is exactly the kind of detail other tools have gotten wrong.

Mid-stake renegotiation. New terms apply going forward only. Old sessions stay on the original terms. The change has to be approved by all affected parties before it's live, and there's a real audit trail of who agreed to what and when.

Encrypted stakes for anyone who wants amounts kept off our servers. Browser-side AES-256, key we never see. Same risk profile as a self-hosted spreadsheet (lose your key, lose the data), just made explicit instead of pretending it's a free lunch.

Now the stuff it doesn't do, because someone is going to ask anyway.

It can't verify session truthfulness. A player can still log fake numbers and a backer can sign off on them. What you actually get is consensus plus a full audit trail, which is meaningfully different from "verified" the way other apps use the word. I think the framing matters because I've seen products lean on "verified" as if they're catching lies, and they aren't.

No online site integration yet. All logging is manual. PokerStars and GG API integration is on the post-launch roadmap.

No arbitration. If two parties disagree about a session, the app can show the change history and timestamps but won't decide who's right.

The math engine has 327 test cases and a broken test blocks deploys. The standard scenarios are covered cleanly, but I'd love eyes from anyone here who runs real stakes on edge cases I might not have hit. The complicated stuff (re-entry caps plus per-event markup plus a mid-stake renegotiation on a multi-backer Backed/Piece mix) is where this app excels.

Disclosure: I built this. TWOPLUS20 gets 20% off first year for any 2+2 member who subscribes. Happy to answer anything in the thread.

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