The Crash, the Hustle, and $2,750 Still Unpaid
In 2020, life threw me a literal curveball—or rather, a tree. A car accident left me with seven fractures, broken ankles, a shattered wrist, fractured ribs, and a punctured liver. While I recovered, COVID shut down casinos, so I turned to private poker apps for income, becoming a recruiter and player.
Enter "Yancy Kirshbaum" (not her real name, but close enough), a South Florida poker regular who joined under my wing. In her first week, she lost $3,000. She’s paid back just $250 after I started sharing her dodging antics, leaving a cool $2,750 unpaid.
Yancy, you’ve won tournaments and play cash games regularly. You have the money. What you don’t have is the integrity to pay up. Keep your empty threats of defamation and feds; this is the truth, plain and simple.
To the poker community: if you know her, you know what I’m talking about. Trust is the backbone of this game, and Yancy’s broken it repeatedly.
Yancy, your time is up. Pay your debts—or get ready for your reputation to follow you everywhere.
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i never understood backing deals
but what is it u stake her 3k and if she loses she owes u 3k ? butt if she wins she owes u 3k plus what 50% of winnings?
In my case she was supposed to cash out or pay every Tuesday of the week.
Staking deals vary but the one you used as example sounds like a deal the staker takes on all the risk and player keeps 50% of the profits, you have to be really good to get a deal like that most investors want 80/20 or 70/30 deals if they are assuming all the loses.
i never understood backing deals
but what is it u stake her 3k and if she loses she owes u 3k ? butt if she wins she owes u 3k plus what 50% of winnings?
For tournament deals usually the backer agrees to stake a player for a certain set amount of tournaments (like one tournament series, or one year, etc). Losses during this period create “makeup”, that has to be cleared out of any profits in the next tournaments. Say for example you brick10 $10ks in a row, and then you ship a $10k 6max for $210k, the first $100k gets paid back to your backer to clear the makeup and then then remaining $110k gets split according to the profit sharing agreement.
Makeup isn’t debt though, the backer can release you or you can (usually) quit a stake while in makeup but it’s probably hard to get another stake after you do that.
This is a guy with a private app game shaming someone for ghosting a casino marker in their game lol
I hear Yancy bought a Shih Tzu.
She named her "Windfall."
This is who OP is referring to -
Must say I’ve played with her and she can be annoying.
