Is there any endorsement money if you win the WSOP ME now?
Even if you are not perceived as a cheater. Is there much endorsement money if your name isn't Negreanu? Do top players, except Hellmuth, etc. get invited to private games and get appearance fees?
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Ask Kristen Foxen.
I thought Hellmuth has been getting invited to private Silicon Valley & Hollywood games for years and years now.
most of these guys get at least a 1 year sponsorship from GG, weinman did anyway
The year John Cynn took 11th in the main event I saw him get invited to a private game and dust off the whole $650k playing PLO.
Is there much endorsement money if your name isn't Negreanu? Do top players, except Hellmuth, etc. get invited to private games and get appearance fees?
I'm sure there will be benefits and opportunities like this to anybody that becomes ME champion. Although lets be honest, an attractive female winning it would get far more coverage and sponsorship offers than your standard solver nerd.
It's nothing like it was in the 2006 poker boom era though.
who needs endorsement money when you are going to get invited to every goddamn home game across the entire world.
Pretty sure Cada was one of the last ones who got a nice PokerStars deal.
so youre not gona get that sweet FTP PS money but you will get a ton fo invites to private games and be able ot get some apperance fees to some things
other players dont have those accolades and still get the above
these days comapring a ACR deal compared to FTP/PS deal are night and day I tho
Getting invited to a juicy home game != a sponsorship.
Probably do as 1) won't have his crutch handy and 2) tournament specialist don't always translate to good or even decent cash players, esp. since home games are likely to play nonHE variants.
You think some older rich guys having drinks and laughing it up together want a younger solver nerd at their home game? 
Getting invited to shark infested mixed games with cash game specialists is not the perk you are looking for when winning the ME lol. My scenario above is the juicy bone and Tomoyo is not getting invited to any of those.
Yeah, Tamayo may have lost more in a poker site contract and home game invites than equity he gained with those solver tables.
There was discussion in the other thread that Hellmuth doesn't play many tournaments but the WSOP, and clearly doesn't play public cash games. So he probably mostly plays private games. But he has a personality, good or bad. He isn't a good cash game player, but could still clean up. Plus, they may be playing PLO or limit / mixed games a lot.
You probably have to have some personality, tell good stories, etc. to get invited to home games. No one would invite a solver nerd who says nothing and acts like a computer.
You’d have to be bat **** to join random home games because they’re ‘juicy’. Between massive rake and endless ways to cheat at life poker that’s un detectable to the naked eye
Some home game with rich guys playing fairly high stakes may not have any rake. Underground semi-public games, particularly in NYC, have massive rake.
You’d have to be bat **** to join random home games because they’re ‘juicy’. Between massive rake and endless ways to cheat at life poker that’s un detectable to the naked eye
There are numerous home games that play $25/$50 or even higher where 90% of the players couldn't even come close to beating a simple casino $1/$3 game. The EV in these games are utterly ridiculous.
I agree 100% that a player has to be very careful about private games. A large percentage are dangerous. Absolutely no doubt. However, if one can fund the exception, the EV is absurd. Printing money.
