Yorky Pud

As a general rule, the News, Views & Gossip forum on the popular Two Plus Two site is, although very amusing, full of complete garbage. But from time to time it throws up a great story, like the one doing the rounds at the minute that involves a sit 'n' go player by the name of "Whoopsy_Dazy."

Whoospy_Dazy is a solid player, one who has profits (at time of writing) of $79,291 from the 46,762 games he has played so far in his career. His average stake is $22 so many of you who read these pages may have locked horns with him over the years.

Like most poker professionals, he is looking to reduce his variance and have someone stake him or buy pieces of his action over a set number of games he plays. Looking at his recent play, it looks like the SNG grinder has been trying to learn Heads-Up Pot Limit Omaha and had not been doing too great (see the picture at the top of this post for his graph), though over a relatively small sample size, which probably explains why he was trying to get stakes on Part Time Poker, a forum that allows members to buy and sell pieces of themselves.

Obviously a site that allows members to trade percentages of themselves is open to people trying to scam one another but Part Time Poker moderators have thought of a way to help combat this and verify each player's current bankroll situation through a number of methods. One is to log onto a screen sharing program like Team Viewer or Skype and have the moderator check the player's cashier balance, or the other way is to sit at a cash game table, or empty SNG and have the moderator verify their balance.

After ploughing through the mammoth threads on both Two Plus Two and Part Time Poker it appears that Whoopsy_Dazy was looking to sell around $5,000 of himself but he could not prove he had this money online by sitting at a cash game table as he had asked the site to ban him from playing cash games. The moderator suggested he sat at a high stakes SNG to prove he indeed did have $5,000 in his account.

Now most people would choose to sit at a couple of $2,000 9-man SNG that only run occasionally, or even rarely in the case of specialist games such as Omaha Hi/Low but no, Whoopsy_Dazy, a player with almost $80,000 profit decided to sit at a $5,100 No Limit Hold'em Heads-Up SNG and guess what? Yes you are correct, it filled with a winning high stakes regular by the name of "micide," a player with over $250,000 profit from SNG tournaments and micide won the $10,000 prize.

I find it unbelievable that a player who has taken part in close to 50,000 tournaments online decided it was a good idea to sit at a heads-up SNG in order to prove he had the necessary funds in his account. Surely he should have waited until he could have a moderator who actually had a Skype account or screen sharing software on his machine. I seriously doubt he will get his money back unless micide decides he does not like money. If it were me I would keep the money just out of the stupidity of Whoopsy_Dazy!