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Far from everyone can reload to infiniity on highstakes and alot of people have gone bust. Especially young and "unknown" peoples have busted.
Many of the live tourney players are close to busto and many players have gambling problems. The famous names make money from their name so they are "safe".
I think the size of everyones br is highly overestimated.
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| A higher profile red pro, but not a member of Team Full Tilt, like Benyamine for example, is making much much more than $35 an hour. I'd imagine it would be a few thousand. All of their contracts vary. Really the only high stakes players that can afford downswings at those stakes and continue to play them are Gus Hansen, Phil Ivey, Patrik Antonius, and John Juanda.
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Garbs (2008-07-25)
A higher profile red pro, but not a member of Team Full Tilt, like Benyamine for example, is making much much more than $35 an hour. I'd imagine it would be a few thousand. All of their contracts vary. Really the only high stakes players that can afford downswings at those stakes and continue to play them are Gus Hansen, Phil Ivey, Patrik Antonius, and John Juanda.
Noataima have probably afford to coinflip a couple of millions against all these players 
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| I should have specified pros, lol.
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| The normal red pro's (don't know if the cardrunner pro's have a different contract) get 100% rakeback and $ 46 an hour they play at the site. People like Ivey however are actually part shareholder and get their share of the profits (rumour is it that Ivey get's 900K a month but I doubt it). You can easily assume that Lederer and and Ferguson make the most since they started Full Tilt.
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| Yes i registred o n l y to make this post. Some ppl just piss me off. First, I think the first post was a good question and some answers were news for me. Ty for that. But. They just deposit money in Full Tilt like normal people. It's not like a casino with credit lines for the whales you donkey. Now please contribute something to this forum and quite making posts with retarded questions. Whats your friggin problem? You mix your post with some really good answers about rakeback/share of profits and then beeing a complete asshole yourself. original poster you are a moron, these players are not sitting on the tables with there life saving in their ftp accounts, they can bust and deposit what they want to 10 times and still not have to play 1-2 And you do almost the same thing. Ok I know this happens all the time, stupid pointless flaming, but I just had to get out of my system. No one under 25 should be allowed to use internet.
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| Hey Cardplayer and the gentleman who said the poster was a moron...I don't agree with your brutal remarks. It is possible that FTP is partners with some of the pros. I don't know why you think that there is only one option...that it's 100% "the players" money. Pros back on other pros...players on the way up back each other or take a piece. It seems to make a lot of business sense to back the winning players. Winning players run good and bad also and maybe they don't want the huge swings. It makes sense for FTP to back some winners. By the way Cardplayer and others maybe you can answer this: Why is it necessary for you to get so aggressive in your answer? I think you have to take a look and see why your response is really very simple. You are only looking at what's obvious. You think these guys aren't always looking for an edge?
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| No I don't my tone was aggressive and yes I still think it was a dumb question. The pro's always look for an edge. It's what makes them succesful in their job. A lot of players back other players in live tournaments (erick lindgren backed Greg mueller this WSOP and Cliff 'JohnnyBax' Josephy backed Annette Obrestad in the WSOPE which she won). However Full Tilt can not back players to play cash games on their site (conflict of interest). It's the same reason that on most site the staff is not allowed to play on their own site. Team Full Tilt and the full tilt pro's get an X amount of money for live tournaments and an amount of money for every hour they play online. It's not that they pay Allen Cunningham 100K to play 200/400PLO online and take a share of their loss or profits. Got it now?
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