1. Probably one of the coolest reads was the story of how sheets began backing gank and other successful players.

    Unfortunately, some people hated on him and he never finished the story.

    Who would be interested in hearing the end of the story? I think on a personal level, it would renew positivity in me on backing situations.

    Here is the original...
    http://www.pocketfives.com/1E311E1E-...B03E8973A.aspx
     
  2. I'd love to read the end of it
    <span>and make love to you wein</span>
  3. there a link?
     
  4. where can i find the first part of the story?

    edit: ty
     
  5. <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="433"><table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td>The following is an excerpt from a piece I am working on regarding my backing of the crew....this is very much a work in progress and off the top of my head....any comments would be appreciated...

    Tunica Part 1

    One of the problems with an investment like this is determining just what level of transparency to demand of the player. I guess I could just ship him the cash, and after the 2 weeks have him let me know how we did. That was certainly not enough. Likewise, I suppose I could have demanded text messages every single hand as well, but that was asking too much for sure. So we just settled on having him call me when he either got knocked out or when he was in the money. Well what this turned into was a daily ritual of staring at my cell phone, praying it wouldn’t ring....a classic case of "no news is good news." <readmore> </readmore>

    Tourneys start at noon....day 1, 2:45 pm...."hey bro, I just got knocked out of triple draw...stood pat with a thingamajig and someone drew to a queen low something or other and I am out." Day 2....3:12 pm...."hey bro, I just got knocked out of the stud....someone filled up on 6th street and got there against my 2 pair....later"....and so it went for 4 days. He didn’t SEEM in particularly bad spirits. After all, it's only a few events. And that brings us to day 5, POT LIMIT HOLDEM.

    The dreaded phone call hadn't come yet and it was already 5pm....sweeeeet. We got ACTION! My phone was working and I was PSYCHED! 7pm passes....no call....NICE. I know that the money doesn't get paid out in this event until its down to 3 tables, so I called Tunica and asked how far along they were....they told me there were about 6 tables left, but they couldn't check for me on chip counts....10pm!!!!! Still no call....woohooo....I am a genius....gank owns, and we are so gonna cash. I called tuinca and they said they were on the bubble....12 MIDNIGHT AND THE PHONE IS STILL SILENT. I can't take it anymore....I tried calling gank's cell and got a machine...."DUDE I AM SO PSYCHED....PLEASE LET ME KNOW YOUR CHIP COUNT, I AM SO PSYCHED."

    About 15 minutes later, the phone rang...."hello?" "Hey bro, sorry about that....I didn't really feel up to playing today, so I slept all day."

    Now Linkoping is a very quiet place. Not much happens. But if one looks in the archives, he will see a 3.0 earthquake registered at about this time. Verizon stock went up ever so slightly as my phone smashed into a million pieces against the wall. I really did not know what to say....all I could come up with was...."ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MIND??????????" Granted it wasn't the most tactful approach, but that's really all I could think to say.

    Apparently Gank had been demoralized just a little by the losses so far, and he needed one of what would become known as the sheets pep talks. Now these come in many forms and have different effects on different people. With Scotty, I would have to get into a huge fight with him about something meaningless for him to get his game back. With Brett, it was the opposite. I assured him that my confidence was high, and that gank owns, etc. etc. etc. etc... He is a very emotional guy, and he really felt bad that he was losing me money. I assured him that I was a big boy and could take it, and that he should JUST FUCKING PLAY!!!!! Well I was due to arrive myself in a few days anyway, so he pretended to be motivated by me and got back to playing.

    When I arrived, Gank had still not cashed, but I really wasn't too worried. As I said before, I know very little, but I know talent, and I knew this kid was destined for a wsop bracelet and more. When I arrived, he introduced to me to Scotty and Dutch, who were trying to grind out some profits here and there in some of the smaller events going on at the Grand. Scotty had cashed for something and Dutch was just chilling out. I got a chance to talk poker and life with all of them, and I was impressed with all of them on many levels. I will go into more of this later, but suffice it to say that they were all very unlike each other, but all brilliant in their own ways. It was on this day that I would make one of the decisions that, to be perfectly honest, helped change the poker world, and helped these kids become famous.

    To be continued...
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  6. I remember reading that a loooong time ago and wondered whatever happened to the rest of it. I would definately like to hear the rest of the story.
  7. what a tease...
     
  8. oh, good one Wein, great read sheets, would love to read more

    lmao @
    "DUDE I AM SO PSYCHED....PLEASE LET ME KNOW YOUR CHIP COUNT, I AM SO PSYCHED."

    About 15 minutes later, the phone rang...."hello?" "Hey bro, sorry about that....I didn't really feel up to playing today, so I slept all day."
  9. I figure if I continue to repost this eventually he'll budge and post a part 2
     
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  10. Quite the cliff-hanger
  11. I would love to hear the rest of this story....
  12. If I recall correctly, they did more than hate. There were threats etc, do not expect to see this.......
  13. <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=4 width="100%" bgColor=#ffffff border=0><TBODY><TR bgColor=#eeeedd><TD><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top></TD><TD>Re(4): The Sheets backing story...
    by jeffboski on 8/21/2007 01:12 </TD><TD><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD><NOBR> </NOBR></TD><TD><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD></TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD></TD><TD> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR bgColor=#ffffff><TD bgColor=#ffffff></TD><TD colSpan=2><TABLE cellPadding=2 border=0 celspacing="0"><TBODY><TR><TD>what a tease</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
  14. Who was doing all the hating/threatening? Just curious.
  15. aww, that is awesome, & so well written. Part II plz, and Sheets, come over OT so we can tell you to GTFO with <3, plzzz, kthx! :)
     
  16. yeah why would people threaten Sheets to not share a part of his life? it's his choice, i doubt he's going to reveal something like "Gank was a crackho and Dutch just killed a man." I want to hear the world changing decision!
  17. I also want more.
  18. WEINOWNAGE
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  19. more more more moreeeeeee
     
  20. ..

    To be continued...

    "Gank called me on a monday asking for a stake in a potsmoking contest. I said, "is it +ev?" Gank said "what?"... said dude the potsmoking contest!!! To wich he replied "What potsmoking contest?" It was then and there I knew we we're gonna get rich."
  21. I want more
  22. Such a tease....
  23. very cool read.

    sheets owns
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  24. The full version of this story was posted on foxsports.com or something a while (1-2 yrs?) back...I remember reading it and then having to wait a couple weeks for the next installment. I am pretty sure its the same story.
  25. this is sheets' story of how he came about backing them.

    Never been finished :-(
     
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  26. No i realize that. The story was on foxsports.com/poker, an interview with eric haber about "the crew" and what not. I remember this story for sure, because the beginning of it that you didn't post above told how sheets met gank one day when he had to get someone to take over an MTT because he had to leave, and he asked Phil Laak to do it (i think) and Phil said that he knew someone who would take over, and it turned out to be gank...I'm 99% sure that it's the same story. I just can't find it on foxsports now because they don't seem to archive their poker articles :(
  27. I think that was on the site somewhere...

    Wasn't it a snow day and sheets needed to pick up one of his kids?

    Gank busted and shipped him back the buy-in, I think?

    **EDIT** oops I was wrong on the busting thing. was just a fee sheets wanted to send.
     
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  28. Ah, here's part 1

    <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="433"><table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td>Gank Owns </td></tr><tr><td>by sheets on 4/29/2005 16:43 </td></tr></tbody></table> </td><td valign="top"><nobr> </nobr> </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="433"><table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td>(this is an excerpt from a piece i am working on which details my experience backing the crew)

    ..."so it's a cold a snowy day in linkoping, and i am playing a small tournament online, and doing pretty well. Out of nowhere comes an emergency call from my daughter's school, saying that school is cancelled, mrs sheets is unreachable, and I have to come pick her up. Well I had been only playing on this site for a week, so i knew almost no one who played there who could take over for me. I called the one person who i thought could find me someone, the now famous Phil Laak. <readmore>(as an aside, I refuse to use his stage name of "unambomber". I have known for over 10 years, and for at LEAST 4 nicknames). Now it must be understood that most gambling stories begin with Phil Laak. They dont "begin and end " with him though, as the oft used phrase suggests, because the thing with Phil is, he is like a small tornado...he comes whirling in, does his thing, and then disappears before anyone realizes what happened, I remember Phil and I spending 3 hours concocting complex backing and swapping arrangements for a 50$ backgammon tournament which neither us could probably afford to play.

    In any case, I got a hold of him in the middle of some cash game he was playing in some weird place with some bizarre rich people, and asked him if he knew anyone who could take over for me. He said.."dude , no problem, i'll get gank to do it"..."GANK??? WHAT THE HELL IS A GANK????"...at this point i didnt care..i gave phil my password to pass along to the GANK or whatveer it was and i asked him how much this "gank" would want of the winnings. Phil told me..."dude he'd probably play for nothing...". This is the essence of Gank, as I will describe many many times throughout this story." I said ok fine whatever and left.

    When i returned form my errand, gank was just about to go out with AK VS ACES on the bubble when i got a hold of phil and asked who this gank was?...He told me that he was roommates with dutch boyd and some other poker players and phil had been staying with them for a while, and that gank was the number one player on the site based upon their points system. Now, gank had long since busted out when I was still googling him to figure out who the hell was playing for me. It was at this point that I first learned of the crew, which was known about by maybe 6 people. Young kids trying to take over poker???I LOVED THE PASSION.

    Now gank sent back the small fee i tried to force him to take, (although phil still inisted on his finders fee of 10$), and I did some more homework on this whole crew thing. I had spent a good part of my youth trying to dominate non traditional occupations as well, so something about what they were doing really struck a chord. I dug up ganks email address through some creative poking around and asked him to get in touch with me . At the time , i was to learn, he was looking for someone to put him in the poker stars wpt event, and phil thought i might be interested, so we hooked up pretty quickly..

    I basically asked phil If i should maybe include the whole crew in a backing offer, and let them pick which game should be played by each player, not knowing whrther one player had a particular speacialty. Phil told me that all that bologna didnt matter, becuase gank was the best player at all the games, so I should proabbly just back him. Phil, by the way, is very rarely wrong.

    Something about backing him in one tournament didnt sit well with me, as the whole invesment can go up in smoke in one hand. So i sugeested that he go to tunica, Mississippi for the world poker open events, and i would put him in all of them. This seemed counterintuitive to some, as I was putting up 3 times the stake in my scenario. However, I would rather increase my overall stake and diversify the results a little bit. He asked if I would give him maybe 10% of the winnings. He told me he just wanted to play. WOW!. Standard deals called for the player getting 50%, so i basically FORCED him to take 25%. As the tournament was going to start in 6 days, he had to get his act together and leave right away so his train from LA to Tunica Mississippi got there in time. HUH????? He was gonna take a train??? Through CHICAGO no less. He just didnt feel like flying.

    He told me he was all pumped...he was gonna play 30k worth of events, all games of very type..maybe 17 tourneys total including the main event ,..He was completely in the zone and ready to kill. Also, just to make sure he had some support down there, he called his friend scott fischman and basically offered to match scotts tunica bankroll if he went with him.. Dutch was going to be there too, as poker stars had just refused to allow him to play the wpt cruise event...(thats a whole other story). I was going to go as well for the last few days of it.. I was PSYCHED! I had GANK goin to tunica, ready to clean up, and continue my streak of NEVER BEING WRONG about identifying genius. ...what could go wrong?.......

    (to be continued)</readmore></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>
     
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  29. IIRC i think that Gank actually placed high in the tourney and when sheets asked how much of the winnings % he wanted, gank just said he didn't care and didn't want a cut. I might be off base here, it's been a long time since i've read it...but i know the full thing is out there somewhere.
  30. More plz

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