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Good luck with all this. However, like many others have said you should take a step back and think about how many people you know that actually do well playing poker for a living. I know a lot of poker players and only 1-2 are doing really well, 3 or so do ok and the rest of the 30 or so are fails.
I've done very well for the last 12 years, its a 90 day thing and it is more about the documentation and the process than anything else.
If you can't afford to play with your own money, and sat staring at your blank resume consumed with fear and doubt, maybe you weren't as successful as you would like to think. Any player worth half a shit shouldn't need to be staked, regardless of how common poker nerds say it is. Any winning player should be playing 100% with their own money. Not only for themselves, but in fairness to their backers. People concentrate and take things a lot more seriously when it's their own cash on the line. You're a grown man who is depending on random people from the internet so you can play poker. Think about that. You even said this stake depends on others $. It's amazing to see the number of smart guys who are capable of so much more who waste their intelligence chasing this poker pipe dream. Unless you're Phil Ivey or Tom Dwan, or have a time machine to go back when poker was 90% retards, it ain't gonna happen.