Shaun Deeb vs Ryan Laplante
Here goes the markup debate again... except this time it's not during WSOP.
Ryan Laplante is offering the Wynn main event (with a lot of satellite winners in it) for 1.5x (50%) markup.
Shaun Deeb, who has long disliked Laplante, for whatever reason, accused him of "scamming":
https://twitter.com/shaundeeb/status...69300311932938
Someone then pointed out that the 2022 WSOP Main winner was only selling for 1.35!
https://twitter.com/shaundeeb/status...95798351814658
Ryan had Shaun blocked, but unblocked him so they could have an internet slap fight:
https://twitter.com/Protentialmn/sta...29796989976576
https://twitter.com/Protentialmn/sta...29800617996288
(Notice "Coherent Deeb", another guy who translates Deeb's horrible writing, cleaned up the next tweet!)
https://twitter.com/CoherentDeeb/sta...56990210445313
https://twitter.com/shaundeeb/status...32187508404226
https://twitter.com/cuntycakes123/st...36419121410048
https://twitter.com/Protentialmn/sta...32209859813378
https://twitter.com/Protentialmn/sta...32427141533697
Basically, Laplante threw the gauntlet down and said he will "buy himself" from Deeb for 5% of any $3000+ event he plays, and 20% of anything less than $3000, which is kind of like a reverse stake. Deeb responded that he wanted to buy "all of [Laplante] for 2023", meaning he wanted to reverse stake 100% of Laplante's action!
So far nothing has been agreed to here. It is ballsy for Laplante to do this, though remember he runs a coaching service, so standing up to Deeb here and offering his own money to "prove" he's worth 1.5x markup might be good for business.
I think Deeb is actually out of line here. It's not like Laplante is a fish who lies about his results to get students. He has been a successful tournament player with a ton of volume, and I'm sure he's good enough to teach a lot to the students who pay him.
