What are his total buyins? Also how much percentage of himself did he have of himself?
Funny you ask this because there is a row going on right now between Sean Deeb and various other players regarding Bryn Kenney being financially responsible or not. Kenny basically admitted to Joey Ingram he was in a weak financial situation at the start of the year but believed he would win the Triton 1M buy-in. So he took the largest percentage of himself and also numerous side bets he would win the key event.
Deeb tweeted it was irresponsible. If Kenny had not performed well he would have been unable to pay off the bets etc.. He had a point, but did not need to state as much publicly. As Deeb can be quite acid, people sprang to Kenny's defense saying, he does not have a reputation for stiffing people. Fair enough...but I did notice no one offered any thoughts on what would have happened if Kenny had failed.
Regards the total buy-ins, it's all murky as few honestly fess up regarding staking and pieces they exchange. Several players have discussed winning multi-millions yet not really making any gains as they spent multi-millions for buy-ins (spent being a debatable term as most are talking about their backer's money).
My guess would be at this stratospheric level of poker the players are like a slice of life. Some like Kenney will have wild swings financially, others will have good and bad years. Then a few (the minority) will be astute managers of their own situation- their
bankroll, their commitment (or not) to high roller buy-ins and investing their winnings.
As regards the Bryn Kenney 'claim' regarding a quarter of a billion in winnings which kicked off this thread, as I said already, I suppose it might happen, but I think it unlikely. The Triton crew are long established friends, Chinese/ Malay billionaires, who want to play high stakes and establish a high profile to go with it.
I don't see any similar group emerging in the immediate future.
