Poker Staking in 2026
Stables, CFP Groups, and Marketplaces
BBZ Poker is a commercial partner of PrimeDope; BBZ Academy leads the stables table on the strength of its coaching-plus-staking deal. Every term was read on each org's own pages. Links to non-partner orgs earn nothing.
Getting staked
A stable funds your buy-ins for a share of profit; 50/50 is the baseline wherever a split is published. Losses accrue as makeup, a balance you clear before the split pays you.
Coaching for profits
A CFP group trains you for a share of future winnings, played on your own bankroll. No stake changes hands; the group earns only when you do.
Selling action
You sell percentages of your own action to investors at markup, a premium over face value: 1.2 means $120 buys $100 of action. Mechanics on the selling action explainer.
Staking Stables
| Stable | Split | Makeup | Games | Coaching | Regions | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BBZ Academy Partner | 50/50 after makeup | Standard makeup. | NLHE MTT only, $1 ABI and up | Dedicated coach with daily contact, bi-weekly 1-on-1s, weekly group sessions, Discord peer review, matched study partners. | 30+ countries across three wings; approved sites vary by region | Apply → |
| Pocarr | 50/50 with makeup | Standard makeup, quoted plainly on the application page: a losing month must be made up before the player takes personal profit. | MTT-focused; games agreed per player, no published ABI range. Live play considered from online results. | Video library with a minimum of 15 new videos a month, an 18-level staking ladder, included training-site subscriptions, and a private Discord channel with the managers. | English site plus Portuguese/Spanish, Romanian, and Russian branches; around 200 players claimed | Site → |
| Polarize | 50/50; first 3 months at 60/40 to the backer | Not published. | Team MTT and Team Cash; stakes not published, all abilities accepted | Included in all plans; 20+ coaches and 400+ videos. | All nationalities, but Portuguese fluency is required; it is the teaching language | Site → |
| Standard Backing | 50/50 to start, plus a 2-5% cashout program | Standard makeup; a player can leave whenever they are not in makeup. | Online MTT, NLHE and PLO cash, SNGs; live MTT through the ProPath program | 1-on-1 and group coaching in partnership with CNC Poker. | English, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian; operating since 2008 by its own account | Site → |
| FirstFund | 50/50 below ABI 50 on a 5,000-MTT contract; individualized above | Not published. | Online MTT, entry at ABI 10 and up, 400 tournaments a month recommended | FF Pro coaching from players earning six figures, plus a 90-hour intensive track. | English and Russian; the pro tier of the Funfarm operation, launched October 2025 | Site → |
| Funfarm | Not published; the fund takes a share of profit, training is free | Makeup buyout and a salary track exist in the upper leagues; standard terms not published. | Online MTT from ABI 0; the FF Start school takes complete novices | Free structured school feeding the backing fund; no training fees at any level. | English, Russian, Spanish; running since 2012 | Site → |
| 20EvBB | Tiered: 50-55% on the first 5,000-MTT contract, up to 60% mid, 60-80% at ABI $50-400 | Not published. | Online MTT; a winning record over at least 1,000 tournaments and 400 a month required | Twelve trainers, led by high-ABI professionals. | Russian and English | Site → |
| MVP Team | 50% first contract, 55% on renewal, 60% on the third | Not published. | Online MTT in ABI tiers from $1 to $75; contracts run 8,000 tournaments | 30+ coaches working groups of three to five, with near-daily open lectures. | Russian and Belarusian focus; iPoker, PokerKing, and Chico pools | Site → |
| Moon Staking | Not published | Not published. | Cash and tournaments, with live WSOP and WPT packages | 1-on-1 plus weekly group sessions under head coach Alexandro Tricarico. | English, Spanish, Dutch, French | Site → |
| Team Hero | Not published | Not published. | NLHE 6-max cash from NL2 to NL400, and Spins from $5 to $100 | Included, and open to complete beginners who know the rules. | Not stated | Site → |
Sortable by column heading. Facts verified 2026-09-11.
BBZ Academy
Alone in this table, BBZ bundles a full training operation into the deal: the same coaches, charts, and seminar schedule it sells separately come with the stake.
| Wing | Region | Language | Terms | Requirements | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BBZ Academy | Global | English | 50/50 of net profit after makeup clears; the page notes stronger players negotiate better splits over time. | SharkScope opt-in with 24 months of public history and a winning record. 500-600 tournaments a month full-time, 200-300 part-time. | Apply → |
| BBZ Academia | South America | Spanish | 50/50 of net profit after makeup, stated in Spanish on the wing's own page. Coaching led by Giuseppe Calio. | 12 months of public SharkScope results and a winning record. A shorter history bar than the English wing asks for. | Apply → |
| BBZ Italy | Italy | Italian | Split and makeup terms are not published on the Italian page; the deal is negotiated at application and differs from the global wing. | SharkScope MTT history over the last 24 months. Entry at EUR 1-20 ABI with published player progressions to 20-40. | Apply → |
Pick a wing by language and region; Italy negotiates terms at application. The case for the coaching model: MTT staking with coaching.
Pocarr
The most transparent terms page of any stable reviewed: the 50/50 split, the makeup rule, and the quit conditions are published verbatim before you apply. Operational discipline is strict: daily balance updates, audits, and mandatory 2FA on every site and wallet.
Polarize
One of the few stables that takes cash game players, and the only one in this table with a published probation structure: three months at 60/40 before the standard split. The Portuguese-language requirement decides eligibility before anything else does.
Standard Backing
The widest game coverage of any Western stable in the table: the 50/50 start deal, profit chops inside 24 hours, and a 2-5% volume cashout program are published before you apply. Minimum bar is 3,000 games in the last 12 months. Its scale claims (a thousand players, $100M) are its own marketing.
FirstFund
Selection runs on your last 100,000 hands and a manager interview rather than an application essay. The published contract is specific in a way most Western stables avoid: 5,000 tournaments at 50/50 for anyone under ABI 50.
Funfarm
The school-to-stable pipeline: start at zero ABI in the free school and graduate into backing. Free training trades against an unpublished split, so the deal only becomes concrete at offer time.
20EvBB
Publishes the fullest numeric ladder in the table: split by ABI tier, distance bonuses of 2-5%, and a top band where proven players keep up to 80%. The team claims 98 active players and a $2.2M 2025; those are its own numbers.
MVP Team
MVP publishes priced training tiers from $2,065 to $13,450: part stable, part paid school, a structure no Western stable in this table uses. Parts of the English site show 2022 results.
Moon Staking
Live and open, with a real coaching bench and live-series packages, but not one financial term appears on the site. The whole deal is disclosed at application.
Team Hero
One of the only doors open to genuine beginners, at stakes low enough that the education is the point. Like Moon, it publishes no terms.
Reading the terms columns
Transparency splits on geography: the Russian-market funds (20EvBB, FirstFund, MVP) publish full numeric ladders, while most Western stables outside Standard Backing and Pocarr disclose the split only after an application. A "Not published" cell means getting every number in writing before signing, starting with makeup.
Coaching for Profits
| Group | Games | Deal | Coaching | Languages | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bitB | MTT (bitB Poker), cash from 1kNL to 100kNL (bitB Cash), Spins including Winamax Expresso (bitB Spins) | A share of future profits on your own bankroll; numbers not published. The Spins branch runs a six-level path from a free academy trial toward full backing. | 20+ coaches and 100+ coachings and videos a year across the family, with English, Portuguese, French, and Spanish branches. | English, Portuguese, French, Spanish | Site → |
| Smart Spin | Spin & Go only, across the major network pools | Profit share with a makeup mechanism applied at profit splits, by their own definition; the split number is not published. 30-day free trial. | Named coach roster, a custom PT4 HUD, and their Smart $EV metric; day-to-day life runs on Discord. | International, English-language | Site → |
| Poker With Riske | 6-max NLHE cash only, 1kNL to 20kNL | Not published. | 1-on-1 database analysis, two group sessions a week, and a 500+ video library; founded 2021. | High-stakes players only | Site → |
| BluffTheSpot CFP | Cash; micro-stakes players must play on affiliated networks | Split not published; deals run at least 12 months and require an unspecified deposit. | A minimum of three 1-on-1 hours per 100,000 hands plus a weekly group session. | International, English-language | Site → |
Facts verified 2026-09-11. JPoker School publishes the fullest CFP terms found anywhere but is closed to applications.
bitB
The longest-running name in the category: its old staking domain is dead, and the live operation sells coaching against a profit share across three game families. Applications answer inside 48 hours.
Smart Spin
The dominant spins operation, with more proprietary tooling than most stables. The makeup clause inside a CFP deal is unusual in the category.
Poker With Riske
The only verified operation working exclusively above 1kNL.
BluffTheSpot CFP
The deposit requirement and network lock-in shift risk toward the player in ways no other verified CFP deal does; the only claim about the split is that it is lower than competitors'.
Staking Deal Calculator
The results are expected values; the swings around them are what the variance calculator and its tournament version model.
An investor breaks even when your ROI equals the markup premium.
Action Marketplaces
| Platform | Fees | Markup | Escrow and payout | Access | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| StakeKings | No investor fee on standard packages; seller commission undisclosed. Premium packages add a 5% investor transaction fee. | Seller-set. Live range 1.06 to 1.36 on the day we checked; no platform cap. Premium packages advertise a 1.15 cap that listed packages exceeded the same day. | All money moves through the StakeKings wallet; settling off-site is banned. Payouts land within 2 hours of most event finishes, with 24-hour online and 72-hour live outer bounds. | Worldwide including the US, 18+. KYC with W-9; a 1099 is issued at $600+ annual profit. German users see a 3% profit tax deducted per package. | Site → |
| PokerStake | No seller or investor fee published; the platform is run by PocketFives and monetizes through the GG ecosystem it feeds. | Seller-set; live listings ran 1.12 to 1.25 on buy-ins from $5.3k to $10.2k. No cap published. | Wallet model with a threshold rule: if the minimum percentage does not sell, every stake refunds. Winnings credit up to 10 working days after the official result is verified. | US-facing enough to require W-9s and issue 1099s at $600+ profit; a prohibited-jurisdictions clause exists but the list is not published. Deposits by PayPal, card processors, Bitcoin, or USDT. | Site → |
| GGPoker in-client | None; GGPoker charges nothing on staked buy-ins. | Seller-set with page examples up to 2x; sell up to 100% of your action. Share granularity scales with buy-in, down to 0.1% pieces above $5,000. | Automatic inside the client: backers are credited their share of the prize the moment it pays. An Auto Unregister rule cancels the staking and the registration if the offer does not fill. | Inherits GGPoker's license footprint; not available to US players outside regulated GG markets. | Our review → |
| ACR / WPN in-client | None; WPN charges no additional fee on staked buy-ins. | Seller-set, 1% to 90% of action (you keep at least 10%). Any markup above 1.0 requires identity verification and publishes the seller's real name to buyers, the strongest anti-scam markup rule of any platform reviewed. | In-client and automatic, with a published ICM payout rule for cancelled events. Offers close 5 minutes before the tournament starts. | WPN accepts US players. Multi-accounting across WPN skins while staked is penalized. | Our review → |
Facts verified 2026-09-10. PokerShares was a bookmaker taking bets on players; it closed in January 2022.
StakeKings
The one standalone marketplace open to US sellers and backers. It has paid out $23.8M in winnings across 300,000+ backers, and it also carries daily fantasy action beside the poker packages.
PokerStake
The former PocketFives site rebuilt as a storefront for GGPoker events: registering creates a GGPass account, and the packages on the board are GG-network series. Inventory is deep during a series and thin between them.
GGPoker in-client
Selling action from the tournament lobby itself, with settlement handled by the same software that pays the prize. The trade-off against a standalone marketplace is reach: your buyers must hold GGPoker accounts too.
ACR / WPN in-client
The US-accessible in-client option. The real-name rule prices honesty into markup: anonymous sellers can only sell at face value.
