@deftangel, "At any rate, in order to break top 25 I probably need to win a bigish bet against players with higher networth than me"
This statement is not true, in my case. I break into Top 25 by getting MORE profit than other player, except zukaus (who can win against him in actual profit ?)
You are now rank 33 with 25 Million Networth. It took me 1.5 month, since April 1 till May 15, to rise from rank 37 (13 Million Networth) to rank 22 (23 Million Networth). The big during that period for me is : FFCC: Ring of Fates (1.1 Million profit) Ninja Gaiden Apr 08 (1.1 Million profit) PS3 Apr 08 (1.1 Million profit)
Big lost : CC:FF7 Mar 08 (650K loss)
There are lost of other profits, but they are smaller, and not worth mentioning.
In your case, it would take longer to break Top 25 since there are more people with fast networth increase, like soupsoup. But all you have to do is creating bigger profit than other, NOT winning bet against higher networth player.
Wish you luck in your Wii Dec 08 gamble. I have small short position in it, so small it didn't show up in my public profile. So if you win, I also win (big win vs. small win).
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"At any rate, in order to break top 25 I probably need to win a bigish bet against players with higher networth than me"
This statement is not true, in my case. I break into Top 25 by getting MORE profit than other player, except zukaus (who can win against him in actual profit ?)
You are now rank 33 with 25 Million Networth. It took me 1.5 month, since April 1 till May 15, to rise from rank 37 (13 Million Networth) to rank 22 (23 Million Networth). The big during that period for me is :
FFCC: Ring of Fates (1.1 Million profit)
Ninja Gaiden Apr 08 (1.1 Million profit)
PS3 Apr 08 (1.1 Million profit)
Big lost :
CC:FF7 Mar 08 (650K loss)
There are lost of other profits, but they are smaller, and not worth mentioning.
In your case, it would take longer to break Top 25 since there are more people with fast networth increase, like soupsoup. But all you have to do is creating bigger profit than other, NOT winning bet against higher networth player.
Wish you luck in your Wii Dec 08 gamble. I have small short position in it, so small it didn't show up in my public profile. So if you win, I also win (big win vs. small win).