Poker staking is one of the oldest arrangements in the game. A player wants to take a shot they cannot fully fund. A backer believes in that player and puts up part of the buy-in for a share of the result. Simple idea, huge part of how tournament poker actually works.
The problem was never the idea. It was the plumbing.
Most staking happens in DMs and group chats. Someone posts a buy-in, a few people call out percentages, money moves around, and everyone keeps their own mental ledger. When the tournament ends, the player works out who is owed what, sends a few screenshots, and hopes nobody disagrees.
It works right up until it doesn't. Numbers get fuzzy. Markup gets argued about. A skipped event throws off the math. And the only record of any of it is a scroll-back through a chat thread.
Pebel turns all of that into a proper marketplace.
Players list their action — a single tournament or a whole series — and set their markup and how much they want to sell. Stakers browse open listings, see the track record, and buy a piece. The cost is calculated live, down to the cent. When results come in, settlements are worked out automatically and recorded in the open.
No spreadsheets. No mental math. No "wait, what did we agree again?"
Pebel does not hold your money or guarantee outcomes. What it does is make every part of a deal visible: the terms, who agreed to them, whether settlement happened, and what each player's history looks like. A player with a long record of clean settlements is demonstrably more trustworthy than one with none — and now you can actually see it.
That visibility is the whole point. Dishonesty gets expensive when it is on the record, and trust becomes something you can check instead of something you hope for.
Whether you want to sell action or back players you believe in, you can be set up in a couple of minutes. Browse the marketplace to see what is open right now, or open your own page and list your action.
Welcome to the table.
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