[Slim Pickens]

$500 should be enough to pay the lawyer you'll need to draw up an argeement that protects both parties and makes everyone happy enough to get started. You can use the next $500 to start playing the 11's, not the 22's.

Why does a player who "made 13K last year" need to be staked for $500? His name isn't HoyCorkins5 or something like that, is it? Any person without the money management skill to save even $500 of seed money from 13K is not the kind of player you want to stake, and is probably not the kind of player who is even a long-term winner.