I'm still not sure how this is solving the problem - yes, it gets the begging out of chat, but it still doesn't really fit the goal for the members.

For instance, let me use G as my example. On a given night, he wants to run any of the tournaments on BCP that are mid-higher level buy-ins (2.5K, 12.5K, etc.) So is he gonna buy ad time on a given night to say that he wants to play those tournaments? What's to stop anyone from just putting that in a thread for free?

I think we need an area where stakers can pick from all the horses that want to run (and down the line, some stats), and where stakees can say they wanna play that night. If you want to put a cost THERE, ok that makes sense.