title_body: Does pool pledge amount impact odds of getting a block?
upvoted_answer: A high pledge does not increase the chance for the stakepool to get a block, but it does give a higher reward for the stakepool with a larger pledge than the other one. A estimation of assigned blocks per epoch for a pool can be calculated like this:
  [stakepool total stake]/[total stake] x 21600
  The pledge can only be linked to the wallet address belonging to the stakepool, meaning that you cannot take others stake in your stakepool and put it up as pledge, if you tried this the pledge would not meet, and the stakepool would not be able to mint the blocks it get assigned, losing potential rewards all together.
  PS - I do believe someone in the community has found out how to have multiple people pledging to a stakepool, but this is out of my scope.