No...you do NOT need to declare for dometsic flights...however, if they do find it on you, whether it is through search or whether it is by accident (like viffer), then you have to answer them (DEA, etc.)...and if they are not happy with your answer or they are suspicious, then they have every legal right to confiscate any and all of your valuable assets on you (watches, etc.) and then you will have to apply to get them back....so, travel with as much cas as you want DOMESTICALLY, but you're doing it at your own risk.... don't forget...the rules have changed and DHS and all government agencies have god-like powers...

if you are that much of a baller like viffer, you should always utilize several bank accounts, safety deposit boxes at banks and deposit boxes at casinos...

has nothing to do with Guantanamo...they can declare you an enemy combatant and take you to any army prison facility...but that is not relevant to this thread....

what is a 'security guard'?...

and yellowsub may have gotten lucky...and lots of people get lucky on a daily basis carrying lots if cash and chips across the country flying around... but the one time they catch you s the one time you will lose most/all of your roll....so, as always, do it at your own risk...

ive taken 20k cash to vegas through metro (airport) in detroit...they opened my bag, looked at it and without hesitation gave the bag back to me

or commerce not vegas

Skier it is idiots like you that have allowed the world to become the no freedom having, police state it is. DEA isn't an important job, those guys are the biggest pricks on the planet, all they do is go around locking up more people so that we have to pay more taxes. As much as i hate Viffer, he does more for the economy than 50 DEA turds!!! Have you ever seen how much money he throws away on clubs, strippers and shopping??? He is like an economic stimulus if i ever saw one. And if you think the DEA is so important then why don't you join the DEA instead of playing magic cards and online poker.

It would be interesting to see what would have happened if you gave a false name and they checked id.

nice bro, i can tell you're really well thought on this. do you have a blog I can read? or maybe a weekly newsletter I can subscribe to?

i had a run in with the feds at chicago midway around march last year.

i was flying from omaha to midway and then midway to philly. i had about 80k in cash from the wsop circuit event stuffed in my laptop bag that i always carry when i travel. omaha always has random security checks and for like the fourth time in a row i get picked for the search. i go through the whole process and then have to wait for this tsa kid to search my laptop bag. i sit there and watch him begin searching through it and im just waiting for his reaction to the money cause i know its gonna be a problem to some degree. he begins searching it and then sees the pouch where the money was in and his eyes bulge out of his head. he looks up at his partner who was searching someone elses bag directly in front of him and says something. the partner giraffe necks it to see whats in my bag then immediatly turns around and they both look at me and then akwardly look away fast. after hes done the kid who search my bag (hes about 25 id say) comes up to me and is like "do you know how much money is in that bag!?". i say yes 80k. hes asks where it comes from and i tell him its from a poker tournament and then surprisingly he gives me my bag and lets me go on.

this is where it gets interesting. i land in midway and have like a two hour layover so i walk around aimlessly from one end of the airport to the other and then stop somewhere in between at a less crowded gate. this gate that i stopped at was on the opposite wing of where my gate was. so i sit down and go online, start reading some 2+2 when this badge just flashes in front of my screen and i look up and there are these two, plain clothed cops standing there and they ask "are you michael martin?". I say yeah and they say "we need to ask you a few questions, we're part of the midway anti money laundering unit". im like ok. so we walk a few steps away to an empty gate kiosk and they start asking me some bull**** questions i cant recall what they were but i knew that they were obvioiusly curious about the money from me being stopped in omaha. so i ask if this is about the money and they are surprised that i was aware they knew. they were like yeah and i told them how im a poker player and all that stuff. at this point they seemed to believe me but asked if i had anyway to prove it so i actually went online to hendon mob and showed them the tournament result and they asked how can we trust this site so i showed them a few more and then they were satisfied. the next five minutes or so they were more interested in my career than the money, even asking if i was interested in hiring security. but apparently midway airport has a bad money laundering problem and they said the only legit people who usually carry that kind of cash on them are jewlers.

what i thought was crazy is that these guys had either been following me from the time i landed or had been watching me on video because i literally walked from one end of the airport to the other and then around some more. it probably looked a bit shady me not actually sitting at my gate an hour and fifteen minutes before my flight. guess i lucked out.

ditto to this, don't feel so bad now though. must be a 'young person with no job who travels a lot' flag or something. i thought they specifically thought i was up to no good.

ya this is true as i did the same thing about 3 weeks later. totally regret it now but at the time it seemed like it wouldn't be such a big deal. one key thing tho is we both had tax forms and payout slips from the Rio so I am not really sure we wouldn't be able to easily avoid any problems with DEA etc as we had IRS forms accounting for every penny. now that's not to say we couldn't have obviously been robbed if some1 knew

lol ***** u got rolled

Great to see our Federal employees are out there combatting POKER TERRORISM. Really warms my heart to know I'm protected from these excessive-money-carrying CRIMINALS.

Maybe it was the purple hair that made you stand out David? LOL

(Yes, I know you only did it for the NBA Finals last year. IMO, you should've gone with CELTIC GREEN tho hahaha)

its probably a leak as a poker player to be capable of logic this absolutely retarded

Sorry to have read about this. Best of luck in getting your money and watch back.