Don't wait until the end of the WSOP to reevaluate your life. You are living in the worst possible city for your addiction. Get out of Vegas, move back home with family members, and seek out gambling addiction clincs. Make sure to also ban yourself from all casinos for life. If you need help with this, PM me and if its possible I will spend some time calling casinos to ban you, on your behalf.

Subscription to what, High Times?

I saw a thread about this on another forum and just joined here to comment on it. IMO, Mike is in all probability a sociopath. Everything he says points to it. He has no respect for the law, for friends or family, or himself. He's been scamming his entire adult life and is scamming even now, telling us his story.

Sociopaths always have an agenda, are always using people to get what they want. I'm sure Mike has a plan on how to use what he's posting here. He's very intelligent, as most sociopaths are. They think they're smarter than everybody else. That's why he kept walking away, violating the court orders. In his mind, they can't tell him what to do, so it takes being locked up in a real prison before it finally dawns on him that his actions have consequences.

I have no doubt he will keep scamming until he is put away for a lengthy stretch in prison. That's what usually happens, prisons are chock full of people just like him.

This is some of the best advice in the thread, you should take it Mike.

Unfortunately, I don't see any other way that you fix your gambling problems than listening to MM, other than perhaps a judge throwing you in prison for 3-6 years where you can finally have the time to face your demons. That latter route doesn't sound like the best way to go, for a variety of reasons, so hopefully you just take things seriously and summon the willpower to stop gambling. There are many support groups.

If you do decide to keep gambling, at least get a job to support your habit. Basically stealing money from suckers is so terrible. You could at least buy waters and sell them on the strip for $1 a piece at like 75% margins. Perhaps the hard work will make you value some things in life, the money, etc. and get you to stop gambling too. When you just ask people for handouts and gamble with it, it's just too easy to remain in this terrible hole.

Think you mean "prescription"

The most intelligent post in this thread

I don't see how banning himself would do any good. If he wants to gamble he will find a way to do it banned or not. The bad part about being banned is they usually only care when you are winning. At least if he's not banned he can keep whatever winnings he makes. He needs to fix himself and not hide from things in the real world.

On a side note do you really think you are going to be able to call casinos on behalf of this guy and have him banned? Lol

I'd love to see mike run up another roll and post in bbv's degen stories thread after he hits a 100k 7-card royal flush playing pai gow. Lots of degens on here that would love to here some of your pai gow stories/strat. Keep swinging for the fences, big hitter!

That you consider $70k 'huge' to have right now seems bizarre to me having just read all your posts. What would you do with it? Is it not just another couple of hours in the casino?

Regardless of where anyone stands on the authenticity of Mikes story you come across as a complete prick FWIW

Well said

Agreed

Yep

What if once a month a guy delivers a diferent kind of weed to my house?

If excommunication from your family, countless nights of of homelessness, and a year in prison isn't rock bottom yet, what would be? I'm not sure he has one.

+1

the times are changing

Which one? Your regular house or your house on the oil rig?

Idk why so many people are putting effort in with solid advice. I for one agree this story is prob much more simple and just a basic con/degen with some level of intellect. I don't see any desire in him to want to get better. Anyone out in Vegas see him at the tables over last 48 hours?

I'm trying to be funny. OK, seriously, if they drug test you and you have an RX, what happens then?

The best way to put someone like me in my place is by demonstrating your true moral superiority through spending a lot of time and effort trying to help this troubled gentleman. Let us know how that goes.

You have disdain for those without sympathy for his plight. Fair enough as you are entitled to those beliefs, but let's see you put some actions behind those beliefs instead of just words, otherwise you are doing the very thing you find distasteful in others, and you certainly do not want to be a hypocrite in that way. What exactly are you going to do to help the situation? You are in Vegas now based on your WSOP thread. He is in Vegas now (perhaps at the airports). You are in a position to do him some real good, so find him and get to it and update the thread with your progress. Do that and I will be the first to congratulate you for actually doing something, even if I do not agree with it.

All the best.

I would like to see Mike address the huge wave of people saying he's a scumbag to the dealers, players, and staff at poker tournaments. He seems to gladly talk about his degen stories with a sick pride, but it's time to man up about being a scumbag to the dealers if that's the case.

Using a $5k roll to play 2/5 is degenerate gambling. Sure, it is less degen than what PSUMike does now but it is still just gambling. Also, it is not clear based on his tournament results that he would be a winning player at 2/5. (he may or may not be).

Anyways, PSUMike has shown no sign of wanting to change. Why would he grind poker when he can just make the same amount of money at the airport without a risk of ruin?

Someone asked why he didn't just put himself into high stakes poker games instead of going to the pits and I don't know if he will answer that but I'm assuming it's the same reason most degens go to the pits. You can make more money and make it faster at the pits. If he were to buy in at a poker table he's not just going to go all in every hand because he's not an idiot. However, he can essentially do that in the pits (albeit, I know nothing about pai gow).

The fact that he's so catastrophically addicted is one if the reasons he hasn't done anything. I don't think he's asking for sympathy anyway.

Good question. I'm not sure, but a script might put one in the clear to work on the rig and smoke. The Rig Actually seem likes a good option for psumike. However, I have feeling mike would go crazy, jump off oil-rig and attempt a swim to nearest casino boat while taking side action bets on how fast he can make the swim.

I've seen this guy at Borgata. Lol he wouldn't last one day on an oil rig. Not to mention he can make more scamming good people at airports anyway

There is literally a 0% chance this guy ever turns his life around. Wake up everybody