Going pro & moving to Vegas
11-20-2017
, 10:39 AM
11-20-2017
, 07:14 PM
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Spent around $400, actually did end up using my card to pay for a fishing expedition and an air b&b. (Even though the plane tickets were comped it was cheaper to fly out a day later and $150 to stay at the resort an extra night so I booked an air B&B close by)
A legal document I have become well familiar with in the past weeks. You are correct, except for the fact that there are still a couple loopholes I somehow found myself in. There are essentially two-time deadlines given by law. The first is a 10 business day timeline that the bank must respond in once you have filed a report. If the bank sees a need to they may extend this period to 45 business days, provided they provisionally credit the account with the disputed transactions. I was very upset on the bank's decision that they did not need the extra time to come to a decision, everything checked out on their end for security, I technically have a history with Western Union International Transfers, nothing but cash deposits out of state in Las Vegas this year, and I could not point to something in my life that would have jeopardized my identity, I did not report the transactions until 5 business days later as I had received no alerts from my bank indicating a problem, my card getting declined at the rental car agency was the first clue that something was amiss. So now I have moved onto lawfirms as under 908 (e) (1) states if the court finds the instiution did not make a good faith investigation I am entitled to treble damages.
It was a 2/3 game $500 cap that quickly turned into a 1k cap by table stakes.
My car is not new enough for lift, and I actually have a problem with my brake actuator that I have been meaning to get fixed but now cannot really afford it and I'm not certain it would pass Uber inspection although with some of the Uber cars I've seen it may...have not gone yet.
lol. If I really desired to be staked it wouldn't be a problem, I have at least 5 people I know of that I could pretty easily get 5k from to work off a backing deal. But the idea of that just doesn't sound great cutting your hourly to maybe $10 or $12 and grinding back a roll like that. I just don't think I'd find a really good quality of life for myself grinding like that.
Yes. I think, at least for the moment, I have found something that I hold a passion for and also gives me my greatest quality of life. One of my goals was to go overseas for 1-3 months next year. Not sure if I'll be able to make that happen now.
I mean fundraiser for the homeless during the holidays is a good cause right?
No in all seriousness, would never actually look into doing something like that. Seems like a desperate grab and you're addicted to the game.
While my updates ITT have been far from stellar and consistent, I've at least somewhat recorded my progess through the year. I have posted before about taking the 100 left from a 300 buyin and sticking in roulette because just tilted but that's happened on very rare occasions when I was new in town, eventually learned to shake things off in a less -EV way. >75% of the pit games I don't even know how to play, never saw an interest in them. This Summer when my friends were in town they were all playing $5 craps and I played maybe 4 or 5 rolls in an hour and they were asking why I wasn't playing. I told them you don't make a living playing low stakes by making a habit of pit games.
FWIW I was going to include some snips of it after I had blurred the other personal transactions out in my next VLOG. Um, mind if I see your entire financial history for the past month? Not exactly meant to be public information. Have not yet reached that phase in editing it but I'll post a snip of the account summary if it helps to satisfy your soul.
(Month of travel, groomsmen outfit, 6 month car insurance bill, couple of family birthdays, etc. is the reason I've spent more this month than deposited, just in case you're inquiring about that as well.)
OK, now then, I had mentioned in an earlier post I had played a few dailies recently and chopped those heads up 3/4 for a profit of $630 last week. I'm now not even rolled for these, but here was the breakdown of why I did.
1. A fellow 2p2'r had a few free nights at the Rio because he's a diamond member, he wasn't going to use and offered them to me, which I accepted.
2. Rio runs a 1 AM $65 $500 guaranteed tournament, they require 4 people to start, they need 11 to meet the guarantee.
3. Typically this tournament doesn't run as they might not even have a cash game going this late on weekdays, so each day I went down to the room just seeing if would fire, when it did, it ended up overlaying paying two spots and playing shorthanded, I felt like I held a pretty big edge in these spots as well as the overlay value of it. If I didn't cash the first two times I wasn't planning on firing anymore.
Last night Ballys 8 pm is a $100+$30 2k guarantee that needs 20 people to meet it, they only had 6 to start so I played in that. It got quite a lot of late reg people and ended up barely covering with 22 entries. One guy spewed off with 59o into my AA, I won AK vs AQ and then A8 vs A9 blind on blind and those were pretty much the only hands I needed to get down to the FT, four-handed 3 pay, the blinds were 5k/10k and there were only 330k chips total so we agreed on an even chop for $550 each.
Picked a hell of a time to run well these past couple weeks. I'm not just firing every daily I can, but looking at ones when they start and if they only have 1 table with a decent chance of an overlay there's probably some value in that.
So moving forward, I am still considering a few different options if I continue to make no progress with the bank situation. I had already commited to and put some time and effort into organizing the meetup charity stream with Matt Berkey on December 19th and feel an obligation to see that through. He was on Joe Ingram's podcast today and mentioned it at the tail end, Ingram said if he was in town he would be there. This entire situation is pretty crazy, I only kept this thread going (debatable at times) because a few people expressed some interest and encouragement and seemed to find value in it and the feedback as a whole has honestly been above grade what I was expecting with the trollfest toxic pool that 2p2 has mostly become, take that as you will, but I "thread select" pretty thinnly as most are just not worth the read, this may be one of them lol. I think that should do it for an update for now. Cheers.
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I don't understand why you would do this.
You are brutally cheap, there was zero chance you were going to withdraw money from your bank while you were in Punta Cana.
Zero chance you were gonna spend money in Punta Cana beyond what you had in your pocket.
You came back from Punta Cana with 90% of the money you went down there with?
If anything, you should have locked down your USA bank accounts.
I cannot begin to understand what made you think might need money in Punta Cana.
I doubt you spent $50 a day while you were there.
You are brutally cheap, there was zero chance you were going to withdraw money from your bank while you were in Punta Cana.
Zero chance you were gonna spend money in Punta Cana beyond what you had in your pocket.
You came back from Punta Cana with 90% of the money you went down there with?
If anything, you should have locked down your USA bank accounts.
I cannot begin to understand what made you think might need money in Punta Cana.
I doubt you spent $50 a day while you were there.
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You should be covered under The Reg E dispute resolution that all US banks are required to have for fraudulant transactions. You have 30 days (some institutions allow 90 days) to report unathorized transactions. If fraud is obvious than which it seems here, the bank should give you a provisional credit which by law they are required to do until investigation is complete.
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No shame in moving back and in with mom and working at Chipolte to get roll back up
Owen went Busto at one time and had to move in with mom and dad
Troop also went Busto multiple times and had to fling lasagna's.
If you are going to do Lyft like PK, get some lemon fresheners
Owen went Busto at one time and had to move in with mom and dad
Troop also went Busto multiple times and had to fling lasagna's.
If you are going to do Lyft like PK, get some lemon fresheners
I mean fundraiser for the homeless during the holidays is a good cause right?
No in all seriousness, would never actually look into doing something like that. Seems like a desperate grab and you're addicted to the game. (Month of travel, groomsmen outfit, 6 month car insurance bill, couple of family birthdays, etc. is the reason I've spent more this month than deposited, just in case you're inquiring about that as well.) OK, now then, I had mentioned in an earlier post I had played a few dailies recently and chopped those heads up 3/4 for a profit of $630 last week. I'm now not even rolled for these, but here was the breakdown of why I did.
1. A fellow 2p2'r had a few free nights at the Rio because he's a diamond member, he wasn't going to use and offered them to me, which I accepted.
2. Rio runs a 1 AM $65 $500 guaranteed tournament, they require 4 people to start, they need 11 to meet the guarantee.
3. Typically this tournament doesn't run as they might not even have a cash game going this late on weekdays, so each day I went down to the room just seeing if would fire, when it did, it ended up overlaying paying two spots and playing shorthanded, I felt like I held a pretty big edge in these spots as well as the overlay value of it. If I didn't cash the first two times I wasn't planning on firing anymore.
Last night Ballys 8 pm is a $100+$30 2k guarantee that needs 20 people to meet it, they only had 6 to start so I played in that. It got quite a lot of late reg people and ended up barely covering with 22 entries. One guy spewed off with 59o into my AA, I won AK vs AQ and then A8 vs A9 blind on blind and those were pretty much the only hands I needed to get down to the FT, four-handed 3 pay, the blinds were 5k/10k and there were only 330k chips total so we agreed on an even chop for $550 each.
Picked a hell of a time to run well these past couple weeks. I'm not just firing every daily I can, but looking at ones when they start and if they only have 1 table with a decent chance of an overlay there's probably some value in that.
So moving forward, I am still considering a few different options if I continue to make no progress with the bank situation. I had already commited to and put some time and effort into organizing the meetup charity stream with Matt Berkey on December 19th and feel an obligation to see that through. He was on Joe Ingram's podcast today and mentioned it at the tail end, Ingram said if he was in town he would be there. This entire situation is pretty crazy, I only kept this thread going (debatable at times) because a few people expressed some interest and encouragement and seemed to find value in it and the feedback as a whole has honestly been above grade what I was expecting with the trollfest toxic pool that 2p2 has mostly become, take that as you will, but I "thread select" pretty thinnly as most are just not worth the read, this may be one of them lol. I think that should do it for an update for now. Cheers.
11-20-2017
, 07:52 PM
11-20-2017
, 08:30 PM
