I think part of the issue is that OP is framing the situation as "someone stole my identity" as opposed to "someone hacked my account" which would make more sense. Even if someone had the last 4 of his SS, they would still: (1) need to know that he banks at Suntrust; and (2) have his login information.

Even assuming he didn't have two factor authentication (which I cant imagine NOT having for bank accounts in this day in age) someone could have hacked him while using public WIFI to access his accounts.

All in all, the story does sound likes it is missing a lot of information, but it is possible that the story is legit. I just don't get why someone would not bank at a local branch or major chain. Depositing money by having to paypal people the cash and have them send you the funds electronically seems extremely pointless, time consuming, expensive, and risky, for no benefit. Doesn't paypal charge a fee for sending money?

Finally, OP to clear up some misconceptions you may have in the legal area. Attorneys would not take your case pro bono. They would take it on a contingency basis where they only get paid if you prevail. I can tell you that the fact your a professional gambler living out of your car will not be a hinderance in finding an attorney to take your case. Keep looking. At the end of the day, you obviously have a drivers license with an address right? Or, you can just give your parents address as your permanent address.

He should've gotten a job these last 2 months after not hearing about the aviation one in late Dec., but apparently he wants to be free as a bird and not work. He has to look ahead and prepare for downswings and car troubles, not wait til they happen.

How about:

SURVEY SAYSSSS!

Hehe. Love ya bike.

I think gaining 30 pounds in a year is too much even for him. Most people that try to bulk up put on way too much fat. If he just started lifting he could make newbie gains for months without even adding on any weight. So I don’t think he should go on some kind of a massive bulk (which would also cost money btw). He should take advantage of the newbie gains (which will allow him to easily add strength for months), and then when progress starts to stall, then go on a bulk.

I also think he should focus on gaining strength instead of weight and set goals he wants to reach. If his lifts go up a lot, then the weight situation will take care of itself. He won’t be 120 pounds if he can bench 80 pound dumbbells, for example.

Trooper making a big endorsement of Bikeking's vlog...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KknJ4C4V6Y

Then goes on to expound on what Bikeking said.

Nah you can easily gain way more than 30 pounds in a year. +1 lb a week is considered optimal and if you are chronically under-nourished like BikeKing might be, the weight piles on quickly at the beginning as your body gets back to its "normal" weight.

Mike Mentzer is all Bikeking has to study (starting with Google) to gain 30 lbs of muscle by March of 2019. If he can add 20 lbs of fat, that's a 50 lbs weight gain.

Mike Mentzer, eating big and nothing else.

I believe he said he has a fast metabolism. It would be really hard to gain 30 lbs in a year without at least a fridge for the daily gallon of full-fat milk his fast metabolism needs. He might have a chance if he stays stocked up on a lot of shake ingredients such as powdered milk, water, peanut butter, healthy fats oil, oats, sugar, etc. so that he can blend his own shakes to have on the go in between meals, and before going to sleep.

I think he was being sarcastic. Mentzer was obviously not natural.

Also 30 pounds on BK (or even 10 or 20 pounds) is a much higher percentage of his bodyweight than it is for most men.

I don't know what your experience has been on which of Mentzer's programs, but I personally tried the many variations of his programs when I was young. The constant pushing to failure does a good job of overly fatiguing one's central nervous system. Not very optimal long term.

Enough of the bulking talk no one cares

More and new holes poked in the theft story.... and all BK's fault for bringing the nearly certain lie it up again in his video.

If BK did a vlog admitting he lied about the money etc and was just broke he would gain huge amounts of followers.

The vlog itself would probably be his most viewed one...

If things ever get bad enough there's a few dozen call centers in town that hire on the spot in all different types of verticals. Terrible money, but most of them have a 6/7am to 2/3pm shift and it's an easy way to bring home $3-400/week at the absolute bare minimum. It's not that bad an option if you have nothing coming in and are down to the nitty gritty. You never know, sometimes you can land on the right job and the system clicks with you and you can make good money.

My old roommate from 2015 who was a poker player that went broke after 2 months on a ~10k roll ended up working for Hilton in their Timeshare division. He ended up getting really good at selling those mini-vacs over the phone. He's leasing a brand new Nissan SUV and has a nice apartment near the Palms now. They hire anyone with a pulse.

A lot of people may look down on "E-begging" but BK needs a Patreon account bad. He's one emergency away from being in a real bad place, and it's only about 2 months away from 100+ degree days for 100+ days in a row. That's a rough climate to sleep in a car.

I agree, there is no reason to bulk up with his body type. Focus on compounds movements, squats bench pushups, eat more healthy foods and protein. And the gains will come

Nit Life
Fold Pre
Washed Up Just Means I'm Clean

The thing about a Prius is it's a generator on wheels so he can run the heat or air conditioning all night and the gas engine only turns on for a few minutes every hour to recharge the battery.

Hey Bikeking, here are some interesting ideas in case you ever want to install an UPS in your car so you can plug in an electric cooler (fridge) or small microwave:
http://priups.com/misc/multisupply.htm
http://priups.com/riklblog/jan09/090...-arguments.htm
http://priups.com/misc/bonus-15mar06.htm
http://priups.com/riklblog/jan09/090...-checklist.htm

No one, except maybe the guy who this thread is about, who's 120 lbs. and is trying to gain weight. Start a thread and we won't discuss it there.

A job with those hours sounds perfect for him, but he doesn't seem like much of a talker or seller. Maybe he should approach it as being an actor at work so that he's able to do it. Maybe for laziness reasons, he seems satisfied with the part time hours he'll be getting in the air balloon gig.

I Can Out-Nit Your Grandma

McFoldin. I'm Loving It!

I think I'll resort to doing monthly updates ITT, on or around the first of the month. I've become very active on Instagram, Twitter, and of course YT and stay pretty busy most days, I've taken the time to respond to most of the recent posts below, currently rendering a vlog for the second time as the first time a critical bit of audio was left out and it's one of the highlights of the vlog. I won't bother spoiler tagging this whole update, so just be warned if you'd like to only recieve updates through the latest VLOG, STOP READING NOW
I've included a few pictures since threads are better with them, although I have to admit usually instead of taking a picture of something I'm taking a video nowadays.

Overall things are going pretty well, at least imo which is the important thing right? Setting these goals and adhering to this simpler schedule has been fantastic for me, I have now missed two workout days but only because I was stuck in LA, more on that in a bit.

There was actually some pretty good advice on some different buffets around town, does anyone know what it takes to obtain Gold tier via playing poker? If I could indeed pay $5 for a buffet there's definitely some value in doing so, paying $10/meal adds up pretty quickly, usually the meals I do have that cost that are from comps, breakfast and lunch typically cost less than that put together. Yes, it's possible to cheaply and reasonably eat 3500+ calories a day if you plan accordingly, peanut butter and nuts are basically superfoods when it comes to calories and protein.

Gym: Going strong (pun intended) Starting to visibly see some results now, in some exercises adding 10 or 20 lbs. The workout plan is a 9 week one off of bodybuilding.com, focuses on what a lot of people were talking about. Low reps, heavy weight, compound movements, large muscle groups like the legs and back. Added about 10 lb. so far. You just feel so much better about yourself when you're consistently working out and starting your day like that.

Vlogs: Going well too. By making this a priority and scheduling my time in addition to just getting better at teaching myself professional editing the quality of the videos in 2018 far outshines the ones in 2017 IMO. It takes a ton of work to remember to film every detail and then take raw video and compile layers of sound and graphics on top of that to make it clean and polished and really look attractive and keep the viewer engaged. All the analytics support these more intensely edited vlogs, in the last ten days I've added nearly 600 subs, and hundreds of comments have also poured in which is really encouraging for creating engaging content, not simply videos that people watch and click "next". People seem to really appreciate the more transparent you make things, it just makes you more relatable. Plus nearly every poker fan has watched rounders and thought about coming to Vegas to spin up a roll from 1/2 and it seems I can connect with people more on that front than other vloggers who have already "made it". Getting comments or emails like "I've always dreamed of coming to Vegas and doing this, rooting for you" or "best vlog yet, keep it up!" is cool. In my latest vlog, I get to chat with Lon Mchearan and I mention that people taking value in the content you produce is really fulfilling. Also, I had several people commentating or mentioning that they'd like to support the channel on YT, I've had donation information listed in the notes for a while now, but never mentioned it before on a vlog because especially when you have a poker vlog asking for donations just seems wrong whereas if I had an aviation mechanic vlog it'd seem perfectly reasonable. So yea, I mention it in this latest vlog, still expecting nothing although I'm sure this is where all the lies tie together right, full ebegging to scam people. Just wanted to get ahead of it and mention it ahead of time because I'm sure there's going to be people claiming how I'm begging for money now lol. Have never, will never. All I do is repeat what has been on my description tab for weeks, say what you will, which, you will.

American Poker Awards: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. The car broke down literally a quarter mile away, I was very tempted to simply leave the car on the side of the road and get to the event on time, but when it's your house as well, you kinda have too much riding on it. Finally after waiting for a tow truck and finding a shop and then getting an uber back to the awards I got there in time for the last hourish. Sam Simmons, VP of content for Poker Central, was actually locked outside of the awards with me when I finally made it. We got to talking and he was pretty interested in my story, gave me his card and wanted to stay in touch saying they're always looking for content, from the low-level grinder end all the way to high rollers, so that was a pretty cool networking opportunity that I might not have gotten otherwise. When I spotted Negraneu he nodded and said "hey you made it! Awesome!" We chatted briefly about possibly collabing on a future vlog about faith and poker. I finally got to meet Matt Berkey and Christian Soto in person after numerous emails back and forth, very cool guys. They're doing an event with Jcarver this month that they invited me over to Solve4Why HQ to check out, we will likely do our own event post world series looks like. Soto also mentioned they'll be needing content for their site and asked if I was interested in writing some things for them, obviously yes. The car ended up needing two new cells and a throttle body cleaning setting me back around $525, thankfully though, poker went well playing the $3/$5 $200 buyin at Commerce and covered that, and now the car runs even better. It was actually a good thing if the car was to break down that it broke down in LA, Prius's are very popular out there with the insane traffic, thus many need work, thus there are many shops which compete for pricing. I had to have a couple cells replaced last year at a shop in Vegas in June, I'll have to check to see if they were the same ones, if so they should be under warranty and I'll be able to get money back, but I'm unsure yet. So yes, all said it was a really great trip getting to meet some really cool people in poker including Scott Blumstein who was very down to earth, Remko, Stapes, Lance Bradley, Kevmath, and of course Lon who was easily the highlight of the whole trip. For those of you wondering if leaving the car on all night is mechanically detrimental, the answer is no more so than driving in a traffic jam. The hybrid battery powers everything for about 57 minutes of every hour if you don't run A/C, the gas engine kicks on for the other 3 to recharge it. So it's going through a few more cycles than it would normally, but not in the overall picture since I do not drive very much mileage wise, I would be putting more wear and tear on it if I still lived in my friend's house in Sumerlin and drove back and forth to the strip, and it's also 14 years old with 165k on it, it's a Toyota so it'll probably run while it's on fire, but it's been through it's paces for sure.

Poker: I had mentioned in my last vlog that I was going to focus on some different freeroll promotions running around town at Flamingo and Harrahs. Flamingo stopped doing one of theirs this month that was a late night promo which allowed you to earn hours for another freeroll in addition to the weekly one, now they only offer the 13 hour weekly and 70 hour monthly (which comes to 17.5./week) Harrahs 100 hour promo is pretty impressive with 5 main event seats up top, they have a weekly freeroll as well that is a two table sit n go with top 10 paid for the top 20 with hours from 6am to 1pm. The problem I encountered this past week when I went there was there wasn't an open seat at 6, 7, or 8 am, and then the local diamond member nits who min buy and watch Netflix jump me on the list. Thoughts on how to best combat this? Possibly just arrive earlier in the morning and play that way, I also need to talk to the floor and see what the average number of hours needed for this freeroll is and then I can better gauge what hours I need to play within that time frame, it's the top 20 players in those hours with a minimum of 6 to qualify. I actually did the work of creating a spreadsheet of every single freeroll in Vegas with prize pool, number of hours needed, average field size, etc. to try and choose the ones most worth my time and my highest expected roi. To say grinding hours for a freeroll sounds dumb, but as I said in my vlog just trying to seek out any possible value and these allow me a chance at adding to the bankroll without taking a significant hit to my hourly by not game selecting and the "knish" guys in my life think it sounds like it's worth a shot for a couple weeks at least to see how it plays out.
As I stated in my last vlog, if I go down to a month of living expenses left, then I'll simply look for a full-time job, ideally an aviation one in Vegas. This would allow me to not only save money to have a proper roll again, but also continue to play on the side and produce vlogs to keep the channel going. General Atomics, Lockheed Martin, Northrup Gruman, SkunkWorks, DynCorp, AAR, BattleSpace, L-3, SpaceX, those are just a handful of companies, many of which several classmates who graduated with me are working for, all with 6-figure earning potential and all in a constant hiring process. The aviation industry is not only growing but also relying more and more on avionics and theres not enough sparkys as they're referred to in the industry, just because some people seem to think that it wasn't so.

Writing: In addition to possibly creating content for solve 4 why as mentioned above, pokernews contacted me saying they're interested in more articles, the next one, a review on 2017 and a brief recap on 2018 so far, should be out Monday or Tuesday likely is what I'm told.

Church: (if religion ain't your thing, keep scrolling ) Been going really well. I've been regularly attending my small group and I'm on the leadership training group for Create, which is this Vegas-wide college and career group formed by a variety of churches. I've really been blessed to have a good church family with some good friends outside of poker for a community.


One Last thing:
This lifestyle is far outside what society deems "normal", many see it as being miserable and lonely, I can assure you I am neither of those. I really suggest watching the documentary "happy" and "minimalism" on Netflix if you're bored. Happy does a great job showing some of the scientifically happiest people in the world in living conditions that many would assume their lives must just be terrible.

Me testing the grip of my climbing shoes:


Here's a great look at my lonely miserable life a couple weeks ago (blue shirt):


What a vlog looks like:






The right side of set over set this Sunday at Commerce in a $500 pot ($200 buyin)


Some of the balloons flying during my side gig:


Highlight of the weekend:



It's pretty clear at this point unless I gave every financial statement and correspondance and relative piece of information there will still be people who insist it's some fabrication. If this was some type of long con (which is what it would have to be for this to false) then what possible value could I see in this? Why would I keep up with anything or not be asking everyone for donations or stakes? This thread already holds the least amount of value in terms of all my social media (no offense loyal subs, but this is 2p2 in 2018). Also you'd think at least 1 person who knows me personally in real life, some of who are also on here, would call me out or announce their suspicions, instead I've received nothing but support, have I been that good in the long con that even close friends and family bought into it?
I can see where you might obtain this perspective, but applying it to me seems inaccurate. I have health insurance so, I guess you missed that. I may have several characteristics, laziness is not among them, as addressed in my last vlog in 2017 I did at times struggle with that, but that was more so to the fact of non-setting any goals or priorities or schedule if you do none of these hardly anyone can be productive. I was a crew chief for a landscaping company for 40 hours a week and went to school 35 hours a week and kicked ass at both, laziness is not a trait of mine. Many poker players acknowledge the fact that freedom of schedule is one of the biggest pros and cons of going pro, I don't see why it has to be a cop-out answer.
Literally said "not the greatest health option."
This lifestyle has been a thing for awhile now, the initial intention was to save money on expenses, so just because finances are tight hasn't really changed things all that much.
The intention wasn't to try and convince people that this is the lifestyle they should have, it was a peek into a day in my life, which uh, is what a vlog is?
You'd be surprised how easy it is consume 3500+ calories and 120g+of protein when you plan things out for a pretty minimal cost. The gym is going good, thanks.

Odd that no comments or feedback were "you seem so sad and lonely" but that seems to be a popular trend ITT.
The summer presents a few different challenges than the winter, but it's actually pretty manageable with some planning.
Curious as to how I portray life as absolutely miserable? Life is pretty busy, but it's pretty good right now if you knew me IRL or my friends they would all attest to the fact that I have a fairly high quality of life, even if it's not what society deems as such.
lol @ I chose to be homeless as a gimmick, yeah those youtube pennies are so worth it, that was a thing before I even started vlogging (if you watch my video I think I say when I made that choice and chose to not tell people as I debated the value of having it out there)
As always some well laid out thoughts, even if the perspective is sometimes skewed, which I appreciate as opposed to many of the keyboard warriors on here.
In the latest vlog I go over a little more into detail as to my diet and show that's it's not simply these things you mention, how healthy do you think the average American's diet is? For the lifestyle I have and current finances, the diet is fairly balanced. I only have one scoop and protein shake/day, the rest is from food, the intent currently of the diet is high calorie/high protein to support muscle gain, which has been working so far.
I like the fact that you brought up 1, 3, 5 year plans. Many people, especially in poker, do not have these. Things are sort of still up in the air, but I think getting to 15k by the end of the year should be very reasonable, then I should be able to increase my hourly at Bellagio $2/$5 and Wynn $1/$3 and it shouldn't take another whole year to double that net into 30k, at which time I would probably invest in a newer used vehicle like a highlander hybrid which would still provide many of the same pros of a prius, but with more room and is not 14 years old with 165k on it. By this time I'll likely be more involved in some other areas of poker likely to do with writing and creating content and articles. I'll have to evaluate where the youtube channel is and how much time that is worth certainly. Once I have a roll to play higher than 2/5 I'd have to weigh the pros and cons of continuing to live in Vegas, 5/10 and above in vegas just isn't very good, on weekdays there's not very many games even running and it's incredibly reg heavy. A buddy of mine, Chase Bianchi, was a 2/5 reg, shipped a 1500 Bracelet a few years back and didn't even consider Vegas as an option for moving for this very reason, and currently plays the biggest games avaible at MGM National Harbor.
Does anyone have a number of hours required to obtain Gold Tier? People have brought up a few decent ideas on this.
The rake is high but so is the action, I've never seen a game in Vegas of a guy with 10x the max buyin is calling max buyin shoves blind because "he looks like a nice guy" I have in LA. Playing the 3/5 $200 cap there lifetime I have a $50/hourly over 112 hours so far. I've been in a 3way allin for the max with AA vs. AQ and 9Ts, the gambol is real in that city. Obviously your standard deviation is also going to be higher playing in such games, but the action is more than enough to overcome a high rake.
I went a little bit into detail on this in a previous post and on the Heads Up Poker Podcast episode I was on. It's beatable at least for me, who started online in sit n gos which is mostly what these dailys end up being, or the ones that I target anyways. You're able to view the clock on Bravo and once you know how many people they need for the gurantee you're able to judge fairly well what the chances of an overlay are, and if it overlays it's less than two full tables. These are soft for two reasons, 1. people sit in these that would never play in a cash game, they just want a few hours entertainment without the potential to lose several hundred as they could elsewhere, and hey, they could win. 2. All the decent regs that have played these assume "there's no edge, the rake is too high, it's just a shovefest" Well I've had a lady limp fold JJ faceup off a 9bb stack to my 13bb jam because "I dont know how you play" If they're making such heinous mistakes off sub 10bb stacks, your edge is pretty sizable. One daily I played which only ended up getting one table, I was able to chop heads up without ever once being all in, I simply maneuvered my way while people blasted off with zero knowledge if ICM. Obviously this is a rare case, but the fact that it happened at all in such a turbo structure goes to show how bad the field is.
Sounds like you got robbed of 45 cents my friend, it's $2.80 with tax at the ones here in Vegas.
Actually, a reasonable observation that isn't based on the "you didn't submit 5 different forms of verification your story is full of it", although the conclusions are off. I had a well-paying job in aviation, although the real six-figure money was in being deployed and the accident happened prior to me completing my training. Not only was living in California expensive, but then the motorcycle accident was only covered in part by my insurance so that pretty much cleaned me out and I moved back with my parents for awhile, hit the score on ignition, and moved out here.
I agree with the last part of your statement sir. I've been 95% transparent and putting a lot of stuff out there that many people would never do and people still clamor over the 5% lul.

Legit LOL'd at these, very nice.

Which gym you at again? Glad to hear about the gains.

Thank you for engaging with your audience and comment-ers. I really appreciate you interacting with your audience and I hope you get some positive value from reading all of the feedback.

Looking forward to the next vlog. I'm hoping you'll discuss the perils of upswings (Like, what to do with all the money?)

I'm sure you're at least platinum at Caesars, so see if Stations do a status match.

They do it from Stations to Caesars, so might work the other way too.

Haven’t read much of this thread but I really don’t understand why you wouldn’t take a full time aviation job and play poker on the side. Full-time low stakes poker is a terrible job but a good hobby or income supplement. You can have it both ways.


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