I've been putting together a roll for live games. Only problem is I'm unsure where or how is best to store it.

Is it generally better to store it in a bank account and just keep track of what it should be, or is it better to keep it all in cash tucked away somewhere safe?

For now I'm just saving up to grind $1/$2 games if that makes the answer easier

If it's a 1/2 roll it doesn't really matter where you keep it.

What if it grows beyond that?

Options in order from best to worst:

Bank

Player's bank








House

This has been discussed to great lengths here are just some of the links hope it helps
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/27...r-roll-284415/
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/27...-roll-1580500/
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/27...kroll-1352386/
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/27...-roll-1277347/
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/27...e-roll-527543/
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/27...kroll-1569550/

What's wrong with the bank?

Thanks very much for doing the legwork on that!

keep it in a secret hiding spot

Thanks a lot for this, much appreciated

Back in the day when the IRS didnt even know I was alive, I used to keep my 20 to 60K roll (along with some gold coins) in a stack of empty old paint buckets in the garage...nobody is stupid enough to hide that kind of cash in a garage..that;s why I felt so safe the burglers would never look there..

I've probably posted this in every one of the threads above, but if people think you have a large sum of money hidden somewhere in your house, no hiding place or safe is safe enough. They will just come back until they find what they're convinced you have. In the extreme scenario, they will detain you and chop off your fingers, or detain your wife/child/mother and chop off their fingers, until you tell them.

Don't overthink it. If you're going to hide money in your house, any place that a casual thief or houseguest won't look is fine - no bedside drawers or toilet tanks (that's where casual thieves will look for guns or drugs), not in a book or in a DVD case (in case a browsing guest is interested), etc. You don't need to go all Batcave to hide it. And you don't want to put it someplace (like old paint cans) that may get ruined by someone else in the household (e.g., your wife decides to clean up the garage and all those paint cans).

Just put it in a bank until your buyins are too large to withdraw efficiently (5/10 NL or 30/60 LHE or thereabouts). Then keep high denomination chips in a safe place, a fireproof box with all your old tax returns and bank records and car registration receipts is fine (nobody will question why those documents are in a fireproof box).

ahh for decades i made sure nobody in any of the card rooms knew who I was and where I lived...

There was No chance I was going to get robbed because somebody knew there was a large roll hidden on my property..I'm way too cunning for that poop..the key is not to let anybody really get to know you and then always check to see if there's anyone paying attention to you as your leaving the casino lot.

If you're a great poker player, all this should just come instinctively to you..you can easily sense the danger where it lurks

Good advice.

I usually keep mine in the stack to the left of me. I can keep a close eye on it, and makes cashing out easier.

I find boobies to smash it between

Yup, you don't get robbed because someone knows your money is in there. You get robbed by someone looking for buckets, or paint, or...

What is the advantage of not having money in your house if someone is willing to chop off your fingers to find it, assuming they are convinced it is there?

well the advantage is whoever is chopping off your fingers can't get it so it'll go to your next of kin. whoever is resorting to these tactics is not about to leave a witness after they get paid, so you're effectively dead anyway

Good luck!

My personal suggestion is to keep it in lots of different places, banks, hiding spots, investments, etc. Dont keep too much in any one place, that way if something fails, it won't be crippling.

Usually my entire bankroll is on the felt in front of me.

But it's a new year, baby!

Well that is a big "what if".

No disrespect to you OP but most of these posts by 1/2 players are thinking about the future when they're crushing the 5/10 and raking in bundles of cash every day. If you have this problem then, it's a great problem to have.

I was up all night thinking about what I'm gonna buy when I hit 700 million dollars in Saturdays powerball drawing. I'll start a new thread for suggestions...

http://www.barstoolsports.com/philad...-and-climbing/

Because:

1. More people keep >CTR amounts of money in the bank than keep >CTR amounts of money in cash. The latter generates wilder stories, and is more likely to fuel rampant speculation. IIRC some famous poker player got robbed specifically because his ex went and told people he kept large sums of cash in his house.

2. Cash money is more valuable than bank money to people who would rob you (versus burgling you). Cash, especially clean cash, appeals to a lot of criminals.

3. Banks have cameras and bureaucracy. Forcing you to open a safe in your house is a lot easier than forcing you to withdraw large sums of money from the bank.

I believe this was answered poeticaly on channel 5 news

Do not use a bank.

A safe deposit box in the casino is fine.

I know one guy who has a coffeemaker that isn't only a coffeemaker. There's an area in the side that unlocks with his thumbprint and cannot be accessed any other way (think it's a heat-proof titanium box so you can't break or melt it).