hmmmm

Ok. I tired to read whole thread first, but this seems to be a recurring theme.

" ZOMG, you have to quit forever!!!!! Addicts can never, ever,ever,ever,ever,ever, learn to control their addictions, so they must quit for ever,ever,ever,ever!!!!"

What would you tell an obese person whose addiction is food?

Why should he quit? He's not starving, he doesn't drink, do drugs, or smoke. He doesn't even Chino the poker community it sounds like to me. He's has survived in this world for 15 years with the same basic morality as your typical old time poker player. Like Michael Corleone said, all part of the same hypocrisy. His cardboard sign just looks a little different than the ones you are used to.

Just another degen well known 2plus2 poster flaming out like we have seen over and over on here with all the same reactions; the hyenas coming in to feed on one of their own, while he is still alive, laughing all the way; the high horses; and the nice guys ( and I mean that genuinely) who actually believe they can help, when all they get out of it is a con man licking his chops at his new opportunities. Very entertaining.

But I've got a new system now at least. Beg, scam,con and lie for a stake on the streets, go gamble it, the one time in a thousand I don't bust it, I run it to 100k then I send it to mom and pop, then get a bus to the airport and do it again. This actually would have worked for him, but that is as realistic as telling him to go to GA or trying to help him in any other way.

i cant beleive this is even huge thread. Some random guy ive never met comes up to me and says he wants $300 well i tell him to **** off.

why OP started getting his phone out and going on google is beyond me

Simple, end of story

How is giving up homelessness and a dependency in scamming people at an airport in order to feed yourself "scary?"

American Greed episode.

Lol I don't want him to quit but that's a horrific analogy.

I thought it appropriate to confirm his identity before doing anything about this, either in the real world or afterward in NVG.

Do you confirm every bum who asks you for money's identity on your phone?

No, it would be a waste of time. Here, because of the peculiar circumstances of his story, the probability he was indeed "Michael Borovetz", a desire to try and end his scamming at McCarran made it worthwhile.

It is rare for "every bum" to identify himself in the course of a scam. Having seen his hole card, I wanted to take a countermeasure, so I can avoid ever having to see him again at McCarran.

The entertainment value of this thread was a freeroll, as it later turned out he was PSUMike.....

Michael, please go to GA immediately and get some help!

I'm glad the destruction of my life through gambling, scamming, getting arrested and being homeless for 15 years is entertaining for you. I should have had you buy that Ramada for me and have you waste $200. That would have been entertaining for me.

QFT. this is taking me back to the opening of Fools Die. seems like the most plausible ending to this story.

Are you seriously complaining about how one of the many people that you tried to steal money from isn't nice to you on an internet forum? Wow, poor guy.

Brother if you know all this ask for a random 2+2 poster to take you to a GA meeting this evening in Las Vegas somebody will do it. YOU NEED HELP and KNOW IT! You are just too weak and scared to go.

Following this thread has been a miserable thing to do for the past couple of days, but I can't turn away.

Unlike others I feel the way Mike has described his descent into depravity is essentially honest, and it is a disturbing story to read. If spending a year in jail isn't a bottom, I have to doubt that he has a bottom. It is like sometimes you can't help rubbernecking a nasty car accident on the other side of the road.

The other aspect that has me tied to this is "but for the grace of G-d go I." I see similarities between myself and Mike, and if I made similar mistakes early on, perhaps I would be in the same position as him today. I know there is no guarantee I won't be there a year from now or 10 years from now.

Very unlikely, unless he's a better writer/storyteller than he's demonstrating on here. Most mainstream US publishers won't look at unrepresented manuscripts.

Check out Amazon's Kindle recovery section. Poorly written, self-published degen-a-thons are ten a penny.

This guy feels sorry for himself and isn't adult enough to say he is where he is because of his choices. He is addicted and can't help himself so why even try. If 15 years of being homeless, broke, or in jail isn't rock bottom than what is?

lol how many stories have you got that start with 'i should have'?

i just imagine that, after 15 years of being a professional loser, you'd have a lot of them. and one of your regrets, that you wanted to share, was not screwing someone over for fun lol

You are way way off.

I admit 130% I am where I am because of my choices in life. Basically an untreated addiction combined with some mental health issues(which I am sure I have as well) leads to a life that gets destructively worse every year. I went from honors graduate to job firings to arrests to homelessness to scamming to prison all because of me not consistently getting help for my gambling.

You forgot the part about not getting laid for 14 years(which is most probably the underlying cause for your sickness). Hookers and blow next big pai gow score is a must.

You are missing the whole point. Okay the guy felt the need to google me and post about me on here, wonderful I get it. I didn't deny anything and came clean about what has happened in my life. Now he wants to post that the thread is "entertainment value" for him, a nice freeroll???" What is so entertaining about someone messing up their life because of an addiction?? You just don't get it and I'm not going to waste anymore time trying to explain it to you.

Then stop feeling sorry for yourself and get help. You must have some intelligence if you graduated from penn state with a chemical engineering degree. Unless you don't want help and if that's the case then don't say maybe when the wsop is over.

The only reason you posted is either for damage control once you were outed as a scammer or for pity. I have respect for neither. No regard for how you've affected family members or the people you scammed. But it's ok bc you can't help it.

You seem like the one who doesn't get it. Others have come on here with similar problems, maybe not to your extent, and have suggested you get help. Your response: nah maybe in a couple weeks. So weak.