Since the original subject has a gambling issue and is in recovery to stop gambling since that's caused all these issues in the first place..... yes.

Mullet Man: Good news, Mike, I've got your rent for next month!

PSUMIKE: That is great news, how did you get it?

MM: I bet some guy who was laying great odds that you wouldn't make the GA meetings!

PSU: Uh, so you won my rent gambling?

MM: Yeah! Can you believe it? $400! That was the easiest money I've ever made! Isn't that great?

PSU: Uh, great. Excuse me, but I have to go to my $10/hr job now and work my ass off, and I'll make $80 after my 8 hour shift. But that is cool, though, that you made $400 with no work when it would take me a full 40 hour week to make that money.

MM: yeah, it's great. But keep working your job Mike. It's the way to get ahead.

Why do you always have to make everything about yourself you are the biggest narcissist out there. Podcast this tweet that give it a rest already this thread is not about you Joe. No one cares about your podcast in this thread ffs.

Not to nitpick, but that would be $800.

Dang. that would have made my point twice as good. Plus, I was wondering how you find a place in the SF area for $400/month rent.

Sanity showing up in the thread.

Until the most important thing to Mike is making things good to his victims (including his parents, it sounds like), there will be no change.

I didn't read much after the thread lock but since there were numerous victims and presumably many police reports, isn't he wanted and shouldn't he turn himself in so they can start the process of arrest/indictment/prosecution including indentification and verification by victims for future restitution?

Get off this bet. Don't take photos near a GA meeting, so ****ing inappropriate. Mike's gonna go to some meetings or he won't.

Gambling about whether or not someone goes to GA meetings ...

If I don't go to my AA meeting tonight do I have to do shots ?

Been away from 2p2 for a while...Cliffs or link to these threads?

Mike can you provide a daily trip report of your current life? Since you're not gambling, you need something to do to take your mind off of the gambol....

"Idle hands are the work of the devil"

I could see Mike getting addicted to porn and thus his hands would not be idle. One addiction for another. This thread is the car wreck that keeps on giving. The debris was cleaned up but then brought back for more viewing. People love a good car wreck.

I remember mike from an mtt. Really true about his berating of dealers. He didn't like the way a dealer was putting out the cards because couldn't see over dealers hand or some such nonsense, kept whining about it. Heard him complaining to floor during the break . Dealer was telling him that's how I deal just really petty stuff.

lol hello again kevmode, always a pleasure

Mike, any TR/updates? What % of time of that GA meeting did you have the urge to bail and hit Bay 101 to grind pai gow forture bonus $25 at a time?

Actually this borovetz might actually make a podcast about poker listenable .... If - the host can actually ask the right questions and keep the interview moving in the right direction. That however I doubt.

I want to reiterate the fact that Mike has a reputation for being nasty to dealers and an obnoxious jerk to players. He has not addressed that issue itt, and he has not shown remorse.

I'm all for a great comeback story, yet can the hero of the tale be the least bit likable for christs sake? This guy is a smarmy weasel who bullies hardworking dealers while making everyone else's experience at the table a terrible one.

This thread is eye opening to the fact of how weak/gullible most people are. It is proving to me that if I want my dreams to come true, it may not be as difficult as I imagine. I heard some great advice recently, that if you want something in life, you just go and do it or become it. Anyone who is in a position that you want to be in is just a person. We are just guys and gals.

When you meet someone famous perhaps you might be starstruck at first, yet if you have a chance to talk to them or get to know them a little then you will quickly realize that they aren't much different or more special than you. Like the girl giving advice said, some people are luckier and some work harder for what they want in life.

One of the most caring things you can do for a person is to simply give them your attention. However, I feel Mike will not be worthy of our focus until he begins to show some remorse for the people he's scammed, for the the dealers he's mistreated, and for the players he's been a jerk to.

If you're going to be all high and mighty, you should at least get your facts straight since he did indeed address this topic several times. Idiot.

You and beaverslayer should hang out, two barrels of empty headed incompetence, all the while fooling yourselves into thinking that you are not in fact total idiots.

Of course, you are both much too dumb to ever be able to understand or be aware of your own idiocy.

^^trolls gonna troll

Like I said, you are much too dumb to be able to understand or be aware of your own idiocy.

You can't fix stupid and you are the prime example of as much. It must be quite the life handicap for you to have to live with every day, so I will let you go.

beaverslayer is licking the pole down the street if you want to go meet up with him. You guys could recite Beavis and Butt-Head quotes together.

If that's how you really feel, why are you even in this thread? The obvious way to not give someone your focus is to ... focus on something else?

^^Joe may you please lay out what a typical day is like for you?

Don't waste your time, he is a complete idiot but will never realize as much. Comes with the territory of being an idiot and all.

^Nut-low poster in entire thread returns for his 2nd post itt; continues to add nothing with poor 2nd attempt to place his stamp on thread confirming only that his entire existence/point of view is worthless. Time to stop posting as a vivid picture of incompetence is only a mirror away, my friend.

Thats your 3rd derail of this thread in as many posts. Bro, get over your hard-on for me and stop the derailing, let the people speak.

And he can only do this by getting himself healthy mentally and psychologically. GA, a sponsor and staying away from the tables is a good first step. Unless you are an addict and have worked the steps you won't understand how much work is needed to get to that point. Anyone expecting Mike to be OK in days, weeks or even a few months is very naive. This is a life long process. It took me 6 months before I could start doing the steps and making amends to people I have harmed since I had to get my head clear and my sponsor wanted to make sure I was committed to the program.

And to those who think Mike can't do it I have friends in the program who have done much, much worse than Mike has ever done and have been able to turn their lives around, make amends to those who they have harmed and become a productive member in society.

Spoken like a miserable, losing gambler unable to focus on anything other than his own pool of self-hatred and self-misery that he has built for himself. You offered very little on the topic of thread and/or subject of thread. Your claims of my(and others itt)intelligence level are anecdotal and speculative at best. Despite your best attempts(which all lack depth and wit) to insult me, you've made yourself completely transparent and are clearly unable to come up with anything substantial or pertinent to thread topic. Enjoy your 72-hr. vacation.