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Originally Posted by sump
I actually disagree with this. Someone needs to have the "suitcase" of cash at the end of the day to pay for these people who don't have the "suitcase" of cash.
Loaning money should be strictly with immediate friends/family not because you are too lazy to keep cash on you. If that's the case, wire money to the cage - it's substantially easier.
Also, carrying cash inside the US is substantially different than taking it over seas or into the US. Most of these scams, if not all, seem to take place within a specific country.
I never understoood this from tourney players, I travelled quite a bit grinding cashgames all over the world and that is different. But for tourney players it's so easy. Just wire the total amount of your buyins to the cage, if you bink put it in a box and at the end of the series/tournament/trip have them wire it back to you.
Most casino's would even do this for me, and I played 5/10 up to 25/50, so never really had to transfer insane amounts of money. I think I had to bring/take cash to maybe 5% of the casinos I visited, all others were very welcoming in settling funds through banking system. Carrying 20k around is just silly, I also notice it is something that is hardly ever done by people who have an additional 200k in the bank. It's almost always people who do not have a dime over the 20k they carry around like it's nothing. Very faulty logic, but I guess that's why they are broke pokerplayers going from one stake to the next.