Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Upsetting the applecart
Seemed to have pissed off a few people in my usual diplomatic style on a poker forum.
Firstly the Devilfish book. I found it was cheaper going directly to Amazon rather than a certain sites so called exclusive deal. In their defence the site claimed amazon takes 3-5 weeks. More like 3 days as its arrived today! Ironically the site claimed not to be making any money from the "exclusive" deal, yet if they used their amazon affiliate link they would make money. You can't make it up.
Secondly, some clown starts bragging about commiting credit card fraud and I criticise him. amazingly I am the one who gets it in the neck from some plonker and no one seems to think maxxing out your credit cards with no intention of paying back is in any way wrong. Strange morals I guess.
Anyway Vegas feels even closer now as my ITIN number arrived today. Less than 3 weeks to go and I am steadily increasing my YTD figure.
Oh and I forgot about the bloggers tourny and was blinded off 1300th+. Got the hh's and only one person was sitting in on my table so I guess I wasn't the only one!
Firstly the Devilfish book. I found it was cheaper going directly to Amazon rather than a certain sites so called exclusive deal. In their defence the site claimed amazon takes 3-5 weeks. More like 3 days as its arrived today! Ironically the site claimed not to be making any money from the "exclusive" deal, yet if they used their amazon affiliate link they would make money. You can't make it up.
Secondly, some clown starts bragging about commiting credit card fraud and I criticise him. amazingly I am the one who gets it in the neck from some plonker and no one seems to think maxxing out your credit cards with no intention of paying back is in any way wrong. Strange morals I guess.
Anyway Vegas feels even closer now as my ITIN number arrived today. Less than 3 weeks to go and I am steadily increasing my YTD figure.
Oh and I forgot about the bloggers tourny and was blinded off 1300th+. Got the hh's and only one person was sitting in on my table so I guess I wasn't the only one!
# posted by redsimon @ 8:57 AM 
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Ben,
I got mine the long route. Applying to USA Embassy/IRS. A bit late now.
I understand from Ariston that if you sit in at Bellagio cash game with more than $5K, don' lose it all and then go to cage to cash out a helpful cardroom guy will do the forms (for a tip).
I am not sure if Harrahs are helping out this year. Last year I understand a few guys got ripped off as local filing agents charge upwards of $200...
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I got mine the long route. Applying to USA Embassy/IRS. A bit late now.
I understand from Ariston that if you sit in at Bellagio cash game with more than $5K, don' lose it all and then go to cage to cash out a helpful cardroom guy will do the forms (for a tip).
I am not sure if Harrahs are helping out this year. Last year I understand a few guys got ripped off as local filing agents charge upwards of $200...
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