"The Pen:" Live NLHE Chat Thread

Happy Presidents Day, Mr Garick.

Thank you for your service

DMW, FeelWrath, and Mr Squid are in the conversation for uncs with the best dry humor

Happy Presidents’ Day you filthy degenerate!

Thanks, RtP and AiM. I wish I'd spent it doing something more fun. Few things as annoying as holidays one spends more time working than a workday. And it wasn't even on fun projects making new things. Lots of repairs, yardwork, etc. Bleh.

Oh well, it all needed to get done, and now it is.

Squid, You're getting some snow! We might get some as well. 'Bout time.

We were down to bare streets here but now we’re in the middle of a storm with 10-14” of snow in the next 36 hours.

Is it summer yet?

KS - Winter started thursday here which deliverd my first legit pow day of the year in utah. Today we got a taste and tomorrow is fittin to go off. Its been such a weak winter ive only got 20 days in. Luckily SPC and I shot up to canada when they were getting nuked so we had some good times up there.

Is QS recovered and back in action?

I didn't get it off either but burnt the day in a client meeting. We went to lunch and the entire bar knew him and his local counsel. I boldly ordered a beer at lunch and explained that it was Mardi Gras and about to embark on a long period of sobriety.

Uncle Squid was here in Hoser Land?

PB, GG, and all you krazy kanooks. I love yer country. No other mountains speak to me the way the Canadian rockies do. Your athletic federation is second to none. They are by far the most generous and accommodating to foreign athletes and the skiing (terrain/conditions) is the bees knees. All o this coupled with the fun times happy vibe going on in the great white north makes for a fantsastic scene that I am all about.

Its wintah here finally, we got up xtra early cuz its a dumping. We got dam close to furst chair and got some super duper high quality rips in b4 they shut down the upper mountain. Its whiteout blizzard expecting much so should be good for a while.

AP - being discussed in the vloggers thread.

These are the outside o teh box thinking im talking about.

dude is going on cruises with slots and slappin 5k on a 3% rebate cc - cashing out and then paying off the 5k in cash at next port. Worth hunnit fiddy a day

Back in the day there were a couple o US casinos offering to change canadian at par. I won a bunch o free $$$ b4 gettin nuked

oh wow, i just assumed that guy was a moron because a bunch of places i've tried doing that was told it would go through as a cash advance

I saw that and Im letting u know here that I personally have ripped through mid 6 figs doing similar -- again b4 getting nuked

eli5?

learned painfully to never use amex for anything gambling related.

would seem like common sense but there are other credit card companies that don’t charge cash advances or restrict you if your account is in good standing. Plus get the cash back etc.

RTP - getting nuked means getting banned from doing this.

I have done an absolute fcukload of this type of play. I got my skrill account locked up and banned. I have had credit cards put on perma hold. When a casino finds out u r fcuking them in the anus they will do their best to skrew u

understood but what do we call getting everything confiscated even if you’re not blacklisted.

like when they fcuk you but are okay with you coming back for seconds at a later date when a high EV spot arises

I call that locking up and stealing my $ which is what skrill did
I have had brick and morter also confiscate my chips. Had to get lawyers 2x

But we r getting into the weeds. Some one asked about AP a while back

Most people either dismiss a play that they have been told is a play ala Rick Roll and the rest of the thread or they are unable to see a potential play which is 99.99% of the rest of the population. Point being is, and this is a call back to Feel Wrath asking y I still am on the boards. Little ideas like this slot play can branch into some really interesting and profitible stuff.

Circa and a couple other properties have brought that back for this year. Worth the excursion downtown?

understood thanks for the insight!

yes that’s my perspective too, taking these kinds of risks may seem foolish and you won’t get much empathy when things go sideways (understandably, and it’s a privilege to take these kinds of financial risks) but it’s part of the game.

sometimes you just run into an employee on the front or back end who was itching to nuke someone or got unlucky with a weird auto detection filter or in some other non quantifiable or obvious way. And have to take the same risk again

Only if u like free $

id bring 9k over the border and rip that through. Normal xchange is 6,570 getting par is a free 2,430

this is cawled a no brainer

ETA id run it through in 1-2k chunks - make a few bets wander cash out at a different cage later

PB curious about if there are stipulations like canadian passport/dl or if they just make the exchange for par at the cage?

It would be very nice if Circa would also go 1 for 1 with kangaroo $$

My guess is you’ve seen this, sorry if you have, but just in case this is what I found via quick google search.

(tldr; valid Canada ID required)

Thanks for looking that up RTP - Kinda figgered it may be tough to run a bunch through but ive seen stranger things happen.