I will let you see my records and my tax form. Bank records are of
no value since we've already established they can be manipulated as
needed.
Huh? Explain for the idiots you think we all are just how on-line
bank statements can be "manipulated"!
The ONLY true evidence that I am winning is that I will claim those
winnings and pay taxes on them.
As soon as you begin a statement with "The ONLY" you expose your
typical and cowardly backing out again. Pay taxes on them? (certainly
predictably instated for the sole purpose of a weak defense). And
just now many ways are there to manipulate your return to negate the
extra $750-$1400 of the "winnings" tax liability? You're just as much
a chump here as you are on every other issue. Proof can only be
established by tying financial records together along with self-kept
casino contemporaneous data. Simply inserting "I won $7500" means
nothing to the auditor. The IRS would require exactly the same as I
require because I've gone thru it several times. Look at me as the
IRS.
I know there are many APers who have had winning years.
Please explain the proof behind that ridiculous assertion. The fact--
and I deal only in FACTS--is that you ride what you hear, and if
you've ever taken a good look at the entertaining collection of
slugs, neurotics, fat-asses, cancer-stick-puffing alcoholics, broken-
family losers, single fools who never could make it living with
someone else, Chinks, and insecure self-confidence-lacking phenoms
who say they are "winning AP's", then you'd probably throw up after
reading what you just wrote.
You know it
as well. Let's face it, there are probably thousands of gamblers,
including clueless slot players, that have winning years. It's
simple
statistics that with millions of gamblers, some will win. The big
difference with APers is they win most years.
We're not just talking about lucky-hit winning years. We're talking
about consistency, and AP's do not have that from my and at least a
thousand others' experiences who have no reason to lie to me about
losing.
> Remember, frssh on the minds of players is Jean Scott's
admittance
> that she's been losing at the machines since 2000. Not at all
> surprising to me, but it is to most.
And, she still made money each and every year as a direct result of
her gambling. No matter how much you try to twist it, this is the
bottom line.
The hurtful bottom line to you is that she admitted she lost at the
machines for the sole reason that she could not play +EV games
anymore. But when you look back over her articles you'll clearly see
multiple times where she said she sat all day at the Suncoast,
Reserve, and her favorite--The Orleans' $2 10/7DB games for several
yearsbefore they lowered the pay tables. You see, you APer's are one
contradiction after another, and when one of you comes out and steps
all over their own feet the rest of you come to their defense simply
because it makes all of you look stoopid. I just capitalize and
report on the foolishness of it all, and come out looking better than
ever to the true player base.
> Tell us: Is +$7500 really worth all that time you and the missus
> waste away in the casinos and have made the focal point in your
life?
Gambling is one of the things we do for recreation.
What's the saying---yada, yada, yada? How many years did we have to
listen to your hero The Queen blab about that when it was convenient
to blab it, then turn around the next time and claim her and her live-
in 401k cash cow were professionals....without ever thinking how it
would make her look? Players bring up her glaring inconsistencies all
the time. Like being "frugal". HAHAHA! Tell me more about it!
We make a little
money, eat free food, put up friends and relatives when they come
to
town. I played golf today. Some folks think that is a waste of time
as well, but each to there own. Your value judgement of playing in
casinos may work for you but it doesn't work for many other people.
Personally, I have no interest in motorcycles … should I claim
working on them is a waste of time for someone else???
Pardon me, but if you ever took a TRUE look at how much time you put
into being in the casinos, all the forums you post on about vp, and
the effort it took to move to LV just to be closer to your habit--
then measure it up against the normal lifestyle that most people
live, you'd probably puke.
I never said it doesn't exist, only that it can be minimized by
playing at certain times. And, yes it is worth it. For many years
before smoking bans took effect there was smoking in the workplace.
I
dealt with it then and I deal with it now. A bigger concern to me
personally is driving around LV. It is a MUCH bigger risk than 2nd
hand smoke. Once again, I minimize the risks by selecting safer
travel times. And, of course, I had to drive to the golf course as
well. Living is a risk.
This is a PERFECT example of how addicted gamblers learn how to
justify things they're aware of that are not good for them in any way.
> Is it worth the elimination of
> the normal lifestyle you dreampt of all your life upon retiring?
It's just another journey. I tried the PBA for awhile and now I'm
trying this for awhile. I can't say what will be next, but I will
probably move on to something else eventually. Having an
independent
lifestyle is what I wanted when I retired and it is what I have.
Who
knows, maybe I will take up motorcycling.
My prediction? You will go to your grave playing video poker. You
don't get it yet? As soon as you get back to Minn. your'ew hands will
start profusely sweating to get back to that Indian clip joint to
play the machines for hours on end again. In fact, It's just a matter
of numbers how many other Indian casinos you'll stop at just to play
vp on the trip back in April.
> Those are the questions I know make you try to appear so non-
chalant
> about but are really haunting in their true meaning.
Are they? I handled your pathetic attempts to create a negative
image
of my life with ease. I can do this because there are no more
negatives in my life style than in most others. Like I said, living
is a risk, you can hide from it or you can live it.
Living is a risk, but denial on the Internet is not. That's why you
feel so good about it.
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