Minimum needed to live the dream

Wow... I have not looked at this post in a few years... It practical went viral :-)

college gambler failed miserably in his endeavor 

Also I am not claiming I did this for a living

love this thread and will offer my own story as contribution. moved out there a few years back with 5k to try to make it. floated for 6 months before i started reaching and lost it all. hit a 250-1 prop for 25$ that floated me another 6 months before i had to get a job. after a total of 1.75 years i was flat broke, with only my car to my name, sold my plasma for gas money and bounced.

You did great considering how underbankrolled you were.
Actually you were phenomenal

thx maf. bugs me cause i still wonder what if...just like i did before, but its not a healthy life if youre not truly set up for it. helped alot that i brought my own booze with me wherever i went or played .25 cent blackjack at the bar and lived cheap otherwise. pretty sure i drank half a fifth of bullet for a dollar one night. proly the best deal in vegas if you tip decent and play relatively slow

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You don't need anywhere near six figures if you're not too proud to work a shiit job and live in a shiit apt.... If a man's not married, has no kids, isn't a degenerate fuk up, isn't a junkie in any way..... Why wouldn't he be living in Vegas? Seriously.

you need 210k to live the dream.  10k to get out there and set up (i.e. trips to reno to load cash onto the atlantis and peppermill apps, rent apt, etc, drive across country) and 200 to bet with....be there soon boys...

Nice to see that this thread is still around 

Those who say "Move to Vegas to live the Dream" is probably going off the emotion and memories of their awesome vacation they experienced in Vegas.   It's no vacation when you live there. You can't get caught up in the drinking..partying...hanging out in the casino when you live there like you do when you are on vacation for 3-4 days. Its fantasy and not reality and if you do that while you live there, Vegas will eat you up and spit you out.  Too much vices in that city and 90% of us can't live there. It get's old fast. Its just like every other city when you take the strip out.  

Vegas is actually a real sh*th0le. The Strip is mostly expensive as hell and brimming with some very idiotic tourists. It can be good for picking up ladies if you're into that but you also have to wade through a bunch of gold diggers and lurking escorts. Go off of the Strip and you're either in a relatively seedy area or somewhere with planned neighborhoods/gated communities basically. A good portion of the people that do live here are stuck or just want to get out it seems. Not to mention, it's very uneducated. There are some perks in that everything is pretty much open 24/7, there are some really good spots to eat, housing is cheap, and there isn't any state income tax etc. etc.

Then we can get to the subject of sports betting. I personally think it's nearly impossible to make much of a living doing so out here (under the table) unless you are willing to drive all around town to place bets at different places or have runners. Keep in mind though, books with the same parent company will track you so if you personally make multiple same bets at those casinos in a day, you need to space it out a good bit- or else be prepared to provide ID and SSN when cashing. Books don't like structuring and they can see it from a mile away with their systems and cameras.

My personal advice: move to Mexico, open an account with Pinny, enjoy cheap living, good food, good weather, better women, avoid stress, avoid taxes, avoid crime (yes- depending on the place, Mexico is very safe).

Vegas is good for 6 months or as a 2nd residence, if that's a possibility for you. That's really about it. 

Nevermind Mexico... I've been reading up on FATCA. Shell company anyone? lol

I would never live in the bad part of Vegas, it seems to be very dangerous. 

 

I am curious how this one worked out.

600 AND A PAIR OF BALLS

 

Thanks for the update. Glad everything went well for you. I think the big difference for you as opposed to so many others is that you were retired and lived well within your means by picking and choosing when to play.  Most of these young guns who tried this get involved with broads, whiskey and drugs aka College Gambler and are a train wreck sooner or later. Vegas is a place that will eat you alive if you are not wise.