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Well, the poll results were a clean sweep for not being a lowlife, but it was a 2-2 split on being a sissy. It was probably due to entering that Princess Sparkle 5K two years ago. Nobody likes to see a grown dude wearing a tiara during a 5K. I thought it was a ballsy move, as being bald, it hurt like hell every time I took a hard step.Quote:
Originally Posted by coach belly
It makes a reasonable intro to my post regarding "Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens," which I will post tomorrow in the non-LV section. The director will be available after the film tonight, so I'll report on the Q&A.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson
P.S. It is an AP move, as there is a free reception with food.
It is the definition of "winnings" that is important. If you take that literally that would mean every single hand where money was returned should be declared "winnings". Since that is ridiculous the IRS was inconsistent for years. Notice that it does not say "daily winnings" or specify any other time frame in the regulation. Essentially, this means the term is ambiguous and when the IRS itself uses W2Gs as their audit factor why would those "winnings" not be the best choice?Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson
The key point is the difference between the 1040 value and Sch. A deduction should be the actual winnings. That is exactly what I've done and it has cost me money more than once.
The usual nonsense from mama belly. This clown is getting more and more angry with every comment. I guess being shown to be an impotent liar is really getting to her.Quote:
Originally Posted by coach belly
I think you should look at what regnis wrote.Quote:
Originally Posted by arcimede$
What regnis wrote is not what the regulation states. You quoted the regulation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson
You should read what regnis wrote again.Quote:
Originally Posted by arcimede$
Funny, it still says the same thing. Try to pay attention next time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson
Regnis told you the law and the interpretation of the law never changed. You said it did. Now read it again Mr Stubborn.
I am not going to do the research for you, but many many years ago the courts, IRS, tax practitioners, and gamblers came to a mutual agreement as to what constitutes a "session" for gambling purposes. It was determined that a session is a day, so that not every single winning bet constitutes a win for tax purposes. Rather, it is the net win for a day. If the net win is $10 that day, it is supposed to be declared. As previously stated, however, there is a tendency for the IRS to think you are cheating if you show more than the W-2G's.
That is the absolute rule that is followed by the IRS.
Regnis thanks. But why would the IRS question as "cheating" if you reported more than what's on the W2Gs? That makes no sense. It's what's required and not every gambling win gets a W2G.
I'm feeling charitable tonight. The following 2 excerpts are from an old IRS audit procedure manual. They have been codified into a somewhat new revenue procedure. But the audit manual has used these rules for as long as I have been involved in gaming law.
1. A session of play begins when a patron places the first wager on a particular type of game and ends when the same patron completes his last wager on the same type of game before the end of the same calendar day. For purposes of the above, the time is determined by the time zone of the location where the patron places the wager. A session of play is always determined with reference to a calendar day (24 hour period from 12:00 A.M. through 11:59 P.M.) and ends no later than the end of that calendar day.
2. The IRS will not challenge a taxpayer’s use of this definition of session of play provided the taxpayer…..
And now I’m paraphrasing---as long as the taxpayer uses the definition for each time he gambles. However, if he leaves the casino and goes to another casino, that constitutes another session.
I personally have never followed that last part.
There is nothing in their procedures or audit manuals that instructs them to do this. It is almost like they realize that most people are only going to declare the W-2G winnings, and therefore if you show more winnings, and presumably offset those winnings with additional losses, they assume cheating and then want to see your records or log for the entire year.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson
I was audited for horse racing 3 straight years. But I keep a complete log of every wager; all losing tickets (I have large barrels in the basement); and a completely separate bank account strictly for horse racing and no other gambling. After three years, and again I think this is an informal internal rule, they won't audit you again for several years. The problem for people like me is that in my state, gross winnings are taxed!!! There is no deduction or offset for losses.
This was the result of the change in the 1040 years ago where the losses went to Schedule A from page 1 where you simply offset the winnings before. The state tax form uses gross income before the Schedule a deductions so you pay state tax on the gross win. I considered and did start an action against the state challenging this, but was told by an insider at the state revenue department that they would take this to the highest court and that they had too much pull for me to win. He also warned me of punitive actions if I persisted. I knew I was beat and dropped it.
I've been audited twice but never for gambling. I always declare daily wins that were in excess of W2Gs and nothing happened.
(Scratching my head about this.)
Alan, you will definitely get audited if you claim less than W2G wins on the 1040. If you declare more you may or may not get audited. I declared more one year and was not audited but I have heard about others who have been. That is why the best approach to avoid an audit is to report exactly the W2G amount. The definition of a session is not in any regulation. It is an internal IRS "position" but I suspect only used if they think someone is trying to cheat. Like regnis said, most people just report their W2G wins and never keep track of their results so they have no idea what their session results would be.
Now, don't you feel a little foolish for inferring I was cheating?
First of all I never declared less than my W2G wins because I did have wins that did not generate W2Gs and I reported them just as the IRS says I should.
I don't know if you cheated on your taxes, Arc. But it appears strange to me that for two years the ONLY wins you reported were the wins from the royals that generated W2Gs. According to the tax documents this means you had no other winning days in those years. Just tell us you had no other winning days in those years and your only winning days came from those royals and there is nothing left to discuss.
I also think you misinterpreted or overlooked what Regnis said about what the IRS considers a "day" of gambling.
So... except for the days you hit royals, did you have no other winning days in 2012 and 2013 when you reported just a $4,000 win for each year?
No Alan, it doesn't mean I had no other days with wins. It means I chose to use a method of reporting that the vast majority of people use and that eliminates the biggest chance of being audited. In some years this results in less money being reported and in other years it means more money is reported. It really doesn't affect the taxes all that much because I compute the Sch. A amount to show my actual results for the year. How many times do I need to repeat this before you catch on?Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson
Once again, the IRS statement is not part of the written regulation. It is internal to the IRS. While they have documented it is their interpretation, they don't actually follow it as far as I can tell. Otherwise they should be going after millions of people. It is not a law. Get it?
I don't catch on.Quote:
Originally Posted by arcimede$
But what I got is that you don't report all of your winning days.
Edited to add:
And then we have Rob who deducts groceries and dinners and parties as part of his costs for being a professional video poker player.
Okay. I'll go back to work now.
You're "supposed to" report ALL winnings (not just W2-Gs) and deduct ALL losses. Also keep detailed records of time, casino, game played, machine #, table #, etc. I'm certain very very few people, AP's, pros, or any other gambler does it exactly this way.
I don't keep those detailed records, but I do combine my wins and losses for EACH DAY and by stapling together marker receipts, and ATM receipts, along with win reports, I have a daily record of each day of play. Then it is a simple matter to add them up for a grand total. I also can break out the amounts shown on W2Gs. Thats what the IRS wants and thats what they get.Quote:
Originally Posted by jbjb
As I mentioned Ive been audited twice. Once it was a TCMP audit and they didnt even look at the gambling. The second time it was an audit for my website company. Two auditors sat in my accountant's office for two days and asked for evrything including the personal returns of me and my partner and that was the year I had $1.29-million in W2Gs and they didn't even bother looking at the gambling info. By the way, BOTH audits resulted in NO changes.
Rob seems strangely quiet when tax returns are brought up. There are links to the returns he sent in, right?
www.gamblingforums.com didn't seem to treat Rob very well. They kept asking illogical questions, such as, "If your hundreds of students have a winning system, why do they not slowly go up in denomination as they win and take serious money from the casinos?"
There's a simple answer to that question. What people fail to realize is that the desert may be littered with holes full of Rob's students who did just that. Why do you think they don't use player cards? Employing Rob's systems is like being in the CIA -- you've gotta do it quietly and get out of Dodge before the hammer comes down. That's why Rob was always rumblin' and stumblin' from locale to locale. It's like Hunter Thompson said, "Never stay in one place more than two nights, because you never know who's following you."
Interesting question, redietz: what is serious money?
If you/I could win $100 a day -- every day -- I would call that serious money.
I don't play Rob's system and frankly I still don't understand it. But if I could win $100 a day, every day, I would be very happy with that.
Yeah- I get your drift on the "students" part. I finally got tired of forums because I thought a new forum would bring some fresh insights. The only reason I started forums was the shutdown of the Undeniable Truth site. I love VP and probably became a "student" because I had started to form similar opinions and my play, to a certain extent, was similar. In the site's final years, the advent of the ARTT strategy, recognition of hot/cold cycles, coupled with the knowledge gleaned from numerous articles, and especially special plays, my interest in following his articles led me to forums. After realizing this was a mistake-with the aforementioned forum being the last straw- I decided last week was my final . I think the motivating factor was realizing that site had all the info one could need and that I was fortunate enough to absorbed ALL the info over those 10 years. It's actually been a breath of fresh air just popping in every once in a while. So yeah, the "students" prefer silence.Quote:
Originally Posted by redietz
Sling, it doesn't really matter what you as a "student" or any of the many others who've come to understand and profit off of what I've taught, do or don't do on forums or anywhere else. The people who are jealous of my and your/their years of consistently making money from playing my strategies will never be able to accept it--and they most definitely will never get over it.
On that other forum Redietz mentions--all the fool claims to believe in is vp-gambling winners have only one option--to turn their profits into a bankroll for higher denomination play....something I've always steadfastly advised against. That's what hard core addicts do....it's what so-called AP's always do until they can't do it anymore. But the concept remains a strawman criticism of my approach and teachings simply because envious minds lack the ability to use logic when it comes to gambling success.
I have no doubt redietz--and whatever casino games he really plays--over the years has been hurt more than he would like to admit--by losses. It's why he follows me around: he's fascinated by the possibility that I actually have won what to him is a large amount of money gambling, and at the same time I suspect he in some way also enjoys the pain this supplies to his frustrated sense of what he believes should happen and how, in the mathematically driven world of supposed gambling outcomes.
Dan has the same challenge, only it's obvious he has more of a life than red--albeit one loaded with and completely controlled by gauged chaos. High blood pressure medication, already, is probably no stranger to him. And "buying"/operating this anemic forum isn't doing him any favors, other than to superficially fill in the holes he feels exist in a life he for misguided reasons, he wants to be solely defined by the gambling world. But when you have very little else going for you outside of "+EV only means you win, and -EV only means you will lose....no matter what!" then actually facing the real world that we all know will come around to sting you if you remain unprepared for what is yet to come, is not something anyone in such a position would be willing to entertain.
People have had to endure my successes in video poker for over 15 years now, and only those who cannot win at gambling have not been able to cope with it. Tough love. An idiot like arci chose to give it all he had with lies and hate for years, until his predictable life of vp-addiction that came before family and everything else, ripped his life and everything that was dear to him apart at the seams. I still openly mock him and his moronic choices, and the satisfaction of his tragic events only builds day by day as he can only burn in envy & anger over how great a life I and my family continue to have while he can only try to patch together something in some rightful, sorry-ass way for whatever remains of his deserved tortured life. In all these years of watching him tell lie after lie about me and my family, I could have never hoped for a more justice-laced ending. :)
Oh, "spock" I almost forgot. We'll be at the Red Sox/SF Giants game on June 7th, and we'll be in the new Hellcat Charger if you want to get pissed at me even more. I took it to Bondurant driving school a few weeks ago to learn how to handle it the best I can. So if you want a ride let me know. And it's right up your alley--it'll be FREE.
OMG!!!! I had to take my Chrysler 300 to the dealer for recall on an airbag issue. He took a long time to bring my car from the lot, so I jokingly told him I was about ready to drive off in an awesome looking black Charger. He laughed and said "That's not a car, that's a Hellcat!" I laughed, not getting what he was talking about. "Over 700 horsepower!" That's when my jaw dropped open! Man, I stood there and looked that thing over.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rob.Singer
Rob, whether you're "opining" or really psychic, you got me cold this time, my friend. I blew between $10 and $15 on Ghostbusters and Godzilla last year, and those losses are eating at me like sulfuric acid. I'm a sucker for the theme song and Godzilla making the seat vibrate.
Rob, I tell it like it is. I have played between 40 and 60 hours of video poker each year, mostly on quarter with some fifty cent sprinkled in. I don't play blackjack or craps, but I will venture into the occasional low stakes poker tournament, maybe two or three times a year in Las Vegas. And if I have match play coupons to blow, I'll use them on roulette so as to not upset serious blackjack players. That's about it for casino gaming. More than 99% of my wagering is sports.
So those are the casino games I "really play." If you have issues with facts, well, pony up some evidence I play anything else and I'll cut you a check. You have plenty of Las Vegas contacts -- some may even still be talking to you. Pony up some evidence I've had any horrendous casino gaming days, and I'll cut you a check. Have at it, my friend.
Must be tough. I spent a hundred days in Las Vegas each year for 30 years, and no disaster days. One of us must know what he's doing.
P.S. What happened to that 5K we're supposed to tackle together? You were griping I was probably out of shape and all that. Let's give it a try.
You never say anything coherent red. You're unknown to those you blab to about your gambling prowess, and that's why you do that. You say "100 days/yr. in LV for 30 years". Prove it. I wouldn't be surprised if you had a dozen different handles on 3 or 4 different forums. People like you thrive on making up identities that can't be verified.
Since you've been so fascinated with the polygraph for so long, why don't you simply post the confirmed results of the one you took right here and get it over with?
Nobody over 50 is stupid enough to be running any more. 5k this and 10k that. Whadoyagot, some weird yuppie complex or something? If you were really into taking care of yourself, then you'd know what those of us who actually do it at this age really do.
You're a categoric BSer red. And your dry humor doesn't cut it either.
Well that's ironic.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rob.Singer
Projection is what Singer does best. Most of his comments are a self-portrait.
You mean, like if I said "arci ran his wife into the ground (literally :)) due to his acute video poker addiction, which took him from the Indian casinos of Minn. to Henderson and back to the same Indian casinos when the wife started turning into a vegetable"? You mean like that arci?? I wonder how THAT one fits the mold you use to ease the pain of the truth.....Quote:
Originally Posted by arcimede$
Notice how arci can't stay away the moment I lay a ton of hurt onto anyone else. THIS is only a part of what I enjoy about him. Not only has he had to watch & endure as his personal life has fallen apart to the tune of my mocking him while OUR lives carry on with an abundance of love, enjoyment and the resources to do whatever we want and when---he gets to watch others suffer the same as he has!
Justice....you just gotta love it!
RS__ take note. While a casino service worker making minimum wage doesn't have much of a chance at any sort of future, paying attention to this could propel you in the right direction some day.
Rob's completely right, of course. I've used several scathingly brilliant pseudonyms over the years. For example, on this forum, since I'm a writer, nobody will connect redietz (with no caps and no punctuation) with R.E.Dietz, my actual name. R.E.Dietz would never make that kind of grammatical error. And get this, on another forum I actually used REDietz, just to throw people off the trail.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rob.Singer
I don't use any handles but redietz, which happens to be my name.
"People like you thrive on making up identities that can't be verified." Rob, are you having difficulties verifying me? All you have to do is ask, buddy, and I'll prep a bio just for you. I'm not shy about my personal history, despite my using all of those devious internet handles. Someday I may even drop the "e" from redietz.
Rob, you really shouldn't speculate and post "people like you" nonsense. You're almost always wrong -- it's shocking how bad you are at knowing things about people. And opining is just wrong. Months back, I read a post discussing something about your daughter, and her dumping her kids and hubby and running off with another dude and all that. Did I mention it? No, I was not going to take a cheap shot at your family values based on hearsay and guesswork. I would hope you would provide me the same courtesy.
Poor Robbie, still pushing the same lies that got him scolded by Alan. One can only chuckle at a moron who thinks playing video poker is hazardous to your health. I mean how stupid does a person have to be to continue repeating something that is this idiotic?
LOLOLOLOL. I can only hope the little man has on his big red nose on right now as he is clearly trying for the clown of the year award.
I think Rob has given me a wonderful opening to provide an autobiography. I didn't know Rob was so interested in my personal history, but now I feel obligated to write a nice bio for this forum just so Rob has confidence in my being real.
Meanwhile, I have to admit, no other gambling forum is giving Rob the time of day, so it's gotta be a downer for him.
Since I'm bored I will contribute to this train wreck.
When I google R.E. Dietz I get on the first page of results a lantern company.
When I google Rob Singer our Rob Singer's book and his videos with me show up on the first page of results.
Come on, Rob.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rob.Singer
You're doing your best to discredit basic mathematics.
It's not my fault that your strategies fly in the face of everything that is known about statistical anonymous.
You want us to believe that your hocus-pocus system will allow people to beat the casinos.
That logic might work on gambling n00bs, but you can't expect anyone who knows anything about odds and mathematics to go for what you're peddling.
Frighteningly, it does not appear to have occurred to Alan that this is an indictment of him and a bad thing. Prior to Alan, who did not do due diligence researching Rob, Rob's claim to fame was his books, which frankly have pretty rugged reviews on Amazon. Now since reviews are subjective, and "critics," -- as Rob would narcissistically say -- can load a reviews section with negatives, I have never mentioned the reviews. As a group, they are rough.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson
The point is, if Alan had researched Rob, by possibly
(1) reading the Singer book reviews and asking the right questions
(2) reading Rob's Gaming Today articles and calling his former bosses or
(3) consulting some math professionals
then the first thing that pops up regarding "Rob Singer" would probably not be the videos.
Instead, Alan is stuck in the same role vis-a-vis Rob as folks who put psychics or "talking with the dead" mediums on you tube because they find them "interesting" or "worth checking out."
Indeed, one could ask, "Hmmmm, Alan, there's a dude on the forum who won a handicapping contest with thousands of people, and finished second and third in two others. He presented a paper at the National Conference on Gambling and Risk-Taking. He was featured prominently in The McCusker Report during the 80's and 90's. He's had op-ed pieces on gambling published and perhaps, possibly, rumor has it, even dealt with Billy Walters on occasion. Who is that dude?"
Those are fine lanterns, by the way. That Dietz family has been making those lanterns for a long, long time. They are high quality lanterns. I come from a small coal-mining town, and I will vouch for them.
Oh redietz you are so predictable. All I said was Rob shows up on the first page of Google results and so does the lantern company. Give it a rest. Have you got a life?
I have no life, Alan. My friend, Tony Stark (pictured here), tells me I need to live fast and drive faster.[IMG]20160226_172814.jpg[/IMG]Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson
Tony Stark? Looks more like Dumbo wearing an Ironman mask.Quote:
Originally Posted by redietz
At least you can fly cheap to Vegas by flapping those ears.
Red, you're a phony in the gambling world and you know it, which is why whenever it's mentioned you get so many cramps.
Once again we see Singer providing us with pure projection.
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Originally Posted by Rob.Singer
I'm not sure I would call it "projection." I would call it "puzzling." What has redietz said that would deserve the title of "phony"? I don't recall any claim that redietz ever made that you could prove false. True, he only plays 25-cent video poker but there's nothing wrong in only playing 25-cent video poker. True he makes mostly sports bets and there's nothing wrong with that either. The amounts bet also don't define honesty or truth.Quote:
Originally Posted by arcimede$
Simply, Rob is making another one of his sandbox attacks.
Alan, please ask redietz to provide one iota of evidence that he even plays video poker, let alone gambles in any other manner. All he is is a self-promoting anonymous mouthpiece on an internet forum who mostly criticizes those whom he doesn't like. If we saw someone like arci make a fool of himself by promoting those stupid transcripts that completely tore down his "I'm a winning AP!" BS over the years, redietz would need a court-sanctioned declaration-of-truth to even approach the level of silliness arci stumbled into.
Ah, my dear friend, Rob. Doesn't quite know how to reign himself in.
I noticed regnis, on another thread, provided some autobiographical details which I'm sure many found interesting. Maybe it's that time for me.
Rob says I am "self promoting" and anonymous. Hmmmm. Well, those who wince at self promotion should probably close their eyes and skip this post. To this point, my only "self-promotions" have been in response to Rob's various declarations.
Well, let's get to it:
Recently:
* Finished first in Heritage Sports 2016 Race to the SuperBowl contest versus thousands of entrants. Won 25K in free plays.
* Finished third in Northbet's 2016 Pick the Pros contest, against thousands of entrants.
* Finished second in Linemaster's Bowl Contest.
Some publications:
* "Scientists, Gamblers, and Magicians" The Humanist
* "The Gambling Personality: An Interactional Perspective" National Conference on Gambling and Risk-Taking
* Op Ed pieces regarding College Football Gambling Ban -- Centre Daily Times and elsewhere.
* Numerous short pieces in past Playbook (Marc Lawrence) newsletters
Some bio material:
* Super Bowl interview. Shenandoah Evening Herald.
* Bio Interview. Pottsville Republican.
* Who's Who in Sports Gambling bio (Hall Publishing, 1984)
Some past monitoring:
* Prominently listed (usually favorably) in the 1980's and 90's McCusker Report, which published an annual list of sports service results.
* The only McCusker service to win the college football profit title three times.
* Wise Guys Contest former champion (if you don't know what this is, shame on you). For a stretch, had the best 10-year record of those who had been in the contest for 10 years plus.
The funny thing is, except for the 2016 contests, I haven't mentioned many of these things. Somehow in 2000+ posts, they must have skipped my mind. Either that, or I haven't done a very good job self promoting.
I'm private these days. If you want to see the old website, go to the wayback machine archives and plug in integritysports.com. I haven't checked in ages, but it should still be there.
I love Rob. Without his constant "you're a phony" nonsense, this could come across as bragging. And "anonymous?" Evidently, Rob needs a dictionary.
Nobody?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rob.Singer
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Originally Posted by Rob.Singer
Really, Rob? He says he plays 25-cent video poker. Are you really going to demand proof of it? When is your childishness going to stop? When?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rob.Singer
Red, you're nothing more than another anonymous poster on the internet who self-promotes some image in order to make unsubstantiated claims. Until you post pics and a matching ID for being the person in all that stuff you write about, you're no more a reality than are the RS__'s of the gambling world. And you being "private these days" appears as a simple method of obfuscating the truth while trying to get readers to "believe in the unsubstantiated past". Your approach to all this isn't much different than how mickeycrimm writes his fairytales.Quote:
Originally Posted by redietz
Eddie, you're density astounds. Do you know what a "grandson" is....and can you actually picture what a "footrace" with one of them would look like? I know I know--most people enthralled with gambling have no wife or are on their 3rd or 4th if they haven't yet driven them all into the ground the way arci did, they barely speak to their children if in fact they have any, and interacting with any grandchildren is totally out of the question.Quote:
Originally Posted by a2a3dseddie
Wake up and smell the vp machines Alan. He's nothing but a former LVA hack who has since chosen to make unsupported claims of being somebody who's done certain things in gambling that for some reason he won't ever prove. So I'm calling BS on his claim of even playing video poker. Who cares what denom. he talks about playing? And like I said, he's probably fat.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson
Rob is, of course, absolutely correct. I need to drop 10-12 pounds.
Maybe Rob could train me. I currently have a helluva time with anything over three miles.
I can't run because I'm too fat.