Take him to a local funeral parlor to pick out a coffin.
Dumb and ill-advised.
Make sure he has a will and that all his affairs are in order. Make note of all scars, tattoos and other identifying marks. Get a picture right before he plans to leave.
If he’s putting his $$ in a Mexican bank he can kiss it goodbye. This is from experience. Put it in there and see how much chance you have of getting it out. Endless delays, endless forms to be filled out -— you never fill them out correctly -— they tell you that’s the wrong bank account number,the compuer is down, they don’t understand this new program on the computer, bank manager wants bribes, you only get back a half or a fourth while they say they are waiting for somebody to fix the computer-— he will spend all his days in the bank lobby waiting until he is an old, old man.
Funny - a guy on my senior hockey team is facing the same thing!
Of course, we are very close to Canada, so he can go to the casinos there to play. Has your son looked into Canada? It’s not ideal, but its better than Mexico.
Step 1: On November 6, vote the Kenyan Interloper and his gang of thugs out of office.
Step 2: Try a Caribbean island instead. I hear there are some real nice places down there that are just as cheap as Mexico and a WHOLE lot safer.
If me must go to Mexico to play the game, why not Ensanada or some nicer place. What about Canada? I am sure there are other places that have not been banned by Holder.
He can gamble legally in this country. Introduce him to futures trading and stock day trading.
hmmm, so your telling me that making something illegal does not stop it. Strange...
Can you somehow impress upon the lad that simply dedicating so much of his time and treasure to playing poker (on or off line) is in itself a debilitating and bottomless black hole devouring all he has to spend while on the face of this planet?
Poker is the prime example of a zero-sum game. For someone to win, somebody else has to lose, and this only excites the most base emotions a human being can experience, up to and including kicking over the poker table and gunning down all the other participants. Especially after the guy across the table has been gloating about taking all your chips.
Take out a hefty life insurance policy on him.....
Anybody recall that thread?
Tell him you're cutting him out of your will in one month.
Then mail him a copy of this thread.
Leni
Tell him that stupidity has a cure.... It’s called death..
Give him a large hefty bag with his name and return address on it and make sure to have him tell someone to collect all the pieces and put them in the bag before sending it back home...
Tell him to get a real job that produces something of value.
You can’t do anything but pray a covering of protection over him. Think about it.... He plays poker! His risk aversion level has been tested and has been superseded. He makes calculated risk decisions thousands of times a day with every hand he plays. You have to remember that how he chooses to or not to do something is completely different than how you assess it. You will not be able to convince him other wise. I think the other freeper that said he will not be able to remove his money has an excellent point. I would ask him to begin to move his money out of mexico and see if he has problems doing it. It may wake him up that what he has may not be recoverable. He can understand that... not a ethereal safety issue .
Unfortunately, if he wants to push all in with “deuce seven off” that is his choice.
Appeal to his sense of risk and describe in realistic terms, the odds of him losing his life.
I would hope he can find a better way to make money soon, sounds like a literal dead end if he goes to Mexico.
Why in the world would he go to Mexico if he lives in Florida? Why wouldn’t he just go to the Bahamas, 85 miles away?