To note, the thing that really got me was the sense of control I got because they offered to give ME money to play at the higher stakes. Whether he figured I'd turn it down... To be able to turn it around and run his grift.. 🤷 To this day I think about the subtleties.

Basically, don't go in on anything where your partner isn't just straight up offering skills/work in a very upront manner.

Also, don't go to casinos in your early twenties!? 🤣🍻

Yeeeppp. Quite dumb, and I can't believe I was that stupid thinking back. Was full of brain chemicals and whatnot because I was on a heater (gambling, am I right!?). Learned from it though, at least.

I fell for an equally dumb scam when I was young. Playing poker at a casino, I was up like 2k. Got approached by someone at a higher table saying that they busted out, but could split the buy-in with me and I could play (half staked for the two of us). Of course I felt uncomfortable with this and said no (this was like twice the buy in I would be used to). But then he was like well, all I really need to get back into the game is like $500... Well, clearly that $500 was dumped immediately. Whether it was a gambling addict losing my money, or a scammer dumping my money to his friends at the table I'll never know... The only thing a know is there was zero chance I was getting anything back.