View Poll Results: What Were Your Blackjack Results for 2014

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  • Losing Year: $-0- and Less

    9 20.00%
  • Won: $1 to $500

    2 4.44%
  • Won: $501 to $1,000

    2 4.44%
  • Won: $1,001 to $2,500

    2 4.44%
  • Won: $2,501 to $5,000

    3 6.67%
  • Won: $5,001 to $10,000

    5 11.11%
  • Won: $10,001 to $25,000

    6 13.33%
  • Won: $25,001 to $50,000

    7 15.56%
  • Won: $50,001 to $75,000

    4 8.89%
  • Won: More Than $75,000

    5 11.11%
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Thread: Poll: What Were Your Blackjack Results for 2014

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    Poll: What Were Your Blackjack Results for 2014

    This is a not a public poll. No one else can see your handle. I'm just interested in only blackjack results before expenses.

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    I'm kind of surprised that nobody had a losing year.

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    IRS will force Norm to give up names to tax who claim to have big wins. Government do this all the time to Google, Facebook and Yahoo for all kinds of purpose.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BJGenius007 View Post
    IRS will force Norm to give up names to tax who claim to have big wins. Government do this all the time to Google, Facebook and Yahoo for all kinds of purpose.
    Hopefully, you are being honest and paying income taxes on your winnings. However, when I signed up for this site, I never gave my real name or my real email address. The only way the government is going to find out who I am is by tracing my internet provider address which Norm does have, and I assume the government could easily get if they wanted to either by a court order requiring Norm to reveal it or by simply hacking Norm's site. I have no question that if the government wanted to find out who I am they could easily due it.

    However, I'm not concerned one bit because I do include my gambling income in my taxes. In fact in my case I will be reporting more than this poll indicates because I also made a couple thousand dollars in free play income which this poll did not address. This poll was only for blackjack and you could of easily have had other gambling wins or losses.

    However, I'm curious if Norm ever had a request by the goverment to reveal personal information.
    Last edited by Midwest Player; 01-02-2015 at 12:16 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Midwest Player View Post
    The only way the government is going to find out who I am is by tracing my internet provider address which Norm does have
    They know who EVERYBODY is!

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    Quote Originally Posted by 21forme View Post
    They know who EVERYBODY is!
    Damn Right, they know!! Where do you think we live? The rest of the world does not have governments that have the desire or ability to find out everything they want about their citizens or citizens as meek as the USA. The citizens of other countries can overthrow their governments.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BJGenius007 View Post
    IRS will force Norm to give up names to tax who claim to have big wins. Government do this all the time to Google, Facebook and Yahoo for all kinds of purpose.
    Even if that were the case, they'd have to prove it, beyond mere embellishment on a public domain on the interwebs of all things. Hell, ZK might claim 4k for the year from his 5 minutes of make believe play, but he might in truth be a pimple faced teenager who couldn't yet set foot in a casino, and the jury is still out on that. Point is, if you claimed a, say, 50k year win on this forum in this poll, the IRS can't just take that at face value and hit you for it. The only way they can "pinch" you for anything, is if there's a paper trail behind it that actually validates the claim, such as bank statements and such in correlation with casino visits and so forth, even then, they'd have to dig pretty hard on it to find something.

    Wouldn't worry about the IRS, ever, especially so if you claim it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BJGenius007 View Post
    IRS will force Norm to give up names to tax who claim to have big wins. Government do this all the time to Google, Facebook and Yahoo for all kinds of purpose.
    If you're winning $75k+ a year, they're gonna find out anyways. And if you're winning a few thousand, they usually have bigger fish to fry.
    The Cash Cow.

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    Seems unlikely that theirs alot more winners than losers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BlackHead View Post
    Seems unlikely that theirs alot more winners than losers.
    Even in a blind poll there will ba a whole lot of BS responses. Especially the winning ones.

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    Even without BS responses, responses obtained using a voluntary poll are unlikely to represent the actual population being sampled.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gronbog View Post
    Even without BS responses, responses obtained using a voluntary poll are unlikely to represent the actual population being sampled.
    Agree. In this particular case, just considering the natural human bias towards showing the positive (wins) instead of the negatives (losses) makes these results kind of normal

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