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I don't understand what you're saying.

 

Are you saying he won't be able to serve his probation without a violation?

 

He's in the system now so he is more likely to be a target from local, state, or federal law enforcement?

 

This guy just won a stupid soft judgement and is free rolling every day of freedom for the next 5 years.

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He won't be much longer, or if he stays that way, he's a lock to do time eventually.

Everyone's a world-changing idealist willing to live by their own thesis until your door gets kicked and you see your name printed across the top of the charge sheet, versus the State of, or the United States of...

 

Doesn't he have a kid now? And isn't he a winning low to mid stakes player? That's the rest of his life, right there. Either that or aliyah and start over.

 

He does have a kid now, but it's debatable at what levels he's ever been able to beat poker. I'd be shocked if he posted a winning poker year after 2007. His real talents lie in other areas.

 

He got into bitcoins really, really early and really hard. Poker people were making fun of him and mocking him for it. Then they exploded, no one is sure how much he made off bit coins, but it was a lot. Hopefully for his sake, he still has some of that bitcoin money.

 

He has a job in "loss prevention" right now, I know http://www.theprovince.com/news/vancouver+drone+store+fights+back+after+brazen+robberies/11363572/story.html Drones were another thing he was in on early and hard. The idea that Micon is a loss prevention officer is funny to anyone familiar with his history, btw.

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I don't understand what you're saying.

 

Are you saying he won't be able to serve his probation without a violation?

 

He's in the system now so he is more likely to be a target from local, state, or federal law enforcement?

 

This guy just won a stupid soft judgement and is free rolling every day of freedom for the next 5 years.

 

He didn't win a 'stupid soft judgement'. They had a gray area case, he had no meaningful criminal record (that I've heard about) and you don't understand how 'the system' works in the real world as opposed to Law and Order. People thinking he would do time were naive. Was it possible? Of course. It always is, but it was never likely. It was a guy with no record in a regulatory thing, in a gray area.

 

The point I'm making is that the system may give you a 'pass' on those kinds of things, but only once. People who get sentenced to probation for small potatoes federal tax evasion, the gun store employee who makes a "you probably shoulda known better" sale to a 22 year old black girl and her felon boyfriend who points at the gun he wants in the case and are working as CI's for the BATF as string operation straw purchasers, the cop who gets caught logging overtime hours on his days off when he's out playing golf and gets prosecuted... There's a certain class of offense that might ensnare someone who has no criminal history and really may not have had any nefarious 'criminal intent' but just does something stupid, like running an online cryptocurrency poker room from Nevada.

 

The system will usually wave those guys through with a sentence of probation or community service or a fine, but only once. If Micon's plan is to continue to operate on the margins of life, he will most definitely get jammed up again and suddenly, what once was a weird event becomes a pattern of criminality, evidence of someone who has a deep disregard for the rules of society and on the second go-round, he does time.

 

He walked because it was a regulatory case and he has no criminal history. Anything he does in the future will be judged against this as evidence he is a criminal and has lost time to make up for. Violence in prison is massively overblown, but someone like him, he would have a hard time.

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He got into bitcoins really, really early and really hard. Poker people were making fun of him and mocking him for it. Then they exploded, no one is sure how much he made off bit coins, but it was a lot. Hopefully for his sake, he still has some of that bitcoin money.

 

So the GoFundMe was just jews a'jewing, he was liquid all along?

BTC has been retardo over the past week. Almost doubling.

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If he intends to live one of those half-in/half-out shady shitbag (but with plausible deniability) lifestyles, he needs to understand that from this point forward, if he gets jammed up again, he'll be sentenced as though he's been living an all-in criminal lifestyle.

 

People don't understand just how massively the stakes raise when you go to court on a SECOND serious offense. You almost always go to jail.

 

The guy needs to leave Vegas and apply whatever talents he has to whatever businesses pay, leave the gray area shit behind. Doing 2, 4, 7 years in protective custody (where he would have to be) will leave you permanently damaged and mentally ill for the rest of your life. He slips up again, he's going in.

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