[Zetack]

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2) get 180k fpps, and they are worth 3grand.... you can get anything u want practically... If they cant get if for you, YOU buy it (credit card is fine), send them a statement and they credit yer account with cash.
I recently talked to PSVIP peeps and they said they would be willing make accomidations to pay off my tuition debt of 5k for whatever the FPP conversion is."hence im buying an education" (probably around 325k)... this is good as cash for me.... (as id be paying the debt in cash anyhow, get liquid folks)

Thirdly dont look at the cash u can buy in the stores for FPP thats a scam for dummies, not 2p2ers. There is way better ways to get equity out of yer FPPS....


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The problem for me, with getting a worse return on straight cash (or bonii) than on a gift card is that I don't treat my poker money as fungible with my non-poker money. So I don't want to have to go shopping around for ways to spend my rewards to get a better return than I can get for straight up money (or bonii).

Ordinarily what you say is true, if you get a gift card for something you would buy anyway, well money is money is money. Its all fungible. But in my case, since I strictly separate my poker bankroll from my "real" money, my bankroll and outside money are not interchangeable. So I want my poker rewards to go into my bankroll not into my spending money.

To get the effect that you're talking about, the way I treat my money, I'd have to take an additional step of, everytime I spent say 150 bucks from my gift card on groceries, I'd have to transfer 150 bucks from my checking to my bankroll. That's a hassle I'd just as soon not go through.

Plus, at a certain point, I'm just not buying that many groceries or gas. And I'm not big on planning my discretionary spending. Altough I frequently buy books at barnes and nobles or wherever, I have an amazon gift card that I've had for about 13 months now, and not used.

--Zetack