[MicroBob]

Well, of course he's not handing over the money to bet with him.

I'm saying that once your bookie owes you $30k and hasn't paid at all you have some responsibility to determine whether you should continue betting with him or not.

Obviously daliman made that determination once it got all the way up to $80k and I think he could have done so earlier.
Maybe he ran hot on just a few $5k or $10k bets over a 7 day stretch and it all happened very quickly.
But I get the impression that this was a bit more drawn-out.


For a rogue bookie...once you get to $20k or $30k and he already is in too deep do you think he's going to say, "I can't pay you as it is so I'm going to stop taking your action?"
Some might do that but a lot will not and they will just continue to accept your action in hopes that you run cold and you are back to even and the heat is suddenly off of you.
Then daliman continues to run hot and this bookie realizes that he's now screwed for even more and it's time to just run away from the situation.