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Radish

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Post by Radish » Sun Feb 10, 2019 9:53 am
Whilst in my IVA, I entered a large poker tournament expecting to go out at the first table. I actually won the whole thing and pocketed £300.

All past tense now, should this have gone into my IVA pot? its more of a curiosity at this stage. I was talking (as in bragging) about this yesterday and I never at any point thought about my IVA at the time, till it hit me yesterday.
It was the only time I ever played in this type of event and not even competed again since that day.

I didn't quite see myself ever getting on the same table as James Bond and Le Chiffre
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Post by Foggy » Sun Feb 10, 2019 9:56 am
It would have fallen under the windfall category and, assuming you had the usual £500 trigger, would not have been payable to your creditors.
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Post by Radish » Sun Feb 10, 2019 10:44 am
Foggy wrote:
It would have fallen under the windfall category and, assuming you had the usual £500 trigger, would not have been payable to your creditors.

Pity it wasn't the poker million :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Post by luluj » Mon Feb 11, 2019 3:03 am
Lucky win ! Under the £500 clause it would be yours to keep so you were ok ....

Better luck next time... might get a few more 0's on the end !
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