BCAPL 9-ball payouts - Chris Melling

steev said:
if he's not a US citizen, they'll take about half for taxes, up front.

-s
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Makes you wonder if a foreign player really has the incentive to win a US Championship. Maybe they hope for an American to get to the end so they can lose and chop it up and leave with more money!
 
There is a lot to this story! Chris was to get $3400 for first and not $7,000. He might have been told he was getting $7,000, but that was a mix-up on BCA's part. They ended up overpaying quite a few people to the tune on $10,000!!! :)

Like I said, a LOT to this story.
 
gutshot said:
There is a lot to this story! Chris was to get $3400 for first and not $7,000. He might have been told he was getting $7,000, but that was a mix-up on BCA's part. They ended up overpaying quite a few people to the tune on $10,000!!! :)

Like I said, a LOT to this story.
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So you are saying the $7000 was a mix-up from BCA? Please explain...

I believe what you say that there is more to the story, and mosy likely a misunderstanding, but your post confuses me
 
Maybe the $7000 was because he won $3400 from the 9-Ball challenge he won and $3400 from the Grandmasters 8-Ball title he won. Mark Griffin is not going to be involved in any scandal even if it means he ships it from his own pocket.
 
mikeyfrost said:
Maybe the $7000 was because he won $3400 from the 9-Ball challenge he won and $3400 from the Grandmasters 8-Ball title he won. Mark Griffin is not going to be involved in any scandal even if it means he ships it from his own pocket.
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I go along with this too. Mark Griffin is not going to pay what he said he'd pay. Johnnyt
 
mikeyfrost said:
Maybe the $7000 was because he won $3400 from the 9-Ball challenge he won and $3400 from the Grandmasters 8-Ball title he won. Mark Griffin is not going to be involved in any scandal even if it means he ships it from his own pocket.
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That's what I posted over there too, there must be a misunderstanding here
 
Roy Steffensen said:
I got the same amount as Americans with same result at DCC...
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At most casinos they only deduct taxes if you win over a certain amount so you may have been under the threshold.

It doesn't seem to be a set amount though because I had taxes deducted when I won a little over $500 (only 10%) in a poker tournament while I knew other Canadians that had won over $1000 on a slot machine and didn't have any tax deducted.

If Melling had a large amount deducted from his winnings he should look into getting a taxpayer identification number and filing a U.S. return. I live in a border city and we have many Canadians who do that when they have money withheld from their casino winnings and they get part or all of it refunded. The UK/US tax treaty may be different than the US/Canada tax treaty though so some research would have to be done.
 
It is my understanding from Brits that USA and England has some kind of agreement indicating that USA will not collect the taxes on the money earned by Brits while in USA.British govt will collect the taxes from the Brits for their income in USA.This is what I was told by Chris.
 
Seems real close to me... no issues I can see.

248 entries
$110 per entry (minus $10 reg fee)
$24800 + $2500 added = $27300 prize fund.

Paid out 64 places (shallow payout like the flier promised)
payouts total $27600 with first place getting $3400.

Flier listed $3000 1st place guaranteed up to $5000 for full field of 256

Or is my math wrong?
 
This has nothing to do about taxes or any other outside situations.

Mark (or someone affiliated with the BCA) accidentally over payed quite a few people and when it became time to pay Chris his winnings, he was short approx. $10,000 and therefore, did not have enough to pay Chris his due prize money.

Chris was told he was going to get $7000 for winning, but that was a mistake too (since someone figured the payouts wrong and was overpaying people). Chris was to actually get $3400.

This whole situation may have been resolved since then because this all went down Monday I believe.
 
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