Originally posted on 07/03/2013:

With the amount you owe yisman (the equivalent to years worth of points even if you didn't blow any in the casino or donk them away in poker), renewing with points isn't an honorable or practical option. Being from the US you can't buy points to make the debt right; donating to charity to re-up your pro status is the only permitted way you can turn dollars into points to pay your debt down...and as anyone with even a tenous grasp of math and/or your points history can tell you, converting $$ to points is your only chance of paying down your debt to yisman before one of you dies of old age.

Good job on at least making a teeny tiny step along the right path over the last couple days, but these points should still be going to yisman and you should be saving up real $$ to renew.