anything that spurs you to pay off CCs is a good thing. Having a credit card you don't pay off every month is a bad thing and your 'peeps' are making a mistake that as poker players they should pretty clearly understand. None of that has anything to do with poker.

If he was using the roll to buy new electronic equipment your post would make sense but if you read OP being bored is only a small part of the issue, being broke is the bigger part.