I cackled a bit at pigeon dissing. Your translation just never misses
Also I begin to wonder whether foremen actually receive discounts on one-day passes? Or is their salary that much higher? Otherwise the math isn't really mathing even with chinchiro winnings considered, plus he often eats special menu in the underground diner, plus with perica to yen conversion rate in mind he's eating and traveling quite a lot. It would also make sense given that foremen need to restock the goods they sell.
And given that Ootsuki receives his special dice only a year prior to Kaiji pt 2 - does that mean he's a natural-born talent at playing chinchiro to earn this much?
Maybe there's a special agreement for the foremen to where they just agree to stay underground indefinitely on their position and so no perica earned goes towards their debt?