i dunno if he has gambling addiction. just because he can't stop while losing doens't means he is addicted. its diferent things - i am not addicted, but while losing i never ever stop.

btw i agree w/ you, this made me sad, cleary someone w/ big problems. pretty sure he is depressed and i feel bad for him, because i already have been there and i know how sick it is. some idiots saying ''hahaha this donkey deserve it!!! should cashout'' come on, things doens't work like this.

gl to him.

Eh Urubu, I don't totally agree.

I think self control is something that you have to have if you ever want to be successful at this game. This guy obviously doesn't have self control at all, so I don't feel sorry for him.

If he was playing 5k HU sngs, and got every single one in as a 70:30 and lost each one, then i'd feel bad. But because he can't bring himself to quit, that's his own fault.

It sucks, but it is what it is.

lolwtf how can you feel bad for that guy?

haha he has nothing, goes to 140k and now he has nothing becuase hes ****ing stupid (addiction or not). Seriously the ***** pussy culture these days.

This.

Man, you guys are cold. I feel very bad for this guy. Where is the compassion? Oh well, I guess most poker players are the people who point and laugh at troubled folks rather than vow to help them.

Change the settings to open a blank page rather than apple.com. Definitely one of the first things I do when I first set up a new computer.

if the money was that big of a deal, he would have cashed some out.


^ty glak

this assumes rational thinking on his part, and this simply does not happen with degenerates. i've seen it first hand.

but why on earth you would feel sorry for someone like that is a mystery to me. Calling him an idiot is probably a bit harsh. But he knows it is a problem, yet he isnt taking action to handle his problem apparantly. Oh and he luckboxed that 140k$ in the first place. so...

no coldness about it whatsoever. i have compassion, but for people that deserve it. the idea that that guy deserves an ounce of compassion is disgusting to me. the emotion i feel when hearing about him is jealousy that he got into that position in the first place.

i'm fine with calling him an idiot in the same sense that i'm happy calling drug addicts idiots

elky broke one of my ribs yesterday.

beginning of the graph makes me think he could afford to take it or leave it anyway right?

Feel bad when people have a golden egg fall and their lap though and you just know they are going to give it back.. not even for them personally I guess, just hate to see opportunity squandered.

anyone got some supa boss halloween costume idea I can steal, right now its between being an angry bird or the guys from Workaholics w/ roommates

I'm with wazz here, and I do help old people cross the street.

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what's wrong w/feeling compassion for him? It's not going to kill you either way.

umm. It's a feeling. Not really somehting you choose. It just happens.

maybe I need to clarify

why does it bother you guys if people feel compassion for a degen?

As for a choice vs. it happens? It's actually more of a choice than you think.

any advice from the OZ guys about campervaning around the coast, late nov - jan, for def , maybe longer. i know the hostels are super busy christmas time and id rather stay in them or camp than decent hotels , any tips, is renting a camper van easy? gonna be with a couple mates if anyone fancies showing us a few places on our travels lemme know

So wait, the guys that feel sorry for the +$140-$130k guy, did you feel bad watching Jamie Gold do the same thing? Cause I personally loved watching him lose all his money, but at the same time I'm compassionate to those worse off than me.

are you arguing that because they feel compassion for 1 degen they have to feel compassion for all?

Kinda. Whats even weirder is JG seems to haev a somewhat tolerable personality outside of poker, while this random who luckboxed his way to $140K gets the apathy.

im wondering why people feel bad for him at all. on one hand, if he was rich enough to not care about money, most people shouldnt care at all that he spews it all back. on the other, if hes a degen, he lost a bit leading up to this (like 7k or so?) then wins tons, and loses it all back. he drops stakes, keeps playing. mtt version of pokerparty?

I'm wondering why anyone cares or hates on it?

i dont think people are really hating on it, just saying they dont see the reason to feel bad for him. fwiw at first i felt bad for him, then thought about it and then was oi

personally i would start in melbourne and travel up along the east coast to byron bay or the gold coast and from there either keep heading up the coast or head inland,i'd def be spending like couple days to 1 week from bottom to top in,

http://maps.google.com.au/maps?hl=en&tab=wl

melbourne,sydney,newcastle (prob just drop in here),port macquarie,scotts head (grew up here and this is the best place on earth),coffs harbour,yamba might be worth a visit for a day,byron bay/lennox heads,don't go to nimbin even if you smoke pot (too many junkies and the dope is rope) gold coast is a really cool place,personally don't like brisbane but would prob go there cause its a capital city cairns is a whole dif world your in the tropics and have the great barrier reef to go explore. those are the sorta places you want to be visiting if you went from bottom to top.

google any of those places and figure out what you want to do,theres prob hundreds of interesting places to visit in between.

http://www.wickedcampers.com.au/

these are probably the cheapest option and have a fair bit of style about them.