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Originally Posted by CursedbyaGypsy
I feel extremely sorry for Max. I know he seems like a douchebag to everyone, and I do agree that everyone is responsible for their own actions but what is clear is that he has an extremely bad gambling problem.
Same as Brad Booth and all the others that have been 'outed' on 2+2.
I've seen some very close friends of mine get into the same crap. Their intention is to pay, but to pay they have to borrow from others to pay, and sometimes they borrow an amount that isn't good enough, so they think they can play with that amount and get it up so they can pay everyone back.
The vicious circle goes on and on.
More importantly, I don't like it when lenders complain that they've been scammed. You're giving money to a person who is gambling with it, so you for a start should face the consequences.
Max isn't entitled to pay anyone anything by the way (correct me if I'm wrong, but in Egypt, as long as there isn't a legal document, there's nothing). But he's trying to make amends and trying to pay everyone back.
It's hard for people like Max to be outed like that. It's hard but it's the best thing that could happen to him because I highly doubt that people would give him any money now.
Good luck to him and to the ones getting paid.
But for f**ks sake, stop lending gamblers money.
Pretty sure Max gambles for a living. So if he has no money to gamble, he will have no way to earn a living. Obviously he hit a major downswing and had to start borrowing at some point, which lead to borrowing from others to repay previous loans. Even if he currently has enough money to repay everyone he owes, he's not going to want to give away all that money and effectively take himself out of action.
I give him credit for posting and talking about making an effort to repay everyone he owes, but he'll probably have to have some sort of big score to be able to actually do it.