Recent chapter out of my degen 'Lessons Learned' db:

2/23/2009 $160 to $1375 to $0 LATE
3/1/2009 $160 to $1700 to $0 DRUNK/LATE
3/2/2009 $140 to $1380 to $0 HU?
3/3/2009 $125 to $1200 to $0 WHAT
4/15/2009 $-2300 in 2 hrs LATE
4/18/2009 $-2000 ...
4/24/2009 $180 to $2000 to $0
4/27/2009 $-2500 in 1 hr
5/1/2009 $-3300 HU
DONE

Find me on pokerstars 1/2 2/4. The F do.

this could be me lol

Well, I degened another $175 after busting out on the "bubble" ("won" a big fat $20) of a $16 satellite that would have won me $215 tourney dollars. I'm finished until May 18th. While degen... I still realize I'm majorly on tilt and need to stop for a while... plus I'm completely broke now. Next paycheck comes in the 15th. I'll probably pull some from that and try to play smart again.

Fail, now leave

Is this awesome thread now officially dead?

this is the roulette guy "with a system". so, lets pretend this guy is 100% legit. isnt he the hugest tard in history? he has a "winning system" that always works at roulette, yet he chooses to only make 5k over a year, when he could easily use the system to make any amount? riiiiiight.

More Degen Stories!

I NEVER, NEVER laugh so much on all my internet time... i almost start choking on this *** with my own drool but i dont give a damn i read this post i can just go to heaven now

THANK you, im a better person thanks to you I hope u find cancer cure wins a nobel and they will replace benjamin franklin face on bills with a pic of you

I made notes to notepad like year ago in roulette table online.Am i degen=?

shawn marion

In an admittedly lame attempt to revive this epic thread I will post this minor degen. I had worked a $20 deposit to $500 betting basketball. One night after the games are over I was bored, but still had beers left. I decide I should try sportsbooks new simulated horseraces. A litte background, I HATE horseraces because of the jockey and love the dograces because you can't brobe a dog to pull up. I start with minumum bets and lose the first few races. I then convince myself the I need to do more "research" on the simulated program and that simulated horseraces are beatable. After I lose half my roll I am still not convinced - OKAY I was on monkey tilt and insta shove the rest of my BR on the even money favorite the next race. As I fall down and wake my family rooting on my simulated horse, I realize I am a bit more drunk than I thought and turn off the computer after the "horse" wins. To end the story I work the BR to 1K and lose it all at 7/5 odds on the Kobe-Shaq-Malone-Peyton Lakers.

wanted to deposit 50 onto party with my debit card. actually clicked an extra 0 and deposited 500. stared at the screen loaded up the cashout cursing my stupidity. degen bug hit...bought into lhe 1/2 with 100 ran it up to 215 cashed out my 500 left on 115 been a pro ever since after running SICK HOT FOR LIKE 3 MONTHS then hitting a downswing cashing out and studying then redepositing.

any downswing ive ever hit i just remind myself how lucky i was that day/few months. few different river cards or w/e and i could have slipped down another path entirely.

Playing in a live game with a bunch of friends (most winning grinders). The game is boring so people start flipping on the side. M is on a huge downswing so he's flipping with A to blow off steam. They start running $50 seven card no peek cold hands. Sick coolers ensue and everyone's laughing. They go from $50 to $100, from $100 to $200. Eventually they agree to do a $1k cold hand and A loses and is stuck for like 1.2K (which he doesn't have). A is sullen, everyone's quiet because we can't believe how out of hand it got and everyone's packing it in since it's like 7AM. L, another friend, tells M to let him off easy and M screams something to the effect of, "I'M DOWN LIKE 12K to Present this month, F**k that!" and everyone just busts out laughing. I ended up $30 for the night.

Built my role up to around 30k (euro) then blew 16k on horses bec i though i had "a system" that was a bad summer

if any of you degens need a romantic reason to keep doing... what you do...

PACINO

WALTER
My name's Walter. I'm new to the group.

(various "hellos")

Hi. I've been going to meetings like this for 18 years. Once
a week, every Friday night, for 18 years. This, my friends,
is my 936th consecutive meeting.

(enthusiastic applause)

Thank you. Thanks. And my hand to God, I haven't been to a
track, casino or bet a game that whole time. Not a cent.

(murmurs of approval)

I've listened to thousands of sob stories by people like Leon
here, and I gotta say, Leon -- if I learned one thing it's that
gambling is not your problem.

LEON
It's not?

WALTER
Not even close. You're a lemon. Like a bad car, there's something
inherently defective in you. And you. And me! All of us here
-- we're lemons! Big, juicy, acidic, ice-tea flavoring lemons!
We look like everyone else but we're defective because when
most people make a bet they want to win, while we, the degenerate
gamblers of the world, we're subconsciously playing to lose.
All humans like going to the edge of the abyss, but what makes
us different is we go all the way and hurl ourselves off into
the void! And we like doing it so much we do it time after time
after time! Me? I always felt most alive when they were raking
away the chips, and every one here knows what I'm talking about.
People like us, even when we win, it's just a matter of time
before we give it all back. But when we lose, and I mean the
kind of loss that makes your ******* pucker to the size of a
decimal point, there's a moment when you're standing there and
you've just recreated the worst possible nightmare this side
of malignant cancer for the 20th goddamn time and you suddenly
realize -- hey, I'm still here, I'm still breathing, I'm still
alive! In order to really live you have to be aware of your
own mortality -- and a losing bet of a certain size is one of
the best ways


WALTER CON'D
I know of getting that feeling. When you win, you defy death,
but when you lose,

you survive it, and that's remarkable!

Us lemons, we **** **** up on purpose! We need to constantly
remind ourselves

that we're alive! Gambling's not the problem, Leon, your ****ed
up need to feel something, to convince yourself you exist, to
test what's really real, that's the problem!

BICYCLE MESSENGER
Hey! You're the guy I see on tv every weekend selling betting
picks!

WALTER
... Yeah. So?

Jesus... where do I start.....

Made my 1st deposit online around the age of 16 (now 22) and lost around 1k after bonuses and such on PokerRoom playing .50/1 1/2 and $11-$33 STG . (I was making $6 an hour at this time)

Was a winning 25c/50c NL live cash game player for 2 years. Payed for beer and booze freshmen/sophomore year. Though I was amzing at poker so moved up in stakes

Went to some chartiable poker events and lost around 3K using my credit card. I would play 1-2 and would always get "unlucky"

Got better job making around $500 every two weeks doing only around 10 real hours of work of the 40 or so I billed. Decided to move up to 2/5 NL and 2/5 PLO at local casino.

Lost around 3k doing that. So more random online deposits of $100 each and would short stack 1/2 NL and 1/2 PLO.

Lost more playing live. Parents found out about credit card debt and how I've been spending my money

Still losing now.... stopped playing poker for the last two months after finding this site. Have been reading everything I see on here learning and constantly telling myself how ******ed I've played in the past 6 years. Will finally pay off everything at the end of August. Will save up a little cash by around Decemeber and purchase PT3 and make a small deposit to grind micro limits. WILL not play 1-2/2-5 with a $200 bank roll live no matter what. I realize the importance of bank roll mgmt and how NOT to play now...

Its my birthday tomorrow.... i turn 21 and i will spending the whole day revising for exams on 19th and 20th. I have 3 more on 2,3,4 june and then go to vegas on 10th! Longest 2 1/2 weeks on my life and I've become a smoking addict in this whole process to counteract the gambling addiction...

I saved up £21k in january for my 21st in vegas this summer and I wanna go so badly I made a freestyle over I love college by asher roth... called I love vegas and I have never been!

Just wait till summer I am going to be smoking, gambling degen....

Hmmmm didn't want this thread to die so I figured i'd give it a whirl.

I was 16 when this happened I'm 23 now and my dad was for some reason allowing me to buy things with his credit card online ( I have a job so i pay him back whatever charges aren't his) So I then use this credit card to put 50 dollars into a online casino. I then begin at black jack and us my amazing system and run up the 50 to like 500-600, I then take a break and get high w some friends. I come back adn decide black jack is too much work I want to win money easier.

I begin to play this interesting slot game that I can't remember the name of. All I know is if you get 3 things that look like chess peices in a row you get a pretty unreal game. I begin with my online roll of 600 and I run amazing like stupid good. I run so good I think I have now found something that I can do for the rest of my life. I'm pretty sure ive got it made.

The next 3 days are spent running it up to just over 5k. At this point, I make about 150 every 2 weeks from my job(at the bowling centre) I remember this well as it was kinda funny, when I hit 5k i decided to withdraw some money because I obviously have it figured out and I'll just make tonnes more


I withdrawl 4000 dollars which would come to me in the form of cheques. I then somehow lose the 1000 dollars pretty fast over the span of 2-3 hours, this is weird as I have figured out the "online slot" so I don't know how/why im losing. I cancel the cheque and proceed to lose all the money into the slot 1000 dollars at a time. I end up canceling 4 withdrawl requests in about 12 hours.

After losing 4800 in approximately 12 hours I decide to take my last 200 dollars and bet it all on one hand of black jack. I get two faces cards and dealer is showing a 7 and goes 7 ......... 7 for the obvious soul crushing loss. I sat and stared at my computer screen, feeling sick for about 2 hours.

beat: the slot i played was a 1.25 dollar per spin lost
xtra beat: i told my friends i was rich as i had figured out the "online slot"

this past november i was playing alot of fulltilt and using echecks and my checking account was overdrawn about 1.5k. and i have only 80 dollars in my fulltilt account so i decide to shortstack the 2/4 table i played from about 11 pm until 6 am and ran it up to about 2100. i was feeling pretty good becuase i would be able to pay off the bank and still have 600 to play with on fulltilt. so then the next day i decide to buy in the max at the 2/4 tables. about 5 hands in i get aces and they get cracked by a set of 2's on a 2359j board with a pot of about 1.2k so i lose that one and i go on tilt. i open up four 2/4 tables and buy in for the max and the second hand i hit KK and QQ at two of my tables, so im like awesome. needless to say im all in pre flop my kings get beat by aces and my queens get beat by a set of jacks. so im really pissed after this and i tilt the rest of my 800 dollars away and im back at 0 with 1.5k in debt to the bank.


yea i havent played online since

And by "**** that!" he ment "**** you, pay me" or "keep the money" ??

My friend told me yesterday that he knew i guy who left his newborn baby in the car(on the backseat floorboard) so he could run in the sportsbook and make a bet... He said he left the windows cracked..LOL. Someone seen the baby and he got into major trouble. Gotta love it though.

I don't love it.... but it is degen so np

Epic!! should be stickied for BR and Tilt issues!! lol