there are so much wins itt

my poker stars account is in the negative like -400$ lol

that is a quality post. there are some seriously good one liners in there, and i love jennifer love hewitt.

Stuff happened in Scotland with money.

How's that?

"Honey, I'm not going to lie to you. I got drunk and wanted to nail these two chess models. Don't act like you wouldn't do the same if two Calvin Klein models wanted to nail you. Now be a good woman and pay for my cab fare to the courthouse."

-OP Degen, runs into debt, steals from work
-OP is stealing from somebody who is stealing already, stealers confess and confide in each other and blow more company dollars
-Degens are seperated, OP degens on his own and runs back his debt
-OP wants another scam to get out of debt

This isnt me but an associate who I've come to know through friends and while it isnt a story that ends in tragedy (though his story isnt over yet) its certainly degen at its best

His just a guy, working a normal job on about 60K a year but loves the punt. Horses or gaming he just cant get enough of it and doesnt care about it. Ive seen him lose 14K in the casino in one night and walk out laughing. He uses coasters to write down how much money he owes everyone from the casino because hes so much of a reg he can walk up to any of the big punters and borrow a few K. You just need to keep in mind this guy earns 60K a year

One story is he was up 9K during a day at the races from the 2nd race on track and was borrowing money by the time the 3rd raced jumped on that track. He had degened the entire 9K on other races off track in about 40 minutes. There are other stories about how hes been up 40K in a night and walked out with nothing.

When I first heard all of this the first thing I asked is probably what you are all wondering now, how does he get the cash to gamble this high? 2 ways, he borrows money off his house because hes hooked up to a great deal with the bank which pretty much gives him free reign to borrow against it as long as he makes the monthly payements. On top of that he gets his dad to regularly run into the casino and drop hm off 10K (his dad is obv stacked and just doesnt care cause he always pays back).

So for now the punchline of the story is this bloke is married and completely unbeknown to his wife, he has payed off their house 7 times over and is still going

This is hardly degen compared to some of the stories in this thread, yet I feel the need to contribute because I <3 this thread. I've been playing online since 2003. I've habitually made deposit after deposit since then. I would estimate that I've deposited roughly 10-12k in 50 dollar increments and withdrawn only 2k after luck boxing an $11 MTT. (I did use the 2k to fund a trip to Vegas where I appropriately lost it all on craps and poker) I started taking poker "seriously" in March of 2009. Played pretty much every day since then but haven't had a cash out while depositing roughly every 3 days? I run it up, think I should quit, know I'm about to blow my roll, tell myself I'm about to blow my roll, then proceed to do so. It's great.

I know what my problems are. The same as everyone else ITT. Tilt and BRM. But honestly I don't give a ****. I keep putting money on my credit card and make a payment when I get paid so I maintain a solid balance at all times. I'm not as degen as some in here, I just degen it up within my limits. I make a decent salary, so my habits have never kept me from eating/sleeping.

I'm currently self excluded on Full Tilt, Stars, Cake and Carbon. Going strong on Players Only though

I read these forums on a daily basis while I'm bored at work. Every time I hear someone say poker is going to dry up, I laugh. There will always be fish like me to deposit. No worries guys, no worries.

[x] Losing player, just realize it already

[x] Obviously realizes it.
[x] Has known for a while and it doesn't bother him

How many posters ITT are not losing players?

i lol'd.
screen name on PO? cmon, just this one time? you could pm it...

PM Sent.

This was about 6 years ago, when I was 17 and working at a Burger King. I knew how to play Hold 'em but never really played much. I got invited to a $.50/$1 limit game at a friend's house. I buy in for $40 and end up getting some beginners luck (hitting lots of inside straights) and run it up to about $70. There's maybe 8 people there, and 3 of them leave to smoke. We decide to play "in between" to pass the time until they come back. Here are the rules for in between if you don't know:

Everyone antes a quarter to start.
In turn, each player gets two cards and gets to bet to see if the next card off the top of the deck falls in between those two. You can bet as much as you want against the pot up to of course the entire thing.
If the third card is outside the first two, you lose your bet. But if it matches one of the two, then you have to pay double (!)
If an ace is your first card, you can call high or low. Second ace is always high.

Anyways, we play a few games, nobody loses or makes more than a buck or two. Then one came that just got completely out of hand. On three seperate occasions the cards came Queen/Duck -> bet pot -> double. At one point, the pot was $25, and I bet it all on King-Three and hit an Ace. After awhile, the pot is like $125 and I get an Ace, call low, and get a Jack. I know that two of the aces are out and remember seeing other face cards...I gather my nerves, bet pot, and off comes another Jack. Ouch. Luckily they let you bet with cash and IOUs...I just cashed my paycheck and after putting in $250 I end up with like fifty bucks to my name. It bothers me that I could be so unlucky, but in high school and living with my parents with a part time job money's not really a huge issue. A few big bets hit, a few more miss, and soon I think we count about $400 in there...at this point the smokers of course are back in there and just cannot believe that is going on in here. Like, the most amount of money anyone has ever lost in the POKER game is maybe $60-70. Nobody really knows what to do since doubling on that would cost more money than most of these guys even have. A couple of decks go through and nobody really has any good opportunities...I think everyone was just waiting for a 10- or 11-gapper. It gets to me and the cards are Three-Ace. Since the Ace is high, this means I lose on a duck, double on a three or ace, and everything else wins. I do the math in my head and realize that this is a really good bet, but the problem is that I really just cannot afford to lose this. Still I just say "POT!" without really thinking of the consequences, because I'm down already, thinking hey if I win I make it all back. They keep asking me "are you sure??" (I think nobody really wanted an IOU from me since this was my first time playing!!) I keep saying "yes, just flip it!!" Well they do and it's a three...I still remember it hitting me like a ton of bricks...I honestly feel like crying...I came there with the intention of losing no more than $40 and now I'm down a GRAND!! And I had never really gambled before!! I man up and put the $800 (it was $815 to be exact) IOU in there. Nobody knows what to do now...there was like three times more money on the table now than there had ever been during the poker game, and this was in a game that was played for freakin' quarters! Again, nobody can afford to gamble this much now! We decide it wouldn't be right to divvy the money up but if there was another big loss we'd figure out something. Five minutes later someone gets Ace, calls low, gets another Ace, takes a deep breath (because hitting another Ace would cost him two grand), bets pot, and of course wins. So I'm now in debt to this guy $800. Luckily, he's really cool about it, even offering to forgive it at one point, but I told him no, I'll pay you, even if it takes several years. I gave him $50 a month until I graduated, at which point I used my graduation gifts to pay. Not the proudest moment of my life but at least it's a neat story.

Did it ever occur to you that you might have been cheated. This game is also played in the asian community and I can tell you it's the easiest game to cheat at. Keep and Ace/2 or 3 on top or bottom in case someone bets big, and deal seconds the rest of the way. It's actually a really old con, but I guess there are still some who pull it off.

dude he wanted to forgive the debt... It was a good story bill and its cool you paid.

Sorry BadBeatBill, that really sounds like a bad beat.

the acey ducey story is awesome! thats what we call that game, anyway. ours never got that out of control, but did get in to the $100's (when playing for like .10 or .25).

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It didn't occur to me, since these guys were some of my best friends and all. I live in a small town and it would blow my mind if there was a card mechanic who could do things like that there. The guy who won the whole thing was shaking, absolutely sweating bullets when the Ace-Ace came, even though his odds of winning were so high. Not easy to fake that.

I have a similar story, this one about 2-3 years ago. I'm still playing with mostly the same group on a weekly basis (but we're older and have more money now, so it's no limit of course). I'm playing online poker now and making a decent amount, maybe like two or three hundred a week, and I have a friend who does the same. Anyways one week during the poker game we decide to play props. It's a lot of fun, so next week we do the same, but we decide to make it a bit more interesting, since we both have the gambling bug. Basically, it was set up so you would pay $1 for this, $5 for that, and so on. I don't remember the exact details but it was like this: we'd each get a color (red or black) and pick a card of that color. Then we had a huge list of things that you would win if certain things related to that card hit. I picked the 2 of clubs, so I'd get paid whenever the 2c hit the flop, more if it was in the middle, then bonuses for any three black cards, a good one for three clubs, a big one for three dueces, etc. He had the Jack of diamonds. The killer was that we had all sorts of multipliers. For example, for me it was one duece was a buck, three if it's the duece of clubs or in the center, and ten if the duece of clubs was in the center, then one other duck is x5 and all three is x25. Ditto for him and the jack. I don't remember who was up or down doing this during the game. A lot of $2 and $5s being tossed around but no clear winner. End of session, we're both up small amounts from the poker game, like about $30. Of course we're glad we won but still wanted more action. He proposed we triple the stakes of the props and ran out the deck once, just for a bit of fun. I think the most paid during the game was like $6 on one flop so this felt safe. So we did it, and he hits a flop that just killed me: Jh Jd Js. I even remember the order. It stung even worse since I dealt this myself. So it was $10 for the Jd in the middle, x25 since it was trips, then x3 since we tripled action. So yeah, $750 on one flop. Not a sick amount of money but considering we were only really trying to gamble the $30 it was pretty surprising. Luckily he took a Stars transfer which was pretty much the end of my Pokerstars days.

During one poker game I made prop bets with everyone for all sorts of insane junk. For some reason it really brings out the gambool-happy side of me. I bet $20 on whether or not there would be a commercial on whatever the next channel 'up' was (I lost; it was Home Improvement), $10 on the type of bread the host had (I said white, it was wheat), made tons of bets on how many Brewers or Packers my friend knew (many of which I won, because even though the guy is a big fan, he doesn't really know the players that well). I did a bunch of bets where I'd set a line and have another guy go over or under on it. Of course this is -EV but I didn't care. I made lines on all sorts of things - the amount of gas left on a buddy's car, how many miles were on it, how many women he slept with (made him write these on a piece of paper first obviously), how many beers were in the fridge, how old the dogs were, how many runs were scored in certain baseball games (although I only checked the Brewers score...this was fun and potentially ----EV). I even bet an over/under on the last four digits of someone's mom's PHONE NUMBER (line at 5000, he went under and I won). At first I was doing this for a laugh, but I honestly couldn't stop.

The best bet I made along these lines was like this: I had a friend who bought a new smartphone, one that could browse the internet quickly and what not. A friend and I were watching a football game with him, and we noticed he would look up things related to our conversations and start giving us the 'facts'. For example if we were unsure of where, say, Mason Crosby went to college, he would look it up completely umprompted...he did this with some music and movie trivia. At one point he even looked up the recipe to a dish we were discussing. I think he was just in love with his new phone. Anyways I pull my buddy aside and mention that he sure is using this an awful lot. So we decide this: $50 and an order of wings to whichever one of us can get him to list off more of these 'facts' during the next game. The catch was we couldn't tell him what we were doing, and we could not ask him any questions directly. If he figured it out, then the guy who 'tipped him off' would lose. So it was basically one of us bringing up a topic, acting confused about some detail, and the other guy trying to fill in that detail with enough certainty that cell phone guy didn't look it up. I won that one (and my friend should probably have been disqualified) with a score of 13, and the guy didn't even catch on. Yeah not really degen but the whole reason the idea came to me was because I didn't have a bet on the game.

^ this might actually work

the guy just wrote a page about being a losing player...

Hey,

I have some storys to tell, first one played out around 2005. Me and my friend had really started to build up a roll, the thing was i wasnt in on the roll procent wise, he had started off building on ladbrokes and were in the 10-15k range.

I remember this very well becuse this was my first real encounter with some highstakes action.

My friend was still a hardworker and had to go up every morning 0500, i on the other side had much sparetime as i didnt have a job. This particular night he tilted pretty bad playing $10/20 NL 6 max and $15/30 NL 6max (keep in mind that $25/50 NL were the highest levels, so this was pretty high stakes), he was down $9k leaving about $6-7k on the account. When we looked at the watch the time said 0100 and he is a bit of a sleeper and had to go to bed, he asked me if i wanted to take over and repair, offcourse i agreed and got $1.500 usd on a $15/30 NL 6 max to work with.

Back then it was really different playing those stakes, it was crazy loose and aggrasive play, i dont recall to many hands besides one that dubbled me up in the beginning and the last one. The one that took me up to around $4k - i grinded up pretty easy to $2.5k small potts and then my first hard decision came i held AK and we had preflopped it pretty hard, i know there was a low straight draw and a flush draw out there something like 4510 with the turn J and river 2, on the river i had like 1k left and the guy shipped his stack wich put me all in. I remember that the only thing i had to figure out and fast (there where no time banks) was if he had the pair or if he went on flush or straight draw, i had a gut feeling telling me he held a higher straigh draw than the straight card that hit the river, With about 2 seconds to spare i made the call and was very happy to see the stack showed my way i now had 4-5k stack.

This was just the start of the night and im sorry i dont recall all specifics about other hands, but it was pretty much like this, hyper aggro shipping game were low points was around 7k and high around 15k. At the end of the night around 0430 just 30 minuts before my friend had to go up the following scenario plays out- We are four big stacks and two new stacks at the table something like-

Me: 15-17k
Bigstack: 22k
Bickstack2: 15k

and two persons that had around 2.000-3.000 a pice. This hand i danced with both of the big stacks, and this night everything had gone with me not against me so my self esteem was pretty high up. I was dealt 1010 and was in the big blind, the button 22k dude made it $150 15k dude in small blind called, i was pretty sure i had the best hand becuse the $150 raises preflop were pretty standard, i thought about calling but went with the option to raise. I made it $750 and now button started to think and the thought a long time, to my suprise he made a reraise wich made the preflop bet a total of 1.500, my first thought was to throw away but to my suprise small blind made a call. Now i knew i was beat or in really bad shape preflop, but i couldnt help myself and thought about what an enormus pot we would play for so i also made the call.

FLOP
5109

Now this was staggaring i felt my neck were about to expload from the puls, the small blind started with a check and i insta checked behind hoping for a continuation bet from the big stack, buttom or mr.22k thought for some time before making it 3.800, now i had trubble breathing becuse of the extrem amounts of blod pumping in a high speed true my body (best drug in da world?). And once again to my suprise small blind wanted to dance as well with a insta call making the pot around 12k, my first instinct was that i were going to shove it felt absolutly like the best play here becuse i was certan mr.22k had the aces, so thats wath i did. After the 3800 i think it was 12-13k extra for them to call almost covering the button, almost as i got my money in i saw that mr.22k had called. Now i really wanted the small blind to fold here, thinking that going against to outs is quit enought (now days im happy if the other guy have "just" 10 outs as i play omaha), to my relive small blind choose to fold.

TURN
J

remember that i didnt like that card, if he had kings he got more outs, but i was still 99,99 procent that he had the aces.

RIVER
Q

Now that one really sucked as a river card, almost every combinations of higher cards exept the acses would crush me. And i was shocked when i saw hes hand of QQ, i mean this will hunt me for the rest of my life, he just had to be drunk to make that play on the flop?

The pot ended around $37k and i saw him sitting out with over $40k around 42-43k, hmmmm not bad for a 4 hour $15/30 session .


*These were the days and it was so diffrent from the games played to day, sadly things like this really hook you to the game


Hope you guys enjoy the read, there will be more like this one on degensweed.blogg.se were im intending to rebuild a roll pretty soon and keep good updates.


/degensweed

you owe me 6 minutes of my life back

i liked that story, atleast it had paragraphs