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Originally Posted by SeOp
Not degen, but I often get drunk and play like a fool, lose everything I made in the week/month in one session, re build it cleanly, get drunk...
Well, my degen story fits perfectly in your line!
I think it happened 3 summers ago. I played poker for almost a year, mainly in a weekly homegame with some friends. Since I was in my last year at an art school and had to make this senior year 'graduation task' (some sort of practical assignment), I knew I had to stay away from online poker or I would never ever succeed. Me knowing I'd be way too hooked!
So anyway... Summer/vacation arrived and finally had the time to focus on online poker. I signed up for one of those free $50 bankrolls, and began playing. The first week I became 2nd in a 5$ donkament (bankrollmanagement my *ss!), good for a +/- $250 boost. I started playing 10$ sng's and 20$-30$ HUsng's, was def. on a heater but at the time I just thought I was reaaaallly good and stuff. In a week or 2-3 I managed to build/donk my roll to approx. 850$ or so. Than weekend showed up, and I came home drunk from a party. I thought 'Let's build it to a 1000$'. Played two 200$ HUsng's and managed to win them both! I woke up the next morning still remembering what I did, and felt happy and king of the f*cking world! Went to a party again the same evening, bragging about my bankroll (we where with a bunch of friends who just started out with online poker, so we discussed it a lot) to impress my friends. Came home drunk again and thought 'Wtf, let's do it big this time'. I opened a 500$ HUsng and was convinced I'd win since I won everything! Lost the match in a little less than 5 minutes, and like 'no way this just happened' I fired up another one, against the same opponent! This one took a little longer, 10 minutes. I lost it again, and was clearly on lifetilt! The rest of my roll I donked away at the highest HUsng's I could play with the current state of roll. 30 Minutes later there was like 65 cent left in my account. I woke up and never felt more disgusted in my life! Bahbah!
I know it's nothing compared to the amounts some of you posted previous to me, but at the time it was sick to win such amounts with online poker in the first place, and than to lose it all was even more sick around here! For me and my friends at least.