Originally Posted by midnighttrain

Hi everyone. Long time lurker here. This is probably my favorite thread ever so I will post my story.

I went to Las Vegas with 5k in June 2008. Went broke within a couple weeks. Had no money. Slept in my car for a few days, then somehow got a $1500 cash advance from one of those internet sites. Got the money a day later and lost $1000 within a day. Then I walked into the Flamingo and sat down in their 1-2 no limit game for $200 with only $500 left to my name. I had a very drunk euro on my right who had a lot of chips. I chipped up to about $500 within an hour or 2. Then I got pocket 8's on the button with a raise from early position and call from the euro. I call as well. The flop comes 8 7 3 two diamonds. We get a 3 way all in. Euro jj. Other guy nut flush draw. Anyways they miss. I win and leave with $1200.

Walk over to the roulette table and put $50 on each 0 00 4 7 17. Smack 0. Do it again for $50. Smack! 7. Then do it again for a $100 SMACK 4! Do it again for a hundred and miss. Anyways i leave the Flamingo with about 7k. Walk over to Bally's and put $200 on only 4. And guess what, SMMMMAAACK another 7k. Walk over to the craps table and buy in for 3k and turn that into 8k. As I'm walking out a floor manager asks if he can do anything for me so I tell him a room would be nice. He gives me a free room for 3 nights. Over the course of the next week I turn with what started as $500 into a little over 55k playing mostly blackjack and roulette and some craps and Ballys Paris and Planet Hollywood.

The main event has just started and I say to myself I have to play. So I play two 1k sattys and miss, then decide to buy strait in on day 1d. Day one goes pretty slow at first and get down to 12k early from the original 20k starting stack, but I pick up a few hands towards the end of the day by flopping a boat and gett paid off and a couple other hands. End the day at 40k. Day 2 would be the most ridiculous run of cards I've ever seen. I get moved to a table with some euro on my right who went on tilt and gave me all his chips. I busted like 6 people at that table in the span of about 2 hours. I got my stack up to about 200k by dinner break. Got moved to another table in the amazon room Then a hand came up where I had kk against a guy to my right who had about 120k. He raised I reraised he calls. Flops comes q 10 2. I bet he calls. Turn 8. He check I bet. He raise. I shove He calls with qq. ****! River KING! I now have over 400k and end up being 2nd in chips at the end of day 2 with about 540k behind that one kid who had like 800k from day 2a. Anyways go into day 3. I was kinda card dead all day. Made the money and ended the day with about 500k. Day 4 nothing went right. Got aces cracked all in preflop yadadyadayada played a couple hands bad. Shoved short stacked with 44. Steve Bilarakis calls with 55. I'm out in 273 for 35k.

My boys come out we party for like 48 hours strait at the rhino and other places all the while doing illegal substances. I spend around 15k in that time which only about 3k was gambling. Most was on bottles and strippers and vip and illegal substances. Stay out in Las Vegas and California for the rest of the summer partying some nights and playing poker others. Anyways I'm back in Milwaukee, WI and play in the 2-5 no limit game at Potowatomi and have a steady job now actually. Hit me up if your around town.

Originally Posted by nachunja

WTF MAN

THIS AINT NO DEGEN STORY,

ITS A COMPLETE FULL BLOWN BRAG

Originally Posted by nachunja

WTF MAN

THIS AINT NO DEGEN STORY,

ITS A COMPLETE FULL BLOWN BRAG

Originally Posted by firefox123

Craziness...

Originally Posted by midnighttrain

Hi everyone. Long time lurker here. This is probably my favorite thread ever so I will post my story.

I went to Las Vegas with 5k in June 2008. Went broke within a couple weeks. Had no money. Slept in my car for a few days, then somehow got a $1500 cash advance from one of those internet sites. Got the money a day later and lost $1000 within a day. Then I walked into the Flamingo and sat down in their 1-2 no limit game for $200 with only $500 left to my name. I had a very drunk euro on my right who had a lot of chips. I chipped up to about $500 within an hour or 2. Then I got pocket 8's on the button with a raise from early position and call from the euro. I call as well. The flop comes 8 7 3 two diamonds. We get a 3 way all in. Euro jj. Other guy nut flush draw. Anyways they miss. I win and leave with $1200.

Walk over to the roulette table and put $50 on each 0 00 4 7 17. Smack 0. Do it again for $50. Smack! 7. Then do it again for a $100 SMACK 4! Do it again for a hundred and miss. Anyways i leave the Flamingo with about 7k. Walk over to Bally's and put $200 on only 4. And guess what, SMMMMAAACK another 7k. Walk over to the craps table and buy in for 3k and turn that into 8k. As I'm walking out a floor manager asks if he can do anything for me so I tell him a room would be nice. He gives me a free room for 3 nights. Over the course of the next week I turn with what started as $500 into a little over 55k playing mostly blackjack and roulette and some craps and Ballys Paris and Planet Hollywood.

The main event has just started and I say to myself I have to play. So I play two 1k sattys and miss, then decide to buy strait in on day 1d. Day one goes pretty slow at first and get down to 12k early from the original 20k starting stack, but I pick up a few hands towards the end of the day by flopping a boat and gett paid off and a couple other hands. End the day at 40k. Day 2 would be the most ridiculous run of cards I've ever seen. I get moved to a table with some euro on my right who went on tilt and gave me all his chips. I busted like 6 people at that table in the span of about 2 hours. I got my stack up to about 200k by dinner break. Got moved to another table in the amazon room Then a hand came up where I had kk against a guy to my right who had about 120k. He raised I reraised he calls. Flops comes q 10 2. I bet he calls. Turn 8. He check I bet. He raise. I shove He calls with qq. ****! River KING! I now have over 400k and end up being 2nd in chips at the end of day 2 with about 540k behind that one kid who had like 800k from day 2a. Anyways go into day 3. I was kinda card dead all day. Made the money and ended the day with about 500k. Day 4 nothing went right. Got aces cracked all in preflop yadadyadayada played a couple hands bad. Shoved short stacked with 44. Steve Bilarakis calls with 55. I'm out in 273 for 35k.

My boys come out we party for like 48 hours strait at the rhino and other places all the while doing illegal substances. I spend around 15k in that time which only about 3k was gambling. Most was on bottles and strippers and vip and illegal substances. Stay out in Las Vegas and California for the rest of the summer partying some nights and playing poker others. Anyways I'm back in Milwaukee, WI and play in the 2-5 no limit game at Potowatomi and have a steady job now actually. Hit me up if your around town.

Originally Posted by Telford09

ultimate degen story link


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGCdBsOIKYA

Originally Posted by firefox123

If I were you, I would reserve that judgement until you spend a couple of days in an inner city jail as a 120lb white kid who doesn't know anyone.

Originally Posted by King Niche

one time i was sitting in my house on my own i had just split up with my gf who was a crack head but she was nice.. the room was dark i was surrounded by bottles of piss half eaten sandwiches i even had a crust behind my ear i was quite sad because i was busto and heartbroken i thought maybe we would make it work and she would be my main squeese anyway she left me for a crack dealer..so at this point im feelin like ten dewey heart aching empty busto feeling and linger tilt from stacking off with a flush draw because some crotch monkey over bets the pot and i run into the swinging blade and throw up 2 clanging bricks and I just punch my ****in monitor almost put my fist through it and then i kicked my coffee table but not like a regular person no no no..i have to hit it as hard as I can with my ****ing shin!!!! wtff was i thinking im not van damme or some **** that hurt so bad i collapsed in agony and started crying i just laid there whimpering in agony sobbing and eventually the pain eased off but i had blood running all the way down my leg..i just laid there on the carpet for 2 hours staring into space i even knocked one out while laying in the recovery position i felt so lazy like a lazy slob and i smelt so rank like chinese food in a dumpster for days..i eventually get up im wearing stripey boxers and half of them is up my ass ive got my ass cheek showing but i dont care i sit at my pc and watch some 200/400 on betfair wishing i was in the game..i kept sitting at a table hoping i would have cash in my account i actually prayed to mary magdagascar..i check my emails and boooom titan poker have put free money in my damn account!!!!!!!!!!!!!! woooooooooooooo..it felt like a blessing. Its like 5 dollars..so I go straight to max but in 5c/10c or some BS where u get nit on nits and I run that **** up to 20 in no time, then I but in at 25/50 and I hit a big overset and and I make some decent bluffs I get my stack to 145..at this point im thinking ok just play this mother****ing cool dont be a degen waste of lung capacity but i say *** it i will take a shot at 2/4...

so I pick the easiest table luckily for me they are all easy and first hand I shove with the doyle brunson just for good luck everyone folds secnd hand i get AA..I shove I get 2 callers an Iwin and im oer 400 i say**** this and i goto 5/10 witha short stack what else am i suppose to do..i run this upto 3k pretty easily and step up to 10/20 and in 3 hours I have 13k..then it happened..I GET KING ****ING KING and some guy called han solo (TILTED) raises me to 30 dollars I re raise to 180 He raises to 550 I call planning to shove any flop flop comes AAA ..he says to me in chat I HAVE IT and bets the pot im like wtf ..thats areverse reversal bluff damn *** he must have it **** i cant fold i felt my heart speed up kind of like a panic attack how can i fold this my dad is in my ear saying DONT CALL he has the 4 of a kind im like no dad let me play my own damn hands why cant you go and play poker with otis redding always ****** interfering ..and i start arguing with him cant believe i have gone from 5 dollars to over a 20k pot in just hours..I call and he flips over QQ..I FIST PUMP LIKE IM OHN MACKENROE SHOUTING NOW WHAT NOW WHAT DAD HE DIDNT SAY **** TURN QUEEN RIVER QUEEENNNNNNNNNNN>>OMFGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG I MWAS SO ****IN MAD I STARTED SPITTINGup BLOOD FOAMING UP ...PUNCHED MY SELF in teh side of the head AND STARTED SHOUTING AT MY DAD INSIDE MY HEAD IM LIKE **** OFF LEAVE ME ALONE GET OUT OF My HEAD.. OMGG IM BUSTO AGAIN I FEEL LIKE A WORM WHO HAS HAS BIN SHOVELLED WHEN THE GROUND IS COLD OR MABE STUCK HIS HEAD IN A TURD..I FELT LIKE SUCH A ****INg DEGEN I COULD HAVE PLAYED 5/10 with 13k so easily and made decent rake and maybe found me some new pussy easily when i tell em im back to being a pro...first i burnt my hand on the stove on purpose omggg i was so wasted i went out in the backyard stark naked i started climbing the trees and just trying to get back to nature and forget the damn poker..loking back id lost my damn mind that pot had eloctrocuted my noodle..it started to rain and i looked so pathetic i couldnt even get a crack whore to stay with me and I had a big hemmaroid and my white pastey body stood out under the grey sky i must have looked like a sagging bag of milk...

..all i wanted to do was grind for 18 hours a day and fester in my own filth and live the life of a poker pro grind on the mind till i die make my tomb a house of cards.. i wanted to give up so bad.. now i was busto and i couldnt see a break in the clouds or any hope the next day when i woke up i had to masturbate just so i could get out of bed i browsed 2+2 and went back to bed for 3 days..I didnt even get up to go peepee i just pissed the bed because i was busto and nothing else mattered..i kept reminded myself that atleast i nwasnt the fat sloth puppet in that movie seven where he gets locked in a bat cave and is made to eat spaghetti till his guts spill open..but this didnt make me feel any better..
whats urine and the smell of a cheesy ritz cracker ass crack when you lost a 26k pot? i didnt give a **** about pissing on myself by that point..i could of had a milllion dingelberries attatched to my ass i wouldnt have cared...i was so upset the lowest point for so long even lower than when i talked myself out of a guy giving me a BJ for $100 I just couldnt do it..i felt lower than when my mom force fed me flowers..I almost killed myself on day 2 when metallica came on the radio..i dont know how I ever made it out alive..i always swear to this day it was just the hope of being back in action someday..it lifted me out of the bottomless pit and gave me reason to live and breathe..never quit guys..not even when they are dragging your face through the ****..there is always someone worse off than you..like a guy with a glass eye with a fish in it....keep grind on the mind

Originally Posted by Anderson Paixao

i understand why he did that

some times you just lose the control, i did it once, bet my role roll at a football game after lose a lot of bets