My parents will NEVER help me, and my wife's parents live in another country so that is out of the question. If I sell my wife's stuff she will probably leave me, and that will defy the purpose of me doing it so she doesnt leave me.
I had to pay bills on time last month or she would of left me.

your elephant on ebay should get atleast 2k imo

It died already

Wow. You actually remind me of someone. He use to play at my game. His job involved delivering stuff and he would also pick up cash. At least a few times a month he'd come in and gamble with his employer's money. When he won it was fine but when he lost he'd then have to go home and sell stuff so he could give his boss the money the next day. Over eight months he had sold his wife's car, wife's coin collection, the big screen TV and a bunch of jewellery. His wife did eventually leave him. He lost his job.

I see you guys like making a person feeling even worse than he already feels, also people like sending threatening pms with racist remarks and telling me that they will find me and will blow my head off, that is this civilization will never achieve anything, nor they deserve to.

People are mean to scumbags and thieves.

racist and threatening pm's should be reported to a mod.

I'm honestly trying to help you get out of this more quickly with my suggestions and also by pointing out the flawed logic you had previously of wanting to take some of the money you had stolen to keep playing poker.

I'm guessing it's a pretty hard crash to come more to grips face to face with your behavior and your problems. But you really do need help. And I'm really not sure you need to feel THAT sorry for yourself.
Your situation and behavior is fixable.
You've got a wife and a kid which presumably are good things. You still have a car. You don't really owe THAT much money. I'm assuming you don't have cancer and aren't dying or anything like that. You got to eat today and I assume you are 100% certain you will get to eat tomorrow. Overall it would appear your life is actually better than a fairly large percentage of the world.
So get your act together already.
Stop stealing from people.
Pay these people immediately.
Seek professional help for your gambling as well as your depression.
Fix what needs to be fixed and get on with having a good life so you can stop feeling sorry for yourself.

Threatening to hurt you is stupid. If it was me and I wanted to get you to pay I'd just find out your contact info. Then I'd threaten to tell your wife. I'm pretty sure that would get you motivated to come up with the money quite fast.

If it hasnt been already discussed. Please seriously consider getting into a 12 step program.

On a side note, donating plasma will get you 30+ a week.

Bob once again I don't have a gambling problem, I actually win in poker believe it or not, I claimed a profit from poker over 15k since 2004.

I have a question, if I buy a prepaid card and give the numbers to those I owe to, will they be able to use it to deposit the funds into their account ??

"Its fd up, I make over 6k a month and I am in this situation"

It sounds to me like you are unemployed.


"Roman,
I am one of your victims. I sent you $200 last night. While I was waiting for my $200 transfer, I watched you donk of my money playing $2/$4. You ignored my chat, while I was railling you."


Classic.

That is not true, I lost only 90 bucks and I have no chat on ftp they took it from me

only certain pre-paid cards work on poker sites.
I'm kind of curious how you would be able to currently purchase such cards.

In other news...you can be a profitable gambler lifetime and still have a problem. Pretty much everyone in the thread can see this is the case with you regardless of what your career record is at the poker tables.
You do understand that you stole from people at least partly to gamble, right?
You do understand that you have evidently been gambling with money you really couldn't afford to lose, right?
You even suggested that you should keep gambling with the money you had stolen and you even somehow thought this was a good idea. If that's not a gambling problem then I don't know what is.

Roman, my advise to you is the same as citrus, there is no point defending yourself to anyone in this thread. Nobody will feel any kind of remorse towards you because of how things went down. So instead post as and when you repay debts, and spend the time trying to workout a solution.

I did receive the $11 you sent me so it's $299 now.

hmmmmmm that doesnt sound shady one bit

good that you corrected the part about exactly how much of his stolen money you lost at the FT tables.

roman - please be aware that if you steal such prepaid cards they won't work for you. The cards have to be activated by the cashier. Not sure what you're thinking on this one but thought I should mention it because you never know.

Also if his wife was going to leave him if he didn't pay the bills on time that can only be because the financial problems are caused by his decision to gamble.

I am trying to work it out, I am getting some cash tonight, as I called few people who owed me money for a while and one them decided to settle for a small amount, so he is driving to drop it off now, and I am trying to figure out how to get it online
I dont know how the rest of you see it but to me it is trying to do something.

Ill accept a prepaid visa or mastercard at this point as long as its useable online..

OP should escrow his personal information with a mod who can verify it. Then agree on a date where the balance should be paid by and if not, give the info to those that got stolen from.

This is a well-worded version of my point.
If he's pretty much broke now and has a ton of bills to pay then any gambling he's been doing during this time was extremely reckless and irresponsible.
Essentially gambling with the "rent money" ( or "bill money"...whatever).

And then to take that even further and to steal from people so that he could keep gambling in hopes of getting himself out of the hole he dug is just plain scary.

This is really bad gambling addict behavior and anyone who does anything even close to this stuff really does need to seek help for their problem.

No she was gonna leave me cause I only did contract work and didnt do much besides that and played poker, but somehow I managed to pay 6k worth of bill for a year or so. So it is not a decision to gamble, In 2007 I won 24k according to my stats, and this year I was up about 7k so far, but I played a lot less.

Mostly this situation came up because about half a year ago I made a bad investment for almost 15k, and lost a lot of money on it. Still have some hopes of recovering something.

exec - it might not be usable on poker sites though but should be good for something like amazon. You can buy yourself $200 worth of amazon gift-cards with it to make sure the gift card number is legit...and then you can use the gift-card money on amazon whenever you like.

Roman - The situation didn't just COME UP!!

You made it happen.
You lost some money which happens to a lot of people. Then you decided to steal from people. Nothing about that just "came up"
You made the decision to steal from people. YOU.