Yep.

Spots betting (massive) degeneracy is prevalent, that's for sure.

Best avatar ever? I hope we come out of this road trip unscathed.

Degens gonna be degens. /Thread.

padraig888 Padraig Parkinson „Will the prize fund at the million dollar buyin at this years WSOP exceed the total ammount owed by the contestants? I doubt it” Maart 04, 2012

Article covering the situation: http://pokerupdate.com/news/the-full...y-draft-debts/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erick_Lindgren

Needs more hyperlinks imo

Only knew how to do refs. Didn't want to edit as I think wiki sort by edited posts and will take it off. Feel free to add though. Just messing about.

Just to clarify, I was linking the video of him talking about his bookie dieing for comedic value. I highly doubt he was actually responsible for his death! Although his apparent glee over the bookies death consequently freeing him of his debt obligations, is quite telling of his character.

Lol at all the NVG tards who sound like their parents now "oh pokers a disgrace", "BAN all sprts betting for poker player"

what unbelievable nonsense and Chainsaw can confirm that

It's pretty weird making a joke about how a bookie died so he never paid his family the $5.5k. Whilst Phil Ivey isn't everyone's cup of tea here, he did speak up of a $1 million debt to Chip Reese after he died, he could of kept that too himself but actively looked to pay back who he owed.

I don't agree with all this starting threads to out someone for not paying back personal debts, to me it actually comes across as even more pathetic then the guy that owes the actual money.

(different scenario with Edog here though since he had the money to pay up)

But Gamblers lend money to gambling friends especially good friends when they are down and out, once you lend the money you instantly should know the bloke is down and out trying to get back on his feet, which means he could also get in more deeper then when lending him the money in the first place.


So knowing your friend could end up Busto but still going ahead and lending him the money, and then when he cant pay, outing him? That's a even bigger joke then not paying.


Why lend the money in the first place? Simply say NO! But wait he is a friend Right?

So OK lend him the money as your only trying to help out a friend, but don't go whining about it when he gets further in debt and eventually goes Busto.

If you lent him the money, and due to your loan he gets a good run and get back on his feet, all is sweet! Pays back the money cool!

That's what true friend are for right?

But when he keeps losing due to bad run or bad play whatever gambling related, now his a scumbag because he cant pay?

Either your helping a friend or your not you can't have it both ways.


So when asked by someone for a loan say NO! But if you do go ahead and help him out and he runs bad, what outing him is the right thing to do?

Not in my opinion.

^^^^^ Did you even read the thread (and thread title)???

I did highlight in bold this was a different scenario.

I was talking about general lending between gambling friends.

You are the worst friend ever.
You don't lend to a friend in trouble but give it outright.
Especially with gambling because when demanding back the money you put your friend deeper in the hole because now he has to at least tripple the money and you know how that ends.

:solid gold

wtf lol Where did i say i was going to put pressure on him to pay me if he goes Busto?

Have another read.

It was a series of bets. There was no loan.

I understand i was just talking in general with all these new threads these days getting started because some lent money and didn't get the money paid back, that's all.

This is what you bolded (my underline for emphasis). Then your post was about lending money to friends.

"Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream. Cannery Row is the gathered and scattered, tin and iron and rust and splintered wood, chipped pavement and... weedy lots and junk heaps, sardine canneries of corrugated iron, honky tonks, restaurants and whore houses, and little crowded groceries, and laboratories and flophouses. Its inhabitants are, as the man once said, 'whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,' by which he meant Everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, 'Saints and angles and martyrs and holy men,' and he would have meant the same thing." - John Steinbeck from the book Cannery Row

Is there a link to Daniel's video blogs

https://www.google.com/search?q=dani...ient=firefox-a

What's this bs about old days? In the real old days, if you made a bet you knew you couldn't cover and the other guy found out about it, you got shot. Betcha Doc Holliday wouldn't have stood for this.

thanks