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Originally Posted by WCGRider
As an online player with virtually no live background, its tough to see things like this coming because these people are so well known. However with things such as the lindgren issue coming to light, it seems that that mantra needs to be changed.
I think it always needed to be changed, but a lot of players who are new to Live have trouble resisting the pressure from long time live degenerates who push responsible players to do stupid things like loan someone with a gambling problem money.
I think its ridiculous that people loaned each other absurd amounts of money with no written contracts, no legal documents, etc. And this is considered standard and you are "uncool" if you are not down to toss people a few K (or more) whenever they need it. Resist the peer pressure.
Really sorry WCG, I am not meaning to "pile on" you. I agree with your advice and wish people thought about this more. I have seen *many* of my poker friends get swept up in the poker world and think its standard to have loans out to like 10 people and never be paid back.
I can understand giving in to the pressure (though I wouldn't) as you can take a lot of flack and hassle for being a supposed "tightwad" -- the kind of crap that would confirm to me that I wouldn't want to hang out with them anyways, but whatever. I have been scammed over the internet before, just not involving poker, so we can all make mistakes.
Just this stupid gambling culture degen stuff needs to stop, plenty of nerdy or normal online players think that they 'have' to act this way to be one of the poker crowd. Not true.