LOOOOL absolute gold (and a bit if wisdom thrown in)

That's why in developed countries the default rate on residential mortgages is between 5 and 10 percent - 99.9% of the time repayment of loans is not a problem.

Lending money is stupid unless you don't care to ever see again the money leant (e.g. a loan to your kid, staking your degenerate gambler friend), or you are capable of enforcing (legally or extralegally) whatever terms you impose for the return of the principal.

If you do care, and you can't enforce, you shouldn't have made the loan. That doesn't exculpate the jerk who doesn't pay you back, but it doesn't mean you weren't stupid also.

hes living in van right now, or does i know where he lives, has a cabin right by my aunts.

this thread is ****ing glorious

Originally Posted by David123 View Post
never trust strangers with money, and for the love of God, don't trust your friends. money changes things. I have learnt this the hard way, and it took some time to do so :/

I have a gambler childhood friend that i saved a few times to make his monthly payment, save his credit. Always paid back in time and all.

He offered the same service to me early feb 'cause he knew i might need it. When i asked him 1k late march, he said he couldnt in the same breath that said he had just cleared his credit card. I went through all sorts of emotions, the strongest being treason.

We talked about it and all, but it left a mark on me. Not sure i will lend him $ some other time.

Money changes thing.

Zen Bhudist would say:

You nurtured a silk worm into a beautiful butterfly. This one escaped. This one flew away. Good Karma will come back to you.

And next time ... you will be more careful.

I had to read this post a few times over

after 4 thorough re-readings, I concluded that you are delusional and borderline ******ed

if you are from the Eurozone and have inadequate English skills, then I apologize in advance

If English is your native language, I feel sorry for you, and wish your buddy had rolled you for a lot more

Update plz

You could've prevented this Daniel!

i really thought it was common knowledge that this guy was not credible. surprised at how many people didn't know.

Why would DN try and prevent it? This is old school poker, OP just doesn't 'get it'.

As to Brad Booth trying to blackmail Phil Hellmuth, I think BB said he is 'making a documentary' and all that stuff will come out in it...

Played with BB a few years ago and he was very engaging and slick. It is EASY to see how someone who hasn't been around live poker long enough to know that everything too good to be true (no vig from a street smart guy like BB) is just that, and that the live player pool (especially vegas) is just filled with broke degens/hustlers that will come at you from all angles if you look at all green- could fall for the transfer tarp...

So maybe quit hating on op (he is genuinely very chill irl fwtw), who it seems just learned an expensive lesson (lol @ the super ballers calling 28k "nothing"), and keep the focus where it should be-->

and

Gl wcg, and obv never accept a great deal from anyone you don't know extremely well. Last time I was out there I was offered cranberries on the real cheap .

I guess LFISNTGOOD For brad.

I wonder how things are going at the WSOP. Over the last year I've found out how some of these so called "faces of the poker community" are truly pieces of ****.

Are they showing their faces at the WSOP? Annie Duke? Chris Furgeson? Howard Lederer? Brad Booth?

As I understand it they are all there getting preferential treatment lol

Did anyone hear the story about a guy who tried to pay a hooker with a 1k WSOP tournament chip? True?

lol seriously? who cares? stop de-railing the thread with stupid junk

check the OP posts regarding the girah-jungleman scandal.

Yer right. Prolly deserves a thread of it's own on a different board.

Didn't mean to hijack.

I really hope Brad Booth slips up on a big banana skin, and soon!

Not really adding anything constructive, but David Haase saying "Remember that time you stole $28,000 from wcgrider?" made me laugh my ass off, wp.

lol poker

seriously

Any loans / transfer / whatever kind of money moving should be done in $100 increments to annoy a potential scammer and give scamee time to cut ties before it's too late.