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Originally Posted by Johnny Hughes
I too hope you get your money back, but by the time a scammer becomes well known in the poker community, they owe so much, they can never pay it back, or most importantly, they will not pay it back, and never intended to. Part of this is the Gambler's Fallacy. They get behind and double up thinking they are "due" to win. The fame from the Internet and the poker boom is ideal for scammers. Makes them a celebrity. How many can you think of: Lindgren, Booth, even poor Dutch. I see some props on facebook for stake money. I see a Professor, a writer, and a really bad poker player looking for stake money. Around casinos, there is always a gal locked out of her room and Mama is sending money. There are weirdos with checks they need cashed. There is a broke needing a stake every five yards. You waltz into a gambling joint, gigglin' and grinin', sure of a cinch winning.
Everyone is trying to get your money, and you are trying to get theirs. It is not a place for charity, gullibility, suckerism, soft hearts, and most importantly of all, casinos are pure hell on folks who lie to themselves. If you do not have a precise read on your self, stay out of gambling joints. Sunday school and Cub Scouts needs a few good leaders.
Although I think you mean well, I have to take issue with this. I have seen lots of acts of charity in a casino. A friend of mine once bought a degen a full set of clothes because he was spending ALL his money on poker and had no money for food or clothes...he was homeless, did yardwork for a buy-in and lost it all every day in the poker room. Lots of us have bought him food when it was apparent he wasn't eating. I've given, not loaned, money for a buy-in to people who were down and out and who I knew were not good for a loan. I've been completely broke and had meals and hotel rooms bought for me and I've done the same. There are lots of people with mental problems and gambling addictions in casinos and I take no pleasure in taking their money and it doesn't hurt to show a little kindness. I travel a lot and I've met kind-hearted people in poker rooms all over the world. As a matter of fact I think poker players are more charitable than other people. When I've needed money and asked for a loan I've had friends or family ask me "What do you need it for?"; poker players never ask that, they just say yes and fork over the money.
Johnny, you seem to be trying to paint a picture of the wise old rounder but you're trying too hard. For all I know you've never played a hand of poker. Maybe you were the shoe-shine boy outside Binions?