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Originally Posted by Zacharrrr
i played this guy hu at plo2k he dropped like 2BI...
i actually really feel bad for him. but obv cant give him money... he asks for 3-5k loan
what i do?
xxx: please
xxx: man
xxx: if my mother look at my visa bill they will kick my out
xxx: what you want that i do
xxx: ask you friendly
xxx: now i will get huge problems
xxx: i make a mistake by playing so high against you
me: i feel sry for you. go to gambler anonymous
xxx: stop
xxx: common
xxx: you can coach me and so on
xxx: please
xxx: help me
xxx: i get huge problems
xxx: please help me
xxx: out
xxx: you dant know that i get huge problems
xxx: i understand that is not easy to do that
xxx: but im ruined
I would do what you did, except maybe in a little bit less of a condescending way. ie the sentiment I would be expressing "I feel really bad but can't give a compulsive gambler a loan. For all I know, this is just a ploy to make me feel bad for you, and you'll just gamble whatever I give you right back. If you are risking being kicked out over poker, you need to give it up permanently. I think you should come clean with your parents, and tell them you have a gambling problem and are going to seek help (gambler's anonymous or therapy or whatever)"
It's somewhat disturbing to think that unless you just reg battle / bumhunt the bumhunters hu or at nosebleeds, a substantial part of the $ we earn is derived at the expense of degenerate gamblers so we are essentially serving a drug dealer-esque function. I guess it is easy enough to rationalize that away by saying we are not encouraging them to play at all and they would still play and lose their $ even if we weren't the ones to take it.
There are also many well-respected people who are capitalizing off gambling addicts misery to a much much greater extent. To take the drug dealing analogy a little further, I'd say we're selling eighths of bud and someone like steve wynn is giving out free samples of hard drugs.
What's much more disturbing to me is that I seem to have reverted to my own degen tendencies the last few months, and despite writing a whole 10k word post on how not to be a tilting action junkie, I haven't been able to string together more than 2 hrs of consecutive play where I don't violate 5+ key things I advised against in that post.