When I turned 18 in 2007 I discovered pokerstrategy and got the 50$ free bucks. Read some basic **** about ratholing but ignored basic BRM. I ran really hot and played 4-6 tables NL50 with 10$ on each table. Only played the best hands and won every flip. So after 2 weeks my roll reached the 1k$ mark and I feel like Im the ****. So I move up to NL100 shortstacking and start losing. More losing.
Then I discover this little icon in the partypoker software named "Partybets" and "Partycasino".
So everyday I lose in poker I place a bet on basketball to get my money back. This works for like 2 weeks and Im now betting like 300$ per game. My roll is like 2k$ and Im baller again.
I will check the results via mobile internet when Im at my friends and I feel so baller, I buy drinks etc cuz I just made 600 bucks.
Well, then I lost a couple of games (at this point I rarely play poker, only betting) and my roll is down to 1k$. I play blackack and roulette. Place my whole roll on red (or black, cant remember) and the opposite hits. Broke. This night I also went to a party and the chick I had a crush on made out with another guy. I remember this day as the worst of my life lol.

Took a one year break from poker cuz I was convinced it was all luck based anyway.l

Today Im a NL200 SH grinder and november will be my first 5digit month.

^^like that one.

i dont know whether or not to believe u but goddamnit i sure as hell want to.

If I were you, I would reserve that judgement until you spend a couple of days in an inner city jail as a 120lb white kid who doesn't know anyone.

^^perhaps, however since you obv know what you did is wrong, and MORE IMPORTANTLY have means now to do something about it, why shouldnt you pay some restitution to the effected party/parties? i really just hate it when people have (what i would consider) few consequences in relation to whatever thing they have done, move on, and next thing you know are living the high life again. of course, its the us justice system thats at fault here ultimately: lets spend lots of time making online poker illegal, chasing around calvin ayre, and enforcing trafic laws, but people who car prowl or write bad checks? go to town!! enjoy...

Why didn't you just keep betting on sports. I don't understand why you would flip for your roll.

Do you MTT too or just cash?

i understand why he did that

some times you just lose the control, i did it once, bet my role roll at a football game after lose a lot of bets

If I had the means, I would. Unfortunately, I did not completely lose my degen ways so still largely living paycheck to paycheck and in debt to banks, credit card companies etc. Just not committing crime to fund it any more.

Point taken though. If it makes difference, the debt is owed to the lawyers' insurance company, and for them $250k is probably like $25 is to you and me.

Hi everyone. Long time lurker here. This is probably my favorite thread ever so I will post my story.

I went to Las Vegas with 5k in June 2008. Went broke within a couple weeks. Had no money. Slept in my car for a few days, then somehow got a $1500 cash advance from one of those internet sites. Got the money a day later and lost $1000 within a day. Then I walked into the Flamingo and sat down in their 1-2 no limit game for $200 with only $500 left to my name. I had a very drunk euro on my right who had a lot of chips. I chipped up to about $500 within an hour or 2. Then I got pocket 8's on the button with a raise from early position and call from the euro. I call as well. The flop comes 8 7 3 two diamonds. We get a 3 way all in. Euro jj. Other guy nut flush draw. Anyways they miss. I win and leave with $1200.

Walk over to the roulette table and put $50 on each 0 00 4 7 17. Smack 0. Do it again for $50. Smack! 7. Then do it again for a $100 SMACK 4! Do it again for a hundred and miss. Anyways i leave the Flamingo with about 7k. Walk over to Bally's and put $200 on only 4. And guess what, SMMMMAAACK another 7k. Walk over to the craps table and buy in for 3k and turn that into 8k. As I'm walking out a floor manager asks if he can do anything for me so I tell him a room would be nice. He gives me a free room for 3 nights. Over the course of the next week I turn with what started as $500 into a little over 55k playing mostly blackjack and roulette and some craps and Ballys Paris and Planet Hollywood.

The main event has just started and I say to myself I have to play. So I play two 1k sattys and miss, then decide to buy strait in on day 1d. Day one goes pretty slow at first and get down to 12k early from the original 20k starting stack, but I pick up a few hands towards the end of the day by flopping a boat and gett paid off and a couple other hands. End the day at 40k. Day 2 would be the most ridiculous run of cards I've ever seen. I get moved to a table with some euro on my right who went on tilt and gave me all his chips. I busted like 6 people at that table in the span of about 2 hours. I got my stack up to about 200k by dinner break. Got moved to another table in the amazon room Then a hand came up where I had kk against a guy to my right who had about 120k. He raised I reraised he calls. Flops comes q 10 2. I bet he calls. Turn 8. He check I bet. He raise. I shove He calls with qq. ****! River KING! I now have over 400k and end up being 2nd in chips at the end of day 2 with about 540k behind that one kid who had like 800k from day 2a. Anyways go into day 3. I was kinda card dead all day. Made the money and ended the day with about 500k. Day 4 nothing went right. Got aces cracked all in preflop yadadyadayada played a couple hands bad. Shoved short stacked with 44. Steve Bilarakis calls with 55. I'm out in 273 for 35k.

My boys come out we party for like 48 hours strait at the rhino and other places all the while doing illegal substances. I spend around 15k in that time which only about 3k was gambling. Most was on bottles and strippers and vip and illegal substances. Stay out in Las Vegas and California for the rest of the summer partying some nights and playing poker others. Anyways I'm back in Milwaukee, WI and play in the 2-5 no limit game at Potowatomi and have a steady job now actually. Hit me up if your around town.

dude the enter button is your friend. Nobody is going to enjoy reading that post without paragraphs.

edit: much better

WTF MAN

THIS AINT NO DEGEN STORY,

ITS A COMPLETE FULL BLOWN BRAG

what abbout the part where i had no money and was sleeping in my car?

Thought I'd read that story before middnight you posted that on p5s?

Degen stories aren't allowed to have good endings?

I liked it. Thanks for sharing, midnighttrain.

ultimate degen story link


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGCdBsOIKYA

You were working at a white shoe law firm making $80k a year at 21? You clearly weren't a lawyer if it was a white shoe firm, plus you were only 21. Were you doing some kind of IT work for them? If so, you were able to access the accounting department where they print checks without attracting any attention (at least initially)?

I'm a lawyer, and I cannot imagine something like this being possible at any firm with even somewhat sophisticated organizational safeguards. I don't necessarily disbelieve you, but... damn. That story is crazy.

this is a brag?

[x] *******

very degen

firefox just pwned this thread...my god

Classic degen post. For the cherry on top...break down to us the horrors of rape and male on male abuse in jail and you officially win this thread.

That's possibly the most insane thing I've ever read in my life that actually made sense. I loved the totally believable descriptions of desperation mixed with the occasional bat****-insane phrase like "i felt lower than when my mom force fed me flowers".

Well done.

i never was much of a gambler. my friends and i would all gather my buddy loft watch games of three tvs and i'd just sit there and laugh and laugh at them losing pretty big money most of the time betting the nfl. i wasn't stupid with my loot and betting the nfl was a no win proposition.

so rinse and repeat for a few years and one of these kids move into my apartment. football season starts and I decide to make a $50 parlay one sunday for ****s and giggles. that was easy, I hit a three teamer and was up to around $260 or so. so i decide why not play with the profits, but since i am no expert with football i decide why not try betting some college basketball games as I got a good feel year in, and year out for different teams.

my friend convinced me to open my own account with his bookie (we'd bet online and pay up in cash) as he was broke and gonna close his. so I get it all setup in time for big monday and place a two team parlay with 100 bucks on i think georgetown and texas. again I win this bet and now have $500 bucks in this little envelope for my bets.

not giving into my compulsion i took that whole week off, cause I know what I'm doing. the next sunday comes and i start looking over the games for hte week and decide why the **** not go for broke. i start placing $50 dollar bets on a ****load of college games. that week I was 90 % in single games. 5 for 5 in two team parlays, hit a five team parlay. **** i was on fire. i was buying point in games both ways and hitting. by the end of the week i ten grand or something, cash ****ing money.

so i'm hooked. I'd go to bed dreaming about my bets, i started waking up in the middle of the night not being able to sleep thinking about placing bets. i bet so ****ing hard the next two weeks I lose five grand . so I'm real ****in heated, angry and volatile.

i convince my bookie to raise my limit, and scour the internet for some ****ing locks. i ended up finding some local newspaper article in montana about the upcoming montana/montana st game that saturday. i'm convinced this is the lock so all week I'm following everything about this game and i'm sold on it.

that week went bad and i was in the hole already a few grand. saturday rolls around and i'm gonna have a party and bet 7500 on the lock of the week. the game was late for me (im on the east coast) so i spent the day getting drunk. did i mention I had a thing for whiskey and blacking out?

maybe it was the nerves, maybe it was just another saturday but the last thing i remember is getting home to listen to the game on internet radio and doing a few shots of jameson.

i come too in the hospital. I have ivs in my arms and i'm restrained to the bed. I start flipping out trying to get up and soon the hospital security is in the room asking if I really want to try them again. i'm ****in stupid, but i was smart enough to realize something bad went down. i calm down a bit and try to piece everything together but can't. there was this one real friendly nurse who took pity on me and explained i was arrested last night and brought to the hospital because of being intoxicated.

later that afternoon a police officer comes in and ask if i'd like to give a statement. i tell him yah, but i have no idea what happened. he jsut laughs and i start pleading with him to let me know whats going on. Appartently, I had assaulted a cab driver who refused to drive me to montana (my downstairs neighbor later told me he saw me leaving the apartment mubbling something about the referee fixing a game and how i don't let anyone **** with my money)

yah so i lost that bet which was huge, had lawyer fees, hospital bills out the ass. needless to say i only sip the whiskey and haven't bet in a few years.

was playin HU and i flopped 9 high with a backdoor 10 high draw, so i check raise a banana, he shoved over the top for like 3 bananas and a steak

i thought **** it and called putting in a huggeeee bag of marshamallows, it comes brick brick and i dont eat for a week

fml

^LOL above
^^ wow sick man

I can understand a football game when you think your plus +ev