Its not my story btw, but someone I know very well.

I played some holdem once with 60 only a buyin bankroll. True story.

is he scottish? from near stirling?

lmfao funniest story ive ever read.

is this 100% true or just made up?

i play internet poker for a living

Every year in July/August I go on major tilt.

3 years ago (March not August): On paradise poker won $3k online in cash and HUs SNG. Went crazy with HU SNG winning like 20 $100 and $200 1v1s in a row. I go to play BJ start doing $300 a spin doubling on anything even like 14 and win $15k. I wanted to cash $, but paradise was like only $5k every 24 hours. So I blew $10k the next morning in BJ in 1 hour and I have never played BJ since! I WAS 17!

2 1/2 years ago: Won $28k in 28 days on fixed limit 30/60 on stars and $100-$1k hu. I didn't have much $ then probs about $60-70k total. I couldn't withdraw like $15k from my account due to 48 hours deposit/withdraw rules.

I stayed in on a Saturday night when I shoulda gone out with my bro to party. I play 5 $1k hu and lose them all. Then I go fixed limit 100/200 and blow another $6k. Then I decide to go 25/50 NL with $5k grind it up to $10k. Then I get KK... push all in pre vs AA for a $20k pot. Then i open up a bodog account and lose 2 $1k 1v1s in a second. Then my brother came home and I explained everything to him and just couldn't stop crying it was like $18k in 2 hours and I was underage gambler! I quit until January!

1 1/2 years ago: Had a great May (+$35k) and decent June. Meant to go to Thailand with friends. We plan to go Hong Kong for 2 days then go to Thailand for a month. In Hong Kong first night we get wasted and I go to bed. I wake up to find out 2 of my mates have got arrested for murder! They held for like 48 hours and then they are cleared of the charges and we rush home. We go to Bulgaria for a week on holiday and then I have all July to gamble.
I have an account on 32red and I start playing 50/100 day I come back. I blow about $12k in an hour... the manager phones me and is like "Rob are you cool, these are big swings for you". I go on to blow like another $20k in that day and the next day at 50/100 and quit till January!!!

Last Summer: Just had an insane July winning £37k. In August I start short stacking a bit of 100/200 NL to try and make some serious $ as I was up pretty good amount for the year. Playing on ipoker find a player called helderarbeit. Lose about $25k to him one night... got tilted by him rivering a str8 vs me when we were all in me A10 and him A9 for about $12k.

Grinded for 2 weeks and made the $25k back at lower stakes. Then I went away to Italy with my family and took my laptop with me. Played 100/200 again vs him and dropped about $20k to him. It was tough bcuz although its obvious now I was convinced i was better than him. I downed a bottle of this like lemon alcohol with was 30% and went to sleep without spkin to family. Next day Dropped about $40k to him... got tilted by KK losing to A9 for $20k pot all in pre and he hit two 9s. Drank another bottle of rancid lemon alcohol and didn't speak to family.

Then I decided to go in sun and enjoy holiday... I then deposited $1k stars that night and played stars mils and came like 70th. Then I blew whole contents of account at 25/50.

Got back to London a couple of days later and blew another $10k online at 100/200 vs Randomdonk. I quit until end of November...

Here are all my Degen Stories.

Rob

Hahahahaha

I literally just burst out laughing reading this while drinking water and spit a MOUTHFUL of water onto my carpet in uncontrollable laughter.

Your situation is not special imo. Everybody hits rock bottom at some point. You gotta dig yourself out slowly.

Funny to think how many guys like you I've won $$$ from and it messed up their lives.

lol thats what i do when i tilt.

To Robert12345....

U sometimes go on insane heaters...and then lose the $$$ on BJ and coolers..... what's degen about that? U win the rest of the time? Charmed life imo. We got guys on here sleeping in trash cans and selling their babies in xchange for Full Tilt dollars.

Have you ever sucked dick for poker chips?

wow...I am actually wearing a FBI (Female Body Inspector) shirt right now as I read this I swear it was a gag gift from my roommate last Christmas and I've never worn it out of the house, but still!

dropped ~60k doing six-way PLO flips for 2k a pop and 5k on the side against zangbezan in jan. turning stone internet is so rigged.

started playing poker on partypoker...blew my first 2 $100 deposits quick...found fulltilt poker...liked the software a little better and on my first day there i did allright...next day went busto...redeposit...busto..redepositx2 ...busto busto...then i find out netteller did not immediatly take funds from my bank account, there is a few days grace period...get the bright idea to deposit way more then is in my bank, with the idea in head that i could just win and withdraw before it caught up with me..wrong....busto again....bunch of insufficeint fund fees, they shut down my bank account. then all that **** went down with U.S pokersites...netteller just flatout stops hassleing me...but now i have the itch, but no bank account or credit cards to get money online....then i find out my downfall freerolls...even though in my head i know im never gonna make any real cash playing them, i become a freeroll degen...I am joining every site that advertises freerolls...joining poker forums that specilize in freerolls...at any given night i could be found playing freerolls on at least 5 different sites...anything i win from these freerolls i would sit down at a cash table with it all and either blow it or make a lil then blow it all later...there were some days when i would play up to 50 freerolls..tons of sites for them back then (tropical poker, pittbull, wingows, jungle, bunch of casino sites that had poker rooms, and all the major sites to)
dident know crap about poker then thought it was just like bingo...im suprised that i got the few wins that i did...but i was serious about it...days that i was at work all id think about was what freerolls i would play that night...my social life suffered then died...then i started reading info about the game...doing all the homework i could...then 3 months ago(still busto online, still no bank or credit cards) i traded a coworker a eigth of some dan k for 50 pokerstars...used bankroll management on that $50 and now im sitting with about $500(nothing big, but at least it has been increasing steadily)...now gots to fix my social life

.... I couldnt cash the high tier of the event I specialize in for the scoop.
- insert standard bad beat story-

WTF am I doing with my life?

I'm going to start a weird record label or something. cut down on variance?

This is the ultimate degen story : http://88percent.blogspot.com/

cliff notes: Welsh guy runs up his roll to hundres of thousands, thinks he is a pro, loses it all, sells house, loses that, blogs about the whole thing!

who is that??? Sounds like me.

this needs more

I never did 10k flips to top off a million and as a matter of fact never was apart of that chat.

Well, I never said its you or that you were a part of the chat..i just asked him if he was you as that conversation happened right after i had vaguely read a blog or a story about someone called ashman running bad at the nosebleeds. I didnt include his answer as he told me who he is, and I know that he doesn't want to be outed.

I removed that question from the dialogue i posted here since the guy is someone else and it doesnt have anything to do with you, but thought it was funny that you replied in this thread right after me and that you said it sounded like you, so I posted it. I dont mind removing it if you think its gonna confuse people and make it think its you.

After reading Dr. Pauly's latest blog post, I lost $600 playing drunken guess her muff last night. http://guesshermuff.blogspot.com/

I did some stalkerish research and I'm 100% sure it is vandAAgnog.

This thread is gold

I had a feeling it was vandaagnog. Dude was as sick as I was. Crazy times.

Looked up vandaagnog in the dictionary, found this:

de·gen·er·ate (d-jnr-t)
adj.
1. Having declined, as in function or nature, from a former or original state: a degenerate form of an ancient folk art.
2. Having fallen to an inferior or undesirable state, especially in mental or moral qualities.

n.
1. A depraved, corrupt, or vicious person.
2. A person lacking or having progressively lost normative biological or psychological characteristics.
intr.v. (--rt) de·gen·er·at·ed, de·gen·er·at·ing, de·gen·er·ates
1. To fall below a normal or desirable state, especially functionally or morally; deteriorate: old water pipes that are degenerating with age; a dispute that degenerated into a brawl.
2. To decline in quality: The quality of his writing degenerated as he continued to drink.

Sick research.

My degen story is that I run around in forums telling people what to do, becuase I do it, and I obviously bank all the time. Then I check PT and think "wtf is this red stuff?" when I see im down 1k in April. One minute later, I´ve forgot all about it and im on it again. Or, I decide to go out shopping, because I run so damn good right now making tons of cash. Then I check PT again and think "wtf is this red stuff?", and repeat.

Not super funny, but definatly a bit degen. I´ve went so far with my mental work that it might even have caused a counter productive bubble of Joy.