WTF at 6 figs at 24?!?!? how?!?

A College degree and the right opportunity can do some amazing things.

1000€ on wta final m.bartoli+1,5 sets @1,8

gogogogogo!! my degen moment for today

shiiiiip vegas im coming 4 more of these and i will degen it up in sin cityyyy

Took a walk after losing a hand at 2-5 nl. No epic beat or anything just flopped top two and the opponent turned a flush bet small, then on the river overbet the pot. I folded and he showed the nuts. Anyways I take a walk and decide to do 1 500$ bet on blackjack with the 500 I have in my pocket. The table was empty when I walked up but 3 others sat with me. I get dealt 88 against a 7 and I ask the floor what are my options since I don't have 500$ cash on me and I want to split. He asks where I have 500$ and I explain I just took a walk from a poker game that I have 500$ at. He asks the other players if they mind waiting and they say no. So I split and get dealt another 8! I decide to stay and get dealt a 5! Yes I would've made 21 on the first split. I decided to stay again hoping the dealer busts. He flips 7 for 77 and gets an A and then a 3. 1000$ adios. Wasn't fun and I regret it obviously.

Why on earth would you stay on 16 v 7?

Moron also stayed on 13 in the second part of the hand. Even with the absurdity of the stay on 16 he should have gotten the A and 3 giving him 17 with the dealer about to hit on 14.

Was at a low point in life a couple months back, Googled degen poker players, came across this thread. After countless hours, finally finish every freaking page. Most had me rofl, some had me empathise, a few had me super sad. Decided to pen down the most degen period of my life, mostly so I will have this story to look back upon and hopefully never go down that path again, also hope it provides some form of entertainment to the community here on twoplustwo.

I was a 23 yr old kid from Singapore who was studying abroad in Melbourne, Australia. I used to play at underground poker games back in my country, did pretty decently as the level of play was terrible. Built a bankroll of around AUD 6,000 playing 1/2 for a year, brought it all to OZ. Being abroad for the first time, alone and bored, Crown Casino rapidly became my 2nd home. Started off playing 2/3, buying in for 200, and crushed the tables the first 3-4 visits. Felt like a boss with my big stack and being the table captain, cashing out 2-3 racks (AUS 1000+), thought I was God’s gift to poker. Very soon I moved up to 2/5 and 5/5, where the TAG & LAG regs pummelled me back to Earth. I lost all my winnings and most of my bankroll in the space of a week.

Crushed and despondent, I went upstairs to the main casino floor, decided to spaz off the rest of my money (slightly under AUD 1,000) playing Caribbean Stud Poker, where there was a rolling jackpot of $800,000. For those that are not familiar with this game, the jackpot paid in full if you showed a Royal, and 10% if you showed a straight flush. Played every hand, didn’t give a **** what I had, called with 9 hi, 10 hi, was taking shots of vodka and not feeling a damn thing. After 30mins and with my last 100 bucks, came THE hand. It was a weekend, rowdy as ****, other 5 seats on that table were filled with Vietnamese housewives chattering amongst themselves. Dealer dealt 5 cards to each player as per normal. As per my habit, I flipped them up Omaha style, very slowly. One card at a time. First card 8 diamonds. Second card 9 diamonds. ‘Nice, I can get the bonus for a flush’. Third card 6 diamonds. Fourth card 5 diamonds. Now my heart started to pound, ‘no it can’t be, there’s no way I get this kinda luck’. Set the 4 cards down, picked up the top card and the last card, decided to peek at it Asian style (u know the kind where they rub the card like a mother****er and peep at the sides). Held my breath……………………………………….. saw the top cliff edge of a mother****ing red 7, but I don’t know if it’s a heart or a diamond. As I was the last to act, the whole table was waiting for me, the Viet ****s hissing at me to hurry the **** up. I put down my hand and declared loudly, ‘guys, I might have a straight flush’. I stood up, took the card and smacked it down hard on the table. BOOM THE 7 OF ****ING DIAMONDS BABY!!!! The table cheered, passerbys came over and I got slapped on the back like 22323x. I was dizzy with euphoria and couldn’t see straight worth a damn. The pitboss came over, looked over the cards and the deck, checked the cams, made me sign a buncha papers. Passed me 16 5k chips. I contemplated cashing them out, decided, no **** it, now that I have a roll, I’m going back to the poker table to crush those fools.

Went down to the poker room, the list on the screen showed a 25/50 PLO game going on. Walked over and saw ****ing Joe Hachem laughing and splashing chips in. Decided it will be a good story if I could stack him (note that I only had experience playing 0.25/ 0.50 PLO online prior to this). Registered and bought in for 10k. For all the stories about Joe being a nice guy, he sure is. He even apologises when he ****ing wipes me out time after time. The killer blow was when I had my last 25k on the table. At this point, Joe had 50-60k in front of him.

I potted it with JJ66r pre, he repotted me, I repopped him and he called. Flop came J 10 2. I checked, he bet ¾ pot, I raised pot, he 4bet, and I 5bet all-in. He was like, ‘aw shucks u must have jacks eh’, and called. Pot was 50k. I was like yeah, and turned my hand over. Joe: That’s good bud. Turn 4. River 2. He goes, ‘Oh my, I’m sorry mate’. Turns over……….. ****ing 22AQ. HE RIVERED ****ING QUADS IN THE BIGGEST POT OF MY LIFE!!!!!!!!!! I was so devastated I could have punched a hole right through the ****ing table. I kept my cool, said nice hand, shook his hand and walked off. Was in a ****ing trance, can’t believe I donked off 80k in 4hrs. It was 7am then…. I took a cab home… tried to sleep, but couldn’t. Decided I had to ****ing get every cent back somehow………..

Alright guys, this is part 1 of my degen story, part 2 will be up soon. I’m not a very good storyteller, so please forgive me if this bored u. If nobody expresses an interest in this story, I wont post up part 2.

Are u replying to urself!? That's pretty degen too

This really happened, I was actually there with him!

drballs part 2 please!

Dont lie

maybe we can get doug lee to confirm this happened. seeing how hes such great friends with the hachems.

Part 2 please drballs

I know my story sounds too incredible, but believe it or not, it's up to you. I have nothing to gain by taking the trouble to create an account here to make up a fantasy.

If this were true, 99% of internet forums wouldn't exist.

It's pretty funny if you or anyone else thinks that I take the time and effort to write out a story just to get a 'kick' or a perceived modicum of fame from this forum. It doesn't matter to me. As I had said, this thread is just a outlet and motivation to pen down what I've put behind me. If people like you are so resistant to stories that are beyond what you have personally experienced or think is possible for a common man to go through, I won't post up Part 2.

You completely contradict yourself in that sentence alone. If this were only about "penning down" (lol) what you've put behind you, you wouldn't care at all what I or anyone else thinks of your story.

Also, you never addressed what I wrote in the post you quoted. I love that excuse: "Why would I bother to lie anonymously? blah blah blah puke....".
Who the **** knows? Insecurity? Need for attention any way possible, even through an "avatar" of sorts?

What's sure is that people do it all the time and you're clearly doing it.

Let's just put it this way. The chance that you saw you needed a straight flush, actually got it a few hours after, then got into a huge hand set over set against no less than Joe Hashem, who sucked out on you for a 160k pot when he hit quads on the river, yeah...I think you get my point.

I happen to be very qualified to talk about probability, but there's absolutely no need to be; anyone who believes your story for even 1/2 a second is clearly incredibly naive or mentally ******ed.

Oh...and nice try at getting everyone itt pissed at me because you threaten not to post part 2 of your bull**** story, hahaha.

Lol, I love how this guy on the Internet can twist my words and 'quote' it to make it sound like he is the voice of reason.

'The chance that you saw you need a straight flush, actually got it a few hours later' - Where on earth did u read that I was going for a straight flush?!? I merely typed some information on the size of the jackpot and what a straight flush paid as additional information for the reader.

'Got into a huge hand set over set.... 160k pot' - Firstly, PLO set over set? If you are even half decent at probabilities, you will know it's pretty damn common in PLO. 160k? Again, if you have elementary knowledge of mathematics... read the story again. If I have 25k and the money goes in headup. What is the pot?

I really don't give a **** that you don't believe my story. It's just unbelievable how you can adopt a condescending and judgemental tone towards a person who has absolutely nothing to prove to you or to anyone by posting an episode in his life.

Why do you care what anyone thinks, especially on 2p2, and especially on BBV? Seriously. Just post part 2.

Dude, you're so pathetic it's actually sad...As the guy above said, why do you even care what I think?

Just post the rest of your BS story. If anyone's stupid enough to believe that you got picked up by aliens, survived a 3 mile fall and found a pot of gold on your way home...good for you.

Also, lol @ "who has nothing to prove to you", you keep blatantly contradicting yourself. If you really had nothing to prove to me, you wouldn't keep replying to my posts in a broken teenager voice.

But hey, please reply again and don't address that point at all. This is BBV after all, I'm sure a couple of droolers actually want to hear the rest of your impossible story and are going to start getting mad at me for not "letting you" post it.

Where's part 2?

I'm drooling all over my keyboard here.

drballs busted after posting BS:

here is my story.
just moved to vegas couple months ago.

sorry but i am very bad at telling stories so ill make it very short.

This happened last week, i walked into the aria on a Thursday night with the intent of playing the 1/3 plo. I am not very good at plo but i have seen the game get nuts some time.
so i bring my 600 i short stack the game with 200. loose that playing pretty bad.
buy in for another 200 and tell my self if i loose this im leaving im not rebuying.
i then go on a good run of cards. i re-potted pre with A-A-J-10 and flop is A-5-10.
BINGO, i see no need to slow play since it was 72 pre and 4 people called. i Pot all in on the flop and get a fold from everyone. 1 person even says your only potting pre with one hand and it floped top set.
i just loled and showed the aces.
and then this and come up.
on the button with 10-10-4-6. its 12 to go and 4 people call. the flop is 10-2-2. some guy pots the flop i re-pot it and he asked how much i have behind i reply maybe 150. he re-pots to put me all in. i insta call and asked to run it twice, i proceed to tell him i have 10-10. he laughs and says we can run it 10 times i have a 2.
but in my mind WHAT if that 2 comes on the turn or river. im BAD I KNow.
anyways after getting it in 3 times with top sets and floped nuts.
my stack is around 1100.
the game breaks and i end up playing 1/3nl. the game sucks and is way to slow for me after playing a 10hr plo session. i ended up dumping 700 in the game.
1 particular hand tilted me.
some drunk tourist like to over shove the flop with any 2 cards.
so im utg+2 raise to 14 with J-J get 3 callers. flop J-Q-K. the tourist is in BB and checks i lead for 23. 2 ppl call. he shoved and its 300 too call. i tank call knowing he could have just a naked 10 for a str8 draw.
he ends up showing me A-10 for floped nuts and i brick brick.
Im so tilted i gave back all my winnings plus 200.


its around 9am and tom dwan shows up.
im so tilted i thought about walking up to him and asking if he wants too flip for 400 real quick.
i decided he would prolly laugh at me since he was starting to play OFC for 2k a point.
come to find out it was richard yongs relatives hes been playing,