Degen Stories....
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, 02:17 PM
Wow, had to sign up after reading this entire thread.. epic posts itt. Not a huge degen myself, but I sure as hell have had my moments.
Many years ago, back in college at Chico, Reno was just a few hours away. Me & my buddies would sometimes get on a kick to go gambool. We'd all pitch in for gas money & split a hotel room for a night (4-6 of us per trip). Blow my money as slow as possible, save a little (or borrow) for a meal and the gas home. Pretty standard good times. Some degen moments:
- I used to pay cash for everything then toss my coins from change in a jar at the end of the day. Save up, good for gambling $$. Being a brokeass college student, I would only save the pennies & spend the silver on laundry & cigs. I had this empty 1 gallon wine jug (yes, I drank wine by the gallon. good for 1 degen point right there methinks) all filled with pennies. Walked up to the cage & handed it to the lady. Well, I thought the pennies would pour out like sand. They don't. Not even close. 15 minutes of her shaking that damn jug, sitting it down & rubbing her wrists, then picking it back up to shake out a few more pennies, she never complained once. Note: 1 gallon of pennies is $40.25. I tipped her $20 of it.
- Next trip, I smarted up and used a 1 gallon plastic apple juice container, thinking ha! I will cut open the jug & not have to make the poor lady shake out my coins. I walk up to the cage very smug with my phat roll and say Hey I'm going to use my little pocket knife to slice this open. She says Oh no! Don't pull out a knife at the cage! Security will be all over you! Well, my great plan shot to hell.. I stand there.. for 15 minutes.. while she shakes out my pennies..
- Sometime after that, I had spent all my change, even the pennies, and no dough at all. But some ****** at a credit card company thought that I would be a good candidate for a $200 limit card. So we loaded in the car, drove up there and my intent was to put the room on the card and have everybody pay their share to me in cash for teh gambooling monies. Good plan, and it worked, the catch was my one buddy had reserved the room in his and his girlfriend's names. They got a good rate or non-refundable reservation or something. I went with his girlfriend to the check in counter and we had to say "uh Mark couldn't make it, so I'm here instead.." to put it on my card. The check in lady didn't even bat an eye. **** like that must happen all the time in Reno.
- Once I actually had $40 in folding money (balla!) to gamble with after I'd paid my share of gas & hotel. I was hanging with one buddy, he said let's play blackjack, lemme hit the bathroom first. Back in those days, they still threw $2 bj, but that was on the other side of the room. I'm standing in front of an empty $5 table and proceeded to lose 8 straight hands before my friend comes out of the bathroom. Ok let's go play he says. Well I'm broke now says I, let me borrow $2 for nickel slots. I get a roll of nickels and bam! I win a $40 jackpot. That's a lot of nickels. (they paid jackpots in coins back then) So I take my $40 & find my buddies at a BJ table. I sit down, lose it all. Well back to nickel slots. Win another $40. Back to BJ, lose it, nickels for a third $40, back to BJ & lose it. Why don't you just play nickle slots? they asked. Well I came here to hang out with my friends, not sit by myself playing slots.
- Last degen moment for this post, I only saw, I wasn't really a part of. We found a $2 blackjack table with enough open seats for all of us, so we all sat down. (yes, blackjack and slots are the only casino games we knew how to play) We are having a great time yukking it up with the dealer and waitress and the rest of the table. There is one guy at the table who is playing $25 chips- the high roller! Well he's older (I'm 21 or 22 at the time, so he was prolly 45 heh) and looks gay. Not oh my god flaming gay, just kinda gay. That's cool, none of us have a problem with it, he is tipping the waitress very well so she comes around a lot.
A few times this other guy comes up to him and says Well I'm out of money again, our high roller raises an eyebrow and gives him some chips. After an hour or two (I'm doing really good, losing slowly!) this guys friend comes up again and our guy goes off. Not yelling, but talking real loud. "You're such a loser! A degenerate gambler! All you do is lose my money!" That's the first time I had ever heard anybody use the word degenerate. I guessed its meaning, but still had to look it up in a dictionary when I got home. (this is a time way before internet and online dictionaries)
The game stops and everybody at the table gets real quiet and tries not to stare because this seemed like a really nice guy. I was embarrassed for both of them. Everybody at the table wanted to crawl in a hole because of the things this guy was saying to what I guessed was his partner. The other guy is shorter, fatter, shabby dressed, balding, as you could see him just shrinking as our high roller berates him. Our guy stands up from the table and continues just laying into this other guy, who is looking at the ground and taking it, glancing up a few times like a kicked puppy dog.
It was a really weird vibe because it kinda looked like the other guy was enjoying it, and our guy was too. Our guy finally says something like "You are such a loser, watch this!" He picks up a $5 chip and says "You owe me like 2 grand from tonite, double or nothing. Call it!" and flips the chip in the air. The other guy says Tails, our guy catches it and opens his hand. "Heads! I told you! You want to go again? Huh? Do ya?" The other guy is like an inch tall by this point and whispers no. "Let's just go, you stupid loser." Our guy gathers up his chips and walks off towards the cage, with his friend hanging his head following behind him.
The table pretty much died after that. I picked up my chips and looked at one of my $5 chips. The casino we were in had some kind of no-name headliner as their main show draw and it had his face on the chip. I turned it over and his face was on the other side too.
Now I just play poker online for play chips because I'm too skeered to deposit real money. And I spend way more time reading 2+2 than playing because I've built a roll of 250k play chips and don't want to lose them. I guess that makes me the biggest degen of them all..
Many years ago, back in college at Chico, Reno was just a few hours away. Me & my buddies would sometimes get on a kick to go gambool. We'd all pitch in for gas money & split a hotel room for a night (4-6 of us per trip). Blow my money as slow as possible, save a little (or borrow) for a meal and the gas home. Pretty standard good times. Some degen moments:
- I used to pay cash for everything then toss my coins from change in a jar at the end of the day. Save up, good for gambling $$. Being a brokeass college student, I would only save the pennies & spend the silver on laundry & cigs. I had this empty 1 gallon wine jug (yes, I drank wine by the gallon. good for 1 degen point right there methinks) all filled with pennies. Walked up to the cage & handed it to the lady. Well, I thought the pennies would pour out like sand. They don't. Not even close. 15 minutes of her shaking that damn jug, sitting it down & rubbing her wrists, then picking it back up to shake out a few more pennies, she never complained once. Note: 1 gallon of pennies is $40.25. I tipped her $20 of it.
- Next trip, I smarted up and used a 1 gallon plastic apple juice container, thinking ha! I will cut open the jug & not have to make the poor lady shake out my coins. I walk up to the cage very smug with my phat roll and say Hey I'm going to use my little pocket knife to slice this open. She says Oh no! Don't pull out a knife at the cage! Security will be all over you! Well, my great plan shot to hell.. I stand there.. for 15 minutes.. while she shakes out my pennies..
- Sometime after that, I had spent all my change, even the pennies, and no dough at all. But some ****** at a credit card company thought that I would be a good candidate for a $200 limit card. So we loaded in the car, drove up there and my intent was to put the room on the card and have everybody pay their share to me in cash for teh gambooling monies. Good plan, and it worked, the catch was my one buddy had reserved the room in his and his girlfriend's names. They got a good rate or non-refundable reservation or something. I went with his girlfriend to the check in counter and we had to say "uh Mark couldn't make it, so I'm here instead.." to put it on my card. The check in lady didn't even bat an eye. **** like that must happen all the time in Reno.
- Once I actually had $40 in folding money (balla!) to gamble with after I'd paid my share of gas & hotel. I was hanging with one buddy, he said let's play blackjack, lemme hit the bathroom first. Back in those days, they still threw $2 bj, but that was on the other side of the room. I'm standing in front of an empty $5 table and proceeded to lose 8 straight hands before my friend comes out of the bathroom. Ok let's go play he says. Well I'm broke now says I, let me borrow $2 for nickel slots. I get a roll of nickels and bam! I win a $40 jackpot. That's a lot of nickels. (they paid jackpots in coins back then) So I take my $40 & find my buddies at a BJ table. I sit down, lose it all. Well back to nickel slots. Win another $40. Back to BJ, lose it, nickels for a third $40, back to BJ & lose it. Why don't you just play nickle slots? they asked. Well I came here to hang out with my friends, not sit by myself playing slots.
- Last degen moment for this post, I only saw, I wasn't really a part of. We found a $2 blackjack table with enough open seats for all of us, so we all sat down. (yes, blackjack and slots are the only casino games we knew how to play) We are having a great time yukking it up with the dealer and waitress and the rest of the table. There is one guy at the table who is playing $25 chips- the high roller! Well he's older (I'm 21 or 22 at the time, so he was prolly 45 heh) and looks gay. Not oh my god flaming gay, just kinda gay. That's cool, none of us have a problem with it, he is tipping the waitress very well so she comes around a lot.
A few times this other guy comes up to him and says Well I'm out of money again, our high roller raises an eyebrow and gives him some chips. After an hour or two (I'm doing really good, losing slowly!) this guys friend comes up again and our guy goes off. Not yelling, but talking real loud. "You're such a loser! A degenerate gambler! All you do is lose my money!" That's the first time I had ever heard anybody use the word degenerate. I guessed its meaning, but still had to look it up in a dictionary when I got home. (this is a time way before internet and online dictionaries)
The game stops and everybody at the table gets real quiet and tries not to stare because this seemed like a really nice guy. I was embarrassed for both of them. Everybody at the table wanted to crawl in a hole because of the things this guy was saying to what I guessed was his partner. The other guy is shorter, fatter, shabby dressed, balding, as you could see him just shrinking as our high roller berates him. Our guy stands up from the table and continues just laying into this other guy, who is looking at the ground and taking it, glancing up a few times like a kicked puppy dog.
It was a really weird vibe because it kinda looked like the other guy was enjoying it, and our guy was too. Our guy finally says something like "You are such a loser, watch this!" He picks up a $5 chip and says "You owe me like 2 grand from tonite, double or nothing. Call it!" and flips the chip in the air. The other guy says Tails, our guy catches it and opens his hand. "Heads! I told you! You want to go again? Huh? Do ya?" The other guy is like an inch tall by this point and whispers no. "Let's just go, you stupid loser." Our guy gathers up his chips and walks off towards the cage, with his friend hanging his head following behind him.
The table pretty much died after that. I picked up my chips and looked at one of my $5 chips. The casino we were in had some kind of no-name headliner as their main show draw and it had his face on the chip. I turned it over and his face was on the other side too.
Now I just play poker online for play chips because I'm too skeered to deposit real money. And I spend way more time reading 2+2 than playing because I've built a roll of 250k play chips and don't want to lose them. I guess that makes me the biggest degen of them all..
08-21-2009
, 05:42 PM
08-21-2009
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08-22-2009
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08-22-2009
, 01:43 PM
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This one time I just went on a absolute ****ing cooler and lost a bunch of buyins.....commence Defcon 1 mega tilt. I have about say $800 at this point. I sit down at the 100NL table and buy in full. I sit there and go all in preflop EVERYHAND. I keep doing this and im swinging up and down. People are absolutly bashing me in the chat boxes. I proceed to go all in every single hand for sooo long...I dont know how long the session was because I was so mad I coulnt see straight.
I proceeded to lose my whole roll.....I THEN Redeposit $500 and do the SAME ****ING THING and go busto
I proceeded to lose my whole roll.....I THEN Redeposit $500 and do the SAME ****ING THING and go busto
But still, I dropped 500ish and I had to stop because I felt physically ill, and I mean it.So I see where you´re coming from, but still, it´s beyond sick you were capable of making yet another deposit once you had gone busto. I felt really dizzy during this session and close to puking once I just pulled the plug. So kudos. You sir are a true degenerate.