I've gotten to pg. 55 of the thread and this is one my favorites. Every time I read it makes me LOL.

This guy has a lot of character to sublease his hotel room to a homeless guy for 3 dollars so he can buy frito lay chips to survive rather than ask people for money.

FYP

i meant has character

I did, old story.

Oh thank god.

Well last night did not end well. like i mentioned before I lost the original $700 quick, then took out $1800 more to gamble. This was up and down, but never up much so i kept playing. Went to sleep with $1650, not too crazy, but woke up at 4am and went back to the casino. I started off winning $500, and should have stopped right there. But , i fooled around, blackjack, roulette, pai gow, and baccarat. Down to last 500, i tried some craps which i almost never play. I did great, only betting like $25 on pass, 50 on odds, i ran it up 1350. Went back to roulette, back to 500. I decided go big, and put 25 chips inside, 100 on 3rd 12. It hits 26 with a quarter and back to 1300. Well, from there I definitely should have left, but it always is hard leaving down money with easy chance to win it back. I didnt, i lost it all. Wiped out my winning streak, and that streak was small amounts too each time. Damnit! I should learn better. I know to just play bigger and quicker probably would be better, but to end the trip so quick, say better 500 a hand 3-4 times, if i lose everytime, would be a really short painful trip, instead of hours at the tables. Well, i think im done with gambling, i feel too much pain from it anymore, and realize it so hard to get ahead that way. You need a big jackpot and then stop, but if you read these stories of mine, its always up and down, then down big. there was a funny degen at the tables though, this guy was like a biker dude, he was taunting all the players when peek at their cards. yelling 1 or 2, 1-2,1-2 (in baccarat low like 1-2 suck, 8-9 best) then once he would look he was like oh ****, looks all digusted then throws down the winning hand. Then other player gets mad next hand, asian dude peeks, he goes that ****er gots it. lol degen at the finest!

Pocketrockets, str8flucked, people like us should not be gambling...........want to do a last longer bet?

Lol I'm at 62 days gamble free and 3 days nicotine free.

Eating right and hitting the gym too. It feels nice not being a POS and all around degenerate.

Good luck man, Im 7 days for Drugs,alcohol,smoking and gambling (don't count poker as gambling) realised all i used to do was wake up go the casino/bookies, win get ****ed up/lose get ****ed up go to sleep, repeat. At least now im motivated to use that gym membership i pay £50 a month for and haven't been for 8months lol

I have two gym memberships and don't use either one

<--------- So is that your actual pic there

I think I'm turning into a 24 year old alky. I work 12 hour days 6 days a week most of the year. Hour and a half to work each way. As soon as I get back to town I stop at the bar for a couple hours. Normally 4 beers and 4 shots, then go home and drink till I pass out and get up and do it all over again.

On the plus side I haven't gambled in like two months after losing close to 4k a month for a long ass time. Not sure if this is an improvement though as I drank a lot less in my gambling days

What a degenerate

daily fantasy keeps me away from casinos. I am very proud tbh..

Was away for a while from it but yesterday I added a new one to the book.
As usual on Saturday morning, I went out for a few aperitives and get drunk by 1PM , fro m the last 30 minutes of drinking I started thinking about a small trip to the casino.
I managed to get home have eat something and go for a nap and proudly resist to the urge of gaming on pit games.
I sleep for two hours and as soon as I wake up the urge is strong, I start laying to myself and auto convince that I will go just for the afternoon poker tourny. Grab some cash and cards and after coffe I'm driving to the casino (10 mins trip), I go in look at poker tourny and decided to have a smoke first and play the tourny later. The smoking room is the same as the slot one and after lighting the cig I put a 50€ on a slot and there it starts....
in the next hour I smoked half packet of cig and blow 1.200€ spinning by 2€ (worst run ever)
Time out from home 1,5 hours including trip, -1.200€ didn't even move to any opther game or poker just one fuxking slot.

Have a spare $1k to Degen off. Bit sick of craps, table games, PLO and sports. Any other suggestions?

1k worth of hookers and blow LDO

toy grabbing claw games

Bit too -ev for me. Thinking about just putting the 1k on a roulette number , I'm just gunna donk it off gambling anyways, might as well take the 37:1 shot at $36k, yeah?

realistically why dont you save that 1000 and do something nice for yourself or a loved one

ive lived and learned gambling is ******ed
the only way to ever beat the pits is to make a **** ton of money

and put a big bet on one hand that you can afford to lose

if you ever watched rounders im like matt damon and instead of beating my KGB my KGB owns my soul both times

im like matt damon on the straight and narrow path working a grueling square hourly job while getting through school


it was very humbling to make in a week what i would make in one bet

being a degen is disgusting one day you can be up 20k the next day you can be down 5 or 50k lol

You quit now ? Or run out of money?

The claw toy-grabbing machine story had me in absolute tears. I can just picture him walking out of a closed amusement park, dejectedly, with 4 toys

fyp

Today my account at playnow(government gambling site here) was finished its self exclusion I did awhile ago.

I logged in and saw I had $97 and change. I was so pissed when I self excluded myself that I never bothered to take it out.

Anyways, I haven't degened in a long ass time but something came over me and just said **** it bet $48 a hand on BJ and let it ride. Needless to say for the next two hours I was clicking like a mad man with my face 4 inches from the monitor and went from 97 to 700 then another heater to 1300 ish up to 2500 and back down to 1500. Then something inside me said GET OUT, So I insta cashed out and banned myself again. It was fun I admit but scared the **** out of me afterwards because while I was playing I was watching the baseball game which I am a huge fan and follow and when the cable box automatically turned off for some reason I didnt get out of my chair I just kept clicking like a mad man in a silent room.

Cliffs:
Self exclusion ended on gambling site
Had 97 bucks in there
Said F it and started betting 48 a hand in BJ
Ran it up to 2500 and back to 1500
insta cashed out 1500 and banned myself again
missed most of the baseball game