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01-15-2010 , 03:43 AM

#1276

degensweed

stranger

Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 2

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Originally Posted by StraightAAs

you owe me 6 minutes of my life back

Ok, when you come in time for buss to work next time instead of missing it, think of it as IM SORRY FROM ME

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01-15-2010 , 08:18 AM

#1277

T-Bagger Vance

adept

Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 1,134

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Originally Posted by StraightAAs

you owe me 6 minutes of my life back

It took you 6 minutes to read that post? You are borderline ******ed.

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01-15-2010 , 10:06 AM

#1278

chenguru

enthusiast

Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 57

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Originally Posted by T-Bagger Vance

It took you 6 minutes to read that post? You are borderline ******ed.

Enjoys putting people down

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01-15-2010 , 10:24 AM

#1279

greedynyc

grinder

Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 656

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Originally Posted by T-Bagger Vance

It took you 6 minutes to read that post? You are borderline ******ed.

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01-15-2010 , 10:28 AM

#1280

Ship (t)it

banned

Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 712

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Originally Posted by Bad Beat Bill

It didn't occur to me, since these guys were some of my best friends and all. I live in a small town and it would blow my mind if there was a card mechanic who could do things like that there. The guy who won the whole thing was shaking, absolutely sweating bullets when the Ace-Ace came, even though his odds of winning were so high. Not easy to fake that.

I have a similar story, this one about 2-3 years ago. I'm still playing with mostly the same group on a weekly basis (but we're older and have more money now, so it's no limit of course). I'm playing online poker now and making a decent amount, maybe like two or three hundred a week, and I have a friend who does the same. Anyways one week during the poker game we decide to play props. It's a lot of fun, so next week we do the same, but we decide to make it a bit more interesting, since we both have the gambling bug. Basically, it was set up so you would pay $1 for this, $5 for that, and so on. I don't remember the exact details but it was like this: we'd each get a color (red or black) and pick a card of that color. Then we had a huge list of things that you would win if certain things related to that card hit. I picked the 2 of clubs, so I'd get paid whenever the 2c hit the flop, more if it was in the middle, then bonuses for any three black cards, a good one for three clubs, a big one for three dueces, etc. He had the Jack of diamonds. The killer was that we had all sorts of multipliers. For example, for me it was one duece was a buck, three if it's the duece of clubs or in the center, and ten if the duece of clubs was in the center, then one other duck is x5 and all three is x25. Ditto for him and the jack. I don't remember who was up or down doing this during the game. A lot of $2 and $5s being tossed around but no clear winner. End of session, we're both up small amounts from the poker game, like about $30. Of course we're glad we won but still wanted more action. He proposed we triple the stakes of the props and ran out the deck once, just for a bit of fun. I think the most paid during the game was like $6 on one flop so this felt safe. So we did it, and he hits a flop that just killed me: Jh Jd Js. I even remember the order. It stung even worse since I dealt this myself. So it was $10 for the Jd in the middle, x25 since it was trips, then x3 since we tripled action. So yeah, $750 on one flop. Not a sick amount of money but considering we were only really trying to gamble the $30 it was pretty surprising. Luckily he took a Stars transfer which was pretty much the end of my Pokerstars days.

During one poker game I made prop bets with everyone for all sorts of insane junk. For some reason it really brings out the gambool-happy side of me. I bet $20 on whether or not there would be a commercial on whatever the next channel 'up' was (I lost; it was Home Improvement), $10 on the type of bread the host had (I said white, it was wheat), made tons of bets on how many Brewers or Packers my friend knew (many of which I won, because even though the guy is a big fan, he doesn't really know the players that well). I did a bunch of bets where I'd set a line and have another guy go over or under on it. Of course this is -EV but I didn't care. I made lines on all sorts of things - the amount of gas left on a buddy's car, how many miles were on it, how many women he slept with (made him write these on a piece of paper first obviously), how many beers were in the fridge, how old the dogs were, how many runs were scored in certain baseball games (although I only checked the Brewers score...this was fun and potentially ----EV). I even bet an over/under on the last four digits of someone's mom's PHONE NUMBER (line at 5000, he went under and I won). At first I was doing this for a laugh, but I honestly couldn't stop.

The best bet I made along these lines was like this: I had a friend who bought a new smartphone, one that could browse the internet quickly and what not. A friend and I were watching a football game with him, and we noticed he would look up things related to our conversations and start giving us the 'facts'. For example if we were unsure of where, say, Mason Crosby went to college, he would look it up completely umprompted...he did this with some music and movie trivia. At one point he even looked up the recipe to a dish we were discussing. I think he was just in love with his new phone. Anyways I pull my buddy aside and mention that he sure is using this an awful lot. So we decide this: $50 and an order of wings to whichever one of us can get him to list off more of these 'facts' during the next game. The catch was we couldn't tell him what we were doing, and we could not ask him any questions directly. If he figured it out, then the guy who 'tipped him off' would lose. So it was basically one of us bringing up a topic, acting confused about some detail, and the other guy trying to fill in that detail with enough certainty that cell phone guy didn't look it up. I won that one (and my friend should probably have been disqualified) with a score of 13, and the guy didn't even catch on. Yeah not really degen but the whole reason the idea came to me was because I didn't have a bet on the game.

Reading this was so worth it.

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01-17-2010 , 06:34 PM

#1281

RelaxedPrecision

Jared Huggins

Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 1,185

Still living in my car, been living in my car since August 16th, when I got arrest for a DUI & lost my job.

At Starbucks now on my laptop. Logged into Bodog as we speak, trying to grind out enough cash to pay for a room somewhere for a month because I'm tired of taking showers at Bally Fitness everyday.

It's been raining for an hour, I just now looked up from my computer screen, looked outside, and noticed.

Last edited by RelaxedPrecision; 01-17-2010 at 07:03 PM.

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01-18-2010 , 11:04 AM

#1282

M.A.H.P.'s

veteran

Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,678

^^start somewhere dude. get a job in fast food or at a restaraunt, and work your way back up...

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01-18-2010 , 11:08 AM

#1283

plesner

grinder

Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 588

Went to the casino last night and put 2k euro on black (roulette) since everybody keeps saying that black cant lose. Hoping to doubling my money in order to pay my college tuition. But it ****ing came red and im screwed now

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01-18-2010 , 12:54 PM

#1284

PatBateman

veteran

Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 2,129

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Originally Posted by plesner

nice

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01-18-2010 , 01:04 PM

#1285

wiper

still catching up

Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 42,897

in regards to acey-deucey: you know you don't HAVE to bet pot, right? like, if there's $250 in the pot, you can bet anywhere from $1-$250? you might take **** from buddies for not having balls, but it's better than laying out iou's.

game can get ROUGH though...if you thought that game stays at .50 and dollars, you haven't played it before. we usually ante a buck with 5 or 6 people, and you can go a couple rounds of someone scooping 6 bucks, but when you get 2 or 3 busts in a row (which with my drunken friends, happens more often than you'd think...going pot on K-6 and such), it gets interesting.

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01-18-2010 , 08:18 PM

#1286

M.A.H.P.'s

veteran

Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,678

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Still living in my car

no more bbv posting! concentrate on fixing your situation...

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01-18-2010 , 10:50 PM

#1287

francis9

banned

Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 431

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n regards to acey-deucey: you know you don't HAVE to bet pot, right? like, if there's $250 in the pot, you can bet anywhere from $1-$250? you might take **** from buddies for not having balls, but it's better than laying out iou's.

game can get ROUGH though...if you thought that game stays at .50 and dollars, you haven't played it before. we usually ante a buck with 5 or 6 people, and you can go a couple rounds of someone scooping 6 bucks, but when you get 2 or 3 busts in a row (which with my drunken friends, happens more often than you'd think...going pot on K-6 and such), it gets interesting.

I just lost 3k this evening with this game. pair, pair, pair, pair ... pair and finally someone took it down with AA.

Wow i got so hard slapped left and right since 4 months now. I am propably on a bigger downswing than anyone here has experiened. But i take it with pleasure

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01-18-2010 , 11:36 PM

#1288

SmokeyS

grinder

Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 449

I remember that game, but we called it between the sheets cause someone always gets ****ed.

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01-19-2010 , 01:12 AM

#1289

kegstand_99

centurion

Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 130

I had about $300 to my name and was already degen-ing it up a lot lately so I went to the casino to play 1/2 NL holdem and while waiting for a seat I decided to burn some money in the slots. I bet max $2.25 the first spin, hit the scatters for free games, then hit full scatters during the free games and retriggered the free spins and then retriggerd them another 11 times and won a total of $2,750, all for one spin.

So then I figured I'm rolled enough to play 5/10 PLO with the big boys so I sat down and went broke in two hours.

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01-19-2010 , 02:55 AM

#1290

T-Bagger Vance

adept

Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 1,134

Quote:

Originally Posted by kegstand_99

yeah but I bet you felt alive afterward

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01-19-2010 , 03:15 AM

#1291

Adiprene1

veteran

Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 2,170

this is pretty degen i guess...

im a 2-4 plo player but in december decided i was bored of that. beat 5-10 for like 8k and was like "ye, that's good and beat now. time for 10-20 ldo!" dropped 20k in 2 hrs, was in total shock, couldn't even believe what i'd done. dropped rest of roll (another 17k or so) @ 25-50 few hours later.

my roll was also like 90% of my net worth, so that sucked.

deposited 3k back (still playing 5-10), ran it up to 8k, lost it all in a 2hr sesh @ 2-4 where i basically just mashed the pot button for every decision on every table w/o looking. pretty depressed after that, which sucked with xmas coming up and all. was also meant to go on hols in jan which i then had to cancel...

january deposited 500$ on a dif site and jumped into 1-2 plo. got to 1k and moved up to 2-4. fortunately this is what happened after that...
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/54...na-row-686448/

pretty dumb huh?

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01-19-2010 , 09:12 AM

#1292

M.A.H.P.'s

veteran

Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,678

go ahead and confine your brags to one thread.

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01-19-2010 , 02:59 PM

#1293

Bad Beat Bill

veteran

Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 3,204

Quote:

Originally Posted by wiper

Yeah, I know that, but even then I knew about concepts like EV and how stupid it would be to not go for gold when the odds are that good...plus I think that amount of money made me a little loopy and I wasn't ever really thinking "I can't afford this"...yeah I had that mentality before I even gambled. Pretty much every bet I do is either pot or little $1-$2 'blind bets' (yeah I've done blind bets where I ended up betting pairs, but once I denied someone out of a 2-A, which was really sweet). In my view if it's +EV then it's worth going all the way!!

Last time we played we had a $5 ante game...most people probably thought it would take five times longer? Of course, I loved the idea, but it only got up to about $100 before I took it down (although I think I contributed about $120 to the pot in total, so yeah...)

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01-19-2010 , 03:07 PM

#1294

highcaliber

journeyman

Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 277

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Originally Posted by pooflinger

i have deposited maybe around 30 times this year 0 cashes

This year meaning 2010??

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01-19-2010 , 03:09 PM

#1295

highcaliber

journeyman

Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 277

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Originally Posted by M.A.H.P.'s

go ahead and confine your brags to one thread.

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01-19-2010 , 05:15 PM

#1296

RelaxedPrecision

Jared Huggins

Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 1,185

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Originally Posted by M.A.H.P.'s

no more bbv posting! concentrate on fixing your situation...

LOL. I lost a job, got another one, got let go, got another one, got my hours cut. I'm running bad at life. Ridiculous how many interviews and opportunities have slipped through my fingers.

2010 is my year tho. Doing real well at my job, getting a few extra hours, I just work, study, and apply for jobs all the time now. I log in here from time to time for entertainment. God is good to me. He has even helped me with my gambling addiction.

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01-19-2010 , 09:28 PM

#1297

M.A.H.P.'s

veteran

Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,678

nice post

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01-20-2010 , 12:16 AM

#1298

o0ch

adept

Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 1,152

Ok this isn't as "degen" as some other stories in here, but it's def for a significant amount of money... the catch is it's not poker related.

I intern at a day trading firm and my bosses trade large chunks on the stock market, for the most part very succesfully... the similarities between scalp trading and online poker are mind boggling, graphs, $ amounts etc are all very similar.

My boss decided to buy a large position today and it did not work out in his favor, over the first 20 minutes of the day he was down about 3k$, after about 40 minutes 5k$. This is all standard but he is on tilt worse than any live poker player that I've ever seen. He goes on to loose about 16.5k$ on this bad trade, and does not stop. He reverses his position and begins to short the stock and the damn thing starts to climb... He ended up down about 22k$ in a few hours and proceeded to rip his phone out of the cord and storm out of the office.

edit - I'd prob have stopped at around -10k$

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01-20-2010 , 01:02 AM

#1299

elduderino

journeyman

Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 202

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Originally Posted by o0ch

2 things, 1 you should probably stop yourself out after 5K, after 8, you must be tilting to not stop yourself out. and what lot sizes/securities are you/they trading?