sorry. thats the worst story (by far) in this entire thread.

Not degen, but I often get drunk and play like a fool, lose everything I made in the week/month in one session, re build it cleanly, get drunk...

Degen.

Still at it. <3

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/54...t-much-722861/

Wolv3rine, well I guess it is a degen behaviour, but luckily, I tend to stop when I reach the 5 buy-ins mark (playing 25nl). Still is damn foolish since I dont play all that much in the first place, manage to gather something, lose it all with Captain Morgan and friends, sigh...

Ending the booze + poker combo.

Until next time.

zz it happend again 2500 -> 1500 ffs ****ing superturbos

lololololololol!!

sounds familiar

This is a bad degen story and also infactual WRT giving plasma. I've done it for just over 3 years (btw $30 a week is a rip off) and you don't give blood, just plasma. The blood is put back in to your body and you shouldn't feel weird at all after you donate. I also started my online roll with plasma $ and you help people with health problems so this seems like the opposite of a degen story to me.

maybe there's something wrong with me... but i get a lot of enjoyment out of hearing those types of stories.

when people screw their own lives over, i find it pretty funny... because i know that there are billions of good, hard working people in 3rd world countries all around the world who really have no chance at making a better life for themselves... and in comparison, people in 1st world countries bascially have it made... but when they are too greedy and think they can make easy money by gambling... i think they deserve to lose it. sure, maybe they've got gambling problems, but they bring it all on themselves.

i lost 1k today and it felt kinda good

should have bet him that he can't eat 6 saltine crackers (like the ones you put in soup) in 1min. It's really tough to do (but i've seen people do it who have practiced and got a technique down). back in high school, me and some friends would go around with a box of crackers and bet people at lunch time...

If some dude wants to gamble away all his $ and lose his house that's cool..but when he's also losing his wife's home that's uncool and I don't find that funny at all.

or similar situations.

i think hard working people deserve suffering as they are born slaves and lazy people like me should be kings :-).

With or without water?

I love the stories but I'd by lying if I didn't admit that some of the stories remind me of myself. It's so easy to let a small, manageable loss turn into a monster. I'd be lying if I didn't admit to occasionally going deeper into a game than I'm comfortable with.


When I was in my early 20's and just learning the ropes of playing poker and gambling, still learning obviously, I used to just go to Commerce with what I was willing to lose that day. If I ran out of cash I kept plenty more at home but I NEVER went back twice the same day. This surprisingly simple strategy worked quite well. Maybe it had to do with Commerce being more than thirty minutes away from where I lived with no traffic and that time could easily triple during rush hour. If I had lived much closer to the casino this strategy would have been pretty worthless obviously.

I wonder if the online sites are set up so you can have daily stop losses? Meaning you can't lose more than a certain amount in any 24 hour period. If they don't they should certainly consider it.

Last note. For younger players keep this in mind. You have NO shot at being a professional poker player if you have any leaks and can't control losses. And I do mean ZERO shot. Ok maybe if you run like Durrrrr you have some sort of shot. lolz

ps please keep the stories coming

my most degen moment = losing 10k in one session of BJ at the Palms. I may have mentioned it earlier in this thread and I may not. It wasn't memorable except I lost every single hand for 90 minuts. I left the casino feeling like the biggest sucker of all time. They did offer me free rooms for a while after and I used my degen session of bj to get a room for four nights over New Year. And no! I didn't give the pit any action during my four day stay in case you were wondering. And yes I still remember the look on the pit-boss' face as I kept digging into my pocket and pulling out ten more c-notes. Couldn't he have just leaned over and said "son, don't you think it's time to go home?" As you can see I'm still very bitter.

Don't blame the pitboss, he would have been fired if he had said anything of this sort.
This is a ****ty business that capitalizes on human depravation
Can you picture a crack pusher telling a crack head : "look man, you should maybe cut down, that **** is gonna bring you down"
Same goes for casinos and table games, there is absolutely no moral difference, just a legal one.

Bad parents are the scum of the earth

Well I had won $1 in a freeroll at stars, built it up to $650 grinding micro cash, withdrew $650 and kept $150, deposited $500 at AP, grinded it to $886 before withdrawing $590, I went on tilt at 10NL and just threw my last $227 on a hand of blackjack, poof, I'm broke.

Good news is I get $33 rakeback on the 15th and at least $35 more next month even if I don't play the rest of the month. Back to 2NL for me....In a week or so...





but really I'm




I'm never going to touch blackjack agian, I was +$ in the 200 or so total blackjack hands I've played, but I'm sure I'm losing now after this.

Ok degenerate stories I have a few (this week)..
Monday night stay up late play good poker - build $200 to $350 and stop.
Tues - take pm off work sick - go home sleep then play in bed on laptop lose $350 - deposit another $600 and tilt it all off in under 2 hours.
Tues late night deposit $100 on ipoker - get up to $200 eventually settle on cashing out $135 and leave or there.
Wednesday - win $100 on lunchbreak in 20 mins
wed night - lose $200 tilting - deposit another $500 - lose it tilting - stay up til 3am
Thursday - work all day 8.30-7pm then stay up till 4am, playing break even poker - woken at 6am by baby- then have to work 8-5 Friday..
Exhausted fri night - take laptop and play in bed until fall asleep at virtual table wake up occasionally to sit in for a hand or two before drifting off to sleep
sat - stay up late play online (break even)
Sunday - this is the worst part cos I have like not much money left at all by this time...
Lose $300 roll on pkr.. Decide to have one last shot and deposit $500 on cake where I never play before and build br with good br management.
Fire up 10 tables of 20nl play for half hour and realia I'm down 30 buyins - panic and decide I need it back quick - open up 2 100nl tables - 1 cooler 1 bad beat and suddenly I have $27 left in my cake account - FML.
This is ridiculous I think to myself.. I know how to play poker so why am I not doing it? Why am I playing ba cards and calling when I know I'm behind? It's because I'm playing too low yes that must be it. If I shortstack 5/10 underrolled I'll have much more success. ****ing great idea yes brilliant I can make back my losses and run.
So I load up my last $650 into bodog - find the weakest 5/10 table I can and turn $450 into $850 in half an hour!! Whoohoo this is great! I'll just get to $1000 then stop, cashout and I've had a break even day. (you can prob guess where this is going), so I play great, wait for the cards and eventually pick up Qs Qc in the cutoff raise it up get 1 caller - the villain is a guy called loose_goose on bogog and I look him up on ptr there's a few comments that say he's a superuser / bot, but I think it's bs so play the hand. Flop 692 all diamonds, check check. River 10c. I bet $50, villain shoves for my stack. I'm think flush is really unlikely here and eventually call .. He turns 10sQd so I have like 78% pot equity and river is ****ing Ad ... FML

Now I have no cash for pokers FML damn superuser bots I blame them for all of this

Awesome.

Why check the flop with the Q`s?

wtf u think this is? some strat thread?

re: hand with QQ
Did you bet the flop or not?
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/54...rusers-730030/

In any case I don't like the call on the turn.

this is about dario(minieri), a friend of me. it is a public story so i think i'm not missing respect or similar to no one.

in his first appearence to the wsop, after have been eliminated from the main event, he sat to an high stakes nlhe games (50/10 i guess).

he won 200k+ in that session, i dont know for how many hours he played, but i saw him play 42h+ online sessions wihout sleep.

The day next he sat to a high stakes black jack table, playing Hu 10k bets against the dealer covering all the 6 tabs.
he lost 190k in few minutes, he take the remaining 35k and he bought a 35k $ rolex.
He came back to italy broke but with a 35k$ ****ing clock.