STL no problem dude.

Everyone: They say degenerates are usually intelligent individuals. I think most of us on here are.
I've seen a few guys on here that have typed multiple post stories with impeccable English and grammar. Makes you think doesn't it?

Use your head.

have u ever had people tell u that your the smartest dumb person they have ever met? lol ppl tell me that all the time. yep i'm one of those guys that got straight A's in high school, got into one of the best colleges, never got in fights or messed w/drugs, and has a pretty high IQ score, yet theres like a piece of my brain missing related to money/gambling.

Playing 1/3nl at the Wynn drunk.

Pretty passive table, doing well overall, up like a 100$ or so, drunk as **** though. It was our last night so we were gettin nasty on Patron and such.

I had definitely been the main aggressor at the table, had gotten a straight flush and showed some other pretty monster hands so I had some respect. 3-4 limpers if I recall correctly in this hand, and I had J6of hearts on the CO.

I made it 35 or so to go (i think, I was hammered), everyone folded except this gangster looking guy, he called rather quickly, so I initially thought he had a big drawing hand or maybe a small pocket pair k10s, 55, something like that). He definitely wasn't a bad player, but he thought he was really good. Anyways he calls and the flop is

3 5 9 with 2 diamonds if I recall correctly. He insta checks, I obviously have to bet. I made it 65 and he postured for about 10 seconds and called. The turn was an ace, which I thought was a great card for me. He checked again and I bet 125 (about 200 behind now) and he called. Now I knew I was straight f***ed, there was no way he could be on a draw. The river is a king and he checks again! I check and he shows one of his whole cards: a three. I'm assuming he had A3s or a set of threes.

Anyways he was gloating on and on, I mean I made a bad play, what could I say. I pick up QQ in the bb a few hands later and he raises from the HJ I think it was. Pretty large raise, I think around 20? I decide to just call and get tricky, yet I hate a play like this with QQ oop against this dude. The SB also calls. flop comes 4-5-6 R.

SB checks, I decide to check, villain bets huge like 45 or so. SB snap folds and I decide to go all in. He snap calls with TT. I broke even or so on the session after my epic fail bluff with J6s.

[ ] degen

[X] polarizing your range

He plays 50+100 nl hu on stars and berates people in chat/ leaves abusive comments on their PTR.
The level of douche-bagness in his post makes me believe it's him. (same name too obv)

Went on a bit of a heater a couple months back.

Ran £200 up to £3.5k playing 25/50p in like just over a month.

I was then playing 50/1 for a while, lost a few buy-ins, lost a couple of bets on the World Cup and somehow thought it would be a good idea to play roulette on my poker site.

Half hour later I'm busto having chucked 3.5k in an hour or so.

To say I felt bad would be an understatement...

My dad is watching me play HU SnG's online and is commenting like "You play like that? What the ****? You raise with that? You're going to lose, lose, lose!"

I tell him to **** off, he does but it's too late - tilt has arrived. I sit with 2K playing 6-max $5/$10, pick up kings in my first few hands and stack off do QJ after QJ9 flop. Put my last $500 on a HU SnG, lose that. Busto.

Usually I was playing $20 HU SnG, $50 when I'm feeling good and almost never touching cash games. This was my first time feeling like a real degen.
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I'm +ROI but -profit.
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I played my friends account and took his frequent player points in to a freeroll and came first for $375. With the $375 I played 6 player SnG's until it was up to $3k. We agree to split the money 50/50, since the account is in his name I can't complain and he got drunk and used the money to play stupidly high (for our roll) and got lucky, so he felt he contributed. Once the cash out is complete he slaps $160NZD in my hand. **********.
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Bubble with KK in a tournament vs AA at Casino, borrowed money to play tournament.
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Get called by 62 on QcJc2s flop when I shove all-in with 8c 10c, deuces hold up. Don't have enough money to catch the bus to work. Last time it took me over 2 hours to walk.
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Girlfriend lives out of town, I only see her when nobody manages to win my money before my day off.
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MOST DEGEN THING: I think I could play cards for a living.

This thread is awesome. It's killing my desire to play poker, though.

I absolutely love this part. It's actually creepy how your thoughts completely reflect mine.

I ran $60 into $4700 in like 2 days and then lost it all playing $25/$50 in like 8 hours on pokerstars

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DONT *** ME IN THE ASS PHIL LAAK HERE COMES THE BREAD AND BUTTER

I LOL'D

This thread makes me curse my conservative Christian upbringing

I'm guessing by everything you said that the site you played on was PKR?

How does that tilt you? My parents/brother/friends all tell me I'm ******ed when they're railbirding my laptop. The only on that doesn't is my grandpa because he used to be a card player. But ya, **** like that makes me laugh.

Was playing some live 20/40 LHE (a while back when LHE was THE game) & was getting crushed by a drunk sitting to my left at the table. He was tilting me soooo badly, calling me a nit and constantly telling me how bad I was.

Eventually he got up to go to the toilet & While he was gone, a waitress came round with his next beer. I took chips off his stack to pay for it & took the beer from the lady.

I then proceeded to unscrew the twist top beer, do a giant fart in the bottle, screw the lid back on & place the beer next to the drunks chips.

The drunk caught HIV from my fart particles & died of AIDS. I got cured of AIDS because I am rich.

F-

Weak troll is weak

Borrow $2.20 for the bus to work.
Borrow $50 for poker. +$600 in two hours.
Pay back $2.20.
Pay back $50.
And tomorrow?...

Nit

How is that degen nit?

Sorry............................................. .............

Degen stories.

Maxed out parents CC.

I would like o buy shares in your son!

No, you just keep making the conscious decision to keep going back. Just stop. Or get help.

Well over the last 2 days I have read this entire thread.

Which has been great because I have not slept.

Since Ive read everything, it seems the natural thing to do is to add my story.

A brief history....

I started playing poker in 2003 with the whole Moneymaker boom. Honestly, playing 1-2 with my friends was printing money. I still remember those days fondly, I was such a nit, and winning rent money for the month seemed like such a huge score.

Due to being busy with school and women during the fall and spring, I pretty much just play during the summer.

Sure, Id log onto pokerstars and lose a grand or so every year playing sporatically, but I never really thought much of it, since I was a winning player live.

From 2004-2009, playing poker as a hobby, and not playing at all sometimes for a year at a time....Id realistically say that I am up 20-25k net. Most of this is from 1-2, and a little bit of 2-5, and a very little bit of 5-10, live.

2010 has been a tale of total degen, and Im doing this to get myself to evaluate and LOOK AT WHAT THE **** I AM DOING.

I started back up in the spring this year. Due to my life situation, I have had nothing but time, and have been filling that with poker. This is abnormal for me.

I kicked off my year dropping nearly 5k, in the span of 2 weeks, playing 6-8 hrs a day, every day.

Ive lost more than that before, Ive lost more than that in less time...

But this time I just played BAD. Bad hero calls, terrible shoves. Took a few suckouts early, then just played with a "im behind" mindset.

After two weeks of beatdowns (this is ****ing 1-2 we are talking about here), I was able to steady the ship and go breakeven for about a month.

Then it gets degen.

So I go to Vegas in April. I bring around 2k, with hopes of spinning up and going into the black on the year. This is my first trip.

After 3 days of small wins at 1-2, I take a soulcrushing 2 outer in a 3 way ai. I know, cool story bro. I go off the deep end.

I go to the roulette wheel and put 50 on red. i lose. i put 100 on red. i lose. i put 200 on red. i lose. i put 400 on BLACK. black hits.

And a monster is born.

I return back from vegas up a few hundred bucks. But the seed has been planted.

I actually take about a month and a half off from gambling because Ive had my fill.

When I come back, if I have a losing session live, whether it be -50, -200, -800...I chase playing roulette. Martingaling starting at my loss, moving up.

This is online on UB btw. If I busto, I have been snap reloading.

This actually worked for the first 3-4 times I tried it.

I actually cashed checks for over 3k

The last 4 times though, the damage has been -600, -1000, -2000, and -2700. That is four independent nights, four independent bustos.

I shudder to think what would have happened last night if my card had not been declined at 2700. I was checked out mentally.

Sensing a pattern, I have permabanned myself from UB and AP. Stars and FT for 6 months for good measure also, as I have prob lost around 2000 in the last year playing superturbos.

So last night, I lose 700 playing 1-2. I was actually in the game for 1000.

So its time to fix that.

I load up 500 on black. red. I load up 500 on black. black. ****ing finally.

I honestly dont know what chip denominations I bet after that, but after two more spins, Im sitting at 1750.

Cool.

That puts me up on the night. Runbad at this rigged wheel is over.

This is where I stop, usually. Actually, I cannot recall a time, ever, where I got back to even, or plus a little, after being stuck, and did not stop.

But now Im drunk and Im like $50 profit.....whatver. One more spin.

Yeah because 100 dollars is soooo important to have than 50 when youre in for ****ing 1700.

You know what happens next. Degen for the ages.

I power bet black, 50, 100, 150 (slowed down the martingale there haha), 300, 500 (max bet haha).....all bricks.

I bet till I lose all the 1750. I dont win a ****ing spin.

I rebuy 500. Brick black again.

I rebuy 500. Hit on even (it was red also), brick on even twice.

Damage: $2700 last night, $4200 this week, Somewhere in the neighborhood of $5500-6k this month.

Playing rigged online roulette

This combined with poker brings my total up to the year to a glamorous $9000. In the hole of course.

I cannot get that number out of my head.

Have not been able to sleep for well over 24 hours.

I have delusions of going to vegas and betting 9k on a coin flip.

Then I come to my senses. That money is gone.

This is a new sensation for me, Ive always been in the black or breakeven for each year.

Never want to feel this way again.

I definitely dont have the composure to be a poker player....not on any competitive level.

As far as the amount of money, its not going to break me, and I know it doesnt even come close to the guys writing stories about dropping 200k and getting rolled by hookers for 20 grand.......but it stings.

Probably about 10% of my net worth down the ****ter.

Way more than any "poker bankroll" that I pretend to have.

So thanks for reading, this is probably the longest post in the thread.

I guess its more of a reminder to myself than anything.

Stop doing stupid ****.

The really bad part is that I am at least smart enough to know that I will not be grinding out that 9k back playing 1-2 poker anymore. Pretty much insurmoutable....especially at my current winrate haha.

So yeah, this is definitely it for online, since I lost control.

Hard to admit. Scary feeling.

Hope some of you feel better by not having to experience what I did.