I hope you'll never do that again. So degen but I understand it is not easy to not be exact, then we don't get our high of achieving our goal..let's face it gamblers are mostly people who have failed in work or sports...
Like everyone can't compete in Jeopardy so they go on Wheel of Fortune instead.. gambling is really sad and media mostly shows winner and how much they win to get people to their site or whatever. It isn't right but people have their own responability.

Ive played with this guy many times at both hard rock and venetien.. He tilts me to no end.. He's actually a pretty good player, seems to read hands very well and use aggression and position a lot. Likely the most annoying person anyone will ever play against though.

He sits there and talks about how much money he has and how rich he is as if anyone cares. He's the type who wants everyone in the room to be watching him.

This sums up what it is to be degen.

Well not sure if its a degen story but here goes nothing. First, i should be busto. Not having any money issues or anything so this roll i have on poker isnt my life roll. Well it happened a few days ago, naturally came home a bit happy and willing to gamble. So i shot take my 800 something roll onto nl200. After an hour or so i'm down to like 135$. So i wanted to use that to play nl50 hu, but noone was willing to play. So i launch roulette and after a while i get up to 1480$. Great i say, so i go right back to nl200, and they drain 3 buyins of me, so i'm stuck again with like 800 something. I say f' that **** and go to slots. I hit something and get like 500$. So i'm back at poker tables and not doing to well. I end up with like 1200$ and since boys will be boys i decide to do some more roulette. You guessed it, i ended up a day with 800 something. So i decided i had my fair share for the day and went to sleep. The next day i woke up and played some nl100 (i used to be reg). I end a session like 650 up in like less than 1k hands. I'm currently still playing nl100 with like 16 buyins, so i guess i'm doing well sofar

Once won $500 in 2006 in a $11 MTT on Party. Withdrew $250 being responsible (#fail) and played with the other $250. Lost $22 in a SNG, didn't like it, found Blackjack to win just $22, long story short, 30 minutes later I have $7,000. 15 minutes later, I have $0. Go to the casino with remaining $250 and buy in at 2/3 table, double up, goto 2/5 table, double up, go to 5/10 table, quadruple up my stack to $4k. Left. Think I lost it all the next day or something, lol.

Other story. I knew who won Survivor Heroes and Villains. Found the boot list online. Took several $100 bets with about 5 people that the winner would be Sandra, when about 6 people remained. Saying how I am offering odds of 2/1 and only win 6/1 of the time (lol wrong, win all time). Went to 2/5 at Crown Casino with winnings, got stacked in 3 hands. Oops.

Final one, in the last week I have final tabled a $55 5k guaranteed tourney on Party (I put responsible gambling thing on Stars and FT while I have exams, lol, yet I am still playing) and a $33 15k guaranteed tourney on Stars (before I got pussy ****). Won $400 and $800 in each one, tried to double up twice on HUSnG. Failed.

[ ] Degen

Help me Im a degen

lol sad stories itt

gotta love a good degen story!

well, i think i got one.
i broke up with my girlfriend at christmas 2009 (no, that aint it).
on 26th we decided that its over. i went back home and was cool with it, the last 2 of the 3 month were really bad.
anyway, back home and decided to open full-tilt, thinking about depositing here or PS or weak € site.
i saw a highstakes game with mike matusow (really dont remember if omaha or mixed).
mike chatted about a 50k football-bet on USC he made to get even after losing +50k at the pit-games (pretty standard christmas imo) and promised to do 2 500$ trivias if he wins.... he won, asked trivia question: " with which hand did i bust in belaggio-event?"

you can imagine the chat-box. like 150 guys typed AA, AJ, 88, 44 and about every hand.
i was drunk and still thinking what could it be if not that obv.
then one guy chatted : "A3"
i snap-realized and typed A4 A5 ... up to A9 .

well i won with A4.

it was kinda funny, cause i planned to play omaha8 in new year and thats mike`s best game. we chatted a bit and he sent 500$ and asked if i already doubled a stack. i ty, he gl....

then i just fetched another beer and and thought about if i play plo8 25$ or LO8 1/2$ FR.
didnt play that day.
next day till 4th january i made 500$ to more than 1.5k $.
but there already were bumps in the road like playing a 160$ 300 chips HU Sng to get back even one day.

on 4th jan i was stuck like ~100$ and looked up the old 300 chip ST HU SnGs and there he was......DAVID BENEFIELD sitting at 160$.

i insta-register and hope to take a few stacks from this muppet who talks about the calories of choclate-muffins at highstakespoker.

well, he won 7 of 8 games and killed me bigtime with calling 94off from bb vs my openshoved 66 (first blindlevel, even stacks) .
i basically lost 4 flips and got 3 ~70/30 beats where i was ahead.

guess it was fun for him playing some tiny flips with his red-pro roll.
and no, i dont call it rigged, its variance. period.

i insta-register and hope to take a few stacks from this muppet who talks about the calories of choclate-muffins at highstakespoker. LOL.

This is such gold, one of my favorites. Since reading this, every time I'm at an event that requires dressing up in my head I go "I'd be better off downstairs in a pair of jeans and a t-shirt with the common man degens".

[ ] Degen
[x] Larceny

I sit at my computer at 3:34am to read 2+2.... pretty degen beat imo

I haven't done any work, played poker, or slept in two days. I've been reading this thread the whole time. Feeling tilted and a bit degen as a result. I've finally made it to the end. Time to get something to eat!

tell us some more bs 4 the lulz

once i had a girl come over for sexy time but was on a heater and couldnt get up from my chair. She took her clothes off and stud in front of me asking if i was ready. I wasnt, i couldnt get (it) up, was thinkin only bout the heater..

pure lol if its under nl400.

A Degen Life?

This is the story of my father, 100% true.

My Father gambled his whole life. When he was a teenager and young man in the 60's/70's my uncles tell me he used to make more money playing poker and sports betting then my grandparents made in one month at there jobs. He was always very generous and took care of his siblings and parents.

Around 25 years old my father met my mother and I was born not long after. My parents had been big partiers but after i was born my mom toned it down. My father however kept it going mostly drinking and smoking a lot of pot and of course gambling. One weekend when i was about 4 or so my father went on a weekend gambling trip to Vegas. Legend has it he killed it at craps and BJ and managed to walk away with the money. I'm not sure of the exact amount but am guessing a couple 100k because soon after returning home my mom said he bought two new cars and we moved into a new house which they paid cash for.

Unfortunately, this is where it starts to get ugly. This is now the 1980's and my father manages to get hooked on cocaine. He manages, over the course of 2 years, to lose the cars, the house, and my mother leaves him and takes the kids with her. Lone sharks are after him and he can't pay anyone. At this point my family talks him into going into a far away rehab to shake the coke habit. Remarkably, it actual works and he gets out and is drug free and able to get out of debt focus on work and profitable gambling. Unfortunatley though my mother wouldn't take him back and over my remaing child hood i was forced to visit my father only on weekends.

The good news is he stayed clean (no drugs) and remarried in the early 90's. He had regained his footing and now had a nice house, money, and focus on life. Not long after a casino opens up in our hometown. My father obviously is quick to get in there and start gambling and making some extra money (on top of what he was making sports betting and at poker games). The casino, however, was soon to be his demise. Within a few years we was loosing more playing BJ than he was making from other endeavors. He then turned to the credit cards and morgage line of credit and managed to get $130k into debt. My stepmother found out and almost left him. Fortunatley, she loved him, helped correct the situation (take control of finances and get them out of debt). Around the time my father kicked his drug habit in the 80's he took up smoking cigerattes which he never did his whole life. He also develped a habit for sweets (cookies, brownies, you name it). His doctor said this was normal and was replacing his cocaine habit. Just around the time my father and step mother were out of debt and life was turning around my father gets cancer. After all the ups and downs life goes and deals him this ****** hand. Fortunatley, he beats it and recovers rather quickly. Unfortuanley, his bone head doctor gives him Oxy's as pain med after his surgery to help with the pain. He quickly falls back into his old addicitve habits and starts using the pain meds at an alarming rate. This habit forces him to make poor choices gambling and starts costing my parents a lot of money and heartache.

After 5 years taking the pain meds and eating sweets and smoking my father health was starting to detirorate. I realize he may not around forever (despite only being in his late 40's) and try to spend some extra time with him. Around this time he teaches me poker and realize how he managed to make money for so many years. I quickly became hooked and we used to frequent local card rooms and make some decent money (especially to me being early 20's).

Fast forward another 2 years and the pain med addiction is out of control. He can't continue on them or he'll kill himself and he can't go off of them either. His Dr. puts him in a methodne program where he goes to a clinic daily where he takes his daily meth dose. I've since moved away and come home for Christmas a few months after and find out he's pretty sick. Apparently he got an infection on his foot from Diabetes brought on by poor health choices. I force him to go to the hospital because he won't let anyone see his foot. When the doctor saw his foot the were in amazement he didn't come in sooner. They had to put him into sugery the next day and remove his left foot. It was the sadest Christmas of my life.

Fast forward 6 months and my father is back to a normal life with a wheel chair and prostetic leg/foot. He gets around well. Still can't kick that sweet habit though and is still in the methadone program as per his doctor. One morning afternoon he comes home from the clinic after getting his daily dose and my step mother had just baked a cake and it was sitting on the table. He asks her is he can dig in and have a piece. She obliges and runs downstairs to do a load of laundry. Upon coming up stairs he's on the floor half way to the kitchen. My father had suffered a massive heart attack and died instantly.

I kinda feel like my fathers whole life was that of a degen. From gambling money to drugs to gambling with is health. I see some of the same tendencies in my behavior minus the drugs, fortunately. I miss my father and hope to learn from his mistakes.

Anyway, kind of a long poorly written personal story, but i really feel like his whole life was degen at it's finest. Here's to you dad.

Wow.

I enjoy degen stories as much as anyone but that one just made me sad.

tl;dr

anybody that read that can confirm its worth it ?

damn. that's a hard life

read the whole thing... pretty sad tbh and I don't think op is lying only because of the length of the post...

man I'm sry for your father.. I would've honestly beat my own dad into getting his life straight, even if that meant treating him like a little kid. I would force him into rehab and explain to him how bj is +ev unless you're a ridic card counter but still you'd only get like a 1 or 2% edge....

but overall very sorry. don't follow the same road as he did.

wow sick... you take it well it seems

great story, thanks for sharing