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03-07-2011 , 03:12 PM
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Originally Posted by DevinTheLegend
I've been there a few times - just agreeing to play there with their ridiculous rake structure should count as a degen story.
Agreed, they can kiss my ass
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03-07-2011 , 05:04 PM
live $500 + 1 add on satty to a $5k main.

kid i played with a few times in live tourneys around LA, pretty competent, is in the satty. a few levels in, he starts walking around the tables saying he wants to flip $160 for $150 so he can afford the add on. i take it.

he checks his pockets, counts some crumpled up bills, and then says he only has $150, so can we flip $150 for $140, i say fine. pull a dime out of my pocket, he calls heads and it comes tails. ship the life roll?
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03-07-2011 , 05:40 PM
This Chinese guy I know takes the bus to Foxwoods from flushing and brings ten dollars to play and sells his
match play. Oh and during the wpt her wanted to kill and robs some hookers lol. Funny part is he bought me in 1/2 once and I ran it up to 1100 and he bounced. Tried to find him to give him the money but couldn't find him.
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03-07-2011 , 06:18 PM
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Originally Posted by cracker9ball
Ive gambled for a living for years so I have tons of brutal degenish type stories. A couple times with local bookmakers I have chased until I owed almost more than I could ever pay (10k ish), twice I have won a live poker tournament in a casino with a week or two of losing my ass to get me out of debt.
But thats nothing, in 05 I was in a motorcycle wreck that almost killed me and left me in a wheelchair. I managed to get a little money but not much because the lady that turned in front of me was broke with crappy insurance. Anyhow a good lawyer got me some $. I get a little over 100k. But I'm ****ed up getting used to this new body and in a wheelchair and carried a dead leg for a year and half before they cut it off, not right with it all yet, and living with a friend because while I was in the hospital for 4 months my GF of 4 years died of cancer and a blood clot mix of complications. SO now i'm living with a friend still actually working ( at a casino as a poker floor man) and then spending all my spare time playing poker. Mostly 2/5 NL and some tournaments but was slowly losing and had more money than ever before so a little out of control. I did play a few live series of tournaments and hold my own. SO now a little time is gone by and I got myself an apt. and all new badass furniture and electronics but start to realize this lifestyle had been brutal to my non-managed bankroll. So I decide Ill go in with this guy on his business, and well he ****s me out of 50k. Thats a degen bad beat. And his friend I thought was my friend borrowed 4k and never paid it back. So in trying to do something smart before i risked to much $ gambling I basically set fire to 54K. I should have just kept betting high. So now I am on disability and grinding cheap poker, but I will make it and have many future scores to brag about. GL ALL
Good luck brother, if anyone is due for a heater its you!
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03-07-2011 , 07:22 PM
Get some help.
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03-08-2011 , 01:37 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85f-vEhcAOs&t=17m42s

cliff notes: degen hottie plays jeopardy 4 rollz
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03-08-2011 , 02:43 AM
Sick, never seen this thread before. I have a lot of good stories that I will share, but for now since I'm on tilt about the last weekend I'll just share that one.

Friday night: Good friend X comes into town (vegas) with her girl friends, she and I go to nobu and get ripped on sake. I then drive her to the palms and hang out wtih her friends (all hot).

One of them in particular I had a pretty strong connection with in the past but we never hooked up since she has had a bf for 3 years. We all hang out and get more drunk before they go to a club.

Do I go to the club with them and try to hook up with that girl, or some other girl? No, I call a couple of friends and we play blackjack. I lose about 7k and am kinda on tilt.

We decide to go to a strip club, but first I go get some cash to make a big roulette bet. I also take a flag (5k bellagio chip) in case I play poker later that night. Max bet on the evens is 10k so I bet 10k on black and 10k on last 18. Feel like kind of a douche since there is no high limit area for roulette and it takes the guy a long time to count the money etc, but whatever.

The wheel goes round and round....and, bink! Red 7.

Off to the strip club, meet a pretty hot one and she's pretty into it, talking about working out at the flamingo gym with me the next day and stuff, not normal stripper stuff, but whatever. It's going well, and I'm getting more and more ****ed up as I've had like 2 bottles of sake and 15 jack and cokes. I should have just left, but you know...

Saturday: I wake up at 5 PM. My head hurts a lot. I call my friend to ask me what happened at the end of the night. He said I passed out in the backroom, lol. Said that made the attitude of the girl really change, and he took me home. Whatever, she wasn't THAT hot. I figure I lost 30k that night, but it's alright, that's life.

Make that 35k! ****, I'm a ****ing idiot. I passed out in the backroom and obviously got ****ing robbed of that bellagio flag. I text the girl and say if she happened to have found that flag, there's no way she could cash out a chip that big, and that I'd pay her $1500 for it. No reply. Guess I should have offered $2500 lol.

That's when I really got tilted. The 30k, whatever, but losing the extra 5k when I know better than to ****ing pass out in the backroom ever, that's just tilting.

About this time another stripper who is super hot that I have not seen inside the club for a while, but we hang out every now and then when she's in vegas (she lives in LA and commutes, so usually there's not time since she works) texts me:

"Hey what r u doing tonight? I don't feel like working."

A good chance to at least **** a hot person and have a fun night, but on life tilt, I just reply "I'm busy."

Several hours go by, and my friends decide they want to go out. I have no car (still at the palms, don't drunk drive people!), so they pick me up and I take some molly caps. We go to a piano bar and then a bar/club and I am rolling my balls off, really happy. I try to pick up girls but I am rubbing my hair and ****...oh well.

Go back to my friends house and instead of doing more molly I choose to bust out some yayo since Charlie Sheen is my new hero. We are discussing my failures, and my friend's girlfriend tells me that my good friend Xs friend who I thought I had a pretty good connection with is not interested in me. When I press the issue she says:

"Well, at the club one of your other good friend Xs friends said that you were a dick. The other girl agreed, saying that it really bothered her that you were 'picking on her' for being anti social/quiet when you were in LA."

My friend says "So wait, when she was drunk she randomly said something small that had been eating away at her for a week that FMK said?"

[ ] confirmed not interested.

About this time, I get a text at 3:30 AM.

"Hey, where u at?"

You can guess from who.

This was odd because my good friend X and her friends had gone to marquee that night, but whatever. I was like hellz yeah I'm gonna bang her... O WAIT. I HAVE JUST SNORTED A GRAM OF COKE AND DONE MOLLY BEFORE THAT.

No chance my ****in dick will work.

So, I gotta blow this girl off. I say "I'm really far from the strip."

Now I get a snap call "I lost my group, I'm all alone, come hang out with me."

WTF, she's acting like an ugly girl. I have to dignify the excuse, so I say call me back in 30 minutes if you still can't find them.

5 minutes later she calls, again begging me to come...that was a quick 30 minutes!

This is completely insane, because the girl is hot, and I want to bang her so much, but I'm too cracked out. And I may not get more chances, since she has a bf of 3 years... But what could I really do? Going there and not ****ing her has to be a worse play.

Eventually I tell her I'll hang out with her tomorrow, knowing that she'll be with her friends, and had a flight that night... I end up staying up all night and doing all my blow.

Sunday:

I now have to get my car, and meet these girls for brunch. I obv cannot eat, and am kind of miserable. Nevertheless...I persevere. It takes me 10 minutes to get from the Palms to the Bellagio (1 min drive down flamingo) because right as I am going there are like thousands of protesters walking the street for education. I love education too, but PLEASE DO NOT HONK IF YOU LOVE EDUCATION WHEN I'M STRUNG OUT.

I get a line pass and go to the buffet where they already are... 5 dollar all you can drink champagne. I pretend to eat, and start drinking again. Things are a little awkward at first, but after the champagne is flowing, things come out. I decide to try and isolate the girl from her friends and bang her in the afternoon before her flight. I fail because the girl says it would be too obvious if she left her friends with me (and obv her friends can't know about any of this). BLAH. She wants to learn gambling, so we go play craps. We just bet 100 on the come and 100 on the pass and win 4k. Obv I run good when betting small, but hey, at least I ended on an upswing.

I take them to the airport, and pass out, wondering how I could fail so much in 1 weekend.

Cliffs: Lose 27k in blackjack/roulette, 3k to strip club. Instead of taking stripper home, I pass out and she robs me for another 5k. Then go on life tilt and reject a much hotter dtf stripper the next day. Then roll and then do coke, and then cannot **** another dtf hot girl. Get drunk, play craps for small stakes and run super hot, pass out. Consume ridiculous amounts of alcohol during this time, and little food!

Cliffs of cliffs: Lose lots of manies, do some drugs, do not get laid.
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03-08-2011 , 03:10 AM
@feedmykids I enjoyed that. What's your main source of income btw?
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03-08-2011 , 03:31 AM
livepokerz and bridge
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03-08-2011 , 01:04 PM
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Originally Posted by feedmykids
Sick, never seen this thread before. I have a lot of good stories that I will share, but for now since I'm on tilt about the last weekend I'll just share that one.

Friday night: Good friend X comes into town (vegas) with her girl friends, she and I go to nobu and get ripped on sake. I then drive her to the palms and hang out wtih her friends (all hot).

One of them in particular I had a pretty strong connection with in the past but we never hooked up since she has had a bf for 3 years. We all hang out and get more drunk before they go to a club.

Do I go to the club with them and try to hook up with that girl, or some other girl? No, I call a couple of friends and we play blackjack. I lose about 7k and am kinda on tilt.

We decide to go to a strip club, but first I go get some cash to make a big roulette bet. I also take a flag (5k bellagio chip) in case I play poker later that night. Max bet on the evens is 10k so I bet 10k on black and 10k on last 18. Feel like kind of a douche since there is no high limit area for roulette and it takes the guy a long time to count the money etc, but whatever.

The wheel goes round and round....and, bink! Red 7.

Off to the strip club, meet a pretty hot one and she's pretty into it, talking about working out at the flamingo gym with me the next day and stuff, not normal stripper stuff, but whatever. It's going well, and I'm getting more and more ****ed up as I've had like 2 bottles of sake and 15 jack and cokes. I should have just left, but you know...

Saturday: I wake up at 5 PM. My head hurts a lot. I call my friend to ask me what happened at the end of the night. He said I passed out in the backroom, lol. Said that made the attitude of the girl really change, and he took me home. Whatever, she wasn't THAT hot. I figure I lost 30k that night, but it's alright, that's life.

Make that 35k! ****, I'm a ****ing idiot. I passed out in the backroom and obviously got ****ing robbed of that bellagio flag. I text the girl and say if she happened to have found that flag, there's no way she could cash out a chip that big, and that I'd pay her $1500 for it. No reply. Guess I should have offered $2500 lol.

That's when I really got tilted. The 30k, whatever, but losing the extra 5k when I know better than to ****ing pass out in the backroom ever, that's just tilting.

About this time another stripper who is super hot that I have not seen inside the club for a while, but we hang out every now and then when she's in vegas (she lives in LA and commutes, so usually there's not time since she works) texts me:

"Hey what r u doing tonight? I don't feel like working."

A good chance to at least **** a hot person and have a fun night, but on life tilt, I just reply "I'm busy."

Several hours go by, and my friends decide they want to go out. I have no car (still at the palms, don't drunk drive people!), so they pick me up and I take some molly caps. We go to a piano bar and then a bar/club and I am rolling my balls off, really happy. I try to pick up girls but I am rubbing my hair and ****...oh well.

Go back to my friends house and instead of doing more molly I choose to bust out some yayo since Charlie Sheen is my new hero. We are discussing my failures, and my friend's girlfriend tells me that my good friend Xs friend who I thought I had a pretty good connection with is not interested in me. When I press the issue she says:

"Well, at the club one of your other good friend Xs friends said that you were a dick. The other girl agreed, saying that it really bothered her that you were 'picking on her' for being anti social/quiet when you were in LA."

My friend says "So wait, when she was drunk she randomly said something small that had been eating away at her for a week that FMK said?"

[ ] confirmed not interested.

About this time, I get a text at 3:30 AM.

"Hey, where u at?"

You can guess from who.

This was odd because my good friend X and her friends had gone to marquee that night, but whatever. I was like hellz yeah I'm gonna bang her... O WAIT. I HAVE JUST SNORTED A GRAM OF COKE AND DONE MOLLY BEFORE THAT.

No chance my ****in dick will work.

So, I gotta blow this girl off. I say "I'm really far from the strip."

Now I get a snap call "I lost my group, I'm all alone, come hang out with me."

WTF, she's acting like an ugly girl. I have to dignify the excuse, so I say call me back in 30 minutes if you still can't find them.

5 minutes later she calls, again begging me to come...that was a quick 30 minutes!

This is completely insane, because the girl is hot, and I want to bang her so much, but I'm too cracked out. And I may not get more chances, since she has a bf of 3 years... But what could I really do? Going there and not ****ing her has to be a worse play.

Eventually I tell her I'll hang out with her tomorrow, knowing that she'll be with her friends, and had a flight that night... I end up staying up all night and doing all my blow.

Sunday:

I now have to get my car, and meet these girls for brunch. I obv cannot eat, and am kind of miserable. Nevertheless...I persevere. It takes me 10 minutes to get from the Palms to the Bellagio (1 min drive down flamingo) because right as I am going there are like thousands of protesters walking the street for education. I love education too, but PLEASE DO NOT HONK IF YOU LOVE EDUCATION WHEN I'M STRUNG OUT.

I get a line pass and go to the buffet where they already are... 5 dollar all you can drink champagne. I pretend to eat, and start drinking again. Things are a little awkward at first, but after the champagne is flowing, things come out. I decide to try and isolate the girl from her friends and bang her in the afternoon before her flight. I fail because the girl says it would be too obvious if she left her friends with me (and obv her friends can't know about any of this). BLAH. She wants to learn gambling, so we go play craps. We just bet 100 on the come and 100 on the pass and win 4k. Obv I run good when betting small, but hey, at least I ended on an upswing.

I take them to the airport, and pass out, wondering how I could fail so much in 1 weekend.

Cliffs: Lose 27k in blackjack/roulette, 3k to strip club. Instead of taking stripper home, I pass out and she robs me for another 5k. Then go on life tilt and reject a much hotter dtf stripper the next day. Then roll and then do coke, and then cannot **** another dtf hot girl. Get drunk, play craps for small stakes and run super hot, pass out. Consume ridiculous amounts of alcohol during this time, and little food!

Cliffs of cliffs: Lose lots of manies, do some drugs, do not get laid.
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03-08-2011 , 01:17 PM
Sick story.

Edit: Found answer
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03-08-2011 , 01:36 PM
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Originally Posted by degenmuch
Poker and gambling pretty much took all my money when I was underaged, I am 26 now and I still gamble, but at least I can afford it.

It started when I was 15.
I live in Sydney and was pretty bored I decided to play poker on titan because they allow you to deposit 2 euros a time. Lost 70 dollars on my first week ( alot of money to me back then ) Then I decided playing on fulltilt for a few weeks, lost around 300 dollar.
Of course I didn't stop because I had to win right. I started playing on pokerstars and long story short, I lost like 6k within 2 years playing the most I can.
[ ] Pokerstars and Full Tilt were around 11 years ago...
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03-08-2011 , 02:48 PM
Won like 17k in one shoe playing bac lost 22k playing blackjack.
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03-08-2011 , 04:40 PM
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Won like 17k in one shoe playing bac lost 22k playing blackjack.
very good degen story, quick and to the point.
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03-08-2011 , 04:48 PM
Feedmykids: degenerate amongst men.
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03-08-2011 , 05:25 PM
Degen story (not huge, but still):

Went with some friends who where going to play a 1k Euro tournament Spain early summer of 2010 - personally I did not have that much cash at the time but enough to grind the cashgames and go drinking.

Anyways, qualified for the tournament in a 100 euro rebuy, build a huge stack and ended up busting on day two after both my friends where bust and gone back to the hotel - Being really pissed at myself for doing that I start off playing BJ and roulette, start the night by hitting a number for 350 Euros and at some point up like 800. Anyways, I obviously end up losing the 800 and cash out the remaining 800 or so I have on my account and lose that. So at this point im practically broke (40 euro or so I didnt get from the cashier left).
So next day I borrow some money to go drinking, and me and my friend goes on for about eleven hours and finally decide to call it a night. Right before we go to our seperate rooms we decide to take one last beer, and during that beer we decide to do some coinflops for 10 euro a piece just for fun.

So he has numbers and I have head, and it comes numbers every single time.
Obviously I need to get even, so we start upping the stakes, 20 - 50 - 100.
At some point we decide one flip is just not enough action, so we get a coffee cup and put five two-euro coins in it and use that to throw out all the coins. He wins like 4/5 back to back.

To sum it up after about an hour im down 1.5k Euro in ****ing coinflips in his hotelroom at five in the morning, having already busted the rest of my money (he is aware of this obv, no angleshot).

We finish it off neatly by me losing an additional 500 euros in Bowling and minigolf the following week or so..

P.S.
First degen story:
First time I ever played texas holdem, was on a training camp at age 16 when this other guy (19) told us about texas holdem, we played exclusively sng's and i Managed to lose 300 bucks in two days playing no higher then ten dollars a game.. :P
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03-08-2011 , 09:58 PM
So I was on a private plane going to a bridge tournament with 5 teammates... 1 billionaire woman (our sponsor) and 4 friends. One of those friends had recently binked a big tourney score that we all had 5-10 % of. This was a long time ago and made us feel baller.

Since we had a ton of cash on us, we decided to start flipping coins for 5k the week before the bridge tournament (before urubu had made flipping an art). I ran good, and slowly the action was becoming more and more boring, so we upped our flips to 10k. Eventually, that became boring too.

Now, we couldn't really raise the stakes, so I realized we just had to up the amount of flips. I had a great idea, flip with cards instead of coins to make it much faster.

After the concept war, we agreed to each take 26 cards. We would peel them off and whoever had the highest card would win. If there was a war, the next card would determine the winner. Obv a war would be higher stakes.

We weren't really sure what stakes were appropriate, so we settled on 1k for normal ones, and 5k for wars.

Since this game was so fast, there was a lot of action even on the 1k ones. A normal deck would often swing 10k+. I was stuck a good amount after several decks, however, we still really weren't prepared for what happened.

We had a war, so we drew another card. It was another war! Our first double war. Now, we had an agreement that we would trade who flipped their card first. It was more fun to flip second so that you had the sweat. On the third card, I peeled off an ace. My friend, deflated, just insta turned his card expecting to lose, and he peeled an ace!

Next, he peeled off a 5. I slowly turn mine...a 5. What the ****? I had way the best of it twice in a row, but here we are with a quadruple war. What are the odds of this? To this day, every time I try to think of the odds of this happening it just seems completely astronomical.

It hit everyone in this moment that the next card was going to be a 50k card. 50k! Our billionaire client was loving it, it was like peanuts to her. Our least degen friend said "you can just make this a 10k war or something right now, come on guys."

That was reasonable, but I was already stuck about 25k in war. This was my chance to get even.

"Nah I'm stuck."

My friend nodded, as if he would have lost respect for me if I had said anything different.

I had to peel off my card first...a 4. ****! It was not to be, and I lost. That was the end of my war career, before I was even 21 and old enough to play casino war.



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03-08-2011 , 10:01 PM
@feedmykids

damn, that sure is a baller plane flight.
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03-08-2011 , 10:08 PM
I wonder if that flight cost me more than the person paying for it lol
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03-08-2011 , 11:42 PM
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Originally Posted by degenmuch
Poker and gambling pretty much took all my money when I was underaged, I am 26 now and I still gamble, but at least I can afford it.

It started when I was 15.
I live in Sydney and was pretty bored I decided to play poker on titan because they allow you to deposit 2 euros a time. Lost 70 dollars on my first week ( alot of money to me back then ) Then I decided playing on fulltilt for a few weeks, lost around 300 dollar.
Of course I didn't stop because I had to win right. I started playing on pokerstars and long story short, I lost like 6k within 2 years playing the most I can.
Not sleeping while I had school and when I finally won a donkament I bragged about it to my family, but lost it all the same night

I didn't know what I was thinking, I only made one withdraw of 300 dollars, never a big win but still kept playing.
I only got 120 dollar allowance a month so I did some degen things to get money:

- steal from my mom while she was poor as ****. She actually thought she got a bit demented because she swear she had 30 dollar in her wallet. ( still cant forgive myself for that )

- sold all kind of things that werent even mine. Gaming consoles of my brother, ipod from my sister, all my own stuff I had bought over the years.

- My ant always gave my **** tons off stuff she didnt use anymore, sold all of that. expensive phones, gameing consoles and just money I got from her.

Well finally I begin to see it is time to stop after being dead broke for a few weeks once again.

But a year later (I'm 17 by the time now) I discovered online casinos. Gambling never appealed to me but I decided to take a shot. I deposited a few times 40 dollar (I have a job now so I could afford it a bit) and then one night I ran it up to 3k, sadly my biggest win ever. I actually stopped for the first time in my live and said this is enough, I have to cash out.
I smoke a cig, go to bed just to lose it all the day after.

I felt so crushed, all the thoughts of my horrible poker experience came back. All the things I've pretty much stolen to play poker. all the people I've ( especially my mum ) I've been a total ******* to when I was losing.
The chanced to **** some hot girls gone to waste because I loved losing money so much.

So after the 2k loss I just lay into my bed and cried and cried for hours (long time ago I cried) and decided its over, I can never poker or gamble again. I ****ing lost 5k in the period of 15-17 while I only had a job when I was 18.

Well the next week I sold the wii I borrowed from my brother and kept on depositing.


Now to this day I dont gamble as much, but still I lose like 200 dollars a month because of my habit. I hate myself for it and start to cry when I think of the 17 year old me. Always had the dream to make +100k and give away the money to the people I love, make everything right I did wrong. But ofcourse this will always be an illusion.

Thanks for the read.
Nice first post and screenname, welcome to the thread
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03-09-2011 , 09:25 AM
i don't care what anyone says about carter gill... the kid is basically a legend and a helluva good time to party with. at the bank in vegas, i witnessed this kid chug about a 3rd of a bottle of vodka with no chaser, nada. the kid has ****ing tiger blood.

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03-09-2011 , 09:33 AM
feedmykids is my new hero
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03-09-2011 , 10:46 AM
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feedmykids is my new hero
+1. His bridge thread is epic too.
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03-09-2011 , 07:40 PM
Can you post a link to the bridge thread?
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03-10-2011 , 01:20 AM
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One less mouth to feed. Sell his/her meal and flip what you get for it

LMAO
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