I want this thread from T.J. Cookier.. Anyway OP keep up the good work

How much did you make in stock market before you lost? Did you implement any form of strategies and do you see yourself doing anything else again in the stock market any time soon?

I was up like $50k at one point using a hedging strategy. It all went completely to **** when the stocks got too volatile and would sometimes rocket up and down 20% in a day, since I had to put stops on my short positions to avoid losing it all on one stock. I have some family friends who deal with investing and I'm thinking about trying to get some sort of apprenticeship with one of them once I get out of business school. I'm not really sure that day trading can possibly be more profitable than simple long term investing at this point, due to the practice of high-frequency trading that now makes up a majority of trades on the market.


Always glad to have a fan amongst the haters.

Enjoyed the stories OP.

So whats the meaning of life?

Or instead, what brings you happiness now, and why is it different than what brought you happiness before? Said another way, what gets you through the monotany of everyday life after having lived the balla/degen life?

I cannot believe this was overlooked. I'm asking, do tell. Spare the pics please.

Also I think this is a great read so far. Though you're a baby, you have lived an exciting life. And lol at you thinking there are multiple haters itt. Pretty sure there's just one.

Cool thread, interested in more stories, especially about time spent in Israel. (I've been there 5-6 times and always have a great time)

Cool thread.

R u Happier now?? or just bored?

Don't you want to relive that experience again?

What's your income now per month? Full time/Part time?

Op, my question about your degen life is, how can I have this awesome degen life?

nice thread,

you planning to go to vegas anytime soon?
Will you ever again play in undergorund games?
Did your friends see you as a baller when you were playing big?
Did any of friends you had then left you down when u were almost broke?
Did any of woman wanted to be with you just because of your money? Do u have their pics?

I'm not even joking Op! I want to know how to do all of these things besides sniffing crank and doing drugs... How did you get involved with all of this? How does one go about finding activities like these?

Not sure what the meaning of life is, but now I find much of my happiness in nature while hiking or biking, in my family and in my close friends. I feel much less compelled to validate myself with sex, excessive alcohol and drugs, gambling, etc. I sometimes miss the excess, but usually I'm content to have a quieter life where I appreciate the things that really matter.

Haha, there are no pics of said incident. It was back in '06 when the Steelers were playing the Seahawks. I pregamed with a bunch of friends at a house in Boston, but we were watching the game at a private party at a bar about a mile away so we drunkenly started our trek. About halfway through a few of us needed to pee so we headed into a back alley. I was swaying all over the place and so focused on not pissing myself that I started to **** without realizing it. I didn't say a word to my friends, waddled the rest of the way to the bar, ran into the bathroom, threw out the boxers and washed up. Walked back into the bar like nothing had happened and none of my friends knew at the time (I confessed later). I was so determined to get laid that day because of how much that would add to the story, but sadly I failed.

I'm bored sometimes, but tbh sometimes I was bored even when I was living the excessive lifestyle. I think anything gets boring when you do it for too long, which is why I move around so much and don't tend to just stick with one thing. I semi relive the experience again once a year when my frat bros and I all head out to Vegas during winter break and don't sleep for a weekend.

[B]Most of my stories about Israel break down into the funny/crazy hookup stories or drug stories. I was on a program with about 500 total kids between 18-20, and almost all of them were just there to get plastered and have sex, including the girls.

I met a girl from England who I hooked up with for a while when she fell on my lap outside of a club and said "YOU'RE MY BOYFRIEND". Her friends had to drag her away from me because I ditched my friend who I was trying to help drink water since he had taken too much E and was leading her into a nearby alleyway (this is the last girl in the exs section of my OP).

I had the nickname "The Sandman" at Joey's Bar in Tel Aviv (and they would blast Enter the Sandman by Metallica every time I walked in) after I managed to pull a girl from the bar who spoke no English or Hebrew (she was French), took her down to the beach 3 blocks away, railed her for about 20 minutes since her flight back to France was leaving in less than 2 hours, and then return to the bar covered in sand.

One of my roomies Kansas was the biggest manwhore I've ever met. Out of the 300 girls on my program, he took the virginity of the hottest girl, and then a few weeks later had sex with the ugliest girl. The man just didn't care who he stuck his dick in. He also paid to have sex with at least 8 strippers at the strip club across from our favorite bar. His favorite phrases were "There is no such thing as rape, only surprise sex." and "Old enough to pee, old enough for me." We once had a competition of who could make out with the most girls that night at the club. I lost with 13.

Kansas, my other buddy Alex and I all met on the 2nd day of the program and were always out being ******s. We managed to get to live together, but we had 3 other roomies (to start out with). About a week in, roomie 1 demanded a new housing placement as we refused to refer to him by any name besides Canada and would make Canadian jokes at his expense at every opportunity (weren't singling him out or anything, we always talked **** to each other). Another of our roomies quit the program altogether when we wouldn't stop giving him **** for trying to claim his dad was one of the assassins portrayed in Munich. Our last roomie tried to become like us, getting wasted every night, doing whatever drugs we got our hands on, trying to sleep with anything that moved. The problem was we had all been to college for a year and he hadn't, so even though he had 30 pounds on any of us, he would invariably either piss himself, pass out in public or get into huge trouble every time we went out. We had a wall with a bunch of girls underwear tacked to it from girls we had slept with, and one night he triumphantly slammed a pair up on the wall. We asked where they came from and he told us all about the 15 year old at the school he worked at that he had deflowered in a back alley (he was 18). Some people just do it wrong I guess. He once saw a flavor packet from ramen noodles and exclaimed "I didn't know they make chicken flavored condoms".

I once blacked out hard when about 200 of our group were out a club in Tel Aviv. It was an open bar which I obviously forgot after taking way too much molly and drinking a ton, so I kept asking girls if they wanted a drink and then "stealing" them a drink from behind the bar. Throughout the night I kept biting my hand, tried to drag Israeli girls away from their huge boyfriends (my friends kept having to save me from getting killed, I was oblivious and thought the world loved me). We stayed out all night and headed to our favorite bar, Joey's, when the club closed at 6am. For some reason there were hot girls in there at that time, but I was still gone out of my mind from the molly I had taken like 4 hours before. I was trying to pull one of the girls, who was actually talking to me despite me making no sense. I don't remember any of this, but my friends told me the only sentence I said that made sense was "If I wasn't so ****ed up we'd be ****ing in the bathroom right now."

Plenty more but this is already insanely TL;DR

Around 2k/month from poker depending (plus maybe $800/month from coaching), very part time since I'm going to school. Looking for a real job too since I have no work experience and I've heard people like that.

Pretty easy, just don't care about money or consequences. Act on every whim, live in the moment and enjoy yourself.

Thanks, I'll be in Vegas over winter break for my yearly trip. I would play in underground games if I lived in an area where they existed. There are legit games around the Bay Area where I live. Yeah, my friends were in love with the lifestyle. I'd always bring them to Vegas, show them a good time at the clubs, get us free rooms and food, etc. They really admired me for dropping out of school to follow my dreams too. No, I'm still friends with all of the same people at I was 2 years ago, and they've helped me through the tough times of it. I think Ashley defiantly felt differently about me once I didn't have money. The difference is most of my friends knew me before, during and after the money, but Ashley met me at my peak and then just saw me decline.

WTF. Sick life dude.

****ing wow...
Great stories keep 'em coming!

It wasn't tl;dr, we want more stories from Israel

Pics for context:


Me, Kansas, Alex, obv blacked out.



Halloween in Israel, stole some guy's Pope hat. I ended up sleeping with this girl after I moved back to the US. I was Jewpac.



The Netanya crew, guys I lived with my first 3 months in Israel.



Answers the age old question, does a Jew **** in the desert?



Me with Netasha, one of the girls in Netanya.



More Netanya kids.



Netanya girls.

Another reason the kid who said his dad was the guy from Munich quit was a nickname we gave him. He lost his virginity to an ugly girl on our trip a couple weeks before moving in with us, and was regaling us with the tales of his conquest. When describing the girl he said "Her face isn't that hot, but she has the greatest pussy I have ever seen. It's just so plump." He was obviously Plump Pussy from that day forward.

One of the first nights in Israel we went out to a wine festival in the town Kansas was living in at the time. Bottles of fancy wine were selling for 20 sheqels, which was just under $5 at the time. I bought 3 bottles of wine and chugged them over the course of the 3 hours we were walking around, and obviously I was completely gone. We met up with a bunch of other people from our group who I had never met before, and I decided to impress all of them with my smashing bottles on the ground skills. Most of them were wearing sandals and I cut the hell out of everyones feet, they were not amused.

During my first 3 months in Israel I was living in the beach town of Netanya with 2 British guys. There were about 20 people from our group in Netanya, and one night we were all in the city square drinking wine, when I suggested some skinny dipping at the beach nearby. Thankfully the 3 beastly British girls bowed out, leaving about 10 guys and 7 girls. We are drank more wine and then stripped and ran around the beach ass naked. There were some great pics from the night but the girls got to them and deleted them unfortunately.

I got fired from my volunteer position at the orphanage. I was in charge of handling about 12 boys ages 12-14, who like many boys their age were obsessed with professional wrestling. They would all attack me at the same time (playfully) and I would wrestle them all off, and one time one of the boys kept trying to wrestle me and wouldn't stop, so i wrestled him to the ground and put my knee on his chest to hold him down. He had a bruise the next day and I got fired for it (even though I was volunteering), so now I can put on my resume I was once fired for beating orphans.

What was the program in Israel? When are you next going to Israel?

Young Judea Year Course. It's a program split into 3 blocks, 2 being volunteering blocks and the third being school in Jerusalem. Not sure when I'll be back there, I miss it but it's such an expense just getting there.

any more pics of her? she is quite fetching

Oh God I forgot there were 5 hideously ugly girls with us in Netanya and they are all in this pic. None of them came skinny dipping.







So many Jews and I'm the only one who was too dumb to realize we were supposed to wear our Israeli Scout shirt.



The female counterparts of Kansas, Alex and I.



More of Nessy and Molly.

edit: Love this pic

robhimself delivers

yeah HE is the douche.

Lets break down this "sentence". For some reason you've capitalized HE, which doesn't really make sense, while at the same time not even capitalizing the first word of the sentence. Additionally, please be more specific, what exactly is it that makes me a device used to introduce a stream of water into the body for medical or hygienic reasons?

What was the point of your post? Do you feel good now? GTFOOOOOOOOO

I'm pretty sure he was on your side..

The capitalized HE was him being sarcastic and saying that the guy who made the post was a douche.

At least that's how I read it.

Did you volunteer at MDA?