Begging for $ at the rail - it works!
 

Fortunately I am less of a down-and-out than I used to be, but a year and a half ago I would spend the days railing the medium/high stakes games on the 24h/B2B network of poker sites and I would be very chatty on the rail of the tables I was watching. And, inevitably, I would ask the big players to transfer me 10 or 20 Euros and promise to pay them back. You'd be surprised the number of times it worked - at least 10 different players sent me this sum, some of them lots of times. I nearly always paid them back, usually within the day since I'd win a few pots and ship it back.

I was begging since I didn't have a job or any income other than what I could get from selling old books and CDs on Amazon, I didn't have any bank cards, and yet I was a sick compulsive gambler with a powerful urge to play.

These days I have a job and pay my own way, thank God. Any money I lose is my own.

Have you ever begged? Have you ever given money to a table beggar? Do you think all observer chat should be banned to discourage it?

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Great, a thread that condones this... Delete immediately please!!!

No, No, Yes.

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Hi Jim,

I have never begged, however I might start now.
Think you can wire me some funds so I can start playing poker on the internets?

Im leveling here. I dont want to start playing on the internets.

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No, No, Yes.

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I hate you

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You guys make me feel so dirty!

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The following types are often found begging at the rail:

1) Underage
2) Hopelessly addicted losers
3) Mike Matusow

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I hate you

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Why do you hate me?
You dont even know me.
Normally someone knows me for about 15 minutes before they hate me [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

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I hate you

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Mom, is that you?

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No, No, Yes.

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I hate you

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Mom, is that you?

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He isn't kidding and neither am I. Railbirds suck. GKY degen

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GROSS Annoying scum bag you had enough for a computer and the internet but you would sit there and beg like a filthy bum. You sir are a slob.

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lol at this thread

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No, No, Yes.

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GROSS Annoying scum bag your parents / school had enough for a computer and the internet but you would sit there and beg like a filthy bum. You sir are a slob.

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FYP

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Matusow sent me a hundo once for trivia.

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Hi Jim,

Just wanted to pop in and say you're a drooling retard.

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Ty ty ty!

Maybe it doesn't work any more. I was trying it on quiet afternoons, and not on US sites. And I would be chatting away a while in chat, making jokes etc & my username was well known - I was the resident busto railbird. I'm sure on Full Tilt etc where there are dozens of people typing at once it just won't work.

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luckyjimm a Destructive gambler asks "How do I quit poker?"

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when people used to rail me for money and promise to pay it back I'd tell them sure, I'm sending now. then after 10 minutes they'd ask if I sent yet and I'd tell them I already sent. they'd say they didn't receive yet and I told them that they're lying and still owe me the money. some of them would flip out.

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when people used to rail me for money and promise to pay it back I'd tell them sure, I'm sending now. then after 10 minutes they'd ask if I sent yet and I'd tell them I already sent. they'd say they didn't receive yet and I told them that they're lying and still owe me the money. some of them would flip out.

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You are a dangerous, dangerous poker player.

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luckyjimm a Destructive gambler asks "How do I quit poker?"

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Ofc I never denied it!

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I used to get sent e10 pretty often by Erik Friberg aka Liraerik, and because of that he then went on to (almost) win the WSOP. So you see how lucky I was for him!

WHY DO YOU HAVE TO BEG?????????
 

Just steal your mom's credit card like I did.

My mom did'nt even notice it, since she's 94 and has Alzheimer's disease. I am 72.

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I hate you

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I hate luckyjim

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No, yes, no.

Begging, strategic advice, insults and spam through observer chat is awful, but there should be room for cheering on players and 'nh' remarks.

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No, No, No.

Begging railbirds are scum, but their antics amuse me.

One of these days I'm gonna start offering them $5 for public gay cybersex, just to see how far they'll go to earn that money.

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when people used to rail me for money and promise to pay it back I'd tell them sure, I'm sending now. then after 10 minutes they'd ask if I sent yet and I'd tell them I already sent. they'd say they didn't receive yet and I told them that they're lying and still owe me the money. some of them would flip out.


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lollerskates!

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There are also some nice railbirds... I guess...

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is he levelling????

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One of these days I'm gonna start offering them $5 for public gay cybersex, just to see how far they'll go to earn that money.

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i think you just invented a new sport

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Actually I remember late last year some guy busted on my $1/$2 PLO table to some bad beat and was saying it was the last of his money, and could the villain send him $20 to acknowledge what a sick beat it was and so he could try spinning up. I was in a big hand while this was going down and said "If I win this hand I will ship you $20". I made a massive bluff on the river having missed my draw, and the other guy folded... I like to think he was reading the chat and was influenced by my kindly altruistic nature. Either that or he didn't have sh-t either. I did send the first guy some money, too. Do unto others, and all that.

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Jim, how much do you think an "expert" can make doing this? Probably a lot less than a good panhandler I'd imagine.

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I hate the beggars--there are so many of them on FT. Back when I played a lot of HU, I'd sit at NL600/NL400 with like 5-6gs spread accross the tables, and people constantly hounded me for money. Two "girls," said they watched me play all the time. A different "girl" asked for my screenname because she wanted to send me pics. It's so [censored] annoying to deal with.

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Hmmmm.... maybe as much as $40 a day! Lol. That is, if you get a reputation for paying people back. If you mean how much money can you get, and never pay back, then not much. Since one person is unlikely to send you free as opposed to lent money more than once, so you have to start again getting their attention, persuading them to take the time out of their game to do it, etc.

Sure, panhandling is more profitable. But does it enable you to play online poker? Perhaps not.

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one time I sat down at 2c-4c LHE on stars with a few thousand because thats how I roll, anyways some player
(chick name/avatar) was busted out and said something
like "wow, you got a lot of moneys, you're obv a baller,
can you spot me a buy in?" (which is what I'm looking for when I hit the penny tables w/ a few gs) so I sent her a buck, and all the other players were all buttsore saying 'Lucky You' to her

FWIW Full Tilt seriously sucks because of the railers; some schmuck was begbirding a FT I was at and not 2 seconds after I get Aces cracked aipf vs A6o runner runner, this knucklehead is blowing up the chatbox for 10$, and actually got all offended threatening my chat when I told him to gfy with your momma's under-the-pillow stick -

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when i was like 11 i used to ask strangers at the mall for quarters so that i could "call my mom," when obviously I just wanted money for the arcade. it worked pretty well, and I prob cleared like $3/hour.

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Just steal your mom's credit card like I did.

My mom did'nt even notice it, since she's 94 and has Alzheimer's disease. I am 72.

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dude... film... avatar... stfu

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Hmmmm.... maybe as much as $40 a day! Lol. That is, if you get a reputation for paying people back. If you mean how much money can you get, and never pay back, then not much. Since one person is unlikely to send you free as opposed to lent money more than once, so you have to start again getting their attention, persuading them to take the time out of their game to do it, etc.

Sure, panhandling is more profitable. But does it enable you to play online poker? Perhaps not.

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It's only a matter of time before we see "railbots".

observer mariojr: nh sir
player: ty
observer mariojr: can i have 5$

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no, no, no