NEVER have a degenerate moment?
 

Just wondering if there is someone out there who has never broken down and made stupid -ev plays, gone on crazy monkey tilt, or played over their head.

Surely there has to be someone here who is so nitty as to never played casino games, played 10/20 NL with a $2,000 roll or any other sweet degenerate goodness.

add your best degenerate stories if you have them.

Re: NEVER have a degenerate moment?
 

my degenerate story.
I ran up my sportsbetting account from $1500 to $4800 betting 200-300 a game in a week. Next week I lose it back and while on tilt just shove my last $1300 or so on the detroit tigers game on July 4 (I needed them to win by 2 or more as well), final score 6-4 Detroit. Ship it.

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Nope, I guess it's cuz I like teh monies! :-o

Re: NEVER have a degenerate moment?
 

hahaha everymoment

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me and my roommate do omahahahaha flips while we study for classes on the poker table

Re: NEVER have a degenerate moment?
 

which one means ?

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which one means ?

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QFT

that is possibly the worst poll question ever

OP, were you a political science major? lolololo

Re: NEVER have a degenerate moment?
 

i did a $2 flip once on stars!

Re: NEVER have a degenerate moment?
 

I've never taken a shot. Whenever I moved up, it was permanent. I don't think I've ever gone on crazy tilt, but I have knowingly made slightly -EV decisions (bad calldowns out of frustration) before.

Re: NEVER have a degenerate moment?
 

the way the question is asked is melting my brain

can't answer the poll [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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the way the question is asked is melting my brain

can't answer the poll

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Exactly the wording of the question may make me go on tilt. Or as the question is worded...This question will not never make me go on tilt due to the wording.

Re: NEVER have a degenerate moment?
 

reminds me of the quebec referendum question....

Re: NEVER have a degenerate moment?
 

does chinese poker count (lowstakes)

Re: NEVER have a degenerate moment?
 

you mean since lunch? or all day?

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blackout blackjack ftw

Re: NEVER have a degenerate moment?
 

I'm turning into more of a degen each day.

Re: NEVER have a degenerate moment?
 

Degenhood is great. Everyday I find new exciting ways to be degen.

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sometimes i can actually feel myself degenerating like gollum

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The summer after high school I had discovered online sports betting. I was working as a delivery boy for dominos so I had a decent amount of cash income from tips; I would save some and then throw some of it on vipsports.com to make some plays on baseball games. By the end of the summer I had saved a few thousand and still had a couple hundred on vipsports when one day I discovered that the website also offered the vipcasino. [censored].

I decided I was gonna use just $100 from my vip account and play a little $5 red/black roullette(sp?). Anyways, I started out with $5 bets and by the 5th spin I was making $20 bets. My bets continually grew untill I was playing with $2500 at the table and was making $500 a spin bets on red or black. Each time I would spin the wheel and run away from the computer praying that when I heard the ball stop I would also hear the automated cheering that accompanied a win. I was gonna retire in one night making like $50k an hr when all of a sudden the unluckiest thing that has ever happened to someone happened to me.

I lost five $500 spins in a row and went busto. [censored] ME.

By this point, I had realized how naturally talented at roullette I was, and figured there was no way a person this good end a night down. Time to take another $100 shot.

But [censored] it, obviously I want my [censored] money back so I slam it all on red and obviously its black. Anyways, after I busto my vip account i ask myself "Could michael jordan miss ten freethrows in a row?" Absolutely not. So therefore there was no way I was going to continue to keep losing at roullette.

To make a long story short, after a series of deposits I had lost my entire vip account, $1500 from my bank account and was down around 1900 on the night. This was about the same time I was playing .25/.50 on partypoker so it was prettymuch like a 38 buy in swing in a coure of maybe an hour and a half?

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u don't even want to know....

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Best I can do is playing 30/60 omaha h/l with $500 to my name... cashed out $2200 shippit

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Paging Kurosh....stripper and blackjack stories please.

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The summer after high school I had discovered online sports betting. I was working as a delivery boy for dominos so I had a decent .... so it was prettymuch like a 38 buy in swing in a coure of maybe an hour and a half?

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[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] this story.

Worst ive done is move up a level from 20nl to 50nl (2 yrs ago) after an arguement with my gf. I promptly lost two stacks tilting.

Other than that I often play my current level (200nl) while drunk and once quickly lost 1k (not even tilting, just being very LAGGY drunk). I took a break, went and had another beer and came back and luckily managed to win it all back again.

Yeh im a nit.

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i'm such a nit

the worst i go to is like....calling with the nutflush draw not getting the odds i need--that's as out of line as i get....

lame.

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I came home wasted one day and blew my entire roll on 2/4
I barely remember doing it

More than a silly mistake.....
 

A few weeks into the second year of my law degree (about 9 months ago) I decided to try playing a bit of poker online in the university library. Little did I know at this time how much my life was going to change as a result of this first small step. I had been taught how to play poker (as in the rules) by my mother when I was about 10. Card games were the main pastime during family gatherings and were generally a bit of fun although I remember being shouted at on many occasions for making stupid plays when first starting out. I was always determined to be able to play with the “big boys” (my uncles, cousins and so on) so I stuck at it learning the rules of many different games which were played and trying not to get shouted at.

Various forms of poker were of course played and I remember clearly that poker games were always my favourite as I could usually hold my own and seemed to be quite lucky. I remember clearly the first time I ever checked raised. It was a game of 5 card draw and I was around 12 y/o. I was dealt 4 parts of a straight and was UTG so I was unable to open. My uncle opened (jacks or better) and 4 or 5 of us called the Irish pound including my elderly grandmother whom I adored. This for some reason did not deter me from the deception which ensued as I made my straight and (thinking I was really smart at the time) proceeded to check letting the betting unfold in front of me. There was a standard raise from one of my uncles and then my unsuspecting grandmother who was the dealer and had clearly fallen in love with her hand went on to raise with a big smile on her face. I then of course put in the rest of my money much to her shock and confusion as such a (sneaky) play was, in her words, “not allowed when I learnt the game you little devil!” A heated discussion followed as to whether my actions were to be allowed in and it was finally decided that Granny would have to put in more of her money. She flipped over 2 pair and I thought I was a genius [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Back in the university library I have decided to play no limit hold em for the first time beginning with mtts on party poker. I decide to invest in a copy of Play Poker Like the Pros by Hellmuth and go on to win my first 5 table tourney soon after. I was able to see it just as a bit of fun and never think any more of it for all of about 2 weeks but after buying and digesting Super System shortly after I started playing more and more with immediate rewards deciding to concentrate completely on no limit hold em. As the weeks went on I found myself attending less and less lectures as all I could think about was getting back to the tables. One evening I was going particularly badly in my usual $10+1 mtts and was becoming increasingly frustrated. I was about to leave to go back to my flat when I decided to take the last $40 left in my account to a $1/2 cash table, something I had never tried before. I left the table that day $350 up and shaking from the adrenaline of my first cash game experience.

For the next 2 weeks I went to less and less lectures and managed to build my roll up to $2500 dollars, mostly playing only $1/2 for about 5 hours each day. Everything seemed so clear to me and I honestly felt invincible at the tables. This is when I started to cause serious troubles for myself. I found myself playing higher and higher stakes until I was sitting down at $25/50. As you can imagine I lasted 2 days. At one point in my first day I was up to 7k through my overly aggressive play and some lucky catches (at the time of course I thought I was playing great). By the end of the second it was all gone. I bought back in with the remainder of my student loan whilst on mega tilt (much to the delight of the sharks who were jeering me on in the chat box) and went on to piss it all away within the next 30mins.
The walk home from the library that night seemed much longer than usual and was the start of the worst couple of weeks of my life. I felt like I had been crushed and found myself without the willpower to leave my flat. My mental state was soon mirrored by my physical as I fell ill destroying any hope of me recovering weeks of study that had been lost previously. I was well and truly a degenerate and I knew it for sure.

Having resigned to the fact that I wasn’t going to complete my degree I went back to the tables as soon as I managed to get some money together, playing more at the local casino rather than going back online, partly as I didn’t trust myself.

9 months later and I constantly learning the importance of money management skills, maturity and discipline on top of the playing ability one brings to the table as a poker player.

P.S. sorry for dragging on but it’s my first 2+2 post and I wanted to get this off my chest:)

DEVILSET

Re: More than a silly mistake.....
 

NL 2k with 9k roll

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A few weeks into the second year of my law degree (about 9 months ago) I decided to try playing a bit of poker online in the university library. Little did I know at this time how much my life was going to change as a result of this first small step. I had been taught how to play poker (as in the rules) by my mother when I was about 10. Card games were the main pastime during family gatherings and were generally a bit of fun although I remember being shouted at on many occasions for making stupid plays when first starting out. I was always determined to be able to play with the “big boys” (my uncles, cousins and so on) so I stuck at it learning the rules of many different games which were played and trying not to get shouted at.

Various forms of poker were of course played and I remember clearly that poker games were always my favourite as I could usually hold my own and seemed to be quite lucky. I remember clearly the first time I ever checked raised. It was a game of 5 card draw and I was around 12 y/o. I was dealt 4 parts of a straight and was UTG so I was unable to open. My uncle opened (jacks or better) and 4 or 5 of us called the Irish pound including my elderly grandmother whom I adored. This for some reason did not deter me from the deception which ensued as I made my straight and (thinking I was really smart at the time) proceeded to check letting the betting unfold in front of me. There was a standard raise from one of my uncles and then my unsuspecting grandmother who was the dealer and had clearly fallen in love with her hand went on to raise with a big smile on her face. I then of course put in the rest of my money much to her shock and confusion as such a (sneaky) play was, in her words, “not allowed when I learnt the game you little devil!” A heated discussion followed as to whether my actions were to be allowed in and it was finally decided that Granny would have to put in more of her money. She flipped over 2 pair and I thought I was a genius [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Back in the university library I have decided to play no limit hold em for the first time beginning with mtts on party poker. I decide to invest in a copy of Play Poker Like the Pros by Hellmuth and go on to win my first 5 table tourney soon after. I was able to see it just as a bit of fun and never think any more of it for all of about 2 weeks but after buying and digesting Super System shortly after I started playing more and more with immediate rewards deciding to concentrate completely on no limit hold em. As the weeks went on I found myself attending less and less lectures as all I could think about was getting back to the tables. One evening I was going particularly badly in my usual $10+1 mtts and was becoming increasingly frustrated. I was about to leave to go back to my flat when I decided to take the last $40 left in my account to a $1/2 cash table, something I had never tried before. I left the table that day $350 up and shaking from the adrenaline of my first cash game experience.

For the next 2 weeks I went to less and less lectures and managed to build my roll up to $2500 dollars, mostly playing only $1/2 for about 5 hours each day. Everything seemed so clear to me and I honestly felt invincible at the tables. This is when I started to cause serious troubles for myself. I found myself playing higher and higher stakes until I was sitting down at $25/50. As you can imagine I lasted 2 days. At one point in my first day I was up to 7k through my overly aggressive play and some lucky catches (at the time of course I thought I was playing great). By the end of the second it was all gone. I bought back in with the remainder of my student loan whilst on mega tilt (much to the delight of the sharks who were jeering me on in the chat box) and went on to piss it all away within the next 30mins.
The walk home from the library that night seemed much longer than usual and was the start of the worst couple of weeks of my life. I felt like I had been crushed and found myself without the willpower to leave my flat. My mental state was soon mirrored by my physical as I fell ill destroying any hope of me recovering weeks of study that had been lost previously. I was well and truly a degenerate and I knew it for sure.

Having resigned to the fact that I wasn’t going to complete my degree I went back to the tables as soon as I managed to get some money together, playing more at the local casino rather than going back online, partly as I didn’t trust myself.

9 months later and I constantly learning the importance of money management skills, maturity and discipline on top of the playing ability one brings to the table as a poker player.

P.S. sorry for dragging on but it’s my first 2+2 post and I wanted to get this off my chest:)

DEVILSET

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excellent first post, I enjoyed the read, although its a tad depressing.

Re: More than a silly mistake.....
 

i play limit holdem.

Re: More than a silly mistake.....
 

hahahaha, I got evicted because I blew $5500 (my whole life bankroll at the time) in one night playing $1K NL wasted on tequila. I managed to scrape together $2K in loans/selling stuff monies and lost that the next night, wasted on tequila.

Since then I've lost probably... 1-2 more K, almost all while drunk. When I play sober I actually do pretty well.

signed, mbillie1, king degen

Re: More than a silly mistake.....
 

I think the most "degen" things I've done are so weak but i'll mention it anyways.

I took my whole roll at 100NL once (when I started playing poker last yr) and tripled up on some insane full house on full house on set hand. I then decided I was obv ready for 100NL and lost all of my roll.

Re: More than a silly mistake.....
 

double negative ftw

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I guess my worst would be getting really drunk at a wedding reception, then going to a strip club to get even drunker, and then taking a ride to the casino with my checkbook in hand. I ended up playing 5/10 NLO (yes NL Omaha) and dropping $29,000 which was pretty much all the money I had in the world.

I don't remember much about the hands (I was on the verge of blacking out), but I do remember Shanghaiing for $3000 a few times. (All-in blind for you live play noobs.) One time, I had Jxxx and got called by a worse hand, but still ended up getting sucked out on in a 52/48 for a $6000 pot.

Re: NEVER have a degenerate moment?
 

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you mean since lunch? or all day?

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haha

flipaments are a standard boredom cure..

Re: NEVER have a degenerate moment?
 

Since OP f*cked up, here is the real pole:

Re: More than a silly mistake.....
 

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NL 2k with 9k roll

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only counts if you were 4 tabling

Re: More than a silly mistake.....
 

I once lost 5$ with black jack, does that count?

Re: More than a silly mistake.....
 

aejones knows how much of a degenerate i am...
get 2nd in the 28k on ftp.. make 3800..1900 after split with him..
start 3 tabling 3/6

gone in under 6 hrs
gg me

Re: More than a silly mistake.....
 

meh.. to the ppl complaining about the poll... yeah it's worded badly, but u can't honestly tell me that u couldn't figure out what I meant. I thought the grammar/syntax nits didn't hang out in BBV.

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double negative ftnl

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