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I'm usually on the side of "too many women cry rape", etc., etc., and inevitably when discussing something like the Duke lacrosse team, I'm the one that gets called a "misogynist", "pig", etc., etc.

With that said, this whole thing's really [censored] up. This girl sounds like she legitimately got screwed out of her bankroll, and I can't believe how many people are giving her [censored] about it. Seriously, what does it take for people to be genuine and show compassion? If someone posted that their entire family got murdered would the responses be "LOL, Murderments"? Or would that only happen if it was a woman posting?

Sure, if you've been doing well in the mid-to-high limit poker games, 12K doesn't seem like that much, but remember, to the average person, this is a lot of money. Someone at a minimum wage job works 6 months for that much money. This was all she had, and now she's having to undergo a radical lifestyle change, presumably because some old pervert was a dick to her.

I think the probability that she made the whole story up is extremely low, and all the "she's a whore and whores are all the same" type people are extremely sad human beings.

OP, I really don't know what kind of advice to give you at this point. Tending bar pays fairly well right? Why don't you just try to get a job doing that for a while? You'll have some spare money in no time, and then you can put that online and grind it up. If you're a winning player and use good BR management, you can turn $200 back into $12,000 within a few months. I know it's a disappointing setback, but there's really not much else you can do at that point.

I guess if I had anything to say, it would be to not think the world's like the jaded, bitter types on 2+2 or like this Tom character. There's a lot of good people out there, they're just in low supply in the poker world.