[luckyjimm]

Actually I played poker from 12.15am to 4am today, since a credit card payment I'd made cleared allowing me to put more on the card. I deposited $120; got up to $240 in the first ten minutes, and just before 1am went to the poker club where I withdrew $80, bought cigarettes, tea and a cheese and ham toastie, and continued playing. I played a $26 PLO tournament and some $0.25/$0.50 and $0.50/$1. I lost the $160 I had left in the account in a variety of sick PLO beats:

* we both flop a straight on a rainbow board and the money goes in; I have redraws going higher; he has a pair of twos, and catches runner-runner house.

* we both have strong aces, money in preflop, his sidecards make him a straight.

* I bust out the tournament potting with strong aces, flopping another ace for my set, potting it, being put all-in by an idiot with nothing but an up-down 8-out straight draw which of course comes.

So I walk out at 4am down about $40 (plus having spent about the same on food, cigarettes, taxi home, and a couple of beers to knock me out; I finally fall asleep at 5am).

The point is, I have a total disregard for money. But disregarding my own is one thing; getting in trouble with someone else's is quite another.