Should I steal this money?

[luckyjimm]

By the way this means the hourly steal-rate would be around $300 a desk. Multi-desking it'd be through the roof!

[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.

[Reef]

good job gambling more

[Johnny Hughes]

Let't face it. You are a whining wimp.

[luckyjimm]

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Let't face it. You are a whining wimp.

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Eh, that's a bit uncalled for. But, I never denied it...

[Johnny Hughes]

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
Socrates


A wise gamester ought to take the dice even as they fall, and pay down quietly rather than grumble at his luck.
Sophocles


If you are gonna be a sucker, be a quiet one.

Amarillo Slim

[Grasshopp3r]

Being taken to the woodshed by Johnny = priceless.

OP needs to write more and gamble less.

[luckyjimm]

Thanks! Yes, I will try - I think my posting to 2+2 is as good for me as playing poker is bad!

There's rather a contrast between Johnny and me: whiny English wimp whose heroes are Morrissey and Philip Larkin, and an honest-talking successful seen-it-all Texan...

[NewTeaBag]

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Thanks! Yes, I will try - I think my posting to 2+2 is as good for me as playing poker is bad!

Yes, there's rather a contrast between Johnny and me: whiny English whimp whose heroes are Morrissey and Philip Larkin, and an honest-talking successful seen-it-all Texan...

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Hey! Morrissey kicks ass for some openminded Yanks as well!

Not to derail your latest degeneracy thread, but, imagine ALKA and I sat in a tiny beer bar on Bangla Rd, surrounded by bargirls and drunk Thais and Farang, and we somehow managed to have found the one such hole where the DJ had 2 Smiths albums and was happy to play a few songs from them along with Blur's "Parklife". Twas quite a scene and we even got some of the hammered Thai locals singin and dancing along to Blur at 3AM.

[luckyjimm]

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[ QUOTE ]
Thanks! Yes, I will try - I think my posting to 2+2 is as good for me as playing poker is bad!

Yes, there's rather a contrast between Johnny and me: whiny English whimp whose heroes are Morrissey and Philip Larkin, and an honest-talking successful seen-it-all Texan...

[/ QUOTE ]


Hey! Morrissey kicks ass for some openminded Yanks as well!

Not to derail your latest degeneracy thread, but, imagine ALKA and I sat in a tiny beer bar on Bangla Rd, surrounded by bargirls and drunk Thais and Farang, and we somehow managed to have found the one such hole where the DJ had 2 Smiths albums and was happy to play a few songs from them along with Blur's "Parklife". Twas quite a scene and we even got some of the hammered Thai locals singin and dancing along to Blur at 3AM.

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Hahaha, a great image! 'Frankly Mr Shankly' would have been a particularly bemusing song to explain to the bar girls, or 'Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others'.

I've had a couple of chats with Alka about his time with you in Thailand, and he's passed on your recommendation to read 'The Confessions of a Bangkok Private Eye' - I read what I could find about it on the Internet yesterday, and will order the book.

But I'm veering off the topic...