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#82
05-31-2007, 08:45 AM
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Re: Should I steal this money?
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. 
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#84
05-31-2007, 09:34 AM
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Re: Should I steal this money?
Let't face it. You are a whining wimp.
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#86
05-31-2007, 10:14 AM
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Re: Should I steal this money?
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
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#87
05-31-2007, 10:56 AM
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Re: Should I steal this money?
Being taken to the woodshed by Johnny = priceless.
OP needs to write more and gamble less.
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#88
05-31-2007, 11:06 AM
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Re: Should I steal this money?
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...
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#89
05-31-2007, 11:12 AM
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Re: Should I steal this money?
[ 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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#90
05-31-2007, 11:21 AM
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Re: Should I steal this money?
[ QUOTE ]
[ 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. [/ QUOTE ] 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...
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