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I can 10-table $10nl for a few hours per day and make more than I would waiting tables.

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I'd rather wait tables than 10 table 10nl.

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"my friend" got fired from his job about 3 months after taking up poker in 2003. Having watched 4 WPT episodes and read Poker for Dummies was enough for him to make about $15/hr 4 tabling $25 nl on Party. Sadly, he skipped over the BR section of the book and thought $500 was enough. 3 months later, busto. Good thing he didn't drop out of school.

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Busted,

That's why this thread is the WORST going pro stories you have heard. Noone wants to hear those boring old "I ground my way up from .5/1 nl until my bankroll was established before I decided to quit my menial job and go pro, and still had a backup plan if poker doesn't work."

We are looking for horrible decisions compounded by perhaps a shocking ending...this is NVG, after all.

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Ok, so it's not going pro stories you want, you want degenerate gambler stories. Check it out:

This dude is early twenties. Has some crappy tech job, drives around fixing stuff. Just married with 1 year old baby. Lives with wife's mother. Starts playing at local casino, starts coming home at dawn, never sees wife and baby. Isn't paying any bills. Wife takes job as receptionist at well-known software company to pay bills. Dude finagles baby's savings account info from mother-in-law, makes withdrawals from account, denies it's him. Wife starts flirting with engineers at work. Dude starts swiping cash lying around the house. Gets in fights with wife, mother-in-law. Wife starts seeing one engineer on the side. Dude starts showing up late for work. Gets canned. Breaks into baby's piggy bank. Wife has had enough. Wife and baby move in with engineer. Dude still sleeping at mother-in-law's house, stealing what he can. Gets kicked out. Wife gets pregnant with engineer files for divorce and child custody. Wins. All in less than 3 months.

True story. Pre-empting the jokes: no, not me.

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"my friend" got fired from his job about 3 months after taking up poker in 2003. Having watched 4 WPT episodes and read Poker for Dummies was enough for him to make about $15/hr 4 tabling $25 nl on Party. Sadly, he skipped over the BR section of the book and thought $500 was enough. 3 months later, busto. Good thing he didn't drop out of school.

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lol at $500 not being enough to play party $25 nl

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If there is more than 50% truth to that story he is the hands down winner.

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"my friend" got fired from his job about 3 months after taking up poker in 2003. Having watched 4 WPT episodes and read Poker for Dummies was enough for him to make about $15/hr 4 tabling $25 nl on Party. Sadly, he skipped over the BR section of the book and thought $500 was enough. 3 months later, busto. Good thing he didn't drop out of school.

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lol at $500 not being enough to play party $25 nl

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And he didn't learn from the experience [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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if you go busto with 500 at 25nl you have some serious leaks

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"my friend" got fired from his job about 3 months after taking up poker in 2003. Having watched 4 WPT episodes and read Poker for Dummies was enough for him to make about $15/hr 4 tabling $25 nl on Party. Sadly, he skipped over the BR section of the book and thought $500 was enough. 3 months later, busto. Good thing he didn't drop out of school.

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lol at $500 not being enough to play party $25 nl

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I got quite a chuckle out of this also.

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guy has no job and a kid and gf. gf gets cancer and cant afford bills. guy gets idiots on the net to ship him thousands which he squanders at 50-100.