Roomate Issue: Going to casino (LC)

[Dementia]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
throw 'em a bone.

[/ QUOTE ]

If I were the friend and my roommate suddenly gave me $200 out of nowhere to go gambling, this is exactly what I'd be afraid of. How many guys give out gambling money to guys (or girls) they don't plan to sleep with? Maybe guys don't have to worry about that, though. I dunno. I can only advise from my own perspective, and obviously, as a female, if somebody was suddenly giving me money to hang out with him, I'd be super-duper paranoid about what he was after.

[/ QUOTE ]

Understandably so, in this case though since OP seems to be genuinely friends with his roommate and enjoys his companionship I don't think helping him out is shady. I think the only thing that will cross his roommates mind is how to repay the $ should he lose it.

[sternroolz]

Go by yourself.

I usually play until I am tired. I have no preset goals or stop/loss limit....just play until I am tired or the games are no good(which never happens at Commerce $9-18). So if I had a friend with me, then either I will have to leave early...before I am tired...thereby leaving a good game, or I will have to sit around and wait after I have become tired. Neither is good.

I basically only have one friend I will ever play with and fortunately his playing habits are similiar to mine. Still I go to play 90% of the time by myself.

Watch Rounders again if you ever need convincing why its better to go alone.

[HOWMANY]

Going to a casino in 1 car with friends is terrible for me. Since I have so few friends it's pretty easy to sum up the only possible results.

1. Go with solid playing friend
Sit around in 8/16 forever while I wait for 20/40, we flip a coin to see who is going to be on the right of the other guy if we both get in the game at the same time. Profitability in the game drops severely for the guy on the left, and will still drop for both of us no matter what since there are now 2 winning players in the game playing reasonably well.

Even though we're both winners, one of us will either get bored/tired first, while the other that may be either winning or losing will not want to leave.

2. Go with friend who is a losing player that plays for fun
We arrive at 7 pm. He sits at 3/6 LHE or 1/2 NL, I wait for 20/40. First of all we aren't even in the same games to hang out because I'm not going to waste more time than necessary sitting in a tiny game. He has already lost a couple hundred by 9 or 10 pm when we're finally getting ready to start the 20/40. At midnight he is bored to death while I can't imagine leaving the game any time in the near future because it's so good. Friend complains that he wants to leave, I leave pissed off with hundreds of dollars unwon.

3. I go alone.
Game is way softer without scenario 1, I can leave whenever I please without scenario 2. Scenario 3 is the winner.

[Quanah Parker]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
throw 'em a bone.

[/ QUOTE ]

If I were the friend and my roommate suddenly gave me $200 out of nowhere to go gambling, this is exactly what I'd be afraid of. How many guys give out gambling money to guys (or girls) they don't plan to sleep with? Maybe guys don't have to worry about that, though. I dunno. I can only advise from my own perspective, and obviously, as a female, if somebody was suddenly giving me money to hang out with him, I'd be super-duper paranoid about what he was after.

[/ QUOTE ]

classic...I was about to broach the "more than a roommate" question myself.

If the OP is really concerned of going alone, ask yourself why you're playing. Is it for $ or company?
...or some of both?

I'm guessing both, and you'll make friends if you regularly hit the casinos.

[mindflayer]

YOur a John and you
are tying to make him your
poker whore.

[iggymcfly]

I've got to echo most of the thread. Poker's really one thing that you don't need a friend with you to do. It's played for odd hours, and if you spend any decent amount of time at the same casino, you'll make friends there anyway. Sounds like you might as well just leave your roommate home unless he feels like playing with his own money.

[PokerGrl]

Ok.... well first off, it is not your responsibility to regulate him and his hobbies. He has the choice to go with you to the casino and he has the choice to play blackjack or which games to play and not to play. Yes you might have urged him to play, but have you ever been able to make a choice not to do something even when you are urged to do soemthing? Maybe you can find some activities to do together that are not so expensive.....but do not take on his responsibility.... he needs to be independent and take on his own responsibilities.

As far as staking him, that is nice of you but I wonder how he would feel his friend is banrolling him, might it make him feel badly or less of a person. Money and friends is a hard mix. Plus you telling him not to play blackjack...agian ot your responsbility...sure you can state your opinion, but allow him to make his own choices. I would be cautious of bankrolling him....how are you going to feel if he loses it or how will he feel? What will it do to your friendship? Just some things to consider.... Good Luck!

[BradleyT]

[ QUOTE ]
Right now I am killing 100nl and my bankroll is 8k so I dont mind cashing out 200 for him and telling him to use it as a bankroll for 3-6 limit and tell him to never play blackjack. Stupid? Advice? Thoughts?

[/ QUOTE ]

I don't think it's a bad idea at all as long as you let him know it's poker money and not blackjack money. Also let him know that once he runs it up to X amount, you get your $200 back.


The people who are questioning why you'd give him $200 must not have friends [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]