Tell the worst TURNING PRO STORY you have heard.

[Lord_Strife]

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

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[Jasper109]

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

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[Abbaddabba]

A friend from school,

bonuswhored in the past to pay small bills through school with assistance of government loans
graduates from school with no job plan
gets hit by regular bills + student loan bills that he cant afford
bonuswhores some more *blank* no profit
i loan him 1k for rent
it takes 6 months and counting to pay back
last cheque due bounces
no response in email
i write off losses and go eat some ice cream to make myself feel better

[veganmav]

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A friend from school,

bonuswhored in the past to pay small bills through school with assistance of government loans
graduates from school with no job plan
gets hit by regular bills + student loan bills that he cant afford
bonuswhores some more *blank* no profit
i loan him 1k for rent
it takes 6 months and counting to pay back
last cheque due bounces
no response in email
i write off losses and go eat some ice cream to make myself feel better

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for some reason the last part of this made me laugh

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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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Not sure if your protagonist considered himself going 'pro', but that is an absolute horrible story - well done.

Was the man in your story playing only poker or was he playing other table games? Did the person in this story really consider himself a good player or was he just hooked on gambling? Might not quite fit the perception of someone thinking they are going pro - maybe just someone who developed a bad gambling problem?

[BigBuffet]

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i write off losses and go eat some ice cream to make myself feel better

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Did you go to Coldstone Creamery?

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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.

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Ouch - I guess you weren't one of the generous folks giving a donation. BTW, what was this guy's handle? I forget.

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i write off losses and go eat some ice cream to make myself feel better

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Did you go to Coldstone Creamery?

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If not Ben and Jerry's then this should be posted in BBV as a beat.

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It seems as if many have not heard ridiculous stories of people becoming pro poker players prematurely? I am surprised, every time I go to the casino I hear a story that makes me [censored] his head. Recently a guy told me he quit his teaching job because it was too stressful. Now a year after quitting he told me he built his bankroll to almost $2000 and just learned about bankroll management. For some reason he had problems making his mortgage payments over the last year.

Noone else hears stories like this (with the exception of HIV, which is quite obvious, yet intriguing nonetheless)?

[Sweet James]

crazy