My best friend has a gambling problem. Here is the e-mail he sent me.
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5 years ago I stated playing home games with a group of approx 6 friends. We were all donks but enjoyed our $10 buy-in games. I deposited $20 on “pokerroom” 1 week before xmas I ran my $20 to $3600 in a few hours. I cashed out full amount and bought a nice couch. After that I started depositing $20 – $50 at a time to various sites. Zero bankroll mngt and deposited approx 50 + diff times, zero cashouts. I worked full time, so I just used my money to play, no real savings.
Over a 1 year period I stopped talking to ALL my friends, stopped seeing a nice girl and really had zero money except my $1000 check every 2 weeks. I played a “freeroll” tourney I qualified in and won $45k.Over a period of 2 years I blew the $45k on eating out, poker deposits, and lost 10k in stock market. I took 6k to vegas and played 1.5k wsop tourney. I got sucked out on in the tourney, got tilted and took 4k to caesers and put on roulette black…red hit. I only had 10 bucks to my name in vegas for 3 more days….then flew home.
I would go play 2/5nl at local poker room….take a bad beat, then take all my money to blackjack and lose….happened 20+ times. Various times I would rush my $300 stack to 2k plus and then go to blackjack table to blow it….then go to bank machine and take out all my money for blackjack…..i would lose….then I would go home, get a payday advance…go to blackjack….i would lose….i would go home and count my change….i would live on $20-$60 in change til my next paydate…. rinse/repeat.
Then I stated depositing via “echeck” would lose and bounce my instant deposit. I did this on 4 different sites and obv got banned. I owed apporx $1500.00 and never paid, went on my credit report. After blowing thur my 10k savings with pokerdeposits I only really had a few hundred bucks with no savings and zero credit. Only my 1k every 2 weeks from work. My mother got sick, so I moved to my parents upper level apartment they could not rent out and now help out with $$$ by paying them rent for there mortage
So…as of today……
I am 33yrs old, I have exactly $200 cash to my name, I owe a payday loan place $500.00, zero online money, I live with my parents, I have ZERO friends, I put on 100lbs in 2 years and am up to 300lbs, I eat like crazy, I’m starting to get chest pains daily so I think I have another major problem. Over the last few weeks, I will sometimes take a 10min break from work and go to the bathroom to cry about my life and my situation. But I get paid next week so I can make another deposit online…ship it!"
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5 years ago I stated playing home games with a group of approx 6 friends. We were all donks but enjoyed our $10 buy-in games. I deposited $20 on “pokerroom” 1 week before xmas I ran my $20 to $3600 in a few hours. I cashed out full amount and bought a nice couch. After that I started depositing $20 – $50 at a time to various sites. Zero bankroll mngt and deposited approx 50 + diff times, zero cashouts. I worked full time, so I just used my money to play, no real savings.
Over a 1 year period I stopped talking to ALL my friends, stopped seeing a nice girl and really had zero money except my $1000 check every 2 weeks. I played a “freeroll” tourney I qualified in and won $45k.Over a period of 2 years I blew the $45k on eating out, poker deposits, and lost 10k in stock market. I took 6k to vegas and played 1.5k wsop tourney. I got sucked out on in the tourney, got tilted and took 4k to caesers and put on roulette black…red hit. I only had 10 bucks to my name in vegas for 3 more days….then flew home.
I would go play 2/5nl at local poker room….take a bad beat, then take all my money to blackjack and lose….happened 20+ times. Various times I would rush my $300 stack to 2k plus and then go to blackjack table to blow it….then go to bank machine and take out all my money for blackjack…..i would lose….then I would go home, get a payday advance…go to blackjack….i would lose….i would go home and count my change….i would live on $20-$60 in change til my next paydate…. rinse/repeat.
Then I stated depositing via “echeck” would lose and bounce my instant deposit. I did this on 4 different sites and obv got banned. I owed apporx $1500.00 and never paid, went on my credit report. After blowing thur my 10k savings with pokerdeposits I only really had a few hundred bucks with no savings and zero credit. Only my 1k every 2 weeks from work. My mother got sick, so I moved to my parents upper level apartment they could not rent out and now help out with $$$ by paying them rent for there mortage
So…as of today……
I am 33yrs old, I have exactly $200 cash to my name, I owe a payday loan place $500.00, zero online money, I live with my parents, I have ZERO friends, I put on 100lbs in 2 years and am up to 300lbs, I eat like crazy, I’m starting to get chest pains daily so I think I have another major problem. Over the last few weeks, I will sometimes take a 10min break from work and go to the bathroom to cry about my life and my situation. But I get paid next week so I can make another deposit online…ship it!"
