Degenerate Gambling Stories

[biggins]

Brought these over from rx copy and paste.

Attended a San Jose St. vs Isiah Rider and UNLV Rebels with two friends and were giving points as road chalk. The clock running out Rebels rebound the sparse crowd is already starting to exit and my buddy’s yelling FOUL HIM FOUL DAMNIT LOL. People are looking at us like we had two heads. You had to be there.
Another story playing poker and my friends father n law Dallas played so tight you couldn’t get a toothpick up his ass. Playing Omaha the flop comes a pair hit the board bet comes to Dallas and he bets a dollar and fold fold fold everyone folded. He starts cussing you MF’s he was holding 4 of a kind thought he was slow playing we were holding our sides laughing. Again you had to be there.

 

[biggins]

Here is a story about a degenerate named Allen back in the day hung out at Bay Meadows. Allen was a regular at the track and poker rooms at night lol. So feature race morning line favorite is a route horse sprinting dropping in class. These two speed horses are taking all the money and George the senior of our group is saying this is crazy but Allen is touting adimently for one of the speed horses. Allen always goes to the window for George. Allen never returns and the route horse comes down the stretch blows by the field wins going away. I had $20 win was a big bet for me back then and he paid $24 yeehaw still no Allen. For day’s George ventured over to the grandstands looking for Allen. He eventually returned I forget what the circumstances were on return.
So years later I’m up in Tahoe kty derby weekend sitting next do an older gentleman playing ponies we got along real well nice guy. At the end of the day he says whoever gets here first tomorrow save a seat says his name is Frank Popalardo. I say son of a bitch Allen and others talked about him all the time. Told him the story him and his wife were not surprised they told a story how he had run a Super Bowl pool and no one got paid lol. Last I saw of Allen I was at county fair with family I ventured over to satellite wagering the trotters were running there’s Allen all pumped up hollering to me he played pick 3 all/all/and a 1:5 favorite and two long shots won the first two legs and that’s the last I saw off Allen.

 

[JDS]

Enikk you better chime in pal & just share what you’ve been doing the last 48 hours lol . This guy could fill a book on degen stories he’s top 5 across forumville.

 

[BobbyFK]

Did he at least hit the basketball bet? DID he foul him?

 

[JDS]

Biggins I’ll read your stories later & try to come up with a story of mine through the years. I got a few, but they were many many years ago. Gotta get back to work.

 

[biggins]

Did he at least hit the basketball bet? DID he foul him?

No they didn’t foul we were giving 13 points they were down 12 with seconds left.

 

[biggins]

One more Bay Meadows story this guy we called Real Estate Jim because we had two Jims in our group. He always came late because of work so after the ninth and final race he leaves abruptly throws his exacta tickets in the garbage doesn’t want his wife finding them. Well there was a double disqualification and he threw away the winning exactas which paid very well back then exactas were $5 minimum this was before software. He said a buddy came into his office and said how about that double DQ he said what! Back then the track was dark on Sundays so they went over to the track and rummaged through the dumpsters but to no avail.

 

[2the9s]

Good stories, biggins, but I've got them beat.

There was a poker room in Vegas that ran a promo where they would use the jackpot drop to pay players to play 3 hours from 8AM-2PM. There was a crew of us that would play every day, including an old filipino degen named xxx who loved action.

One day I arrived for my 8AM shift and the poker room was buzzing. "Did you hear what happened to xxx last night? He had a heart attack at the table! Paramedics took him out in an ambulance!" We were talking about going to visit him at the hospital, but we didn't know what hospital or even if he was alive.

As the hours went on the talk died down, and just before I racked up the poker room phone rang. I look up at the list and xxx's name appeared on it. He needed action so bad he got on the list from his hospital bed. After I left he showed up literally gray. When I saw him later he told me "I didn't want to miss the promo."

 

[lemartinsports]

biggins we need you on the sod pod to tell some more stories

 

[JDS]

So back in 2002-2004 as a young bettor. I had this credit card that was in my folks name, but they added me to the account to help build my credit & eventually just let me manage it. Problem was I was 20 years old & had a 20k limit on it.

This was when credit cards were very popular to use online for sportsbetting. My 1st mistake was to trust my money with Sportsbook.com. I played with them during that timeframe & lost around 20k slowly but surely in 2.5 years I’d say financing the debt & paying off minimum payments every month.

So I’m at like my last thousand dollars on the card & I catch some luck & hit a 18k parlay winner. So I go to collect with them via cashiers check for the 1st payment & Sportsbook.com chooses to freeze my account claiming I violated their terms & policy.

Mind you this wasn’t posted anywhere on the site, but they told me since I used their “sister site” Linesmaker.com & collected bonus money not simultaneously mind you, but collectively that I violated their bonus policy.

So I then said to myself this is fraud in my book, so I decided to contact the credit card company & discharge every purchase from this Sportsbook. I was able to discharge a little more than half of the charges which was around 10k.

Of course my parents found out, because I needed their consent to start the financial dispute. So after all said & done, I moved out of my apartment & didn‘t renew my lease to move back in with my parents so I could pay off this 8k debt I owed them.

I moved out of my parents house fresh out of high school, because I had a full time job as a electrician & could afford my own space in the world. Well 4.5 years later since I made this mistake with misusing the credit card I wanted to make good on the debt.

So I lived there for 6 months & saved like 15k & paid them back 7.5k which was 500 short of what I owed them & got the f*** out of dodge & found another one bedroom apartment for myself @ the age of 23.

 

[JDS]

Moral of the story is, I’m the type of person who has made many mistakes in my life, but I am also the type of person to learn from my mistakes and not continue to repeat them.

 

[chuckythegoat]

Was on a gambling trip. Hotels were booked, no room at the inn.

Gambled for 48 hours. Grabbed a few winks on the floor of the casino and while sitting on the john.

 

[biggins]

Moral of the story is, I’m the type of person who has made many mistakes in my life, but I am also the type of person to learn from my mistakes and not continue to repeat them.

Well looks like you aced out the almost dead poker player for best degenerate story. But the thread is young. I had bad juju with sports book.com second book I ever used they suck. First book was sportsinteracion.

 

[JDS]

Well looks like you aced out the almost dead poker player for best degenerate story. But the thread is young. I had bad juju with sports book.com second book I ever used they suck. First book was sportsinteracion.

I went from Sportsbook.com to Sportsinteraction.com so Vice versa lol .

 

[biggins]

I tried to withdraw from SB.com said l needed to enter PIN number which was News to me. They had no phone number or email. This was the pioneer days l was pissed.l arbed it out some what with Sportsinteracion.

 

[BobbyFK]

biggins we need you on the sod pod to tell some more stories

this!

 

[MinnesotaFats]

College buddy (23) flies in 3 hours ahead of me. Total of 5 guys splitting w rooms.

We're supposed to meet at Mirage.

Buddy proceeds to lose his $2700 he brought in the fukking airport playing slots & shit.

Well, of course none of us are frobting his room, afterall, one less dick to get rid off at night.

He proceeds to sleep in the sportsbook night 1....borrows $100, gets up to $600 and instead of just chipping in for a room night 2, he loses the Hawaii late game.

Sleeps in the piano bar area of Paris lol

Day 3, last full day there, I lend him $500, with the deal he gets to shack up in my room, I take 50% of his winnings and he pays 100% of his losses.

He clears $1200 on NFL Sunday, and randomly bumps into a gal he went to HS with here in Minny out there w her GF.

I got my $500 back + $600 & was in his wedding party 7 months later (elope) to that very gal!

Not all stories are bad!

 

[Franklee168]

First trip ever to Reno when I turned 21. Four of us went up, I had $1000.00. We all lost every dollar we had. Lucky I had about $6.00 in quarters in the ashtray. Bought 8 hamburgers at Mcdonald's and had to save the rest for bridge toll.

 

[JDS]

College buddy (23) flies in 3 hours ahead of me. Total of 5 guys splitting w rooms.

We're supposed to meet at Mirage.

Buddy proceeds to lose his $2700 he brought in the fukking airport playing slots & shit.

Well, of course none of us are frobting his room, afterall, one less dick to get rid off at night.

He proceeds to sleep in the sportsbook night 1....borrows $100, gets up to $600 and instead of just chipping in for a room night 2, he loses the Hawaii late game.

Sleeps in the piano bar area of Paris lol

Day 3, last full day there, I lend him $500, with the deal he gets to shack up in my room, I take 50% of his winnings and he pays 100% of his losses.

He clears $1200 on NFL Sunday, and randomly bumps into a gal he went to HS with here in Minny out there w her GF.

I got my $500 back + $600 & was in his wedding party 7 months later (elope) to that very gal!

Not all stories are bad!

This is a rare fair well ending nice Minny.

 

[biggins]

Steve Young 49ers @ Drew Breese Saints Sunday night game. My buddy is chasing his loses puts a dime on 49ers which is stressing me out because he’s betting through me and my bookie. I had a couple $50 parlays to complete. The line was like 2.5 9ers up four inside of two minutes Saints are driving. They are entering the red zone a field goal is not an option. We’re both up pacing across my living room. And then boom we intercepted the ball in the endzone glory glory hallelujah. My buddy 6‘2“ picks me up in a bear hug and is screaming I LOVE YOU MAN.