Bbickes has a gambling intervention (chat log of the story)

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03-31-2008, 12:22 PM
spoonitnow

Bbickes has a gambling intervention (chat log of the story)

(11:17:13 AM) Bbickes: wow....
(11:17:32 AM) Bbickes: i just went through an "intervention"
(11:17:41 AM) Bbickes: and just ownd everyone
(11:17:47 AM) spoonitnow: is that like when you're a crackhead
(11:17:49 AM) spoonitnow: ?
(11:18:20 AM) Bbickes: kinda except everyone is like "your addicted to gambling and it takes up all your time blah blah blah"
(11:18:25 AM) spoonitnow: lol really
(11:18:29 AM) spoonitnow: details plz
(11:18:30 AM) Bbickes: so i pull up PT and show everyone my hourly
(11:18:40 AM) spoonitnow: details!
(11:19:03 AM) Bbickes: So I wake up this morning go shower and I come back into my room and theres like 5 of my friends in there
(11:19:14 AM) spoonitnow: omfg
(11:19:15 AM) spoonitnow: this is so good
(11:19:17 AM) spoonitnow: continue
(11:19:18 AM) mcat: lol
(11:19:21 AM) Bbickes: Brett sit down we need to talk to you
(11:19:31 AM) Bbickes: I'm like w.e this is gonna bore the shit outta me
(11:19:48 AM) Bbickes: So my friend craig starts out by saying
(11:19:58 AM) Bbickes: We think your completely addicted to online gambling
(11:20:03 AM) Bbickes: and I'm like wtf...
(11:20:07 AM) spoonitnow: hahahahahahaa yesss
(11:20:07 AM) spoonitnow: !
(11:20:09 AM) spoonitnow: gogogo
(11:20:36 AM) Bbickes: he continues to say you really dont do anything in your spare time but go out to party and gamble
(11:20:42 AM) Bbickes: then my friend Tom goes
(11:21:01 AM) Bbickes: Yeah man, you play 12 fucking tables you can't tell me that your not addicted cause you play 12 fucking tables!
(11:21:06 AM) spoonitnow: LOL!!!!!!!
(11:21:08 AM) spoonitnow: OMFG
(11:21:14 AM) Bbickes: I'm still sitting here like wtf...
(11:21:17 AM) spoonitnow: dude seriously i'm laughing my fucking ass off right now
(11:21:30 AM) Bbickes: Then finally
(11:21:37 AM) Bbickes: Tory is like
(11:21:50 AM) Bbickes: Brett if you need the money maybe you should get a real job like me and Tom
(11:21:59 AM) Jyms|comeback: that's brutal
(11:22:09 AM) Bbickes: 'they're both meter maid bitches for the uni'
(11:22:15 AM) Jyms|comeback: give them the mathematics of poker book
(11:22:20 AM) Jyms|comeback: tell them to read it and come back
(11:22:26 AM) spoonitnow: i have a copy of it if you need to borrow btw
(11:22:30 AM) Bbickes: So me being the ass I am
(11:22:34 AM) Bbickes: decide to go along with it
(11:22:38 AM) spoonitnow: haha
(11:22:53 AM) Bbickes: "Yeah guys you know what I am addicted to online gambling I've lost lots and lots of money"
(11:23:07 AM) Bbickes: and they're all like omg omg we knew it you have a serious problem
(11:23:10 AM) spoonitnow: lol
(11:23:24 AM) Kingnat [~Kingnat@some-shitty-ip] entered the room.
(11:23:30 AM) Bbickes: then I'm like here let me show you how much I've lost
(11:23:36 AM) Jyms|comeback: interventions FT
(11:23:36 AM) Jyms|comeback: W
(11:23:42 AM) spoonitnow: you should have filtered PT
(11:23:44 AM) spoonitnow: for like
(11:23:56 AM) spoonitnow: hands you folded preflop after a raise
(11:24:04 AM) Bbickes: Well like you know how PT has amount won and amount lost?
(11:24:07 AM) spoonitnow: lol yeah
(11:24:13 AM) Bbickes: I just put my hand over the amount won
(11:24:18 AM) spoonitnow: haha
(11:24:20 AM) Bbickes: and their too stupid to realize
(11:24:20 AM) spoonitnow: that's gangsta
(11:24:30 AM) Bbickes: and the amount lost is like 5k or something stupid like that
(11:24:34 AM) Kingnat: who were you showing friends or parents?
(11:24:38 AM) Bbickes: friends
(11:25:02 AM) Bbickes: but then me being the ass I am, Finally show them my hourly over the last month and my graph
(11:25:02 AM) Kingnat: I wonder what my lifetime "losses" are...
(11:25:03 AM) Jyms|comeback: wow
(11:25:06 AM) Bbickes: and their mouth's drop
(11:25:13 AM) Bbickes: and they shut up and walk away
(11:25:16 AM) spoonitnow: roflmao
(11:25:18 AM) spoonitnow: yesssss
(11:25:20 AM) Bbickes: Ship!
03-31-2008, 12:38 PM
bode

hilarious.
03-31-2008, 01:00 PM
Seabass

"Meter maid bitches" doing an intervention, oh man, I can't stop laughing.
03-31-2008, 01:08 PM
Numbr2intheWorld

made my day
03-31-2008, 01:46 PM
badgers

:lol: owned. I think my friends think I'm addicted. I asked if any of them wanted a £250 Amazon voucher because I wanted the cash for FPP bonus and they said are you really that addicted?
03-31-2008, 01:55 PM
kmind

you're more addicted to horrible basketball players.

But very nice.
03-31-2008, 01:58 PM
mcatdog

Re: Bbickes has a gambling intervention (chat log of the sto

Quote:

Originally Posted by spoonitnow

(11:23:24 AM) Kingnat [~Kingnat@some-shitty-ip] entered the room.

:heart:
03-31-2008, 02:23 PM
Galapogos

Re: Bbickes has a gambling intervention (chat log of the sto

Quote:

Originally Posted by spoonitnow

(11:21:01 AM) Bbickes: Yeah man, you play 12 fucking tables you can't tell me that your not addicted cause you play 12 fucking tables!

Haha, I got this before too. My parents knew I played poker online and didn't like it. So obviously they had discussions about it amongst themselves about how they didn't like it but never said anything to me. I didn't live at home so they had never seen me play. Then when I was in the process of moving to another town I set my house up for renters before the end of the month but I had no place to live until I moved so I had to crash with them for a couple weeks.

Then I was playing online one day and my mom comes into the room is like, "OMG you play 6 tables?? I didn't know you were that addicted!"
03-31-2008, 03:10 PM
Reidak

Yeah but tom, 12 tabling is a more efficient way for me to get my fix.
03-31-2008, 07:20 PM
bigred

but how much did you lose?
03-31-2008, 07:54 PM
jdubs

I get the same thing, my wife sees me multitabling, and says: wow, that's really bad, you're playing 4 tables at once, I try to explain that it improves my hourly amount won, but she's still sceptical. For some reason people see more than 1 table and think it's bad news, wtf is that about?
03-31-2008, 08:12 PM
wufwugy

man that is palatial
03-31-2008, 08:12 PM
wufwugy

i love how did the regalia
03-31-2008, 08:51 PM
salsa4ever

fucking gold

SIIHP IT
03-31-2008, 10:05 PM
meeloche

made my day as well.
04-01-2008, 03:13 AM
BankItDrew

That was such an awesome read.

Quote:

(11:25:02 AM) Bbickes: but then me being the ass I am, Finally show them my hourly over the last month and my graph
(11:25:06 AM) Bbickes: and their mouth's drop
(11:25:13 AM) Bbickes: and they shut up and walk away

I quit my full-time job last March to take up Poker. My birthday is in May, and I got a birthday card from my grandfather where he called me a "lost soul."

I've been with my gf for nearly four years now. Her mother knows what I do. She fights with her probably twice a month about how I'm a bum addicted to gambling gonna loose my monies and end up in hell.

She says she's willing herself to one day tell her dad..... old school traditional religious Portugese, you know the drill.

I'll never go through an intervention with my family. The current running joke is that I'm the baller in the family. My younger brother loves poker, so he was never an issue in converting. My father was skeptical because online gambling can be very dangerous. Then one day I showed him a graph and now he promotes is. My mom is slowly coming around (a lot of help from her sister I believe). It's her that I think I want to really make proud because she worries most out of the three.
04-01-2008, 04:25 AM
wufwugy

my parents have come around because i buy nicer shit than them
04-01-2008, 05:38 AM
pantherhound

6 tables=6 X the addiction
04-01-2008, 06:27 AM
bode

Quote:

Originally Posted by salsa4ever

fucking gold

SIIHP IT

ha ha, i see what you did there.
04-07-2010, 12:55 AM
spoonitnow

Bump for great justice.
04-07-2010, 01:10 AM
Galapogos

Quote:

Originally Posted by wufwugy

my parents have come around because i buy nicer shit than them

You play poker? I thought you were just a pro commune debater.
04-07-2010, 01:22 AM
BankItDrew

No word of a lie:

This most recent weekend, I told friends of mine about this story.
04-07-2010, 01:24 AM
BankItDrew

Quote:

Originally Posted by BankItDrew

That was such an awesome read.

I quit my full-time job last March to take up Poker. My birthday is in May, and I got a birthday card from my grandfather where he called me a "lost soul."

I've been with my gf for nearly four years now. Her mother knows what I do. She fights with her probably twice a month about how I'm a bum addicted to gambling gonna loose my monies and end up in hell.

She says she's willing herself to one day tell her dad..... old school traditional religious Portugese, you know the drill.

I'll never go through an intervention with my family. The current running joke is that I'm the baller in the family. My younger brother loves poker, so he was never an issue in converting. My father was skeptical because online gambling can be very dangerous. Then one day I showed him a graph and now he promotes is. My mom is slowly coming around (a lot of help from her sister I believe). It's her that I think I want to really make proud because she worries most out of the three.

wow

thx for the bump...

update: i broke up with that gf because i chose poker over her.
04-07-2010, 01:36 AM
Sup3rM4N

Quote:

Originally Posted by BankItDrew

wow

thx for the bump...

update: i broke up with that gf because i chose poker over her.

:thumbsup:
04-07-2010, 11:48 AM
CBAT

Quote:

Originally Posted by bigred

but how much did you lose?

qft
04-07-2010, 01:09 PM
surviva316

when bikes said he owned everyone at the beginning, i was skeptical. however:

[ x ] delivered on promise of pwnage
04-07-2010, 01:27 PM
Halv

Quote:

Originally Posted by spoonitnow

(11:20:36 AM) Bbickes: he continues to say you really dont do anything in your spare time but go out to party and gamble

You should have gone for a high five w/Borat voice here.
04-07-2010, 01:30 PM
d0zer

Quote:

Originally Posted by HalvSame

You should have gone for a high five w/Borat voice here.

LOL. Agree.

But in all seriousness, bikes has a pretty bad gambling problem: he sucks at it :eek: :rolleyes: :cool: :clap: :whistle: :highfive:

:mischief:
04-07-2010, 02:58 PM
Penneywize

How is this thread not 50 pages? Pure ownage ITT

BID I think you made the right choice, how was your hourly at that job of yours? ha, ha
04-07-2010, 10:39 PM
aka_red

I think the funniest thing in that chat log is Jyms.
06-25-2010, 01:24 AM
d0zer

epic thread bump
06-25-2010, 08:54 PM
ensign_lee

Hmm, I seem to recall $100 props in Vegas...

lolz.
06-25-2010, 09:45 PM
Halv

yea after meeting bb I can confirm that the man has a gambling problem for sure

luckily he's damn good at it
06-26-2010, 04:46 AM
rong

I never get tired of this. Greatest thread of all time imo
09-08-2010, 10:18 PM
kfaess

loooollllllllllllllll
09-08-2010, 10:50 PM
bikes

if only they saw me during my 24 tabling fr days ehh. 24x the degeneracy. or watched me play plo for that matter. just listening to lemon talk about it makes me laff hysterically
09-08-2010, 11:40 PM
drmcboy

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bbickes

if only they saw me prop betting in vegas

fyp

edit - did not see ed's post... Pyongyang ftw
09-09-2010, 02:14 AM
BankItDrew

I love that story, you crazy azn, lover of pale women.
09-09-2010, 07:49 AM
Carroters

Don't think it's all that great a story tbh. I mean it's alright, but it's not great.
09-09-2010, 10:17 AM
BennyLaRue

Quote:

Originally Posted by Carroters

Don't think it's all that great a story tbh. I mean it's alright, but it's not great.

This is what a wolf would say.

Did you lynch dis guy yet?
09-09-2010, 11:00 AM
Carroters

NO TALKING BOUT WW OUTWITH WW.
09-09-2010, 11:16 AM
BennyLaRue

Quote:

Originally Posted by Carroters

NO TALKING BOUT WW OUTWITH WW.

Why give the village more information? Stop talking now!
09-09-2010, 01:51 PM
supa

:lynch:
06-20-2012, 08:42 AM
rong

Bump! This should be a commune sticky.
06-20-2012, 10:39 AM
d0zer

solid bump. years later and bikes still has a gambling problem.
06-20-2012, 12:43 PM
bikes

rofl
06-20-2012, 02:20 PM
Penneywize

this is still one of my favourite threads ever.
06-20-2012, 02:20 PM
BankItDrew

bikes, gives us an update!

do you still play poker as your main source of income? if so, how's the family/friends feel about it?

details!
06-20-2012, 02:21 PM
BankItDrew

Quote:

Originally Posted by Penneywize

this is still one of my favourite threads ever.

+1
06-20-2012, 04:16 PM
ensign_lee

Quote:

Originally Posted by BankItDrew

bikes, gives us an update!

do you still play poker as your main source of income? if so, how's the family/friends feel about it?

details!

I think he merged with WildBobAA and had some sort of weird asian baby.
06-20-2012, 05:32 PM
BankItDrew

still waiting for an update...
06-21-2012, 01:02 AM
Galapogos

Quote:

Originally Posted by BankItDrew

still waiting for an update...

They came back at him with intervention #2 and his arguments didn't hold as much weight since he's no longer a winning player.

Ohhhhhhhjh... SNAP
06-21-2012, 01:09 AM
bikes

IKR
07-26-2014, 01:34 PM
spoonitnow

Yet another bump of a great thread.
07-26-2014, 04:19 PM
bikes

i can't wait until i run for public office some day and this is brought to the forefront of attention when i'm 42
07-28-2014, 03:31 PM
surviva316

Quote:

Originally Posted by Penneywize

this is still one of my favourite threads ever.

I'm not even sure it makes my Top 5 ... that's just how great this Commune is.

Seeing my post in this thread, and I now understand how my dad must feel when I dig up his wedding day photo where he's got a 6-inch afro and all-white tux

Was 2010 really so long ago? :facepalm:
07-28-2014, 03:54 PM
jyms

Quote:

Originally Posted by surviva316

Was 2010 really so long ago? :facepalm:

Depends on how old you are
07-28-2014, 04:08 PM
bikes

I WAS GOOD AT POKER ONCE!

EDIT: I WAS MEDIOCRE AT POKER ONCE!

RE-EDIT: I RAN GOOD AT POKER ONCE!
08-01-2014, 01:06 AM
surviva316

Quote:

Originally Posted by bikes

I WAS GOOD AT POKER ONCE!

EDIT: I WAS MEDIOCRE AT POKER ONCE!

RE-EDIT: I RAN GOOD AT POKER ONCE!

Nah, everyone else just sucked.
08-01-2014, 06:42 PM
boost

Quote:

Originally Posted by bikes

I WAS GOOD AT POKER ONCE!

EDIT: I WAS MEDIOCRE AT POKER ONCE!

RE-EDIT: I RAN GOOD AT POKER ONCE!

haha, yeah, this. I've come to accept that I had a gambling problem, but I was lucky to experience one or some combination of the scenarios you mentioned. Also, while I still support legal online gambling, I personally do know that I pretty much never would drive the 30 minutes it takes to get to the casino (I think I have twice in the 8 or so years since I started playing poker), but I definitely would play online at least once a week if it were legal. So you know, despite the phrases comical hyperbole, there's at least a little truth to "click the mouse, lose the house."
08-02-2014, 04:41 AM
Renton

Yeah, I'm not even sure what a gambling problem would feel like, but I'm virtually certain I don't and have never had one. I feel like I see enough of it all around me among poker players constantly that I'd know the difference.

edit: not meaning to be high and mighty here, I'd be honestly curious to know what the symptoms are so I'll have a heads up if/when it happens to me
08-02-2014, 03:03 PM
surviva316

Quote:

Originally Posted by Renton

Yeah, I'm not even sure what a gambling problem would feel like, but I'm virtually certain I don't and have never had one. I feel like I see enough of it all around me among poker players constantly that I'd know the difference.

edit: not meaning to be high and mighty here, I'd be honestly curious to know what the symptoms are so I'll have a heads up if/when it happens to me

I feel that people who are addicted to gambling are usually addicted to the *thrill* of having money on the line; of the high they get when they think about how much they can make if they get lucky just this one time.

That is the exact opposite of what I felt in my poker playing heyday. I was a total nit moving up the stakes because I hated risking more money than I had felt accustomed to; I hated the variance; I felt a dull thump in my stomach that moment I realized that 400bbs were riding on whether or not a diamond hit, etc. I mean, obviously, as I became more "professional" with my poker playing I learned cared less and less about this stuff and got to the point where I barely took notice which of the 75/25s I was winning and losing, but that was kind of my basal, visceral reaction.

If there were any thrill I got, it wasn't from the money stuff (which stressed me out); it was from the ego fuel.

Though, of course, addiction could come in many shapes and sizes, and there certainly are more subdued, self-assured type of gamblers who think they're the best and will quit once they get all their losses back, only to slowly dig their own hole deeper and deeper.
08-03-2014, 02:10 AM
boost

Yeah, I mean, it's definitely a spectrum and not a linear two dimensional one. I do like the thrill, but I strangely get almost zero thrill out of casino games. I think more than anything it's the thrill of competition, and I don't get that playing black jack.

The reason I feel I have a problem is that I have, on multiple occasions, played for way longer than I had planned, chased losses, and gone over self imposed limits. I can get into a one track state of mind-- I'm prone to becoming fixated on things. It's really a competitive thing though, but when the competition involves betting it turns into a gambling problem. Or at least that's where I'm currently at with my self analysis, maybe others have some different insights?
08-05-2014, 05:10 AM
rpm

i dont poker any more except a fortnightly drunken homegame. but yeah i've done all of those things in the past boost. at the time i'm sure i rationalised it to myself somehow and didnt think much of it. looking back, i was a shit gambler.
08-05-2014, 02:39 PM
surviva316

Quote:

Originally Posted by boost

Yeah, I mean, it's definitely a spectrum and not a linear two dimensional one. I do like the thrill, but I strangely get almost zero thrill out of casino games. I think more than anything it's the thrill of competition, and I don't get that playing black jack.

The reason I feel I have a problem is that I have, on multiple occasions, played for way longer than I had planned, chased losses, and gone over self imposed limits. I can get into a one track state of mind-- I'm prone to becoming fixated on things. It's really a competitive thing though, but when the competition involves betting it turns into a gambling problem. Or at least that's where I'm currently at with my self analysis, maybe others have some different insights?

This is exactly how I am. I have a very addictive/obsessive personality in general. Just look at the thousands of words I just posted in the abortion thread; I stayed up til 3 in the morning reading and making notes on the thread and then woke up at 8am and wrote my responses basically non-stop until nowish. You think that maybe there were other things I should have been doing? This is how I was with poker: staying up all hours of the night arguing hand histories, spending entire lectures in my grad school classes writing out ranges and maths and event trees and such, etc.

I am also very competitive. So, all-in-all, I certainly was obsessive when it came to poker; it just so happened that gambling was my least favorite part of the game.
08-06-2014, 01:13 PM
drmcboy

Quote:

Originally Posted by Renton

Yeah, I'm not even sure what a gambling problem would feel like, but I'm virtually certain I don't and have never had one. I feel like I see enough of it all around me among poker players constantly that I'd know the difference.

edit: not meaning to be high and mighty here, I'd be honestly curious to know what the symptoms are so I'll have a heads up if/when it happens to me

You are an addict when you want to stop using/doing something - YOU want to stop, not quitting for the wife, kids, job etc - and you can't.
08-06-2014, 03:27 PM
Renton

Quote:

Originally Posted by drmcboy

You are an addict when you want to stop using/doing something - YOU want to stop, not quitting for the wife, kids, job etc - and you can't.

This seems kind of specious. I mean aren't there a lot of massive degens out there that are clearly destroying their lives (to an outside observer) but have no desire on any level to change their actions?
08-07-2014, 04:38 AM
drmcboy

If you have college kids take the basic AA "Am I an alcoholic" quiz, I would guess > 50% would qualify for yes. Most of them will leave college and settle into a 'normal' life with the 'normal' amount of drinking.

You and I may agree that drinking so often you lose your job and your wife leaves you makes you an addict, but the addict might say he's having the time of his life and didn't care about those things anyway. If he gets a new job and a hot girlfriend right away, is he no longer an addict?

What about someone who gambles beyond his means every day, but runs hot betting 6 team parlays and the net result is his kids can attend college with no loans? This guy looks like an awesome dude to the outside observer, but is probably an addict.

I have one friend who, back in the day, would buy a pack of smokes and come outside with us wherever we were partying. He inhaled and would finish most of the pack in a night, just like a nicotine addict would, 2-5 nights a week. The next day if we got together early I'd be smoking because I'm an addict, and he would not be because non-addicts generally don't smoke while you're hungover and feeling gross. It drove me crazy.

Bill Gates, to use the extreme, could probably pick up whatever habit he wanted and have no/minor issues because he can buy whatever he wants (including organs!), buy himself out of trouble, and is so rich the people he loves may never leave no matter how awful he gets. But he can still be an addict, if he wants to stop smoking meth and can't.

If you are looking for a standard that applies to everyone, I do not believe it exists - it's a personal qualification. Finding people who have negative consequences to their actions is a great place to start if you are looking for addicts, but everyone on list A won't be on list B, and you'll miss a lot.