Well one of my closet friends caught me yesterday, he too plays poker online but at a monetary level way above mine. I can’t say how good a player he is as we have never played against each other, he seemed to think he was pretty good. He’s often talked about winning pots of over $500 and I’ve often joked about him never mentioning his loses. When I think back he never mentioned his loses.
Turns out he’s almost $60,000 in debt, not all but a large amount attributed to poker. He was telling me how it has fucked up his life, he can’t have a telephone line at home, or internet access in case he’s tempted to play. At it’s height he was online 18 hours a day, once he won $12,000 in a weekend and blew it on Monday morning. He’s getting help for his addiction, but it was so sad to see a once confident young man reduced to a quivering hollow left with having to pay almost a $1000 a month to his creditors for the next 6 years.
His story goes started playing for fun was winning, moved up and up to a level he wasn’t capable of playing at or really could afford to play at. Had some initial success and then things went badly wrong he was losing and he was addicted. His play was loser and riskier trying to win back enough to cover his debts. It’s a classic tale of gambling addition and one I’ve taken notice of.
Didn’t play last night, just didn’t feel right.
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