Joined: Apr '09
Location: Australia
Age: 40 (M)
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A guy who won just under $200K on the TCOOP Main Event (who sat'd into that for $27) is currently donking it all away on the $50/$100 NLHE tables on Stars right now..
Waiting lists currently 30 deep on both tables lol
He was up over $90K on one of the tables earlier! He's dropped most of it now, count down to busto...
Joined: Apr '09
Location: Australia
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Posted by zeroster: Ooops, suicide watch.
Yeah I reckon, the weird thing is, it seems as though he pretty much planned to bust his account.. Like - he wasn't just taking a 'shot'. He was actually up over $50K when he started playing, went on a sick heater.. But he clearly had no intention of quitting ahead and obviously no stop-loss either.
Makes me wonder whether he was under-age, or had some other reason to believe he wouldn't be able to cash it out, or what. I mean - I guess he was just a true degen-gambler, but that's the thing with degen gambling, you kinda play to win not lose.
Sad anyway, can't even imagine what that must feel like, I think back to times in my life I've done stupid s**t like that but on such a tiny scale compared to this, $200K damn...
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If it was me I'd have withdrawn 190k, paid off the mortgage, got a new car and booked two weeks in Amsterdam. Then come home and try and grind up the remaining 10k.
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Posted by zeroster: If it was me I'd have withdrawn 190k, paid off the mortgage, got a new car and booked two weeks in Amsterdam. Then come home and try and grind up the remaining 10k.
another +1 i cosign that post 100% even the 2 weeks in amsterdam, except i dont own a house but id buy one lol
Joined: Jan '11
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Damn, wish I could of watched this! I just don't know why someone would do something so messed up as to lose all of it in one sitting. If your not hitting get the fudge out and wait for another day.
Besides that I'd have cashed out 75% of the flipping cash just to prevent doing something that stupid. Chasing his money all the way away is all he's doing!
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Posted by Jibberish:
Posted by zeroster: If it was me I'd have withdrawn 190k, paid off the mortgage, got a new car and booked two weeks in Amsterdam. Then come home and try and grind up the remaining 10k.
another +1 i cosign that post 100% even the 2 weeks in amsterdam, except i dont own a house but id buy one lol
Yeah! That's a helll of a good time in Amsterdam. Been there four times and stayed a week each time and lived it up for a mere $2500.00 to $3000.00 each time. Lookout Grasshopper I'm coming!!
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G'day mates
What a completely stupid thing to do in my opinion. It is sad that someone with no clue on how to put that kind of money to good use is always the ones who win it. Why could a mobster who would use it to better themselves and there family not get the kind of sweet win. It just is not fair if you ask me.
I don't think he planned it Jess, I think he was just feeling invincible after his win. Which is dumb because the dynamic and stack sizes in cash games is completly different. When you're good at tournaments, play tournaments. When you're good at SnGs, play SnGs... etc. Some people never get it, they wanna be good at everything! Not saying it's not doable to be great at every aspect of NLHE, but I think every player is different and (almost ) everyone have strengths and weaknesses
Pretty sad story, but on the other hand, I guess the high stakes regs were pretty happy to see a new face.
Edited by TheMachineQC (01 February 2013 @ 05:50 GMT)
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Posted by TheMachineQC: When you're good at tournaments, play tournaments.
Apparently he is awful at MTTs too, apparently he was a complete donk in the TCOOP event (remember it was a turbo) - but yeah, apparently he just luck-boxed it and was doing stupid stuff like raising half his stack then folding to re-raises, etc.
