I am down $6.50 after 63 years.
Every time I go to Vegas, I am compelled to put $0.50 in a slot machine, once.
Estimate of your overall gambling record
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I am down $6.50 after 63 years.
Every time I go to Vegas, I am compelled to put $0.50 in a slot machine, once.
How long before the IRS can't collect?
Not likely anyone will admit winning much on a public forum
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Many people don't entirely believe what you read on the Internet.....
....that includes the IRS.
My claim to be up what Louis Roberts is down reflects the same hyperbole that he used.
Gamblers tend to make a good story better.....I tricked a well known gambler for a couple
thou once...he swore at me for half an hour....everybody else was laughing hysterically.
...so I walked into a conversation two years later...my $2,000 had become $20.000.
I went on a winning streak once for a couple weeks....many of my friends were talking
about how much I had won....I told them...." Look, I might've won 4 or 5 million...
...but I certainly didn't win the kind of money people say I did.".
I have never really gambled on anything other then pool. I used to go to the track with friends all the time socially and never make a bet.
Pool since I was hustler so to speak, I pretty much won all the time and over the years it is a considerable amount. I would at home however actually gamble since I know everybody.
In most cases I pretty much always had the worst of it. I would make what I knew were bad games and try to out run the nuts. Surprisingly I doubt I am that far behind but I am sure I am a loser overall at home.
In my mind I just wrote it off as the cost of a hobby. I know I was a sucker at times but I don't think of it a a waste, it toughens you up. Plus you can always get a game when you make it fair.
HOOT! I went to Reno on my 21st birthday with a buddy who claimed to have a "system". I lost every dime I had. Drove home on my dad's "emergency only" gas card...and had a lot of thinking to do on that long drive. I consider it an expensive education. So, that's how much I'm down. Haven't gambled since.
A funny aside...still in touch with that buddy. He's still scuffling, looking for that big score. I'm retired, living quite comfortably after working, saving, and investing.
I'm also comfortably retired after working, saving, and investing.
I'm a high school drop out but I never went after things that sounded too good or I couldn't afford. I also had very strict rules for gambling so I never went broke.
The only loss I took that pissed me off was in a bar. I agreed to play some $100 8 ball.
I lost the 1st game, paid the man, racked the balls, looked up and the guy was gone
Al
Please enlighten a lowly NCO, Colonel.
...define 'bleeder'
I can translate that two ways....and I think I'm both.
Please enlighten a lowly NCO, Colonel.
...define 'bleeder'
I can translate that two ways....and I think I'm both.
Bleeder- def. - a highly accomplished pool player/gambler that is amazingly tough for the cash & seldom books a loser due to aforementioned skills & knowledge of how to match up, BUT tends to take winnings made on his own skill and wagers on sports events he has no control over and seldom winning as his skills at picking a winner at a sports book seems inversely proportional to his skills of booking his pool match ups.
Source-My old man as I watched him collect $ on a match he just won on the table and then hand his winnings to Max the book, a fixture in my old mans hall when I was a kid. When I asked him why he gave Max his pool winnings he looked at me stoically and said, "NFL, I'm a bleeder".
For a period of 4 years, (about 30 years ago) I did extremely well playing one pocket. There were some "business people" who liked playing "Joey With A Tie" and like most things, it didn't last forever. They got called away and it's been downhill ever since.
JoeyA
JoeyA
That's a great post. Lol
JoeyA
JoeyA
Many people don't entirely believe what you read on the Internet.....
....that includes the IRS.
My claim to be up what Louis Roberts is down reflects the same hyperbole that he used.
Gamblers tend to make a good story better.....I tricked a well known gambler for a couple
thou once...he swore at me for half an hour....everybody else was laughing hysterically.
...so I walked into a conversation two years later...my $2,000 had become $20.000.
I went on a winning streak once for a couple weeks....many of my friends were talking
about how much I had won....I told them...." Look, I might've won 4 or 5 million...
...but I certainly didn't win the kind of money people say I did.".
I kept one, too, but for only a year or so.
My bud and I did the bar scene around the state, mostly in town, and betting for beers, $5 games, and other pretty much low-ball bets, I was making ~$150 a month back then. That paid for my drinking and some gas expenses, so the net was nothing but fun. And what fun we had!!!
Jeff Livingston
Another way to ask is, what did you do with your winnings? If you were smart you stayed out casinos, card game unless your real good at cards, race tracks or gave it back on the pool table. The smart ones invested it in something. 99% will not have the money they won unless they invested it OUTSIDE of pool.
When you get ahead a certain amount, buy something you can double your money on...and repeat. If it's something like cars you're flipping, try to buy a more expensive each time. Johnnyt
When you get ahead a certain amount, buy something you can double your money on...and repeat. If it's something like cars you're flipping, try to buy a more expensive each time. Johnnyt
Johnnyt,
What did you do with all of your winnings from the landscapers, painters, delivery guy and all of the other laborers that you heisted?
JoeyA
What did you do with all of your winnings from the landscapers, painters, delivery guy and all of the other laborers that you heisted?
JoeyA
You sure do like asking personal questions...
Gambling on pool probably around $20,000-$30,000, if you add in gambling as far as cards and other gaming I would say probably tack on another $70,000-$80,000 so I am figuring a $100,000 in the past ten years.