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The bad side of our game

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    #122
    Lou.m
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,532 ✭✭✭Lou.m


    Mother Theresa played poker! There i saved it!!

    So did Gandhi and Ghengis Khan and Hitler has already been mentioned:p

    See poker is not good or bad its the people:-) And they are BBBBBBBAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSTTTTTTTTAAAAAAAARRRRRRRDDDDDDDSSSS.

    St peter was a limit Omaha player.(it is a very catholic game!!)

    Pagan, buddhists and heathens play hold em.

    Satan plays bridge!!

    Its all relevant people think about it!!

    And slow rolling makes baby Jesus cry.


    :-)


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    #123
    WECpoker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 118 ✭✭WECpoker


    getting worse wrote: »
    Wow this is how a thread can go way way off topic. I am not going to address any of the Mother Theresa stuff, I am just not qualified and don’t have an adequate vocabulary.

    Next: I got a couple of requests for descriptions of the guy in question, well he could be:

    A guy in his fifties who has questionable taste in jumpers but likes fighting sharks, or, a foreign older “military” gentleman who like to shout “you very lucky man”, or indeed a young guy wearing a DCU hoodie with a cheesy grin.

    Or in actual fact someone completely different. Obviously I am not going to give out descriptions here, firstly I may have got it completely wrong and secondly I would be extremely reluctant to “out” somebody against there wishes. No one wants to be known as the guy with the gambling addiction who they were all talking about on the internet.

    I started this thread because I had a chat with a guy who I vaguely knew from playing poker. We were not close, we chatted a couple of times when we were at the same table or one or twice while waiting for a table. This time, as we spoke I could see the desperation in his eyes and I believe he has a problem. I simply did not know how to react or what was the appropriate action to take. This set off me off thinking about a number of issues surrounding the game. Lou M. has really put a lot of what I was thinking down very well in her (I think that’s right) post and more eloquently than I could manage.

    The intention of the post was to generate a discussion over such issues which go a little bit beyond the, Is poker gambling? discussions, which feature here from time to time. The purpose of the thread was not in essence about one individual but on how we as players should react to those situations. How much responsibility do we as players have for the plight of those who suffer?

    I understand that these are big questions and that the answers to all the worlds problems would be solved here on Boards, but I felt it was an appropriate place to have the discussion.

    The responses to the thread have been amazing from the ridiculous to the sublime. Some people worried that they might be the subject of the thread, some got annoyed or angry about the thread, some believe its every man (or woman) for himself. Some have reached a moral accommodation and some just don’t want to think about any of it.

    I am not holding myself out as a paragon of virtue here, at the end of the day I did absolutely nothing and have never raised the issue with the guy. I still play and enjoy poker, knowing that there are problem gamblers there who are losing a lot more than they can afford. I will target a weak player and try to win as much as I can whenever I am at the table. But still I feel I need to ask the questions and try to come up with some answers.

    Thanks for all the replies even the negatives and especially to Lou M whose post I thought was super. I am of course not including any posts which in anyway referred to female members of religious orders.


    Yeah...it turned into a thread that keeps on giving :pac:

    And LOL at Google Ads on here directing me to Mother Theresa and Hitler Sites


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    #124
    RoadSweeper
    Registered Users Posts: 2,513 ✭✭✭RoadSweeper


    lol at not blocking ads!


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    #125
    WECpoker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 118 ✭✭WECpoker


    RoadSweeper wrote: »
    lol at not blocking ads!

    I have no problem reading ads for a site that offers value like this one


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    #126
    Ace2007
    Registered Users Posts: 19,705 ✭✭✭✭Ace2007


    how does one block ads?


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    #127
    phantom_lord
    Registered Users Posts: 10,894 ✭✭✭✭phantom_lord


    adblock


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    #128
    5starpool
    Subscribers Posts: 32,855 ✭✭✭✭5starpool


    First time I have ever used this internetism, but I think it is appropriate.
    Ace2007 wrote: »
    how does one block ads?
    phantom_lord wrote: »
    adblock

    ldo


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    #129
    PapaSmurph
    Closed Accounts Posts: 63 ✭✭PapaSmurph


    Its the same throughout ireland people just get addicted , I am from Waterford myself and i play poker about 2 nites a week but luckily its only a Card room and on an ocassion i have played in casinos and i always seem to put money on roulette .. Its a never ending game u are u but want more always .. I was always chasing the next big win , Working now but when i was not recently it was the same in the bookies i could not stop at all

    It can ruin a family to be honest


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