What are some stories of famous gambler losing lots of money. Ill start with one. Told by Todd Brunson "About 14 years ago, I was playing in a $150-$300 hold'em game at Commerce Casino. Early in the morning, Sam Grizzle walks in and starts commenting on how good the game is. When asked why he's not playing, he pulls out his bankroll ($2) and sarcastically asks how much the buy-in is.
He leaves, and after talking to Puggy Pearson, comes back with $10,000 and starts to play. Now, after about an hour, Sam and Puggy get into an argument (about what, I can't remember offhand), and Puggy picks up his $10,000 and half of what Sam was winning, leaving Sam with about $400, far short of the required buy-in. Fortunately for Sam, no one says anything. Sam goes all in five or six times right away, and in about four hours, he is winning around $40,000.
If this isn't amazing enough, Sam quits the game, announcing that he's going to do us a big favor and go play the tournament, allowing us to keep what money we had left. (He also told us how smart he was and dumb we were, of course.) You can guess what happened next: Sam the genius wins the tournament and another $120,000 to go with the $40,000 he won from us earlier that morning; not bad for a guy who showed up at the casino with $2 in his pocket.
It's now 6 a.m. and he's been in the Commerce Casino for exactly 24 hours. It's time to get some sleep; that is, if he were a normal human, but Sam's far from that. He comes up to the top section, where there's a tough $800-$1,600 Razz (lowball) game in progress. Sam stumbles over and bellies up to the table, losing his entire $160,000 in a fairly short period of time.
Instead of becoming upset, Sam simply told everyone how dumb they were, shook his head, and walked out of the casino with the exact same $2 he had showed up with the day before. Just another day in the life of a gambler."
Interestingly enough Puggy who was sams major backer into tourney died and Grizzle has a hard time playing in the large tourneys. Often see him at cash game tables with 1 to 3 hundred dollars.
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What are some stories of famous gambler losing lots of money. Ill start with one. Told by Todd Brunson "About 14 years ago, I was playing in a $150-$300 hold'em game at Commerce Casino. Early in the morning, Sam Grizzle walks in and starts commenting on how good the game is. When asked why he's not playing, he pulls out his bankroll ($2) and sarcastically asks how much the buy-in is.
He leaves, and after talking to Puggy Pearson, comes back with $10,000 and starts to play. Now, after about an hour, Sam and Puggy get into an argument (about what, I can't remember offhand), and Puggy picks up his $10,000 and half of what Sam was winning, leaving Sam with about $400, far short of the required buy-in. Fortunately for Sam, no one says anything. Sam goes all in five or six times right away, and in about four hours, he is winning around $40,000.
If this isn't amazing enough, Sam quits the game, announcing that he's going to do us a big favor and go play the tournament, allowing us to keep what money we had left. (He also told us how smart he was and dumb we were, of course.) You can guess what happened next: Sam the genius wins the tournament and another $120,000 to go with the $40,000 he won from us earlier that morning; not bad for a guy who showed up at the casino with $2 in his pocket.
It's now 6 a.m. and he's been in the Commerce Casino for exactly 24 hours. It's time to get some sleep; that is, if he were a normal human, but Sam's far from that. He comes up to the top section, where there's a tough $800-$1,600 Razz (lowball) game in progress. Sam stumbles over and bellies up to the table, losing his entire $160,000 in a fairly short period of time.
Instead of becoming upset, Sam simply told everyone how dumb they were, shook his head, and walked out of the casino with the exact same $2 he had showed up with the day before. Just another day in the life of a gambler."
Interestingly enough Puggy who was sams major backer into tourney died and Grizzle has a hard time playing in the large tourneys. Often see him at cash game tables with 1 to 3 hundred dollars.
theres one other famous grizzle story To explain the reason of the presence of Sam Grizzle in the top 20 worst father in history, Todd Brunson referred to the difficult financial situation of the poker player at a certain time when he had just a baby. To avoid the possible deportation to his home, the son of Doyle Brunson lent money to Sam Grizzle to pay his bills. Instead of honoring what he owes, the family chief was tempted to play poker and won $ 50,000 at the beginning to leave empty-handed at the end. Not being able to pay the mortgage and the $20,000 he was in debt for.
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theres one other famous grizzle story To explain the reason of the presence of Sam Grizzle in the top 20 worst father in history, Todd Brunson referred to the difficult financial situation of the poker player at a certain time when he had just a baby. To avoid the possible deportation to his home, the son of Doyle Brunson lent money to Sam Grizzle to pay his bills. Instead of honoring what he owes, the family chief was tempted to play poker and won $ 50,000 at the beginning to leave empty-handed at the end. Not being able to pay the mortgage and the $20,000 he was in debt for.
theres one other famous grizzle story To explain the reason of the presence of Sam Grizzle in the top 20 worst father in history, Todd Brunson referred to the difficult financial situation of the poker player at a certain time when he had just a baby. To avoid the possible deportation to his home, the son of Doyle Brunson lent money to Sam Grizzle to pay his bills. Instead of honoring what he owes, the family chief was tempted to play poker and won $ 50,000 at the beginning to leave empty-handed at the end. Not being able to pay the mortgage and the $20,000 he was in debt for.
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theres one other famous grizzle story To explain the reason of the presence of Sam Grizzle in the top 20 worst father in history, Todd Brunson referred to the difficult financial situation of the poker player at a certain time when he had just a baby. To avoid the possible deportation to his home, the son of Doyle Brunson lent money to Sam Grizzle to pay his bills. Instead of honoring what he owes, the family chief was tempted to play poker and won $ 50,000 at the beginning to leave empty-handed at the end. Not being able to pay the mortgage and the $20,000 he was in debt for.
a casino sends a Rolls Royce to your house as a token of their appreciation. No, not to cart you in style to the casino for the night; but for keepsies! Chinese-Mexican businessman Zhenil Ye Gon lost a reported $120 million over the years gambling at the Venetian in Las Vegas. He often played $150,000 per hand in Baccarat. While his net worth is unknown, the Federales found $205 million in cash stashed in his Mexico City mansion. Evidently he sold a crap load of chemicals–used to make meth–on the black market. Walt White would be proud - See more at: https://adanai.com/gambling-stories/#sthash.hn26QlGt.dpuf
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a casino sends a Rolls Royce to your house as a token of their appreciation. No, not to cart you in style to the casino for the night; but for keepsies! Chinese-Mexican businessman Zhenil Ye Gon lost a reported $120 million over the years gambling at the Venetian in Las Vegas. He often played $150,000 per hand in Baccarat. While his net worth is unknown, the Federales found $205 million in cash stashed in his Mexico City mansion. Evidently he sold a crap load of chemicals–used to make meth–on the black market. Walt White would be proud - See more at: https://adanai.com/gambling-stories/#sthash.hn26QlGt.dpuf
Poker professional Mike Matusow began 2005 in jail and finished the year by winning the World Series of Poker's Tournament of Champions and $1 million just two blocks from the bars that imprisoned him.
In between he won another $1 million by finishing ninth in the WSOP's main event and lost at least as much playing poker and betting sports, mostly the NFL. Except for the six-month jail term, 2005 was normal in his world, where millions in poker winnings vanish as quickly as they accumulate.
In poker parlance, Matusow lives "on tilt," where rational behavior doesn't always play into the equation. On the poker table, it can lead to undisciplined action when things are going bad. In life, it means living on the edge, regularly going for broke and ending up broke.
"I don't care about money," Matusow says in front of a 60-inch big-screen TV in his 3,600-square-foot home in Henderson, Nev., a few miles from the Las Vegas Strip. "If I won $7.5 million, it would be life-changing. When I win $1 million, I go through that fast.
"I go broke nearly every other day, and I don't care. I'm a great poker player, and people will always loan money to great poker players. And I know I can borrow $300,000 on my house in one day."
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Poker professional Mike Matusow began 2005 in jail and finished the year by winning the World Series of Poker's Tournament of Champions and $1 million just two blocks from the bars that imprisoned him.
In between he won another $1 million by finishing ninth in the WSOP's main event and lost at least as much playing poker and betting sports, mostly the NFL. Except for the six-month jail term, 2005 was normal in his world, where millions in poker winnings vanish as quickly as they accumulate.
In poker parlance, Matusow lives "on tilt," where rational behavior doesn't always play into the equation. On the poker table, it can lead to undisciplined action when things are going bad. In life, it means living on the edge, regularly going for broke and ending up broke.
"I don't care about money," Matusow says in front of a 60-inch big-screen TV in his 3,600-square-foot home in Henderson, Nev., a few miles from the Las Vegas Strip. "If I won $7.5 million, it would be life-changing. When I win $1 million, I go through that fast.
"I go broke nearly every other day, and I don't care. I'm a great poker player, and people will always loan money to great poker players. And I know I can borrow $300,000 on my house in one day."
I was at Mohegan Sun Casino in CT about 8 years ago. Started playing Pai Gow Poker and bought in at the table for $1K. There was this one player who kept taking the Bank every other hand. We started talking and I found out it was Jimmy Pine.
Well, I proceeded to open up a can of whoopass and took him for about $2K on that Pai Gow table. Amazingly to me he was unfazed. He asked me, "Do you want to go to Atlantic City?". I said, "Sure, when do you want to go?" He says, "Right now, Ceasars will send a Limo for us within the hour". LOL.
Now, I got about a $7K Bankroll and I'm feeling like I could get dangerous. I was feeling lucky. Four hours later we were sitting in a fully comped Ceasars suite ordering a fully comped shrimp and steak room service dinner. Jimmy explained to me he likes to relax when he first gets to a casino. He's barred from playing Blackjack, but he can play other games like Pai Gow and Baccarat.
So after dinner, I'm raring to go. I want some action. Jimmy stayed in the suite to sleep while I went down to the Pai Gow tables. I lost about $3K, almost half my Bankroll, within an hour. Now I'm pizzed off because my night is ruined. Back to the suite to get some sleep.
The next morning Jimmy still isn't ready to play. He's got a pedicure appointment. Like a dummy, I go and blow another $3K on the Pai Gow tables. $1K left out of the $7K I rode into town with. Not a happy camper at this point.
Finally Jimmy is ready to play Baccarat. I explained my degenerate situation expecting he would offer a small loan but he never did. We sit down at the table and Jimmy buys in for $20K. I'm thinking this could get real interesting. NOT. Jimmy never made a bet over $200. I ask, "Why do you get 19 orange and 10 black and never use the orange?". Jimmy says, "It's just for show. If I show them I have money, they comp me".
After about an hour of going back and forth I'm still sitting with my $1K. Jimmy colors up with about a $500 profit and heads back to the suite.
Not me, I still have a lot of work to do. I thought. The next straight 11 hands were Player and I was Tapioca. Tapped out. Flat busted. Un-fukking-believeable.
The next morning Jimmy wanted to leave. Still no offer of a loan. I took a couple hundred off a CC just to have some pocket money. That was the longest Limo ride I've ever taken home. Such a shiity feeling to be flat azz busted by Ceasars.
A couple months later I got banned from Moheghan Sun (It's a long story, some other time). Jimmy is banned from Foxwoods (Another long story for some other time) so I never had another chance to gamble with Jimmy again.
~~~~~ZOSO~~~~~
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I was at Mohegan Sun Casino in CT about 8 years ago. Started playing Pai Gow Poker and bought in at the table for $1K. There was this one player who kept taking the Bank every other hand. We started talking and I found out it was Jimmy Pine.
Well, I proceeded to open up a can of whoopass and took him for about $2K on that Pai Gow table. Amazingly to me he was unfazed. He asked me, "Do you want to go to Atlantic City?". I said, "Sure, when do you want to go?" He says, "Right now, Ceasars will send a Limo for us within the hour". LOL.
Now, I got about a $7K Bankroll and I'm feeling like I could get dangerous. I was feeling lucky. Four hours later we were sitting in a fully comped Ceasars suite ordering a fully comped shrimp and steak room service dinner. Jimmy explained to me he likes to relax when he first gets to a casino. He's barred from playing Blackjack, but he can play other games like Pai Gow and Baccarat.
So after dinner, I'm raring to go. I want some action. Jimmy stayed in the suite to sleep while I went down to the Pai Gow tables. I lost about $3K, almost half my Bankroll, within an hour. Now I'm pizzed off because my night is ruined. Back to the suite to get some sleep.
The next morning Jimmy still isn't ready to play. He's got a pedicure appointment. Like a dummy, I go and blow another $3K on the Pai Gow tables. $1K left out of the $7K I rode into town with. Not a happy camper at this point.
Finally Jimmy is ready to play Baccarat. I explained my degenerate situation expecting he would offer a small loan but he never did. We sit down at the table and Jimmy buys in for $20K. I'm thinking this could get real interesting. NOT. Jimmy never made a bet over $200. I ask, "Why do you get 19 orange and 10 black and never use the orange?". Jimmy says, "It's just for show. If I show them I have money, they comp me".
After about an hour of going back and forth I'm still sitting with my $1K. Jimmy colors up with about a $500 profit and heads back to the suite.
Not me, I still have a lot of work to do. I thought. The next straight 11 hands were Player and I was Tapioca. Tapped out. Flat busted. Un-fukking-believeable.
The next morning Jimmy wanted to leave. Still no offer of a loan. I took a couple hundred off a CC just to have some pocket money. That was the longest Limo ride I've ever taken home. Such a shiity feeling to be flat azz busted by Ceasars.
A couple months later I got banned from Moheghan Sun (It's a long story, some other time). Jimmy is banned from Foxwoods (Another long story for some other time) so I never had another chance to gamble with Jimmy again.
Theres always stu ungars story to he won the world series three times had over 30 million dollars in earnings and died at some motel at 45 with 800 dollars from about 25000 he borrowed from somebody.
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Theres always stu ungars story to he won the world series three times had over 30 million dollars in earnings and died at some motel at 45 with 800 dollars from about 25000 he borrowed from somebody.
Theres always stu ungars story to he won the world series three times had over 30 million dollars in earnings and died at some motel at 45 with 800 dollars from about 25000 he borrowed from somebody.
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Theres always stu ungars story to he won the world series three times had over 30 million dollars in earnings and died at some motel at 45 with 800 dollars from about 25000 he borrowed from somebody.
I was at Mohegan Sun Casino in CT about 8 years ago. Started playing Pai Gow Poker and bought in at the table for $1K. There was this one player who kept taking the Bank every other hand. We started talking and I found out it was Jimmy Pine.
Well, I proceeded to open up a can of whoopass and took him for about $2K on that Pai Gow table. Amazingly to me he was unfazed. He asked me, "Do you want to go to Atlantic City?". I said, "Sure, when do you want to go?" He says, "Right now, Ceasars will send a Limo for us within the hour". LOL.
Now, I got about a $7K Bankroll and I'm feeling like I could get dangerous. I was feeling lucky. Four hours later we were sitting in a fully comped Ceasars suite ordering a fully comped shrimp and steak room service dinner. Jimmy explained to me he likes to relax when he first gets to a casino. He's barred from playing Blackjack, but he can play other games like Pai Gow and Baccarat.
So after dinner, I'm raring to go. I want some action. Jimmy stayed in the suite to sleep while I went down to the Pai Gow tables. I lost about $3K, almost half my Bankroll, within an hour. Now I'm pizzed off because my night is ruined. Back to the suite to get some sleep.
The next morning Jimmy still isn't ready to play. He's got a pedicure appointment. Like a dummy, I go and blow another $3K on the Pai Gow tables. $1K left out of the $7K I rode into town with. Not a happy camper at this point.
Finally Jimmy is ready to play Baccarat. I explained my degenerate situation expecting he would offer a small loan but he never did. We sit down at the table and Jimmy buys in for $20K. I'm thinking this could get real interesting. NOT. Jimmy never made a bet over $200. I ask, "Why do you get 19 orange and 10 black and never use the orange?". Jimmy says, "It's just for show. If I show them I have money, they comp me".
After about an hour of going back and forth I'm still sitting with my $1K. Jimmy colors up with about a $500 profit and heads back to the suite.
Not me, I still have a lot of work to do. I thought. The next straight 11 hands were Player and I was Tapioca. Tapped out. Flat busted. Un-fukking-believeable.
The next morning Jimmy wanted to leave. Still no offer of a loan. I took a couple hundred off a CC just to have some pocket money. That was the longest Limo ride I've ever taken home. Such a shiity feeling to be flat azz busted by Ceasars.
A couple months later I got banned from Moheghan Sun (It's a long story, some other time). Jimmy is banned from Foxwoods (Another long story for some other time) so I never had another chance to gamble with Jimmy again.
You got banned from being so boring.
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Quote Originally Posted by TheGoldenGoose:
I was at Mohegan Sun Casino in CT about 8 years ago. Started playing Pai Gow Poker and bought in at the table for $1K. There was this one player who kept taking the Bank every other hand. We started talking and I found out it was Jimmy Pine.
Well, I proceeded to open up a can of whoopass and took him for about $2K on that Pai Gow table. Amazingly to me he was unfazed. He asked me, "Do you want to go to Atlantic City?". I said, "Sure, when do you want to go?" He says, "Right now, Ceasars will send a Limo for us within the hour". LOL.
Now, I got about a $7K Bankroll and I'm feeling like I could get dangerous. I was feeling lucky. Four hours later we were sitting in a fully comped Ceasars suite ordering a fully comped shrimp and steak room service dinner. Jimmy explained to me he likes to relax when he first gets to a casino. He's barred from playing Blackjack, but he can play other games like Pai Gow and Baccarat.
So after dinner, I'm raring to go. I want some action. Jimmy stayed in the suite to sleep while I went down to the Pai Gow tables. I lost about $3K, almost half my Bankroll, within an hour. Now I'm pizzed off because my night is ruined. Back to the suite to get some sleep.
The next morning Jimmy still isn't ready to play. He's got a pedicure appointment. Like a dummy, I go and blow another $3K on the Pai Gow tables. $1K left out of the $7K I rode into town with. Not a happy camper at this point.
Finally Jimmy is ready to play Baccarat. I explained my degenerate situation expecting he would offer a small loan but he never did. We sit down at the table and Jimmy buys in for $20K. I'm thinking this could get real interesting. NOT. Jimmy never made a bet over $200. I ask, "Why do you get 19 orange and 10 black and never use the orange?". Jimmy says, "It's just for show. If I show them I have money, they comp me".
After about an hour of going back and forth I'm still sitting with my $1K. Jimmy colors up with about a $500 profit and heads back to the suite.
Not me, I still have a lot of work to do. I thought. The next straight 11 hands were Player and I was Tapioca. Tapped out. Flat busted. Un-fukking-believeable.
The next morning Jimmy wanted to leave. Still no offer of a loan. I took a couple hundred off a CC just to have some pocket money. That was the longest Limo ride I've ever taken home. Such a shiity feeling to be flat azz busted by Ceasars.
A couple months later I got banned from Moheghan Sun (It's a long story, some other time). Jimmy is banned from Foxwoods (Another long story for some other time) so I never had another chance to gamble with Jimmy again.
Sundays were typical for me during bachelor days and during football season I would host for the most part. Anyway I have one buddy over and he says that Matt is in town. We grew up with him and were simply associated by the fact we lived in the same community as kids. This guy was a real scumbag. Dropout, drug dealer, pathological liar, you name it. Not my kind of guy. Anyway he was in town and my attitude is "Whatever." Lets see how this guy has aged over a couple years since I last seen em.
Anyway, he is just as annoying. Full of bogus stories and non-sense. Anyway, we had always played dice where we come from. Most often a game called Cee-Lo. Its a head-to-head game played straight up for a predetermined sum of value. Lasts just seconds sometimes. You roll 3 dice at the same time and depending on what your "point" is, the other must beat you. A 4-5-6 is an automatic win and a 1-2-3 is a loss. All others are ranked accordingly.
Anyway I have about $500 in my own cash and another $600 in the safe that was my girlfriends money. So we start shootin' and I quickly lose all $500. We take a break and he offers to roll up some chronic he had. I was livid. Could not enjoy the good weed and it prompted me to go reach into the safe.
I come back and offer to continue to gamble. He agreed. We upped the stakes to $50 a roll and I was able to win 3 out of 4 before he asked to up the stakes. Boom he craps out 1-2-3. He asks to press it again and Boom he rolls a 1 point. Easily beatable. Now, I've got my money back and some of his. He continues to play and pull out more cash. Until he's tapped out $800. He asks for a loan but neither myself nor my other friend offered. He goes to the ATM and comes back with another $300. Loses it all in about 3 minutes. He is about to turn white. He starts to take his watch off and wants to roll for it. It was a nice looking Rolex, but I don't know anything about them and could not authenticate. He starts pleading and begging to play on. I offer the same courtesy and say I will play as long as you have cash.
He proceeded to roll another joint and after partaking in these extracurricular activities he mellowed out and said he'll be back another day. Come to find out shortly after that the money he lost was all that he was worth at the time and he had to move back in with his parents. I felt bad but again it could've gone the other way.
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Sundays were typical for me during bachelor days and during football season I would host for the most part. Anyway I have one buddy over and he says that Matt is in town. We grew up with him and were simply associated by the fact we lived in the same community as kids. This guy was a real scumbag. Dropout, drug dealer, pathological liar, you name it. Not my kind of guy. Anyway he was in town and my attitude is "Whatever." Lets see how this guy has aged over a couple years since I last seen em.
Anyway, he is just as annoying. Full of bogus stories and non-sense. Anyway, we had always played dice where we come from. Most often a game called Cee-Lo. Its a head-to-head game played straight up for a predetermined sum of value. Lasts just seconds sometimes. You roll 3 dice at the same time and depending on what your "point" is, the other must beat you. A 4-5-6 is an automatic win and a 1-2-3 is a loss. All others are ranked accordingly.
Anyway I have about $500 in my own cash and another $600 in the safe that was my girlfriends money. So we start shootin' and I quickly lose all $500. We take a break and he offers to roll up some chronic he had. I was livid. Could not enjoy the good weed and it prompted me to go reach into the safe.
I come back and offer to continue to gamble. He agreed. We upped the stakes to $50 a roll and I was able to win 3 out of 4 before he asked to up the stakes. Boom he craps out 1-2-3. He asks to press it again and Boom he rolls a 1 point. Easily beatable. Now, I've got my money back and some of his. He continues to play and pull out more cash. Until he's tapped out $800. He asks for a loan but neither myself nor my other friend offered. He goes to the ATM and comes back with another $300. Loses it all in about 3 minutes. He is about to turn white. He starts to take his watch off and wants to roll for it. It was a nice looking Rolex, but I don't know anything about them and could not authenticate. He starts pleading and begging to play on. I offer the same courtesy and say I will play as long as you have cash.
He proceeded to roll another joint and after partaking in these extracurricular activities he mellowed out and said he'll be back another day. Come to find out shortly after that the money he lost was all that he was worth at the time and he had to move back in with his parents. I felt bad but again it could've gone the other way.
The most degenerate thing I've probably ever done is spending 49 straight hours at a poker table at Turning Stone when I was 15 and took my first adderall. One hand I had 44, flop comes 446....and i lost a monster pot.
Lost about $1000 but it was a life experience at the time.
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The most degenerate thing I've probably ever done is spending 49 straight hours at a poker table at Turning Stone when I was 15 and took my first adderall. One hand I had 44, flop comes 446....and i lost a monster pot.
Lost about $1000 but it was a life experience at the time.
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