ever consider your position as a winning gambler? - Page 5

On March 27 2010 15:21 Bigbobm wrote: i wonder if people who run liquor stores share this moral debate.

well pretty much any convenience store who sells alcohol or cigarettes.

darwin is my hero

On May 17 2007 02:26 Baal wrote: i feel like going to poland and rape ur family then set you on fire and blame it on destiny

uhh this is the biggest bs i've ever quoted -______-

Poker is innocent fun, the people losing money in poker dont look at it like you good players are taking it from them - they are viewing it like "I Spent X $ on poker tonight". "I could have spent that on ____ ""But i chose to spend it on Poker". "And I had fun sucking out on Exhilirate so he could post it on this forum "

I wouldnt feel sorry about winning money from doctors or lawyers who earn far more than you. They probably feel sorry for you. I feel sorry for people with addiction problems. I don't feel sorry about taking their money.

winning in poker is a defensive act.
all these mofos are out there to get your bankroll

Answer: no

There is no anwser to this question. It depends on how you view life and what values/morals you live by.

Personally, i dont think about it because there is no anwser, but when i did think about it.... i felt justified

The problem with poker players is they provide a crummy product. Even if people are going to blow their money on booze, that's not a much worse product than playing a game for a few hours and getting beat out of your money. But I agree with everyone that if they are a degen they are going to lose their money anyway, if not to you then to the house.

its called natural selection, if some retard puts up his rent money in a poker game and loses... oops, gg dumbass

next

thats like Kobe Byrant feeling bad for Dwight Howard after winning the NBA championship because hes on a better team

I have always had a problem with winning, I feel bad that someone has to lose. I hate to inflict pain or cause people to feel sorrow, but I am at the same time very competitive. It makes for a very odd combination.. For instance, I don't mind at all to constantly lose at a video game or sport so long as I feel like we had a good fight.. but then.. eventually.. at the end of the day I hate myself for not doing my best, or for not winning as high of a % of the time as I could (even if my 'true skill' would still result in less than 50% chance of victory).

Playing HU it comes up the most. I have definitely felt very, very bad after I took 6 buyins from someone.. But IMO, this is illogical and so I have done my best to overcome this feeling.

I dunno, just random thoughts this topic brought up...

Its not only in poker that your win means someone had to lose thou

On March 27 2010 19:29 TalentedTom wrote: thats like Kobe Byrant feeling bad for Dwight Howard after winning the NBA championship because hes on a better team

what you're saying is like Durrrr feeling bad for Ivey for beating him in a pot. It's nothing like feeling bad for beating someone out of their rent money.

Everyone you sit down with at a poker table is choosing to do so and must accept full responsibility for the consequences, even if they are addicts.

Well thinking in broader terms since there will always be unemployment, you are always competing for a job against other people, and being hired for a job means that you just beat other people to it. Its not a perfect analogy but whatever, the bottom line is worry about yourself first, because others wont.

Actually while playing live poker, I find that there are way fewer people at the poker tables who cannot afford their losses than at slots or table games where they are forced to play against the casino. I'd say the vast majority of poker players I see can afford their losses.

But to answer the OP's question--I don't really care about that. Just as I would not care if I was a fund manager and collected a fee from people who invested in my fund without providing them with an iota of benefit over a simple index fund.

one time i beat someone for half his roll and i felt bad
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On March 27 2010 23:53 player999 wrote: one time i beat someone for half his roll and i felt bad + Show Spoiler + for letting him walk away with the other half

thank god finally

Personally I dont think theres really anyone so hard up on cash that they are literally gambling with the last dollar to their name. I dont care if they throw the keys to their car on the table and the deed to their house. They'll find a way to survive, they'll sell something of value, go beg for food, whatever. So who am I to feel guilty for what someone else considers valuable or not? If someone wants to give me their car on a single hand of poker, then clearly their car wasnt that big of a deal to them. Everyone has their breaking point, and even the most degenerate of addicts will eventually break down and stop. Gambling addiction is nothing like other addictions. If someone was somehow being injected with heroine every time they lost to me, and once the heroine runs out they'll have to suck dick for more, yea maybe then I'll feel sorry and get them to stop. But gambling? Ez addiction, get over it.