Idea for new thread

We have a thread for Big Wins... why not one for Huge Losses...

Think about it:

1. You got intoxicated, hit up the ATM until it was declined.
2. Poker player, you catch amazing bad beat.
3. You were up, were gonna book the winner, then classy woman sits at your table so you stay.

As advantage play goes, nothing beats learning from other people's mistakes :)

Man, I dunno. I could tell you about all the times I sat down and lost my entire bankroll in 30 minutes, but it would be one sentence. Stories are best when they break from the usual, or have some remarkable instance that makes them interesting. Most big wins are remarkable, most big losses are predictable.

Other than poker, I can't see anything interesting about a big loss. All that thread would generate would be dozens of variations of, "You should have managed your bankroll better." Stopped rolling the dice/pushing the deal button/anteing/placing the bet when you hit your stoploss.

Now if you have a poker bad beat story, that can be pretty good, but it's all in the telling. You could make it a couple sentences, and who would care: "I had a full house, aces over threes, and the dumass played 2-6D and drew 3-4-5D, the 5 on the river." OK, bad beat, but worse telling. But if you could craft a nice dozen paragraphs or so, telling how you got to the positions and how you set the other guy up, and what you were thinking and what you thought he was thinking, and how the tables turned, and then the aftermath, well, that would be pretty good.

Most people can't do that well, but if you can, then do it. A well told story is always fun to read.

We should have a special section where we hold a public vote before creating any and every thread. Maybe even two, lower chamber for public decision, then higher chamber for final approval by power users and staff.

I could care less about the loss. I just enjoy hearing how people handle it, more often then not its bitching and whining. Most people who handle losing well don't talk about it. Ive gone for a big score and had my ass handed to me It stung but I think I walked it off like a champ.

I rather like the idea. Maybe we'll call it the Losers Lounge, which is the name of a bar at the Riverside in Laughlin.

Ah, schadenfreude ...

I don't have any bad beat stories, I play way
too conservatively. But I have many from watching
other people over the years. I saw a guy at
Paris win $4500 at RR, come back from dinner
and lose the $4500 and $2500 of his own. One
time he bought in for more credits and the girl
made him miss the next spin. He screamed at
her so loudly that she had 'ruined' him that he
lost his voice. And it wasn't true, it was a number
he wasn't betting anyway. When I left, he looked
like a balloon with all the air gone, all limp and
deflated. It was his mortgage payment he blew
in trying to get the 4500 back. He was a local,
he should have known better.