Quote Originally Posted by cmoney View Post
Quote Originally Posted by DirtyB View Post

Following his 1997 Main Event win, Stu Ungar looked Gabe Kaplan (his good friend) right in the eye, held up a picture of his young daughter, and said that he was going to turn everything around for her sake.

He immediately shot off the $500k he won on drugs and sports betting, and was dead 15 months later.

Sometimes people are degenerates all the way down to their core.

A heavy gambling addiction isnt much different than a hard core drug addiction. Both hard core gambling addiction and drug addiction act on the brain in similar ways. That is what I love about my 3 day trips to Vegas. You can grab a a flight out of there before it completely drains your soul.

Hilarious that someone would actually give him the cash versus be there when he registered for the event and make sure he had a ticket.

I guess though he could always un register and get the money back right?
I've always thought that a genuine gambling addiction would be super hard to overcome.

At least drug addicts feel physically better after going through detox. I imagine gambling addicts go through serious cycles of depression when not in action or while in rehab. Obviously no excuse for behavior but still. No wonder recidivism is so high among degenerate gamblers.

Pretty wild to brazenly roll someone so brutally