Sorry for being naive..
(Hope Keys gets another good laugh out of this post)
Why don't these grimmers just say to their friends "I'm busto, can you lend me some money?" instead of all the bs?
FWIW i've not grimmed in this manner just done a couple of stupid things on stakes. I can't imagine it is that easy to borrow money admitting you are skint though? If you openly admit to having done it all in at poker where is the lenders confidence level in their ability to repay going to come from? PS can you lend us a bag? ;-)
Depends on who are asking I guess.
If I was broke, I would explain the situation to a friend (not a random poker player) and ask for a loan and say I'd pay them back as soon as I've got it.
Going through all the bs excuses surely makes it less likely you are going to get a loan and more importantly make you look like a grimmer when you don't repay.
If you were totally skint I might lend you a small amount to live on (nowhere near a grand though). I definitely wouldn't lend you money to gamble.
Ah well now we are talking about 2 entirely different things i'd see no reason to come out with any bs if you just wanted money to live on but guy ITT clearly wanted to carry on gambling to try and get out of the mess he had created.
At least the high stakes HU sharks have had a nice touch out of this story it's a classic rich get richer poor get poorer.