The Degen Thread

[GreekStein]

Between us here on blonde there's quite a few degens in one way or another and there's probably not one person who doesn't know a degen or tell a degen story and since they are normally pretty cool stories I thought we should have a thread for them.

I first realised how degen people were when a chinese man at Gala Notts was handing me green chips (£100's) and getting me to go round on the tables he wasn't playing and play his neighbour bets for him.

Another time I was playing blackjack with Dave Smith, again in Gala Notts and the dealer was in autoplay mode. I.e if you were on 17 wouldn't ask if you wanted a card and for some reason this was annoying Dave a little bit. Dave pulled him up on it a few times but he carried on anyway. Anyway few hands later Dave is dealt two pictures, (20) and the dealer has a 10. Everyone else has kind of a made hand. The dealer skips past Dave on the end box and Dave quickly pipes up with, 'excuse me, what are you doing?' just to make a point about being acknowledged more than anything. The dealer replies, 'you don't want a card on 20'. Dave says, 'I do - card please'. Over rolls the ace and Dave somehow makes 21, whilst the dealer busts.

Another card room reg at Gala used to plough money into the fruities like it was nothing. One week he puts around £13k into one machine with a £4000 jackpot and never receives a payout of more than a few hundred quid. Obviously not right when it's supposed to be paying at 97%. Fed up and annoyed he rings some sort of authority, maybe the gaming commission, I can't remember and after a quick check it appears the machine isn't quite right (ldo!). However, the weird thing was that the casino had no obligation to fix it immediately and Mr Fruity was back on that exact machine, the very next night.

I'll post some of my own at some point.

Post away!

[kinboshi]

[action man]

lol i used to be a complete fruity degen. My best mates 18th we met at the local at like 8pm, few beers and then onto town. I proceed to put £100 (all my roll) into a £15 jackpot bandit, nip £50 put £30 of it in, the taxi arrives, i decide to wait till the bandit paiiiiiiiiiiiiiis me and get my own cab, figuring this would be better equity. Sure didnt do it all in and walk home. DIE BATTLE AXE £15JP although this machine is/was pretty special.

[action man]

i see monda reading the thread, story of doing your nut on craps in ceasers plz ray and your attempts to nip anything walking

[GreekStein]

riverdave and stu hopkin viewing too.

Come on lads, plenty there!

[StuartHopkin]

lol i used to be a complete fruity degen. My best mates 18th we met at the local at like 8pm, few beers and then onto town. I proceed to put £100 (all my roll) into a £15 jackpot bandit, nip £50 put £30 of it in, the taxi arrives, i decide to wait till the bandit paiiiiiiiiiiiiiis me and get my own cab, figuring this would be better equity. Sure didnt do it all in and walk home. DIE BATTLE AXE £15JP although this machine is/was pretty special.

Battle Axe! Ahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Lol

Best fruity ever was Pie Factory, I still do this day dont know how I was the only one in my local that realised that the higher the feature and cash trails started, showed exactly how close it was to jackpot and progressively got higher and higher. I used it as a bank for literally 6 months just nipping on whenever I saw someone get a good start and then walk away.

Comedy degen story of me and my pool father Mr Rawson at the 3 man team golden cue comp in yarmouth. After being knocked out in the first round at 9am (standard) we were just about to go back to bed when Awesome Rawson muttered the words 'i wonder how much you would have to put in that £250 fruity to win the jackpot?'

15 pints of Guinness, 2 meals and about 10 hours later Rawson decided to take the top feature! I went nuts and it only paid £120.
Got more beers in to make things better.
Matt and his mate aron returned from town and were in fits of laughter that we were still playing the fruit machine.
We even had our own crowd ooooooing and ahhhhhing every time we gambled an 11 for the jackpot and the predictable 12 came in.
We battled on and I can barely remember the end of the story.

Needless to say I woke up in bed with a lot of beanie rounders, a headache, a half eaten pizza and a desire to play the fruit machine again!

On a side note Trigg, saw Bloc Party on Wednesday night. Is it just me or are they now the greatest with that extra bit of confidence and stage presence over a year or so a go.

[EvilPie]

riverdave and stu hopkin viewing too.

Come on lads, plenty there!

RiverDave will still be writing his at midnight.

In fact he's possibly working on another story right now.

Legendary degen.

[GreekStein]

I remember dealing a £20 rebuy at gala Notts. It was £20 to enter and for dealing you get £2 off each player, so I'm in for £2 quid before rebuys. Skinto at uni and only got one rebuy in the tank. End up with 17k chips from 2k starting at the break and haven't rebought or topped up. Somehow grind and reach the final table, where I get heads up with a friend and we chop for £1700 each.

I play in the cash game after and win a few hundred more. I put zero in the bank obv.

Next day I go back and sit in the cash game. AA vs KK and then I take £600 off a drunk Anthony Holden who tries to bluff me when I flop a set. It's hard enough trying to move me off top pair let alone a s mfking set!

Keep winning until I have like £3k. Got so many chips on the table that I can't carry them and use my cap to carry them.

Anyway, cardroom shuts at 4am and I'm now carrying my net worth inside my cap walking through the casino to the cash desk. I decide to kill a bit of time and unwind by putting a few oddments on the house games. An hour later I'm pulling out my last £50 and 2 minutes later I'm walking home in the cold at 5.30am with zilch.

gg Cossy boy.

[GreekStein]

riverdave and stu hopkin viewing too.

Come on lads, plenty there!

RiverDave will still be writing his at midnight.

In fact he's possibly working on another story right now.

Legendary degen.

You seem to have overlooked the man they call DUBAI.

[riverdave]

riverdave and stu hopkin viewing too.

Come on lads, plenty there!

RiverDave will still be writing his at midnight.

In fact he's possibly working on another story right now.

Legendary degen.

CBA to relive the pain.

[EvilPie]

riverdave and stu hopkin viewing too.

Come on lads, plenty there!

RiverDave will still be writing his at midnight.

In fact he's possibly working on another story right now.

Legendary degen.

CBA to relive the pain.

Sigh.......

Was looking forward to it.

How about cliff notes? Biggest spin up will do..........

[StuartHopkin]

A picture paints a bag of words

[GreekStein]

A picture paints a bag of words

Pretty degen that I recognise Pete on shift in the background and I haven't seen him or lived in Notts for like 2 years.

Matt - you look kinda slim in that shirt, wtf!

[EvilPie]

A picture paints a bag of words

Pretty degen that I recognise Pete on shift in the background and I haven't seen him or lived in Notts for like 2 years.

Matt - you look kinda slim in that shirt, wtf!

Stripes do that ya know.

Hardly degen though when you win? Surely that's just shrewd.

[StuartHopkin]

A picture paints a bag of words

Pretty degen that I recognise Pete on shift in the background and I haven't seen him or lived in Notts for like 2 years.

Matt - you look kinda slim in that shirt, wtf!

Stripes do that ya know.

Hardly degen though when you win? Surely that's just shrewd.

Sure was shrewd

Degening with a happy ending imo

Im pretty sure that betting £700 per spin at roulette for half an hour non stop would be degen in most peoples books.
Never mind the 'Hello Mr Russell, can you give us 5 mins while we restock the table with £100 chips.'

Or maybe the degen bit of that night was me spending hours trying to get out of the hole i was in.

Matt couldnt stop winning so I kept nicking £100 of him trying to spin it up also.
I owed him about £500 plus id lost about £300 i had in my pocket.
Cant remember exact details but remember moving to blackjack and them repeatedly changing the dealer.
After about an hour I paid matt his £500 back in one huge pile of £5 chips.
I still had £100 and I proceeded to try and spin that up to over £300 so I could go home happy.
About 4am I made it cashed out for £400 went home.
My mate mark was staying at mine and he proceeded to find the cat and wander into my housemates room and threw it at her as she slept peacefully at 4-30am! LOL

Woke up the next morninig and after being violently sick I emptied out my pockets.

£400 wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

hang on

£300 more?

Oh I never did lose that money I was chasing after!