"The Downswings of Property and Poker"

[Eso Kral]

SELLING HOUSES FOR FUN

I started off with my new firm and really hit the ground running, although Ilford the area i worked itself was not great it was quite a cushy job and my manager Derek was a punter who played the occasional game of poker so we had many trips for pokerz and also to evening racing at lingfield etc.
Workwise was good and poker wise i was still travelling around to different venues mentioned before with quite a few cashes mainly at old Luton in their regular tourneys where i even managed a 3way chop in the afternoon tourney followed by an outright win in the evening tourney which was nice but i still couldnt walk past the magic wheel without playing and most profits were wiped out in a few spins.
One Saturday evening i decided to take a drive to the midlands to play the evening comp at Jnc 10 and as i walked in really early hoping to get some food i saw Paul on the roulette he had two racks of £25s in front of him so had caught the wheel really big, so as soon as he had a losing spin off we went for some food and he gave me the £1k he owed plus £500 on top and our gambling relationship was back on.

Now that i was in work my Dad really wanted me to start paying some money off the "Red Book" so the only way he knew he would get the money was to take control of my finances, which when your a gambler is difficult as your cash is your lifeblood. I wanted to try and make it work for my Dad so we had a joint account and i was paid an allowance per month and if i spunked that away on the first day i couldnt ask for more so i actually for the first time in years started to realise the value of money plus i was saving some money at the same time and was being selective as to what i punted on which meant i had more winners than losers.

Life stayed like this for just over a year and at work i was flying and had been promoted to Branch Valuer so now i got to put houses on the market as well as sell them which double my commission and i was being talked about as being the next branch manager when an office came free so life was fairly rosy and then i received a call from my brother to say my dad had been taken to hospital as he had been passing blood and was i able to come up.

Obviously i snap left work drove up to the midlands and within a short space of time it was established that Dad had not told us of the problem and he had found out that he had the dreaded "Big C" and needed an operation that should be straight forward and then would need to be monitored.

I also was back speaking to Kelly and we were talking of getting back together which would be hard as my life was down south now and she would never up sticks and move so we embarked on a doomed from the start medium distance relationship...

[Eso Kral]

Poker Diary entry

Binked a seat last night for deepstack in 2 weeks in first sat played.
Now means i will play with 2 bullets as would have bought in anyways so gonna play for a stack on friday and reload sat if required!!

Gotta feeling gonna go deep this month so GL me and BITB

[Leatherman]

Yes pal i was on the rail standing next to his pal (hewston thingy) lookalike.. Chatted to him also about you and i mentioned that i belived the story about you two being flat mates and he laughed his ass off.. He also said that you was nice chap and a good player.. He was buzzing because he had 20% in Tom who was chip leader and a worthy winner imo.. The second chip leader who had around 700K less than Tom wouldn't shift and said he wanted 30K min.. So Tom who wanted to lock up the deal gave 2K off his winnings to lock it up, said the money was really important to him and he didn't want to risk getting bummed.. (fair play to him imo) Also it was good news for my pal who i was railing, not only was he a Golden Chip winner for 15K but because the chip leaders wanted to finish the deal they gave him 10K and he snapped accepted as he had 4 bigs left.. lol (mbn)
 So glad i turned down his offer of swapping 10%.. grrrr!!! lol

[Eso Kral]

6 Months Later

Im now running an office within 18months which is virtually unheard of, still managing to live on a life float of £500 per month to include petrol and all gambling/poker, still with Kelly and am spending 3nights in Leicestershire and rest in Gants Hill and Dad seemed to be ok and the hospital are saying he needs a yearly check up but they think they caught it early so i was bound to press the self destruct button soon.

My credit had improved enough that i was able to buy a house in Coalville, Leicestershire and had actually saved up a 5% deposit to put down plus my legals and the bank lending me the money liked me enough to give me a good credit card which i accepted and loaded some money to Betfair and was backing and laying on days off but with no plan or pattern just whatever i fancied and the bug had started to get hold of me again.

The house went through and Kelly was happy, Dad was proud i was back on the ladder but i was keeping a secret about my finances as my credit card was maxed out but i could afford to up my allowance to pay it off when one day the nice ladies in the bank offered me a loan of £10k. Now i didnt need 10k or anything for that matter but i took them up on their kind offer of 5K with 3k going off the credit card and 2k into my bank account, all i remember was it was the friday before a bank holiday weekend and St Helens were playing Wigan on the monday so it was a 5/6 your choice kind of affair. IDK what the result was but my 1k stayed with the bookies and i lost the other 1k over the weekend so back to square 1 i was.

As soon as the bank opened on Tuesday i went straight in and told the girls some extra building work had shown up so i needed to top up the loan, now as i was showing £5k per month going in and they knew where i worked they credited my account and paid off the loan then topped up the difference to give me some more cash to the total of £10k so about £4.7k was added to my account. It didnt last long infact was probably done within a couple of weeks at the end i was trying to spin up some money on betfair and had layed and bet my way from £100 to 4k then put the whole lot on a basketball match late at night expecting to log in the next day and see another 10% added to my total but alas my 1/10 shot didnt win and i was bang in trouble but earning good money so knew i would get out of it as i always did.

The opportunity came when Kelly's grandparents decided they wanted to sell their home they had lived in since new in a sought after village and we placed our modern house up sale which sold in a week and as i was now a compulsive liar (these things go hand in hand when you have a gambling problem) i told Kelly we were putting down x deposit when in rality it was much less so i could pay off my debts and start again and yet again iwas free of debt, earning enough to cover my outgoings and do some work to the house and only i knew whilst all the time managing to hold down a really good job yet i knew it wouldnt be long before i had punted my way into trouble again...

[celtic]

Why are you not on facebook yet? Is it because you have no friends?

[Eso Kral]

THE HOUSING BOOM BUT NOT FOR ME!!

I class myself as lucky in many ways but despite being an agent my timing is pretty rubbish as i missed the property boom due to punting my life away and then not having the ability to buy due to poor credit.

Kelly found out about the money owed on the house when a statement came through the door and it took a load of explaining and she was so pissed off due to the house needing loads of work that it started to put pressure on our relationship and i found at that time in my life i turned to the one thing i knew which was punting and was like Fck it cos when your in that casino/bookies/card room no-one really knows who is up against it or doing well and it was my release from all the pressure despite it heaping more pressure on in other areas.

To make it up to Kelly i took out a 2nd loan on the property so we could get the kitchen done/ buy her a car/ get a boob job (her not me) but i had lost the kitchen money before i had even stripped out the old one so i secretly took the worst piece of finance i have ever taken with the kitchen company and took the finance on an 8k kitchen (more later) but within 6months i was spending hardly anytime in the midlands as my relationship was crap so was paying for a house i never lived in and was driving up and down the motorway to play poker at Walsall as leaving work at 6pm i could get to their good comps by 9pm or Luton by 7.30 and was doing ok in poker then losing most of it before i got to the door and then driving back down south for work the next day. I was at my unhealthiest ever eating meals at 10pm plus the obligatory sandwich sweets redbull for the drive home coupled with 2hours sleep in the car park before shaving in the office and doing a full days work and as i was in my mid 20s could manage this for 4days on the trot then i would have 2 days to recover.
I was a mess!!!

When we eventually split up it was messy and by the time all the charges for early redemption had been applied to my accounts i was left with £456 having had 50k deposit 18months earlier plus i owed a loan credit card and this poxy 8k loan on the kitchen at an exorbitant rate which ended up costing me 20k to pay back in total so i hope the people living in my old home really enjoyed that kitchen and Kelly's new fella enjoyed the boobs as i never really got to use either of them!! 

My Dad had expected to see some of the cash from the sale of the house paid off the red book so was obv disappointed to find only £456 and it took some explaining but i was accomplished at this by now and i was earning £60k plus so promised to pay monthly but like most promises in those days they didnt mean a lot.

The only way i could get hold of money now was to win it or borrow it from non mainstream ways and it was at this stage in my journey where i think i was at my luckiest but it was more of a lucky to be alive...

[Eso Kral]

Why are you not on facebook yet? Is it because you have no friends?

You would try to poke me!  again

[leethefish]

i had a small gambling habit when i was 20ish....

 but nothing like this.. i can relate to some of it ...but its a fantastic honest read ..please don't stop..

[maldini32]

Best Diary I've ever read on here.

Amazing.

[nirvana]

Rich, I'll say again that this is a great read - what is your motivation for getting this written down ? Just nosy :-)

[Eso Kral]

Rich, I'll say again that this is a great read - what is your motivation for getting this written down ? Just nosy :-)

Hey Glen,
Funny you should ask as over the weekend i was thinking wtf am i writing it all down for, then realised i actually wanted to start a diary to keep a track of a few things and give myself a challenge and instead of just writing Hi this is me off we go   blah blah blah thought it would be better to go from the start as either A) peeps on here can relate B) some maybe are in a hole now C) makes it a good start before i get really boring and become like george talking about bad beats or Pleno <3 talking about his dog!
There are a few things that i want to do in the diary once i get to the here and now so just wanted to get from AtoB first before starting at C if you know what i mean.
Thx for the compliment though 

[pleno1]

gfy you degenerate prick



















































<3 you really

[Eso Kral]

WORK UPDATE
We didnt sell a house today but we didnt lose any either so all in all it wasnt a bad day!!
It was quite busy though so it felt really good in the office!!

Going to see the new planet of the apes film tonight and Petra's folks are looking after Maxwell so all is good.

See now my diary is like Pleno's 

Next Degen update tomorrow!!!!

[zerofive]

i had a small gambling habit when i was 20ish....

 but nothing like this.. i can relate to some of it ...but its a fantastic honest read ..please don't stop..

This. Fantastic read. Love the addition of punctuation.

[Leatherman]

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