Most Degen Moments? (1 Viewer)

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What are the most degenerate gambling moments you've personally been involved in? Had one last night that got me thinking about this.

I'll start.

Playing golf, betting $20 bucks with another player each hole on the back 9 on the tee box, where the player had to call if a third player's tee shot would be a fairway/green tee shot or not. Nothing like a guy shanking one in the water and someone erupting in cheers.

Doing one red or black roulette spin after the cash game for $50. We decided for the first time that a 0/00 would mandatory double the stakes. Woke one of my kids up when we started off 0, and then 00. I won spin 3 :)

Whatchu got?
 
Worked on a Navy ship, and got this story from a fellow Jersey boy, Carmen. Atlantic City. He had been playing whatever table he could stumble to, piss drunk, lost a couple grand, and walks by high stakes blackjack, no idea how he got there. Rich Asian whale playing 3 $1000 hands while getting a massage.

Carmen stumbles past and says 'Flip me a chip so at least ONE of us leaves a winner!'

And without even looking, whale flips a $5k chip to the floor and watches Carmen to see if he'll pick it up. Carmen obliges and picks it up, and the whale smirks and nods, says "Good boy." And goes back to his blackjack, not even phased. Carmen went from being down $2700 to being up a few grand. He said he had never felt more conflicted in his life.
 
I used to work in a bar in a previous life...we bet on EVERYTHING, including who the next person that would walk in on a slow day.
we did the same thing in a poker room I used to work in. there was carpeting on the casino floor. And a tile entrance into our poker room. We would bet on the players walking into the poker room, which shoe would touch the tile first, left or right. We would be staring at the players feet while they are walking into the room, and then erupt with ewwws and ahhhs as the first foot dropped on the tile. It was pretty entertaining for us. The players didn't know wtf was going on.
 
we also made "shame bets" which were very painful for the loser. I lost what felt like the worst one. For two weeks, the first time I saw the winner of the bet each shift, I had to greet him with "Hi Daddy" No matter where we were or what I was doing. It was the worst. He would hide before his shift, waiting until I was sitting dealing at a full table, then run up with a big smile and I would have to yell out "Hi Daddy!" in front of 9 customers. FML

@Terrys394

were you around then? Dom crushed me at those shame bets.
 
A buddy of mine told me he was playing a golf course in Scotland (I think St. Andrew's) and the caddies evidently had a sizeable ongoing bet about no one being able to take a "beaver pelt" type of divot out of the ground there. Well, one of my buddies friends evidently did with a gap wedge and all the caddies went crazy, and the one caddying for this guy picked up the divot and started swinging it around, whooping and hollering.
 
we also made "shame bets" which were very painful for the loser. I lost what felt like the worst one. For two weeks, the first time I saw the winner of the bet each shift, I had to greet him with "Hi Daddy" No matter where we were or what I was doing. It was the worst. He would hide before his shift, waiting until I was sitting dealing at a full table, then run up with a big smile and I would have to yell out "Hi Daddy!" in front of 9 customers. FML

@Terrys394

were you around then? Dom crushed me at those shame bets.
Speaking of shame bets when I was in elementary school I had a bet where a friend (Rangers fan) and I (Devils fan) had to wear the other teams jersey whoever won the playoff game the night before. Probably started me along the Degen path now that I think about it.
 
Speaking of shame bets when I was in elementary school I had a bet where a friend (Rangers fan) and I (Devils fan) had to wear the other teams jersey whoever won the playoff game the night before. Probably started me along the Degen path now that I think about it.

I too have done the “wear the other team’s jersey” bet before. Even had to read a “prepared statement” in front of all the classes I taught when LeBron James beat the Warriors.

Before I started teaching, I worked for a company that rents out construction equipment. We used to play “paycheck poker.” Before you open your paycheck, everyone puts in $1. Then you take the last three digits of the check number, and combine it with the two cents in the check total. Best 5 card have wins. 1’s = Aces, 0’s = 10’s, and everything else is face value.

For example, if my check number was 509, and my cents were .05, I’d have two pair, 5’s and 10’s.
 

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