How to Play Epiphone Casino Game

Dated: 27 Jan 2012
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I played in a $4/$8 HE game (highest limit in the room at the time) and watched a guy lose more than $1,100.00  He wasn’t drunk or stoned – and he wasn’t rich. In fact, he was really pissed about losing so much money.  He also was not taking more than the usual number of bad beats.  He was just a loose, and horrible, player.  The rest of the line-up was weak to average.  I had so many chips the guys running the game asked me to sell some of them back. This guy blamed the dealer – but he lost with every dealer who got in the box. He blamed the players (especially me) for ‘sucking out” yet on most of the hands he was never in the lead.  I asked around and the other players said, “That’s the way he always plays”. This is nothing new – we have all been in games like this and seen players like this.  Usually I don’t give them a thought – I just try to get my share of the money they are throwing away.  But last night I started asking myself, “What can this guy be thinking?”  What keeps a guy like this coming back week after week when he always goes home a huge loser?  How do they convince themselves that they lose because of bad luck or bad dealers or that the other players just got lucky?  I don’t know – maybe it takes a shrink to understand this kind of thing.

Answer 1:

I have a little theory about players like this, based partly on my experience of my father’s attitude about golf.  See, my father never breaks 90 on 18 holes, yet he considers himself a good golfer, and is constantly “working” on his game.  He goes from being a pretty solid guy to being an absolute baby emotionally on the golf course- ranting, raving, throwing clubs, cursing, steaming, etc.  Yet he goes back again and again, always with the insane hope that “this time it will be different.” I’ve reached the conclusion that it is somehow *emotionally satisfying* for him to be a loser and a victim.  Poker seems to attract a few people with this same profile.  They self-sabotage, think they are good at the games, get stuck and steamed in a heartbeat, and piss money away in the silliest of ways.  And they keep coming back.  They are trapped by the gloomy glamor of being losers and victims.  I find it *very* unpleasant to be seated with them.

Answer 2:

I think some gamblers are afraid to win. For whatever reasons, they cannot conceive of themselves as winners. In many cases, I think the problem is that if they accept responsibility for how things turn out at the poker table, they will also have to accept responsibility for how other things turn out in their life. It wouldn’t surprise me if this guy has other problems he blames on his wife, employer, neighbors, etc.

Answer 3:

You make a good point. They lose on purpose.  They can’t stand to win; it would be contrary to how they feel about themselves. I see these born losers miss a hand and do bodily harm to themselves. Seen a guy bite himself until he bled.  Watched a guy rub 5 or 6 diamond tip stick matches with his fist on the table until they ignited and stuck to his fist.  All part of the disease.

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