Cleveland Guy
12-13-2004, 12:14 PM
I used to be one of those who thought that this "Cashout Curse" was made up mainly by losing player and paranoid people who figured someone was out to get them.
I have made cashouts in the past - and never seen anything different in my play. In fact I tend to make fun of and riddicule those who come on here and complain about the curse. Well This weekend has changed my mind.
Just as a background, last week I won an MTT for $1400 on a $10 entry. I have also been running well as of late, and figured it was time to claim some of my winnings.
The Fed-ex arrived at my house on Friday when I got home for work, a nice check, that I wanted to get to the bank before anything happened and I misplaced it.
On my way to the bank, which is all of about 6 blocks away - I got pulled over for "Not coming to a complete stop"
That screams to me of " I need to give out more tickets to reach my quota"
It was the intersection of 2 side streets with no cars coming, and I guess the car when down that I only saw the headlights of was a police car. Well - there goes $75 of my winnings.
I get back home from the bank, and start to help out with the dinner we are having for our friends. I go to turn on the garbage disposal in the sink - and it spouts back up at me. Yep , that's right the garbage disposal broke.
We have to figure out how to carefully finish making the dinner, and also clean up the kitchen a little bit with no garbage disposal, and a sink that now won't drain right.
I head out Saturday morning to the local home depot and drop $150 on a new garbage disposal. after 2 hours of work and many many curse words, I manage to get it installed and running - GO ME!!
So within the first 4 hours of recieving my cashout I have to drop over $200 of it to a stupid ticket, and fixing something up in my house.
If this doesn't convince you that there is a cashout curse- nothing will.
I have made cashouts in the past - and never seen anything different in my play. In fact I tend to make fun of and riddicule those who come on here and complain about the curse. Well This weekend has changed my mind.
Just as a background, last week I won an MTT for $1400 on a $10 entry. I have also been running well as of late, and figured it was time to claim some of my winnings.
The Fed-ex arrived at my house on Friday when I got home for work, a nice check, that I wanted to get to the bank before anything happened and I misplaced it.
On my way to the bank, which is all of about 6 blocks away - I got pulled over for "Not coming to a complete stop"
That screams to me of " I need to give out more tickets to reach my quota"
It was the intersection of 2 side streets with no cars coming, and I guess the car when down that I only saw the headlights of was a police car. Well - there goes $75 of my winnings.
I get back home from the bank, and start to help out with the dinner we are having for our friends. I go to turn on the garbage disposal in the sink - and it spouts back up at me. Yep , that's right the garbage disposal broke.
We have to figure out how to carefully finish making the dinner, and also clean up the kitchen a little bit with no garbage disposal, and a sink that now won't drain right.
I head out Saturday morning to the local home depot and drop $150 on a new garbage disposal. after 2 hours of work and many many curse words, I manage to get it installed and running - GO ME!!
So within the first 4 hours of recieving my cashout I have to drop over $200 of it to a stupid ticket, and fixing something up in my house.
If this doesn't convince you that there is a cashout curse- nothing will.