[Blarg]

I couldn't think of a worse thing to do than lend people money to gamble with. Especially friends. Friends are too valuable to waste, and human nature being what it is, sooner or later some of them wind up screwing you, and some even wind up expecting you to not be bothered by that or pretend it never happened, adding insult to injury.

An awful side to it is that some chumps will pressure you that you're not much of a friend if you won't even loan them money. But if you have to pay for a friend, he's not a friend anyway.

Besides, if they don't have enough money to pay you before they've even played, what are they going to pay you with when they bust out?