Honest Answer Pls

[Joseph Busti]

With a 0% chance of getting cought or anyone finding out, I would do it.

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If you were given the opportunity to cheat at high stakes poker with potential earnings at 5 figures weekly. honestly, would you take it?

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Nope.

Poker is a +EV hobby to me, cheating defeats the entire purpose of playing. It would be very sad if I needed to cheat to win money playing poker. No I can't even sit in with the $50 SnG's, but at least I feel good beating the $11 SnG's and $25NL ring games using my own skills.

Yes earning 5 figures a week would make me more money than I make now as an electrical enginerr...but...I could also make more money now if I sold drugs. I worked too hard to get where I am now in life, shortcuts seem to get people nowhere. To each his own, it's just not my thing.

[hotdog da 2rd]

bump.....

[flair1239]

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If you were given the opportunity to cheat at high stakes poker with potential earnings at 5 figures weekly. honestly, would you take it?

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No, I am no saint. I have done some pretty shitty things to people in the past. But at some point you have to be able to live with yourself.

I would derive no satisfaction from being a poker cheat. I would put them in the same category as welfare and disability abusers.

[sammy_g]

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If you were given the opportunity to cheat at high stakes poker with potential earnings at 5 figures weekly. honestly, would you take it?

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Been watching Tilt reruns?

Moral questions aside, the risk of getting caught is too great.

[Paluka]

This thread is basically asking if you would like to be a professional thief if you wouldn't get caught. Anyone who says yes to this is basically a scumbag.

[maryfield48]

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Honest Answer Pls

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Wrong forum.

[NorCalJosh]

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sure i would. thats a minimum of half a mill a year, do that for a couple years and invest wisely and your set. i'd feel bad for cheating people however. really.

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So, you'd feel bad? Oh, ok, then.

Would you hit an old lady over the head for $500K? No chance of getting caught. Would you?

Durr, well, I'd do it, but I'd feel bad about it. really.

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Rushmore, I did not say that I would hit old ladies. I said that I would cheat my fellow poker players at poker, essentially stealing their money. Yes, I realize that there is at least some expectation of integrity and honesty one might logically expect from his fellow human beings, but I have decided that although I call these people my peers, and I pretend to actually care about everything from humanity to my own personal dignity and integrity, I cannot help but realize that ultimately, I am nothing but a steaming pile of monkey chit.

But I feel bad about it, OK?

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haha nice post. and good prediction. sorry about giving you an aneurysm however.

now to be really honest with my answer.

i was raised in a moral home, and i think that all human beings have an inborn sense of morality within them. i was taught that if i felt badly about something, i probably shouldnt be doing it. cheating someone out of money falls into that category. as does hitting old ladies over the head. so no, i obviously would not do such a thing. it would take much more than 500k a year to get me to sell my soul.

[Rushmore]

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i was raised in a moral home, and i think that all human beings have an inborn sense of morality within them. i was taught that if i felt badly about something, i probably shouldnt be doing it. cheating someone out of money falls into that category. as does hitting old ladies over the head. so no, i obviously would not do such a thing. it would take much more than 500k a year to get me to sell my soul.

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I am happy to hear it, man.

[Rushmore]

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This thread is basically asking if you would like to be a professional thief if you wouldn't get caught. Anyone who says yes to this is basically a scumbag.

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That was basically my response, and it was met with disdain.

It's a damn shame.

People, that is.