Poker leads to bank robbery

[ZenMusician]

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I believe this story is the centerpiece story of the upcoming movie "Poker Madness"

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I copyrighted my post (about 4 or 5 before yours).
You owe me $500.

-ZEN

I usually don't play the "who is more to blame" game, but this story could have just as easily been written with the primary culprit being credit card companies issuing credit to college students in excess of what they can afford.

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I usually don't play the "who is more to blame" game, but this story could have just as easily been written with the primary culprit being credit card companies issuing credit to college students in excess of what they can afford.

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How about this. Write it about a kid who has been successful in most endeavors and built up such hubris that he thought he borrow 5 grand to gamble. Then when he failed, he thought it was a better alternative to rob a bank than ask his Baptist preacher dad for help.

He is not a victim of cc companies, online poker sites or anyone else. He is the felon (allegedly).

[lefty rosen]

A gambling addict will lose because he is a gambling addict on tilt. Now if he didn't know he had these tendencies, then that's a different matter. A 5K debt for a student is huge(if it's credit not a student loan), but if he worked over the summer he could eliminate that debt in a few months, his robbing the bank is sign of deep seated issues with compulsion..... [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]

[lefty rosen]

Sure corrupt World Com and Enron executives make mean cellmates......... [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

[young nut]

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I believe this story is the centerpiece story of the upcoming movie "Poker Madness"

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I copyrighted my post (about 4 or 5 before yours).
You owe me $500.

-ZEN

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I was making reference to your post...you and your damn frivalous lawsuits. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[revots33]

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But the hobby quickly became an addiction that led Hogan to lose about $5,000.

It was that addiction that led him last week into a Wachovia bank in Allentown, where he handed a teller a note and calmly walked out with $2,871 that wasn't his, says his lawyer, John J. Waldron.

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ROBS A BANK - for 2800 bucks??? Weak-tight.

[young nut]

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But the hobby quickly became an addiction that led Hogan to lose about $5,000.

It was that addiction that led him last week into a Wachovia bank in Allentown, where he handed a teller a note and calmly walked out with $2,871 that wasn't his, says his lawyer, John J. Waldron.

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ROBS A BANK - for 2800 bucks??? Weak-tight.

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sounds more like a LAG to me

[Spicymoose]

Damn, the fish pool has shrunk slightly.

What a surprise. The dude's attorney is attempting to shift the blame from this moron to online poker. This kid sounds like on of the many people, oftentimes in college, who are capable of functioning well in a structured environment, but cannot handle the freedom that "real life" brings. I'm a college grad, so pllease don't think I am slamming students or college in general. I'm just saying that I have met numerous people that had super gpa's, but possessed the common sense of a kleenex. I'm guessing that this guy's ego was so fragile that he couldn't admit that he had a problem and had incurred this debt. Rather than just bite the bullet and ask for help, he chose to rob a bank (for less than he owed!). He deserves to sit in prison for a bit to reflect on his idiotic decision. One more thing, regulating online poker won't decrease this type of incident in the least. Examples of regulated items, through which people are still ruining their lives through addition include credit card debt, alcoholism and porn.