Even though poker is a gambling activity I don’t associate neither term – poker or gambling – with something bad or unethical. It’s a game where one loses and one wins. Sure they play for big bucks but so do tennis, golf or football players.
However, there can be a really dark side to poker and especially gambling. To support this claim I am urging you to read an amazing story that is going on between two pro poker players, which urged me to let you know about it.
The story was posted as a blog entry on WiseHandPoker.com and its title “NEVERWIN IS A SCUMBAG…” summarizes the whole thing quite well – one poker player chases another player for money he once loaned him, thus he accuses him of being a scumbag.
In this case, the dog is Mark Newhouse and the rabbit is Dustin “Neverwin” Woolf. Whether you know either of these guys or not it sure is a juice piece to read.
I wonder how many such cases go on daily between “play-for-living” poker players and gamblers. But after all isn’t this how the whole business world works?
January 27, 2008 at 6:27 am
The dark side of gambling in general, dealing with dishonorable people.Just don’t loan money to gamblers period and you can avoid this whole issue, and yes I am a gambler myself.