[busyant]

> looking for soft players that I had datamined

I knew someone on the other end of this.

Back in the early 2000s, the wife of a guy I worked with fancied herself a decent poker player.

She lost some non-trivial amount of money in an online game and was worried about telling her husband.

So, she tried to win it back and lost even more.

I think you know where this is going (if not, see Gambler's ruin).

She lost all of their savings trying to break even.

Stopped paying the bills.

At some point in the ensuing months, my co-worker came home to an eviction notice (plus, his wife was hiding the letters threatening to shut off the heat, etc.).

---they got divorced.

[xwdv]

This is why you always keep separate savings accounts away from a spouse.

[amoss]

> Help me get to 1000 karma and I’ll stop posting forever.

This beautiful, it has a hook in both directions. Like a little piece of art sitting here on the site.

[mchaver]

I am downvoting xwdv because I want him to keep posting.

[Obscurity4340]

You just helped me notice/discover the downvote button. Still don't wanna use it tho, I like to focus on the positive except where there's an ultimatum like that lol. I will fall in line for the occasion

[busyant]

> This is why you always keep separate savings accounts away from a spouse.

Your username bio is hilarious--and it is also consistent with your advice.

Have an upvote (on your way to 1K)

[jrs235]

I just viewed their profile. They're at 999 karma. Trying to figure out if they have a bot monitoring their own karma that invokes a bot to down vote some other comments of theirs....

UPDATE: Something has to be involved... Or karma aggregation/recalculation isn't instant. I just upvoted their comment, they're still at 999. LOL.

[__s]

I was hoping they try to straddle 1000, while below 1000 they try post karma gaining comments, while above 1000 they try post karma losing comments, changing their bio depending on the mode (maybe having a bot maintain the bio)

[xwdv]

I don’t think I will ever truly reach 1000 karma.

[paulddraper]

Tragic.

[voitvod]

She is like a unicorn because I have personally never met a losing poker player.

Everyone is crushing it no matter what the rake in these games. "The games are all so soft". Sometimes they eventually though get bored of making all this money and move on to something else.

Same with sports betting now. "I win some, I lose some but overall I am up". Everyone says the same thing, even when betting on sports they don't even personally follow or watch.

You know what they say, the house always loses.