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Hi everyone, This is stealthmunk.
I'm the lucky tourney donkey who had all the cards fall his way one day and win 170k.
I've played "professionally," if you call it, for a couple years,paying for all my expenses and more as a teenager from online poker. Mymom was fine with the approximate 20k profit coming in over the firstcouple years, and used it to buy my car, etc.
I started playing poker more seriously this year, when I was 17, and inmy senior year of high school. I was in a 10$ freezeout donkfestwith a shittalking good player. I ended up getting his screenname. (He was LURPED, a former gamer like myself, turned poker pro. Heplayed that starcraft game while I was formally the #1 maddenplayer in the world) Later one sunday, LURPED invited me to achat room with pbdrunks, tekk/blofishmee, frinkx, other donkeys likethat. Sick players. I started talking to tekk on AIM a lot, railiinghim and pbdrunks, bel0wab0ve railingbigslick789/michael1123/actionjeff, and slowly pieced together some ofthe skills it took to be a winning MTT player.
Only problem was, I had no money. 5K I had won previously my mom,(whom I really can' t stand and I'll get to her later)wouldn't let meuse until I got into college. No problem, tekk just chopped upthe stars 530 and for some reason he trusted me to play for him. (He'sa reallly great guy, for every scumbag you here out there in thepoker world, there is just a genuinely good guy like tekk) Hestaked me in a lot of tourneys, letting me play for him on his namewhile he was in and out of the hosptial because his fiance/wife wassick. I ran really really bad for him, losing with AA countlesstimes, etc., but breaking close to even, grinding out hisFPPS for seats, and ev entually hitting a couple FTs tofinally yield him and myself a little profit. Without that time in mypoker "career", I wouldve never went on my 200k rush in June. Itamazes me that he trusted this kid that he's never met in reallife, only talked to online, with over 60k in his account attimes.
June happened, I destroyed hu, cash games,sngs, played a lot,my last month of high school before i graduated, abused idiots inchop of stars 530, ship the money to stealthmunk, bla blabla, you knowthe story....now lets flash back and go behind the scenes.
I started playing online poker when I was 15ish I'm pretty sure, maybe14.I watched WSOP and obv was hooked. I used to multiaccount theprima network 1k freeroll. loool, id sign up on severalskins,n go all in everyhand till i doubled up, n then switch toanother acct. I'll never forget that beat I took at the one FT i made of the 1k freeroll to go out tenth. KK ng toKTs.Soooooo sick. lol. I always was a little fucked up/depressed/notreally social. My mom really sheltered me and I never really likedher/cared for my family. I've really always been a loner myentire life.
14-16 ish I progress to homegames, ge t money on stars,first 50$ on stars-sattelite into a 215$ tourney...make final3tables..BOOM 2k lool. I 've never been down in mypoker career.Just was lucky enough to run good while i wassemi-clueless. Cash out a lot, bleh bleh, figure out sng,mak emistakes u know the bs uve read it in blog s everywhere,same for eve ry player. Get hooked on MTT bug in a little, onetime final table and chop 3hande d the stars afternoon rebuy andnightly 11r+1add in same day, wooooo 8k wooo. chop upa 109 freeze later that week wooo (loool i chopped somuch cuz i wa s so nervous with all that money on line) feh fehfeh bs bs. I go back to regular highschool cuz i make up abullshit stor y about getting bullied to get out of the privateschool my mom made me go to...where i playedfootball/wrestled/baseball everyday after school so not much time forpoker etc.
17-senior yea r highschool, schools pretty much a joke, i canplay poker all day afterschool, and still get A's. I get intocollege. I meet tekk etc.-win my money.
BOOM-The$.....
I've never liked my mom. Me and my mom have had ourdifferences from before I even knew what a flop /turn/riverwas. She's tried to get me sent away to lunatic asylum,bs suicidal/depression bs, forced me to go to private school.Overall, just been o verly, overprotective bitch, fuckingup my life/mybrothers etc. Something went wrong in her hea d I think when sherecovered from cancer a while back. And my dad is a complete whippedbitch, who has no say in anything, and has no friends, its sick.This mom, is the only dictator /runner of life.
I hide the $ from my mom, but at my friends tennis meet, one ofthe kids at my highschool mentions the money to my mom, notknowingmy relationshipwith her. I didn't realize how many kids actually wer e railing me at that final table. She flips out.Comes home while i'm at friends house. All the $s gone.
Accounts in he r name, I'm 17, I'm helpless, no legal rights. Itilt, tilt tilt tilt tiltli ke no other. Prolly lose 15-20k in tilt that i haveleft. I slept in my car for a week because mymom was bugging me out so much about the $/life, that I thought shemight kill me. I'm going practically insane. (I am insane now,literally haven't slept in over 30hours) and I take my car into therepair shop (the batterys/lights messed up) and my mom flips. I havebeen up for over 30 hours, and she know s that, and I go tdropped off of my friend s house last night. She's the most uptight/anti-drinking/anti-drugs/anti-life mom ever. It was so badthat my friends realized it , and wouldn' t pick me up for sophomore/junior year/ let me hang out with them because of how crazyshe was. Senior year came along, I bought my car,(FREEDOM WOOOOO)and cuz i was shelteredforever, and didn't even do anything but pokertill january of senior year, i started partying hardcore on weekends.binge drinking for sure, i might be an alcoholic. got in a fightwith my friend black eye, lied about it . One time my friend wasdriving me home from my car while I was trashed, and he'sdeathly afraid of spiders. There was a spider on the dashboard ni punched it n fucking diesel punched a hole right thru the fuckingwindshield. lied bs about that. my parents catch on to medrinking. But I obv can't say I do/be striaght cuz my moms a psycho.Welll, summer comes. I stay awake till 7 am every night,partying a lot, playing poker a lot, having fun with the last summer i have with my friends. bla bla bla.
Long story short, poker ruins lives/makes people insane. I just gotin vicious fight withmy mom cuz she thinks I drive drunkeverynight and am snorting cocaine to lose weight. (I'm an uglyoverweight antisocial fuck up who didn't go t o his senior promor even graduation who just lovesto drink with his friends because itshis only escape from the harsh reality of world) I'm going insane.
Anyways, I deleted stealthmunk, and other names, I might be taking abreak fr om poker, I might be back. If i scroung e togethermoney/find $/get money from that bitch of mom that stole virtually allof my money.I'll probably be back.WCOOP? possible. Turning stonein august ill prolly get a fakeid but can't really announceanyone that I'm stealthmunk. SO W/E
I LOVE U P5s I L OVE U STARS EVENTHO U MAKE ME INSANE N ISHOULD BERICHBUT IM REALLY JUST BROKE LOINELY SFUADJKCKIAN#^OI#@N^IO@^O@#IN
376HTEWIA#
36HOURS NO SLEEP ISH GOING SINSANE I PROLLY UST RAMBLED FOREVER IPROLLY WILL GET THIS DELETED BUT THIS IS A PHAT STORY >-623.
KIDS DONT FKING GAMBLE UNDERAGE, IKNOW UR GOOD AT IT N ULLMAKE LOTS OF $ BUT STRESS/EXTRA PRESSURe/DEALING WITH FK UPPARENTS ISNTWORTH IT. ULL REGRE T IT IN LONG RUN
EVEN THO IM VIRT BROKE NOW ID TRADE ALL MY $ I HAVE IF I COULDV E HAD A HAPPIER LIFE. UR ONLY FKING 15-25 ONETIME. DONT FUCKING WASTE IT PLAYIN G ONLINE POKER. ENJOY LIFE.
btw, i know of at least 3 other sub 18 yearolds that haveprofitted a lot of money over 70k each fro m onlinepoker. there are a lot of them, that s not including the famousozzy87s/actionjeffs.
f life
im going legally insane
seriously
someone
shoot me.
PREDICTION GB MANTIS WI NS 2500 PL HOLDEM WSO P TOMORROW
is all, odds are this trainwreckof a post gets deleted/no1 willread it peace. i 'm just ramblingcuz it s 36hours no sleep, allmy firends are sleeping n i need to stay awake til l i find a place togo cuz i can't stand being in this shitholehouse. -
A few bits advice:
a) Threatening suicide in an online forum is no joke bud. Unless you want the authorities to show up at your residence and probably make things worse, I would remove those portions of your post (true or not). As much as this is a supportive community, it is not the place to come for psychological help of that magnitude, and you're putting pressure on the administrators of this forum to intervene and call the authorities by posting this kind of material on their board.
b) You're young. As bleak as things seem now... you're young. In 10 years... you'll still be young. Calm down and collect yourself. Other than an overbearing mom, it sounds like you lead a relatively decent life if you're able to party as much as you do, have friends, a place to sleep, food to eat, booze to drink and an internet connection on which to play poker. Put things in perspective, with, say, the homeless guy who sleeps on the steps of the church beside my office, or your average family in Lebanon right now just praying a rocket doesn't fly through their window. -
not threatening suicide champ
RIP stealthmunk is figurative because the names never gonna be used again. -
jesus how much dough did mum take?
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Okay, and what about:
"im stoppin g now rambling and probably gonn a overdose or something"
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Stealthmunk,
Believe me when I say that live isn't as hard as it seems. You can and will make it on your own soon. Your mom may not seem like the best person, but she probably has good intention but simply doesn't know how to implement them.
I think you should go have a REAL talk with your mom and/or dad. You should seriously sit down with them and (NO YELLING OR ARGUING) just be real man! Be totally honest with them, you are a grown man now and will soon be making decisions for yourself.
I know that all this may seem like it really sucks and just isn't worth it, but look at all the things you have to look forward to. Don't let one or two people pull you down. There are lots more people like the Tekk guy you referred to out there. Simply surround yourself with people that help you be who you want to be.
I wish I knew more ways to portray my point. I do want to remind you that drinking/drugs do absolutely NOTHING to help any situation. To some they are simply just fun and recreational, but they become a problem when they are a necessity. They won't just 'wash away the problems' but they will cause more.
Stealth, I do hope you seek someone that you can really talk to about this and maybe this is your parents. They may just not know how you really feel because either you have been quiet or you have only argued and yelled. This is likely true from their side too.
Good luck in your journey and please seek someone to really talk to about all this.
for what it's worth,
beauright -
Flatted by all the outreach/nice people in community.
Just felt like sharing an interesting story.
Not looking for help.
America loves tragedy/confrontation.
Thats why they but the tabloids.
Thats why people stop to watch car wrecks.
Just figured I'd share this trainwreck/vent/blow off steam. I'm going to try to sleep now at a friends house....w/e don't even know why iposted, weird mood, i was talking to gbmantis n i never talk to him looool. u do fucked up shit when not sleeping in over 35 hours.
gl everyone at tables
gbmantis wins 2500 wsop tomorrow guranateed.
i'm out -
I can believe this is the same kid who said at the Final Table and I quote "Im five times the player you are" Where is the self-confidence bro? You are way too young to be so negative.. Gee your mom doesnt like it because your underage and your drinking and gambling. If she wasnt I would be more worried about her than you. I dont know what else to say. Maybe you should go away to college or something. You obviously can make $$ at this game. Find some balance. Have fun. Your not even 20. And get some perspective. Watch the news about people in Lebanon or Israel or Iraq or New Orleans.. You really got it good bro. GL to ya.. CT PWNS!!
FINK -
sup stealth
you will be back no worries
gl with your struggles
***PS. To all that read my reply to how a homeless guy took a man off tilt, this is what im talking about. Poker makes people nuts, and it really starts to deteriorate alot of peoples lives***
I believe i got called "ignorant" for thinking this, and someone also said that "the ups and downs of poker are fun!". Nah dude, im not ignorant i speak the truth, and nah dude, the Ups of poker are unreal, and the downs of poker are disasterous. -
What is the actual reason your mom had for taking the money away? Don't just say because she doesn't like you. Is it for protective reasons, and she's holding it for you? Or is it because she is a greedy bitch and wants a new house?
Anyway, aside from that one part of the story, you sound just like any other rebellious 17-year old kid. Life isn't supposed to make sense yet, and it's okay to fuck up every now and then. Get it out of your system while you're young, learn to take it easy with the alcohol, and center your life around the people you care about. -
Your story is the reason why I worry about younger players. I don't do mean to be condescending in any of my posts, I just worry to death that it is very tough for younger players to find balance in their lives when they are still terribly unsure about who they are...
There is more to life than poker, and if you allow yourself to become so immersed in the game you can wake up an anti-social and dissattached from society recluse. This may be extreme, but all players who have become obsessed with the game understand what I am talking about.
The beauty of life is that on any given day you have the ability to reinvent yourself. Take a step back. Find other areas to occupy your time, go to church, see a movie, whatever it is that surrounds you with other people.
Above all figure out a way to give back to the game of poker, such as helping an up and coming player with his game etc., Feed your soul by helping others... it is the surefire cure to make yourself feel better. I have always had a sense that you are angry about life in general. Obviously you have your reasons as per your post. Let it go, today is a day for change.
Gl,
Chris. -
My Mom really doesn't understand the ups and downs of poker.
She just sees I lost 4k. And assumes cocaine.
(Really bubbled two 555 sngs, went to 6flags, and got stacked with overs and flush draw vs top pair at 10-20nl)
lol.
ignorance is bliss.
f variance
blame it on the cocaine. -
ah, the old gidders stop and go "i'm quitting" post, you'll be back after you straighten some shit out as you have your whole life ahead of you to do some amazing things - the first step is realizing that you need to take a break, so with that said, have a nice break!
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Good luck man, I hope you figure out a way to get that money from your mom.....
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I feel for the kid, but I agree with AFink:
The fact that your parents can afford to put you in private school puts you way ahead of the game, son.
You do have some sort of issue/chemical imbalance thing to deal with. Don't hate your mother for wanting you to get help for that. -
mom pwns
gg -
Best of luck. It definitely can mess with your head, good luck quitting, enjoy high school and college.
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i never said i was quitting....sigh....
just playing on other accounts which i obv can't share cuz im 17.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
still not sleeping
im insane -
No, you are the Holden Caulfield of poker.
Get help. -
There is more to life than __________, and if you allow yourself to become so immersed in __________ you can wake up an anti-social and dissattached from society recluse. This may be extreme, but all players who have become obsessed with __________ understand what I am talking about.
This is not to disagree, it's just to illsustrate for those of you who would use this as evidence of the "evils of poker," that it applies equally to any activity you do in life in which you must find a balance.
For my roommate in college, the __________ was "Everquest," and it had as devestating an impact on his life as poker ever could have. -
Great player, but you cheated, you werent old enough to be playing. I cant understand how you guys can condone his playing and gripe about others that cheat.
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Sir, you and I have a vastly different definition of the word "cheat."
I think you should look it up. -
You have come back and basically discounted anything you said in the original post, so honestly I don't know what to say.
If you are having any of these problems then there has been some good advice given in this thread, take it.
If you are not having any of these problems, then I'm not really sure why you posted in the first place. -
lots of pressure on GB tomororw in the PL event. similar to Coop Cooper having to hit 3 homeruns in baseketball that he dedicated to little timmy.
i wish u good luck stealthmunk, things always find a way of turning out for the best, i hope the same for you.
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