Gambled 100k on a franchise in 2006. sold it back 12 months later for 80k…
and was damn glad to get it.
The whole business went belly up 6 months after I got out.
Expensive lessons.
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[QUOTE=“Kinvara’s Passion, post: 1013838, member: 686”]Gambled 100k on a franchise in 2006. sold it back 12 months later for 80k…
and was damn glad to get it.
The whole business went belly up 6 months after I got out.
Expensive lessons.[/QUOTE]
christ, did you have 100k lying around?
i’ve lost tens of thousands
On gambling or on hookers?
Lost 350 old irish pounds playing acey deucy Stephens night 1998 at about 6am in the local. Had to borrow the cash from the landlord to pay up. Still fucking sickened
Edit, 1998!
The quickest way in the world to lose money. Lost £80 in about half an hour when I was about 17 and £80 was a lot of money-made me realise that gambling wasn’t for me though which was a good thing. Never do more than €20 or that if I do gamble.
Did I fuck.
I had a great bank manager though and no respect for money.
Swings and roundabouts… I took a chance in 2009 and bought a herd of light weanling bullocks. Sold them in 2010 and made a killing.
Lost 5k on smart telecom shares in 2008. Have made twice that on Nokia shares based on their current value.
Pure speculation but as long as you’re willing to pay the price and lie in your bed no matter what then it keeps life interesting.
You play it safe when family arrives but you never lose the hunger… ill be back working for myself again and chancing something else once I’ve a few short term financial goals achieved.
[QUOTE=“Kinvara’s Passion, post: 1013909, member: 686”]Did I fuck.
I had a great bank manager though and no respect for money.
Swings and roundabouts… I took a chance in 2009 and bought a herd of light weanling bullocks. Sold them in 2010 and made a killing.
Lost 5k on smart telecom shares in 2008. Have made twice that on Nokia shares based on their current value.
Pure speculation but as long as you’re willing to pay the price and lie in your bed no matter what then it keeps life interesting.
You play it safe when family arrives but you never lose the hunger… ill be back working for myself again and chancing something else once I’ve a few short term financial goals achieved.[/QUOTE]
A man after my own heart.
[QUOTE=“dancarter, post: 1013879, member: 122”]Lost 350 old irish pounds playing acey deucy Stephens night 1998 at about 6am in the local. Had to borrow the cash from the landlord to pay up. Still fucking sickened
Edit, 1998![/QUOTE]
Acey Ducey is one game that gets out of hand very, very, quickly.
I presume Acey Ducey is a derivative of In Between? A game that things can get out of hand in very quickly. Great craic:pint:
Ya, a big favourite of @Rintintin
The only game where everyone can sit down at the table with €50 and everyone gets up losing
Idiots.
A horse called The Humvee was my biggest folly. Blew a nice bit of cash on that monkey over the course of 2 years.
£20 on a three match accumulator in October 2000.
Owning horses is a pure mugs game. Barrio cost me the guts €10k over 2 years between buying in, training fees and gambling losses.
Have currently sank something similar into another business now but at least that’s showing signs of giving some form of return.
My actual gambling is usually fairly boring and risk averse so small stakes usually.
I forgot a big one.
I lost about €700 on a spread bet on Leigh Halfpenny’s performance in one of the Lion’s matches last year.
Good god that was a clusterfuck. Stay away from spread betting. It is not fun.
18/2/2002 Monica Seles lost to that bleedin half man, half biscuit Amelie Mauresmo - €5k. I had deposited €1k in Betfair at the beginning of 2002. Had got it up to €13k within 6 weeks. Then the losses, then the chase…
And Mac you are trusting my tips to send you to the Cotswolds!!!
interesting one this
Punters be warned, under Irish law winning gamblers have no legal guarantee of ever being paid a cent, a judge in the Circuit Civil Court has ruled.
Judge Francis Comerford handed down the judgment in a legal action brought by Sayed Mirwais against Automatic Amusements Ltd, which trades as D1 Casino, and also against casino director Michael Donnelly.
Mirwais had claimed that D1 Casino, of 63/64 Lower Dorset Street, Dublin, had refused to pay him €11,713 he had won after placing several bets on an automated roulette machine.
He said that on the night of March 2 and 3, 2015, he first won about €7,500. When he had wanted to cash it out, he had been given €2,500 in cash and €5,000 worth of chips, before being told to play more and he would be paid at the end of the night.
The court heard that after he won a further €6,713, he was told by a manager to cash out. When he had gone to the cashier counter he had been told the casino had no more cash for the night but that he would be paid the following day. He had also been told that an engineer would later check the roulette machine.
Mirwais (36), a married father of two with an address at St Mary’s Place, Phibsborough, Dublin, claimed the casino refused to pay him despite multiple requests.
He claimed he was allowed to continue playing on the roulette machine in the hope he would lose and the casino had no intention of paying him if he won. He said it constituted an unfair commercial practice.
Counsel for the casino, which had delivered a full defence to Mirwais’ claim, said there had been a “suspiciously high amount of money lost by the roulette machine.”
Mirwais denied that he found a flaw in the machine which allowed him to play even though the screen indicated ‘no more bets.’ The casino also claimed that he had been “under observation.”
The casino alleged that Mirwais changed the screen layout from single to double play mode in order to re-place a bet which had been placed in a previous game, enabling him to place a bet when the roulette ball had already settled. It had been unaware of the malfunction of the machine.
Mirwais, an afghan refugee who qualified as a doctor in his home country and who, the court heard, had, the night before the incident, lost €9,000 in the same casino, said he had won “fairly and squarely.”
“When I was losing my money, the machine was ok and the casino was happy to take it, but when I won, they wanted to investigate,” Mirwais told the court.
Judge Comerford said one needs to have considerable trust to put a bet on an automated machine when one cannot see what is happening. The judge said that he had to rely on the Gaming and Lottery Act 1956 which states that “no action shall lie for the recovery of any money or thing which is alleged to be won.”
“If you happen to be too lucky while placing a bet or gambling, the person can simply say ‘no you’re not entitled to the money’. That is simply the law in Ireland,” the judge said.
He dismissed Mirwais’ claim and refused an application by the casino for their legal costs on the basis that they had only furnished, by way of discovery, ten minutes of CCTV footage of the night in question.