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Originally Posted by VladtheImpaler
This guy is just a scrounger. I used to go to Vegas to play poker at least twice per year, and I would see guys like this all the time. In Vegas they were gambling degenerates but the same sort of profile, trying to hustle a buck here or a fiver there, so that they could lay down a bet on that sure-thing basketball game. Mostly they were pretty dumb but with some social skills, and after years of that sort of lifestyle, they were pretty adept small-time grifters. The standard profile is that they are white, usually from the southern states, what we would call white trash.
I think this dude is pretty much that individual - none too bright, but socially adept. I don't think his intent is even malicious - he sees himself as a victim of unfair life circumstance, so people ought to help him. And once you fall into that pattern, it seems a lot easier to scrounge that to work at Wal-Mart for $7.50/hr... I don't even dislike these people - they can be quite entertaining at the poker table, but you just have to be aware that at some point there will be an "ask"...
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Yep, great post, really sums up my opinion.
One of those guys perpetually down on their luck, eeking things out.
Harmless except for those that get burned, but even then, it's never about the money, just about the fact you were burned.