In the world of poker we hear stories all of the time about players who completely blow their budget making stupid bets but just how far would you go? Would you put up your new car as collateral or maybe the deeds to your house? But even if you were that far ‘on tilt’ would you gamble your daughter away playing a poker game?
Ismail Sheikh from West Bengal, India had been playing at a live poker game but was on a losing streak. The man had already blown all of his cash and many of his belongings during the game of poker before using his daughter to call a raise. He lost the poker hand to a man simply identified by authorities as ‘Mustafa’ who walked away with the distressed girl. When neighbours of the girl heard the news of the man’s foolish poker bet they went out in search of the missing girl and eventually found her and rescued her. The compulsive gambling man is said to have both an alcohol and a gambling dependency problem and since this latest losing poker session has been thrown out of his family home.
This really is a case of a poker player being ‘on tilt’ in the most extreme of cases. There are many ways to avoid being dragged into these situations when playing online poker games or live poker games but the most effective way to avoid going broke and gambling your daughter away is to observe the guidelines clearly laid out in our bankroll management article. Here you will find advice and techniques to avoid going broke and gambling away things that you shouldn’t when playing poker.
25/05/2010 15:17:17
