I thought this might be an interesting article to list as I started this new site less than 2 weeks ago. This site is all about debt and all that goes with it. I barely had this up and running and I was getting emails from people telling me their debt stories and I have no place to put them, so I thought I’d add them here until I’m ready for them, so here it is:

To whom it May concern,

I realized that you started this new site and wanted to hear about debt and all the stories people have, good or bad. Well, I have an interesting story for you, not one that many people agree with, but one that I did and that paid off in a big way. I graduated from Ohio State in 2005 and had no idea what I wanted to do in life. He had about $ 60,000 in student loans and was being “murdered” (sorry, but didn’t know what other word to put there) for the interest on the loans, as you know a lot of us students are. I worked hard and tried to pay for this during school and didn’t have much luck with the cost of living.

So one day I was surfing the net and I saw all these articles about online poker and I said what the heck, let’s try it, one site was offering a 100% match on my deposit. Now I am from a very religious home and gambling is not tolerated.

So here it goes, I deposited $ 800.00, it was the last money on my student loan and well, I raised $ 500.00 in the first 10 minutes, I thought AWESOME, here I go. I played for several hours and didn’t move much that day. So the next day I woke up and played again I raised $ 2500.00. I was about to roll on the ground. So I thought I was going to go get something to eat, I went home and went back to playing. Now I think I have problems with the game. So I thought if I went higher I would quit. Well that never came, I dropped $ 600.00

The next day, a Sunday (God’s day) haha, I thought it was good, today I’m going to win. He didn’t play for 20 minutes and he was broke. I LOST IT ALL I didn’t know what to do when talking about depression. So let’s go back to the drawing board. I started mowing the lawn and was making quite a bit of money, but the excitement of winning that money playing poker never left my head.

Now that everyone thinks I have a gambling problem, I went ahead and played for FREE this time and entered a FREEROLL tournament (it is a tournament where you can play and win small amounts of money or entries in larger tournaments), so I play about 20 tournaments. he lost them all and began to give up. There was one more tournament at 9:30 pm for free entry to a big tournament. The problem was, there were 2500 people playing for this. Well, I played and 8 hours later I won the tournament and I was in the big tournament.

So the following Saturday is the big day. Well, I was 30 minutes late, I was down in a big way, but I was still in the tournament, just sitting on all hands. 7 1/2 hours later I was the winner of $ 100,000.00 Yes, I couldn’t believe it and I still don’t believe it but here I am today debt free of $ 60,000 and ready for the wonderful game of life.

To this day I have not played online poker or any type of game. I thought my wish was granted

HEALTH

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