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It's Texas Hold'em with extra steps.
They are degenerate gamblers.
Gambling, in my personal opinion, is one of the absolutely most tragic and devastating dependencies there are, and I would include meth abuse among them. At least meth heads tend to live past 40 or so. You get gambling debts and you will be fitted with lead boots in the harbor. I lost my best friend to it, and I've seen others on the same path. Drugs are nothing compared to what gambling does to the brain. It's basically the same, only imagine a drug that you must take a new dose of every 0.82 seconds. Forever.
The shitty thing is, compared to drug addiction if you ODed usually you're the only one who got injured. But with gambling debt, even if you're already sleeping with the fishes, sometimes they still go after your family or business partners. That's what basically happened to my friend, his business partner drowned in debt, stole money from their business ventures and ran away, he's the one who must pay the debt because the dude promised he'll pay back after their business is up and running.
You hit the nail on the head.
Druggies may steal from you, but gamblers ruin the lives of everyone around them.
Funny you should say that by the way, and horrifyingly sad, but two Russians drove my friend to his mother's home in the middle of the night, shoved her in the car with her son, then was told to pay $10K (which was pure interest at that time) for her son's life. She did. A couple of weeks later he was dead, drowned about a hundred yards away his childhood home.
There was never ever ever ever any reasoning with him. The sheer number of girls he hustled, and by god the money they "gave" him, they were all permanently psychologically damaged after their encounters. Actually a very insane story. He was an amazing guy, literally everybody loved him. He walked into a room, a bar, a subway car... He dominated it instantly, like the lone hero out of some Western movie.
Sorry, I wax sentimental.
RIP Joni.
E: he actually came to me in those weeks leading up to his death and asked me, "if it was a matter of life and death, would you borrow me $10K?", and I answered, "No, because you'd be back next week asking for the same thing, and one day I'd say no and then you'd die anyway". We were always sarcastic and fuck you towards one another but like brothers you know. I didn't understand it at the time, but he was literally asking me to save his life. In hindsight, I don't know how to feel about it, because I was 100% right, yet, what kind of human wouldn't do anything to save their friend's life?
Fuck this woke some feels, sorry for ranting.