It was 2007 that a punk rocker known as Jon “Skalie” Kalmar scared the living crap out of the final table members of the World Series of Poker Main Event. Kalmar ultimately finished in fifth place for a $1,255,069 score. Not bad for a self confessed degenerate gambler from the tough streets of Blackpool.
Kalmar has earned his living through gambling ever since that fabled day and he's decided to tell all in a new series of posts on Lil Dave Nicholson’s blog.
An excerpt:
Gambling is in my Blood, My Dad did it, my granddad did it and I am sure his father before him liked a little dabble too. The fact is everyone does. There might be people out there saying “I don’t gamble” but that just bollocks. Everyone does, just they don’t realise it.
Maybe it’s the odd pound on the pools or lottery disguised in the thought that you “donated to good causes”. Well those people kid themselves.
The excitement of the lottery may not be what it once was but many a ‘Non gambler’ would sit around the radio or TV on a Saturday evening checking the Footy scores hoping to bag eight score draws or 6 numbers from machine Arthur.
And while they do, they are not thinking about funding Opera companies and poor inner city play grounds either, much more likely they are thinking about phoning the boss Monday morning to tell him “You can stick your poxy job, you fat bald fascist bastard!”.
