Would $5,000 make or break you?

[punter]

Depending on the result I would be very happy or very sad but either way my lifestyle would not change.

 

[Riv34]

It would hurt a LOT

 

[soonerfanjames]

It would make it rain for a night.

 

[doubledeuce22]

sure would help, a lot.

 

[TomGshotput]

$5k down would suck, but wouldn't break me

$5k up would definitely make the year for me

 

[VIEJODINOSAUR]

Picking up 5 dimes would make for a great vacation somewhere for a week...

 

[MikRetSam]

just came from a poker game ... my buddy dropped bout 30k.....i picked up just a couple dimes.......sick crowd i hang with........won and lost 50k on a football weekend........ really did flip coins on teams for 5k........... its all relative i guess..... gl fellas

 

[silver7]

In my younger days, we'd flip a coin to see who went on patrol & who'd sleep in. It is all relative, I guess! The whole platoon couldn't have raised 5K!

 

[RobFunk]

When single making 50K 20 years nope it wouldn't -- I'd deal with it...

Making a lot more now with a wife and 2 kids it's a different story.

Oddly working in casino's it's the ones with the most money that bet the least, and the dirt poor brokest bet the most....

That's funny. I guess because the poor are trying to make it big and the rich just do it for a little bit of fun.

 

[JimmyDetroit]

That line made me smile, and it's very likely the only true thing said in this thread so far.

yes im a liar, I have never seen 5k, never played poker, and have never even bet on a football game, I come around here for the fine company

 

[harrington]

Down or up 5K would have no effect what so ever on my life at my age. I don't gamble with money I can't afford to lose.

 

[sean1]

Lost 18 last week. No impact.

 

[roundrobin11]

As a college student who works 2 shifts at the grocery store per week, Id say 2k would kill me. Theres alot of pressure on me to win every week when i bet (which doesnt always happen of course). But i really cant afford to lose at this point

 

[YourAllAmerican]

yes im a liar, I have never seen 5k, never played poker, and have never even bet on a football game, I come around here for the fine company

No, you're a $5,000 bettor who comes to an Internet forum for handicapping ideas.

Jimmy, I like most of your posts and I wasn't calling you out specifically, but you know as well as I do that there's a LOT of stretching of the truth throughout this forum. If everything was taken at face value, then we have to all believe MistaFlava is dropping 100-unit bets.

 

[CowboyT]

If I lost $5k in a day, I would get very drunk.

If I won $5k, I would get very drunk.

And yes, my wife would notice me drunk.

 

[CowboyT]

...then we have to all believe MistaFlava is dropping 100-unit bets.

wait, he doesn't bet $10k/game across 14 games every Saturday?!?!?

 

[YourAllAmerican]

If I lost $5k in a day, I would get very drunk.

If I won $5k, I would get very drunk.

And yes, my wife would notice me drunk.

The difference being in one case it's Natural Light and in the other it's Johnnie Walker Blue.

 

[Seymour]

Well LIV wanted 10k for a table on New Years and I told my buddy it's just not worth it

 

[WorldNumberOne]

it could help make me ..

 

[Tico]

+$5k would make a world of difference for me right now. (-)^^))