Need advice! Roommate issue......

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ZoNtO

ZoNtO

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I'm going through an ordeal with my roommate right now and I think I need a 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc... opinion about the matter.. My roommate and I took 1st and 2nd at a poker tournament two nights ago, first place was getting $100, second was supposed to get $30 and 3rd $10. I came back from being way short stacked to going head to head with him. I suggested we just split the 130 and get 65 each (both making 55 bucks since the buy-in was 10 bucks). He declines of course, and I go all in with two pair off the flop and he gets a str8 on the river. So then he goes to count money and counts out his 100, and there's only 20 left after that. (Basically either 3rd place, who ownsthe house, took 20 bucks, my friend took an extra ten while I wasn't looking, or the last guy that came didn't buy in <--- what I think happened)

So I'm like well that's gay, why don't you just give me 10 bucks then dude. It's a freaking 10% loss for him and a 50% loss for me! He says no, so I put a password on my computer and locked it all day yesterday as he and his brat girlfriend have become accustomed to watching movies and doing whatever they please on it while I'm at classes. So he gets pissed at me last night and asks me to unlock it and I'm like "No I'm not going to." "Why?!?!?" "Because I'm tired of getting taken advantage of and I don't want other people using my computer without asking or me there, that's why!" "You're gay dude" and he walks out. Quite frankly I don't give a crap right now, and he's always been so selfish like this. I talked to my other roommate and he agreed that he should have at least given me $10 and he said he would have just split it with me because we both make freaking $55!! I'm going to continue to lock my computer up when I'm not here and they're not going to use it until he does something to recompense for this. Also, it should be known that he has done this before with other poker games and frequently gets pissed off when he loses to me or anyone else which has happened a lot lately. Last time we played I beat him when he had pocket aces with my pocket 10's and he was irate. I don't feel sorry for anything and he needs to learn that being a roommate and a friend involves more than just living together, it's being fair and realizing where the other person is coming from.

What do you guys think? :roll:
 
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Isshinryu

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I think you're fecking immature. It's 10 bloody dollars and you're whining about it.

edited for redundancy
 
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Viper GTS

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IMHO fair would be to split the missing $10 - $95 for him, $25 for you.

Him giving you $10 != fair, regardless of the percentage of your winnings it represents.

He won, you lost. $5 would be fair.

Damn, I can't believe I missed the most important part:

Both of you need to grow the fvck up. Especially you, you're acting like a child. Petty acts of revenge should really be below you once you're old enough to use the internet.

I'll pay you $10 to not post here again.

Viper GTS
 
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PanzerIV

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I think you're right to be upset in general with his immature behavior. Losing is part of the game and if he can't handle it screw him. He doesn't have a God given right to use your computer either. Make him buy his own.
 
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rsd

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Obviously you guys aren't that good friends to be upset over $10. With my friends (even in college when we weren't working fulltime), owing each other a few bucks here and there isn't a big deal, it'll all come out basically even.
 
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z0mb13

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I love new college kids and their roomate situation

I predict 10000 threads about roomate issues in the next month or so


 
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Yossarian

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I think you and your roommate should stop using the phrase "that's gay". Oh, and you're an idiot.
 
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Tremulant

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I don't like other people on my computer either, but $10 isn't anything to fight over.
 
Phoenix86

Phoenix86

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Originally posted by: Nitemare
I think you two should just have sex and get it over with.
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Then they would just b!tch about who gets topped.

I would have split the 55 with you, if we were friends. You both would have come out ahead, taking other people's $. Fair would be to split the loss $5/each. However, bickering about $10=you lose.

I wouldn't let them touch my PC anyways. 5 minutes of retards on a computer can mean 2 hours of clean up.
 
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imported_earthslash

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Yeah... these problems seem real serious.

Lots of people are sore losers, its something you may need to
communicate with him about if you actually want to solve your problem.
 
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mugs

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You lost 33%, not 50%. I think you're both handling it badly. Split the $10, there's no reason either of you deserve it more than the other. He only got it because he counted out his $100 before you got your money. If necessary, work it out so you both get an equal percentage of the money you were owed.

You would get $27.70 and he would get $92.30 that way. I'd just split it $95/$25 rather than getting that anal about it.
 
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zixxer

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to continue on



I agree with phoenix and everyone else. I probably would have either split it or suggested to use it all for alchohol or to take our g/f to a nice place to eat or something.




Also; letting them use your computer is a BAD IDEA. PERIOD. do what my roomie and I do; share a folder and put movies and junk in there.
 
HardcoreRobot

HardcoreRobot

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he won, you lost, but that doesnt mean he should get penalized for the missing pot money. All 3 winners should have taken the hit... or hit the guy that didnt pay up.

he is being petty / immature by not offering to split the difference ($5), and so are you by being passive aggressive with your computer
 
ZoNtO

ZoNtO

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This isn't the only time this has happened though, and we were friends in high school too, not just college. It's just his personality I guess, you have to know him to fully understand where I'm coming from. One time I paid his buy in to play, and then he complained when I asked for the 10 back out of the 14 he came out with total. Another time with the same group, I was 5 dollars short from my chip winnings somehow and every one of them gave me a dollar except him (I was only short 1 dollar after they all chipped in as there were 6 people total). Not to mention the fact that bitching about 10 dollars might not seem a lot to you guys, but that's a freaking months laundry or a 1/2 weeks groceries for me as a poor college student. His parents, grandparents, aunts, etc... come up every week to visit and they go grocery shopping then so he does NOT have to buy food at all.

Also, I must mention that I've put the lock on the computer before not just since the poker game. I just decided that if he is going to be selfish about money then I will be selfish about my computer. He has his own damn computer, which I built for him and he knows NOTHING about computers (as in I tell him to save something to the hard drive and he doesn't know what that means). I put hours of my time into buying components and stuff over the AT forum in order to build it for him, and he didn't even do anything nice except a short thank you when he got home from work that day. So he uses my computer when he can use his, but he's too lazy to get his internet configured (proxy settings at our college have to be bypassed by going to some Help Desk place and applying for your own IP address, which I told him how to do BTW).

I'm tired of being used and taken advantage of, doing nice things and then getting treated like sh!t. If I had gone to count out my 30 first, how would he have felt if he only got 90. I don't know about you guys, but I'd freaking be ecstatic about 90 bucks and I can honestly say that if we had our roles reversed I would with no objection give him the 10. Maybe I'm just too nice, but I have to draw the line somewhere....
 
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acemcmac

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Whenever I play poker, it comes out so that in the first round the winner buys pizza and beer with the winnings and gets his buy-in back...

needless to say... I only play the first round
 
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