The Most Horrible Quest in POTCO

[ruisen2000]

The most horrible and annoying quest is the Black Pearl Story Quest, where you get to Gunner and getting him rum.

First he tells you to sink like 20 Navy Colossus to get rum
Then he tells you to sink 20 more...
Then 20 more..
Then he tells you to sink ~20 Navy Predators
then 20 more..
and so on.....

Why can't he just tell us to sink everything he needs when you first talk to him, to make life easier?

I think the Poker quests are fine. I just go to Padres, and keep pressing "bet" until I win 500 gold, often losing ~ 50k gold in the process, but I can make that back at DH in like 10 minutes.
A good stratgy for Poker (after losing a few hundred thousand) is to keep pressing "raise" for the first 2 matches (won't work if there are other players). The NPC's often fold the first 2 time after pressing a few raises. Then exit game, relog, and repeat process.