Kind of felt like that -6 was too delicious sounding, of course what should have been an easy cover for Dallas turned into the Giants with the points type of game
Massive day today, I almost cashed out my big parlay at $150 but said screw it and waited to see how Colorado would do and they won, at that point I had a $300 cash option, so I figured since my investment was so low I might try to hit the middle with a Penn State bet and I cannot believe it hit.
I was reading a lot on the Penn State Illinois game and most of what I read was Penn State was going to win but couldn't get a lot of solid info, I figured they would win but maybe by 2 TD's and I had an extremely lucky guess.
i get conspicuously lazy with my typing. ain't nobody got time for proper capitalization and punctuation. i even condense users if i feel they require too much effort. i can handle bgr, darin and stevek because they are 3, 5 and 6, respectively, but then i get to bluejayway and I'm like, i love you man, but no. first time i tried to shorten his i typed out bjway, then i posted my thought. i went back and reread and was like, oh yikes, that's just not gonna work. so blue it is.
good luck with your wagers, blue.☝️
i placed zero bets last weekend, which is a strategy i probably should have employed throughout the duration of this thread. i was gonna drop a bag on the Cowboys' ML, which would have hit, but then i would have turned right around and made it evaporate via the Eagles and Cardinals -- two teams that got their doors blown off.
i am very much not in tune with the NFL. from one week to the next i don't know what to expect from almost every team in the league. like how do the Ravens throw up all over themselves at home against the Raiders, then do a 180 and take undefeated Buffalo behind the woodshed. pop tarts like that. so much parity. look at the lines this week. very few more than a field goal.
take tonight's game, for instance. if anyone says they have a good feel for Tampa at ATL they are a pathological liar. i'd play Russian roulette before i'd bet my life on this game.
Bottom line, if blackjack were truly a game of skill whereby sharp players could make money against the casino, the casinos would have simply stopped offering blackjack as they did the pinball machines.
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My apologies to @galaxy27 and his sports gambling thread. I waited nearly 2 weeks to reply out of respect. I promise I will post some $1 parlays today.
The casinos were originality proposed to the Missouri voters as only offering "games of skill" i.e., blackjack and poker, with the aforementioned $500 loss limit and 2 hour cruise times. This was early 90's with the casinos legalized in 1993. They were legally required to provide blackjack based on the voters' referendum, AND had to tolerate card counters and other pro types. All because of the "game of skill" designation.
Keep in mind that "Bringing Down the House" was published in 2002. I only referenced it so you could get an idea of the the 90s scene. I don't know if the tales in that book are factually true or not, however, I can tell you that that similar stories have been lived out first hand by many from that period. The book is entirely plausible, if not fact.
Early on, the Missouri casinos were getting slaughtered by the experienced blackjack player. They couldn't take enough from the small-time timid weekend gamblers stepping into a casino for the first time to make up for the massive losses to the real, experienced players.
The casinos lobbied the public for another vote, hoping to add slot machines, craps, and other games of chance, also, remove the $500 loss limit and the 2 hour cruise times. The next year, they got the games of chance approved, but kept the loss limits and 2 hour cruises for quite a few more years before those were finally dispatched with. The casino heads were always whining in the media about how much they were losing to the big blackjack players. Here's an article from the Kansas City Star, February of 1997.
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Look, I've had the same default avatar since I joined. I rarely post anything but junk era cards on the other forum. I post $1 parlays. I'm not going out of my way to impress anybody. I don't need to try to prove anything. I've already lived it. I could tell you stories about the wins and losses, the perks, the places they flew me, the stuff they comped me, but I'm sure they would just be dismissed as unbelievable stories.
The only plaudits I seek from forum members here, is just remember, I was the one first banging the drum that Trouty is overrated, and one of the biggest chokers in the game, going back to when I first joined the forum in 2017, and well before that IRL. LOL!
As far as the casinos not offering blackjack anymore, most do not, in the sense that you can find a straight blackjack game. They've added all of the various side bets like 21+3 and 777 and "Playing with the Queen of Hearts" and I don't know what else. All to bring people into the game that normally wouldn't plop their money down. I feel that card counting gets romanticized way too much as an intentional misdirection by the casinos. I'm sure there are some Raymond Babbitt type players out there that can really be successful at it, but most people, it doesn't help them one iota, except to give them false confidence. The casino keeps offering up blackjack because the vast, vast majority of the people read a book, watch a movie, see the pros (or Ben Affleck) with the spotlight on them, and think, hey, I can do that, too. The casinos will tolerate the winners because it gives the losers something to aspire to be.
There's another guy on the forum that has basically laid out how to play the game, and I agree with at least 98% with what he has posted. Many people gamble with the idea that they want to win, say, $500 in a night. You should think about it in a different way. You should try to win $5. Then win $5 more. And do that 100 times in a night. It sounds easy, right? Tonight your base unit is $5. Next month, it's $25. Next year, it's $100.
There's another guy on here that posted he was a pit boss at one of the Albuquerque casinos. I've been all over to play, been to the Albuquerque casinos multiple times, and probably played while he was working. I bet he would tell you that the most dangerous player in the casino is a smart, disciplined blackjack player playing on house money. Because once they get in the black, they usually stay in the black. Sometimes their visit ends with just a small win, but sometimes it snowballs.
Anyway, here's some $1 parlays. Hoping to get my snowball going.
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And for variety, a "sure thing" teaser.
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Ive been to Vegas four times, St. Louis where I swear I played blackjack next to Angelina Jolie, KC, the gulf coast and Arizona and maybe a few other places but the craziest blackjack game, or player I guess was my local casino. A guy was playing 3k per hand and playing two spots so 6k every hand. Doubling down and splitting whenever it was allowed, didn’t matter if the dealer was showing a face card or six. Any opportunity to split or double down he did it. So I would actually see him lose 12k per hand at times because he was bad. no emotion. About 45 years of age or so, lady sitting beside him about 70. Not playing just watching. No emotion from her either and I don’t even remember hearing either one of them talk.
Really crazy money being lost but she didn’t seem to mind.
I mean I’m assuming her money would sugar momma be the correct description?
And my above story….. I’m not saying that’s the most money I’ve seen gambled at blackjack, just the largest amounts where a player completely minimized his chances of success.
Lot of action this weekend, I am a little pissed at myself for putting in such a large College Parlay but I sincerely thought it was an easy one so I deserved to lose that bet. I did win $200 at the casino and between $200 and $250 at my Poker game at my house, I can't remember the exacts since it was a complete drunken degenerate acting filled Saturday but had fun!
Some of these look like a license to print money. But what do I know? My Tyreek call died like a pig.
Prop bets a harder than they look
Barkley gets hurt or by some weird set of circumstances the Eagles could be up 21 to 0 after the first quarter and Barkley could have 17 yards on 4 carries then they don't pound the ball with him for the rest of the game
Or he could run for 180.yards and 4 TD's lol
I wonder if somebody put 8 dimes to win 1k on the Saquon Barkley 40+ Yards, and he picks up 39 yards on the first play of the game. But gets injured and is out for the rest of the game. If DraftKings would offer at least a partial refund?
😂😂😂😂😂
Perhaps it was Barkley that was placing the wagers.
Put in $400 plus in bets and got rolled hard, bunch of "Fun looking sneaky cute parlays" that all got destroyed lol
Brutal.
It's my own fault, every year I do the same thing with these big parlays, 2 weeks ago I hit a $1000 parlay on a $15 play which was complete luck, I know better but they look so inviting lol
Rough weekend, lost $900 in the games and $600 at the casino so it was a total abomination of drunk gambling that cost me $1500
in my degenerate thought process I almost put $1000 on the Giants last night, but thankfully I realized that I pushed my limit to the extreme and had enough sense to say "Enough is enough" and didn't bet, after all the dust settled I am glad I didn't get stupid.
I just have to take my loss like a big boy and get back to my $200 to $300 weekly limit, in my mind I knew I hit for $1400 2 weeks ago plus $300 last week so in my mind that was as far as I would go.
Sucks I gave it back but I came out of it with a real good reminder at how dangerous gambling can be.
There's a thousand and one, and more various theories about gambling. Of course quitting altogether is always an option. But as has been stated numerous times out there, the next best thing to gambling and winning, is gambling and losing. IE that adrenaline rush thrill.
That being said, if ya enjoy that thrill, and admittedly it can be very enjoyable. So I think some good advice would be if you're on a heater stay with it. But if you're losing, don't chase your losses as Perkdog so wisely did in a disciplined manner.
Many years ago, I'm at an A/C quarter craps table with a good friend from high school. I'm holding my own, winning a few dollars. But he's mainly playing the prop bets, and hitting them like wild fire. Hardways, etc, I never seen anything like it. So he's up a few dimes, and throws a $100 chip out there and says hard 12. Well as sure as green apples, the roll comes up two beautiful 6's on the dice and he nets 3 grand for the bet. He's now up about 5k, and he says to me, I'm done. I gently snap back at him words to the effect like are you kidding, you're red hot, you can't stop now. But he did stop and he said to me you go ahead and play as long as ya want, I'll wait for ya, no problem.
To this day, I wonder how much money he may have won if he had stayed there. Yea I know, dice have no memory, and each roll is random. But those long time gamblers know for whatever reason, luck can have inexplicable cycles at times, both good luck and bad luck.
I've seen it with some WSOP winners. I'm not going to mention the name, but one WSOP winner around 15 years ago, he's really a chump poker player. But during that tourney, he was getting the hottest cards I've ever seen, and he took home first prize.
Bottom line, let the heater run, and run and run. But when you're cold, don't and I repeat don't chase the losses. For the most part this will keep you out of trouble, and I've seen too many gamblers over the years get into a whole lot of trouble because they didn't have the discipline to quit as Perkdog wisely did when you're cold as ice.
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There's a thousand and one, and more various theories about gambling. Of course quitting altogether is always an option. But as has been stated numerous times out there, the next best thing to gambling and winning, is gambling and losing. IE that adrenaline rush thrill.
That being said, if ya enjoy that thrill, and admittedly it can be very enjoyable. So I think some good advice would be if you're on a heater stay with it. But if you're losing, don't chase your losses as Perkdog so wisely did in a disciplined manner.
Many years ago, I'm at an A/C quarter craps table with a good friend from high school. I'm holding my own, winning a few dollars. But he's mainly playing the prop bets, and hitting them like wild fire. Hardways, etc, I never seen anything like it. So he's up a few dimes, and throws a $100 chip out there and says hard 12. Well as sure as green apples, the roll comes up two beautiful 6's on the dice and he nets 3 grand for the bet. He's now up about 5k, and he says to me, I'm done. I gently snap back at him words to the effect like are you kidding, you're red hot, you can't stop now. But he did stop and he said to me you go ahead and play as long as ya want, I'll wait for ya, no problem.
To this day, I wonder how much money he may have won if he had stayed there. Yea I know, dice have no memory, and each roll is random. But those long time gamblers know for whatever reason, luck can have inexplicable cycles at times, both good luck and bad luck.
I've seen it with some WSOP winners. I'm not going to mention the name, but one WSOP winner around 15 years ago, he's really a chump poker player. But during that tourney, he was getting the hottest cards I've ever seen, and he took home first prize.
Bottom line, let the heater run, and run and run. But when you're cold, don't and I repeat don't chase the losses. For the most part this will keep you out of trouble, and I've seen too many gamblers over the years get into a whole lot of trouble because they didn't have the discipline to quit as Perkdog wisely did when you're cold as ice.
Well stated
The funny yet hard thing is always realizing the moment, I can say with the utmost certainty that in the back of my mind when my early games got destroyed I did say to myself "Just not going to be my day" but I talked myself out of it and soldered on
Reflecting on the weekend I am thankful that I was able to give myself pause and tell myself that I'm treading on turning a bad weekend into a really bad weekend, it very easily could have turned into a $5000 dollar loss had I said "F it" and went stupid, I'm not a rich guy by any stretch but I do have expendable income and have always been very responsible with a strict routine of bill paying and saving money, the gambling itch is one bad night away from really losing obscene amounts of money and being extremely disappointed in yourself for letting yourself go to that dark place, I've lived that 27 years ago and promised myself I'd never do that again because now the stakes are astronomically higher compared to when I was 27.
I'm thankfully well aware of the pitfalls, the Action is fun but it can come with a cost the issue is always at hand to minimize the cost.
Enough of the doom and gloom I got my rear end kicked In but I got a very nice reminder at an overall very small cost.
@galaxy27 said: @stevek you're referring to Jamie Gold. dude got hit by the deck repeatedly during that tournament.
@perkdog hang in there homie, it happens. trust me, i know lol.
Yep, Jamie Gold. It was hilarious watching him in that WSOP get historical hand after historical hand, and he kept saying, paraphrase, I know I'm getting good cards, but I'm playing them well."
Yea like it's really tough to play boats, flushes, straights, and sets when you're getting them non-stop. LOL
I've seen him on StakeKings begging for money so he can afford a buy-in for an upcoming tournament. So much for that WSOP money he won. He had absolutely no business after winning that big tourney, trying to mix it up with the world's best poker players at high stakes who eventually relieved him of his WSOP money.
"Vacation" is over. Chasing the under in the Buff/NY Jets meeting. Does not look like the weather is conducive for a shootout. But that is a logical viewpoint. And as we all know there is no place for logic in the NFL.
Successful transactions:Tookybandit. "Everyone is equal, some are more equal than others".
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"Vacation" is over. Chasing the under in the Buff/NY Jets meeting. Does not look like the weather is conducive for a shootout. But that is a logical viewpoint. And as we all know there is no place for logic in the NFL.
The Cowboys go 16-1 at home during the regular season in the past two seasons. This season they are 0-3 at home, but 3-0 on the road.
If anyone can figure that one out, I will gladly nominate them for a Nobel Prize. 😆
the Jets are a joke and i'm a bigger joke for betting on them. i thought the new-coach bump would be in play.......at least for one game.......at home.......against the division rival they are chasing........but i failed to remember what a sorry ass team they are at their core.
110 yards in penalties........a touchdown called back in the 4th that would have put them up 7.......then the kicker misses a 30-yarder on the same drive so they ended up not having the lead at all......Breece Hall is supposed to be this stud RB and he couldn't put a move on a Bills' DB on his way to the house and that cost them 4 points because they had to settle for a FG.......for crying out loud they were gifted a miracle TD and still couldn't win.......on and on and on
the Jets have a losing culture that has existed for as long as i can remember. no more bets on them from me
Only the second weekend I bet on nfl this year hit all my wagers….
2, 4, 6 and 7 team parlays. Will post pics of the tickets tonight.
Almost a bad mental mistake…. was still thinking of the eagles as above average… need to downgrade them to mediocre but at least they won
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Only the second weekend I bet on nfl this year hit all my wagers….
2, 4, 6 and 7 team parlays. Will post pics of the tickets tonight.
Almost a bad mental mistake…. was still thinking of the eagles as above average… need to downgrade them to mediocre but at least they won
So my plan was to have a couple 2-4 team parlays and a couple 6-8 team parlays. The idea was pick.the teams I thought had the best chance of winning for the smaller parlays so if I could win those it would at least cover the cost of all the wagers. Then if I won the larger parlays it’s all gravy! Luckily hit them all. Like I said the mistake I made was thinking the eagles were still one of the upper echelon teams(should have said above average instead of upper echelon)so I had them on all my wagers. Lucky they squeaked out a win against the terrible browns.
Thanks perk… if I had known Dallas would get completely blown out it would have been even sweeter! 😂
I thought they would at least have a close game with Detroit so I just stayed away.
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Kind of felt like that -6 was too delicious sounding, of course what should have been an easy cover for Dallas turned into the Giants with the points type of game
Massive day today, I almost cashed out my big parlay at $150 but said screw it and waited to see how Colorado would do and they won, at that point I had a $300 cash option, so I figured since my investment was so low I might try to hit the middle with a Penn State bet and I cannot believe it hit.
I was reading a lot on the Penn State Illinois game and most of what I read was Penn State was going to win but couldn't get a lot of solid info, I figured they would win but maybe by 2 TD's and I had an extremely lucky guess.
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you'll never be able to outrun a bad diet
Parlay #2:SF ML,Jets ML,Over 40 KC game.
Parlay #3:ML Jets,Over 44 Eagles game.
Good luck to all with your plays today.
No end of game Rodgers magic today. Had 2 shots at it at end.
Caught this one. Lost other 2 parlays. Still a modest profit. Still a long season to go.
Early parlay #1Over 44 TB/ATL,Over 43.5 NO/KC.
i get conspicuously lazy with my typing. ain't nobody got time for proper capitalization and punctuation. i even condense users if i feel they require too much effort. i can handle bgr, darin and stevek because they are 3, 5 and 6, respectively, but then i get to bluejayway and I'm like, i love you man, but no. first time i tried to shorten his i typed out bjway, then i posted my thought. i went back and reread and was like, oh yikes, that's just not gonna work. so blue it is.
good luck with your wagers, blue.☝️
i placed zero bets last weekend, which is a strategy i probably should have employed throughout the duration of this thread. i was gonna drop a bag on the Cowboys' ML, which would have hit, but then i would have turned right around and made it evaporate via the Eagles and Cardinals -- two teams that got their doors blown off.
i am very much not in tune with the NFL. from one week to the next i don't know what to expect from almost every team in the league. like how do the Ravens throw up all over themselves at home against the Raiders, then do a 180 and take undefeated Buffalo behind the woodshed. pop tarts like that. so much parity. look at the lines this week. very few more than a field goal.
take tonight's game, for instance. if anyone says they have a good feel for Tampa at ATL they are a pathological liar. i'd play Russian roulette before i'd bet my life on this game.
you'll never be able to outrun a bad diet
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My apologies to @galaxy27 and his sports gambling thread. I waited nearly 2 weeks to reply out of respect. I promise I will post some $1 parlays today.
The casinos were originality proposed to the Missouri voters as only offering "games of skill" i.e., blackjack and poker, with the aforementioned $500 loss limit and 2 hour cruise times. This was early 90's with the casinos legalized in 1993. They were legally required to provide blackjack based on the voters' referendum, AND had to tolerate card counters and other pro types. All because of the "game of skill" designation.
Keep in mind that "Bringing Down the House" was published in 2002. I only referenced it so you could get an idea of the the 90s scene. I don't know if the tales in that book are factually true or not, however, I can tell you that that similar stories have been lived out first hand by many from that period. The book is entirely plausible, if not fact.
Early on, the Missouri casinos were getting slaughtered by the experienced blackjack player. They couldn't take enough from the small-time timid weekend gamblers stepping into a casino for the first time to make up for the massive losses to the real, experienced players.
The casinos lobbied the public for another vote, hoping to add slot machines, craps, and other games of chance, also, remove the $500 loss limit and the 2 hour cruise times. The next year, they got the games of chance approved, but kept the loss limits and 2 hour cruises for quite a few more years before those were finally dispatched with. The casino heads were always whining in the media about how much they were losing to the big blackjack players. Here's an article from the Kansas City Star, February of 1997.
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Look, I've had the same default avatar since I joined. I rarely post anything but junk era cards on the other forum. I post $1 parlays. I'm not going out of my way to impress anybody. I don't need to try to prove anything. I've already lived it. I could tell you stories about the wins and losses, the perks, the places they flew me, the stuff they comped me, but I'm sure they would just be dismissed as unbelievable stories.
The only plaudits I seek from forum members here, is just remember, I was the one first banging the drum that Trouty is overrated, and one of the biggest chokers in the game, going back to when I first joined the forum in 2017, and well before that IRL. LOL!
As far as the casinos not offering blackjack anymore, most do not, in the sense that you can find a straight blackjack game. They've added all of the various side bets like 21+3 and 777 and "Playing with the Queen of Hearts" and I don't know what else. All to bring people into the game that normally wouldn't plop their money down. I feel that card counting gets romanticized way too much as an intentional misdirection by the casinos. I'm sure there are some Raymond Babbitt type players out there that can really be successful at it, but most people, it doesn't help them one iota, except to give them false confidence. The casino keeps offering up blackjack because the vast, vast majority of the people read a book, watch a movie, see the pros (or Ben Affleck) with the spotlight on them, and think, hey, I can do that, too. The casinos will tolerate the winners because it gives the losers something to aspire to be.
There's another guy on the forum that has basically laid out how to play the game, and I agree with at least 98% with what he has posted. Many people gamble with the idea that they want to win, say, $500 in a night. You should think about it in a different way. You should try to win $5. Then win $5 more. And do that 100 times in a night. It sounds easy, right? Tonight your base unit is $5. Next month, it's $25. Next year, it's $100.
There's another guy on here that posted he was a pit boss at one of the Albuquerque casinos. I've been all over to play, been to the Albuquerque casinos multiple times, and probably played while he was working. I bet he would tell you that the most dangerous player in the casino is a smart, disciplined blackjack player playing on house money. Because once they get in the black, they usually stay in the black. Sometimes their visit ends with just a small win, but sometimes it snowballs.
Anyway, here's some $1 parlays. Hoping to get my snowball going.
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And for variety, a "sure thing" teaser.
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good luck this weekend to all
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@countdougIas Great Post I enjoyed reading all that 🍻
Sometimes dart throws miss 🤷
Ive been to Vegas four times, St. Louis where I swear I played blackjack next to Angelina Jolie, KC, the gulf coast and Arizona and maybe a few other places but the craziest blackjack game, or player I guess was my local casino. A guy was playing 3k per hand and playing two spots so 6k every hand. Doubling down and splitting whenever it was allowed, didn’t matter if the dealer was showing a face card or six. Any opportunity to split or double down he did it. So I would actually see him lose 12k per hand at times because he was bad. no emotion. About 45 years of age or so, lady sitting beside him about 70. Not playing just watching. No emotion from her either and I don’t even remember hearing either one of them talk.
Really crazy money being lost but she didn’t seem to mind.
I mean I’m assuming her money would sugar momma be the correct description?
And my above story….. I’m not saying that’s the most money I’ve seen gambled at blackjack, just the largest amounts where a player completely minimized his chances of success.
just realized my other wager consists of two afternoon games
am i supposed to wait patiently?
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Lot of action this weekend, I am a little pissed at myself for putting in such a large College Parlay but I sincerely thought it was an easy one so I deserved to lose that bet. I did win $200 at the casino and between $200 and $250 at my Poker game at my house, I can't remember the exacts since it was a complete drunken degenerate acting filled Saturday but had fun!
Perhaps it was Barkley that was placing the wagers.
Nada.
And again. Parlay under 49 SF/SEA into over 42.5 CLE/Phil.
Knocked out early with parlay.
Taking the weekend off. So in a sense I have won already.
hard to believe i was up almost 2k in this thread at one time
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Got smashed yesterday
Put in $400 plus in bets and got rolled hard, bunch of "Fun looking sneaky cute parlays" that all got destroyed lol
Well you caught the teaser parlay. Maybe that can get things rolling for ya.
Brutal.
Now that the weekend is over with my self imposed exclusion, I can in good conscience bet the Monday night game.
It's my own fault, every year I do the same thing with these big parlays, 2 weeks ago I hit a $1000 parlay on a $15 play which was complete luck, I know better but they look so inviting lol
Rough weekend, lost $900 in the games and $600 at the casino so it was a total abomination of drunk gambling that cost me $1500
in my degenerate thought process I almost put $1000 on the Giants last night, but thankfully I realized that I pushed my limit to the extreme and had enough sense to say "Enough is enough" and didn't bet, after all the dust settled I am glad I didn't get stupid.
I just have to take my loss like a big boy and get back to my $200 to $300 weekly limit, in my mind I knew I hit for $1400 2 weeks ago plus $300 last week so in my mind that was as far as I would go.
Sucks I gave it back but I came out of it with a real good reminder at how dangerous gambling can be.
I slept well last night and already moved on.
Good times 🤷
There's a thousand and one, and more various theories about gambling. Of course quitting altogether is always an option. But as has been stated numerous times out there, the next best thing to gambling and winning, is gambling and losing. IE that adrenaline rush thrill.
That being said, if ya enjoy that thrill, and admittedly it can be very enjoyable. So I think some good advice would be if you're on a heater stay with it. But if you're losing, don't chase your losses as Perkdog so wisely did in a disciplined manner.
Many years ago, I'm at an A/C quarter craps table with a good friend from high school. I'm holding my own, winning a few dollars. But he's mainly playing the prop bets, and hitting them like wild fire. Hardways, etc, I never seen anything like it. So he's up a few dimes, and throws a $100 chip out there and says hard 12. Well as sure as green apples, the roll comes up two beautiful 6's on the dice and he nets 3 grand for the bet. He's now up about 5k, and he says to me, I'm done. I gently snap back at him words to the effect like are you kidding, you're red hot, you can't stop now. But he did stop and he said to me you go ahead and play as long as ya want, I'll wait for ya, no problem.
To this day, I wonder how much money he may have won if he had stayed there. Yea I know, dice have no memory, and each roll is random. But those long time gamblers know for whatever reason, luck can have inexplicable cycles at times, both good luck and bad luck.
I've seen it with some WSOP winners. I'm not going to mention the name, but one WSOP winner around 15 years ago, he's really a chump poker player. But during that tourney, he was getting the hottest cards I've ever seen, and he took home first prize.
Bottom line, let the heater run, and run and run. But when you're cold, don't and I repeat don't chase the losses. For the most part this will keep you out of trouble, and I've seen too many gamblers over the years get into a whole lot of trouble because they didn't have the discipline to quit as Perkdog wisely did when you're cold as ice.
Well stated
The funny yet hard thing is always realizing the moment, I can say with the utmost certainty that in the back of my mind when my early games got destroyed I did say to myself "Just not going to be my day" but I talked myself out of it and soldered on
Reflecting on the weekend I am thankful that I was able to give myself pause and tell myself that I'm treading on turning a bad weekend into a really bad weekend, it very easily could have turned into a $5000 dollar loss had I said "F it" and went stupid, I'm not a rich guy by any stretch but I do have expendable income and have always been very responsible with a strict routine of bill paying and saving money, the gambling itch is one bad night away from really losing obscene amounts of money and being extremely disappointed in yourself for letting yourself go to that dark place, I've lived that 27 years ago and promised myself I'd never do that again because now the stakes are astronomically higher compared to when I was 27.
I'm thankfully well aware of the pitfalls, the Action is fun but it can come with a cost the issue is always at hand to minimize the cost.
Enough of the doom and gloom I got my rear end kicked In but I got a very nice reminder at an overall very small cost.
@stevek you're referring to Jamie Gold. dude got hit by the deck repeatedly during that tournament.
@perkdog hang in there homie, it happens. trust me, i know lol.
you'll never be able to outrun a bad diet
Yep, Jamie Gold. It was hilarious watching him in that WSOP get historical hand after historical hand, and he kept saying, paraphrase, I know I'm getting good cards, but I'm playing them well."
Yea like it's really tough to play boats, flushes, straights, and sets when you're getting them non-stop. LOL
I've seen him on StakeKings begging for money so he can afford a buy-in for an upcoming tournament. So much for that WSOP money he won. He had absolutely no business after winning that big tourney, trying to mix it up with the world's best poker players at high stakes who eventually relieved him of his WSOP money.
"Vacation" is over. Chasing the under in the Buff/NY Jets meeting. Does not look like the weather is conducive for a shootout. But that is a logical viewpoint. And as we all know there is no place for logic in the NFL.
The Cowboys go 16-1 at home during the regular season in the past two seasons. This season they are 0-3 at home, but 3-0 on the road.
If anyone can figure that one out, I will gladly nominate them for a Nobel Prize. 😆
Parlay1:41 under Jets game into Giants game 43.5 under. Parlay2: Jets +1 intokc+1.5.
-2941.88
you'll never be able to outrun a bad diet
Good Luck fellas!
I'm officially on a self imposed break until Sunday
I think I will join you.
Time to go back on vacation.
There is losing and there is losing. This was both.
the Jets are a joke and i'm a bigger joke for betting on them. i thought the new-coach bump would be in play.......at least for one game.......at home.......against the division rival they are chasing........but i failed to remember what a sorry ass team they are at their core.
110 yards in penalties........a touchdown called back in the 4th that would have put them up 7.......then the kicker misses a 30-yarder on the same drive so they ended up not having the lead at all......Breece Hall is supposed to be this stud RB and he couldn't put a move on a Bills' DB on his way to the house and that cost them 4 points because they had to settle for a FG.......for crying out loud they were gifted a miracle TD and still couldn't win.......on and on and on
the Jets have a losing culture that has existed for as long as i can remember. no more bets on them from me
you'll never be able to outrun a bad diet
I cannot recall a kicker hitting the upright twice in a row on 2 FG attempts as this Jets kicker did.
I am ashamed at myself for openly saying the Jets would win the AFC East
Embarrassed or ashamed, take your pick
Only the second weekend I bet on nfl this year hit all my wagers….
2, 4, 6 and 7 team parlays. Will post pics of the tickets tonight.
Almost a bad mental mistake…. was still thinking of the eagles as above average… need to downgrade them to mediocre but at least they won
Awesome!!
They have the talent even if their QB lost his arm on a spirit quest. I blame Fireman Ed.
So my plan was to have a couple 2-4 team parlays and a couple 6-8 team parlays. The idea was pick.the teams I thought had the best chance of winning for the smaller parlays so if I could win those it would at least cover the cost of all the wagers. Then if I won the larger parlays it’s all gravy! Luckily hit them all. Like I said the mistake I made was thinking the eagles were still one of the upper echelon teams(should have said above average instead of upper echelon)so I had them on all my wagers. Lucky they squeaked out a win against the terrible browns.
I don’t like the matchups next week to do parlays again so I will probably skip any wagers but 2 weeks from now I think i will try it again.
Awesome hits @Darin
Congrats!
Thanks perk… if I had known Dallas would get completely blown out it would have been even sweeter! 😂
I thought they would at least have a close game with Detroit so I just stayed away.
damn darin, you killed it bro
congrats man 🍻
you'll never be able to outrun a bad diet