You guys want a golf winner, Thitikul top 5 at +162. Not good odds for a top 5 ? The women’s game isn’t as unpredictable as the men’s. And Nelly isn’t playing this one. Jeeno is money in this one.
i looked up her results and she only has one top 5 finish in seven tries this season
but i'll keep an eye on her
maybe you should be our resident LPGA betting guru ?
edit: she's a cutie too
Definately a pretty girl, I might toss a few bucks on her for top 5
I know very little about golf and far less about woman's golf but if I can plug in a wager on African Soccer I can absolutely put a few bucks on this young lady 😚
i looked up her results and she only has one top 5 finish in seven tries this season
but i'll keep an eye on her
maybe you should be our resident LPGA betting guru ?
edit: she's a cutie too
I think the odds I posted were draft kings which is who Boot Hill casino uses. Big difference. I might try to get there and make a bet on her tomorrow evening. Of course the first round will be over and odds could change a lot. She won this event last year but honestly I thought she was golfing really well this year like 2025 and I didn’t even realize she missed the cut at the Chevron Championship. So no I wouldn’t make a very good LPGA expert but I still like her in this tournament.
OKC on Thursday night at -15.5 which is exactly what they were the previous game.
They beat the Lakers handily, while SGA had a somewhat lousy game. LeBron brought his A game. Still the Lakers couldn't get close. What's going to happen if SGA improves off that last performance?
Seems like easy ML pickins. Yes chicken feed, but why not.
Tried something new on this for the first time which I had been thinking about. Also played this at 8.5, 9.5, and 10.5, so it actually hit on 4 bets. Was gonna do a parlay, but I didn't on this one.
Sort of an interesting parlay whereby all ya gotta do is hit one top number, and all the other numbers fall into place, and ya automatically hit the parlay. So if ya miss the top number, yes ya miss the parlay bet and the top number bet, but ya still win money on all the other lower odds bets.
I'm sure this has been thought of before somewhere. But I'm going to keep trying it and see how the math works out. Besides it fits my grinding style of not usually going for the huge odds score in one bet, but grinding it so that hopefully in the long run it winds-up equaling a one bet huge score.
Just to add to my previous post and to publicly shame myself for being an idiot
I dropped $1800 on Saturday with a drunken derby day at the local casino and followed that up with dropping another $1053 on games since then.
I'm 100% fine but that's ridiculous dropping that money in a week so I'm. Going to. Punish myself by not placing a single wager or walking into the Casino until June 1st
@perkdog said:
Just to add to my previous post and to publicly shame myself for being an idiot
I dropped $1800 on Saturday with a drunken derby day at the local casino and followed that up with dropping another $1053 on games since then.
I'm 100% fine but that's ridiculous dropping that money in a week so I'm. Going to. Punish myself by not placing a single wager or walking into the Casino until June 1st
That's the cost of doing business lol
Wise thing to do before you could possibly get irreparably crushed. I doubt if something this extreme would happen to you, knowing you for a long time on this CU forum, but best to be safe about it, and take a breather.
I may have told this story before. This guy I knew at the track. I guess he was around 35 years old, nice guy, everybody liked him. One Saturday I'm talking to him and he seemed very depressed beyond belief. He told me, and I believed him, that over the weekend he lost $30,000 with a local bookie. This was back in the 1990's. That was a lot of money then, heck it's a lot of money now.
Last time I saw him well over twenty years ago, he was still struggling, trying to pay back the book. He was divorced, with a kid to support. and he didn't exactly have a high paying job. Frankly I've tried googling him to see if he made out okay. But I can't find him on google, and it worries me that something not good happened. Look it up - gambling addiction has the highest suicide rate of any other addiction, yes that includes drug addiction.
I do remember that story from awhile ago, it's sad and nothing I'd wish upon anyone.
The reality is I have too much to lose to go down that dark path, bottom line I just got to man up and take my beating like a man and that's it, I'd love to pick a game and rip $2500 on it to get even but I already know that some how some way it just wont work out.
Here is a funny part of my week and a great example, on Saturday the Derby day I was ripping $100 roulette spins in a machine ( Live roulette wheel spin .but computer screen for action), I was pounding a small section of numbers for a $1000 payout, I'm down to my last $100 bill and the bill wouldn't feed into the machine on time, and yes you know my number of course hit on that missed spin, I was pissed, next spin I get my $100 in the machine and it of course lost
When your just not going to win your just not going to win
About gambling addiction….. I’ve seen on TV and read online many stories of ruined marriages and like Steve said, suicide from gambling addiction. It seems like many times it starts with the husband losing some money, then trying to get it back, ends up losing more and more. Most times he tries to keep his wife from finding out about the lost money. Eventually he loses their life savings and has maxed out several credit cards and can no longer hide the huge losses from his wife.
The above I’ve heard countless times…. and the story can vary from there. Sometimes the wife sticks with him and they try to rebuild the finances. sometimes she leaves him and sometimes he commits suicide.
Of course women can also be addicted and single people but I’ve heard the most stories about married men.
I do remember that story from awhile ago, it's sad and nothing I'd wish upon anyone.
The reality is I have too much to lose to go down that dark path, bottom line I just got to man up and take my beating like a man and that's it, I'd love to pick a game and rip $2500 on it to get even but I already know that some how some way it just wont work out.
Here is a funny part of my week and a great example, on Saturday the Derby day I was ripping $100 roulette spins in a machine ( Live roulette wheel spin .but computer screen for action), I was pounding a small section of numbers for a $1000 payout, I'm down to my last $100 bill and the bill wouldn't feed into the machine on time, and yes you know my number of course hit on that missed spin, I was pissed, next spin I get my $100 in the machine and it of course lost
When your just not going to win your just not going to win
As you know it's called "going on tilt" or a wide assortment of various names and phrases for chasing gambling losses. Basically almost everybody knows not to do that, but when you're in the moment, it's tough to discipline yourself to stop. The Siren's Song keeps calling you that the next bet you could get even or possibly be ahead. Of course yes, sometimes that does happen, many refer to it as having "escaped." But sadly most times the gambler just keep digging a deeper hole.
@Darin said:
About gambling addiction….. I’ve seen on TV and read online many stories of ruined marriages and like Steve said, suicide from gambling addiction. It seems like many times it starts with the husband losing some money, then trying to get it back, ends up losing more and more. Most times he tries to keep his wife from finding out about the lost money. Eventually he loses their life savings and has maxed out several credit cards and can no longer hide the huge losses from his wife.
The above I’ve heard countless times…. and the story can vary from there. Sometimes the wife sticks with him and they try to rebuild the finances. sometimes she leaves him and sometimes he commits suicide.
Of course women can also be addicted and single people but I’ve heard the most stories about married men.
It's horrible, for years the focus was mainly on alcoholism and drug addiction and not really much on gambling addiction which in my opinion is just as bad as substance abuse in a lot of ways, now a days you can't turn on the tv without ads for sports betting apps, the lines are on the tv all day on game days, the exposure is crazy
In New Hampshire they lowered the legal age for kids to go in the casino to 18, I can tell you I walk in the casino now and the amount of 18 year old kids in there is astonishing, it's a very serious issue that I hope more and more people become aware of the potential dangers of it.
Sorry for the Debbie downer stuff in this thread, I just felt I should put it out there that I'm taking a break.
At the casino when they used to have Texas hold em I have seen a guy ban himself from the casino because he lost a ton of money. You can do that, have the casino not allow you in for a certain time period.
This guy was terrible at poker, he bluffed probably 70%-75% of the time. So the other players were also regulars and of course knew this and would fleece him in no time. This guy always had to see the flop no matter how bad his cards and if he didn’t get anything post flop he would try to buy the pot almost every time. He was awful. 😩
So right now on the lpga of the players who have finished the first round Thitikul is in second place. But there’s still a lot of golfers on the course. But I think I missed out I will check the odds at the casino later today.
One reason I’m going is a couple days ago the jackpot on ultimate Texas holdem was 25k. If it hasn’t hit yet it will be even higher. Have to make a side wager of $1 per hand to qualify for it and then have to hit a royal flush to win it. I’ll let you guys know later how I do.
@Darin said:
At the casino when they used to have Texas hold em I have seen a guy ban himself from the casino because he lost a ton of money. You can do that, have the casino not allow you in for a certain time period.
This guy was terrible at poker, he bluffed probably 70%-75% of the time. So the other players were also regulars and of course knew this and would fleece him in no time. This guy always had to see the flop no matter how bad his cards and if he didn’t get anything post flop he would try to buy the pot almost every time. He was awful. 😩
"If you can't spot the sucker in the first 5 minutes then you are the sucker"
if it makes anyone feel any better, i think i'm at my low mark since this thread started. if X-man doesn't come through for me this weekend, i definitely will be. gambling is a black hole. if every gambler is honest with his/herself, they know that from the jump. but the allure is so strong. you really have to have your head screwed on tight to prevent it from flying off into the mesosphere. there have been many times when i've reached mega-tilt.........and what happened next was not good.
i have personal stories, but i also know people who have harrowing anecdotes as well. i know a girl who got caught up with a guy who had the mother of all gambling addictions, and what this guy did to her was arguably worse than killing her. she died, but was still alive.......if that makes sense. life-obliterating stuff from a financial perspective.
i'm sure peeps reading this thread are thinking to themselves, "and these idiots continue to do this why exactly?" i hope we all answered that question today.
@Darin said:
About gambling addiction….. I’ve seen on TV and read online many stories of ruined marriages and like Steve said, suicide from gambling addiction. It seems like many times it starts with the husband losing some money, then trying to get it back, ends up losing more and more. Most times he tries to keep his wife from finding out about the lost money. Eventually he loses their life savings and has maxed out several credit cards and can no longer hide the huge losses from his wife.
The above I’ve heard countless times…. and the story can vary from there. Sometimes the wife sticks with him and they try to rebuild the finances. sometimes she leaves him and sometimes he commits suicide.
Of course women can also be addicted and single people but I’ve heard the most stories about married men.
It's horrible, for years the focus was mainly on alcoholism and drug addiction and not really much on gambling addiction which in my opinion is just as bad as substance abuse in a lot of ways, now a days you can't turn on the tv without ads for sports betting apps, the lines are on the tv all day on game days, the exposure is crazy
In New Hampshire they lowered the legal age for kids to go in the casino to 18, I can tell you I walk in the casino now and the amount of 18 year old kids in there is astonishing, it's a very serious issue that I hope more and more people become aware of the potential dangers of it.
Sorry for the Debbie downer stuff in this thread, I just felt I should put it out there that I'm taking a break.
I didn't see it as a Debbie Downer. Just fellow forum members with a mutual bond of coin and card collecting, chatting about the realities of sports betting. In my opinion that's a good thing.
"If you can't spot the sucker in the first 5 minutes then you are the sucker"
That is so true. It's amazing though how the fish usually don't seem to see it. Using the old excuse of they just had bad luck. When luck had nothing to do wit it.
@Darin said:
About gambling addiction….. I’ve seen on TV and read online many stories of ruined marriages and like Steve said, suicide from gambling addiction. It seems like many times it starts with the husband losing some money, then trying to get it back, ends up losing more and more. Most times he tries to keep his wife from finding out about the lost money. Eventually he loses their life savings and has maxed out several credit cards and can no longer hide the huge losses from his wife.
The above I’ve heard countless times…. and the story can vary from there. Sometimes the wife sticks with him and they try to rebuild the finances. sometimes she leaves him and sometimes he commits suicide.
Of course women can also be addicted and single people but I’ve heard the most stories about married men.
It's horrible, for years the focus was mainly on alcoholism and drug addiction and not really much on gambling addiction which in my opinion is just as bad as substance abuse in a lot of ways, now a days you can't turn on the tv without ads for sports betting apps, the lines are on the tv all day on game days, the exposure is crazy
In New Hampshire they lowered the legal age for kids to go in the casino to 18, I can tell you I walk in the casino now and the amount of 18 year old kids in there is astonishing, it's a very serious issue that I hope more and more people become aware of the potential dangers of it.
Sorry for the Debbie downer stuff in this thread, I just felt I should put it out there that I'm taking a break.
I didn't see it as a Debbie Downer. Just fellow forum members with a mutual bond of coin and card collecting, chatting about the realities of sports betting. In my opinion that's a good thing.
@galaxy27 said:
if it makes anyone feel any better, i think i'm at my low mark since this thread started. if X-man doesn't come through for me this weekend, i definitely will be. gambling is a black hole. if every gambler is honest with his/herself, they know that from the jump. but the allure is so strong. you really have to have your head screwed on tight to prevent it from flying off into the mesosphere. there have been many times when i've reached mega-tilt.........and what happened next was not good.
i have personal stories, but i also know people who have harrowing anecdotes as well. i know a girl who got caught up with a guy who had the mother of all gambling addictions, and what this guy did to her was arguably worse than killing her. she died, but was still alive.......if that makes sense. life-obliterating stuff from a financial perspective.
i'm sure peeps reading this thread are thinking to themselves, "and these idiots continue to do this why exactly?" i hope we all answered that question today.
Hope that girl finds peace and harmony bro, I hate hearing stuff like that.
@perkdog said:
Just to add to my previous post and to publicly shame myself for being an idiot
I dropped $1800 on Saturday with a drunken derby day at the local casino and followed that up with dropping another $1053 on games since then.
I'm 100% fine but that's ridiculous dropping that money in a week so I'm. Going to. Punish myself by not placing a single wager or walking into the Casino until June 1st
That's the cost of doing business lol
Not a bad idea to take a break, regroup. Let the emotions disapate. > @perkdog said:
@Darin said:
About gambling addiction….. I’ve seen on TV and read online many stories of ruined marriages and like Steve said, suicide from gambling addiction. It seems like many times it starts with the husband losing some money, then trying to get it back, ends up losing more and more. Most times he tries to keep his wife from finding out about the lost money. Eventually he loses their life savings and has maxed out several credit cards and can no longer hide the huge losses from his wife.
The above I’ve heard countless times…. and the story can vary from there. Sometimes the wife sticks with him and they try to rebuild the finances. sometimes she leaves him and sometimes he commits suicide.
Of course women can also be addicted and single people but I’ve heard the most stories about married men.
It's horrible, for years the focus was mainly on alcoholism and drug addiction and not really much on gambling addiction which in my opinion is just as bad as substance abuse in a lot of ways, now a days you can't turn on the tv without ads for sports betting apps, the lines are on the tv all day on game days, the exposure is crazy
In New Hampshire they lowered the legal age for kids to go in the casino to 18, I can tell you I walk in the casino now and the amount of 18 year old kids in there is astonishing, it's a very serious issue that I hope more and more people become aware of the potential dangers of it.
Sorry for the Debbie downer stuff in this thread, I just felt I should put it out there that I'm taking a break.
You can thank government which is mostly responsible for the plethora of gambling opportunities. They have passed all the legislation allowing these venues to exist. Stated reasons are always the usual education,tax relief etc.
Very little is dedicated to gambling addiction prevention. I think in NYS the amount earmarked for that is around 2 million a year.
I read a financial paper editorial about 6 months ago that stated when states start to depend on gambling revenue they have hit rock bottom and are out of ideas. Just think if these avenues were cut off where would the budgets be then?
Successful transactions:Tookybandit. "Everyone is equal, some are more equal than others".
@perkdog said:
Just to add to my previous post and to publicly shame myself for being an idiot
I dropped $1800 on Saturday with a drunken derby day at the local casino and followed that up with dropping another $1053 on games since then.
I'm 100% fine but that's ridiculous dropping that money in a week so I'm. Going to. Punish myself by not placing a single wager or walking into the Casino until June 1st
That's the cost of doing business lol
Appreciate your honesty on showing your losses. Many gamblers just report the wins, not what it cost to win that money.
Successful transactions:Tookybandit. "Everyone is equal, some are more equal than others".
I do remember that story from awhile ago, it's sad and nothing I'd wish upon anyone.
The reality is I have too much to lose to go down that dark path, bottom line I just got to man up and take my beating like a man and that's it, I'd love to pick a game and rip $2500 on it to get even but I already know that some how some way it just wont work out.
Here is a funny part of my week and a great example, on Saturday the Derby day I was ripping $100 roulette spins in a machine ( Live roulette wheel spin .but computer screen for action), I was pounding a small section of numbers for a $1000 payout, I'm down to my last $100 bill and the bill wouldn't feed into the machine on time, and yes you know my number of course hit on that missed spin, I was pissed, next spin I get my $100 in the machine and it of course lost
When your just not going to win your just not going to win
Best to retreat for awhile and let emotions subside. Regroup. The venues aren't going anywhere. No hurry. Best of luck going forward.
Successful transactions:Tookybandit. "Everyone is equal, some are more equal than others".
@perkdog said:
Just to add to my previous post and to publicly shame myself for being an idiot
I dropped $1800 on Saturday with a drunken derby day at the local casino and followed that up with dropping another $1053 on games since then.
I'm 100% fine but that's ridiculous dropping that money in a week so I'm. Going to. Punish myself by not placing a single wager or walking into the Casino until June 1st
That's the cost of doing business lol
Appreciate your honesty on showing your losses. Many gamblers just report the wins, not what it cost to win that money.
Thanks bud, I try to be a straight shooter and conduct myself here as I would if we were sitting down at a bar having a beer or whatever.
I think sharing losses is very important, it reminds people that it's not all sunshine and rainbows and to be true to yourself
A gambler can make every excuse in the world as to why it's ok to bet and why it's ok to continue even though your getting your rear end kicked in.
Thankfully for me I sincerely care about my money more than I like the action, so the action will never take a front row seat over my value of what's in my pocket, if you care about action over everything else then it's a massive problem.
Anyways I hope all you guys crush it, I'll be on the sidelines rooting you on while I'm on my break.
@perkdog said:
Just to add to my previous post and to publicly shame myself for being an idiot
I dropped $1800 on Saturday with a drunken derby day at the local casino and followed that up with dropping another $1053 on games since then.
I'm 100% fine but that's ridiculous dropping that money in a week so I'm. Going to. Punish myself by not placing a single wager or walking into the Casino until June 1st
That's the cost of doing business lol
Appreciate your honesty on showing your losses. Many gamblers just report the wins, not what it cost to win that money.
Perk is one of the most honest people I've ever seen on the internet. Which is why I was and still am, willing to pony up as much as 2k towards the 10k buy-in, if he ever decides to play at the WSOP main event, and wanted some backers. Of course I'm doing it only because I think he could do well, and turn my 2k into a lot more. If it didn't happen, no problem. I would just fast for some months, save money on food, to make-up for the lost 2k. 😂
@perkdog said:
Just to add to my previous post and to publicly shame myself for being an idiot
I dropped $1800 on Saturday with a drunken derby day at the local casino and followed that up with dropping another $1053 on games since then.
I'm 100% fine but that's ridiculous dropping that money in a week so I'm. Going to. Punish myself by not placing a single wager or walking into the Casino until June 1st
That's the cost of doing business lol
Appreciate your honesty on showing your losses. Many gamblers just report the wins, not what it cost to win that money.
Perk is one of the most honest people I've ever seen on the internet. Which is why I was and still am, willing to pony up as much as 2k towards the 10k buy-in, if he ever decides to play at the WSOP main event, and wanted some backers. Of course I'm doing it only because I think he could do well, and turn my 2k into a lot more. If it didn't happen, no problem. I would just fast for some months, save money on food, to make-up for the lost 2k. 😂
Also gonna do some props. I'm expecting SGA to markedly improve off his previous disappointing game. Just gotta figure which particular stats and numbers to play.
So I get my OKC ML wager in, max-bet, around three hours before game time. Later on I handicapped the props, and around ten minutes before game time, went to punch them in. But the website was down. I checked the internet, and it was down all over the country. No big deal, I had the ML max-bet in, and figured I’d just enjoy the game with that.
I did check several times during first half play, and the website was still down. I checked again during halftime when the Lakers had a one point lead. It was back up. Of course the ML odds on OKC were better than before the game. Well it was an impulse thing that I couldn’t resist, and I had to act fast because I thought the website might quickly go down again. I had a lot of confidence in OKC, so I decided to go ML all-in with the rest of my profits made since the start of football season. OKC in the second half, gradually pulled away and won it handily by 18 points.
The beauty of it was that I wouldn’t have done well with the props as SGA, had a slightly better game than last time, but it wouldn’t have been good enough for my props on him. He would have screwed me again. The other planned props on other players I would have broken about even.
So it was the swing that was very nice. Not just the money made on the second ML bet, but the money I would have lost on SGA. Making it a very profitable, happy night, all due to the website going down.
Yes, about once every millennium I catch a lucky break such as this. 😂
So I get my OKC ML wager in, max-bet, around three hours before game time. Later on I handicapped the props, and around ten minutes before game time, went to punch them in. But the website was down. I checked the internet, and it was down all over the country. No big deal, I had the ML max-bet in, and figured I’d just enjoy the game with that.
I did check several times during first half play, and the website was still down. I checked again during halftime when the Lakers had a one point lead. It was back up. Of course the ML odds on OKC were better than before the game. Well it was an impulse thing that I couldn’t resist, and I had to act fast because I thought the website might quickly go down again. I had a lot of confidence in OKC, so I decided to go ML all-in with the rest of my profits made since the start of football season. OKC in the second half, gradually pulled away and won it handily by 18 points.
The beauty of it was that I wouldn’t have done well with the props as SGA, had a slightly better game than last time, but it wouldn’t have been good enough for my props on him. He would have screwed me again. The other planned props on other players I would have broken about even.
So it was the swing that was very nice. Not just the money made on the second ML bet, but the money I would have lost on SGA. Making it a very profitable, happy night, all due to the website going down.
Yes, about once every millennium I catch a lucky break such as this. 😂
Nice!
I still say live betting is one of the best types of wagering out there.
@stevek said:
Two very interesting NBA games tonight, and I don't have a clue what to do? Nothing even remotely jumping out at me.
Perhaps just some props may be in order?
I can tell you what got me was Maxey and Brunson from 3 point land, I'd say use caution but they are bound to get 2 or 3 three pointers.
30 PRA is a standard NBA prop bet with the stud players but I'm coming off a horrid losing streak so maybe don't listen to me lol
I just looked at Maxey. Game 1 was dreadful. Game 2 was decent. Would have to think he'd be motivated down 2-0 coming back home.
I see Brunson had an excellent game 1, fairly good game 2.
I think the line at Sixers -2.5 does favor a little bit the Sixers bouncing back from those two road losses. But it's a close call, perhaps too close for a bet. Should help Maxey if he's got anything left after a long season. But if the Sixers get off to a slow start in this game, the Philly boo birds aren't going to have any mercy on him. Some players step up when that happens, not sure about Maxey.
Thanks for the info - I'll definitely take a long look at both of them.
@stevek said:
Nice call on Brunson, at halftime PRA is 24 - that's a lock for 30.
Maxey around halfway there. With the Sixers behind right now, he should get a lot of minutes in the second half, to make a run at 30.
I'm still on the sidelines.
Maxey underperformed again
Gross
Maxey just couldn't quite get there in a big game at home. Some players just can't seem to step-up when it's needed in a key situation. Brunson sure did with a huge game.
My incompetence of not knowing the game starting time, saved me some good money. I wound-up not playing anything in that game. Two days in a row, two very lucky breaks. That's fine and I'm happy about it, but depending on that is not how you beat sports betting so I'm certainly not proud of it.
Was happy about the disciplined Wemby rebounds play, although I could have stretched it out some more with some higher total rebounds plays, and won some more.
That OKC line tonight is saying that the Lakers, after this series is over, can go ahead and begin their off season vacation plans.
@stevek said:
Nice call on Brunson, at halftime PRA is 24 - that's a lock for 30.
Maxey around halfway there. With the Sixers behind right now, he should get a lot of minutes in the second half, to make a run at 30.
I'm still on the sidelines.
Maxey underperformed again
Gross
Maxey just couldn't quite get there in a big game at home. Some players just can't seem to step-up when it's needed in a key situation. Brunson sure did with a huge game.
My incompetence of not knowing the game starting time, saved me some good money. I wound-up not playing anything in that game. Two days in a row, two very lucky breaks. That's fine and I'm happy about it, but depending on that is not how you beat sports betting so I'm certainly not proud of it.
Was happy about the disciplined Wemby rebounds play, although I could have stretched it out some more with some higher total rebounds plays, and won some more.
That OKC line tonight is saying that the Lakers, after this series is over, can go ahead and begin their off season vacation plans.
I'll take another look at it later, but right now I just can't see how the Lakers win this upcoming game tonight? They fought hard in their previous two games, LeBron brought his A game to the table, performed well, but the Lakers still got beat handily.
Frankly, it seemed to me that OKC just toyed with the Lakers, and played just good enough to win the game. Both games could have been even more lopsided in my opinion.
The Lakers coming home, is it really going to make any difference? We shall see.
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Embiid out tonight
Sixers about to go down 0-2
He is so unreliable it's a joke
Passing on the Truist championship. Can't get a handle on comfortable picks. Too even of a field. Just not feeling it.
You guys want a golf winner, Thitikul top 5 at +162. Not good odds for a top 5 ? The women’s game isn’t as unpredictable as the men’s. And Nelly isn’t playing this one. Jeeno is money in this one.
On tonight's Knicks-Sixers game, I was looking for the prop bet "one team wins and one team loses" but I couldn't find it.
@Darin
she's +350 for top 5 at my book
i looked up her results and she only has one top 5 finish in seven tries this season
but i'll keep an eye on her
maybe you should be our resident LPGA betting guru ?
edit: she's a cutie too
Definately a pretty girl, I might toss a few bucks on her for top 5
I know very little about golf and far less about woman's golf but if I can plug in a wager on African Soccer I can absolutely put a few bucks on this young lady 😚
Can't see the Spurs losing two at home to this team. Not impossible, but I just can't see it.
Spurs ML
Wemby rebounds over 11.5
I think the odds I posted were draft kings which is who Boot Hill casino uses. Big difference. I might try to get there and make a bet on her tomorrow evening. Of course the first round will be over and odds could change a lot. She won this event last year but honestly I thought she was golfing really well this year like 2025 and I didn’t even realize she missed the cut at the Chevron Championship. So no I wouldn’t make a very good LPGA expert but I still like her in this tournament.
-6211
OKC on Thursday night at -15.5 which is exactly what they were the previous game.
They beat the Lakers handily, while SGA had a somewhat lousy game. LeBron brought his A game. Still the Lakers couldn't get close. What's going to happen if SGA improves off that last performance?
Seems like easy ML pickins. Yes chicken feed, but why not.
Tried something new on this for the first time which I had been thinking about. Also played this at 8.5, 9.5, and 10.5, so it actually hit on 4 bets. Was gonna do a parlay, but I didn't on this one.
Sort of an interesting parlay whereby all ya gotta do is hit one top number, and all the other numbers fall into place, and ya automatically hit the parlay. So if ya miss the top number, yes ya miss the parlay bet and the top number bet, but ya still win money on all the other lower odds bets.
I'm sure this has been thought of before somewhere. But I'm going to keep trying it and see how the math works out. Besides it fits my grinding style of not usually going for the huge odds score in one bet, but grinding it so that hopefully in the long run it winds-up equaling a one bet huge score.
This is all probably madness, I admit it. LOL
Well I got smoked again last night so I'm on a horrible losing streak this week
I'm shutting it down for the rest of the month, just a little time out for myself
Just to add to my previous post and to publicly shame myself for being an idiot
I dropped $1800 on Saturday with a drunken derby day at the local casino and followed that up with dropping another $1053 on games since then.
I'm 100% fine but that's ridiculous dropping that money in a week so I'm. Going to. Punish myself by not placing a single wager or walking into the Casino until June 1st
That's the cost of doing business lol
Wise thing to do before you could possibly get irreparably crushed. I doubt if something this extreme would happen to you, knowing you for a long time on this CU forum, but best to be safe about it, and take a breather.
I may have told this story before. This guy I knew at the track. I guess he was around 35 years old, nice guy, everybody liked him. One Saturday I'm talking to him and he seemed very depressed beyond belief. He told me, and I believed him, that over the weekend he lost $30,000 with a local bookie. This was back in the 1990's. That was a lot of money then, heck it's a lot of money now.
Last time I saw him well over twenty years ago, he was still struggling, trying to pay back the book. He was divorced, with a kid to support. and he didn't exactly have a high paying job. Frankly I've tried googling him to see if he made out okay. But I can't find him on google, and it worries me that something not good happened. Look it up - gambling addiction has the highest suicide rate of any other addiction, yes that includes drug addiction.
@stevek
I do remember that story from awhile ago, it's sad and nothing I'd wish upon anyone.
The reality is I have too much to lose to go down that dark path, bottom line I just got to man up and take my beating like a man and that's it, I'd love to pick a game and rip $2500 on it to get even but I already know that some how some way it just wont work out.
Here is a funny part of my week and a great example, on Saturday the Derby day I was ripping $100 roulette spins in a machine ( Live roulette wheel spin .but computer screen for action), I was pounding a small section of numbers for a $1000 payout, I'm down to my last $100 bill and the bill wouldn't feed into the machine on time, and yes you know my number of course hit on that missed spin, I was pissed, next spin I get my $100 in the machine and it of course lost
When your just not going to win your just not going to win
About gambling addiction….. I’ve seen on TV and read online many stories of ruined marriages and like Steve said, suicide from gambling addiction. It seems like many times it starts with the husband losing some money, then trying to get it back, ends up losing more and more. Most times he tries to keep his wife from finding out about the lost money. Eventually he loses their life savings and has maxed out several credit cards and can no longer hide the huge losses from his wife.
The above I’ve heard countless times…. and the story can vary from there. Sometimes the wife sticks with him and they try to rebuild the finances. sometimes she leaves him and sometimes he commits suicide.
Of course women can also be addicted and single people but I’ve heard the most stories about married men.
As you know it's called "going on tilt" or a wide assortment of various names and phrases for chasing gambling losses. Basically almost everybody knows not to do that, but when you're in the moment, it's tough to discipline yourself to stop. The Siren's Song keeps calling you that the next bet you could get even or possibly be ahead. Of course yes, sometimes that does happen, many refer to it as having "escaped." But sadly most times the gambler just keep digging a deeper hole.
It's horrible, for years the focus was mainly on alcoholism and drug addiction and not really much on gambling addiction which in my opinion is just as bad as substance abuse in a lot of ways, now a days you can't turn on the tv without ads for sports betting apps, the lines are on the tv all day on game days, the exposure is crazy
In New Hampshire they lowered the legal age for kids to go in the casino to 18, I can tell you I walk in the casino now and the amount of 18 year old kids in there is astonishing, it's a very serious issue that I hope more and more people become aware of the potential dangers of it.
Sorry for the Debbie downer stuff in this thread, I just felt I should put it out there that I'm taking a break.
At the casino when they used to have Texas hold em I have seen a guy ban himself from the casino because he lost a ton of money. You can do that, have the casino not allow you in for a certain time period.
This guy was terrible at poker, he bluffed probably 70%-75% of the time. So the other players were also regulars and of course knew this and would fleece him in no time. This guy always had to see the flop no matter how bad his cards and if he didn’t get anything post flop he would try to buy the pot almost every time. He was awful. 😩
So right now on the lpga of the players who have finished the first round Thitikul is in second place. But there’s still a lot of golfers on the course. But I think I missed out I will check the odds at the casino later today.
One reason I’m going is a couple days ago the jackpot on ultimate Texas holdem was 25k. If it hasn’t hit yet it will be even higher. Have to make a side wager of $1 per hand to qualify for it and then have to hit a royal flush to win it. I’ll let you guys know later how I do.
"If you can't spot the sucker in the first 5 minutes then you are the sucker"
if it makes anyone feel any better, i think i'm at my low mark since this thread started. if X-man doesn't come through for me this weekend, i definitely will be. gambling is a black hole. if every gambler is honest with his/herself, they know that from the jump. but the allure is so strong. you really have to have your head screwed on tight to prevent it from flying off into the mesosphere. there have been many times when i've reached mega-tilt.........and what happened next was not good.
i have personal stories, but i also know people who have harrowing anecdotes as well. i know a girl who got caught up with a guy who had the mother of all gambling addictions, and what this guy did to her was arguably worse than killing her. she died, but was still alive.......if that makes sense. life-obliterating stuff from a financial perspective.
i'm sure peeps reading this thread are thinking to themselves, "and these idiots continue to do this why exactly?" i hope we all answered that question today.
I didn't see it as a Debbie Downer. Just fellow forum members with a mutual bond of coin and card collecting, chatting about the realities of sports betting. In my opinion that's a good thing.
That is so true. It's amazing though how the fish usually don't seem to see it. Using the old excuse of they just had bad luck. When luck had nothing to do wit it.
FACTS!!!!
Hope that girl finds peace and harmony bro, I hate hearing stuff like that.
Not a bad idea to take a break, regroup. Let the emotions disapate. > @perkdog said:
You can thank government which is mostly responsible for the plethora of gambling opportunities. They have passed all the legislation allowing these venues to exist. Stated reasons are always the usual education,tax relief etc.
Very little is dedicated to gambling addiction prevention. I think in NYS the amount earmarked for that is around 2 million a year.
I read a financial paper editorial about 6 months ago that stated when states start to depend on gambling revenue they have hit rock bottom and are out of ideas. Just think if these avenues were cut off where would the budgets be then?
Appreciate your honesty on showing your losses. Many gamblers just report the wins, not what it cost to win that money.
Best to retreat for awhile and let emotions subside. Regroup. The venues aren't going anywhere. No hurry. Best of luck going forward.
Thanks bud, I try to be a straight shooter and conduct myself here as I would if we were sitting down at a bar having a beer or whatever.
I think sharing losses is very important, it reminds people that it's not all sunshine and rainbows and to be true to yourself
A gambler can make every excuse in the world as to why it's ok to bet and why it's ok to continue even though your getting your rear end kicked in.
Thankfully for me I sincerely care about my money more than I like the action, so the action will never take a front row seat over my value of what's in my pocket, if you care about action over everything else then it's a massive problem.
Anyways I hope all you guys crush it, I'll be on the sidelines rooting you on while I'm on my break.
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Perk is one of the most honest people I've ever seen on the internet. Which is why I was and still am, willing to pony up as much as 2k towards the 10k buy-in, if he ever decides to play at the WSOP main event, and wanted some backers. Of course I'm doing it only because I think he could do well, and turn my 2k into a lot more. If it didn't happen, no problem. I would just fast for some months, save money on food, to make-up for the lost 2k. 😂
Thanks for the kind words brother!!
OKC ML
Also gonna do some props. I'm expecting SGA to markedly improve off his previous disappointing game. Just gotta figure which particular stats and numbers to play.
A very weird night for me.
So I get my OKC ML wager in, max-bet, around three hours before game time. Later on I handicapped the props, and around ten minutes before game time, went to punch them in. But the website was down. I checked the internet, and it was down all over the country. No big deal, I had the ML max-bet in, and figured I’d just enjoy the game with that.
I did check several times during first half play, and the website was still down. I checked again during halftime when the Lakers had a one point lead. It was back up. Of course the ML odds on OKC were better than before the game. Well it was an impulse thing that I couldn’t resist, and I had to act fast because I thought the website might quickly go down again. I had a lot of confidence in OKC, so I decided to go ML all-in with the rest of my profits made since the start of football season. OKC in the second half, gradually pulled away and won it handily by 18 points.
The beauty of it was that I wouldn’t have done well with the props as SGA, had a slightly better game than last time, but it wouldn’t have been good enough for my props on him. He would have screwed me again. The other planned props on other players I would have broken about even.
So it was the swing that was very nice. Not just the money made on the second ML bet, but the money I would have lost on SGA. Making it a very profitable, happy night, all due to the website going down.
Yes, about once every millennium I catch a lucky break such as this. 😂
Nice!
I still say live betting is one of the best types of wagering out there.
Glad you capitalized
Day 2, no action for me
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As the old Chinese proverb goes"Journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step". Hang in there and total up the $ you are saving.
Two very interesting NBA games tonight, and I don't have a clue what to do? Nothing even remotely jumping out at me.
Perhaps just some props may be in order?
I can tell you what got me was Maxey and Brunson from 3 point land, I'd say use caution but they are bound to get 2 or 3 three pointers.
30 PRA is a standard NBA prop bet with the stud players but I'm coming off a horrid losing streak so maybe don't listen to me lol
I just looked at Maxey. Game 1 was dreadful. Game 2 was decent. Would have to think he'd be motivated down 2-0 coming back home.
I see Brunson had an excellent game 1, fairly good game 2.
I think the line at Sixers -2.5 does favor a little bit the Sixers bouncing back from those two road losses. But it's a close call, perhaps too close for a bet. Should help Maxey if he's got anything left after a long season. But if the Sixers get off to a slow start in this game, the Philly boo birds aren't going to have any mercy on him. Some players step up when that happens, not sure about Maxey.
Thanks for the info - I'll definitely take a long look at both of them.
dam - I thought the game started at 7:30
Was gonna play Sixers ML and Maxey 30 PRA. Now I'll have to watch and see if there are any opportunities with live action.
Nice call on Brunson, at halftime PRA is 24 - that's a lock for 30.
Maxey around halfway there. With the Sixers behind right now, he should get a lot of minutes in the second half, to make a run at 30.
I'm still on the sidelines.
Wemby over 9.5 rebounds
Day 3, no action
Maxey underperformed again
Gross
Maxey just couldn't quite get there in a big game at home. Some players just can't seem to step-up when it's needed in a key situation. Brunson sure did with a huge game.
My incompetence of not knowing the game starting time, saved me some good money. I wound-up not playing anything in that game. Two days in a row, two very lucky breaks. That's fine and I'm happy about it, but depending on that is not how you beat sports betting so I'm certainly not proud of it.
Was happy about the disciplined Wemby rebounds play, although I could have stretched it out some more with some higher total rebounds plays, and won some more.
That OKC line tonight is saying that the Lakers, after this series is over, can go ahead and begin their off season vacation plans.
Maxey has been horrible
Glad Wemby hit for you
I'll take another look at it later, but right now I just can't see how the Lakers win this upcoming game tonight? They fought hard in their previous two games, LeBron brought his A game to the table, performed well, but the Lakers still got beat handily.
Frankly, it seemed to me that OKC just toyed with the Lakers, and played just good enough to win the game. Both games could have been even more lopsided in my opinion.
The Lakers coming home, is it really going to make any difference? We shall see.