It took me 3 months to build my bankroll up to 7500 profit betting 100 and 200 a game. I was on fire!! Then,I don't know why but I took Maryland for 300 on the ML against Clemson figuring they would not lose 3 in a row to them. Well,I lost 1500 there and was so mad I did that,I bet the other 6000 on Air Force ML to beat San Diego State as they were on espn at midnight. They had just beat them by 20 and were 8 point favorites. Well,they lost outright. I was devestated and still have not recovered.
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"sometimes we lose track of where we have been and where we are, a bad week can make you lose perception of reality..." Journeyman
It took me 3 months to build my bankroll up to 7500 profit betting 100 and 200 a game. I was on fire!! Then,I don't know why but I took Maryland for 300 on the ML against Clemson figuring they would not lose 3 in a row to them. Well,I lost 1500 there and was so mad I did that,I bet the other 6000 on Air Force ML to beat San Diego State as they were on espn at midnight. They had just beat them by 20 and were 8 point favorites. Well,they lost outright. I was devestated and still have not recovered.
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"sometimes we lose track of where we have been and where we are, a bad week can make you lose perception of reality..." Journeyman
It took me 3 months to build my bankroll up to 7500 profit betting 100 and 200 a game. I was on fire!! Then,I don't know why but I took Maryland for 300 on the ML against Clemson figuring they would not lose 3 in a row to them. Well,I lost 1500 there and was so mad I did that,I bet the other 6000 on Air Force ML to beat San Diego State as they were on espn at midnight. They had just beat them by 20 and were 8 point favorites. Well,they lost outright. I was devestated and still have not recovered.
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Wow, this is a great thread.
I guess the most "undisciplined" thing was the amount I bet on Philly + the points and other assorted wagers in the SB this year. Then again it happened to work out so maybe this doesn't count.
I have from time to time just bet large last second before a game so that I could have action. Sometimes in wins, sometimes it loses. Can't even hardly remember em, probably because I'm hypothetically high. When it wins I'm a genius, when it loses I feel like an idiot.
Seems like with most people it's a bad loss and a big chalky ML. Somehow never really had the urge to do that.
Ohhh, I got one. I had the Cubs at 50-1 to win the WS in 2003 and did not do any additional hedging when they were up 3 games to 1 in the NLCS. :sad3:
I guess the most "undisciplined" thing was the amount I bet on Philly + the points and other assorted wagers in the SB this year. Then again it happened to work out so maybe this doesn't count.
I have from time to time just bet large last second before a game so that I could have action. Sometimes in wins, sometimes it loses. Can't even hardly remember em, probably because I'm hypothetically high. When it wins I'm a genius, when it loses I feel like an idiot.
Seems like with most people it's a bad loss and a big chalky ML. Somehow never really had the urge to do that.
Ohhh, I got one. I had the Cubs at 50-1 to win the WS in 2003 and did not do any additional hedging when they were up 3 games to 1 in the NLCS. :sad3:
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Ouch, that was pretty bad. At least you learned from it and are where you are now. I have always played post up and not credit. I know I could get credit but do not want it. If you watch your balances dwindle (when you lose) it's better IMO. Never used a local either. Then again that was 20 years ago so you did't have the option of just using online books.
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Ouch, that was pretty bad. At least you learned from it and are where you are now. I have always played post up and not credit. I know I could get credit but do not want it. If you watch your balances dwindle (when you lose) it's better IMO. Never used a local either. Then again that was 20 years ago so you did't have the option of just using online books.
can't remember the year, but had been doing well betting 2 to 3 hundred per game.....thanksgiving weekend rolls up and all 4 parents wifes and mine are coming in for the weekend....didn't want to be on the phone all weekend checking lines and placing bets...so i called in weds evening got all the lines for the weekend....notre dame -12.5 playing navy on sat.and the cowboys over 38.5 on sunday playing the skins...so instead of having my usual 6 or 7 bets scattered over the 4 day i would place these two wed evening for a little larger than normal...1500 each...bookie like to chocked cause i'm a 2 to 3 hundred dollar player...watch foorball with all on thursday thinking damn i should be making money but noooooooooo family is in can't be doing that sh*t...finall sat. comes around and i'm ready...halftime notre dame 38---3...money in the bank...final score41---29...co*ks*ckers.....1650 down the drain....sun rolls around and i'm not a person people wanted to be around...my wife and i are the only two in the room that knows what's going on....finally dallas and the skins come on and i'm thinking...just a push and i'll never do this sh*t again...halftime score 31--7...i'm all happy now and a joy to be around anyone care for pie and ice cream....final score 31--7...that f*ckin heath schuler was a rookie for the skins and threw 4 count'm 4 passes in the stands to end the game on 1 and goal from the 1 at the two minute warning...a smooth -3300..for trying to be a nice guy and sneaking around to place bets in front of parents and the such....thank god for cell phones...hey i gotta go in the back yard and check on the cat in the tree...never has happened since.....:smoker2: :smoker2: :smoker2: dante these are for you...
undiciplined and paid dearly....about 10 years ago, was in new orleans with my old man, a friend and a cousin of mine....after an afternoon in the french quarter we got in our rented caddy and drove out to i think it was delta downs or evangeline downs(whichever one looks like someone's farm)....this was not a place for new york city boys.....we were tying it on heavy that nite and wound up betting on a whim some horse that had the name 'reggae' in it...we ponied up $50 apiece....horse goes off at over 100-1...they were runnin quarter horses that nite....the horse wins we go nuts..we start tabulating our winnings in the "outhouse or clubhouse" we were ineverbody is totally stoked for us, we start buying beers and shots...before it goes legit!!!...THEN... the inquiry sign comes on...our 'reggae' horse gets taken down....there goes our $20,000 and then went my dad, me ,and my cousin after the jockey,,,(horse wins by more than 2 lengths..which is alot in quarters...and veered across the place finisher harshly for no reason what-so-ever.....)i **** u not...that's how fired up we were and the access to the track and horses was one in that u could actually reach out and touch someone....well suffice it to say after causing a melee and and a half...i got to see what justice is in the south....(see my cousin vinny..u know what i mean)...my poor friend had to call his parents up in the middle of the night back in new york to bail us out...having to explain to his parents how his friend and his family took on a jockey and about 20 rednecks...stupidest thing i ever did!!! never mixed alcohol and/or drugs again w/gambling....lesson learned.....
I was in Vegas sometime around 1990. I had lost about $600 on blackjack and other things and decided I was going to try and get even in one shot. Took a cash advance of about $800 on my credit card and put $680.00 on the Cubs (at Mel Exber's Las Vegas Club) playing a night game at Candlestick. I think i was getting +110. They actually moved the line after I made the wager from -120 to -115 on the Giants (first and only time I ever did that because I usually bet $20-50 a game tops). Needless to say the Giants won the game 13-1 in a game where player's caps were blowing off and going all the way to the outfield fence! Took me about 9 months of steady payments to get the credit card balance zeroed. I've never carried over a balance since then!
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