My stepfather was an addicted gambler, horses. He stole paper route money from me when I was a kid. He continued to steal money from me as I got better jobs in drive in restaurants and drugstores so he could play the horses. My mom never did a thing to help me out. To this day I will not put a nickle on any type of outcome.
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1maGoh
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Clearly I don't bet enough, although I value money to much to bet real money, but wouldn't the ability to successfully predict outcomes transfer from this site to real betting? If the odds are worse, but I still win... Wouldn't I still make money. You know, winning and all?
I swear if you tell me that there are bets you can win and still lose money I'm quitting. Not sure what but dang it, I'll quit.
I swear if you tell me that there are bets you can win and still lose money I'm quitting. Not sure what but dang it, I'll quit.
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I understand your hesitation for recommending people going out and gambling etc. I've been betting football and UFC for years in real life with people and no one really takes those bets with me anymore. Usually have 60-70% success rate at worst but average around 71-72%. I've always wondered how the betting covering etc etc works with spreads and when I remember to bet here it works at fine. Obviously it's not the actual odds to the minute as they change but I was planning on doing this as a hobby and nothing serious. Going to go in with like $10 bets to f off with like how I bet here. definitely going to start at sbr.com and create an account and practice. It's a pretty basic looking site and I have no idea which calculators to use and the forums but I'll start looking them over. Going to be damned interesting! I've never really been a card or anything else gambler, just follow sports and only really NFL, CFB, and UFC closely now.
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I rarely bet, but I warned everyone earlier this year not to bet on the Rams ATS. With the parity policing you'll lose more than you'll win. If you want to bet on a Rams game, bet on them to win straight up. Only bet on the Rams ATS if you don't mind losing money. With the money the books lost on the Rams/Chiefs O/U of 63.5 look for that number to increase significantly when teams with high-powered Os face each other in the future.
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To those of you who "don't mind losing money", Can I borrow a hundred bucks?
1maGoh
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But that involves losing. Why would you bet to lose?
Like I said, I don't bet real money, but in the ROD sportsbook I choose only what I consider the safest bets. Quality of odds is irrelevant if I lose. To be fair though, I have no idea if I have made money.
Like I said, I don't bet real money, but in the ROD sportsbook I choose only what I consider the safest bets. Quality of odds is irrelevant if I lose. To be fair though, I have no idea if I have made money.
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As a real live bookie in SoCal in the 70's and 80's i'll be brief, i never saw or paid a winner over the course of a season
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These casinos don't build their mega resorts because they pay out a lot of winnings to people
You're absolutely right, season long big winners very rarely happen. The "smart" gambler is more casual about it.
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We’ve got a son with a gambling addiction and it’s horrible. I’m sure most of you guys live responsible lives, but the addictive gambler ruins lives. So selfish. Lies. Steals. Pushes life responsibilities on others. Like your step-dad, he’s a dick.
A daily ass-kicking, and a boot-camp environment would be a good start to knock out the entitlement, but usually there is an “advocate” or enabler, that protects the sweet prince from all of life’s consequences. Oh and a dumb chick to house and feed him.
And he goes on, leaving victims in his wake. Damn, I work hard to fill the gaps. We’ve usually got his kids most of the time, because grandma doesn’t trust her own son to meet their needs, or the baby-momma he wouldn’t marry that usually “dips out” as well, with her party life.
Oh, sometimes when he scores a big win, maybe Kentucky Women’s volleyball over Louisiana Southerrn. I’ll know it because he’ll pretend to have a job for a few months to cover for the sudden windfall of money he flaunts.
But usually he just sits in his nice apartment with his face pressed to his phone, or his big screen tv, while the latest girlfriend works a double shift to meet their needs.
Yeah. Not a fan.
True Bubba! At least it would go to a good cause.
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As a gambling addict, I could see that life for me a mile away.
I was a bookie in the 8th and 9th grades and I used to pick fights from Super Fights to JAG fighters at the Olympic Auditorium.
My record was 108-12 which is 90%.
Just after HS, I picked Buster Douglas to beat Mike Tyson (I had not necessarily inside information, but found a really small blurb which tipped the scale for me).
So why didn't I become a gambler?
Well, we lived near Santa Anita race track and we used to go during the fall meet ( I keep wanting to call it Oaktree, but I think that's the one that starts on Dec 26th each year) and I remember watching guys during the racing shouting, laughing and talking money, drinking beers etc. At the end of the day as we would be leaving, I remember seeing many of those same guys avoiding the cops to pick up dropped tickets (they sell the tickets for pennies on the dollar to professional gamblers who use them to offset their winnings when they declare their taxes...aaaaand, it's illegal).
Grown men are scrambling on the floor to pick up tickets that had been walked on and worse (this being a horse racing track and all). I realized right then that not only was it a feast or famine life, but you didn't see families collecting the stubs... just panicked and harried guys trying to salvage a losing day. It was more pathetic than I'm describing and it struck me. I didn't want that no matter how high winning felt (and I remember how it used to feel to win even now).
I made a promise to the wife that I wouldn't gamble and in large part I've kept that promise. I didn't used to talk about it, but since I'm not running for office any time ever, I've opened up about it. I did gamble $20 in Vegas during a bachelor party and occasionally I'll play the lotto/powerball if the jackpot is over $500M and with the wife's blessing including how much and only one time did it get over $20... it was $40 when the Lotto got up to $1.6B.
I get viscerally uncomfortable walking through a casino or gambling establishment like a sportsbook at this point which has made for some interesting moments on the cruises we've been on as even a closed casino freaks me out...badly...like almost full blown panic attack bad.
Having walked away from that, I am sorry your family is going through that.
Your son is very lucky he's not come to serious physical harm. Usually uncontrolled gamblers end up trying to win on credit and that's when it gets really ugly.