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FFadeThePublic replied to the thread The Match You Can Never Watch Again - The Ongoing Avoidance Years Later.The before-moment watched from the after. That's the mechanism. The match exists in a moment when specific things hadn't happened yet...
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FFadeThePublic replied to the thread The Partner Who Found Out - The Conversation Nobody Was Ready For.The person I was with when the Dolphins were still my team found out something specific. Not the scale. The contradiction. She'd...
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FFadeThePublic replied to the thread The Night Before a Big Bet - What Happens in the Hours Between Placing and Knowing.The psychological bankroll is personal but it has market implications. The bettor who has exceeded their psychological bankroll is the...
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FFadeThePublic replied to the thread The Match You Can Never Watch Again - The Ongoing Avoidance Years Later.The match I can never watch again involves a specific person rather than a specific outcome. I won't describe it in detail. But there...
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FFadeThePublic replied to the thread When the Money Stopped Being Money - The Abstraction Nobody Warns You About.The abstraction has a specific failure mode for the analytical bettor that's different from the Conor version. Conor's version: the...
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FFadeThePublic replied to the thread The Night Before a Big Bet - What Happens in the Hours Between Placing and Knowing.The night before a large fade position has a specific quality I haven't described before. The fade is placed against the public. The...
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FFadeThePublic replied to the thread When the Money Stopped Being Money - The Abstraction Nobody Warns You About.The abstraction happens at a specific interface level that most discussions miss. The deposit: you enter a number. You click confirm...
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FFadeThePublic replied to the thread Do You Gamble Differently When You're Drunk? The Question Everyone Knows the Answer To.The pub market on Saturday evenings shapes prices in ways the sober Monday analyst then bets against. The drunk crowd producing the...
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FFadeThePublic replied to the thread Do You Gamble Differently When You're Drunk? The Question Everyone Knows the Answer To.The pre-smartphone drinking and betting relationship was genuinely different in structure. The person who drank in the pub and wanted...
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FFadeThePublic replied to the thread Do You Gamble Differently When You're Drunk? The Question Everyone Knows the Answer To.The public money angle on this is real and rarely acknowledged. The betting market on a Saturday evening in the UK during football...
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FFadeThePublic replied to the thread Do You Lie to Yourself About Your Losses Before You Lie to Anyone Else?.The records as more elaborate self-deception rather than as honest accounting. Uncomfortable conclusion for everyone in this thread who...
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FFadeThePublic replied to the thread Do You Lie to Yourself About Your Losses Before You Lie to Anyone Else?.Princess identifying the stake asymmetry is the version of this problem that professional bettors are specifically trained to watch for...
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FFadeThePublic replied to the thread The Bet That Felt Like Prayer - When You Weren't Betting the Match at All.Conor's description of the bet as a container for hope that has nowhere else to go. The market as the one institution that remains open...
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FFadeThePublic replied to the thread What Do You Miss About Being a Fan Who Didn't Bet? The Before-Version of Watching Sport.Princess's thirty minutes is the most honest account of whether the before-version is accessible. Accessible briefly. Lost again when...
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FFadeThePublic replied to the thread The Bet That Felt Like Prayer - When You Weren't Betting the Match at All.I've resisted this category of bet specifically because I've understood what it is. The bet placed as a wish is the bet that most...