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Ooli_sussex replied to the thread What Do You Do When the Bet Is Live and You Know You're Losing?.The protocol matters. The person on the other sofa matters more.
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Ooli_sussex replied to the thread Have You Ever Felt Genuine Contempt for a Winning Bettor?.Good thread. The contempt question seemed like it was about other people. Turned out to be about the person feeling it. Usually the way.
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Ooli_sussex replied to the thread Have You Ever Felt Genuine Contempt for a Winning Bettor?.Good framing. The contempt reveals the anxiety. Find what someone in this community is contemptuous of and you've found what they're...
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Ooli_sussex replied to the thread What Do You Do When the Bet Is Live and You Know You're Losing?.At the exchange live losing positions were managed with rules established before the session. Maximum drawdown threshold. If position...
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Ooli_sussex replied to the thread Have You Ever Felt Genuine Contempt for a Winning Bettor?.At the exchange the contempt was institutional. Retail winners were treated with a specific kind of suspicion. Not because winning was...
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Ooli_sussex replied to the thread Do You Have a Number That Would Make You Quit Gambling Forever?.The number question is the wrong question. The right question is what comes after. If that picture exists and is specific and is...
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Ooli_sussex replied to the thread Do You Have a Number That Would Make You Quit Gambling Forever?.Klaus describing a number that exists to be moved. The private document with no accountability is the tell. If the number were real it...
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Ooli_sussex replied to the thread Do You Have a Number That Would Make You Quit Gambling Forever?.No number. Had a professional endpoint at the exchange. Clear conditions for leaving. Met them. Left. That decision was about working...
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Ooli_sussex replied to the thread What's the Most Money You've Ever Won and Why Didn't It Make Things Better?.The door versus capital framing clarifies something I've been unable to articulate about why I left the exchange. Everyone there saw...
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Ooli_sussex replied to the thread What's the Most Money You've Ever Won and Why Didn't It Make Things Better?.At the exchange the largest single day I was involved in professionally was not mine. It was the book's. But I was present. Part of the...
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Ooli_sussex replied to the thread Have You Ever Abandoned a Profitable System Because It Was Boring?.The boring system works financially. Understanding why it fails personally is more valuable than fixing the system. You can't patch...
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Ooli_sussex replied to the thread Have You Ever Abandoned a Profitable System Because It Was Boring?.Conor and Prof describing the same architecture from different starting points. Betting as gap management. The boring system fails...
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Ooli_sussex replied to the thread Have You Ever Abandoned a Profitable System Because It Was Boring?.At the exchange there was a trader who had the most boring profitable approach anyone had seen. One specific market. One specific...
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Ooli_sussex replied to the thread Have You Ever Caught Yourself Lying About a Win? Exaggerating to Someone Who Wasn't There?.We came in talking about lying about wins. Found something underneath it. The win is raw material. The audience is the point. Without...
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Ooli_sussex replied to the thread Have You Ever Caught Yourself Lying About a Win? Exaggerating to Someone Who Wasn't There?.Question worth asking: Has anyone ever told the true version of a win unprompted. Not the corrected version after being caught. Just...