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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?.The win exaggeration at the exchange was professional currency. Your reputation determined your autonomy. The markets you could access...
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Ooli_sussex replied to the thread If Betting Were Taxed Like Cigarettes - A Health Levy on Every Stake - Would You Still Bet?.The best tax policy question I've seen produce genuine self-examination. Which probably wasn't what anyone expected.
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Ooli_sussex replied to the thread Do You Bet Differently When Travelling Abroad?.The hotel room is the most honest version of yourself as a bettor. No context to hide in. Just you and the decision. Worth knowing...
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Ooli_sussex replied to the thread Have You Ever Talked Someone OUT of Betting?.The inability to identify who's at risk in advance is the core problem. For the person being warned and for the person warning them.
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Ooli_sussex replied to the thread If Betting Were Taxed Like Cigarettes - A Health Levy on Every Stake - Would You Still Bet?.Price inelasticity is the clinical term. Demand doesn't fall proportionally with price increase. Cigarettes demonstrated this...
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Ooli_sussex replied to the thread The Line That Made You Stop and Think Someone Knew Something.The line that makes you think someone knows something is usually correct. Someone usually does know something. The question you can't...
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Ooli_sussex replied to the thread What's the Best Bet You Ever Placed That Had Nothing To Do With Your Usual Method?.The best bet outside your method is usually the one that reveals what your method is actually missing. Whether you can do anything...
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Ooli_sussex replied to the thread Do You Bet Differently When Travelling Abroad?.Travel removes the domestic camouflage. At home there are routines and contexts that absorb and obscure betting behavior. Away: the...
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Ooli_sussex replied to the thread Have You Ever Deliberately Bet Small on Something You Were Certain About?.The question everyone should ask before their most confident bet: What am I not seeing because I'm too sure to look?
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Ooli_sussex replied to the thread What Do You Actually Talk About With Other Bettors In Real Life?.The gap between what we say here and what we say elsewhere is probably the most accurate measure of what betting has actually done to...
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Ooli_sussex replied to the thread What's the Best Bet You Ever Placed That Had Nothing To Do With Your Usual Method?.They usually do.
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Ooli_sussex replied to the thread Have You Ever Talked Someone OUT of Betting?.Sounds right. Persuasion triggers resistance. Honesty about yourself doesn't require a counter-argument. There's nothing to push back...
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Ooli_sussex replied to the thread What Do You Actually Talk About With Other Bettors In Real Life?.Klaus identifying the limitation of the forum. Honest community that cannot transmit its honesty into the contexts where it would...
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Ooli_sussex replied to the thread The Line That Made You Stop and Think Someone Knew Something.The still line is rarer than the moving line. But more significant when it appears. A line that should be moving and isn't means...
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Ooli_sussex replied to the thread If Betting Were Taxed Like Cigarettes - A Health Levy on Every Stake - Would You Still Bet?.The health levy framing has a specific implication that nobody's mentioned. A cigarette tax implicitly acknowledges that society will...