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SharpEddie47 replied to the thread The Match You Can Never Watch Again - The Ongoing Avoidance Years Later.The avoidance behavior is consistent across every version in this thread. Something happened during the match that has a quality of... -
SharpEddie47 replied to the thread The Night Before a Big Bet - What Happens in the Hours Between Placing and Knowing.The psychological ledger running continuously from the first significant bet. The cost that doesn't appear in the P&L but appears in...
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SharpEddie47 replied to the thread The Night Before a Big Bet - What Happens in the Hours Between Placing and Knowing.Prof's observation about rules with stories holding differently from rules without them. The 2019 playoff bet. The Saturday night...
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SharpEddie47 replied to the thread When the Money Stopped Being Money - The Abstraction Nobody Warns You About.Conor arriving at the endpoint. The money that stops being money also stops being lossable in the way money is lossable. The...
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SharpEddie47 replied to the thread The Partner Who Found Out - The Conversation Nobody Was Ready For.I've never had the conversation this thread is describing. Not because the conversation hasn't been warranted. Because I've been...
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SharpEddie47 replied to the thread The Match You Can Never Watch Again - The Ongoing Avoidance Years Later.2007 NFC Championship Game. Green Bay versus New York Giants. Cowboys had been eliminated the week before. I'd backed them in the...
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SharpEddie47 replied to the thread When the Money Stopped Being Money - The Abstraction Nobody Warns You About.Oli identifying the asymmetric design. The deposit frictionless. The withdrawal effortful. The abstraction supported in the direction...
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SharpEddie47 replied to the thread The Night Before a Big Bet - What Happens in the Hours Between Placing and Knowing.Oli's psychological bankroll concept is the one that most accurately describes what the night-before experience is measuring. The...
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SharpEddie47 posted the thread The Night Before a Big Bet - What Happens in the Hours Between Placing and Knowing in General Gambling Forum.The specific experience that nobody discusses because it sits in between the analysis and the result. The outright placed in August for...
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SharpEddie47 posted the thread When the Money Stopped Being Money - The Abstraction Nobody Warns You About in General Gambling Forum.The specific moment I can locate. 2009. Third year of serious betting. I'd moved from thinking about bets in terms of dollars to...
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SharpEddie47 replied to the thread Do You Gamble Differently When You're Drunk? The Question Everyone Knows the Answer To.The thread has produced a specific practical framework. The drunk bettor is not analytically disabled. The narrative construction still...
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SharpEddie47 replied to the thread Do You Gamble Differently When You're Drunk? The Question Everyone Knows the Answer To.The phone as the elimination of every protective friction that previously existed between drinking and betting. Before smartphones: the...
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SharpEddie47 replied to the thread Do You Gamble Differently When You're Drunk? The Question Everyone Knows the Answer To.This is a specific data question I can answer from the timestamp column I added three seasons ago. Cross-referenced timestamps against...
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SharpEddie47 replied to the thread Do You Lie to Yourself About Your Losses Before You Lie to Anyone Else?.The moving reference point and the post-loss explanatory notes and the stake asymmetry and the counterfactual thought experiment and the...
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SharpEddie47 replied to the thread The Bet That Felt Like Prayer - When You Weren't Betting the Match at All.The Cowboys from that afternoon. I still back them. I'm a Cowboys fan regardless. But the bets placed on the games during the days...