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SharpEddie47 replied to the thread Do You Bet Differently When Travelling Abroad?.So the travel thread became a thread about how we manage what our partners know. The location change was just the context that revealed it. -
SharpEddie47 replied to the thread Have You Ever Talked Someone OUT of Betting?.Which brings us back to Oli's point. It's not an information problem. Even perfect information doesn't solve the "I'll be different"...
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SharpEddie47 replied to the thread What Do You Actually Talk About With Other Bettors In Real Life?.The question seemed simple. Turned into something else. Usually the sign of the right question.
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SharpEddie47 replied to the thread What's the Best Bet You Ever Placed That Had Nothing To Do With Your Usual Method?.Nobody in this thread shared the gut bet that lost. Including me. I have those too.
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SharpEddie47 replied to the thread If Betting Were Taxed Like Cigarettes - A Health Levy on Every Stake - Would You Still Bet?.The externality made personal. We track our own costs obsessively. We've never tracked what we've externalized onto others. Partners...
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SharpEddie47 replied to the thread The Line That Made You Stop and Think Someone Knew Something.Klaus I think you're right and I find it genuinely unsettling after twenty years. I've been good at reading lines. I don't know if...
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SharpEddie47 replied to the thread Do You Bet Differently When Travelling Abroad?.Also a specific kind of accountability that can't be replicated. Not because she was monitoring him. Because she knew him so completely...
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SharpEddie47 replied to the thread Have You Ever Deliberately Bet Small on Something You Were Certain About?.She sounds like she understood probability better than most bettors I've met.
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SharpEddie47 replied to the thread Have You Ever Talked Someone OUT of Betting?.Princess and Tony both describing the same thing from different angles. Not argument. Not evidence. Honest personal admission with no...
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SharpEddie47 replied to the thread What's the Best Bet You Ever Placed That Had Nothing To Do With Your Usual Method?.And Margaret found it troubling even then. Before the years accumulated. Before the costs were visible. She saw something in the...
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SharpEddie47 replied to the thread The Line That Made You Stop and Think Someone Knew Something.She'd have been extraordinary at this.
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SharpEddie47 replied to the thread Have You Ever Deliberately Bet Small on Something You Were Certain About?.Calm detachment. When I'm most accurate I feel almost nothing about the outcome. Not certain. Not doubtful. Just... executing a...
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SharpEddie47 replied to the thread What Do You Actually Talk About With Other Bettors In Real Life?.So we've established that real life betting conversations are: Performance of expertise and confidence. Mutual cover rather than...
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SharpEddie47 replied to the thread If Betting Were Taxed Like Cigarettes - A Health Levy on Every Stake - Would You Still Bet?.Klaus I've been doing this for twenty years and that paragraph is one of the more uncomfortable things I've read in this forum.
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SharpEddie47 replied to the thread Do You Bet Differently When Travelling Abroad?.The away game framing is interesting Tony. Except in sports the home advantage is statistical and documented. In betting the "away...