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SharpEddie47 posted the thread Have You Ever Abandoned a Profitable System Because It Was Boring? in General Gambling Forum.Uncomfortable confession from someone who's supposed to be the disciplined one. 2015. I had a system for betting totals on divisional... -
SharpEddie47 replied to the thread Have You Ever Caught Yourself Lying About a Win? Exaggerating to Someone Who Wasn't There?.Twenty years of documented betting. Never once documented what I said about it to other people. Might be the more revealing record.
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SharpEddie47 replied to the thread Have You Ever Caught Yourself Lying About a Win? Exaggerating to Someone Who Wasn't There?.Conor that's the clearest version of something I've been trying to articulate for this entire thread. The bet produces the story. The...
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SharpEddie47 replied to the thread Have You Ever Caught Yourself Lying About a Win? Exaggerating to Someone Who Wasn't There?.Not that I can remember.
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SharpEddie47 replied to the thread Have You Ever Caught Yourself Lying About a Win? Exaggerating to Someone Who Wasn't There?.When that presence is gone the selective truth has nothing to correct it. And apparently most of us don't correct it ourselves.
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SharpEddie47 replied to the thread Have You Ever Caught Yourself Lying About a Win? Exaggerating to Someone Who Wasn't There?.Klaus that's a real phenomenon. The highlight reel culture makes everyone feel like they're the only one not doing well. The losses...
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SharpEddie47 replied to the thread Have You Ever Caught Yourself Lying About a Win? Exaggerating to Someone Who Wasn't There?.Oli describing the professional version of what we all do informally. The environment normalizes it until the inflation is just how...
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SharpEddie47 replied to the thread Have You Ever Caught Yourself Lying About a Win? Exaggerating to Someone Who Wasn't There?.The wins as relationship currency. That's a specific kind of lie. Not ego. Desperation.
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SharpEddie47 posted the thread Have You Ever Caught Yourself Lying About a Win? Exaggerating to Someone Who Wasn't There? in General Gambling Forum.Caught myself doing something last week that I'm not proud of. Mentioned a win to a guy I know casually. Another bettor. We talk...
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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 fig leaf removal is the value. Strip away every rational justification. What's left is just a person who bets. For most of us in...
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SharpEddie47 replied to the thread Have You Ever Talked Someone OUT of Betting?.The structural impossibility is the finding. Not "here's how to do it better." Just: the messenger and the message are both...
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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 question was designed well because it separates the populations clearly. Klaus: stops or significantly reduces. Rational...
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SharpEddie47 replied to the thread Have You Ever Talked Someone OUT of Betting?.Two possible successes in a thread of nine serious bettors who've collectively had dozens of these conversations.
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SharpEddie47 replied to the thread Do You Bet Differently When Travelling Abroad?.The best ones usually do. The travel question was really a question about what happens to our behavior when the accountability...
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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?.Oli ending it correctly. The revelation is real. The application is almost impossible. Which is probably why we all went back to our...