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SharpEddie47 replied to the thread What Do You Do When the Bet Is Live and You Know You're Losing?.Klaus's protocol is the rational approach. I know this. I've known it for years. I still open the new tab. Knowing the correct... -
SharpEddie47 replied to the thread What Do You Do When the Bet Is Live and You Know You're Losing?.I have a documented behavior I'm not proud of. I open a new tab. Not to bet. Just to look at other lines. Other games. Like a man in a...
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SharpEddie47 replied to the thread Have You Ever Felt Genuine Contempt for a Winning Bettor?.Yes. Specific and recurring. There's a type in serious betting communities. The person who ran hot for one season, built a Twitter...
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SharpEddie47 replied to the thread Do You Have a Number That Would Make You Quit Gambling Forever?.Twenty years in. I've passed my own number. I have no clear picture of what comes after. I have nobody I've shared the number with...
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SharpEddie47 replied to the thread Do You Have a Number That Would Make You Quit Gambling Forever?.The shared number is the version that could actually work. Two people with the same picture of what comes after. One person alone with...
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SharpEddie47 replied to the thread Do You Have a Number That Would Make You Quit Gambling Forever?.Princess that's exactly what the number is for. It's the story that makes the exit feel like success rather than defeat. The problem...
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SharpEddie47 replied to the thread Do You Have a Number That Would Make You Quit Gambling Forever?.Conor's right. The number is a proxy for the question you can't ask directly. Can you picture a life where this isn't part of the...
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SharpEddie47 posted the thread Do You Have a Number That Would Make You Quit Gambling Forever? in General Gambling Forum.Question that sounds simple until you actually try to answer it. For years I told myself the number was retirement money. Enough to...
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SharpEddie47 replied to the thread What's the Most Money You've Ever Won and Why Didn't It Make Things Better?.Started as a question about the biggest win. Turned out the biggest win is where you can most clearly see the shape of the problem...
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SharpEddie47 replied to the thread What's the Most Money You've Ever Won and Why Didn't It Make Things Better?.The door versus the capital. Two people in the same room experiencing the same win as completely different things. One of them was...
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SharpEddie47 replied to the thread What's the Most Money You've Ever Won and Why Didn't It Make Things Better?.Fade that's the pattern I didn't see until you named it. The money was never really money to any of us. It was score. It was...
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SharpEddie47 replied to the thread What's the Most Money You've Ever Won and Why Didn't It Make Things Better?.That's the mechanism exactly. The win isn't about the money. It's about the story the win allows you to keep telling. The loss just...
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SharpEddie47 posted the thread What's the Most Money You've Ever Won and Why Didn't It Make Things Better? in General Gambling Forum.Question I've been avoiding asking myself for a long time. 2011. Saints-Falcons. Perfect storm of everything working simultaneously...
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SharpEddie47 replied to the thread Have You Ever Abandoned a Profitable System Because It Was Boring?.Going back to look at that 2015 totals system tonight. Not sure I'll use it. But I'm going to look at it honestly for once. Including...
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SharpEddie47 replied to the thread Have You Ever Abandoned a Profitable System Because It Was Boring?.Which makes the people who maintain discipline despite the gaps more remarkable. Not less. But the people who can't aren't weak...