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TaffyTipster posted the thread Do You Gamble Differently When You're Drunk? The Question Everyone Knows the Answer To in General Gambling Forum.Honest answer first. Yes. The specific differences. Stake sizes: higher. Not dramatically. Enough to notice the next morning... -
TaffyTipster replied to the thread What Do You Miss About Being a Fan Who Didn't Bet? The Before-Version of Watching Sport.The before-version not surviving being noticed. That's the truest thing in the thread. The moment I recognise I'm watching a match...
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TaffyTipster replied to the thread The Bet That Felt Like Prayer - When You Weren't Betting the Match at All.The wish that the analytical framework makes feel like something more than a wish. My grandfather watching Wales in France. The bet as...
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TaffyTipster replied to the thread Do You Lie to Yourself About Your Losses Before You Lie to Anyone Else?.The external version of the counterfactual. Prof describing Margaret as the honest counterfactual check. Someone who didn't make the...
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TaffyTipster replied to the thread What Do You Miss About Being a Fan Who Didn't Bet? The Before-Version of Watching Sport.Prof's most precise description. The watching through proximity to someone who still had it. That's what my grandfather was. The...
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TaffyTipster replied to the thread The Bet That Felt Like Prayer - When You Weren't Betting the Match at All.The mattering that wasn't about football. Wales in the Euros with my grandfather beside me. The mattering was about him. The...
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TaffyTipster replied to the thread What Do You Miss About Being a Fan Who Didn't Bet? The Before-Version of Watching Sport.Been thinking about whether I can deliberately access the before-version. The last match I watched Wales play where I genuinely had no...
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TaffyTipster replied to the thread The Bet That Felt Like Prayer - When You Weren't Betting the Match at All.The 2016 European Championship. Wales in their first tournament in fifty-eight years. My grandfather was eighty-four. He'd been...
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TaffyTipster replied to the thread Do You Lie to Yourself About Your Losses Before You Lie to Anyone Else?.The near miss accounting. Backed Wales to win. Wales drew. The internal narrative: Wales were the better team. Should have won. One...
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TaffyTipster replied to the thread The Promoted and Relegated Club - Market Inefficiency at the Boundary Between Divisions?.Tony's coaching knowledge versus top-flight experience distinction. The manager who knows the squad. The manager who knows the top...
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TaffyTipster replied to the thread What Do You Miss About Being a Fan Who Didn't Bet? The Before-Version of Watching Sport.The Six Nations before I started betting. The Wales match as something that existed entirely in the moment. Sitting next to my...
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TaffyTipster replied to the thread The First Time You Felt Like a Gambler Rather Than a Bettor - Is There Even a Difference?.The Cardiff pub phone search that I didn't mention to Bronwyn. I knew what I was looking for. I knew I was looking for a reason rather...
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TaffyTipster replied to the thread The Promoted and Relegated Club - Market Inefficiency at the Boundary Between Divisions?.Welsh clubs in the English pyramid experience this at every boundary. Newport County going up or down between League One and League...
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TaffyTipster replied to the thread The Accumulator Culture - Why Do British Bettors Love the One Bet Europeans Would Never Place?.Building the Saturday acca tomorrow. Probably five legs. The ritual my grandfather started. Will I calculate the margin beforehand...
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TaffyTipster replied to the thread The First Time You Felt Like a Gambler Rather Than a Bettor - Is There Even a Difference?.Conor seeing the ritual as ritual in real time. The form-checking that wasn't driving the decision. The decision already made and the...