The First Time You Felt Like a Gambler Rather Than a Bettor - Is There Even a Difference?

[oli_sussex]

The label describes a process, not a person.

Applied to most bets: useful.

Applied as a fixed identity: misleading.

The process that produces the bet is what matters.

The label assigned to the person placing the bet: secondary.

 

[TaffyTipster]

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 than for a market.

I didn't find one that night.

Which means the record shows: no bet placed after the Wales match in January 2019.

The record is accurate.

The record doesn't contain what the record would have contained if I'd found something I could convince myself was analytical.

The clean record as a product of not finding a usable reason rather than as a product of analytical discipline.

Both produce the same entry.

Different things underneath.

Bronwyn thinks I'm more disciplined than the Cardiff pub night would suggest.

She has no reason not to.

The thing I didn't mention stays not mentioned.

 

[DublinDegen]

the thing that stays not mentioned...

the record that's clean because you didn't find a reason rather than because you had discipline...

yes...

the unmade bet that the record shows as not happening...

without the context that it almost happened and the context that almost happening isn't the same as discipline...

the record i kept during the worst period looked like someone who was betting less than they were...

not because i was recording wrongly...

because some of the bets were in forms the record didn't capture...

the search that found something versus the search that didn't...

both invisible in the record...

only one of them led to a number on the page...