What Lie Do You Tell Yourself Most Often About Your Betting?

[CoachTony_Bets]

The worst lie: "I'll cut back after this season."

I say it every year.

Never cut back.

 

[oli_sussex]

"I'll reconnect with old friends after this busy period."

No busy period. Just avoidance.

Friends stopped reaching out. My fault. My lie to self was "timing."

 

[DublinDegen]

"this is rock bottom things will get better now"

said this five times over seven years

always gets worse

rock bottom has a basement

keeps going down

still telling myself this is the bottom

probably not...

 

[ThePuntingProf]

Conor your recognition that rock bottom has a basement is quite astute and quite tragic, I fear you are correct, my own lie: "I will stop when I reach a certain profit threshold."

I have reached several thresholds, I do not stop, I create new thresholds, the goal posts move, the activity continues, the threshold was always a lie, there is no profit level that would make me stop because profit is not why I continue.