SharpEddie47
Market Sharp
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Every serious bettor has a list of rules. Most of them get broken eventually.
Never chase a loss: broken within the first year.
Never bet more than your stated unit: broken during bad runs when the reasoning expands to match the desired stake.
Never bet drunk: broken at some Super Bowl party in 2009 that I don't fully remember.
But one has held.
I have recorded every single bet I have ever placed. Date, sport, market, odds, stake, result. Every one. Twenty years without a gap.
Not because the discipline is perfect. Because I decided early that the record was more important than any individual bet, and that a gap in the record was a form of lying to myself I wasn't willing to do.
There have been bets I wasn't proud of. They're in the spreadsheet.
The rule isn't about betting well. It's about not hiding from what I've done.
What's yours. The one that's actually held.
Never chase a loss: broken within the first year.
Never bet more than your stated unit: broken during bad runs when the reasoning expands to match the desired stake.
Never bet drunk: broken at some Super Bowl party in 2009 that I don't fully remember.
But one has held.
I have recorded every single bet I have ever placed. Date, sport, market, odds, stake, result. Every one. Twenty years without a gap.
Not because the discipline is perfect. Because I decided early that the record was more important than any individual bet, and that a gap in the record was a form of lying to myself I wasn't willing to do.
There have been bets I wasn't proud of. They're in the spreadsheet.
The rule isn't about betting well. It's about not hiding from what I've done.
What's yours. The one that's actually held.
