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Quote Originally Posted by Jarrett75:
glad you are getting out while you are young. I am 35 and been doing it since I was 17. If I weren't successful at it a lot I would stop. But I have gone on runs where I will win $36,000, $20,000 and most recently had my bank account to $28,000 and lost it all. I know it's easy for some to do the money management, but I can't seem to get it right. I keep trying to stop but the stresses of needing money and not able to make it push me back towards it. I was laid off from a $48,000 job back in March 09 and have just been able to return to work making less than half that. I keep coming back to gambling because if I can go on a run then I will not have to worry, but I always get fucked by betting big lately. When I am on a good run the betting big always wins. Lately I have been fucked by a Lakers loss to the Cavs which would have turned a $1 bet (I won $233 on a lottery pick my book puts up) into $2,000 in about a day and a half. It seems like it's always one game. I hope you are able to quit, I hope I can, but it's doubtful.
glad you are getting out while you are young. I am 35 and been doing it since I was 17. If I weren't successful at it a lot I would stop. But I have gone on runs where I will win $36,000, $20,000 and most recently had my bank account to $28,000 and lost it all. I know it's easy for some to do the money management, but I can't seem to get it right. I keep trying to stop but the stresses of needing money and not able to make it push me back towards it. I was laid off from a $48,000 job back in March 09 and have just been able to return to work making less than half that. I keep coming back to gambling because if I can go on a run then I will not have to worry, but I always get fucked by betting big lately. When I am on a good run the betting big always wins. Lately I have been fucked by a Lakers loss to the Cavs which would have turned a $1 bet (I won $233 on a lottery pick my book puts up) into $2,000 in about a day and a half. It seems like it's always one game. I hope you are able to quit, I hope I can, but it's doubtful.
Damn man your story is very eerily similar to mine. Same age. I started at 14. I had some huge runs on MatchBook, I think I won 24 straight baseball games three seasons ago, only to piss it all away after a few losses in a row.
From $1200 to about $38,000 in less than 6 weeks, then shit most of it away. It's fuckin sickening that we have no money management. I've gotten to the point wondering what's the point?
If and whatever I win that I will just eventually lose it back anyway. Fuckin stressfull as fuck.
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