Taking a 365 day break from all forms of gambling...

Quote Originally Posted by TheGoldenGoose:


You don't have a gambling problem.  You have a Money Management problem.  Your Gambling Bankroll has to be a specific account, YOUR OWN account, completely separate from anything else involving wife or family.

Take some time off and squirrel away a Gambling Bankroll.

Do business correctly and you avoid all problems.

Quote Originally Posted by TheGoldenGoose:


You don't have a gambling problem.  You have a Money Management problem.  Your Gambling Bankroll has to be a specific account, YOUR OWN account, completely separate from anything else involving wife or family.

Take some time off and squirrel away a Gambling Bankroll.

Do business correctly and you avoid all problems.

Quote Originally Posted by lbcake:



Correct. MM gaff got you into trouble. If you can eliminate this temporary insanity, continue to wager.

Quote Originally Posted by Dimebetz:

Sorry to read this but need to respond. 

Quote Originally Posted by thorpe:



Best of luck to you Kap.  I agree that when you become a father, you need to play it safe.  If you are the type of person to chase losses, you can dig yourself a hole very deep very quickly.

I was going to tell you the same thing about futures.  These are the best bets if you want to have action on games.

1)  There is so much time between making the wager and collecting or losing, that when you lose you don't feel the need to chase.

2)  For a set amount of money, you get action on a huge number of games.  If you bet VA Tech to win the ACC, you can root for them all year, and root for UNC and Miami to lose all year.  Bet on Bama to win the BCS, and you have action on 4 or 5 games a week.

3)  I don't have the time or energy to handicap all week every week, but with futures I can spend a week in the summer with Phil Steele, put in my bets, and be done with it.

4)  Betting individual games has a lot of aggravation, you can drive yourself crazy thinking about why a line moved, having it move against you, thinking is the line is too good to be true, hedging at halftime, etc.


I wish you would post your picks though.  Whenever I make picks without putting money on them, I hit a very high percentage. 

Quote Originally Posted by THEMUGG:

 Not much I can add to what has already been said here............I'll just agree that I think you're doing the responsible thing & I applaud you for that. I wish you the best.........do pop into the CFB forum occasionally & say Hi.

 Congrats to you & wifey..........very cool.

 Your life will change forever.............this is a good start. I think you'll find you won't miss it as much as you fear at this point.

Quote Originally Posted by marnypoly:

See you when NBA season starts 

Quote Originally Posted by TheGoldenGoose:


You don't have a gambling problem.  You have a Money Management problem.  Your Gambling Bankroll has to be a specific account, YOUR OWN account, completely separate from anything else involving wife or family.

Take some time off and squirrel away a Gambling Bankroll.

Do business correctly and you avoid all problems.

Quote Originally Posted by JaHovaWitness:

Good Luck but no offense, theres no way you dont wager on somthing for 1 str8 year. you have 27000 posts on a gambling forum and still are going to be following lines in the NBA and offering GAMBLING ADVICE? Comon dude seriously? IMHO this is not about proving your not an adict, its you setting yourself up to fail imo. gl tho.

Quote Originally Posted by vanzack:

GL Kap - it is a good time to take a year off anyway.

GL with the baby.

Quote Originally Posted by HutchEmAll:

regarding the pregnancy of your child.

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Quote Originally Posted by cacabware:

i hope she banned you from watchin wrastling as well........ 

 

just kidding dude.....do what you gotta do, but I agree with a couple of the above posts, it was chase, if I remember correctly, at 1 point you were like a 10$ unit bettor correct?  How in the world can that affect your life if you just go back to that amount?????

anyway, best with whatever you decide, good luck with the junior..........