I need advice from the veteran gamblers - dead serious here

So there is a lot of people giving their two sense in this form & since you are a degen at the casino (at lets be honest - you are posting from there).... I thought you could read this and realize maybe you can turn this ship around and stop thinking about instant-gratification results.

Set a limit of how much you are willing to lose through out this whole football season. So, seeing it from your prospective I know you are chasing. And I don't blame you.

My technical advice of course is bet 500 a game through out the season and hopefully come out ahead @ end of season. But, I know & you know it's not happening. You want the win now. I have been there and I actually came out alive. Take the skins b/c bears QB is not A+ More like C- and you are getting TREMENDOUS value on +5 on a home dog. 

With that being said. If you do pull off the miracle tonight. I hope to god you put 20k in your back pocket and 10k on gambling using betting increments of 300-500 a game.

Ultimately, it's your life. We can only guide you. Like the say: "Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you've fed him for a life time"

I repeat: Ultimately, it's your life. We can only guide you.

Actionmadgnet, to put prospective. Betting is an emotional roller.coaster in general.  Swings are big.

I deposited 300 on my site ran it to 4k cashed out. Then i dipped my fingers in $300 on 49ers-6 [you saw that game...] and the tilting $300 on browns +4 [even though I was going to do rams -4 and last second changed].

Please let us know what you ultimately end up doing. 

Oh and im.not betting for a while, i don't want to lose all my earned$. Bc they will get you. Even most successful gamblers hit only 55-60%

There's a trend that's 12-0 going into this season 13-0 after yesterday. I'm a Bear fan and will take the points with the Skins tonight because of this. It begins at the 4:30 mark I think. Bears may win but not cover.

https://youtu.be/S1l7J1LgUKU

Was just going to post the exact same thing.

Unfortunately it's obvious from his posts his mental state is still one of the addicted gambler. Bargaining, saying you will only bet on this or that or only this many games.

 Most guys I know who have serious problems have had to literally hand over control of all their finances to someone else like their wife or mother stop them gambling every penny away.

Imagine gambling away an inheritance, giving money someone worked all their life for over to scumbag bookies and casinos.

That's not recreational gambling that's an addiction

In regards to post number 34. What securities can you invest 15k in that would “set” you up for life. I’m in the finance industry and would love to know 

TSLA is primed to pop, with their Model Y release which is expected to surpass Model 3, Model S, and Model X sales combined, along with their Gigafactory 3 coming online in China.

Just invest, my man. Do you actually believe you're any good at this?  I'm not saying you are or are not. Only you know the answer to that.

Action...listen to this man. 

You have 15k left...you should lower your wagers to 300 a game but you probably won't...so bet $500 a game...EVERY GAME. That's a little over 3% of your roll on each game and still relatively safe. You need to win 30 units to get even. If your picks aren't good enough, use some of the great cappers on this site for help. If you do that, you will be even before too long..and can stay in the game long term and eventually make good money.

If you don't gain some self control and start to wager this way, you're going bankrupt. You might win tonight but eventually I promise you you'll lose everything. I wish you the best.

And for God's sake stay out of the casino...it is literally rigged against you.

Hey buddy, I’ve been a professional gambler for ages. You mentioned you play poker. I strongly suggest you continue to stick with poker! Poker is the only gambling game that you can have success at I know, I’m doing it myself. But you have to be very good at it like myself. I play NL Texas hold em. Keep playing poker and learning and improving your game. It’s the only SAFE bet out there!  You heard it here first.

GL 

The Redskins are a system bet.  It will not lose ,put as much as you can on Redshins. Bank it

I know the people saying to bet smaller amounts, set limits etc mean well, but it's the wrong advice.

It's like telling an alcoholic to just drink beer, or only have 3 drinks. It doesn't work that way for some, they open the floodgates and get carried away.

This man doesn't see any point in betting smaller amounts now. Even 500 seems small to him because he lost 15k and is sick about it and is desperate to get it back. And he can't seem to understand that the way he lost it is by betting on a stupid game with stupid refs and stupid coaches played with a ball that is oddly shaped and bounces funny.

The NFL is ridiculous now. Everything is a penalty. Kickers cant kick. Coaches will run the ball on 4th and 9 and then not run it once on 1st and goal from the 5.

The Bears sent extra picks to go up one spot and take this kid Trubisky despite the fact SF had no interest in taking him and they could have got him at 3. And he's no better than Gardner Minshew who got picked in the 6th round.

This game makes less and less sense all the time and wagers on it are never sure things. I enjoy trying to pick games but betting thousands is lunacy. Unfortunately guys have this fantasy of being a "pro". Come on. look how many games come down to the last possession for spread purposes. Unless these pros are able to isolate the few ones that dont, they are betting on coin flips like everyone else.

I went 4-2 on Saturday, the 2 losers outgained their opponent by over 100 yarda, one lost SU, the other by a half point because a kid tried to make a running sliding catch on a short punt up 13 points. Yesterday I went 2-3, the 3 losers all won straight up and didnt cover, and one of the winners was the friggin Jets on their 3rd string QB (dont ask me why i picked them i just thought one of the big favs wouldnt cover)

Ive been at this 20 years and the biggest thing I've learned is that I don't really know anything. Ive had sure winners turn to losers and sure losers turn to winners. Just a few days ago had Tulane, miracle win, but so what? The next Saturday I get a ridiculous bad beat on Texas.

I digress.

Bottom line is, this guy is determined to bet the Bears large tonight. We all know how chasing on MNF tends to work out but there's no point talking to this dude. Even if he lays lays off or bets small, if the Bears win he's just going to be more frustrated that he didn't make the big bet. And then, convinced his luck has changed, he'll bet it all on Thursday night.

Get the hell out of AC man, now. At least get out of the casino. I used to play there. One night I lost 500 (a lot for me at the time) on a bad poker beat (house over house) and went for a walk. I still had a couple hundred in my pocket. You see a lot of down on their luck folks around there, homeless people, addicts, probably a lot of them former gamblers. It struck me that despite my loss, I was still better off than all these people, I still had some money, a job, people that cared about me, and I decided rather than waste any more on cards I would give some to the homeless. I didnt even care if they bought drugs with it or gambled it. Then I filled my car up with gas and drove home, and only play little piddly home games and pub tournaments since.

Take that 15k and do something else with it. Anything else. Give it to someone else to hold until football season is over. Right now you're in the hypnotic trance of the addicted gambler and on autopilot you're going to lose it all if you dont quit right this second.

Not sure if anyone suggested this yet, but why not try and fade all of your final plays?

That's just incorrect. And maybe that's why you don't have your series 6/63/7

Learn your lesson.  You still have half of it left;  keep it and lower your play amounts greatly.

Physical gold and silver will pay off better than the equity/bond/real estate bubbles over the next 2 years. Can you say nearly 17 trillion in negative yielding bonds worldwide right now!