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How much is each unit for?

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Do you have a 6 month emergency fund?

If not stop gambling now, build that, make that your goal.

It should be a legit you lose your job tomorrow, you need money for 6 months to live for yourself and your family.

Once you have that established give yourself a 10% allowance of your income (after tax) for gambling.  I don't care if it is only $500 a month. 1% of that $500 is your unit size = $5 that is how much you can wager on each bet.  Do not get fancy altering your unit size on bets, all bets = 1u.  After 1 month see where you are at and adjust your unit size accordingly.

Hope this helps, very simple approach all laid out for you.

 
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Quote Originally Posted by Beantownsports:

Quote Originally Posted by gutinstinctus:

Brother, true advice, since it appears as if you are honestly looking for it: 1. Lower your goddamn stakes and play ridiculously low units. All your bets should be the same unit. Track your ROI. If you do not know how to do this just divide your ending bankroll by your starting bankroll after X time. Be honest with your tracking. Until you have a positive ROI do not move up in stakes. A 20% ROI is almost certainly impossible. You should aim at 5%.  2. Study. Find your mistakes. Look for tendencies. If you are down 171 units playing 1-3 units per bet, you are definitely doing something horribly wrong. If you are betting 20 units like some idiots in this forum, then you should reassess your concept of "unit".  3. Look for your profitable spots. If spread has not worked, explore props. Explore live totals.  4. Be disciplined. Follow the gameplan, develop your art and then trust the process you envisioned.  5. Do not pay for touts. All of them are idiots. Seriously all of them. If they are as good as they proclaim, they would not be selling picks for 25USD. They would be playing their picks for much more money or would have huge whales as customers. If there are truly profitable ones with 5% ROIs or better I guarantee you that their best picks are not being revealed.  6. Have fun. If you don´t enjoy this shit and are not appealed by trying to examine the games and find mistakes, then quit already.
  will take all of this into consideration moving forward. I appreciate u taking the time to try and help. I don’t plan on “making a living” sports gambling but rather just have a little extra money to spend but at this point I’ve wasted about $17,100 which to me is a lot so I’m just trying to recoup some if not all moving forward. I’ll have to look back on this thread to remind myself of some of the advice u guys gave me. Bol to everybody here this season and if I continue to lose I’ll start posting so atleast u guys can fade and win lol[/Quote Cheers! If you have any doubts hit me up and Ill gladly try to help. BOL

 
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Appreciate all your help guys, somewhat new to the gambling world so figured I’d reach out to all u veteran degenerates and get some help ;) I’ll be looking back on this thread whenever I need to remind myself of some guidance. Thanks again and bol to u all this season an_cheers

 
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Quote Originally Posted by Donkey_Punch_:

Do you have a 6 month emergency fund? If not stop gambling now, build that, make that your goal. It should be a legit you lose your job tomorrow, you need money for 6 months to live for yourself and your family. Once you have that established give yourself a 10% allowance of your income (after tax) for gambling.  I don't care if it is only $500 a month. 1% of that $500 is your unit size = $5 that is how much you can wager on each bet.  Do not get fancy altering your unit size on bets, all bets = 1u.  After 1 month see where you are at and adjust your unit size accordingly. Hope this helps, very simple approach all laid out for you.

Wise advice but I would recommend a 9 - 12 month emergency fund. 

 
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Posted: #32

Quote Originally Posted by CanadaCup:

Quote Originally Posted by Beantownsports:

Quote Originally Posted by gutinstinctus:

Brother, true advice, since it appears as if you are honestly looking for it: 1. Lower your goddamn stakes and play ridiculously low units. All your bets should be the same unit. Track your ROI. If you do not know how to do this just divide your ending bankroll by your starting bankroll after X time. Be honest with your tracking. Until you have a positive ROI do not move up in stakes. A 20% ROI is almost certainly impossible. You should aim at 5%.  2. Study. Find your mistakes. Look for tendencies. If you are down 171 units playing 1-3 units per bet, you are definitely doing something horribly wrong. If you are betting 20 units like some idiots in this forum, then you should reassess your concept of "unit".  3. Look for your profitable spots. If spread has not worked, explore props. Explore live totals.  4. Be disciplined. Follow the gameplan, develop your art and then trust the process you envisioned.  5. Do not pay for touts. All of them are idiots. Seriously all of them. If they are as good as they proclaim, they would not be selling picks for 25USD. They would be playing their picks for much more money or would have huge whales as customers. If there are truly profitable ones with 5% ROIs or better I guarantee you that their best picks are not being revealed.  6. Have fun. If you don´t enjoy this shit and are not appealed by trying to examine the games and find mistakes, then quit already.
  will take all of this into consideration moving forward. I appreciate u taking the time to try and help. I don’t plan on “making a living” sports gambling but rather just have a little extra money to spend but at this point I’ve wasted about $17,100 which to me is a lot so I’m just trying to recoup some if not all moving forward. I’ll have to look back on this thread to remind myself of some of the advice u guys gave me. Bol to everybody here this season and if I continue to lose I’ll start posting so atleast u guys can fade and win lol[/Quote Cheers! If you have any doubts hit me up and Ill gladly try to help. BOLhttps://www.covers.com/postingforum/POST01/showmessage.aspx?spt=21&sub=103385991    Your Welcome!!!!! Appreciate all your help guys, somewhat new to the gambling world so figured I’d reach out to all u veteran degenerates and get some help ;) I’ll be looking back on this thread whenever I need to remind myself of some guidance. Thanks again and bol to u all this season 
Quote Originally Posted by Donkey_Punch_:

Do you have a 6 month emergency fund? If not stop gambling now, build that, make that your goal. It should be a legit you lose your job tomorrow, you need money for 6 months to live for yourself and your family. Once you have that established give yourself a 10% allowance of your income (after tax) for gambling.  I don't care if it is only $500 a month. 1% of that $500 is your unit size = $5 that is how much you can wager on each bet.  Do not get fancy altering your unit size on bets, all bets = 1u.  After 1 month see where you are at and adjust your unit size accordingly. Hope this helps, very simple approach all laid out for you.
Wise advice but I would recommend a 9 - 12 month emergency fund.

Eh I guess it depends if he is single or has a family, I wouldn't need a full year cushion being single, I have marketable skills.

 
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Posted: #33

That's good Donkey that you have marketing skills because if you just relied on you're terrible capping skills, you'd be broke! new_anvil

 
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Can't say it any better than gutinstinctus. Not knowing what motivates you to play, let me suggest playing free contests, if it's just the action that you want. There's money to be won all over the internet and I'm sure there are pools in your area with $ to be won and a minimal amount to play. But should you continue to bet never bet "to get my money back." Sports betting is truly a marathon and not a sprint. Made my first sports bet at the Stardust many moons ago! Good luck to you!

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Quote Originally Posted by CanadaCup:

That's good Donkey that you have marketing skills because if you just relied on you're terrible capping skills, you'd be broke!

Hey look another useless troll that has a posted record of 0% over the past month, how about you be more useless someplace else and BTFO.

And GENIUS, it is marketable not marketing you moron.

 
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Posted: #36

Listen Donkey A$$ I'm going to give you a free pick tonight because I feel sorry for you because you're NFL picks are new_poop

Arizona Coyotes ML moneyeyes

It's a winner thumbs_up

 

 
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Quote Originally Posted by CanadaCup:

Listen Donkey A$$ I'm going to give you a free pick tonight because I feel sorry for you because you're NFL picks are  Arizona Coyotes ML  It's a winner

You are worthless, 0% NFL win rate last month, you come here and leech picks off people like me, BTFO and stop being a troll.

 
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Posted: #38

 

CanadaCup - 2019 NFL thru W8 | 49-39 | 58.33% thumbs_up

Donkey_A$$ -  2019 NFL thru W8 | 45-39 | 53.6% confused

 

 

 
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Quote Originally Posted by CanadaCup:

CanadaCup - 2019 NFL thru W8 | 49-39 | 58.33%  Donkey_A$$ -  2019 NFL thru W8 | 45-39 | 53.6%

There is something called post history, you have not made a single thread in the month of October, take your made up stats and BTFO.

 
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Quote Originally Posted by CanadaCup:

CanadaCup - 2019 NFL thru W8 | 49-39 | 58.33% 

Donkey_A$$ -  2019 NFL thru W8 | 45-39 | 53.6%

You literally copied and pasted my last update and changed the name and the numbers, you are trolling trash, GTFO.

 
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Posted: #41

Just follow tiger eat all you can at least hit about 50% maybe a little more. 

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Quote Originally Posted by gutinstinctus:

Brother, true advice, since it appears as if you are honestly looking for it: 1. Lower your goddamn stakes and play ridiculously low units. All your bets should be the same unit. Track your ROI. If you do not know how to do this just divide your ending bankroll by your starting bankroll after X time. Be honest with your tracking. Until you have a positive ROI do not move up in stakes. A 20% ROI is almost certainly impossible. You should aim at 5%.  2. Study. Find your mistakes. Look for tendencies. If you are down 171 units playing 1-3 units per bet, you are definitely doing something horribly wrong. If you are betting 20 units like some idiots in this forum, then you should reassess your concept of "unit".  3. Look for your profitable spots. If spread has not worked, explore props. Explore live totals.  4. Be disciplined. Follow the gameplan, develop your art and then trust the process you envisioned.  5. Do not pay for touts. All of them are idiots. Seriously all of them. If they are as good as they proclaim, they would not be selling picks for 25USD. They would be playing their picks for much more money or would have huge whales as customers. If there are truly profitable ones with 5% ROIs or better I guarantee you that their best picks are not being revealed.  6. Have fun. If you don´t enjoy this shit and are not appealed by trying to examine the games and find mistakes, then quit already.

well said peace_5gutinstinctus

True in every sense of your words an_light

a pattern most should follow most times I Do sometimes I don’t ...... Discipline is the word tough to sometimes follow even for myselfquiet

 

 

 

 

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Quote Originally Posted by MysteriusCapper:

Come to my thread. Don't gamble anymore for now you need to change your mind set first. 3 easy teaser plays on a hot streak makes me $25k for $100 initial risk. Each losing sequence I have to risk another $100 but each winning sequence I win 25k in 3 bets. So I'd say it's very possible to recover but you aren't a pro at this so I recommend quitting until you come up with a solid system as I have. Make sure you monitor it over many seasons and are 100% sure it works long term. You can do this easily if you have the time by back capping the games..all the info you need to win is right here on covers


the first 4 words in your paragraph scares the hell outta me ..... really I mean seriously?

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Quote Originally Posted by MysteriusCapper:

Come to my thread. Don't gamble anymore for now you need to change your mind set first. 3 easy teaser plays on a hot streak makes me $25k for $100 initial risk. Each losing sequence I have to risk another $100 but each winning sequence I win 25k in 3 bets. So I'd say it's very possible to recover but you aren't a pro at this so I recommend quitting until you come up with a solid system as I have. Make sure you monitor it over many seasons and are 100% sure it works long term. You can do this easily if you have the time by back capping the games..all the info you need to win is right here on covers

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I see your username above your in handcuffs wtf!

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Quote Originally Posted by Comebackid777:

forget about your losses and just go forward like nothin ever happened cuz every day is a new beginning dont look back


wtf kind of advise is that new_sleeping1

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Posted: #46

I hope LC gives u some money back. You should of asked these guys before u bought picks from him. When someone has a great year or 2 even its gonna crash sooner or later. No one beats the book over the long run. You can't beat the vig. They charge more intrest than a loan shark. 

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Posted: #47

I personally cut my gambling down to under $500 a year and now invest and flip baseball cards. It’s a blast and sound investment if you go after the studs like trout, soto acuna, etc and hof like Griffey jeter mantle mays who hold their value

 
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 What’s going to be your excuse for tomorrow 

 
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Just bet 171 units on a play you really like. If it fails just bet 340 units on another one you really like.

Then 510 units. Eventually you will get it and you can quit for like 
 
 
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We ALL have had bad stretches....some people just don't have the tolerance for stress that comes with gambling, investing in the market.   I'm curious what a unit is for you and how old you are.   Good that you seek advice from others.   Bad imo, you won't listen to even the best of counsel.   Ive had friends like you...and here is what I seriously did...told them to call me and give me their plays, I would play the opposite of them and give them a cut.    I follow put/call ratios in the markets and when I play craps, I find newbies and bet against them.   MOST people are losers in life(by their own definition) and end up on social security when they are old and rely solely on the government,   find out what the crowd is doing.....and do the opposite.   Why? Here is a true story.....had a bookie friend, he would win booking and knew when "everyone was on one side" so he would play SMALL plays against everyone on one side.  THAT wasn't enough for him and he tried capping plays on his own and that was where his LARGEST action was.   Total disaster.....Want more? Drug dealers using from their own supply.   Good luck to you

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