Top 10 Ways to lose in Sports Gambling

posted these a while back thought i would post again since they are gone! 1. Always bet more than you can afford to lose. This might be the best way of all to get rid of unwanted assets. Gamble with the rent money, or with the alimony payment, or the grocery money, or the car payment. Risking more than you can afford to lose, you figure to have that solvency monkey off your back in no time. It's hard to keep winning when all you can think about is whether or not you'll have a roof over your head next week. (This is NOT a strategy you'll want to tell your wife about.) 2. Keep changing the sizes of your bets. Regard the size of your next bet as a pry bar, either to get even after a losing streak or to 'push' a winning streak. Changing the size of your bets constitutes using a progressive betting system - whether or not such changes in your bet size have been carefully pre-planned - and progressive betting systems are wonderfully effective at unloading unwanted cash. Consider doubling up after a losing day in order to get even, or why not double up after a winning day to 'push' a winning streak? NOTE: According to expert researcher Dr. Nigel E. Turner, Ph.D., Scientist, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health incremental betting is one of the telltale signs of someone with a gambling problem. 3. Always bet according to your hunches. Betting according to your gut feelings is a real nifty short-cut to Tap City. If you feel like you're 'due' a winning day, increase the size of your bets. Or if you get a hunch that a particular team is ready to get hot, load up on them and don't let anyone talk you out of it. After all, you remember that time you had a hunch and it came true, don't you? 4. Lay lots of futures bets and bet big on parlay cards. Anybody will win now and then if they bet propositions with reasonable vigorish. Those sissy bets don't have nearly enough odds against you. If you're trying to get rid of cash, always take the bets with big payoffs. Hey, - the Cleveland Browns figure to be 500-to-1 to win this year's Super Bowl. Why not take a flyer, lay a dime and make a quick half-million? And how about those big payoff bets on parlay cards? You can spare a hundred bucks on a 15-teamer, can't you? 5. Whenever you gamble, be tired, drink up, and flirt like crazy. Breaking this rule could be one of the reasons you've been winning in the first place. How can you expect to lose if you're alert and paying attention? Always stay up too late, drink plenty of booze, and try to get a date with the cocktail waitress or ticket writer; - that's just good common sense. 6. Pay for advice from touts who claim to win at least 70% of their picks against pointspreads. In Las Vegas, you could win a $200,000 house and 100's of thousands of dollars in cash if you can pick 70% winners straight up...That's without having to deal at all with pointspreads. How can it be that the names of 900 number gurus never come up in these contests? Could it be that they can't really pick 70% winners, even straight up? Could it be that they're lying about their ability to pick winners against pointspreads? Nawwww...They promised, didn't they? Go ahead and trust them. In fact, call several of these guys' 900 numbers every week. That way, you'll get a consensus of their "expert" opinions. 7. Never read books or articles by experts, never do research. Studying what experts have to say is strictly for pussies. Always try new systems and ideas while you're playing with real money. Never practice or double-check a system at home beforehand, and never read anything by acknowledged experts. Hey, you were born The World's Greatest Sports Bettor just like you were born The World's Greatest Lover, - right? You don't need advice from anybody; it's a macho thing. 8. Always impress people with the size of your bets. Members of the opposite sex are really attracted to people who lose vast amounts of money. Big losers look very sexy...And don't forget, the more you lose, the more comps you're likely to get from the sportbook manager. It's important to impress the sportbook manager with big losses. It's a great way to get a free buffet. 9. Consider winning or losing as a direct test of your self worth. Remember, only a wimp quits gambling during a losing streak. Real men and women keep betting until they either win big or go broke. You don't want to be a wimp, do you? Keep betting. Get mad if you have to. 10. Be superstitious. If superstition doesn't cure your solvency problem, your luckiness may be tougher to overcome than I thought. If you win by betting on the team with the best horoscope, or on the quarterback with the best bio-rhythms, or because a coach's name has six letters in it and 6 is your lucky number, or because you're wearing your lucky bolo tie - or whatever - your solvency problem might be extra tough. You might be forced to use more than one of these ten guidelines at once.

Ha, that's funny because I've done about half of those throughout my life. Getting smarter everyday...||an_wink.gif' border=0>

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Define "beating the book" realistically. If winning lots of money betting sports was easy, no one would work and the books would go out of business. Your basic goal should be to enjoy the thrill of sports betting without too much expense - Make that your goal and there'll be no limit to your fun. Winning money is possible, likely if you follow the right experts - but it should be thought of as the sweet icing on the cake. Know about the games you bet. The line (also called point spread or odds) is made with the intent of splitting in half the public action on each side of the game. If you know more than the public, then you have a strong chance to beat the line by winning more than 50% of your bets. Knowledge about a game can come from any combination of your own research and insight from experts. With knowledge comes all-important confidence - allowing you to enjoy the action without the doubts that go along with betting in the dark. Accept your limitations as a handicapper. Knowing more than the public requires either more effort or an extraordinary amount of skill. Most people led busy lives, rarely leaving enough time to fully study the games. Professional handicappers spend their entire work day researching the games, applying skill developed over many years of experience. In combination with your own efforts it makes great sense to take advantage of expert information and picks. Use the right experts. Finding helpful handicappers is harder than finding a good doctor or electrician. First you must trust that they're not trying to scam you. Then you must determine that they are providing you with info that actually adds to what you know. Don't bet too many games. The book does not make mistakes on a large percentage of games. The lines they post are usually pretty close to correct. If you play the entire board every night, you will most likely be playing many games in which you have no edge. Focus upon those few games that you know more about than the public. TV games are the most tempting to play even without a strong opinion - If you must play them for the action, play an amount much smaller than your stronger bets. Don't bet too much on your games. Sports betting is supposed to be fun - but if the amount at risk is enough to affect your life then the stress gets in the way of the fun. Even strong information has its losing streaks, and if your oversized betting knocks you to the sidelines due to one of those streaks, then you'll miss a lot of future fun. Bet the best line. No single effort will make a bigger difference to your sports betting fun than betting the best possible line. Consider all the games you've lost in the last year by a half point, and imagine that you pushed them all - then imagine winning all the games that you pushed. No doubt the dollar difference would be significant. The more sportsbook accounts you have, the better chance you'll have at betting a better number, which means more winners, which means more money in your pocket.

Most of these are true, but with handicapping services out there, there are 10% that win a nice buck in baseball especially. I monitor their picks each day & 10% are winning you between 10,000 to 15,000 or more a season in baseball. There are also a small percentage of handicappers who win in football. The sports where winners are scarce are basketball and hockey. The true handicappers put their money where their mouth is & offer you a 100% moneyback guarantee if you do not profit based on lines locked in by their monitor. There are a few of those.||thumbs_up.gif' border=0>

oh yeah that a really good way to bet #5 did that a few times thats why im in the hole this year||an_cry.gif' border=0>