Bad beat stories
If You Must Gamble, Gamble In Person, Like An Adult: This seems like old-coot reasoning, but there is a fundamental difference between watching your money grow or diminish on your phone and having to...
Posts tagged with "gambling"
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Bookmaking work fights
In response to people proposing a fight in the parking lot beside the office, and being told my bookmaking was not a valid concern: There are gentlemen with mozzarella and garlic on their breath who...
The fake cricket league
This story is wild. Just goes to show that you need to do your research before putting your wagers down. The Fake Indian Cricket League Created for Real Online Betting: The tournament was also listed...
Diamond headed canes
I wish the Black Sox had this much swag. Gambling For Life: Need—and a little bit of reasonable resentment—was a motivator of one of sports’s earliest gambling crises, this one arriving in just the...
Recreational bettor
Talking to a friend at work about betting: I am only a recreational bettor now, no different from the average joe at the dog track.
Garnishing sports betting profits
Sports bettors everywhere got to be shook. Next phase of this: CPS agents storm the stage at the Outhouse and confiscate the tips from a dancer whose baby daddy got primary custody.
Calcaterra on the Ohtani betting scandal
Craig Calcaterra is a sports writer and a lawyer. His analysis of the Shohei betting scandal was interesting to read. Wire transfers are not like paying for your DoorDash order with a credit card....
Hubris
I got a little overwhelmed with having to do too many things at once, and made a betting mistake. I explained it as follows to a pal: Now I'm out like $5 from these various errors. And I only have a...
Problem gambler strategy
Problem gamblers are built different.
Bad beats
2002 - I was in Vegas, pretty drunk, lost, and wondering up to a Roulette table. After a few Green 00 losses, I look up to my right and see D-Backs juiceball Louis Gonzales. Not wanting to be that...
Jags hat
My nephew is a huge Jags fan. I gave him a Jags hat last Xmas. I told him on Sunday that if Uncle Muneer's Jags bets don't pay out, I will repo the hat and throw it in the trash. Xmas this year will...
Adopt a kid for Xmas
I told my fellow gambler, about what he'd give to a child he'd agreed to get gifts for through a charity drive at work: You'll wrap up 5 of the Tootsie lollipops from the office kitchen with a note...
Betting on my kid's Little League sports games
A great dad had an idea about how to make his kid's Little League games more interesting: So for any of you who have kids that play little league sports, you’re aware of how mind-numbingly exhausting...
Betting ban
I’ve been banned from all sports betting and related activities. It all started yesterday when I doubled my money on a bet Wife said that the frequency of my bets was accelerating. To be fair, I’d...
Be better
I told my best friend about some ill advised financial moves that ended up working for me. His response, "I'm just saying, if you're going to be a full-on bro, don't be "invests sports bet money in...