24th October 2005, 08:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Chrome Prince
moeee, I'm not trying to preach to you or anyone else.
I'm trying to impart the benefit of my personal experience, some which applies to myself, some which applies to close friends of mine.
The $50 bill scenario is the prime indicator of self control issues.
So, you might devise some system whereby you only get $20 bills and get to the TAB with only one of them.
Lack of self control will will undo all that effort sooner or later.
I'm not criticizing you moeee, I'm trying to show you how fatal this method can be.
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Thats why gambling gets out of control- lack of disipline and control.
It is just as easy to loose $50 as it is to loose $500, its all about managing how you bet. For me, when i first started with an online-account. I put $100 in. I made about $30 and thought great. Then.... i started to think, wow, i can win on every race. In two days it was all gone. So i sat down, had a long hard think. And sorted myself out. Sure it was only $100 big whoop. But the princible in the way that i lost it, concerned me. So this time around, i am much more systematic. I make my bets before work, and check them when i come home. There is no sitting in front of the computer going "oh maybe #2 in the next" It stops that urge to bet on the next race, to win on the next race.
Its so easy to just random bet. Self control is a HUGE part in it. And well if you have no self control. Then, i, Like Chrome Prince, suggest its probably best to stay away from gambling all together.
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