After losing the "Entire Account Play"

[hello there]

Well, here I am, with no money left to bet, the rest of the season shot down the drain, having to owe money back, feeling like an idiot.......

I am done with betting this season, I'm not sure if I'm going to bet in the future. I'd like to say a few things......

After I loss that "Entire Acct Play" I was in shock, feeling numb, thinking "what the hell just happened?" Then I sat in my shower and let the hot spray hit on me for like half an hour, thinking what got me to this point in gambling. I had flash backs, like photo flashes of me as an adolescense and my dad, sitting at the table, picking teams on a parlay sheet. Now flash forward to me watching as Hawaii absolutely catch on fire in the second half against Tulsa as my days of gambling comes crashing down. If you seen my face, my jaw was opened, in awe, watching what was happening in the second half, it was like one of those nightmares you wake up from, but this time I was awake already, helpless, watching things unfold, like as if I was standing on a train track, watching a train coming closer and closer, about to hit me, as I try to move, but my legs are numb and I cannot move out of the way. Whaaam!!!!

Gambling is not exactly like cocaine, but it's usage can be, like we can look at it as we all taking cocaine, except the difference is that I over dosed and I just died. I should have been more careful and took it little by little to get the high and at the same time keep staying alive. Well, u know what I mean. I know I will get out of my debts, then what? Will I come back and make the same mistake?? Maybe, maybe not, i don't know.. that's the scary part.

I feel like the guy in "Pet Cemetary", you know the stephen king movie. The one where his wife died(just like my gambling life just did) and even if it should be left dead, the urge to bring it back is so great that I still might bring it back to life, even knowing that the consequences will most likely be bad or evil, but to have it alive again would be a craving I'm not sure I could resist. By the way, after the guy, who loved his wife dearly, brought her back to life in the movie, she came back and murdered him.

The sad thing is, that I'm not much interested in watching a game now without something riding on it. I still have those flash photo pics in my mind about those days as a kid throwing around the nerf football, while watching games for pure entertainment. Aaahhh, where have those days gone...sigh???

 

[buddy]

I'm still awake so I'll reply...

You were a fool.

 

[vinmaj]

I'm still awake also...... so I'll reply.....
It's easy to let yourself go an take that chance and lay the whole thing ride..... that's what the man wants you to do ..... that's the easy way out ..... like suicide.... I'm sure you've read posts from the experienced people here on this site, but you did not heed what was told ...... bet within your means.....its a slow process.... doesn't happen overnight..... the way your thinking is; you should have just gone and laid the whole thing on the lottery.... ...................... its what you did.........
I DON'T POST MUCH.... DON'T HAVE TO ....... LISTEN TO THE EXPERIENCED PEOPLE HERE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

EVERYONE ........ GO SLOW ........ BUILD SLOW........ YOU'LL APPRICIATE YOUR WINNINGS MORE.........

GOOD LUCK TO ALL
MAYBE NEXT YEAR I'LL MEET MADJACK, FLETCH, RAY, AND OTHER NOTABLES AT THE 2002 SUPERBOWL PARTY.... IF INVITED

VINMAJ

 

[TJBELL]

it's early for me too (working 3rd shift) and i too will reply. quit gambling and become a WRITER!! seriously, that was a well written thread as i could picture the entire scene unfolding in front of my very eyes i am dead serious! use THAT talent instead of wagering. TOM

 

[skulldog]

Buddy, I don't think he needs to be told he's a fool

Hello there has been taking shots about his money management (and rightfully so) for along time, but you rubbing salt in his wounds isn't right.

Tbell, excellent call on his writing skills and I also could picture him in the shower all bummed out(been there in my younger days).

Some people can't drink w/out getting drunk and acting like a fool,
gambling is the same thing, except that instead of getting drunk and acting like a fool, you gamble recklessly and don't have any money management skills and therefore go broke.

I've read all the advice that hello there been given in the past whick has been excellent IMO(you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink), But "Your're a fool" doesn't sound like good advice to me.


Good Luck Hello There.

 

[walleyek]

I agree, a good piece of writing. Studies have shown that for those who crave a daily gambling "fix", there is an imbalance in the dopamine center of the brain. A doctor I've worked with claims this repetitious impulse is largely biological, NOT learned behavior. This same doctor is now heading up a drug study on chronic gamblers. So far, his success has been astounding. The drug considerably reduces gambling urges by suppressing that part of the brain responsible for them. If anyone is feeling really down about their daily gambling habit and needs to pull out of the rut, I can give you more information on the study.

 

[jotom]

WALLEYEK

WALLEYEK

that would be interesting reading,please pass it on

 

[fatdaddycool]

HT

HT

Money has never been nor ever will be directly related to ones happiness or ability to enjoy the simple pleasures in life. A financial bump in the road is exactly that...a bump. Do not let the loss of a wager or gambling bankruptcy destroy enjoyment of the sport itself, I think the only difference in watching a game with or without a wager on it is that you don't get the prize at the end...on the same hand you don't get the stress or heartache either. I have told myself the same thing before when I blow a call and then continue to compound it with more games and worse calls, it happens, but so does sitting in a boat on a crystal clear lake as the sun comes up and the steam is coming off the water and you flip a lure next to a tree and you feel the tug the minute it hits the water.....you set the hook and...BAM..there it is...that happens too........simply put, the man that buried his wife only to have her come back to life and eventually kill him only mistake was that he didn't learn his lesson the first time when he buried his cat in the Pet Sematary, which came back evil also....as for being a fool....who hasn't been one at least once. Good luck to you hello there I am sure we will hear from you soon

 

[buddy]

By chance, does this study include those who are more interested in methods of handicapping rather than gambling or winning?

 

[walleyek]

The drug study has nothing to do with the hobby of handicapping or winning/losing. It focuses on the chronic gambling craving some of us deal with on a daily basis.

The greatest response to the drug was found in those with the highest level of urge symptoms - the drug seemed to both reduce the urge to gamble and the level of pleasure associated with the gambling experience.

Here's a segment of the article that's pretty interesting:

Gambling

In a class of its own as the disorder that most resembles drug addiction is pathological gambling. Compulsive gamblers live from fix to fix, throwing away the rest of their lives for another roll of the dice--and deluding themselves that luck will soon smile on them. Their subjective cravings can be as intense as those of drug abusers; they show tolerance through their need to increase betting; and they experience highs rivaling that of a drug high. Up to half of pathological gamblers "show withdrawal symptoms looking like a mild form of drug withdrawal," says Shaffer--including churning guts, sleep disturbance, sweating, irritability, and craving. And like drug addicts, they are at risk of sudden relapse even after many years of abstinence.

Furthermore, what's going on inside gamblers' heads looks like what goes on in addicts' heads. Yale psychiatrist Marc Potenza finds that when pathological gamblers are exposed to videos of people gambling and talking about gambling, they show activity changes in some of the same frontal and limbic brain regions as do cocaine addicts exposed to images that stir up drug craving, as assessed by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). And a positron emission tomography study of pathological gamblers playing blackjack, conducted by psychiatrist Eric Hollander of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, showed significant changes in cortical arousal depending on whether they were just playing cards or betting with a $100 stake. He says it resembles another study showing alcoholics' brain reactions to looking at a bottle of Coke versus a bottle of whiskey.

Like addicts, gamblers also respond to drugs that block drug highs. Suck Won Kim, a psychiatrist at the University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis, has tried naltrexone, an opiate antagonist, on a variety of compulsive behaviors including gambling. In an 11-week trial on 45 gamblers, naltrexone inhibited both the urge to gamble and the high from it in 75% of the group--compared with 24% of a comparable group on placebo--suggesting that drugs and gambling stimulate some of the same biochemical pathways.

And finally, there's cognitive evidence: Gamblers, like drug addicts, do badly at a "gambling task," success at which requires the ability to perceive that delayed gains will be larger than immediate ones.

Another good article: http://www.gamblingmagazine.com/articles/14/14-1498.htm

 

[Sick Dog]

You have a problem you need help and you should not gamble anymore.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and getting the same results. This what you are doing.
Do not gamble anymore and get some help for your problem.
Gambling addictions will do the same think cocaine addictions will to you. The botton line is they will both rob you of everything in your life.

Good luck to you.

 

[dr. freeze]

that drug might be okay but messing with the dopamine center of your brain will also interfere with other areas of life......turn you into a semi-vegetable......best way to cure gambling problem is to quit......and have friends help you

 

[fatdaddycool]

dopeamine

dopeamine

I will bet you it doesn't work

 

[walleyek]

On the contrary. It works.

 

[Stewy]

I know how you feel!

I know how you feel!

The Week I turned 21 I started betting on sports. Beleive this or not I turned 100 dollars off of my credit card into 32,000 in three days by hitting these wackey hockey under parlays. If you don't believe me check all the scores around monday, tuesday, wednesday the week that Brian Griese hurt his shoulder on Monday night at home against the Raider in which the Broncos won 24-21 on a last second fieldgoal. I was so stupid then I thought I could turn it into a 100000 dollars, well anyway I bet 25000 dollars on the Rams -3 @ half vs the Redskins on monday night football. The Rams were driving up 3 with about a minute left and I thought at worst I was going to push, the next thing I know Deion Sanders forces a fumble from behind and the Redskins end up kicking a last second field goal to tie it at halftime. Now that is what I call getting hit by a train. But I did learn a valuable lesson. the most i will ever bet on a game now is 88 dollars and that is my strongest play. Maybe when I get out of college I will start betting more. Just to let you know you aren't the only one that makes mistakes, the important thing is to learn from them.

 

[southern coach]

hello there..."hello there"...hey...i just woke up and thought i'd reply...listen man...don't pay the rent this month...i just assume a guy who bets his whole acct is renting...take the rent money and ...oh, hell...i justnoticed there's no moneyline on tulsa tonite...well that's ok...just put it on kansas (a nearby state) minus the 600...ok...then, if you win take your winnings and plunk it down on the rams in the superbowl -700...if you lose, see if you can get your deposit back and let that ride....
hey, the worst that can happen is you are back at home and mon's feedin' you chunky soup like kurt warner's mon does...
ya' see like ain't do bad....

 

[Dizzayton]

Like older, wiser cappers have told me my whole gambling life and I told you........."Teasers and parlays will kill you in the long run, it just stacks the odds in the bookie's favor even more"

When you come back just bet straight wagers.

 

[double down]

This is all bullshit

This is all bullshit

Frankly, nobody is this dumb..and then explains in detail how he sat in a shower....but, on the other hand..this is the same guy that explained his hemorhoid (sp.) problem to world wide web.........this is a bullshit story..period.