[ABEHONEST]

Let me tell you the worst possible loss I suffered in the 2018 Basketball tourney.

I have Syracuse +5 1/2 points for the first half against Duke.This was at the Final 16 stage.
And I had to pull for Duke to win the game because I had plenty on them to win the entire tourney.
So, I took Syracuse in the first half and the 5 1/2 points.

Syracuse had been playing excellent basketball up to that time so I felt I could win both bets, having Syracuse cover the 5 1/2 point in the first half, then afterwards, I'll have a nice sum of cash to unload all winnings on Syracuse in the second half.

Figuring, Duke will be on edge if Syracuse is playing them tight by the half. And they definitely were doing exactly that.

Well, Syracuse was, and with only 2:25 minutes to go in the half. Syracuse had a 1 point lead, so I was feeling extra confident that this money was in the bag--knowing, as soon as I thought of this, soon to be lock, that jinxy feeling started sinking in at the same time. Now I have that legit lead of 6 1/2 with just over that 2 minutes til half.
I have learned so many times, if you start counting your winnings before they are already won, gosh, bad things can and will likely happen, even if it looks like it will take a miracle to lose that particular wager.

Okay, 2:25 to go and I have that 1 point lead. I knew exactly what the math was saying to me at that point in time; "hey, I have a 6 1/2 point lead and I'll have to get outscored by 7 points for the rest of the first half."
Well, in that 2 something minutes til half, Duke got hot and Syracuse did what I was now petrified of, shooting blanks and getting no free-throws at all.
Meanwhile, Duke is racking up free-throws left and right. We know the end of this luckless story don't we?

Duke score exactly 7 points in that 2:25 minutes, and if I recall, including a couple free-throws at the one second mark, giving them that 7 point lead at the half. My team Syracuse, meanwhile, went blank. To make it worse, I no meaningful cash on hand to make any worthwhile play on Syracuse in the second half. I had this bizarre thing happen when halftime came. I could not get a wager down on Syracuse because I had lost 95% of my funds on Syracuse + that 5 1/2 points.

Normally, I could find a way to unload on Syracuse with other reachable methods. Not this time. I was trapped in with no escape because I was in a Vegas casino and could not get my connections working.
So, my major hit didn't get there at the half and the helpless feeling with no way to unload on Syracuse, compounded my soon to be sorry-ass headache. And of course, Syracuse outscored Duke by 3 points the second, meaning, I had the [well, a near perfect as you can get] perfect idea and hunch planned.

This was a sick way to lose and get shutout for any wager for the second half. A loss that will linger for quite sometime.
* Shake some some more salt onto my still-fresh wound the following week. Duke loses in OT to Kansas.

[lonegambler23]

bryan youre one helll of a talker man

[Easy-Rider 66]

Tough beat Abe. This must sticking in your craw to post now. GL.

[ABEHONEST]

bryan youre one helll of a talker man

Just curious; who's Bryan?

[ABEHONEST]

Andddd, Duke had a 3-point lead over Kansas with 30 seconds left in regulation.

[cincinnatikid513]

why you living in the past ncaa tournament is over

[ABEHONEST]

I do believe this Cinncy Rose doesn't smell like one. Could be one of those 8%er's I was talking about?

[cincinnatikid513]

abe your a stange cat

[jjgold]

Abe go out man

Hiking???

[ABEHONEST]

Abe go out man

Hiking???

JJ, do be as puzzling as your are, you are also a total enigma? That's an extremely tough gig to maintain.

[jtoler]

if there's no such thing as a lock then there definitely is no such thing as a 1st half lock

[2daBank]

I rather not even think about my nightmare that was the NCAA tourney. Straight disaster for me, every big play I stepped out on went down in flames!!! Thank god that shit over and the free money NBA and NHL playoffs here along w baseball!! Another month of NCAA hoops and I'd have been bankrupt this year, lol.,

[Slipknot26]

Never ever lost a lock since no such thing exists
Lost some very good +EV plays but basketball , so many possessions unlike other sports , easy to turn bad in a hurry .

[2daBank]

Never ever lost a lock since no such thing exists
Lost some very good +EV plays but basketball , so many possessions unlike other sports , easy to turn bad in a hurry .

True, I just ignored the "lock" part of question. Guys who think there are locks typically reload a lot!!

[Sam Odom]

ABE wants a refund

[ABEHONEST]

I rather not even think about my nightmare that was the NCAA tourney. Straight disaster for me, every big play I stepped out on went down in flames!!! Thank god that shit over and the free money NBA and NHL playoffs here along w baseball!! Another month of NCAA hoops and I'd have been bankrupt this year, lol.,

I understand, exactly. Many on here do not understand what a "lock" truly is.
A lock is a figment of your imagination. And, almost all "locks," get home and make daddy very happy. Though, any gambler who has suffered the other side of a "lock," he knows the pain and it hurts like hell.

There is a time in sport's gambling, where the thoroughly dedicated gambler, has an extra-sense, of;
"this is it, this is the wager that will lead me to the largest hit of my career.
After this bonanza hit, I will have a stockpile of funds so large, I will be a total Bookie destroyer from this day forward."

To lose that dream and the bet too, is a double heartbreaking experience.
Now, if this is an scenario you have yet to experience, you are still in your rookie decade of sport's gambling.
Careful, son, that lock is out there right over the horizon.

[Sam Odom]

A lock is a figment of your imagination.

[Chi_archie]

[Sam Odom]

ABE wants a refund

[ABEHONEST]

ABE wants a refund

This guy, Sam Odom, has "locked-in" my vote as the most useless member of SBR.
Careful guy's, he's the .. SBR Pied Piper. The one member who will lead you over the cliff of disaster.

[ABEHONEST]

There is a time in sport's gambling, where the thoroughly dedicated gambler, has an extra-sense, of;
"this is it, this is the wager that will lead me to the largest hit of my career.
After this bonanza hit, I will have a stockpile of funds so large, I will be a total Bookie destroyer from this day forward."

To lose that dream and the bet too, is a double heartbreaking experience.
JJ

[Easy-Rider 66]

there is a time in sport's gambling, where the thoroughly dedicated gambler, has an extra-sense, of;
"this is it, this is the wager that will lead me to the largest hit of my career.
After this bonanza hit, i will have a stockpile of funds so large, i will be a total bookie destroyer from this day forward."

to lose that dream and the bet too, is a double heartbreaking experience.
Jj

pipe dream abe for the most part.

[chargers4222]

Very timely thread. On a related note, who else lost a "lock" play in the 2012 NFL playoffs? Packers ML at home against the Giants... that was a tough break, am I right bro?

[jtoler]

This guy, Sam Odom, has "locked-in" my vote as the most useless member of SBR.

let's keep him around, he's good at providing us with fake news about Trump