I always feel like an asshole

[Pistol Pete]

Its mostly my gf that makes me feel like this but. She loved to tell the people were out with the action I have on a game. This is going to be a personal rant so please ignore if you dont want to hear about it.

She use to work at outback steakhouse so we go there alot to watch sports on big screen and get cheap drinks and food. Now im a pretty laid back guy and dont like people know how much I wager. Maybe its just me but it annoys me when im there and I hear these guys telling the entire bar about their 2 team parlay on the game. All night this guy talked about it to everyone that would listen. Finally I find out the guy bet it for 20 bucks! At this point I was already drunk, this is where the asshole part comes in lol. I really got tired of hearing this guy and ofcourse my gf tells him I like to gamble too great. So he comes telling me about his bet and blah blah blah, I finally tell him dude its fuckin 20 bucks even if you win your not making shit. So yeah im the asshole!

Anyways I always feel this way when im out. This is not the first time but it is first time i snapped on someone over stupid shit. Normally ill ask people where they bet and they have told me BOS, BETUS, Bodog and I will tell them oh man you should not bet there its not safe or whatever and they give me this attitude like ok know it all.

I quess this is why I love this forum b/c we mostly all understand each other. In real world if I try to help someone im a know it all and asshole and the one time I go off on someone im even bigger ass. Oh well this is my rant.

[imgv94]

Sucks that you make fun of $20 bettors.. I was a $20 bettor for about a month this year cause of some unexpected financial setbacks I had at the time.

[Zikaris]

Sucks that you make fun of $20 bettors.. I was a $20 bettor for about a month this year cause of some unexpected financial setbacks I had at the time.

You lost some big bets?

[imgv94]

You lost some big bets?

I'm not going to lie, that was part of it. But I did have some unexpected bills that I had to pay.

[Pistol Pete]

imgv wasnt making fun of him just got so tired of hearing the guy during the entire game. I mean if you would have seen the way the guy was talking and acting you'd of thought he had 1000 bucks on it.

[imgv94]

I notice that alot at the Race Track with $2 Bettors nonetheless. Pistol Pete your going to have to buy your loved ones some nice presents this Christmas.. You rich bastard..

[jjgold]

$20 bettors are real Americans

[bubba]

whats that suppsoed to mean jj. sre u saying large bettors are not americans

[magnavox]

whats that suppsoed to mean jj. sre u saying large bettors are not americans

Apparently larger bettors are 'True Americans'.

[Stumpage]

Well, it's all relative, right? $20 may not seem like a lot to some people, but to others it is a significant risk...Plus, some people just hate to lose, period, regardless of the amount. I know I bloody well do.

[Dark Horse]

I couldn't care less about how much others bet, because I don't know their bankroll. And even if I did, I still couldn't care less. For a lot of people it is difficult to make the 'disconnect' between real world money and gambling money. But you have to do it at one point or another, while staying disciplined. (it's the whole reason behind chips).

The more interesting part of the above story is the ability to stay calm, no matter how much we have riding on a game. As in: "Don't sweat the small stuff. And it's all small stuff." To the exact same extent that we are going to be elated about a win, we will be down about a loss. Why go through that rollercoaster? You gotta love a guy who can lose ten grand with a genuine smile on his face.

[onlooker]

Funny you should say that Pistol Pete. Just last night I was at a "early bird party" at a local casino here. Someone I know kept letting me know about his 20 dollar PIT/Over parlay he had. I told him I just had a dime on Boise and to get the fcuk out of here.

Had quite a few people asking me who I had in the MIA/PIT game. I just kept telling them, no action. Im waiting a week or two to see everything play out. Then some asked, "why not just throw 20 on it to have action." Thats when I tell them, "Im in it to win money, not just for the hell of it". That seems to get a few, "your a asshole" looks.

Dont worry Pistol Pete. I get the same feedback at times, even when Im sporting my sportsbookreview.com Tony Bahama shirt. When I tell them the safer offshore books. They get all azz hurt when you try to help them out. Like they want to be the know it all in the group.

Believe me, Im usually the quite one when I go out. But always seem to come off as the asshole. Maybe because they are losing most of the time, and hate the fact that I might actually be right.

[bigboydan]

that last quote about sums it all up looker.

if people just sit back and think about it for a little bit they will realize how much truth really is really to that statement. if your not on the same side there on, they will backlash you something fearce it seems like. I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but thats just the nature of the beast when it comes to gambling.

[sjelveh]

I don’t think all people are like that it just depends on the personality when I am the other side of a bet with someone even if I have 500 and they have 20 I try to keep quit I can be pretty calm if I need to be while watching a game especially if am out in public, by myself in my room that’s a whole other story, but even when I play craps and I pay craps a lot living in Vegas when I bet the don’t pass and someone hits a point I say good roll even though am cussing them out inside.

[Pistol Pete]

Thanks onlooker, funny that both of us run into same people.

[tacomax]

Believe me, Im usually the quite one when I go out. But always seem to come off as the asshole.

Maybe it's because you are the asshole.

But seriously, it's grating when either someone boasts about how many games they win irrelevant of stake or thinks they're a high-roller gambler playing $5 parlays. It's all to do with class - if you've got class, you don't need to boast about wins or boast about how much (or how little) you're putting on games. If you've got no class, then you usually do and it's usually masking other issues in your life. If you make yourself out to be something you're not or feel the need to get group acceptance by boasting, you can bet that's one sad little individual.

[imgv94]

Maybe it's because you are the asshole.

But seriously, it's grating when either someone boasts about how many games they win irrelevant of stake or thinks they're a high-roller gambler playing $5 parlays. It's all to do with class - if you've got class, you don't need to boast about wins or boast about how much (or how little) you're putting on games. If you've got no class, then you usually do and it's usually masking other issues in your life. If you make yourself out to be something you're not or feel the need to get group acceptance by boasting, you can bet that's one sad little individual.

HAHA Your just talking up a storm about nothing to make up for the fact that you don't post picks. Your a sad little individual.

[tacomax]

Talking up a storm? I was giving my opinion. It doesn't just apply to betting - it could be income, the car you drive or whatever. Generally, the people in life who need to boast about how much they earn or how fast their car goes tend to have other underlying issues.

Don't you agree?

I could also extend that theory to people who use the anonymity of the internet to insult other people when they would never have the balls to do it in real life. But I'll leave that for now.

[imgv94]

Talking up a storm? I was giving my opinion. It doesn't just apply to betting - it could be income, the car you drive or whatever. Generally, the people in life who need to boast about how much they earn or how fast their car goes tend to have other underlying issues.

Don't you agree?

I tend to disagree and here is an example.

My brother makes about $150,000 a year and is always bragging to me about it. My friend who makes about $19000 a year never mentions it. People have different personalities some rich people are quiet,some are loud, some poor people are quiet some are loud.

[HAPPY BOY]

My cousin a few years back was doing some serious gambling with a local bookie. He got hot for a few weeks and you'd think he was Donald Trump. Gold chains, expensive dinners, new clothes the works. Lord and behold his luck turned and turned bad. He started trying to get even and long story short lost his ass and had to get his dad to re-fi his home to pay off the bookie. Needless to say he dosn't brag anymore.

[tacomax]

Good story, HB. The thing is, if someone had a winning run but had the class to keep it zipped then I'd feel sympathy for them when they were on a bad run. But when they're shooting their mouth off when things are going their way, I sometime feel a guilty sense of schadenfreude when things take a downturn.

[imgv94]

But when they're shooting their mouth off when things are going their way, I sometime feel a guilty sense of schadenfreude when things take a downturn.

There is alot of examples of that on therx. I do understand that and agree.

[rolemand]

I tend to disagree and here is an example.

My brother makes about $150,000 a year and is always bragging to me about it. My friend who makes about $19000 a year never mentions it. People have different personalities some rich people are quiet,some are loud, some poor people are quiet some are loud.

I assume your brother isn't living somewhere where $150k is average, like say NY, NY. Obviously I'm guessing here but I gotta believe $150k doesn't get you much in NY, NY.

[imgv94]

He is from Orange County WOW I didnt know that someone making $2900 a week couldn't make it in New York, when the average american makes that in a month.. I didn't know New York was like that, I wonder how those people live there..