Good for you on recognizing your own weakness, or inability to gamble for fun. You should stop talking about it, quit and never come back to a gambling forum unless you gain enough maturity/smarts to gamble the fun way.
Betting for fun (not to replace gainful income) is how 95% of the gambling population in Australia manage to treat their gambling. Plenty of reports will back up that only about 5% of individuals are like you, incapable of controlling yourself.
But I understand you can't believe that, or it makes it your own fault instead of "the industry".
Notice how every racist will yell just as loudly and surely as you that everyone else is a racist too, or lies about it? Thats where you are with gambling.
But lucky for you you are smart enough to know you have to stop. Lets see you stop talking and show the moxie to actually do it!
Betting for fun (not to replace gainful income) is how 95% of the gambling population in Australia manage to treat their gambling. Plenty of reports will back up that only about 5% of individuals are like you, incapable of controlling yourself.
But I understand you can't believe that, or it makes it your own fault instead of "the industry".
Notice how every racist will yell just as loudly and surely as you that everyone else is a racist too, or lies about it? Thats where you are with gambling.
But lucky for you you are smart enough to know you have to stop. Lets see you stop talking and show the moxie to actually do it!
You risked $500 in total, in order to probably "double" your money, however one loss already ruined your entire "plan". You are now relying on the Lakers to cover 3.5 points: 
Even if they cover you would "win" only $130 - and you are relying on a game of chance, whether they would cover or not. Your maximum winnings out of these 4 events is $130 but you risked $500 !! How sick is that? Now if the Lakers don't cover, guess what ... you were losing ... even though you guessed 2 games correctly, you would still be losing $80 and stay with $420 out of the $500 you risked. You guys have no chance to beat it up, it's impossible, proven, and it's a fact. You can try again many times, you would just be a few more hundreds down the hole, and even if you manage to win 6 games in a "hot streak" trust me, you would eventually lose that money as well, that is also a fact. So why gamble in first place? I wish I had known what I know now a couple of years ago.
