Do you boys ever feel like................

**onthewhat** · 03-08-09, 12:23 PM

Yesterday I woke up at 10am, and was pretty much staring at screen until midnight except for when I watched Kentucky game, and I also went running. So I was staring at numbers yesterday for 9 - 10 hours...

Last night I thought to myself what a loser I am...at least I won though

**durito** · 03-08-09, 12:23 PM

It really does **** with your life sometimes. I always want to go away for the weekend and can't. But, I'm done for the day. Heading out the door right now.

**Junkyard Dog** · 03-08-09, 12:24 PM

you need balance nicky

**Nicky Santoro** · 03-08-09, 12:25 PM

onner, you are still young, and i was 21 too once.. and i swear, it flew by after.. dont make same mistake as me.

durito, this is a business and we have to sometimes be here 80 hrs a week and it's sad, but it controls us and sometimes we cant do anything but this.. but we miss out on a lot of things in life.. you are lucky you are going out.. go enjoy..

**fiveteamer** · 03-08-09, 12:25 PM

Nicky I love you but I seriously think you need some Xanax.

god bless.

**Mudcat** · 03-08-09, 12:27 PM

We seem to get a different version of this thread just about every other day. Speaking of which, where is Panic?

**onthewhat** · 03-08-09, 12:27 PM

Originally posted by Nicky Santoro

durito, this is a business and we have to sometimes be here 80 hrs a week and it's sad, but it controls us and sometimes we cant do anything but this.. but we miss out on a lot of things in life.. you are lucky you are going out.. go enjoy..

we get more pissed when we are out and we miss a big play than we are pissed that we are home doing what we love

**SexyMit** · 03-08-09, 12:27 PM

I do my studying while my wife and kids are at school. That way when they get home I spend time with them and all I have to do is check up on scores cause I have already looked over what I will be doing that day.

**pavyracer** · 03-08-09, 12:27 PM

Nicky,

At least you don't live in a third world country in a filthy tiny one bedroom apartment placing bets and riding a donkey to the ATM for cash.

**The General** · 03-08-09, 12:29 PM

It's a tough juggling act sometimes. Trying to stay in the game while making time for family, friends and outside life as well. Just not enough hours in a day.

Have a good one, Nicky.

**fiveteamer** · 03-08-09, 12:35 PM

Nicky it is natural human emotion to want what you don't/can't have. I always hear you say how you wish you had a regular job and a wife and kids or whatever and all that shit. How many of those working stiff guys would rather be you, watching lines, games and eating PFK all day?

Nicky enjoy what you have.

god bless.

**ryanXL977** · 03-08-09, 12:37 PM

gambling is a complete and utter waste of time and life, everyone here, everyone, will look back at the days and months lost with regret and probably cry.
stop now!

**onthewhat** · 03-08-09, 12:37 PM

Originally posted by fiveteamer

Nicky it is natural human emotion to want what you don't/can't have. I always hear you say how you wish you had a regular job and a wife and kids or whatever and all that shit. How many of those working stiff guys would rather be you, watching lines, games and eating PFK all day?

Nicky enjoy what you have.

god bless.

good point fiver.

Nicky at least you make a living doing this, what about guys who lose this and lose? They are the ones missing out

**durito** · 03-08-09, 12:40 PM

Originally posted by pavyracer

Nicky,

At least you don't live in a third world country in a filthy tiny one bedroom apartment placing bets and riding a donkey to the ATM for cash.

Pavy,

Didn't you get me email? I traded in the donkey for a new car! I pick it up tomorrow.

**Nicky Santoro** · 03-08-09, 12:43 PM

ryan's post is accurate. so is fivers, so is onner's and so is pavers about it could be worse and i live in 3rd world country and so on.. or could be in a hospital sufering everyday.

this is NOT about money either.. win or lose, it's same thing.. it's about it being gorgeous and sunny outside and we are here at home wasting life that goes by fast. i am even hurting the people around me. the GF wants to go out all day and go for lunch, shopping for food, go for a walk, and i keep saying NO.. i can't.. i want to be home to watch the screen and games..so now, she ends up with no life and she is the one that suffers most. imagine if i had kids.. my poor kids would suffer. i would have no time to go pitch with him outside, or take him shopping for clothes.. i can NEVER marry now. because of this shit..

i wish i can be free and be there for others and go out and enjoy, but i am hooked, and need to be here on great days like this.. what a waste..

**fiveteamer** · 03-08-09, 12:44 PM

I don't understand how pro gamblers can have a spouse. Justin7 mentioned he has a wife. I'm sure he makes a lot of money gambling, but I'm also sure that he puts in long hours, long hours where he is not paying attention to his wife. My gf nearly broke up with me after football season was over, and thats only a twice a week thing.

**ryanXL977** · 03-08-09, 12:45 PM

well i will say this nicky:
i never ever let gambling stop me from anything else. the games will always be there, humans wont. i will travel, go out anytime anyone wants to, its just i work from home so i can watch and post a lot. but as for saying no to your lady or anything else, dont do that. you only live one time. any drug is bad, gambling is no different. it just hurts in diff ways. i am not gonna pretend i aint hooked, but i will say you cant let it keep you from other shit. you cant, you just dont live logn enough. i wish i could go back to loving sports without betting , and i only can with baseball, but no others.
eventually it will drain your soul or your bank account, one or the other.

maybe we can save samy, i never bet big when i was young. used to bet 5 bucks a game till i hit age 25 or so.

**MonkeyF0cker** · 03-08-09, 12:45 PM

It's not nearly as bad for me. I print off my sheets and I'm running around casinos all day. I'm usually talking to people, watching the boards, watching a few girls pass by every now and then, and then head over to the poker tables when all my bets are in and my games are going. I'm always out of the house.

**sallysnax8** · 03-08-09, 12:47 PM

Originally posted by ryanXL977

gambling is a complete and utter waste of time and life, everyone here, everyone, will look back at the days and months lost with regret and probably cry.
stop now!

agreed...

**Nicky Santoro** · 03-08-09, 12:54 PM

Originally posted by ryanXL977

gambling is a complete and utter waste of time and life, everyone here, everyone, will look back at the days and months lost with regret and probably cry.
stop now!

this really is the post of the thread so far. it summarizes everything to a tee about gambling. i already feel that way and if i can start again, i really would get out. i know old guy bookmakers in this city in their 60's and 70's that all tell me that if they can start over, they'd never have done this. it was a waste of time and they missed out on a lot.. and their lives flew by..

they told me to get out, travel, meet people, etc.. this is all a waste of life.. we are missing out on life, well, at least i am.. i am happy to hear not everyone is like me..

that's why i can never get married, because i'd be the worse father ever. i'd hve no time for him. my gambling always comes first. i hate to miss a good line move and so forth. i need to always be there. It's like drugs for me.

**pavyracer** · 03-08-09, 01:04 PM

Originally posted by fiveteamer

I don't understand how pro gamblers can have a spouse. Justin7 mentioned he has a wife. I'm sure he makes a lot of money gambling, but I'm also sure that he puts in long hours, long hours where he is not paying attention to his wife. My gf nearly broke up with me after football season was over, and thats only a twice a week thing.

He has a wife and a gambling problem. He spends long hours crunching numbers and analyzing stats...she spends long hours with the poolboy.

**jjgold** · 03-08-09, 01:08 PM

I have no regrets

What are the alternatives??

Being fukkin married to some fukkin bitch, have two fukkin kids that are a pain in the ass and being in prison and broke and then get divorced???

Fuk that shit, gambling is way cheaper and very little problems in life other than money.

Fuk a family because it sucks dick.

**fiveteamer** · 03-08-09, 01:10 PM

Originally posted by jjgold

I have no regrets

What are the alternatives??

Being fukkin married to some fukkin bitch, have two fukkin kids that are a pain in the ass and being in prison and broke and then get divorced???

Fuk that shit, gambling is way cheaper and very little problems in life other than money.

Fuk a family because it sucks dick.

**ryanXL977** · 03-08-09, 01:11 PM

Originally posted by jjgold

I have no regrets

What are the alternatives??

Being fukkin married to some fukkin bitch, have two fukkin kids that are a pain in the ass and being in prison and broke and then get divorced???

Fuk that shit, gambling is way cheaper and very little problems in life other than money.

Fuk a family because it sucks dick.

well i guess if the only choices are gambling or being married to a bitch with 2 shitty kids, being in jail and divorced, ill take gambling

**unknown Gambler** · 03-08-09, 01:31 PM

Originally posted by Nicky Santoro

you are wasting your life gambling? Here i am on a beautiful Sunday aft in montreal and it's mild outside, sunny, and people out with shirts.. and what am i doing? for 12 hrs today, i will be sitting in front of tv and pc betting games every 30 min while there is a great world out there. the air is great, and being a gambler, i dont get to enjoy it. i am always home every weekend and never leave the house in case i miss a bet. it's so sad.

What about when summer begins and it's 96 deg and everyone is at the beach and we're home posting, watching baseball and gambling. Doesn't it depress you? Boys, from a guy who is older than most guys here, i will say this, don't make the same mistake as me and waste your life at home. go out and enjoy the world.. it goes by very fast. there is more to life than staying home on a day like this and gamble and watch games. It's gorgeous out there and i am here watching raptors and rangers games. how sad. Even if i make money every year, it's still not worth it to me to sit home all day and waste your life. I always get tickets to habs games right over the habs bench, and i never go cause i need to be in front of pc betting and watching all the games on my tv and screen. I hate this.. It controls my life.

Man, looking out the window now, i get sad. it's fukkin gorgeous out and i am here at home betting. I am wasting my fukkin life and it's going by quickly.. and all this so i can watch sports all day and gamble.

Do you guys feel like me that you are also wasting your life at home gambling, or do you boys get out alot and enjoy life?

last summer you were in the park all the time, playing on swings,shooting hoops,playing hockey, jogging and passing out.

hopefuuly you get back in swing of it this summer.

**Nicky Santoro** · 03-08-09, 01:40 PM

Originally posted by unknown Gambler

last summer you were in the park all the time, playing on swings,shooting hoops,playing hockey, jogging and passing out.

hopefuuly you get back in swing of it this summer.

unknown,

i hope to get out again, but it's tough.. on weekdays it's easy, but weekends, forget it. thank god for weekdays cause there are hardly any games on in daytime, except for baseball.

jj, i remember you made many vids of saying how depressed you are you stayed home all weekend, and all to break even. and how you are wasting your life.. jj, you and i know that gambling eats away your life.. you know you'd rather be out socializing with women and meeting people and have fun, eat dinners in restaurants with people you like, be in the sun, be in love with a woman and be out of the house all day, come home with her, watch a movie, laugh, get drunk, go on vacation.... than being home on sunny hot days gambling and all of us getting older each day and accomplishing nothing..

jj, you know you'd rather be doing something fun and outdoors with a nice girl and enjoying the great weather than to live like this each and every day..

**ryanXL977** · 03-08-09, 01:42 PM

to live like that nicky, i hope youre making alot gambling. you dont sound happy man. but then, who is.

**Willie Bee** · 03-08-09, 01:51 PM

Nicky, maybe you should just try taking a break. It can't be that hard, you're a smart guy, just takes a little discipline. Take a couple weeks off and get outside, go to the park, go to a show, get after a home project, leave the computer off and see if that's really what you want. Maybe it is and maybe it isn't, but only you can make that decision.

**unknown Gambler** · 03-08-09, 02:00 PM

nicky, i had the worse year of my life due to gambling, i lived the nightmare in living color, if i told you it all it wouldnt sound believable, complete insanity, now regrouping for baseball season.

i blew 200k on cerdit, was on the lame for more then 3 months,living in a highway hotel,then made a score to pay back my locals(which was very risky), ended up in the hospital.

believe me buddy i know the hazards of the game, but were still young enough make some changes if we really want to.

**Nicky Santoro** · 03-08-09, 02:11 PM

Originally posted by Willie Bee

Nicky, maybe you should just try taking a break. It can't be that hard, you're a smart guy, just takes a little discipline. Take a couple weeks off and get outside, go to the park, go to a show, get after a home project, leave the computer off and see if that's really what you want. Maybe it is and maybe it isn't, but only you can make that decision.

thanks willie bee, but i hve taken many breaks and i loved em. i felt so refreshed and enjoyed each minute of it. life was great. but then i ended up missing what i do most, and that is gamble. i know there is no better job than this. stay home, no boss, my own hrs, but sometimes on weekends when there are lots of games, and i cant leave house, i get sad when i look out the window and see the sunny weather and happy people in parks, or people at beach drinking, swimming, eating bbq's, and i miss out on this cause i hve to stay home and watch sports and stare at screen. I love this job so much willie, that this is like an addiction to me.. i hate it, but i love it at the same time. my life would be boring without it.

unknown,

i was thinking of your story way back about you losing a ton and living in a hotel. i really hope you pulled yourself together again..take it easy man, dont let it get over your head. i hope all is ok now with you and you are better..

**jjgold** · 03-08-09, 02:15 PM

Nicky sometimes your right I want to be fukkin a girl in an alley or in the park or making love on a water bed at night but then I think of all the cons to having relationships and I feel betterto be gambling.

**pavyracer** · 03-08-09, 03:02 PM

I wouldn't recommend making love to a woman on a water bed with a 2.4 in pecker. I doubt you can get any leverage thrusting in her vagina on a water bed.

**ryanXL977** · 03-08-09, 03:09 PM

i always figured a dude asking for pics of other dudes cocks was gay. what did i miss?

**MonkeyF0cker** · 03-08-09, 03:16 PM

I really don't see the difference between this and any other job, quite honestly. In fact, it's a lot easier to take a day off or a vacation than having to ask the boss for time off. Do any of you who do this for a living really think that the people stuck in offices all day don't wish they could be outside all day? Or is it just Nicky feeling sorry for himself and depressing the entire forum as usual?