I don't know what happened, but over the last year I got really hooked on half bets and parlays. In a given day, I only have one or two straight bets on a single team or over / under ... but I have multiple hail mary parlays and half time bets.
I've hit a lot of parlays ... I hit a 5 team one the other day and it paid huge. But of course I've lost many more than I've won. And the half bets - while you can win huge when you get hot and string a bunch together - I find myself frequently losing by 1/2 a point (when if I'd just bet the team or total that I wanted for the full game I would have won).
Long story short - what the hell is wrong with me? Has anyone else ever gotten stuck in a pattern of parlay sucker betting and gotten out of it? I feel like some idiot playing Keno or the Lotto or something. I know better, but I can't seem to get out of the pattern.
I've hit a lot of parlays ... I hit a 5 team one the other day and it paid huge. But of course I've lost many more than I've won. And the half bets - while you can win huge when you get hot and string a bunch together - I find myself frequently losing by 1/2 a point (when if I'd just bet the team or total that I wanted for the full game I would have won).
Long story short - what the hell is wrong with me? Has anyone else ever gotten stuck in a pattern of parlay sucker betting and gotten out of it? I feel like some idiot playing Keno or the Lotto or something. I know better, but I can't seem to get out of the pattern.