Share Your Story: Biggest Gambling Tantrum

[ronald]

Back when I was 18 I made a three-team parlay bet on MLB (can gamble at 18 in some Canadian provinces). The payout would have been $250, which was more money than I had in the bank at the time. I had won the first two games and needed the OVER in the final game. Luis Castillo was on third for the Marlins with one out and Kevin Millar was at the plate. All he needed was a sac fly to score Castillo and I win. Millar strikes out and the run never scored. I lost. I picked up anything I could find and starting throwing things against the wall. Pens, staplers, etc. I will just livid and did this for about 15 minutes. I was sweating and red in the face. When I finally got tired, I curled up into the fetal position and sobbed. What a sad state of affairs that was. I later wrote Kevin Millar a letter, explained to him what had happened and asked him to send me $250. Predictably, I never got a response.

[MrX]

I later wrote Kevin Millar a letter, explained to him what had happened and asked him to send me $250.

I like this. I would have sent you the money.

[OmgUrMom]

I like this. I would have sent you the money.

yea that is pretty fun, i woulda been an instant millar fan if he had. odds are he probably never even seen it though, or maybe worried about bad press when it gets out he is sending checks to degenerate gamblers.

[Dunder]

I was in my late teens, and had £20 on a horse to win at 4/1.
It was in a tight fight down the stretch and finished first by a short head.

I went to the bookies shop to collect my £100 but was told by the manager that my bet was a loser. The result had been reversed by the race stewards due to my horse running the other one into the rail (after seeing the replay it was the right decision). I did not take this very well and might have used an expletive or two in expressing my disappointment.

[james4512]

geez you were that made about 250$ thats hilarous. You must have bet like 50$ on it. I lost 3k about 3 months ago dealing blackjack and playing blackjack at an under ground place my friend ran

[OmgUrMom]

My worst experience was putting my whole roll on the line playing $200/$400 limit on pokerstars hu vs stickman, lost $10,000. No idea what I was thinking that day, I remember it like a dream, after i lost i was just ****ing dizzy and depressed for quite awhile after that. I didn't throw or break anything I just felt weak after it happened. I think I probably averaged 16 hours of sleep per day for the week after that, with the other 8 hours spent watching re-runs of law and order.

I'm not very proud of this incident and it hurts a tad just replaying my stupidity that day. I hope to never use such terrible bankroll management again. Hurts too much.

[compaqDikk]

what is millars address? i may be able to get him to fork over that cash plus interest

when i lost on that 13 point usc/asu ot game (int return for td), i did something twice as worst then this vid and it was on aao's low def television sets

[BatemanPatrickl]

I usually punch myself in the face like Ed Norton on Fight Club.

[whatsgood5]

I've throw around the channel changer once or twice, a lot of swearing, usually some bed/pillow punching. Nothing worse than that though.