Do you change your bet sizes based on your handicapping confidence?

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  • pat venditto
    SBR Posting Legend
    • 05-07-07
    • 14347

    #1
    Do you change your bet sizes based on your handicapping confidence?
  • pat venditto
    SBR Posting Legend
    • 05-07-07
    • 14347

    #2
    For instance if you lose 5 bets in a row, are you reluctant to pull the trigger on a game you like because you don't have confidence because you think everything you bet turns to shit?
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    • Fishhead
      SBR Aristocracy
      • 08-11-05
      • 40179

      #3
      The degree of +EV of the situation should be more of a concern.
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      • ZetaPsi808
        SBR Posting Legend
        • 09-18-08
        • 12119

        #4
        occasionally. most of the time i keep standard unit sizes, but if i like a play more than usual, like if i got a good number or a free hook then i will bet more on it
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        • Boner_18
          SBR Hall of Famer
          • 08-24-08
          • 8301

          #5
          I use a standard unit size (a %). This is the first year I am doing it and my roll preservation is much better.
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          • DrStale
            SBR Hall of Famer
            • 12-07-08
            • 9692

            #6
            Just double your bet size after you lose a game. Excellent long-term success.
            Originally posted by Dark Horse
            If with religion you mean belief system, your belief system is your religion. Again, it matters not what it is. You believe in it, you are loyal to it, would defend it, and yet have no proof of it, other than that, at one point or another, you chose to believe in it. Self-hypnosis. What if there were a snapping of fingers that broke the hypnosis?
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            • flyingillini
              SBR Aristocracy
              • 12-06-06
              • 41219

              #7
              Nope, I do not handicap games at all. I look at the screen, maybe read something on scoresline and just bet.
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              • Mini19
                SBR Sharp
                • 12-28-09
                • 294

                #8
                Originally posted by flyingillini
                Nope, I do not handicap games at all. I look at the screen, maybe read something on scoresline and just bet.
                Love it! That's what makes me so successful
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                • 2daBank
                  SBR Aristocracy
                  • 01-26-09
                  • 88966

                  #9
                  Originally posted by pat venditto
                  For instance if you lose 5 bets in a row, are you reluctant to pull the trigger on a game you like because you don't have confidence because you think everything you bet turns to shit?

                  if i lose 2 in a row im jacking up the stakes.... never had a confidence problem, i know that shit isnt gonna keep up
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                  • THE PROFIT
                    SBR Posting Legend
                    • 11-27-09
                    • 17701

                    #10
                    I try not to. I'll go 5-1 but lose money cause I Looooooooooved that loser! Through the years Ive found it better to just play the same on everything. If I like a game I dont like it $100 worth or $1000 worth. If you dont like enough to put the house on it, dont play it
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                    • G's pks
                      Restricted User
                      • 01-01-09
                      • 22251

                      #11
                      Originally posted by DrStale
                      Just double your bet size after you lose a game. Excellent long-term success.
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