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Can we talk about losses?
This may not be the place for this, but let's talk about losses:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7AN3VLLlkdI
In the last post I made, I came to y'all and asked advice on money management. I told y'all about how my girl and betting make me feel happiest. However, because I want to be better, I feel that you can not improve without transparency about your own mistakes, and hearing about the mistakes of others.
Couple years ago, I thought all I had to do was pick winners and it would all be easy, and for a while it was. I was a low volume better, but making enough money to travel and live modestly in cheap countries in Asia and South America without a full time gig. Sometimes I'd work part time, but once I started betting more seriously, it showed me that this thing is all I wanted to do professionally.
At the time I was in a relationship (that later imploded) and during one of our arguments, I said, "screw her".and decided id shoot my shot at real deal offline betting.
I mentioned in my last thread that I even moved to Costa Rica looking for a job in the industry, only to find out there is no real casinos for sportsbetting out there and the books like betchris etc,. Are just a group of offices near a small compound, not the glamours Vegas style stuff is imagine in movies.
Furthermore, there were only customer service representative jobs and those were SCARCE and not well paying by US standards (decent for Costa Rica). One guy I met ,randomly, worked for betChris at the time and when I told him about my plans he started to give me the reality and things quickly kinda fizzled out.
But back to the point, after arguing with my then girlfriend, I got on a plane with some salary and a few dollars of winnings, but instead of flying to Vegas, I flew to Singapore. Yes, someone actually had choices on where to gamble and choose SingaporePools willingly.
I started out my trip by winning $3,000 in 3 days only with some crazy high risk parlay bets. However by the end of the second week I'd lost $5,000 and was crushed. Im sure many people have lost more or bet that casually, but it was the most money I'd lost in the quickest amount of time. My profits were spent and $5000 on top.
That experience put me back to a full-time and I reunited with my girlfriend at that time (biggest mistake of my life) and that bad gambling experience set me back a year or 2 in my love and job life. Flash forward several years later and my problem is still about money management, understanding compounding and protecting wins, grinding out daily gains instead of trying to make $2000 in a day. This aggressive attitude is not sustainable and I want to get smarter and better long term.
I'm hoping people will share more harsh realities and their own experiences, so we can commincate our failings and learn. Hell, tell me your successes and what worked for you.
These days I only bet soccer and hockey over and unders. I've learned that sometimes the thing you like watching and playing in real life (football and basketball And tennis) will be what you absolutely suck at betting, but something that you hardly follow (like hockey) could just be your "thing" as a better and you don't know why.
Sportsbooks or finding a local bookie seems to be the way to go from reading other stories here, is it true? Who are the best 2 books to sign up for. At the moment I have 5Dimes, Betdsi and Wagerweb. Which of the big boy books is essential to get an account with? I don't mind living outside of the US to place my bet.
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