Originally Posted by
JoeCool20
I can tell you what I did.
After countless times of winning at gambling and then losing it all 2 days or 2 hours or 2 weeks later, and then feeling like I was the biggest idiot on the planet, I decided that every time I won a significant amount of money, I would put it into the stock market.
Now yes, I will say that more than once at first I would lose gambling and then sell the stock and gamble that trying to "Get back to even" on what I had just lost! A couple of times, I won the big "bail out" bet, but I never sent the money back into the stock market and then I'd just eventually lose it all like every other time!
But after a few times of that, it hit me that if I just never fukked with the stock money, and just kept putting big wins into my stock account, then all I could lose was what I had available at home! Now I lose all the time, but I don't EVER fuk with my stock money to try and "get even." Instead I just try to "come back off the felt" whenever I get any extra money at home!! How many times have all of us lost it all and then started again as soon as we got more money? Well I do that all the time, but every time I win big it is like a "race" for me to get it into the stock market and then start with zero again! But it really ISN'T zero because after years of doing that, I have accumulated more money in the stock market than I ever thought I would! I remember when my goal was $10 grand in the market. Then my goal was to have $20 grand, then my goal was $50 grand. And so on.
It has become incredible just because I did that ONE thing!
I started doing something with my wins instead of just sitting there with it until I lost it all back!!
I lose all the fukking time gambling! And football is about to start! But all I can ever lose is what I have at home! Because I know I won't ever sell any of my stocks to try and "win back" my gambling losses.
I know this was a long post, but I hope it helps you.
It is just like a drug addict can't have money laying around! You just HAVE to do something with your gambling wins or you are just a sitting duck waiting to lose it all and feel like you don't even want to live life anymore!
If you (or most ANY gambler) has $2000, and you just keep it in your pocket,
then you only have $2000 until you lose it all!!!
I had a friend who I told: "Don't ask me ANYTHING about gambling except how much did I get it up to THIS TIME before I lost it all?!!" LOL He used to ask me that every time he saw me! And I'd tell him! "This time it was $1500" or "This time I had it up to $2000 before I lost it all" Then I started telling him to ask me how many times I had won and put it into the stock market INSTEAD of holding it until I lost it all. And I'd tell him!! "I started from zero and I won $1500 and sent it into the stock market." "Then I started from zero again and won $2000, and sent it into the stock market!"
Man as a gambler, you just HAVE to do SOMETHING with your wins, or they are only wins until you lose it all.
Take care!