[SpreadSniper]

Just a simple question....

I find people look at me rather oddly when they finally either realize or I clue them in on how much I actually gamble....

I have quite a few real friends and not a single one gambles.... I have a few degen aunts and uncles who are content on blowing off their hard earned paycheques on those stupid bar slot machines - they'll blow 5, 6 , 7 hundred bucks all in the hope of winning 1k... like that makes sense.... but then they'll find out I won/lost 5, 6, 7- over 1K on one bet and will frown on me like I'm the tool.

I know of support groups where they try to help you get over your addiction awesomeness, but all I really want is someone to understand me, someone to share in the good and the bad, someone to actually FEEL and relate to a 21-pt 4th Qtr lead for 10+k evaporate into a hate-filled tantrum that lasts 3 days....

I'll admit Im so close to biting the bullet and ponying up my info just to go "PRO" purely to talk to my "like minded fuckers" in SBR Chat

Did I make this Island I inhabit or was it always there and I just claimed the fukker??

Guess what Im curious about is how familiar/frequent of a feeling is this amongst the rest of ya?

[jjgold]

I am lonely man

Have not got laid in 14 years

[Balco10]

I am lonely man

Have not got laid in 14 years

Get a Fuking call girl with your winnings you cheap bastard!

[SpreadSniper]

I am lonely man

Have not got laid in 14 years

How many "friends" do you have that you can truthfully relate to what you put yourself through on any given day/weekend?

I guess this is part of the reason I still even hang around here - atleast someone gets me....

[SpreadSniper]

Get a Fuking call girl with your winnings you cheap bastard!

no c0ck sucking in this rather serious thread please....

[AribaAriba]

i'll give u winners pal but just trust me to play only 1 bet per week in the nfl and u'll win thousands i guarantee. btw, the lifestyle is pretty pathetic and there are more out there, seek help if u needed too.

[bruins35]

Im lonely so lonely

[BigDeem5]

Saloon this sh*t

[bruins35]

I just want someone to hold me and tell me the pit ml was a good bet tonight even though i lost my paycheck

[Seto]

i sort of feel ya. not one of my close friends gambles, i still sometimes talk about it with them but they don't really get it. i also mainly bet on american sports (granted my only picks thread here is a soccer thread) and i live in england so not many here actually follow these sports. so when i'm in a pissed off mood in the morning because i stayed up all night to watch the grizzlies blow a 24-pt 4th quarter lead and score 1 pt in 7 minutes in a playoff game at home, yeah, not many get me. but i wouldn't go so far as to say i'm lonely.

[SpreadSniper]

i'll give u winners pal but just trust me to play only 1 bet per week in the nfl and u'll win thousands i guarantee. btw, the lifestyle is pretty pathetic and there are more out there, seek help if u needed too.

Im not hard up or bad off...

I do just fine with picks, pal... no worries there....

I have 3 children - 4 and under.... freshest bundle was born Jan 31, 2012......

I've been down, I've been out and can truly tell you pavement doesn't taste nice....

10 yrs ago I was pumping gas and hustling weed....

Today I comfortably make over 100k - all legal...

All this and yet I still feel like a loner walking through life

[SpreadSniper]

Saloon this sh*t

Fukkin Saloon u, ya prick

[SpreadSniper]

I just want someone to hold me and tell me the pit ml was a good bet tonight even though i lost my paycheck

I lost on Pitt + and the over 49.5 so.... don't cry... if u need to, Im here for ya bud....

Might I suggest not being such a fukkin idiot and NEVER bet your entire fukkin paycheck on one singular game ever again??

[Balco10]

i'll give u winners pal but just trust me to play only 1 bet per week in the nfl and u'll win thousands i guarantee. btw, the lifestyle is pretty pathetic and there are more out there, seek help if u needed too.

Why you trolling?

[BuddyBear]

It's not easy being a gambler. It's very lonely. You are invested in sports and handicapping all the time and dealing with the ups and downs is unbearable for most guys. Most people get broken by it and can never fully recover. Everyone on this board is lonely and that's why we seek out one another. It's like asking is the sky blue. Anyone who is not lonely is not posting on here. But the loneliness disappears briefly when you have a bet because you now have some "company" for a while. But once the action is over, the loneliness comes back till the next bet. Most guys on here are suffering from severe depression and from scores of other mental disorders as a result of their gambling. We could start a sub-forum on here called "Mental Health Support" and it would be the busiest sub-forum. Almost everyone on here should be seeing a mental health therapist, especially those guys posting non-stop on here. I feel tremendous sorrow and pity when I see a guy has like 5,000 posts in a single year on here. Life is so short and you are wasting it on a sports gambling forum?

When I first started betting on sports, I use to think everyone was betting and I would go around telling everyone I bet team X and Y and Z and that Coach X was an idiot because his team played zone when they should have played man-to-man. I use to think people were crazy to watch sporting events without money. Then I found none of my friends were betting and still watching sports and I was actually the crazy one. These days, I never tell anyone I bet. I would rather tell them I am an alcoholic or do drugs than tell them I bet on sports. Sure, you can go to Vegas and see everyone do it there and it is socially acceptable...but what about when you are in Bumblefuck, USA and you are betting on sporting events? On Sienna vs. Marist on a Friday night in January? And that your entire weekend was spent indoors in the Fall watching football from Saturday morning till Sunday night football finished?

My advice is this: Either stop betting completely (ideally, if you can) or decide to specialize in one specific sport. For example, I decided if I am going to bet, it's going to be MLB and maybe the NCAAB trmnt just because of the line value is too good to pass up. I remember the days where I would just bet on everything and the only way I could tell the days from one another was based on the sporting events going on.

In the long run, it's just not worth it. Virtually everyone is losing. Something like 95-98% of all people betting on sports are losing.

[ChuckyTheGoat]

The status quo people are the ones who are lost. They're living a lie.

[Seto]

It's not easy being a gambler. It's very lonely. You are invested in sports and handicapping all the time and dealing with the ups and downs is unbearable for most guys. Most people get broken by it and can never fully recover. Everyone on this board is lonely and that's why we seek out one another. It's like asking is the sky blue. Anyone who is not lonely is not posting on here. But the loneliness disappears briefly when you have a bet because you now have some "company" for a while. But once the action is over, the loneliness comes back till the next bet. Most guys on here are suffering from severe depression and from scores of other mental disorders as a result of their gambling. We could start a sub-forum on here called "Mental Health Support" and it would be the busiest sub-forum. Almost everyone on here should be seeing a mental health therapist, especially those guys posting non-stop on here. I feel tremendous sorrow and pity when I see a guy has like 5,000 posts in a single year on here. Life is so short and you are wasting it on a sports gambling forum?

When I first started betting on sports, I use to think everyone was betting and I would go around telling everyone I bet team X and Y and Z and that Coach X was an idiot because his team played zone when they should have played man-to-man. I use to think people were crazy to watch sporting events without money. Then I found none of my friends were betting and still watching sports and I was actually the crazy one. These days, I never tell anyone I bet. I would rather tell them I am an alcoholic or do drugs than tell them I bet on sports. Sure, you can go to Vegas and see everyone do it there and it is socially acceptable...but what about when you are in Bumblefuck, USA and you are betting on sporting events? On Sienna vs. Marist on a Friday night in January? And that your entire weekend was spent indoors in the Fall watching football from Saturday morning till Sunday night football finished?

My advice is this: Either stop betting completely (ideally, if you can) or decide to specialize in one specific sport. For example, I decided if I am going to bet, it's going to be MLB and maybe the NCAAB trmnt just because of the line value is too good to pass up. I remember the days where I would just bet on everything and the only way I could tell the days from one another was based on the sporting events going on.

In the long run, it's just not worth it. Virtually everyone is losing. Something like 95-98% of all people betting on sports are losing.

Did you like sports before you started gambling? I often spend a lot of my weekend watching or attending sports and I wouldn't have it any other way even if I had no action. I used to be like that even before I started gambling. I love sports and quite honestly don't care what anyone thinks.

[Balco10]

Smart players only wager 10-50 a game long term.

[Balco10]

I bet everyday outside sports. Won $10 that Brady was drafted in the 6th round at the dog park today. Bet a $2 dad his son wont score today, lost....

[Seto]

Smart players only wager 10-50 a game long term.

depends what your bankroll is. if your bankroll is $100, then 10-50 is too much. If your bankroll is $100k, then it's too little. All relative. Albeit both cases I stated are rarish.

[SpreadSniper]

Great post Buddy..... Honestly the longest post I've read in its entirety on SBR in a very long time....

Glad to know you're out there

[Avenger]

Yeah... I don't tell people I gamble. You can't tell them. They don't understand. They think you're crazy.

But I've always been a loner, so it doesn't bring me down. I was telling my bf's dad that I make money playing Fantasy Football and winning contests online (which is why I finally joined one this year). He has no idea that I bet thousands of dollars a month, and I spend half my days capping and watching sports. He thinks I go to casinos to play 25 cent video poker. And you know what? It works. They don't need to know. It's none of their business. It's 100% MY MONEY. But I gotta fill the gaps with something, so I tell them a story they can live with.

I tell my bf, but he loves me, he'll put up with anything. Yeah, he doesn't understand, he thinks I'm crazy but he understands the void it fills in my life, so he doesn't stop me.

I've told "buddies" and FWB, and it just backfired on me. Firstly, they don't believe me. Secondly, they don't understand it; my fukking piece of shit dad asked my FWB if I was selling drugs. They have no concept of this world, or gambling. When they think of Vegas, they think of the strip and buffets. Fukking squares.

And you know what? They don't need to know. Sure, it's isolating, but that's the life I chose. And I'm good at it.

SBR does fill a void because it's the only place where you can talk about trap games, fading Lang, care about pitcher's fukking biorhythms, and people don't think you're completely fukking looney. A den of thieves is how I see it.

Am I alone? Yes. Am I lonely? No.

[SpreadSniper]

Smart players only wager 10-50 a game long term.

This is the shit Im talking about..... "how could you bet 500 on one single game?"

Obviously you dont "get it" and hence your opinion holds very little water in this conversation....

Im looking for understanding, not condescending know-it-all winners who think betting 50$ is "gambling"

[lunchbawks]

stop watching the games, no point really

[SpreadSniper]

Avenger - how long have you kept this facade alive? Are you truthfully happy?

We are similair in the sense that we just want something to keep us happy, but really, how awesome is AWESOME unless you have someone to relish in the awesomeness with??

One of the reasons why I even made this post was last saturday I had a HUGE amount riding on the Clemson vs Auburn game.... Had Clemson but if you watched that game it was a bit of a roller coaster ride... up, down, up down..... etc etc...

By the time the game ended I was alone, had no1 to cheer with and had to contain my pleasant mood because my kid had gone to bed.... Im looking to high-five someone but I had nothing, just myself.... and the pure miserable loneliness of it all hit me like a sledge hammer... YAY, you just won almost 5K but yet I feel like this?!?!?!?!?

Guess part of my whole beef with the world is perhaps I don't even "get" myself yet.....

[Balco10]

JJ, only stated nonsense in his last post to get arise out of other posters on here. Almost like a drama queen.

[Balco10]

This is the shit Im talking about..... "how could you bet 500 on one single game?"

Obviously you dont "get it" and hence your opinion holds very little water in this conversation....

Im looking for understanding, not condescending know-it-all winners who think betting 50$ is "gambling"

This is not GA bro...

[SpreadSniper]

This is not GA bro...

"BRO" is a term of endearment which I do not use loosely.....

If you want to provoke JJ into a c0cksucking contest, please do so elsewhere....

Obviously not GA, but as I mentioned in OP, Im looking for like-minded opinions of others who have "been there".....

I could care less about big-headed champs who yap about betting 10-50 a pop.

[Ghenghis Kahn]

I tell my bf, but he loves me, he'll put up with anything.

are you a chick? what are your measurements?

[SpreadSniper]

are you a chick? what are your measurements?

act like you've been there before, schmuck....

P.S - I had a dream about the ass on the right last night.... no lie

[Ghenghis Kahn]

P.S - I had a dream about the ass on the right last night.... no lie

fukkin perv.

[Ace_of_Spades]

Pretty much in the same boat. I wouldn't know half as much about sport if i didn't gamble. I am always in front of the damn TV watching and gambling on just about every sport thats televised. Some of my friends gamble, but i wouldn't say they gamble like myself.

[tb1984]

You're not the only one that has this feeling, same here and pretty much same for everyone on this forum. The fact that gambling is not widely accepted by society(some people consider gambling as a sin), so you should not expect everyone to understand you, especially when you bet a large amount of money on a game. I'm always told that money you win from gambling will not last long, and that money is not hard earned. Even if you can make a living off gambling, people still will not give you the respect as if you are an engineer, teacher,... How about this, just ask yourself do you want your kids to do whatever you're doing right now?

[SpreadSniper]

fukkin perv.

perverts ask measurements... I have a dream!

Seriously though.... it was the first dream where I can honestly say I remember the ass but have no idea what the face looked like....

[Hankwins]

I don't get lonely with my cold beer and fridge/freezer full of NY strips. I recently shwed a hot woman the door. Single life is amazing! I am highly suseptible to becomine pussy whipped. AGAIN! I say never AGAIN! Also if one has cash, you'll never be lonely. Who here is a bible beater and has issues with call girls??