I have a 100% profitable trading system but I am throwing away my profits!

[Father Ted]

Ok I hope someone can understand my problem here,let me explain. About a year ago I got fed up with constantly losing on bookmakers websites so I decided to turn to Betfair, I already had an account but only used it for straight betting and not much for trading. I know next to nothing about horses but quickly realised that because of the volatility in the in running markets and the wildly variable spread of prices ,that there had to have been ways in which to profit from same. And so I set about devising systems to work with. Now I know you probably think " oh here we go I have heard this a million times before " but I must tell you that what I found really and truly shows profit...not every single day but let me just say there was more than enough to consider it an edge, a very good edge. I firstly researched with the benefit of timeform data and historical results to see if my systems would work retro-spectively, and yes they did. In actual fact I spent over 3 months using every spare hour I could ploughing through all sorts of stats to back up my ideas before I set them into action. I then spent a further 6 weeks paper trading before I put some real cash into it, the paper trading told me it would work , the reality was spectacular. I could believe just how consistent and how profitable my systems were working. Anyway all this was in the past few months and it was nice to be winning pretty consistently for the first time in my punting career. Now here is my problem.... as I was making large profits from trading the horse racing markets at the same time I would be betting and trading foorball and tennis also, 2 sports which I felt I knew inside out, and 2 sports which I enjoyed immensely , however it soon became apparent that I was throwing a large amount of my horse racing profits away on pure gambling. I was a bugger for the over 2.5 goal markets and because I had a decent enough bank at this stage I ignored the fact that I was losing...and losing a lot. I am in the fortunate or unfortunate position of being an evening worker so I was quite easily able to sit and trade my racing but in the evening...whilst at work I was constantly betting on the tennis or the overs, and constantly losing. So now I have come full circle. You want figures? Ok well in the last 6 months approx, I have made 12000 on my racing systems...and lost 11000 of that in football and tennis! So I am down to my last grand and feeling thoroughly depressed at my lack of discipline, it is very definitely a compulsion to bet that has me in trouble. On one hand I have honestly found the pot of gold that is my trading systems but on the other I am a gambling addict and I just dunno what I should do! I try to tell myself "no don't get involved in any games but when I see a game I just go for it, it is a bit weird because I have no compulsion to play arcade games or poker and I wouldn't be bothered to visit Las Vegas if it was next door to my town, my achilles heel is very definitely football and tennis. Has anyone else been in this position? How did they conquer it? I probably should just stop but really don't want to! Sorry about the long post.