discipline..

[Guest dprovan]

From reading this board I think we all agree that discipline or lack of it is the biggest problem in making a profit or staying ahead of the bookie... I will start the confession by admitting I can have anything up to 15-20 bets (mostly singles) on a saturday or sunday. I have seen me sitting most of the day and evening with the computer on looking and waiting for hte next bet. If I am winning I get the buzz and think Im on a rum..:rolleyes .... However if I am down yep then Im trying to find that money back.. An example was on saturday I finnished with a nice small profit. On sunday morning I bet in running on the cricket and lost. Now instead of thinking well thats the profit from saturday gone (or even better Im now level) I was thinking right Im now down £.. so sub-consciously was trying to win that back >D ..... Now I know thats stupid and how disaster comes but you get caught in the moment... So anyway what I was wondering was how many bets on average you put on per week... During the week I will only have a couple of singles or doubles/trebles and am much more disciplined. Therefore I have concluded that my biggest problem is that I enjoy more the buzz of gambling than the discipline of making a profit... So work to be done here to sort that thinking out.....:smokin

[Guest madmick]

nothing wrong with that If you are just having a small bet to get a buzz from the winners then there is no problem to my mind. e.g. if you on average bet £10 on each of 3 football games every weekend, then with a 12% overround you could expect to lose about £3.60 a week. So on average you are paying £3.60 a week to heighten your enjoyment of the footie. Many people wouldn't think twice about spending multiples of this on nasty lager and crisps to achieve a similar effect ;) Provided you can afford to lose the £3.60 and are also able to cope, from a cash-flow point of view, with the occasional losing runs where you will wave goodbye to all your £30 then I don't see a problem. Of course making profit is another business ;) I try and do a bit of both - I have the occasional bet for interest or for a laugh, but also have my researched bets which I hope (often in vain !!) to make me a profit!