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January 29, 2014, 08:00:54 PM
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Only make bets that you know you can win...

For example:

If someone said "I bet you 100BTC that Peyton Manning will be the Suberbowl MVP on Sunday", then you take it as long as these conditions apply:

1) you own a high quality rifle
2) can get a good enough vantage point to take him out when he gets off the bus (pre-game)
3) you are okay with killing the face of Papa John's Pizza

Bonus:  You could probably extort Pete Carroll for extra money if you can somehow pin this on the Seahawks organization.

Summation:  Don't fucking gamble unless you are okay with losing everything you own and/or killing Peyton Manning.
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January 29, 2014, 08:02:17 PM
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The most I ever lost was £3 gambling my dinner money at school. Went hungry all day. Feltbadman.
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January 29, 2014, 10:11:49 PM
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The most I ever lost was £3 gambling my dinner money at school. Went hungry all day. Feltbadman.

Now you know how it feels to lose almost everything.

Its that feeling where you never want to feel again.

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January 30, 2014, 04:28:33 AM
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You shouldn't gamble at all if you don't want to lose it's almost set in stone that you will lose eventually.

But people still do ..... lose, then come back for me, "to get the money back". Sad
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January 30, 2014, 10:32:28 AM
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Oh well, too bad. I wish I could learn from other people's mistakes, not my own.
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January 30, 2014, 11:46:17 AM
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January 30, 2014, 11:47:31 AM
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Oh well, too bad. I wish I could learn from other people's mistakes, not my own.

You have learnt. You have learnt you can't control your gambling habits. A very valuable lesson, unless you just pretend it never happened, in which case it will very likely re-occur in your future.
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January 30, 2014, 04:05:59 PM
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Sorry for your loss, you learned the hard way. Don't worry about it it's just money.


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January 30, 2014, 04:54:21 PM
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Sorry for your loss, you learned the hard way. Don't worry about it it's just money.

Although he has lost a lot of money and will not be able to pay his bills now.

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January 30, 2014, 07:21:37 PM
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Some of my buddies in college would take their student loan money and play blackjack at the Indian Casinos.  That never worked out well for them either...
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January 31, 2014, 06:23:24 AM
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Some of my buddies in college would take their student loan money and play blackjack at the Indian Casinos.  That never worked out well for them either...

Shame they didn't learn how to count cards first Smiley Unless that doesn't work anymore. I'm not up to date on the latest "how to get an edge on casinos" playbook.
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February 02, 2014, 08:28:51 AM
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Aaand I lost the rest of it. - 7.7 bitcoins. I literally have no self-control. At least I don't have anything else to gamble with...

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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February 02, 2014, 10:30:51 AM
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Aaand I lost the rest of it. - 7.7 bitcoins. I literally have no self-control. At least I don't have anything else to gamble with...

You really need some help:

www.gamblersanonymous.org

Might be a good place to start.
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February 02, 2014, 03:41:20 PM
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Should have just bet it all on Red.

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February 02, 2014, 04:08:07 PM
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The next time you might get the itch to gamble just go out shopping and buy something nice for yourself as a reward for not gambling.

If that does not work download a piece of gambling software that has real casino odds... Play for 4 hours and realize you lost it all... And then figure out why the maths are stacked on the casino's side.

If that does not work... Well.. You will have to learn the hard way.
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February 02, 2014, 07:17:40 PM
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What a funny thing that you talk about gambling and saying how bad it is and at the same time you have those online casinos adverts in your signatures Cheesy
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February 02, 2014, 08:25:37 PM
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As others have said, consider this a life lesson and the tuition was cheap. If it takes you a lifetime to re-learn this lesson it will be costly.

You're young, mistakes are part of the deal.

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February 02, 2014, 08:36:01 PM
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What a funny thing that you talk about gambling and saying how bad it is and at the same time you have those online casinos adverts in your signatures Cheesy

Gamble responsibly  Wink.

As others have said, consider this a life lesson and the tuition was cheap. If it takes you a lifetime to re-learn this lesson it will be costly.

You're young, mistakes are part of the deal.

Well, it's only a life lesson if he learns from it. Unfortunately if he is addicted then this probably wont be the last of it.
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March 21, 2014, 10:35:00 PM
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Have heard this story like about 1000 times now that too in the same variation anyways i believe you are honest so i'll give you a quick mantra on

gambling  'NEVER RISK WHAT YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO LOOSE'   Smiley Smiley
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March 21, 2014, 10:37:59 PM
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sad, but we all go through hardships. just get up n recover  Embarrassed

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