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Gambling Thread

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Songbird, Oct 18, 2013.

  1. exmediahack

    exmediahack Well-Known Member

    My rock bottom betting was a Serbian second league that PointsBet, before I got limited to 17 cents, had live betting.

    9 am start and I had a $50 free bet that was about to expire.

    I find some stream of this game. It’s single-camera, looks like public access. Maybe a 500-seat bleacher on the opposite side of the camera with a couple small houses and an apartment building in the right far corner of the screen.

    There is a moment in the second half - I remember trying to steer a middle of 3 goals - when two balls on the left side get kicked off the pitch and they need other soccer balls brought in. Then the play moves quickly to the right. A deflection carries the ball out of bounds near were the corner kick would be.

    It’s garbage day in this quaint Serbian town. A garbage truck is backing up (beep beep beep) and the ball lodges under the truck and play stops. A couple players are hunched over, pointing under which tire the ball is lodged.

    The driver gets out and they work to free the ball. Play resumes. Didn’t hit the middle. Out the $6 juice.

    THAT was my rock bottom.
     
  2. Captain_Kirk

    Captain_Kirk Well-Known Member

    Not a good day yesterday for hoops bettors favoring the Overs.

    Unders went 19 - 9 in Division 1 men's basketball games.

    In the NBA, every one of the 11 games came in Under.
     
  3. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    Why are you hitting a 13 when the dealer has a 5 showing?
     
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  4. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    I fully understand that this is my mistake, but man I hate betting the NBA. I put a couple bucks on the clippers. Was going to be busy yesterday afternoon, so placed bet in the afternoon for a 6:30 tip off.

    Turn on the game. Paul George out with 'left knee soreness'. He had played regular minutes the game before.

    Clips fall at home to Sac.

    NBA sucks.
     
  5. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    My Harden o19.5 points came through.
     
  6. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    Because the situation has me all mentally discombobulated?
    Or I just lost track of what I was typing and quality control suffered.
    Either/or. :)
     
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  7. BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo

    BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo Well-Known Member

    How about your o/u on the Guardians, you sicko? :D
     
  8. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    I took the over by accident!
     
  9. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    Had something similar to me yesterday, only with 2s.

    Dealer five, so I split 2s. Get another 2. Split those. Then an 8. Double down. Then another 2. Split for the last time. Get a 5, then a 10. Then a 7 on the third hand. Double the 9. Then a 10 on the last hand.

    Dealer flips a 9 ... then a 6.
     
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  10. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    I've been there.
    Followed by a quiet, hunched-over, slinking away from the table, with my meager remaining chips clutched in my hand.
     
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  11. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    Yeah, it truly sucked.
     
  12. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    Then a 10-minute wait in the cashier line for your $4, behind a few young studs who cleaned up in the poker room and degenerates who are getting cash off a credit-card advance.

    Not that this ever happened to me. Speculating what it might be like.
     
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