Much easier to make good wager decisions with house money?

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When you hover around your deposit amount, things seem more tense to me. Or I might second guess myself more. Usually to the point, I make bad plays.

But you pull ahead and get that decent little chunk of house money, everything seems to just roll from there. Or you lose that decent little chunk of house money and things seem more difficult again.

Kind of like being in a poker tournament. When you are among the chip leaders, you seem to get a little more cute and make some great plays you normally would be afraid to make.

Like betting teams down at halftime. This is a great example of a play I am hesitant to make when I'm down, but do in a heartbeat when I am up.

I WISH I could get into a mindset where I am not always worried about my figure for the day or for the week. You MIGHT start the day off saying that you will follow these plays or you like these bets. But let's face it, there are a lot of times something else comes up or you really like a half time play.
 

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I think so...I know many will say it should not matter but, I feel much better after I have deposited and won 3-4 dimes...also if you play everyday I guess it should not matter either, this would be a better question for those that deposit and play in spurts or seasonally.
 

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Definently describes me Rob

One major thing I noticed about how I wager is when im up I will pound a single play but when I just deposited I will like to play 2 plays a time just so I have that mindset in my mind that there's no way I can lose 2 plays that I like, the worse that can happen is I split.

when I play with house money I make money
when i play with deposit money I suck
 

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Talked to a bookie yesterday he told me often times when guys get up money they will get greedy and lose it back and then chase those losses and end up owing.
 

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The_Man said:
Talked to a bookie yesterday he told me often times when guys get up money they will get greedy and lose it back and then chase those losses and end up owing.
Yeah, thats a good point. Some people get up, they want to be up more. Then if they lose that they want to be back up and get the 'High' of being in the money again.

Except now they want to be up even worse, which usually just leads to bad wagering and awful mistakes.

Not that I havent been guilty of this in my life.
 

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The_Man said:
Talked to a bookie yesterday he told me often times when guys get up money they will get greedy and lose it back and then chase those losses and end up owing.


Wouldn't need to talk to a bookie to understand that. . . Thats exactly why books are so damn rich!
 

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Kruser6 said:
Wouldn't need to talk to a bookie to understand that. . . Thats exactly why books are so damn rich!
Thats what im talkin bout!!
 

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