To Bet Or Not To Bet? Do You Have What It Takes To Be A Happy, Healthy Gambler?

I placed my first stake when I was at university. I did not do it to make money, that was just a by-product of what I was really after – the thrill. You see, my first stake was for a sum of 50 pence and if it won it was only going to do me 4 or 5 times my investment, but after placing it I felt a haste unlike any other. I was now in direct competition with the bookmaker and I wanted to beat him.

It just so haps that I lost.

I had just challenged a seemingly unbeatable military unit and lost, but I felt great. Just to have got tried was enough to fill up me with a great sense of satisfaction, and even though it took me another 5 stakes before I won, after each loss I still felt good about myself.

I still place stakes today and I still acquire that same feeling. I have got got gained experience, I have gained cognition and as a result my stakes are slightly higher these days, but that’s only as portion of the conflict I struggle against the bookmaker. I still don’t care much about the money; I only increase my stake size as a defiant message to the bookmakers saying that I will not be broken. Because after all, isn’t that what they are trying to do?

They have got got got no morals, no sense of right or wrong, all they desire to make is squeezing every last driblet of money you have as fast as possible and go forth you to make clean up after you have given them that very pleasure. I have got not given them that pleasure.

We all cognize that gambling can be very addictive, but it makes not necessitate to be. All it necessitates is the right mentality, a positive mentality.

Even when I lose I still number myself a winner. The bookmaker have got got my money but I have something that they will never take from me; my ego control. To lose this to them would ultimately take to fiscal catastrophe and I am not willing to let this. As long as I am in control over my stakes I still have got the upper hand; they may win many a conflict but they will never win the war.

If everyone were to wager like this then the bookmakers would lose. They would have got lost the lone thing that maintains them going – their superiority over us. To have got a strong head in tough situations, to take a loss on the mentum and still come up out fighting are invaluable qualities and gambling could very well assist you accomplish these properties.

I cognize that I am a stronger individual for it. I have got great assurance in myself now, knowing that I am always going to be in control. Cipher can do me experience little because I am in control.

This is how to bet; wager with your caput not with your heart. Be smart not foolish. If you aren’t having merriment when you bet, then make not make it; if you cannot realise that winning isn’t everything then you, my friend, are destined to lose your ain personal warfare with the bookmakers and I would detest to see that happen.

“Know thy self, cognize thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories” – Sun Tzu (ca. 500BC)