Desperate!
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Pathological Gambling is a very hard to overcome.
I ought to know.
I was one for decades.
I am also a retired psychologist.
I overcame it.
I am a professional player.
It can be done.
As one can see from the above, I am uniquely
qualified to advise anyone on this issue.
Discussing this in a public forum will not be wise,
but I will respond to a p.m. or email.
All communications will be strictly confidential.
I ought to know.
I was one for decades.
I am also a retired psychologist.
I overcame it.
I am a professional player.
It can be done.
As one can see from the above, I am uniquely
qualified to advise anyone on this issue.
Discussing this in a public forum will not be wise,
but I will respond to a p.m. or email.
All communications will be strictly confidential.
Always talking in riddles. Never a specific answer on anything. Anyone can check your post, and they can see you talk in general terms nothing specific. I asked you a legitimate question, and you spout some hocus pocus riddle. You must have the peyote pipe out today. Maybe you are trying to say no books, no software, just the peyote pipe will tell me what the next card will be. Happy Puffing the day away.
I concur
Creeping P. said it as perfectly as it can be said.
Giving false hope is just plain injurious.
Winning a couple of units an hour is NOT gambling, and being in a casino is as bad an idea as an alcoholic being a bartender.
The poster has a gambling problem.
As that has been stipulated, he needs to, at the very least, find the courage to admit defeat as it were and be brave enough to tell his wife, etc. the stone cold truth.
He needs to stay away from any form of gambling until he comes to grips with what makes him self-destruct; and begin the arduous painful process of putting his life in order.
Hopefully, he will realize that if he can overcome his problem, he will have accomplished something that he can be truly proud of.
Creeping P. said it as perfectly as it can be said.
Giving false hope is just plain injurious.
Winning a couple of units an hour is NOT gambling, and being in a casino is as bad an idea as an alcoholic being a bartender.
The poster has a gambling problem.
As that has been stipulated, he needs to, at the very least, find the courage to admit defeat as it were and be brave enough to tell his wife, etc. the stone cold truth.
He needs to stay away from any form of gambling until he comes to grips with what makes him self-destruct; and begin the arduous painful process of putting his life in order.
Hopefully, he will realize that if he can overcome his problem, he will have accomplished something that he can be truly proud of.
CP can give all the advice he cares to give. That is beside the point. I am just trying to get a answer on what he means by this statement.
These are your words' "Some players who go by the "book" are blown out, they have drank the koolaide dished out by authors and software sellers who play very little if at all. The reality can be very different." Please explain this.
No answer just some peyote pipe smart ass answer. What would you expect from someone who talks in riddles.
These are your words' "Some players who go by the "book" are blown out, they have drank the koolaide dished out by authors and software sellers who play very little if at all. The reality can be very different." Please explain this.
No answer just some peyote pipe smart ass answer. What would you expect from someone who talks in riddles.
This needs to be said.
There is some truth to the position that purveyors of books and DVD's and movies that purport to instruct one in how to find the Golden Goose of Card Counting tend to underplay, if not ignore, the fact that it is "A hard way to make an easy living." The downside risk is huge. Our overall (real life) edge [adjusted for cover play and human errors, etc.] should not be presented as > 1%.
MOST novice Card Counters go "belly up" or simply give it up, deciding for a variety of reasons that the activity does not suit them.
For Pathological (Compulsive) Gamblers it is NOT a safe route of the jungle of their self-destructive obsession, as Card Counting fails to have sufficient "gamble" in it, and that is what the "gambler" is hooked on, not eking out a good living in a casino environment peopled by fellow degenerate gamblers.
You must know that.
There is some truth to the position that purveyors of books and DVD's and movies that purport to instruct one in how to find the Golden Goose of Card Counting tend to underplay, if not ignore, the fact that it is "A hard way to make an easy living." The downside risk is huge. Our overall (real life) edge [adjusted for cover play and human errors, etc.] should not be presented as > 1%.
MOST novice Card Counters go "belly up" or simply give it up, deciding for a variety of reasons that the activity does not suit them.
For Pathological (Compulsive) Gamblers it is NOT a safe route of the jungle of their self-destructive obsession, as Card Counting fails to have sufficient "gamble" in it, and that is what the "gambler" is hooked on, not eking out a good living in a casino environment peopled by fellow degenerate gamblers.
You must know that.
sagefr0g said:
InPlay don't expect any kool aide from CP, lmao.
besides just my guess, you know darn well what he's tawkin bout.
besides just my guess, you know darn well what he's tawkin bout.
I am not looking for a Kool Aid answer from him. I just want to know what method he uses. Whether it be by looking at the stars or a odd even system just an honest answer.
oh, now you want to know what method?
ok, i'll bite.
just my guess, one primary tool, in his tool box is hi/lo lo .
lmao, that's funny.
the other night during the chat, we all noticed CP had disappeared, so to speak.
turns out he finally shows back up to report he'd been out in the back woods taking in the fire fly show. :laugh:
ok, i'll bite.
just my guess, one primary tool, in his tool box is hi/lo lo .
lmao, that's funny.
the other night during the chat, we all noticed CP had disappeared, so to speak.
turns out he finally shows back up to report he'd been out in the back woods taking in the fire fly show. :laugh:
lmao, well, i can't answer that one InPlay.
but, i do know CP reads books.
your implication seems to be you think CP discredits Kool Aide.
just guessing but i imagine CP loves Kool Aide as much as the rest of us.
just me maybe, Kool Aide is fine for the pleasure consuming it provides and the nourishment it provides. thing is if that's all you got, then the likelihood that you'll join the ranks of the one in ten thousand who manage to enjoy some measure of success as an AP is well, imho just not in the cards.
like, really, this is jimmtech's thread. it's based around the horror, the horror, the desperation, the destruction of family fortunes and family and ones self. people want to say that can't happen to a true advantage player. that view point is patently just plain wrong and a perfect example of too much kool aide and not enough sense. see, just me again maybe, even the kool aide lets one know that ruin is a definite possibility for an AP. what it doesn't let one know is the true nature of the experience of ruin, what that feels like, what and how the reality of that is when it unfolds from potential to the real deal. neither the kool aide or nothing else can tell you what the realization of any degree of ruin means in the grand scheme of things. it can't tell you how your going to react when ruin does come, how miserable you will feel, will the loss of your lifetime bankroll really mean what you thought it would mean when you set out to be an AP?
say you started out as an AP with a nice fat juicy lifetime bank roll and some nice low risk of ruin in 2006 or so and on top of that had some nice juicy stock market and ira portfolio just bursting with profits and a fine job. now it's 2009 and you didn't turn out to be quite the AP you thought you would, your bankroll is down to what ever, one third of what it was. where is your stock and ira portfolio likely to be, now in 2009? then you got Bush, Obama and congress pissing away so much money that you just know inflation is on the way making for quite a rosy future. maybe your once 'secure' job is now not so secure.
just the point being, the unknown stuff, uncertainty, you can't escape it and kool aide can't deal with it.
what can deal with it is having half a grain of sense, simple enough, but simply relying on kool aide just isn't gonna cut it.
but, i do know CP reads books.
your implication seems to be you think CP discredits Kool Aide.
just guessing but i imagine CP loves Kool Aide as much as the rest of us.
just me maybe, Kool Aide is fine for the pleasure consuming it provides and the nourishment it provides. thing is if that's all you got, then the likelihood that you'll join the ranks of the one in ten thousand who manage to enjoy some measure of success as an AP is well, imho just not in the cards.
like, really, this is jimmtech's thread. it's based around the horror, the horror, the desperation, the destruction of family fortunes and family and ones self. people want to say that can't happen to a true advantage player. that view point is patently just plain wrong and a perfect example of too much kool aide and not enough sense. see, just me again maybe, even the kool aide lets one know that ruin is a definite possibility for an AP. what it doesn't let one know is the true nature of the experience of ruin, what that feels like, what and how the reality of that is when it unfolds from potential to the real deal. neither the kool aide or nothing else can tell you what the realization of any degree of ruin means in the grand scheme of things. it can't tell you how your going to react when ruin does come, how miserable you will feel, will the loss of your lifetime bankroll really mean what you thought it would mean when you set out to be an AP?
say you started out as an AP with a nice fat juicy lifetime bank roll and some nice low risk of ruin in 2006 or so and on top of that had some nice juicy stock market and ira portfolio just bursting with profits and a fine job. now it's 2009 and you didn't turn out to be quite the AP you thought you would, your bankroll is down to what ever, one third of what it was. where is your stock and ira portfolio likely to be, now in 2009? then you got Bush, Obama and congress pissing away so much money that you just know inflation is on the way making for quite a rosy future. maybe your once 'secure' job is now not so secure.
just the point being, the unknown stuff, uncertainty, you can't escape it and kool aide can't deal with it.
what can deal with it is having half a grain of sense, simple enough, but simply relying on kool aide just isn't gonna cut it.