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So check it out, you wanted to make a parlay to take a "shot". But then you told yourself that if you won your 3-teamer, you would lay X amount on X game and maybe Y amount on another 2-game parlay.

So instead of having to hedge, you play smart and you split your stack up....

3-game parlay: A-B-C for 3 units
4-game parlay: A-B-C-D for 1 unit
4-game parlay: A-B-E-F for 1 unit
5-game parlay: A-B-C-D-G for 0.5 units
5-game parlay: A-B-C-D-H for 0.5 units
5-game parlay: A-B-C-G-H for 0.3 units
7-game parlay: (ALL) for 0.1 unit

Your first game loses and you have reached you deposit maximum.

The rest of the games all comes in one after the other, win, win, win, win. I lose 6.4 units but I can't even fucking bet another 4 units for something to parlay 3 of the remaining games or so.

Every fucking time it's the same shit. You lose your shirt and as soon as you're out of money to gamble with, all your predictions keep on coming right.
 
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That is exactly why parlays are not smart bets.  If you flat bet everything at 3% of your bank roll you can maintain your bankroll and slowly build it.
 
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Quote Originally Posted by HugeBallz:



So instead of having to hedge, you play smart and you split your stack up....



still think this was the smart play?
 
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i can top that.  i go through my friend to use his local, and i always text him my bets.  have a bad day here so i decided instead of risking more money, i would play a 4 teamer.  when he texted me back, i realized one of the 4 was a mistake, so i told him.  he said it's too late once it's in and asked if i wanted to play another parlay.  i said "f" it and i'd just keep it and play a single bet on that one he entered incorrectly.  well, the parlay should have hit and i'm .  but since he's a friend, i didn't even say anything after that.  i would just have to chalk it off.

 
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That's not even close to the worse feeling for a gambler.


 
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huge- we have had this conversation before my friend--parlays are rolls burners,the payouts are sweet,,just dont come around often enough
 
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Quote Originally Posted by kobiedog:

That is exactly why parlays are not smart bets.  If you flat bet everything at 3% of your bank roll you can maintain your bankroll and slowly build it.


this is the hardest thing for people to do and is vastly underrated...i do 2.5% of my bankroll as one unit and risk anywhere from 1-5 units per game...money management is key, but very hard
 
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And it's official, it happened. A whole day of NON STOP torture. This is worst than losing a 6-team parlay on the 6th leg in a last minute play.

Here are the main plays I made today:

4-teamer:

Okla-State OVER 66
Temple -29.5
Oregon OVER 72.5
OU -23.5

4-teamer:

Okla-State OVER 66
Oregon OVER 72.5
Hawaii -14
Hawaii OVER 64

6-teamer: All 6.

After Okla-State fucked me. NOT ONE FUCKING SECOND OF HOPE OF NOT GETTING FUCKED BY THE BARE FUCKING MINUMUM. NOT ONE SECOND. AHHHHHHHHH. BDIOFHBNDLKDWNFW. GSAHJD HDS DAKJ AHHHHHHHHHHH

Temple wins by 30.
Non stop scoring in the Ducks game, crosses 72 points before the end of the 3rd.
Oklahoma covering before the end of the Half and ahead by a TD over the spread all of the 2nd half.
That's $2500 right there.
And right now I'd be going for a $2500+$2500 payout riding on Hawaii and the Over.

What do I get? NOTHING BUT HAWAII TD'S WITHOUT ANY FUCKING TIME OFF THE CLOCK.

NONE of these games were ever not on pace. The worst part is if I hadn't reached my deposit limits I would have made a whole bunch of parlays on the other 5 games after the scoreless quarter in the OSU game and would have won them all.
 
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I rather fucking LOSE everything than be dead right and go 5-0 without having any action
 
 
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Quote Originally Posted by golfandgamble:

That's not even close to the worse feeling for a gambler.




Yeah.....you could be queer and a loser like g &g




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