Hey Craig, i’m glad you replied and mentioned that you can relate to everything i said, even though sports betting is so similar to all the other gambling things out there for me its just a different experience.
When playing poker or blackjack i knew the house always had an advantage which kinda put me off on it, however i somehow convinced myself that with sports betting i am the guy in control. apart from having multiple accumolators on which had a duration of a couple days i always used to bet on in-play games, were the odds 1.70 at halftime? id make a treble including games in which the odds were in my favour.
My entire day used to revolve around sports betting, i’d check livescore atleast 20 times an hour, i could not let my phone rest on the table for 2 minutes without checking betway for in-play matches. My main motive was literally just boredom, which is why i’m currently looking for an active job again that i can combine with uni.
I would spent a couple hundred euro on winning big and when i did i couldn’t resist but bet bigger trying to chase my losses, in my mind it was OK as i was only gambling my winnings, yet i had wasted a couple hundred on it in the first place, the cycle went on and on and never could beat that feeling of winning those 800 euro bets, truly i felt great…for an hour, until my addiction told me to continue and win more and more.
Goodluck on your journey pal, i’m sure you’ll get through this.