Fair enough and well spoken.
Be advised that "playing for hours and losing" is not at all unusual. Most folks don't really "get ahead" until they hit their first royal, and royals come along (on average) every 60 hours or so.
John
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From: "Rick Bronstein" <rick@greensky.com>
Date: 2006/03/21 Tue PM 06:36:51 EST
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [vpFREE] Re: Feeling Guilty - Trip Report--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, John Kelly <lodestone@...> wrote:
>
> Moving to higher denominations to win back your losses is common
behavior among beginning gamblers, and extremely dangerous. It will
usually work, but the consequences of failure can be catastrophic. If
you are sufficiently self-disciplined to promptly call it quits after
you've ramped up from quarters to halves to dollars, and failed, then
fine. Not too much damage done, aside from having blown your
bankroll in just a few minutes.Fortunately, I do have that much discipline to set a loss limit for
each session. You are correct that if one simply keeps increasing
there is a risk of total ruin.My session bankroll is $700 going from $1BP, $1DDB, $2BP, $2DDB. My
goal, once I have to progress, is to only recoup my loss. This
progression seems to fit my psychological makeup just fine.I don't know if most people would be able to handle this kind of
thing but I have constantly failed when I play for long-term gain as
I used to. I would sit for HOURS at FPDW and typically lose for the
trip. So far, I have been much more successful this way.I know that the long-term math says I will never win in the long-
term. However, so far I'm so far ahead of the game doing it "my" way
that until proven otherwise, I'll keep plugging away.If all I've had is good luck, then I certainly hope it continues.
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