Bengals +6 This Week?

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(10-20-2021, 03:27 PM)grampahol Wrote: I learned my lesson with gambling years ago so I don't do it. I was 17 in Las Vegas with about 23 cents in my pocket, dropped a nickle in a slot machine and won $40 right off the bat and thought, THIS IS THE LIFE FOR ME! I gave every penny right back before lunch and tried to leave town with 2 big hound dogs following me everywhere so I decided to hitch hike with them. Just as I was about to get a ride some woman on the other side of the fence at the freeway called to me as her dogs were running towards her and she thanked me profusely for taking care of her dogs and handed me a $50 bill for my troubles.. LOL That actually happened. I haven't placed a bet since. I damned sure ain't gonna start with the Bengals unless I'm hitch hiking out of Las Vegas with a couple of hound dogs.

Put me also in the "learned my lesson" early with betting but it was watching a friend throw his life away that did it. My dad said he had Pete Rose syndrome be cause he constantly owed every bookie in town and would only pay them back when no one else would take his bets until he settled their debt.He lost a great paying job that he started in high school at 16 in the front office of a large construction company and they paid for his Architect training as he worked his way up.

He lost a great woman and one of my biggest regrets in life was not telling her what I thought of her when she dropped him because it felt disrespectful to my stupid friend. *smacks forehead* "IDIOT!!" Shortly after, she shocked us all when she wound up going out with another loser friend that was she was WAY out of his league until she left Alaska after they broke up about a year later.

He was more or less exiled out of his families life and this was all by the time he was 23. He didn't drink, didn't do drugs but could not stop betting and was bleeding his parents dry until they had to cut him loose because they just couldn't afford him anymore. We all suspected that he was stealing from all three of them, work, girlfriend and parents. He left the state and no one that I know ever heard from him again.

I once bet $50 on a fact, only because I knew that I was right and I also knew that the guy only had $55 on him.

I bet $20 on a Bengals Monday Night Football game, and, exactly like SHRacerX said, it felt like I lost twice. Never again. After that, all sports bets the last 32 years have been $1 gentlemen bets with my last $5 bet going on the Oakland A's over the SF Giants in the 1989 earthquake World Series.

The first and last time I bought pull tabs was at a bar. I bought $5 worth and pulled a $10 winner. I tipped my bartender $2 and got 2 'buyback' pull tabs for my friend and I. I walked out with a $6 exchange on that $5 deal and retired $1 ahead. I beat the system.