40 yrs old, seems strange seeing that number up on the screen, body feels like 60, but my mind and my thinking feels like 18. don't need any med. to get my wood up,still has a mind of it's own. placed my first bet at age 14 and used to push football cards for my uncle at school. been up, been way down, but always find ways to get back in the game. just wish this site and all the great cappers here were around when i used to bet some serious money.....lets keep it going....
39 years young....
Didn't actually meet "The Man" until 1985. It was the last weekend of the season and Dallas was getting 10 points in San Fransisco on Monday Night Football...I took the Cowboys for $600 to get back to even for the week and...I remember this like it was yesterday...Dallas was down 21-0 at the end of the 1st quarter...They made it respectable and Danny White almost got the late cover..but 16-31....
Well, luckily I had 2 choices: Pay the Man, or give him a pinky...(As I am typing this with my 4 fingers, I chose the later)....
Actually, I decided to tell my Mom about my options and she bailed this "clayhead" college kid out...The rest is history...
19 years later, still married, still gambling, and surviving well...
I have had that feeling a few more times later on in life but not with the same circumstances or results...There is nothing like the first time...
I have been capping seriously for the last 3 years and just living and loving life daily!
GTHTGP!!
Didn't actually meet "The Man" until 1985. It was the last weekend of the season and Dallas was getting 10 points in San Fransisco on Monday Night Football...I took the Cowboys for $600 to get back to even for the week and...I remember this like it was yesterday...Dallas was down 21-0 at the end of the 1st quarter...They made it respectable and Danny White almost got the late cover..but 16-31....
Well, luckily I had 2 choices: Pay the Man, or give him a pinky...(As I am typing this with my 4 fingers, I chose the later)....
Actually, I decided to tell my Mom about my options and she bailed this "clayhead" college kid out...The rest is history...
I have had that feeling a few more times later on in life but not with the same circumstances or results...There is nothing like the first time...
I have been capping seriously for the last 3 years and just living and loving life daily!
GTHTGP!!
I'm 50 years old. Gambling started for me when i was about 13. It wasn't money that i was losing, it was all of my nice marbles. Playing marbles was competitive. Then came bowling and then of course, rolling dice in high school. We always did high number. Simple enough, i roll a 10 and you roll a 9, i win. As a matter of fact, i still do it. Then there was tonight and i took Georgia Southern @-10.5 and then i turned around and put that on the Washington ML @-310 and when i wake up in the morning, i'll look at all of the NCAAB games and pick out something that looks good. Good Luck!!!!!
al watts
39, been betting since 16, father taught me the TRUE art of handicapping -- took years for me to grasp the concept, and appreciate the DILIGENT work required to be successful. i'd say i didn't mature into a successful investor in this business till i was about 25 -- thus, 9 agonizing, immature, didactic years of basically losing.
i'll never forget going to the paddock bar with my father; i was 13 at the time. my father was to the left of me at the bar and he was collecting from the man. to my right was rather nervous gentleman watching pittsburgh play penn st on the tv hanging in the corner.
my father expained to me that his name was red, and the reason he was so enamored with the game was because he had $500 on pitt. i nearly shit my pants!!! now, that really means nothing to me -- in retrospect it seems kind of surreal.
anyhow, my dad bet red $100 that i could name five guys from each team (pitt & penn st) red gladly accepted the bet. at 13 yrs old i was involved, indirectly in my first bet -- we lost i named 8 -- not bad for a 13 yr old. but i really felt i had let my father down. but what really happened was my father taught me my first lesson about gambling -- ALWAYS bet on your own knowledge, NEVER somone elses. he said he knew i knew more than any kid my age, but never expected me to get more than 5, and was pleasantly surprised that i named 8! we went to DQ!
happy b-day mr. Luck
and congrats to you fawv
gl
i'll never forget going to the paddock bar with my father; i was 13 at the time. my father was to the left of me at the bar and he was collecting from the man. to my right was rather nervous gentleman watching pittsburgh play penn st on the tv hanging in the corner.
my father expained to me that his name was red, and the reason he was so enamored with the game was because he had $500 on pitt. i nearly shit my pants!!! now, that really means nothing to me -- in retrospect it seems kind of surreal.
anyhow, my dad bet red $100 that i could name five guys from each team (pitt & penn st) red gladly accepted the bet. at 13 yrs old i was involved, indirectly in my first bet -- we lost i named 8 -- not bad for a 13 yr old. but i really felt i had let my father down. but what really happened was my father taught me my first lesson about gambling -- ALWAYS bet on your own knowledge, NEVER somone elses. he said he knew i knew more than any kid my age, but never expected me to get more than 5, and was pleasantly surprised that i named 8! we went to DQ!
happy b-day mr. Luck
and congrats to you fawv
gl
Thirty-nine. I began picking in my dad's office football pools for him starting in junior high. In my senior year of high school, I began playing against the spread.
I lost my first two plays (three-team parlays) before cashing in on my third (another three-teamer). After that, I decided to do only single-game plays, for which my first one was Cincinnati, minus four, over San Diego in the 1982 AFC Championship game, I then took half of those winnings and laid 2' on the Cowboys against the 'Niners in the NFC Championship later that day.
I've been playing baseball, basketball, football, a little hockey and boxing. Never made a living, nor ever became broke from it as I want to be able to make a supplemental income with it.
Troy
I lost my first two plays (three-team parlays) before cashing in on my third (another three-teamer). After that, I decided to do only single-game plays, for which my first one was Cincinnati, minus four, over San Diego in the 1982 AFC Championship game, I then took half of those winnings and laid 2' on the Cowboys against the 'Niners in the NFC Championship later that day.
I've been playing baseball, basketball, football, a little hockey and boxing. Never made a living, nor ever became broke from it as I want to be able to make a supplemental income with it.
Troy
