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[ACE-ACE]

A NEW TEST FISHHEAD POSTED THIS

You're a GAMBLING DEGENERATE if......
<HR style="COLOR: #fdde82" SIZE=1><!-- / icon and title --><!-- message -->My TOP TEN reasons why one could be considered a GAMBLING DEGENERATE......

10. You listen to books on tape in your car such as "POSITIVELY FIFTH STREET" and "THE TOP TEN SPORTSBETTING SECRETS".

9. You get up at 4am to check the Don Best screen looking for even as little as a one cent scalp.

8. Your favorite places bookmarked on your computor includes no less than 50 gambling related sites.

7. You will use any means of transportation to visit a casino........walk, car, bus, plane, or a small sea vessel (even in rough waters).

6. You carry a sportspager with you at all times and also have 1-800-555-TELL saved on your cellphone for quick dial-up.

5. Your home library consists 80% of gambling related books.

4. Some of your closest friends have nicknames such as Danny the Cap, Bigbet, The Shrink, Knuckles, 5teamparlay, Loser, Teaser, Bookiebuster, Casinoman, Voodoo, Total Square, and Horseshoe...... to name just a few.

3. Your keychain has attached to it a pair of dice and no less than 60 slot cards.

2. You have a massive casino chip collection........for whatever reason.

1. You have over 2,000 posts at THE PRESCRIPTION

 

[shipdapaper]

yes to 4, 12, 14,17 wooooooooooooo!

 

[Tom71121]

an article of interest

U.S. CITIZENS GAMBLE MORE MONEY THAN THEY SPEND ON GROCERIES

By Mark Kiszla

THE DENVER POST

In a country that would rather gamble than eat, Pete Rose is an American hero.

As sure as Charlie Hustle smacked 4,256 base hits, his tell-all tale is headed for No. 1 on the best-seller list.

Want to make book on it?

But the real story is not Rose's gambling problem. It is our nation's gambling problem.

"It is now possible in America, from the privacy of your den, wearing nothing except your pajamas, to bet on sports and lose your house, without ever leaving your house," said Guy C. Clark, chairman of the National Coalition Against Legalized Gambling.

Odds are, you know somebody with an addiction to gambling. It is even money that you like him or her anyway.

"Hall of Fame! Hall of Fame!" chanted the capacity crowd only minutes before Game 4 of the World Series on an autumn night in 2002, when Rose took the field during a promotional appearance sanctioned by baseball. That was the last time I saw Rose. It was a madhouse.

As stern-faced guards quickly ushered Rose from the stadium through a back hallway, I walked in his chaotic wake, as heavy security ropes fell and metal stanchions clattered on the concrete floor, and fans with expensive tickets shouted, "You're the best, Pete!" and "Give the poor guy a break."

A Rose by any other name is one of us. Placing a dime on the Packers with an Internet bookie is what cigarette smoking in a nightclub was in the 1950s. Ersatz cool. Specious sophistication.

What does the Average Joe have in common with Charlie Hustle? We all crave a little action. Anybody know the point spread of today's NFL playoff games? It is information readily available in your favorite local newspaper.

According to a national study that bears repeating, U.S. citizens gamble more money every year than they spend on groceries.

Only in America. Is this a great country or what?

The national pastime is not baseball. Or football. Or hoops.

It is gambling. From slot machines in casinos to lottery tickets in convenience stores, we drop more cash on legalized betting than the revenue generated from ticket sales of NASCAR, major-league baseball, the NBA and every other spectator sport.

Combined.

"Sports gambling is certainly interesting and widespread and pernicious," Clark told me by telephone from his home in New Mexico. "Sports betting is a slower addiction than other forms of gambling, where the payoff is more immediate.

"But over a period of three to five years, it is certainly possible for a person to get hooked on sports gambling, whether it is at the horse track or on football. Gambling is an addiction that does not get as much attention as drug use, because it is not as visibly disabling. People don't come to work with gambling on their breath."

Making a frightening claim that gambling addiction fosters a suicide rate three times higher than the self-destructive tendencies of alcohol abusers, Clark has much more serious objections to America's obsession with sports action than I do.

Sincere reformers of Clark's ilk see the gambling explosion as a sign of moral decay.

I regard gambling more as litter piling up across the country, and turning legitimate athletic drama into trash sport, where it matters not if you win or lose, but whether a meaningless touchdown at garbage time broke the hearts of bettors who had 200 bucks riding on the under.

Travel the highways of Montana and the beautiful scenery is marred by low-brow, low-stake casinos disguised as cafes and truck stops, just as it is now almost impossible for a sportswriter to towel off in the locker room of his health club during college bowl season without some guy asking if it would be a good bet to take the Buckeyes and the points.

Hey, I don't wager on sports. My money is sunk in mutual funds, not the pari-mutuel window.

When the stock market goes up, I call it investing. When the bear roars on Wall Street, I call it gambling.

Rose was not the first to give betting in America a bad name. He gave it a face.

His craving to gamble is the one and only reason that baseball's No. 1 hit-maker is not already an honored member in the Hall of Fame.

By that critical measure, there is no denying Rose has a gambling problem.

Which only goes to prove Charlie Hustle is as American as baseball or apple pie.

I liked that article thought you guys might


I personally think we are all lying, we all have a problem,
but as Mike Caro Says,
Maybe it's not that we Gamble, but how well we Gamble?

 

[Yummie]

:smoking: yes to 4, 8, 9, 15

 

[ACE-ACE]

I POSTED THIS LAST YEAR
SO THIS IS FOR THE NEWBIES.....

I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHO IS WHO HERE.......

THE ONES THAT ARE TRUE GAMBLERS.....

THE ONES THAT ARE COMPULSIVE.......

THE ONES THAT ARE DEGENERATE......

DO THE TEST...... IF YOU ARE UNDER SEVEN "YES"..YOU ARE A TRUE GAMBLER.....

SEVEN OR MORE.....YOU ARE A COMPULSIVE GAMBLER...

10 OR MORE YOU ARE A DEGENERATE

IF SOMEONE IS TAKING THIS TEST AND HALF OVER 18 YES YOU NEED HELP NOW!!!!!!!!

1. DID YOU LOSE TIME FROM WORK OR SCHOOL DUE TO GAMBLING?
2 HAS GAMBLING EVER MADE YOUR HOME LIFE UNHAPPY?
3 DID GAMBLING AFFECT YOUR REPUTATION?
4 HAVE YOU EVER FELT REMORSE AFTER GAMBLING?
5 DID YOU EVER GAMBLE TO GET MONEY WITH WHICH TO PAY BILLS OR SOLVE FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES?
6 DID GAMBLING CAUSE A DECREASE IN YOUR AMBITION OR EFFICENCY?
7 AFTER LOSING DID YOU FEEL YOU MUST RETURN AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AND WIN BACK YOUR LOSSES?
8 AFTER A WIN DID YOU HAVE A STRONG URGE TO RETURN AND WIN MORE?
9 DID YOU OFTEN GAMBLE UNTILL YOUR LAST DOLLAR WAS GONE?
10 DID YOU EVER BORROW TO FINANCE YOUR GAMBLING?
11 HAVE YOU EVER SOLD ANYTHING TO FINANCE GAMBLING?
12 WERE YOU RELUCTANT TO USE "GAMBLING MONEY" FOR NORMAL EXPENDITURES?
13 DID GAMBLING MAKE YOU CARELESS OF THE WELFARE OF YOURSELF OR YOUR FAMILY?
14 DID YOU EVER GAMBLE LONGER THAN YOU HAD PLANNED?
15 HAVE YOU EVER GAMBLED TO ESCAPE WORRY OR TROUBLE?
16 HAVE YOU EVER COMMITTED OR CONSIDERED COMMITTING AN ILLEGAL ACT TO FINCE GAMBLING?
17 DID GAMBLING CAUSE YOU TO HAVE DIFFICULTY IN SLEEPING?
18 DO ARGUMENTS,DISAPPOINTMENT CREATE WITHIN YOU AN URGE TO GAMBLE?
19 DID YOU EVER HAVE AN URGE TO CELEBRATE ANY GOOD FORTUNE BY A FEWW HOURS OF GAMBLING?
20 HAVE YOU EVER CONSIDERED SELF DESTRUCTION AS A RESULT OF YOUR GAMBLING?

I 'M DOING THIS FOR FUN........BUT IF YOU ARE OVER 10....YOU MAY WANT TO TAKE A STEP BACK AND LOOK AT WHAT YOU ARE DOING......

ACE-ACE HOW MANY POINTS DO YOU HAVE??
(THERE THAT VOICE AGAIN)
I SAID YES 4 TIMES......8....12...14...19...

WE ALL HAVE SOME........WHAT YOUR SCORE?

AFTER POSTING THIS MORE THAN A YEAR AGO I FEEL I DROP TWO OF THEM 8 AND 12!!!

14-19 IS STILL ME:toast:

ACE-ACE

 

[afawbush]

yes to 1 and 4

 

[Tombal]

1

 

[Imagine]

Where do I find your picks? I looked all over for yesteday's college picks but you were not to be found. What happened? Where are you today?

 

[coachlsu]

6 yes

 

[UncleSteve]

Ace Test of Gambling

Yo, Ace. Good questions. Consider my answers over a 25 year period.

50 and doing GREAT in life, only because I LEARNED ~LEARNED~ from my mistakes. Made me bigger, stronger, more disciplined, more astute, more prepared, more able, and, guess what? A better bettor. As YOU well know.

Experience = no better teacher.

Here is my score to your 'test'.

Yes to questions:
1,2,4,6,9,10,11,15, and 17

Currently very ALIVE and astutely aware of the do's and don'ts. Control.

Thanks, and good luck. You, my friend, are in control of your winning, I can tell by your restraint. I trust restraint more than boasting. Restraint is a confident man. Boasting is an insecure man. You, as I can tell, use restraint. Smart AND confident. I'm sure that is why you win consistently.

Uncle Steve

 

[Carmine]

Newbie here. I have been a gambler for 45 years been to GA, therapy and everything. I answered YES to all 20. I still love gambling just on a smaller scale now than years ago.

 

[Duce]

5,9,10,12

 

[samay]

4

 

[Sewey]

Yes to 3

4, 8, 14

 

[Andrewcm09]

I've got four

Poker is mostly my poison. Said yes to 4,7,8,19

 

[ACE-ACE]

FOR ONES THAT HAVE NOT SEEN THIS:thumbsup:

ACE-ACE

 

[bke#da]

Yes to # 1,2,5,6,8,9,10,12,and 17.uppy:

 

[808nuts]

pretty interesting stuff 5 yeses4,7,8,12,14.

thanks ACE your the reason i started reading this forum last year. finally made myself a member. will be following you this year!GL

 

[r.aikau]

yes to #1 - 8 - 12 - 14 - 19 estoy volandoo !!!

 

[ACE-ACE]

BEEN 9 MO'S AND IAM SURE THIS THREAD COULD HELP THE ONES THAT JOIN IN THE LAST YEAR BEFORE FOOTBALL SEASON START....READ POST 1 FIRST:toast:AA