You Know You’re a Sports Bettor…
We all go through a process as sports bettors. It takes time to learn the tricks of the trade from building a bankroll to managing our money to mastering a vernacular entirely it’s own. Like other valuable life skills there’s a crawling process before walking that ultimately leads to a full blown sprint if you’re lucky.
These articles may or may not be autobiographical however if you spent the time to read this and recognize with where I’m coming from you’re in absolutely no position to judge.
10) Remembering major life milestones are recalled by the exact bets you made that day.
9) Rooting for favorite childhood teams is no longer possible because the new coach doesn’t cover the number more than 52% of the time.
8) Social calendars are disregarded in order to accommodate any in-game betting opportunity that presents itself.
7) Sending money to Hector Gonzalez in Belize City, Belize happened as frequently during college as depositing into your savings account. There’s also a good chance the money you intended to grow for use on a Spring Break trip vanished when an obscure sportsbook closed its doors.
6) Dating season is limited to 6 weeks in the middle of summer. If a girl isn’t in love by the time football season starts odds of making the relationship work long term slip below 15%.
5) In reference to real world purchases you’ve applied the term units, nickels, or dimes often confusing sales people. After all, financial decisions are governed by “how many bets” it will take to pay something off: movies, dinners, cars, etc…
4) Your bookie was in your wedding party
3) Every website you visit at the office is blocked by your employer
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2) Diversifying a portfolio no longer means investing in a balance of stocks, bonds, and mutual funds but rather Korean basketball, Japanese baseball, snooker, and 3rd division Turkish soccer.
1) When friends in the financial industry talk about having foreign accounts you assume they’re referring to Pinnacle, Paddy Power, and Sporting Bet Australia
