The point of Life

I agree . poor sod has so much money but don't need it cos he sad . boo hoo. make your choices get on with it. Do you really need to be up at 6am staring into a computer screen ? Not very healthy is it. Find a balance. There that's your answer.

Have the weak and needy proliferated in society in general or does betfair attract them specifically?

I know exactly how u feel mate , i was suicidal for years before i moved

then when i did move i almost had a breakdown , broke out in dandruff though stress , just as you i thought i'd exercise & get fit when i moved , but all i do is keep trying to mae money all day every day , haven't even decorated the place properly & been here a year already now , things just don't happen as am too busy/stressed & already wanna move again

Mc M, 100K is not a lot of money. Get yourself an around the world ticket and have a year off to get yourself organised.

Irish , that's the thing what would i do otherwise , might start growing my drugs or something vaguely interesting , at least i'd sleep properly then .....

Mc M, at this rate your epitaph will be "dealing the flop."

You are much better than that mate.

Not sure you will sleep too good with a garden in the spare bedroom mate

Obviously medication and talking to a counsellor would be a starting point if you feel that sh1t but hey easier said than done.

If you wanna feel better you gotta break the cycle tho its that simple.

I'm not saying it's a lot , or i'm Rich , but he asked so i told him , many guys i grew u with are 40 & still rent places with a few grand to their name , that's why i had to move away & go my own way .

Good poker game on ITV now. Very good.

must be another scene

on now James Bond

Go to casinos .pretend you are James Bond.  Interesting things will happen.

This is the best Bond movie of the lot

That's -ev....alot of dodgy people hang around casinos

Just read the thread

i know an older guy actually , bit of a gangster probably goes 4 times per week , sits playing blackjack & probably lost thousands , he's just a sad boring loser , and has a wife sitting at home !

I don't actually like casino's or bookies or anything to do with gambling

I went every night almost for 20 years.

Thank The Lord I found this place. Got it all back.

playing for 40.5 million!

That's Bond, not me.

Full of sad wannabees pretending they're James Bond that go home & eat beans on toast before falling asleep on the sofa

I would say you have got to do something where you are working with people (or volunteer work) ...this will help you view the world as a better place......gradually cut down on the poker

You will meet someone you like....

Having kids gives you a great reason to live.....it all changes then.

did u win kenny , hope so after 20 years

No, I lost a fortune. The chicks distracted me. Fortunately no such distraction on here.

you got kids then Lep ?

you're right i need to see the world as a better place as all i ever see is thieves robbing each other , but that is the world imo it's a very sad desperate place !

First went in '67 and finished in 2001. Make that 25 years.

76 not 67

Yes..... girl 19, boy 17......a full time job keeping an eye on them

cool  , i bet crazy ages , lol


i was born in 76 kenny

Nobody wins at casinos too much house edge that's why i don't like them , in fact not many win through gambling full stop

I actually make more from pokerstars directly through bonuses etc than i make winning other peoples money , so at least i have some dignity !

hasn't always been tat way though , i beat people hands down for many years , but sites are full of Pro's now !

we just turn each others money over & over again

They're not the shy retiring types either.....just have to take every situation as it comes....and stay calm

i just went to the casino initially for the company Mc. Regularly stayed till 2-00am and work at 9. It got to be like a drug. When I found I could win on here I thought what's the point and sacked it almost overnight.

Probably a good move , Kenny

Anyway, I'm off to bed, night all

yep i quit the bookies almost overnight when betfair first started , used to tell my mate who was a huge cash punter but he just wouldn't listen , don't even think he had a pc back then , told me a few years later he'd got no money left & still works at the same factory now

I don't bet to make money,i bet to win fortunes in one hit if I knew I was only going to make a 100k a year I'd stop betting tomorrow I do 18 hour days everyday so it would be pointless works out £16 an hour...

Morning giggilo, and goodnight all.

U LOT NEED TO GET OUT OF THE HOUSE A BIT MORE.

I haven't got the time to read every post but the ones I have seem to be money orientated.
The point of life is building and maintaining relationships. Nothing else really matters.

"The trick to life is not to get too attached to it"

The Hoosiers - "The Trick To Life"

To leave something good behind

I think the point to life is to give your children confidence and make them feel loved.

Yes, to leave something good behind

"We're The World (USA For Africa)"

There comes a time when we heed a certain call
When the world must come together as one
There are people dying
And it's time to lend a hand to life
The greatest gift of all

We can't go on pretending day by day
That someone, somewhere will soon make a change
We all are a part of God's great big family
And the truth, you know,
Love is all we need

[Chorus:]
We are the world, we are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let's start giving
There's a choice we're making
We're saving our own lives
It's true we'll make a better day
Just you and me

Send them your heart so they'll know that someone cares
And their lives will be stronger and free
As God has shown us by turning stone to bread
So we all must lend a helping hand

[Chorus]

When you're down and out, there seems no hope at all
But if you just believe there's no way we can fall
Well...well...well
Let's realize that a change can only come
When we stand together as one

[Chorus]

Sorry :

"We're The World "

There comes a time when we heed a certain call
When the world must come together as one
There are people dying
And it's time to lend a hand to life
The greatest gift of all

We can't go on pretending day by day
That someone, somewhere will soon make a change
We all are a part of God's great big family
And the truth, you know,
Love is all we need

[Chorus:]
We are the world, we are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let's start giving
There's a choice we're making
We're saving our own lives
It's true we'll make a better day
Just you and me

Send them your heart so they'll know that someone cares
And their lives will be stronger and free
As God has shown us by turning stone to bread
So we all must lend a helping hand

[Chorus]

When you're down and out, there seems no hope at all
But if you just believe there's no way we can fall
Well...well...well
Let's realize that a change can only come
When we stand together as one

[Chorus]

Obviously your heads gone.

Start exercising (Healthy Body/Healthy MIND)

You need a new challenge,you've beaten all the others. Try a bit of charity work,you'll be surprised of the effect.

You sound like a Capricorn btw.successful,but prone to Depression.

Seaview....Star signs....all mumbo-jumbo....oc

Sound like a Capricorn

Aye, laugh ll you want! That's typical of you Geminis!!

And before you ask...us Sagittarians are good guessers! 

We are all stardust

Science to the rescue. There was a 22-year study of 26,915 suicides in the UK based on birth month. The peak months were April, May and June and the lowest were late autumn/ early winter. So if Capricorns are getting depressed they seem uncannily unwilling to go the whole hog and chuck themselves in front of a train.

I agree with seaview if you exercise and eat well you feel better instantly. Should cut down/stop drinking and smoking as you get older.

...also don't bet on betfair they charge too much.

yes indeed yomomma, join the purple revolution I guess.

You get 1 life.
Do with it what you want(Fact)
Most of you have done the normal thing of settling down with 2.4 kids and a Mortgage so you have commitments to abide to(nothing wrong with that all)
I've never had any of that(and can honestly say I'm not bitter or sad about missing it)
But at My funeral they really will be able to say I did everything my way.
And too me,that's what life is about(doesn't work that way for everyone,but for me Yesh Sir ree)

^who is going to organised your funeral after you died?

His bookie.

From what I've lost the Firms should pay for it really.But just because I'm not married with kids doesn't mean I'm a Loner(slightly naive to think that)
I have a very close knit family,and some very good friends.
But at the end of the day if I'm honest I couldn't give to hoots if I was stuffed in a binliner and nobody turned up to my funeral.
Does it make you a better person by the amount of people you have at your send off ?
I think not.

You only need six people to carry your coffin

HaHa.The way I'm piling on the pounds,it might need 12
But why you focusing in on the end part ?
This thread was about enjoying life  was it not ?
I see soooooo many people stuck in unhappy relationships,but carry on because it's the done thing(good luck to them)
But they haven't lived their life,I can always say I have.I'm blessed

You sound like a Capricorn btw.successful,but prone to Depression.

I am a Typical Capricorn

What time did you start today Moonbeam ?

How many coffee + **** so far ?

Of course you cant call em that.

Think I can claim a hole in one,or a 12/1 winner.......those  above who think its total rubbish.

MrMac. I am an extreme version,so can relate to everything youve said..been thinking similar things for a few years.

I once had counselling and told the guy dont think you can help me.Trying to tell me sometimes 2nd best is acceptable. Had to tell him its Black or White,if somethings not right it therefore must be wrong.

sry Irish was back 'working' again

I started at 10am & played non stop until about 5pm , just been to grab 3 more cans of Grafenwalder Pils , need it just to chill my head after another crazy day

Haven't even eaten anything yet , can't even decide what i'd like to eat ......

and there's a 100k freeroll on stars i'll play for a bit of fun at 8pm

is this fred still going??

im gonna tek up this poker mullarkey. what sites this million quid freeroll on?

Don't drink while i'm working btw ,
but get so wound up after 8 hours of headbanging need something to unwind when i've finished & if i didn't smoke i'd go completely insane

lol bob , there was actually a MILLLION DOLLAR FREEROLL i played in just last Saturday

You have to be a Supernova player on stars to get free entry though , there's 1 million every 3 months , and 100k Freeroll end of every month

tbh there not worth much as too hard to win , i cashed in the million for $300 but a guy i play regularly against won 90k in one a year or so ago

were you around back in the day when there was a betfair forum poker tournament?

i amazed myself and came about 27th or summat. i played for the north american forum and we finished 3rd i believe.

you only need one decent win ike that to boost you right up , most i won in a freeroll was 3.5k a few years ago !

ive played in a few and everybody goes all-in early doors. total joke really. you dont know whether to go all-in or fold with AA! obviously i always went all-in. then 3 other people did and i got beat by 73 or summat crazy!

yep i was , used to post on here but diff name , even remember slippy & each way played , i remember just about everything

it was good fun. i remember there was an in-running fred on the north american forum. i played very cagey for hours then was close to getting knocked out and i did something like go all-in 3 or 4 hands in a row and zoomed up near the lead out of nowhere. everybody thought i was on a crazy tilt but i actually had some great hands. be rude not to!

there are idiots everywhere still , even in $60-100 games , had a guy earlier i raised with KK 2nd hand into the game -120 he re-raised me to like 270 - i 3 bet him to 454 or something - he 4 bet me to 780 - i shoved to 1500 & he calls with  7 3 .... complete fkn donks i just have to laugh sometimes , why can't they just Fold when i 3 bet him 

it's not even like he was 3betting me & shoving me allin ... he was ending up Calling !!!!!

some of the biggest players on stars are complete **** Muppets , they're unbelievable day after day after day , you'd think they'd adapt but no , they're very professional kinda **** Muppets

i dont play much but i love when people walk straight head first into oblivion.
last week this guy kept betting against me every bloody hand. so i deliberately called then folded next hand. did it about 3 times in a row. all the time thinking youre gonna think im weak as p1ss here arent you, you t1t. next hand he does it and ive got the nuts...so i flat call again. then he raises more...so i flat called again...then he goes all-in! hook line sinker copy of angling times!

not next hand sorry. you know what i mean! he bets i flat call. he raises. i fold.

yep it happens a lot mate , they just think they can walk all over you , and if you flat call they just bet flop every time , some are good at it though as if you re-raise they'll snap fold , i just label them as scum raisers , i don't mind if the blinds are bigger as there's a point to it then , but these scumbags will just steal every 20 blind , lol

poker's a value game , and the value usually comes later on

you have any fancies for the world cup mate ?

i fancy hammering the group betting , as it gets more tricky afterwards

not really looked tbh. i usually get heavily involved in the top scorer market. a lot of players get backed stupidly low right before games just cos theyre playing. players that have got next to no chance of scoring in a brothel. like rooney!

only just noticed theres a top scorer and a golden boot. two different markets. never seen that before on here. annoying cos its splitting the money matched in half. thats gonna fook up the liquidity for sure.

I agree but not much money to be made like that surely

made 8 grand on it before now. all depends how it goes.

8 grand really wow , they must've be some heavy lays

i'm not really into laying big prices as one always catches you out , and i won't ride it out till the death i usually just trade out !

well backs as well. was on the euros when david villa was top scorer. backed the crap out of him.
in the end i had greens on about 30 different players and still made about 8 grand.

it helped that near every single match, all the strikers taking part plummetted in price. was like shelling peas backing players the night before then laying it off just before kick off.

didnt work so well the last world cup though. think everybody got wise to it

im not much of a trader, more a punter, but the world cup is one event i trade on a lot.

some incredible things happen. like a team being 2.2 to win their last but 1.5 to qualify cos some big money trader has got the qualification rules wrong! happens every time 3 teams can finish level on points.

yep nice when it works like that , i remember it villa won quite easily scored about 11 goals in the end

i don't have much luck with scores though so not a market i bet on , just stick to teams to win / lose for the big events

don't you play the groups , or winners market , i find all the value's gone once the groups are done , made most of my money by then !

then theres the last games where a draw puts both teams through. the draw sinks from 3.5 to 2.2 when people realise. im gonna work out what i think will happen to see if theres any decent chances of that happening. worth hammering the draw if its high enough to not lose much if it doesnt come off.

i'm usually drunk by then

i sometimes back the teams i think can win it. 5 or 6. but its not a great profit margin cos once the knockouts start you have to be careful. have to see what i think.

yep i was gonna back the top 4 , brazil , arg , germany , spain , pays like 1/2

not totally convinced though , some say germany & spain might struggle !

if i was doing it id probably back those 4 plus italy, uruguay and chile.

the more teams, the less the odds but the more id feel safe putting on. 20k spread around that lot and id feel pretty confident. belgium at 23 has to be some kind of joke.

i wouldnt be looking to back the winner, id be looking to back all the final 4 teams. so id have to look at the groups and schedule etc first. which i havent yet.