how do i stop going on full tilt mode?

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need a break Bob?, until the Premiership starts, I assume you bet on that

i think i started going wrong when i started betting in play more. i never used to, it was always straight bets win or lose. maybe the odd in-play bet when favs went 1-0 down etc, but most bets werent placed or layed off in play. when you know you can bail out it changes what you bet on. and then you get the whole should i or shouldnt i conundrum when its going wrong. taking a loss on a winning bet is harder to cope with mentally than just placing a bet youre sure about and it losing. but then ive found some really good opportunities in play at some times. so i dunno!

try going back to cash betting for a bit.

If it's serious advice you're after Bob I'd suggest you cast your mind back to the first time it happened. You say you had a long previous period of being able to control your impulses and then this broke down. Was there a trigger at that time which caused this change? A loss of some kind? Perhaps even a bereavement. Then ask yourself at the specific time you make these decisions what is the catalyst and how do you feel? Is it really just as simple as losing a bet or is it telling you something about how you feel or where you are in your life? Is it something like a life crisis? Perhas it's an age thing where you feel a sense of no longer being in control of your destiny? Or you are craving excitement?

I don't know why obviously and you may not but there is usually a trigger for destructive behaviour in a person not previously prone to it.

I'm becoming the same with football bob , just honestly can't stand the Game , Commentators , anything to do with the game much longer tbh

I've had the most depressing World cup Ever , Group bets all cost me , Costa Rica , Algeria , Layed out of Iran even layed out of Australia to finish bottom as Spain were such letdowns !!

along with that about my last 10 under 3.5 bets have all cost me hundreds , my brain's just gone with it makes no sense any longer (having won for years) and am on the verge of losing the value of money football betting

I should just quit really , last years Premiership was the beginning of the new Doom Times imo

Would he have said they were full tilt bets if they'd won? His successful bets were defined as well thought out punts but his losers were defined as full tilt could it be in reality that these bets were all basically as worthy as each other. Every gambler would like to be able to only back winners and eliminate all losing bets but surely in the long run that's impossible; in the end your either making a profit or not and that's what's important.

in the last 2 weeks, ive done this twice. and both games ended 0-0! thats about 100/1 right there. fooking amazing.

guess there must be a few of us then, twice this week been 300 up walking about with the chest out like im some sorta god, next day one get beat in a photo or fall late on full tilt mode. After 20 odd years haven't learnt a feckin thing.

I'm a poker player King so know exactly where you're coming from , i introduced Ovalman to Jareds site, book etc

also understanding variance actually helps with sports betting a lot

Keep Disciplined is the Key

You should always learn more from a losing bet than you ever will from a winning one.

it sounds like you're shot to pieces at the moment, and that you're having an Alastiar Cook moment. The variance in gambling can produce bad runs and when your confidence in your own methods gets hit you tend to desert them, try different things, and fail. Impulse then starts to play a much larger part as well as messianic bets (i.e. one to come and save us all - incredibly unlikely and far too much investment). You also tend to become scared of winning, cutting winners early, and accepting of losing - letting losing bets run.

From your posts it seems that all of those things are happening.

The good news is that this is nothing unique, it happens to everyone, for some people it's their gambling existence. Be grateful that you know otherwise.

So how to correct it. Well the simple answer is that you need to start winning again, but winning in the right way, the old way that served you well. Not overstaking on crazy sh1t. The rehabilitation process is long but it works.

You need to find an origin first. By which i mean you need to start from a point where you don't care what's happened before, i.e. your recent losses. In a bad run of form, you are pressed to recoup them through being reckless, and that often makes things worse. You need to write them off. Completely. Time off helps. Paper trading for a short while does too. It varies by individuals. A week, maybe a couple of days?

to continue with the cricketing analogy,you need to go and score the most incredibly dull century imaginable.  the sort of thing that would make Chris Tavare look like Chris Gayle. That means smaller stakes, it's mean in no play betting (your KP switch hit), which you never used to do (even if the odd one turns a good profit, based on what you've said, it's disruptive), and it means betting at about 50% of what you used to do which is probably about 20% of what you do now. Two good pieces of advice to help here:

(i) to ALWAYS not act on the first impulse/selection of the day.

(ii)Be solely concerned about where the next run is coming from, not the next ten, or when you might reach your 50.

Keep track of your bottom line, set incredibly conservative targets (maybe 20% of what you might have expected to make in the past)