May 25, 2018 -- 7:26AM, detraveller wrote:

May 25, 2018 --  1:04PM, sageform wrote:Can anyone who knows more about cricket than I do explain why a batsman should "play for lunch" or tea or stumps? Surely it is always easier to score when the batsmen have their eye in and the bowlers need a rest. The hardest time to bat is at the beginning of a session surely?Test cricket is a marathon. You cannot gain anything by scoring 10 extra run right before a session but in trying to score those runs, you are giving the opposition an opportunity to take a wicket that is worth way way more than whatever you can score in the 15 min before lunch. Hence the need to 'play for lunch'. Other than that, its just a milestone really, taking the game session by session. And psychological.

I don’t agree. In what way do any of those arguments not apply at other times in a session? I think the playing for x thing is bollocks, myself and if anything think it’s a relatively good time to be aggressive.

May 25, 2018 -- 7:31AM, jmdc wrote:

That's why you're a fat slogger.

I was about to say that

May 25, 2018 -- 6:41AM, jucel69 wrote:

May 25, 2018 -- 12:38PM, Fatslogger wrote:May 25, 2018 -- 12:11PM, jucel69 wrote:May 25, 2018 -- 12:04PM, Fatslogger wrote:May 25, 2018 -- 11:49AM, jucel69 wrote:May 25, 2018 -- 11:48AM, peckerdunne wrote:Thats a rate that can not be sustained.........you are right there, but it's pretty much what I won in March on test cricket. Just feels extremely painful at presentI’ve been there, both in early April and last summer. I burned through 1/3 of my account in about 6 weeks, I think. I was over staking on T20s and 50 overs but not outrageously and everything else I did lost too, even a test, which was horrible. I ramped back my stakes and recovered in the end. You will too.I've not really tilted tbf, just loss after loss (20k on AFL in a few weeks). My biggest loss was 5k on Somerset the other night. The rest is 1k here and there but getting absolutely smashed.Very similar to me last summer. A lot of what I do is backing short odds things in football that should be shorter so it’s unusual for me to lose relentlessly but for a while almost everything I was exposed for over a grand on seemed to lose. It does happen but it’s hard to take at the time. It’s even worse if you have to take money out for life stuff. Anyway, I’ve not paid a cent of PC since. Got close last month but then lost loads again. I’ve made it all back and more now.When I sit back and think about it I'm in the same position I was in before the last test NZ v Eng & SA v Aus. Still painful though as I spent a fair chunk in April!!

I had same thing having got up to an all time high total and level with highest ever bank early April (thanks very much test cricket) then lost £10-15k but also had to pull eventually £25k out. Fortunately I started winning it back before I needed to extract the whole lot. You just need a sense of perspective on it because you’re not taking full advantage of your edge or mitigating PC unless you’re swinging but that inevitably means some losing runs.