Well, so much for being gone after one weekend… Yeah, I’m hanging around with my Draft Kings account. Sure, it’s only been 3 weeks… only 3 weeks? Geez, maybe I shouldn’t be so happy about hanging around yet… I need to at least make it past the Super Bowl… at least to March Madness. However long this lasts, it’s been fun.
I’d like to think of myself as older and wiser this time around. Younger and dumber me would have some serious issues with all this gambling at my finger tips. Going big on my teams, betting while drunk… all mistakes I have made in the past. I guess those were the two biggest downfalls for me over time. I actually made my first bet on one of my teams when the Bulls hosted the Clippers; thankfully, it was one of those “early win” bets, so I got paid on that Bulls ML bet when they went up by 10 points in the first quarter. That’s a really cool promo that Draft Kings offers. I think I’ve hit 3 out of 4 of those so far. The promos, bonuses have been where I’ve done pretty good. Outside of the original bonus bets, I’ve used some of the boosts offered to get back some of the money I’ve lost. I hit on a boosted parlay the other day with the Timberwolves and Thunder ML; that was nice, after a rough stretch of games earlier that week.
I guess the other downfall would be chasing aka throwing more money at a losing bet. I saw my first example of this the other day with the 49ers. Once Purdy went to the sidelines, and that line started going up, I took the Niners again and again; I was playing doctor too, just knowing that Brock would be back. Well, I guess he did come back, after the 4th stringer got knocked out, but it wasn’t like I expected. That was my biggest hit of my gambling 2.0 version. Thankfully this “big hit” was only $45; back in the day… try multiplying that by 10. So see, I am better… haha. That feeling though… when you lose a game and/or you’re losing a game and have the in game bet at your finger tips… you have to fight it. You can’t let that consume you, like I did with the Niners, or like I did after a loss the one time… where I felt I had to get it right back and started making bets I really shouldn’t have made. Even after all this time, it’s still a learning experience.
The good news is, I already took back out my original deposit of $100, and am now playing with 100% “house money”. I’m at my highest point, just over $200 up. Not quite at the point of posting my picks, but maybe one day I will? It’s been fun, and it hasn’t consumed me. I haven’t acted like a jerk after losing a game, and have kept doing everything else I need to do. So… so far so good. More to come… how much more? Well, that depends on a couple other qualities… discipline and patience. Good luck to us all.
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