
Kudos for stepping away in style.sundaymorningstaple wrote:And apparently you can play on football now. I quit buying toto & 4D after I won 1st prize back in Dec 1991. Figured it was time to quit as my winnings were quadruple my total bets over the previous 5 years that I had played. When you do that, it's time to walk away.
I already did it that way!aster wrote:Kudos for stepping away in style.sundaymorningstaple wrote:And apparently you can play on football now. I quit buying toto & 4D after I won 1st prize back in Dec 1991. Figured it was time to quit as my winnings were quadruple my total bets over the previous 5 years that I had played. When you do that, it's time to walk away.Best time to walk away, but also the hardest.
sundaymorningstaple wrote:I already did it that way!aster wrote:Kudos for stepping away in style.sundaymorningstaple wrote:And apparently you can play on football now. I quit buying toto & 4D after I won 1st prize back in Dec 1991. Figured it was time to quit as my winnings were quadruple my total bets over the previous 5 years that I had played. When you do that, it's time to walk away.Best time to walk away, but also the hardest.
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I lived in a town called Laurel, Maryland in the early 70's when I was working in Washington DC. Within 20 minutes of my apartment were three major race tracks (two of them, jewels of the triple crown), Bowie Raceway, Pimlico and Laurel International. I lost half of 6 digits and between that, Hurricane Agnes & a divorce I went bankrupt in 1973. Since then, until this day, I've never stepped foot on a horse track again. I really didn't look at Playing toto or 4D as gambling, as it was a token sum but after winning, I remembered all to vividly what can and did happen all those years ago. Almost seven years without credit! (lost 'em all during the bankruptcy) First credit card I got back, six years later, was an ordinary AMEX card. Shortly after I also got a bog standard VISA card and I still carry both of those card today even though I rarely use them. The reason? They both say member since 1979. The funny thing is, both have been upgraded during the years to gold and then platinum without my asking (which was funny here in Singapore as when I got the platinum Visa card nobody here had ever seen one! - now everybody's got one as minimum standard) Anyway I keep them as a constant reminder.
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