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Bill Burton: About Gambling
FMollowing My Own Advice
any of my columns deal with money management and being a responsible player who makes the best decisions in the casino. My columns are not just ideas that I write about once a month. I honestly practice what I preach. However, I am only human
and sometimes I make the mistake of not following my own advice and deviating from my own personal rules. Since I also preach about being honest with yourself when you make a mistake, I thought I would go a step further and share my recent experience with you.
brain subconsciously evaluates, it is sometimes best to listen to them.
Breaking My Rule
I am not saying that my losses at the casino are directly related to biorhythms or any other psychic phenomenon. I am not really superstitious and for all I know, they could just be a self-fulfilling prophecy that seems to take place when I get this feeling. What I do know is that I made a rule that I would not go to the casino when I was the least bit hesitant about going, and I broke it.
I am not upset about having a losing day at the casino, as that happens many times. What I am upset about is losing the discipline to follow my own rule. But I will follow my other rule to be honest with myself, admit my mistake and try to do better in the future. What’s that saying?
To err is human...
Until next time, remember: “Luck comes and goes.. Knowledge Stays Forever.”
Bill Burton is the Casino Gambling Guide and columnist for the Internet portal About.com, located at http://casinogambling.about.com. He is the author of 1000 Best Casino Gambling Secrets and Get the Edge at Low Limit Texas Hold’em available online at www.billburton.com. He is also an instructor for Golden Touch Craps, http://www.thecrapsclub.com.
A Losing Day
A few weeks ago I went to the casino and I lost money. Alright, I know what you are thinking: What’s the big deal, we all lose money at the casino. Well, the problem was I knew that I was going to
lose money, and I went to the casino anyway.
Now, I am not claiming that I am psychic or have any mystical powers, but I discovered something several years ago that seemed to reoccur on a regular basis. Sometimes on the morning I planned to visit the casino, I got up and just didn’t feel like going. I may have had other things I could be doing or I just didn’t feel like making the drive for one reason or another. Some days I did stay home, but on other days I convinced myself that I should go. On those days it seems that I had more losing sessions than on other days when I was really excited about going
to the casino.
After several losing trips, I made a rule that I
would not go to the casino if I was not one hundred percent certain that I really wanted to go. It seems
like every time I broke this rule, I would have a losing day. I think that deep down I just may know when I am not feeling one hundred percent on any given day and will not be functioning at my peak performance.
Biorhythms and Intuition
We all have days when we feel better and perform better than other days. Some people attribute this to an inner cycle called biorhythms. According to biorhythm theory, our lives are affected by three primary cycles: Physical, Emotional, and Intellectual. The cycles start at a middle point at birth, and then go up and down from that point at different rates over our lifetimes. I don’t get up each morning and check my biorhythms, but I do know that some days I feel better than others physically, and some days I am more creative that others.
Many of us also get intuitive feelings from time to time and whether you attribute them to your inner cycles or some unseen outside influence that your
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