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I lost over £300 over the weekend. Its not the end of the world little more than a unit but going into ufc 200 i was £2.8k up on first two shows. I lost £900 of that lb most on edgar. If hunt won though it would have taken me to £3.5k for the weekend. So that swing is gutting. Worst ive ever felt after a loss still feel like someones kicked me today. Valuable lessons learnt tho hopefully i can win some of that money back on Wed. Nearly chased on nunes but bottled it when saw whole thread practically was on miesha.
Sorry for your lost Sham, I know those feels, ive had it quite alot the past months aswell when losing huge and being punished for chasing and going big. It feels terrible, but that feeling saves you money, everytime the "kick in th stomach" went away i made the same mistakes again and again until i made some rules to stop some losses.
Is your unit size really £300? So you got £30000 to play around with? Do you do all this in one bookie or do you use several to mix your money around not just in one place?
Also if i may say my advice, don´t get influenced by threads. i seem to always bet against all the threads, i did it with rothwell, i did it with hunt, with meisha, with thomas almeida and some others. and i just trusted myself and believed everyone else was wrong, and i made huge profits from betting the opposite and believing my gut feelings and my reasonings, despite everyone calling you a fool. i know now that I juut dont believe random people being influenced by other random people will know anything, if anything they only make the price worse, and time and time when i tried tailing bets i lost. Last time where i got very pissed was i saw many huge bettors in here was on patrick cote - i was on donald cerrone i was liek WTF are you guys on? But for the first time in many months i went against my own gut feelign and i felt terrible and i made a bet like veryone else saying cote was the way to go and he lost....lesson: trust yourself.
ive lost more money on others mistakes than my own, so all i can say is dont get influenced by what everyone is on or not on. the majority is always with the favorites and they know nothing special to back it up. and its easy to get influenced by people betting huge money aswell, im baffled at some peoples bets.
So trust yourself, you´ve done good previously, and al the threds are just full of other people whos been influenced imo, so many times i´ve made the better choice. My first time was when i started on sherdog and asked for advice about latifi or erick silva, and was told "erick was the safer bet" and it he lost, latifi won and i stuck by my gut. now that it has happened nearly 10 times in a row about me being right, i believe in myself more, and its easier to learn from your own mistakes.
A bit long, but i know how you feel and just wanted to say how i´ve gone about it. hope you win on wednesday. I cant believe you have a near £30000 betting bankroll, how much of that is from betting profits?