Taking a Punt On My Life by Willie Thorne

Author:Willie Thorne [Willie Thorne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Vision Sports Publishing
Published: 2011-09-16T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

DEEP POCKETS

My success as a snooker player only helped fuel my betting habit. What had started as a bit of fun and a way of socialising with my pals was now something very different. It was still fun and many of the people who followed me around the various tournaments were still the mates I’d had for years, the same crowd who liked to bet and go to the races. But I was more serious about my betting now, and my contacts within the racing game had grown considerably. I got to know a whole host of other individuals who were well connected in the sport and who were willing to pass on information that might help me get the edge I was always looking for. None of this was crooked; I just got to know people who were well informed.

I was never the sort of gambler who would just have a punt for the sake of it. I paid a lot of attention to the information I got and then made up my mind about who to bet on and how much I wanted to gamble. However, it became obvious that no matter how much information I was getting, I was clearly no professional gambler. I was losing more than I won, but anyone who is a regular with the bookies will tell you that doesn’t really change anything. To begin with, if you are totally logical about your life you would never get involved in serious betting, and once you’re hooked the fact that you are losing more than you are winning becomes irrelevant, because you only need some wins to blot out the memory of all the disappointment of losing. It’s the highs that keep you going, the days when you’ve had a win or winners, when you feel as though you have beaten the system and come out on top. I had many such highs during the course of my betting life, although I can acknowledge now that I had a lot more lows. You simply don’t think about them for too long, because as a gambler you are always looking for the next opportunity, the next horse, the next dog, or the next throw of the dice that will give you the chance to win again. Even when that doesn’t happen quickly, or you hit a real losing streak, the gambler’s instinct isn’t to stop and call it a day. Instead, what happens is that you will often increase your betting in order to try and recoup your losses.

When things really get out of hand and it all seems to be running away from you, when your money is disappearing and you are in debt, that’s when you go on the chase, when you desperately keep betting in an attempt to claw some money back in order to give yourself a chance of recovery. In my experience that never happens because by the time that process kicks in you are already too heavily into a way of life that can only ever have one winner and it most definitely is not going to be you.

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