I thought I'd experienced it all as a sportsbettor over the last 16 months or so, but today was a doozie.
The story begins yesterday when I was going over some old accounts I had to check to search for ten cent lines and whether they were the last year's good variety or the new hybrid that seemed to develop this year, with everyone making it up as they go along. I spend alot of my time lately looking for solid outs that have the good lines such as Aces Gold, Skybook, Premiere, Looselines, Las Palmas, Island and the new Dunes to mention just a few of my favorites.
Anyway I'm working hard entering old account numbers and passwords to check how the lines are and lo and behold, one of my zeroed out accounts has 4600 bones in it.
Well needless to say I am ecstatic and proceed to bet the entire amount in one day, which I proceeded to immediately lose, great 'capper that I am. But I figure no harm no foul, it was found money anyway. No sweat, right.
Wrong.
Today about 5:00 p.m. I get a phone call from the owner of the book, who I was real friendly with last year and he apologizes for missing me when I was in Costa Rica last week as he was at the beach the entire time. And while this conversation is going for about fifteen minutes it never occurs to me the bombshell he is about to drop on me, that THEY made a mistake and accidently credited the account with my 4600 bones and that what are we going to do about it.
I was shocked, I really thought I screwed up and missed one of my accounts with money in it. It happened before as I have been in alot of books and sometimes have found $300 to $1000 in books I thought I was broke in.
So now I'm locked in the horns of a dilemma. I wouldn't have gambled it if I knew it wasn't found money, yet the most sacred thing on earth to me is a gambling debt. My first reaction was to try and negotiate and he made me an offer that was fair, but I was still in shock and told him I needed to think about it overnight, that I was real upset (which I was) and needed to think it over.
It took me less than fifteen minutes to think it over, you pay the man the full amount. You don't be a ******* and try and weasle out, you screwed up, you take your medicine, learn your lesson and pay the price. He will have his money tomorrow.
Please don't ask me the name of the book as I wish to protect his privacy.
The point is if you ever find some money in one of your accounts where you think you had none, you better ask bookkeeping for a rundown or you risk running into the same bonehead play I made.
There is nothing I like better than finding "free money" and there is nothing I hate worse than "the takeback." Boy, does this one smart.
The story begins yesterday when I was going over some old accounts I had to check to search for ten cent lines and whether they were the last year's good variety or the new hybrid that seemed to develop this year, with everyone making it up as they go along. I spend alot of my time lately looking for solid outs that have the good lines such as Aces Gold, Skybook, Premiere, Looselines, Las Palmas, Island and the new Dunes to mention just a few of my favorites.
Anyway I'm working hard entering old account numbers and passwords to check how the lines are and lo and behold, one of my zeroed out accounts has 4600 bones in it.
Well needless to say I am ecstatic and proceed to bet the entire amount in one day, which I proceeded to immediately lose, great 'capper that I am. But I figure no harm no foul, it was found money anyway. No sweat, right.
Wrong.
Today about 5:00 p.m. I get a phone call from the owner of the book, who I was real friendly with last year and he apologizes for missing me when I was in Costa Rica last week as he was at the beach the entire time. And while this conversation is going for about fifteen minutes it never occurs to me the bombshell he is about to drop on me, that THEY made a mistake and accidently credited the account with my 4600 bones and that what are we going to do about it.
I was shocked, I really thought I screwed up and missed one of my accounts with money in it. It happened before as I have been in alot of books and sometimes have found $300 to $1000 in books I thought I was broke in.
So now I'm locked in the horns of a dilemma. I wouldn't have gambled it if I knew it wasn't found money, yet the most sacred thing on earth to me is a gambling debt. My first reaction was to try and negotiate and he made me an offer that was fair, but I was still in shock and told him I needed to think about it overnight, that I was real upset (which I was) and needed to think it over.
It took me less than fifteen minutes to think it over, you pay the man the full amount. You don't be a ******* and try and weasle out, you screwed up, you take your medicine, learn your lesson and pay the price. He will have his money tomorrow.
Please don't ask me the name of the book as I wish to protect his privacy.
The point is if you ever find some money in one of your accounts where you think you had none, you better ask bookkeeping for a rundown or you risk running into the same bonehead play I made.
There is nothing I like better than finding "free money" and there is nothing I hate worse than "the takeback." Boy, does this one smart.
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