Cubone - The Gambling Historian!

I must have to admit that I have used the word, over time. and even allaberated with statements like,
Im having some real bad luck at present. must have run over a black cat, or even a nun. but if you think what real bad luck means to some people in the world, you would never jest, or even dwell on the subject.
I like to be happy to take the middle road, not having to rely on luck in any shape or form as luck can be very fickle,
Can you look back at a period, in your life were you were very close to a disaster, and survived was luck involved in any way. to think that there is such a thing, then you would have to agree with the concept of devine order of some sort.
So what is Fate.as a force ,principal or power that predetermines events some lucky and others not so.
The folk law tale of a man who dreamed that his wonderful horse would one day kill him
He decided to make sure that would not happen so he killed it.
Many years later whilst tending his field, without the horses assistance, he tripped on the skull of his old horse causing blood poisoning and his death.
I have always wondered that in gambling if there was some ultermate being like a God. who sits at some great table passing judgment upon all those on earth.
Would have his work cut out at the time of let us say the grand national. were he would be receiving many calls for help with a little luck usualy favourite backers,to lift there selection, over the last fence and victory and at the same time a lesser amount of calls from Bookmakers asking to save there profits, you would think that the mass would prevail. but through history, to many happening occur that makes one think that good luck is in the hands of a lucifer, type, who pass,s Luck on to a few only to take it away at some future date.
So we come back to the question what would be best,
I would be happy to rely on well thought out strategy hard work and planning. and leave Luck to those who do not wish to work as hard.
Some old sayings however like
“The work of youth is a blanket for the old”
What about the many millions who forsake holidays in there youth, for a comfortable old age, have found there well planned pension fund, to have been descimated by powers out of there control
“Money is as safe in a Bank” well it would have been safer in your fridge in some used kipper box.
The saying that a wish may give you to much, to handle. can be considered by the tale of a widow of 59 who won the European Lottery of £50 Million. she thought her life was going to be one long battle to survive,before her win.
However her three sons, were given there share of her fortune which started a war that gave her so much, trouble her life was no longer worth living.
She moved with what she had kept of her fortune met a man her own age, who conned her out of what was left. leaving her were she began.
a lonly old lady with nothing.
There is a thought that a continual struggle is the thing that keeps you lean and mean.
Waking every morning ready for a fight to survive, working on the assumption you will always be able to earn enough to eat,but never to much to get fat.
But that was alright when you lived in a cave and all you required was some food, for your belly and the food was ussually wrapped in a fur, that would keep you warm. at night.
How we have built up the massive expenditure we need just to survive is a mystery what on earth do we need some of the luxuries, that surround us,
Even the news papers that I collect, every morning is exactly the same in content so why on earth do I have 2.
What is best to leave your children, cash, or the history of all the mistakes that you made in your life, so that perhaps just one may save them from making a similar error.
I know that the children would say give us the money and we will make our own mistakes. and I guess there is a lot who will agree with that.
I will have to think that one out a little more.
Sayings like “there is no such thing as bad publicity.” and yet what about.
“jail follows publicity” which one is true.
as a Gambler i like the poem by Rudyard Kipling. IF. I have taken my favourite parts out to follow when I can

If you can keep you head, when all about you are losing there,s. If you can trust yourself, when all men doubt you. But make allowances for there doubt. If you can wait and not get tired, by the waiting.
If you can dream and not make dreaming your master.
If you can meet triumph and disaster and treat those two imposters the same, or watch things you give your life to be broken. and stoop and build em up with worn out tools.
If you can make one heap of all your winnings and risk it on one turn of pitch and toss.
If neither foe or loving friends can hurt you. If you can fill the unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run,
Yours is the earth and every thing thats in it, and which is more
You will be a man my SON.
I can understand what he says, but if you consider that he lost two of his 3 children before they were out of there teens, he was a Man.
Although I have never believed in the Bollux about Better to be a Lion for just one day than a Sheep for all of eternity.
This is were I differ, that Lion only had one day. so he never had chance to see if he had made a mistake, and as for Rudyard, his phyosophy of taking all you have gained and putting it on one final spin. is what I call Chasers, and that is what anyone should avoid. at all times..

I like the tale by Alex Bird who lost all he had won in his early days and he stopped got his breath back lowered his expectation and started a plan of 1 year to get his flout or stake back. then start again.

I am adamant that the only way to gamble is to Trade, a % that reduces the Gamble to a gauranted win, and following the answer made by Lord Rothchild when asked how he made his fortune in shares,
“I always allowed someone else to earn a pound as well as me”

So what have we learned from my sermon.

That it is all ways better to live to fight another day. than join the millions who went for one giant Killing.

The final statement that I laughingly disagree with is.

We are all level on and under the TURF. I admit we are closer to the surface than in the past but level I think not.

Cubone.