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You should be proud of it. All the more so for also having the restraint to not immediately push your winnings into more action. I start the season with an amount I am comfortable seeing gone. If/when I win that amount I pocket the original and play the winnings minus 20% that always goes in the Santa Fund and stays there regardless. If/when that continues to pyramid I run it out to the holidays when the Santa Fund gets all but an amount equal to my initial investment to use for playoff betting. I do the same with my annual poker winnings. A share of the Santa Fund always goes to charity and the rest gets spent on Christmas. Usually it gets spread around pretty evenly but this year the bulk of it went towards surprising the bride with a cruise vacation for her to take her terminally ill sister on. Playoff winnings are a different story, that damn green is all mine.
Nice story on the cruise, man, and I like reading your system. I said it before, but I'm out a huge chunk of money for my daughter's wedding but on top of that I was able to give my daughter $1k of the casino's money to have fun on the honeymoon I sent them on. It's incredibly gratifying to think that spending money was all from gambling.
I think what separates the people who do 'well' gambling and those who don't really comes down to how you handle the aftermath of both your wins and your losses. Pretty much anyone who posts as much as we do on this forum is going to be in the 1% of knowledgeable football fans so we have an advantage over the rest of the league in terms of being able to gauge how the games will go. But you still have to accept that some days things just don't go your way. You can't do anything to change or control the random nature of gambling when it comes to win or lose.
The only thing we can control is ourselves (unless you're a compulsive gambler). Having enough willpower to stick to a plan when it comes to handling wins and losses is the one other advantage we have over stupid money.