nyra / gate crew

[tigerfan]

Originally Posted by the_fat_man

Repeat after me:

1) you can pick the 'right' horse and lose
2) you can pick the 'wrong' horse and win
3) you can pick the 'right' horse and win
4) you can pick the 'wrong' horse and lose

to only expect 3 and 4 to happen is to really miss the point

As someone relatively new to this game, it appears to me that when situations 2, 3 & 4 occur, it stays in my memory for about 2 seconds. However, when situation 1 occurs, it tends to wear on the mind for awhile. I am quickly learning to just let it go.
I had the 7 horse in both the P4 and a win bet. I let it go soon after the race because I realized that if I was the beneficiary of that situation I would have not thought much about it the next day. So why dwell on it when it pinches you? Down the road it will go the other way.
Just my newbie opinion.

In fact, I remember a line from the first Beyer book I read about a year or so ago. Not an exact quote but something to the extent of....you won't remember your big scores but your bad beats will haunt you forever.