Hey man, thanks for posting in my thread. I’m not a huge sportsbetter myself (although at the height of my binge gambling I managed to lost 5k on on ridiculous bets on sports I don’t even watch), but I totally get the “mind bet”. Similarly on other forms of gambling, you can become irrational and always think damn “if only I’d arrived a bit earlier, or if only I put it all on that number/colour I would have won $X” – it’s all in our mind. We were never going to bet anyway. Whenever we “mind bet” and it loses we just think phew that’s lucky, but we don’t remember those for long. Your addiction is the one talking to you to make you think “dude if you just bet there you could have won, you should come back to me and start winning money” – don’t listen to that voice.
If you haven’t already done so I highly recommend self-excluding yourself from all online/offline forms of gambling you’ve used (or have heard of) in the past. Especially in the initial few weeks after a gambling binge, the temptations will be extra strong and it just takes one moment of weakness, even when we’ve been feeling fine all other 23.5 hours of the day, to cause some major damage. Furthermore, if you have problems with passive betting or mind-betting, perhaps tone down the sports watching for a few weeks.
Good luck!