I bet heavy during NFL season.
On occasion will bet small on college football and march madness but they are usually made no knowing much about a either team and just for shits and giggles.
I was a pretty bad habitual blackjack player when I first turned 21. I got really fucking lucky the first couple months I started playing. Was up close to 15k as a broke college kid. But it wasn't even real. A 50$ bar tab was still a lot of money to me, yet that cash was for the casino and not spending money. One night I lost almost all 15k, only to come back with the last 1000 and ended up walking out with around around 14. Eventually worked it up to a little over 20k before losing it all in one night. I would take month breaks before going doing it all over again. Hell one night I hit a hot streak and started with 200$ turned it into 2000$ before going to the high limit tables and turned it into 17k. But I had that mindset where it could be more and 17k wasn't enough. I still remember this like it was yesterday, shoe was going good, kept stacking my bet and had 3500 out there. I get 11 against dealers 5. No brainer, throw another 3500 out there. I get an ace, dealer flips a 6 and pulls a king of hearts. Lost the rest before even finishing the next shoe.
It was euphoric for that first year. They gave me the highest tier players card, and more comps than I could ever use. I was 21/22 playing in high limit room with all the "high rollers." I thought I was the shit rocking either a movado or a obvious fake breitling that didn't even run and the hands would move all over the place when I would move my wrist.
Looking back at that time I can say I was an addict. It didn't get to the point where I would miss work or bail on gf/friends to go the casino, But any free time that I did have was spent there. Eventually I made myself start depositing cash (was a server) in the atm 3 times a week and had the bank change my withdraw limit to 100$ a day. So I couldn't access a lot of cash at any given moment to scratch that itch.
I still go on occasion but I get hyper focused and only like going late night/early morning so I can find tables to myself. Heads up with no mid shoe. I hate waiting on other people at the table in order to get results of the hand and can't stand a slow dealer. I don't go nearly as hard and know my limits. but ill never have a streak like I did that first year and knowing that takes a lot of the fun that was once there out of it. Part of the reason I did have that streak was because of how irresponsible and loose I was and cannot or will not reproduce how I played back then