the Road to Bankruptcy (sports betting)

let's see if i can even have this make sense, i'm not sure i even remember it right.  one of the apps (tipico) offered quarter cash match for each day Friday, Saturday and Sunday up to $100.  so if you make a $400 bet they would put in $100 into your account NSA.  The plan was to make 1 $400 bet each of those days on tipico and put $400 on the other side of the spread on a different app.  then collect the $100 minus the vig obviously.  the plan was foolproof, it's what i've been doing all along.  my first issue was doing it barely after midnight on Friday when my judgment was impaired. there weren't many games even up yet for Saturday, but it didn't really matter to me so I was going to do Indiana State -5.5 over Evansville, and i found another site to match it.  I deposited the $400 and tried to make the bet and it didn't accept it.  i logged off and logged on a couple times, same thing.  finally i tried $360 and it accepted it.  i think like 15 minutes had passed at that point.  when i checked the other site the spread had dropped to 5, just in that little amount of time.  i clicked around on 3 or 4 of them and the other ones had 5 too so I just did it a half point off.  i normally try to make the bets at the exact same time to avoid something like this. 

yesterday morning i got worried/paranoid about indiana state winning by exactly 5.  i checked and i did find it for 5.5 somewhere so i was stressing and i was like why don't i just do 5 and another one at 5.5 and just have 2 matching bets.  i would pay the vig twice and cut my earnings to almost nothing but i didn't feel comfortable potentially losing $360 so i just did it.  trying to remember now, i think i accidentally did one of them at -5.5 instead of +5.5 so then had to go on the other side of that.  things were getting a little out of control.  i called tipico and they said for some of the smaller games that noone cares about they set a limit and that's why i couldn't bet $400 on it.  it gets confusing from there and i don't even remember exactly how i did this, but i ended up canceling 1 bet with a chargeback bc i thought it was bringing me even.  but actually i already was even and there was 1 bet i somehow wasn't thinking about in the moment   all in all through a string of idiotic decisions and carelessness i ended up down like $500 for the day and failed to execute a strategy a child could do.  it's not the most i've lost in one day but i just can't believe how stupid it was.  i would have been better off taking a bunch of money and flushing it down the toilet, at least that would be less time.  i just discovered the extra bet last night.  overall i'm up at least a couple thousand so not like i'm going to kill myself or anything but it's going to stick in my craw for awhile.