Tonight’s College Football National Championship is the biggest game on the calendar, but it isn’t a shortcut or a reset. It’s a test — of patience, sizing, and whether discipline holds when the spotlight is brightest. This record documents how we approach nights like this without asking them to be more than they are.

Yesterday was one of the hardest days of January. From a complete EPL miss to a brutal stretch of NFL and college basketball, the wins simply didn’t arrive.

Writing this from a packed Caesars sportsbook in Las Vegas, surrounded by playoff energy and noise, the lesson was simple and uncomfortable: the math doesn’t care where you are or how good the setup feels. This record exists for days like this — to log them cleanly, study them honestly, and keep going.

Full day of sports ahead of us. Big bankroll focus today with the amount of volume coming our way. Let’s get this day.

Mid-month is where betting processes either stabilize or break. After a difficult stretch earlier in January, last night offered a clear signal: structure is starting to reassert itself.

The bankroll moved modestly higher, led by Pattern Walk–aligned college basketball plays, but the result isn’t the headline. The real work is staying patient, keeping sizing honest, and letting recovery happen without forcing it. This record exists to document that process in real time — including the nights that don’t cooperate and the ones that quietly do.

January hasn’t been smooth, and it wasn’t supposed to be. After fighting back to even earlier in the month, a rough night pushed the bankroll back to 78.5%. The loss itself isn’t the story. The story is what the math revealed — about sizing, confidence, and how discipline gets tested when results stop cooperating.

A 8-10 night last night proved to have a handful of misses that if a couple things went differently, the loss would of been a massive gain overnight. And we go again, with one goal - passive income by the end of January.

Diagnostic betting record for January 13, 2026. Process, results, and market structure documented without prediction or hype.

BrownBagBets Daily Card for January 12, 2026. This post documents decision process, bankroll exposure, and Pattern Walk compliance across NFL Wild Card, NHL, NBA, and NCAA Basketball. Diagnostic record, not forecast.

After a 14% overnight gain, January’s story sharpens. Results logged, diagnostics updated, and today’s NFL Wild Card board posted.

Pattern Walk expands into college basketball as the NFL playoffs arrive. First-pass plays, logged results, and updated diagnostics for January 10.