Topic: A weird belief among some gamblers. - page 17. (Read 2403 times)

For an outcome that neither hard work or money can predict but pure luck refusing to share your predictions because the individual thinks it will bring back luck is just a superstitious belief. On the other hand, I wouldn't blame the person it could be that they have noticed a pattern of loss whenever they reveal their predictions to others. And mind you, this may not be connected to it in any way as the outcome of their predictions is not within their control.

Maybe after seeing our predictions, they will have more information that can add to the details of the information they have collected. But to share the winnings, we don't know if that person is willing to share the winnings because we have already shared our predictions with him. It depends on each person. After all, if we really want to share our predictions with others, we just give them and if we don't want to share them, we also don't need to share them with others so that if we win, we win on our own.

It's not true. In online sports bookies, many gamblers do share their parlays in the chat place. That means anyone could tail it. I actually did it once provided by a VIP platinum member and the odds totaled by x4.00 - 4.99, if my memory serves me right. It won and I thank him, he replied back with "no problem" and then I was shocked many gamblers did thank him too. That means the superstitious curse that you are telling is not true. This is also the first time I heard of that belief.
I don't have anything like that kind of superstition when it comes to sports betting but I know a lot when it comes to casino games. Well, maybe whoever said that before his bet was duplicated must not want his picks to be shared and that's the only reason I can think of because I don't think it's real or true.

We know that there are other people who believe in superstition and there are others who do not. Then it's just common sense, why tell others your prediction because after you did it, it will appear that they can also copy your prediction and get it right, there will be many of you who will share the winnings, at that point will you agree that there will be a share in win?

Its just another gambler superstition. Gamblers have many of them. I think you can never scientifically explain this cause bet is already done so someone other won't affect its mathematical possibilities. But if gamblers feel violated when they rebet his bets I sort of understand him. The guy probably wants it to stay private possibly because if he wins only person that will know is him. That gives me sort of personal feeling.

Not sure what is your problem with it when it is clearly said that it is His belief and you should not care about that? make your own bet slip why ask for His?
and maybe he had been holding those set since then , actually I also do this some time ago , but not in sports bet but in other gambling like lottery or in local gambling like betting for the last digit of basketball scores that we called ENDING.

Sharing prediction for me is sacred, it is only mine to win mate and not with others.

Maybe I will share table in other gambling game but not in prediction one .

You can't prove it when bets don't affect the match, but I remember watching a video about this kind of belief. The video mentioned that sharing your secret way to success becomes less effective when you begin to share or talk about it.

I'd say i'm glad to share my predictions because there are gamblers interested in sports betting but not all have an idea about the sports they want to bet on. More than half of the bets i've shared are probably losers because I don't always stick to one sport.

Inadvertently creating an echo chamber where people are influenced by each other's ideas and lose their capacity to objectively examine the games is a risk when sharing forecasts. The false sense of security you describe can easily lead to excessive gambling.

Also, its important to remember that despite your rejection of superstitions, people are, by nature, pattern-seeking creatures. The very definition of superstition is the human tendency to see order where none exists and to give significance to chance. It's an integral (though fallible) aspect of the human mind.

Well like you have already said, illiteracy is like a disease and it does make people think differently harbouring some strange believe and crazy principle that when you think about it actually looks very stupid and crazy but for this type of behavior I have seen lots of gamblers do this and they always stand on their word about not sharing that if they share they are going to lose and if you check well even if they don't share they still lose so the essence of them insisting on the secrecy of their bet placed is just one whole stupid believe.

We will always have a mixed and contrary opinions from different categories of gamblers because each person has what he's upto in gambling and there's a level to which they can go along with other gamblers in some certain conditions, it takes me nothing giving someone the opportunity to win if am sure about the game and have no money to bet, but someone like me may not accept any offer from other gaamblers because i have my takes being selective.

Different  people have their Different beliefs that they feel works for them whether superstitious or not, that believe is what they live by and most times it works for them, left for me I don't think that sharing my predictions with another bettor would bring me badluck because I was introduced into gambling by a friend who has some good strategies of making daily profit from sports betting, to convince me into the game he shared one of his predictions with me and it came out successful and that's what got my attention to sports betting because he was able to prove his winning ability by giving me a predictions that made me win good money on my first trial.
 However, I've also shared some games I got from him to other friends and it also came out good except for the one's who out of greed decided to include some games to the predictions I gave them, now what I'm trying to say is that everyone have the way they picture certain things and most times it might not seem right to the next person but if such things have been proven, like in a case where someone has shared his predictions severally and it turns out bad but didn't share and won he might start developing a mentally that sharing his bet brings badluck and continue with that believe, though I'm not superstitious and I don't believe in such.

Well, that kind of belief may work or seems to work for those who believe in them,  just like every other form of belief it's remarkable enough to say that those who have built such beliefs in such superstitions have the life worked around such mindset and whatever happens to them in reality,  they try to ramp it around that line of thoughts because there is no logical colouration between reviling your bet vs the result and there is nothing that can influence the result of the game negative or positive.

This is not the first time I am seeing this kind of situation most especially in physical casinos where gamblers have physical contact.

I don't see a problem with sharing your predictions with others and I don't believe if I do it that it'll make me lose. Sharing your prediction with others doesn't change the games that you have already booked so why will it reduce your chances of winning the bets, they're just superstitions.

I don't believe in superstition because the games are global and what you believe in doesn't after those in other parts of the world. It could affect those in your part of the world but has nothing to do with others. Superstitious are also not real, they just boost your confidence.

And they can also make you have less confidence in yourself but this works for only situation when you haven't done the thing you wanted to do but if you have already played the game then the superstition has no effect anymore. Sharing prediction isn't a wrong thing to do.

It would be a continuous cycle and kind of behavior would really be that very common yet human brains do really loves on making up and observing some patterns and on the time that they would be able to experience up
some winning situation then they would really be trying out to remember on what are the things that involved or been really be able to encounter along the way on which it would really be that tending to be included
on the next session that he would really be into. This is a normal approach and behavior on which people would really be trying out to apply and this is where beliefs would be molded out and even with the oddest
kind of belief would really be created.

You cant really blame out someone on creating up something like this which it is really that part of our instinct on having this way. This is why just let those people on having that kind of approach.
Its true that not all things would really be that effective because when it comes to gambling then it all matters with luck and everything would really be depending on chances.
This is why we do really came up with lots of varieties when it comes to these kind of patterns on which people would really be following later on.

Yes, I agree with your comment. The human brain often seeks to find patterns or associations between events, even if they are unrelated. This can lead to the formation of superstitions and beliefs in random coincidences. Due to such associations, people may start believing in certain charms or rituals based on their past experiences, even if those experiences were purely coincidental. As a result, these beliefs may be passed down through generations.

I think you are pointing out the fact our brains are very good to try to find patterns or association between things, even though they could have nothing to do between them.

So perhaps, someone would bet in a particular match while having a good time with friends, and win. Next time he is alone and turns out he lost his money. The person will start to associate the company of his friends as a "charm" and try to get them all together to see whether he can score a right prediction again or not, if he does (by pure chance) he may become completely convinced of his experiment.

The superstitious things are natural in my opinion, because humans have analogy and parable "like" in an action then he found justification for what happened to him in the past, then there were some people who also experienced it so that such a parable sentence Getting justification by others who make it a belief in the next generation because it will be a prohibition for those who are intended not to make luck in others in the future, so that it becomes a belief to this day.

The name of that belief in some ways cannot be analogous because the brain cannot reach at what point is responded by our souls and hearts, maybe this will be fairly funny if consumed by logic, but it is different if we consume it with our hearts.

Well, I know it sounds rather funny but it is what people believe around here. I have even mentioned that superstition to people who live around and they are well aware they are never supposed to buy shoes with money got from luck.

I also think someone should not take superstitions in such a literal manner, but it is what it is. I think it is a common think in small populations, for them to have superstitions.

Superstitiousness is created to achieve something. In religion for instance, it is created to make the religion reverend.
If you check cultures too there is high level of superstition. As time goes it will seem that those superstitious believes are becoming real among the believers but only an external body can stand to prove them wrong.
In gambling, especially sports betting, what is described by Op doesn't work.

That's very common; that's what you call a superstitious belief, and these are practices of people who believe more in luck than their skills. Also, you can't blame the man; even if I were in the same situation, I would not share my bet as I would just like to keep my privacy.

In sports betting, we choose a team based on our analysis, and if you share it with someone, that will only make you liable to explain your bet because some would ask why you came up with that bet. The only simple rule I follow in sports betting is "my money, my rule," so I can choose any bet without the responsibility of sharing or explaining it.