Topic: Are you developing as a player? - page 5. (Read 1493 times)

Experience will really make us a better person, even when it comes to gambling aspects. However, even if we think we are better bettor now, still we are susceptible to gambling losses which I think won't change knowing we can't beat the casino house. The house will always have an edge over its players so no matter how good and developed we are now, we can't be always at the winning end.

I have to say that the way I handle gambling now is far different from the time I started gambling. And I'm more aware on how to limit my losses because I'm a more responsible gambler now. But talking about if we gained more winnings than losses this time, maybe yes, maybe no. But what is certain is, the gambling house will never be beaten by us.

That's right, this should be something that all gamblers know and understand, especially those who make winning a priority, however and forever the dealer will always be the far superior party, the reason I think it's clear is that they are the ones who make the following games too. regulate each portion of the winnings for the gamblers, meaning they are in control, and it will not be possible for you to be able to beat the dealer by for example being able to get lots of wins in a row in large amounts, and I am sure that this is a fact in gambling.

The percentage of possible chances of winning will be much smaller than losing, and this is why the majority of gamblers experience losses more often than winning, and because of this is also why gambling is completely prohibited as a place to earn income, because of course there will never be any certainty or guarantee in a place that only relies on luck.

In the question of do I improve as a player? Nope. I don't think I do, and I don't feel the need to at all. Betting is something that I don't need to put too much effort into at the end of the day, cause it's just me making decisions that aren't even that major to begin with, all for the promise of a couple hundred or a thousand bucks.

It's a personal preference too, as a gambling addict back then, I realized that the reason why I fell into such a situation was because besides the fact that I was alone and unsupervised, I've put too much importance on gambling that it made itself a major part of my life when the fact of the matter is that it shouldn't have been the case in the first place.

So yeah, to each his own but let me preach a bit and tell you that the more you make gambling/betting a bigger deal than it is, the more it's going to seep and make a place in your life, until such a point where you can't even get it out of your system, by then you're nothing but an addict.

Most gamblers aren't able to make profit from gambling on long term, and that is not because they aren't educated in sports matters, but because it's still a game of luck which involves a house edge which favours the houses on every bets you place. The probabilities are at the house's side, and doesn't matter how much effort and time you dedicate to sports betting, you are likely to never be able to beat it. If a decent possibility existed, we would see the percentage of gamblers in profit to be much higher than it currently is.

We could develop ourselves in PvP games which involve real time strategy and which can be played by the gamblers themselves, but that kind of game isn't introduced at gambling platforms by the companies. I don't know if it's because there isn't demand for that, or if it's simply because it's not interesting for the casinos' operators to do so.

There is no way you will develop as a player in the aspect of risk tolerance, choice of picks to include in your bet, certainty instead of doubt then of course you will have more wins than losses with time. The reason is that all of this is connected and if you have developed in all these areas then you have developed a mentality, financially, and discipline as a gambler.

These typically point out that the area will need to look out for development as a gambler. So many people today do not take note of these things when they are gambling and year to year they still have the same gambling result. If they see people who are succeeding as a gamblers they feel it is typically based on luck. Yes, luck is involved but most times we can only be near to being lucky if our strategy for gambling is well-defined. We can just jump into gambling all the time and expect magic to happen. 

Making improvements doesn't seem simple, but the little steps I've made at advancing my gambling and gaming experience have been meaningfully beneficial in securing my funds and time. Also tried to research alternative strategies that'll increase chances of winning, but didn't bother much at it after none apparently worked. Subsequently, after, reading multiple gambling books, for improvement purposes, I concluded at settling my emotions and focus on devising emotional safeguarding strategies that'll enhance how I feel after a losing streak. Such things as visiting gambling communities and reading other player's thoughts increased  my emotional control against feeling hurt after losing, and kept me content enough not to go after the losses.

I think that conclusion is not an empty conclusion and we must consider the fact of that experience because it doesn't only happen to you, I am the same way, which basically if you look for profit from gambling in the long run it will be very difficult and almost impossible, especially in games based on luck, there is no right strategy in my opinion to be able to get consistent wins.

Even in some skill-based games it is the same, but maybe much better and the possibility of winning can go up over time and learn the strategy but even in that game luck is one of the decisive factors as well if our opponents are equally skilled.

You are asking about our experience as sports bettors and the progress of this journey, simply there will be a lot to discuss here, from the beginning of this journey in our first days until what we became now, our results and the difference from first day until now.
Simply, this experience should be only for having fun not primarily focused on making money. As in my own experience, I have never played that much or focused to win every bet, it is still a game of luck after all even with football.

Something that anyone can notice, like me, it’s the news and following up with every team updates, players, management of the club, circumstances of that match and its importance. In my first days, I wasn’t following up with the matches I was betting on, which lead to mostly losing my bets.
After many times and analysis, I have come to a closure that the more you are following up with the news and details of the match before its start, you will have a clear image and better risk and return chances.

This development in the outcome, needs a little bit of efforts, searching and learning about every team before the game, then when it comes to setting a bet, it will be more clear for you the risk you would like to take.

I enjoy my betting activity even more after experiencing a lot of things, with time it became a better fun activity and still from the beginning, I have never looked at sports betting to generate an outcome, but to have more fun while following that game.

Yes, you have experienced it and now you know the truth, no matter how hard you try to solve the algorithm created by the casino with the aim of getting lots of big wins, you will still never be able to make it happen. Because after all those who create games are the casinos that provide games to play, and therefore I think it doesn't make sense to try various ways to get lots of big wins, and now you have realized that all of that is just a waste of your time. .

But it's good because at least now you know all the facts. Basically, gambling is a game of probability, which means nothing more than chance, and of course isn't chance something that won't necessarily happen? Yes, I think it's clear, so let's open our eyes and don't be fooled by our own expectations, because after all and forever there will be no significant results with just a little effort, and if you really want to get a lot money then of course there is no other choice but to work.

I think the development with gambling isn't gradual but rather quite simple.

So long as you realize that there are no surewins and no perfect predictions, then you will also see that betting is also chance based and casinos know to set the odds so that most money ends up to them. It's not something you can beat consistently and definitely the odds are against you in the long run no matter how good you might be with predictions.

So once you come to these realizations you are now more mature because you can see gambling as a game and not as a job or profit generating activity. Your goal would be to have fun and minimize losses instead of chase profits that are unattainable. In this manner I'd like to hope that most people who gamble for a long time have achieved this development.

I don't think I have developed much as a bettor has others could have in the same period of time. Mostly, because the bulk of my accumulated wager had gone to casino games: those are dices and some occasional blackjack. I mostly like to bet and partake in Sportbetting when big enough events are going on, like the Copa America or the football world cup, otherwise I feel some laziness and unwillingness to participate on it.
As It stands today, my ability has only developed to the extent I don't trust odds as much as a newbie would. During the Copa America I took a look at some of the matches and I realized that I would have lost money if I had decided to bet in favor of the team I thought to be more skillful, because of that, I try to be more careful on what I do with the limited money I locate to betting/rollings dices.

I agree, which is why I don't see a valid reason the OP stated not to post if you're into gambling for entertainment. I find it a little too absolute to mention that such users cannot contribute to the discussion.

Gambling is supposed to be an entertaining activity, involving the aspect of money, of course; that's what keeps us going. I'm playing for fun as well, but I consider myself a responsible gambler who is able to control his emotions and not go on a frenzy just because I won or lost a few games. On top of that, I'm staying within budget the majority of the time. I've become a lot better at analyzing football matches; I'm not implying that I'm experienced, but the Euro 2024 championship went a lot better than expected, winning the largest majority of my bets.

My answer is No, but don't get me wrong, it's because I am a developed player already, I am satisfied with this current status and I do not want to develop more than this to avoid complicating myself.

In my experience, gambling has never been complicated for me. Before I started sports betting almost 2 decades ago, I knew what I wanted and I've stuck with it without any compromise and has been helping me till today. So, my game and rules stand the same, nothing to review and nothing to change.

As for the casino aspect, I accept it for what it is, so it will be a waste of time trying to further chase a shadow.

I’ve reached a similar conclusion myself. After many years of trying to develop the perfect strategy, I realized it is a futile effort. Any luck based game with a house edge will always result in the player being unprofitable over a long period of time. Any time someone is able to win big, it will be purely due to luck and not strategy, their success will also only be temporary.

Taking into account the fact that betting has changed quite a lot in recent years (the reason is big data and AI, which remove most of the bookmaker’s weak points before the betters can find them), it seems to me that everyone who is more or less involved in this area has also changed. It is necessary to adapt to new circumstances and one way or another this happens to everyone, but another question is how many professional betters have not at least worsened their position relative to bookmakers over these years of changes.

I also understand the concept of developing as a player is about winning. Because of course, after playing gambling for a long time, there are definitely many things that we can get automatically. Developing in terms of analyzing a match, we gain a lot of experience, develop strategically and many other things that we get automatically, especially in choosing the type of game and how it works. However, this also depends on how we respond to it, if we respond well it will lead to being a responsible gambler and vice versa.

However, of all these developments, of course the main goal is to seek victory, because even though gambling is just for fun, seeking victory is always a priority, especially if we develop in achieving victory, of course this is a form of our success in gambling. because without winning when gambling it will be very boring and will even make us stop gambling.

That's because they some people out there can wins much money so their minds keeps telling them to keeps trying to playing gambling. That makes them keeps playing gambling and use more and more money to wins the games. They are trying to developing themselves by learning more about betting and hopes that they can wins.

I also learned some lesson about betting although I realizes that I am not good as the other gamblers. I still gets losses in betting but I keep trying to learn more about analysis. I know it's difficult to be a pro gamblers so I don't choose that way as I realizes the risks will be bigger for me. Learning strategy in betting is a must but you should not trying to hard because while you learning the strategy, you needs to use some money to test and find the work strategy. Without using money, you will not know which strategy that will work so you must strictly limiting your money. But we will difficult to wins in gambling because casino will be the last winners and takes the biggest profit than the gamblers.

Maybe that's what they see to other people, they only look for their gains but not the struggle for winning those prizes. But if they would know the whole truth about what those people experience and how much money they spend before they got that win maybe they get disappointed then just think about to gamble just for fun.


Still gambling if there's money involve, But if they do it for free and use demo account then that's not gambling but rather they just want to have fun without losing anything.

That's how we develop ourselves since we are now far away to became an gambling addict since we know the consequences. Its just we realize that it doesn't give us any assurance and we are doing it just to spice up our daily activities with no intention to exceed on our limits.

I love to believe that its purely dependent on luck, Moreso to deceive my subconscious not to take it more seriously in any case, because any other mentality employed would see me being more serious in gambling again, I love to explore in detail whatever I pick interest no matter the price to be paid in it and I don't think I'm choosing gambling again for such a ride.

yeah, my risk, emotional and financial management is improving over the years of my conscious good gambling involvement, I don't try to recover from any losses since I gamble with what I can loose and yeah, I've improved in predicting the outcomes of football matches because I watch a lot of them myself, follow up the news on the state of teams, players fitness, availability and I'm able to analyze outcomes very cleanly to get more wins when luck is by my side.

That's a good one,
It's nice you've been able to access your gambling habits and discovered where you weren't getting it right and corrected and improved on it, it shows how responsible a gambler you are.
There's absolutely reason for gamblers to improve their strategies and make some certain changes if they discovered they're losing more often, especially those are relatively new to gambling, I'm made to understand that a lot of new gamblers out there often came into gambling having the wring perspective about gambling and setting quute unrealistic goals for themselves, and this often results to losses and even more losses, so such a persom should try as much as possible to be able to make adjustments and improvements on their technique, approaches and possibly goals too.