Topic: Are you developing as a player? - page 9. (Read 1493 times)

That's not just a question, those are multiple questions. 

Anyway, to get started, yes, I feel I have been developing as a player or as a bettor because just like everything else, you tend to learn the ways of making your bets more effectively and with a higher winning percentage after you spend some time in the industry.

When I first started making bets on sports events, I already had enough knowledge about the sports that I picked, so that wasn't a problem for me, I used to choose sides that I knew had a higher chance of winning the game, and I used to win some, but initially, I wasn't very good at creating a betting strategy, which means that I wasn't planning my bets properly, just throwing some here and some there, some wins and some losses, etc.

But now that I have improved, I try to do everything properly, count the winning and losing odds, have a count of how much I have won or lost and make my next bets accordingly.

Anyone who have been actively engaging in sports betting and have endured for at least three seasons is definitely making progress. It may not be that he has had outstanding winnings but being able to manage the finances in such a way that one remain in the business without being frustrated is what I consider a big progress. Within that period of time, the gambler would have been able to develop a winning strategy that makes him have winnings sometimes even though not that big.

I have been able to work out a system for myself that gives me winning often but due to the amount I used, the winning is not that big because the total odds is usually 5 and below. I combine some selected teams that score many goals and place one bet over2.5 and another over3.5. The good thing with this system is that the win rate is around 60% and this is fair.  I got this strategy after testing so many things that did not work for me.

IMO, making a profit in the long term is very difficult although sometimes successive wins come but after that the surprise happens destroys the parlay bet. So I would say if I didn't develop into one of the bettors.

Maybe I've been learning all this time to try to break a record getting a profit from odds @50+ but the fact that I'm still failing hasn't been able to get something special for this time in sports betting and can only get a profit less than @10

Yeah, of course I've been making progress all this time but only half of the goal I wanted to get the odds higher than I said before.

Compared to before, frankly, my strategy has progressed in terms of self control and budget management for gambling, but in the case of other strategies, maybe I still look bad.

Regarding the winning statistics, for the moment it looks stable and I compare from the overall bet my only a few losses and still a little profitable.

No, I always bet very carefully without betting all in just one bet. In other words I always bet in small amounts to appreciate the budget I have to gamble. So, even though I lost 1 or 2 times, I was still able to bet.

Never did that.

Certainly not. Sometimes my predictions improve and give me successive gains, but sometimes they fail, so that some of the bets I make don't give me any gains or losses.

This is an important sole searching question for gamblers. Yes it is important and evaluating for gamblers. This is about the strategy that works or not and how we have been able to handle the realistic part of what we are doing with the strategy we use, like some gamblers have refused to change from what is not working for them and they believe luck is not just on their side for the mean time. Thus, they keep playing with a strategy that is not working and hoping they will get the winning someday when their own luck shines. Also there are gamblers who have realised the need for them to change from what is not working to test on what will work and follow from it. Hence, I know a gambler who believes only on betting on draws, to him nothing is wrong with that but what is wrong is that he bet on multiple draw games. So imagine betting on 10 draws on a slip   and most times he gets 3/4 draws from the slip correctly. So the good part of his gambling journey and draw strategy for now is that he has agreed to shift ground to betting in singles and few draws and he is better with winning for now unlike before.

What matters is how we can identify and agree on what is not working to what is working for our games. Basically, I don't believe in multiple bets rather I believe take few bets at a time.

Yes I have learned a few things and one of them is to keep learning, keep your eyes peeled. The betting community is vast and many things are to explore. I keep learning about the matches I watch as well as the opinion of others both experts in the field and just mere fans.

Knowledge is power when it comes to betting especially sports.

For me I will say that right from day 1 I have be very careful about the funds I use in gambling, despite how tempting it could be, I have been trying my best to maintain my limit because I understand the dangers involved when I go off my limit, in the aspect of strategy am one of those people that does not believe that gambling has a strategy, whether casino or sports bets I don't concur to such notion that gambling in general has stregy that needed to mastered by gamblers in other to be successful in it.
I wouldn't say am losing much or winning much because of the amount I use in gambling, I use an amount that I can easily let go, although no matter how it looks once we lose money irrespective of the amount, it is always painful but personally my loss and winning is in balanced form, as for predicting the outcome of sport games as you said, it is very difficult to get an accurate prediction considering many things, but sometimes matches ends according to my predicts but that doesn't make me a guru because there aren't any guru in sports match predictions in general.

I don't know how someone will developed or progressed though, I mean it's gambling, we bet on the unknown, so have can be control everything when we don't know what is the outcome of our bets? Maybe others will say that in sports betting, their skills have been honed because of years of experienced. But still though, we really can't say that we have gain that experienced to say that we become expert or not in that field. We might recover some of our losses, but still it's the same outcome most of the time, either we take a L or take a W. Maybe we think that we are getting better in predictions, but there could be outcome that it totally unpredictable and that is the very definition of gambling.

Bets unlike casino games requires some amount of calculations and strategies to analyze matches. You need to have some knowledge about the two teams that wants to compete and from there you can analyze and decide which team that you think will win a match. I will say that I've improved in my analysis when it comes to predicting the outcome of matches, also while interecting with other bettors I've also increased my technical knowledge. Although despite the experiences that a gambler can gather, the match can still go against your bet, so there's no perfection in gambling, no matter how you develop yourself.

In general I can boldly say that, I’m getting better with my gambling and I don’t even think I would ever be an addict because I’m already mastering the skill of knowing when to stop and when to take a break.
Over the time, I would say that, my entire story and journey in the gambling industry is already a very great and interesting one because I’m already seeing growth and actual improvements from predictions to risk management to being able to withdraw and having a budget for my gambling has been key areas I’ve focused on and frankly I’m a better person when it comes to gambling.

So yes I’m improving in almost all spheres of my life as with regards to gambling.

If the left cerebral part of the brain is functioning than the right part, that means the person uses more of his right side limbs most. Like his hand and leg. In short, it means the person is a right handed person. I noticed in school that almost all students that are were using left to write were good in mathematics. I was not surprised when I saw some researches about it. I think you want to post that your right cerebral is more active. There is other part of the brain hemisphere that are not cerebrum, although the cerebrum takes the largest portion of the brain in mass which is 85% of the human brain.

Irrespective of someone being a mathematician or not, I still believe that casinos are games of chance and luck.

Before getting to know gambling, I didn't really like Poker either in land-based casinos or hanging out with friends. But as time goes by, continuously visiting online casinos now inevitably starts to become interested in playing poker, there are many lessons that can be learned, especially how to play effectively, apply careful strategies and stay calm. Even though I'm completely unskilled and lose more often than I win. However without realizing it, I started learning money management, controlling emotions evaluating every defeat and trying to find new methods on several poker channels from professional people.

The aspect where I can say that I've grown evidently is the part of loss management and how I go about recovering what I've lost most in a bet. At the initial stage when I started off, the mentality is that I must always win when I go out to bet and sometimes I could go with an amount that's even my last cash thinking I can easily double it up and use it to get myself somethings. The hard reality is that it never ends well and I had to add it to my lesson portfolio for bet betting decision. Now, I don't use any money that I'm using for something important to bet. I could also say that because I've grown my income above what it used to be, it has helped me to be more matured with how much I put into betting and I haven't been too aggressive like at the start but that's just with respect to the amount used.

As per my development and growth with regards my choice of games and the numbers I play per time, I've learned to stick to fewer numbers of games on a slip and stake with a bigger amount that playing multiple slips with smaller and rational amount, it's just likely that it's not my thing but I've learned that choosing fewer games works better for me so I just stick with it.

Nope, I didn't want to spend too much time for entertainment, so there's no progress or improvement in gambling. I'd choose to spend my time to learn something that could increase my income or hanging out with new people to increase my relation.

If I only focus to gamble and being friend with gamblers, I would be stuck and there's no progress for me to achieve something big.

In the end, I'm in loss.

What you think is a progress or improvement to you is totally different from how I view progress. I used to be an impulsive sport bettor back then when I was in the university. I played lots of games but only won a few games. I was partly in it for fun and partly for the money but the rate at which I gambled was not healthy.

Right now, alot about my gambling habit has changed greatly and I am super grateful for the efforts I put in to still remain a "sane person ". I no longer gamble like I used to in the past and when I decide to gamble, I do not exceed my limits no matter the pressure to do more. This is a good improvement on my personality as a sports bettor. I may not be getting all the money I should be getting from bets but defeating that strong urge to gamble all day is a great improvement to my person.

You just have to bet on what you think who will win, regardless of the odds. Because I see bettors, like in sports betting that if they don't like the odds then they will not go and bet. And then later complain that they should have won if they point some money on it. Regardless of how little it will be, still a lunch money if you put your bet there.


Strategies will improved overtime, you learn how to play without your emotions, because sometimes we get carried away specially if you are in the losing side and we wanted to chase. But as you improved, you might not go and deposit for more. Might call it a day and just wait tomorrow, maybe it's going to be very different for you, if could be that you can win and recover that earlier losses. Definitely, if you follow that sports and then you have betting for years, at least you have the advantages in predicting the outcome and win.

Your questions are not suitable for an idealistic gambler, gambling should not be for a living. All bettors want to win their bets besides the main goal of entertainment, and therefore they must gain experience, so both ideal gamblers & pragmatic gamblers should have progress.

I spend most of my bets on sports betting, so i think i'm better suited to answer your last question. Do i get better predictions over time? of course, i'm more familiar with the characteristics of a competition or league. For example, don't make over bets on the Egyptian or Algerian leagues, and don't make under bets on leagues in Scandinavian countries.

I believed that if a players or a bettor should progress, there could be a circumstances that really change his behavior. Like for example, he doesn't have the means to gamble anymore as the money is not coming into his way just like before.

So he will have to reduce his gambling habits to always 0 and then later on when he had gotten back, got a good job or something maybe he won't gamble as he was before. In short, he has evolved and could have matured already. So maybe a few bets here and there, but not going to be addicted or bet huge amount of money.

As much as I bet for fun, I don't keep track of how stable these winnings are just that I play without thinking about records.
Regarding progress as a player, of course from before to now there has been a little progress in analyzing strategies, risk management, stricter discipline, responsibility.
All of that is learned here with some previous discussions by observing many things about better betting, but I never think this should be profitable, this remains as fun.

As a matter of fact I'm a "digital" person in a sense my left brain hemisphere functions better that the right one. As a consequence  I'm better in logic and mathematics than in activities relevant to creativity. However being involved into gambling for more than 10 years I have noticed recently that my intuition and holistic thinking ( which help in roulette gambling)    have been developed significantly. Thus, my response is positive.

Betting and gambling should be for fun and not for making money because people that think of gambling to make money are more vulnerable to losses and gambling addiction.

There is just little strategies to follow before you stake on a match. There is nothing to improve about that. Any match that you stake on can be won or lost even if you stake on a strong team to win an underdog, the underdog might draw the match or win. Betting is luck despite that you analyze the match.

Know that most people that are betting are losing.