Topic: Bet only on sports you know too well. - page 2. (Read 661 times)

There are times when someone is very curious to try betting on a sport that they never know just to learn how the game is played because there are times when the sport game that we like is finished and on break for some time and while waiting for that time we watch other sports matches and try to make bets with a little money, actually there is nothing wrong if we bet on a sport that we don't know as long as we can accept the loss if we lose.

It's true gamblers should place bets only on sports they know. There was a time I started placing bets on sports I had no clue about, like tennis. I just placed a bet on the favorite athlete and waited excited for a sure win. However, the winnings didn't come, so it happened in the exactly opposite way I expected. I felt confused back then, because it was the favorite player with a very high advantage compared to the rival one.

Maybe if I had knowledge about the sport and the players involved I could have a better understanding on why the outcomes had gone in the exact opposite way I was hoping for. More yet, if I had that knowledge, it's possible I didn't even place a bet on those matches due to the risks implied not worthing the potential rewards to be achieved.

I think the main fun of betting is actually by winning your bet. It’s just economical and wise to bet on the sports that you like since you have better understanding on it that will help you to increase your winning chances. However if you are looking for game entertainment then just watch sports and don’t bet, betting and sports are both different things to do.

If you are good on analysis of a certain sports while you didn’t like to watch I think it’s better to bet on that sports compared to the sports that you if you sucks on betting for that. We are talking about betting satisfaction here and not the actual sports.

I don't know what strategy you use to bet. Do you regularly win bets? I said analysis and strategy in sports betting will give you advantage and you can guess to win but don't win if you are not lucky. Did you watch the match between Tottenham and Liverpool yesterday? Did you bet on this match? So which team did you bet on in this match?  Many people may have bet on Liverpool by analysis, many were confident that Liverpool will win, I also analyzed and bet on Liverpool but in the end the result of the match was Liverpool lost. What do you say here? Was not dependent on luck? Analyzing this match did not help me.

Dealing up with sports betting then this is something that you would really be that needing up to apply some analysis and you cant really just that make yourself put up some bets without having any consideration in speaking about having the knowledge with it. Lets say that you do gonna tend to make out some bets on sticking into the favorites, yes you can make money with that too but you cant be able to find or feel the real essence of betting or something that do talks about enjoying it because you have that put up yourself into a condition that you are just desperately making up some bets just in order for you to have that kind of winning hunting on which majority people been doing something like this. There's no fun on betting into games that you dont even know about it but surprisingly there were people who are really that betting on this way. This is why it will be that recommended that you do really know at least on what you are really that dealing on with. Bet according into your preference and interest because sports betting is something that you can make up some kind of advantage or having that kind of good winning probability if you do apply some analysis and knowledge into it but of course its not something guaranteed but it is really just that more better in comparing when you do make out some blind bets. So it will really be that up to you into this aspect.

Agree that we should only bet on sports that we understand, but losing often can be not only because we bet on sports that we don't understand but also because we ignore data about the athlete or club, either because we are fanatical about the club or athlete or because we prefer big odds because we think the profit will be bigger.

I can't even understand why any bettor would bet on a sport they don't understand, because luck doesn't play a big role in sports betting, there are analytical skills that can increase the chances of profit.

Because when doing both, it is the same as handing over money very willingly to the odds. especially when we really do not understand what we are going to bet, it is really just hoping for the goddess of fortune to side. Although in gambling, luck often influences, but that does not mean there are no efforts to optimize the chances for winning, especially in sports betting which is actually a skill based game, not a luck based game.

Although sometimes, many people say:
my money, I can do whatever I want,
or
my game, my rules

but it still has to be calculated.

honestly what’s the fun in betting on sports you don’t know well or at all? i mean it’ll be a happy occasion if you win betting on a match you watched for the first time but if you lose you’ll just be annoyed and worst of it you didn’t even enjoy watching the sport

And the truth is that most times those analysis have always worked, and likewise not also working in some matches too, which is why inasmuch as knowledge and skill is important for game selection, luck also plays a major role in the success of a gambler, because I have seen an individual who just placed a bet on a well structured and analyse game within the entire week, who also lost his betting slip due to certain uncertainties, and likewise, so have I also seen individual who just played a bet on random games and were totally lucky and won huge sum of money from it too. Hence, on the contrary, it is a two way thing.

I think it is common sense for us in order to place our bets right. Or even if it is not, at least we never gamble blindly. We have to remember that sports betting is not just having luck but also has a good choice of our bets.

The only thing that helps us win is following the simple process.
 - Choose the sports we like and have knowledge of, and of course, the team we feel like has the advantage.

We never find regrets despite losses if we bet as it is in our will.

Gathering information from people we know that they have good understanding about gambling is still a part of the skills we are talking about because if you don't care much about gambling how will you get to meet people who are knowledgeable in gambling? Winnings in gambling depends on luck most of the time but can someone who bet games ignorantly and blindly always have the opportunity of winnings. Except in slot games that someone can just spin and the symbols matches the paylines, if not for sporting events like football you will need some technical know-how before you can make quality predictions that can lead to winning. There is no right time to gamble but you can just find out when can be convenient for you to gamble without distractions.

Sometimes, you don't even need a skill to win in sport bet and all you could need to earn huge amount of money is luck. If you are very lucky, you could be surprised to earn some profits from betting even without any skill. All you need to do is to get the right information especially, being with people that have understanding and knowledge about such game and can predict well without much mistakes. The most important thing is for your prediction to hit the actual outcome of the match. Every gamblers needs to be wise and know what they are doing. You can make huge amounts of money from betting, when you gamble at the right time that could tally with what the actual results will be.

You are very correct; those who gamble for money and the amount of profit they can make from each bet can't be content with placing bets on only the games that they are familiar with; they always try out luck in different areas, both with games they have ideas about and with games they know nothing about, just depending on luck, which is where they always mess up. 

Chasing their losses is also a habit of such a gambler because they never want to take defeat from the casino as an option, and when they keep on chasing their losses, they get deep into the system, and it is hard for such a gambler to pull off from that.

Same as me, I have also bet on other games that I  don't know much about, and sometimes they end as predicted. However, we really need to try new things because when we get too stuck with something it looks like we just waving around in one circle. Since the purpose of gamble is for fun, it also gives us more opportunities to try other game's as long as it's available on the casino. When trying other games we should not wager much on them untill we understand how it works (even if it's what we can afford  to lose). We can only wager much on the games we are already familiar with.

Eventually you will get familiar with it if you often watch such sports.  After all knowledge is about being exposed to an experience or data that is happening around you.  For a smart bettor, he won't bet on the sports that he is not familiar with, even if it is fun to watch since the aim of a person to bet is to win, either he wanted his favorite team to win or his risk money to win and get profit from the games he love watching.

So I agree with @OP that if one wanted to have an easy understanding of the possible outcome of the game, and get profit from it through betting, he must be well knowledgeable of the sports.

I mostly bet on sports I know, but I will place a bet on some tips from others, especially if I know them, and I am familiar with their skills.

Even pro tipsters don't have a 101% winning rate, we are all aware of the luck factor. So do your own research if you like, do all the analyses you can think of, place a bet, and hope for the best outcome. And maybe you will win, who knows? It's gambling, and each of us has some statistics... some on paper (people who keep their records), and on the other hand, many of us who do not keep any records.

Conclusion... betting on sports you know will raise your chances of a win but without a bit of luck mere knowledge is worth nothing. And vice versa probably.

Don't bet on a game you know nothing about, this is a common advise we do render to gamblers when it comes to making choices of which game to play, because some may be indecisive when it comes to such aspect, instead, they will take it as an adventure to just have fun around and make bets as they wanted, but at the end of it all, they are left with nothing to achieve form either of the method or game category chosen by them, since they are not used to the particular game in question, advisably, we should do what we know best except we wanted to explore for more and learn the more to improve.

I don't bet on games that I don't know much about, but the main rule is that I don't bet on games that I don't watch.

I have a friend who bets on football but he doesn't even watch matches and he bets on foreign leagues that he doesn't know much about. He just goes with his gut feeling and bets on the over/under score.
It's hard for me to understand his motives, because I always watch games and I know a lot about teams or fighters that I put my money on. I think that he's only betting for the sake of it, so that he's got something to check while at work. He likes to get distracted from his work and check if the matches are going his way, but he doesn't enjoy it.

This is one of the best pieces of advice you can ever use in sports betting and I've learned the hard way in the past. I did a bit of matched betting at the beginning and managed to unlock a whole bunch of cash by betting on soccer games. However a bit later on I started looking into things like horse racing and those odds look very tantalizing in comparison. I placed 3 bets on the favorites and not a single one came through as a winner, which taught me a valuable lesson. If you are going to enter into a new field, keep your bets tiny until you get a full appreciation for how it works and all the little rules around it. Sometimes your bet can be changed unexpectedly, like if another horse drops out (surprisingly common) before the race and you have to understand this in advance.

Do we call this gambling by error method? haha
Just as a topic I created before where I have to go pick an option I wasn't that familiar with, like I know lot of games actually played because then I knew those options very well and I decided to try out something different to see how those option works, unluckily it works against me and lost the game. What actually saved me was using an amount I was willing to risk and not attaching much value to that amount so, even as the game went off it wasn't affected by me but rather had already given up on it to be either win or lose and as it plays I lost it.