Topic: Bet only on sports you know too well. - page 5. (Read 858 times)

I totally disagree with you on that if you said gambling is just luck, now let me ask you one simple question. If you don't have any idea/knowledge about how gambling works how can you be able to indicate those options and also what it means? Are you trying to tell me that you can just choose any options as long as luck is involved? That's totally wrong, if you're doing this definitely you will keep experience lose all the time. obviously gambling itself is all about luck but first you need to know those options very well before you expect luck to be on your side, because if you can't indicate those options very well definitely luck will be very far from you. though you can win by mistake but it will be very hard I guess by then you must have lose a huge amount of money in gamble, So don't say that knowledge and analysis does not matter in gambling.

I couldn't agree more. With sports bettings statistics and expert predictions are so widely availible that anyone can make an educated guess and win big its really not all that complicated. Even if you know nothing of the team there is a chance and that is where the luck comes in but you're right OP I would surely advise to stick with what you know and create a betting niche that could pan out for you. The tricky part is that some players or teams have their hot streaks but may lose and throw you off, I think its slow and steady wins the race. Don't let any drawbacks crumble you and don't bet any more than you're willing to lose of course.

It is better to bet on the sport that you know because that can increase your chance to win although that still need luck to help you win. We can still place our bet in the sport that we don't know but we must be careful selecting the sport because we can lose anytime and that can make us sad if we use too big money. Betting on sport needs knowledge and luck so when we can analyze the match using our knowledge, we will get the team or player that have more chances to win. But we must remember that we may not have a big chance to win because we need luck to win.

Gambling is indeed a game of luck but that does not mean that one should be ignorant of themselves and the process. Utilizing your skills and knowledge while gambling should be a major focus and not just depending on luck to win a game. Have you ever seen a sportsman depending on luck to win their games? the answer is no, every sportsman does train and utilizes their skills and capacity to make sure they play their game very well so is a gambler.  It is pertinent that you also use your initiative to be well-strategic while betting.

 At first, your betting should be within your strength and what you can analyze so easily and without much stress. You can bet on games and clubs you can easily do your analysis on to save you the stress of losing your belt as the case may be. It is good you take time to do all these and avoid betting blindly because making such a mistake would cost you your time, effort, and funds. Although betting or gambling is done for fun at least it is nice to do things properly rather than just rushing into things blindly.

Even the best knowledge sometimes brings absolutely nothing. Speaking from my own experience. I myself play basketball for like 30 years, watching a lot of leagues, know so many teams and players, plenary of them personally as well. Gambling wise basketball is pretty much the only thing I bet on and yet I often get so unlucky, it’s actually amazing. Team has a 10 game winning streak and plays a weak team, I bet on them and they lose. Betting on a mediocre team that plays against a team that lost every single game so far and stands at like 0/13, the last place wins easy.
This happens all the time, don’t know why. Haha
You can have the best knowledge ever and still fall because of these strange outcomes. Same with crazy comebacks by opposing teams, happens so often. Just today my team was down 18, recovers like crazy and leads by 3 with 10min to go, and then they lose by 15 even though they carried all the momentum while playing at home. Just how?? 

This is both true and wrong at the same time and depends on what kind of betting you do. I have never bet on any game that I do not really know. I mean I do bet on super bowl, while not watching American football that much, but that's super bowl, it's more about entertainment than sport for me to be fair and betting on it makes me support one side, because normally I do not care about any team there.

However, contrary to me, there are friends I know who just like to bet on whoever is the favourite at the closest possible way. Meaning, if they see a 1.40 odds on any team on any sport or person, then they may end up betting on them as well. So it's clear that we are not going to really get a certain way that people bet, most of them do end up changing a lot and they all have different approach to it. I believe that this is going to be pretty similar for everyone. Some will avoid betting on any sport they do not, and some will just stick to strategy and not care about what they bet on as long as it fits their strategy.

What about sports that is fun to watch, but I am not fully familiar with. Like basketball for example. Its always fun to watch. Teams score all the time, they do tricks. I know basic rules, but for example I dont understand difference between personal or team foul, or why it is indicated below score table? I know only most popular players, but dont know 95% of all team rosters and who is the strongest team or player (as they all score during game). However, it is fun to bet on any NBA game while watching.

Three minutes ago I answered the question about my favorite sport, and yes, it is football, a sport about which it seems that a lot is known. It is difficult to talk about world football, since different countries will always have their own local flavor and training methods. Therefore, I do not cover knowledge about the games of the world football championship and about the players who occupy leading positions as the best scorers or goalkeepers, etc. But I always try to study my local championship very well, understanding which team and in what place can either lose or win. Therefore, of course, it is better to rarely make such bets but to know that from them, you will get a certain percentage of satisfaction and a certain amount of money.

It is better you learn first on something that you don't know so you will know what you need to pick as your bet. Learning is a must so you don't just pick a random choice for your bet. Besides that, you will not confuse about the sport because you now know how people play on that sport. You also know the player on the sport so that can makes you easy to pick your bet. But they will have their own method what they are going to do and maybe that will be different than us.

If you want to convert your investment into a casino or gaming site then you should gather proper knowledge about that site. If you gather proper knowledge about that site then you easily pick the right time to win but if you're not well known about the site or the site is different from your knowledge then you shouldn't invest there because you are unknown to that site. Few sites research you when your movement or research here and there, and where your action will be placed.

Very really that common that you would really be only thinking up on having some checks at the time that you will be experiencing some loses but on the moment that you are experiencing some wins on the time that you do make out some blind bets whether because of your own interest on betting into those things or had been influenced by others then you will be continuing if you have seen that you are making out some money with it, but on the time that you do experiencing up some loses  then this is the moment that you will be making up some searches about like this and like that and made out some realizations that betting on sports that you dont know isnt really that ideal. It will be that incur up loses on which its not worth on doing so.

Even if we do speak about betting then it is really that recommended that you should really that know on what you are really that indeed doing at least and wont really be that having that kind of approach on trying out to bet on something that you dont even know. There's no fun with that on which you are really that betting into a sport that you dont even know on how its played and it is really just that because being suggested by others but doesnt mean that you will be that doing also. There's no fun with that and we do know that betting or gambling should be that fun and not just that turning out some blind bets because of greed and  this isnt something recommended.

When you place bets on the game in which you've got good knowledge, it will increase the chance of winning. When we go with an unknown game, we just go with the odds selection in a random manner and not with good analysis. Sports betting is more data-oriented because the odds keep changing during the match. This is based on the varying performance between the two teams. If you don't care about spending on known games, you should go with the lowest odds on unknown games. It has a better winning probability.

Usually, it ends up only relying on luck, which is supposedly not going to happen in sports betting. In fact, being in this game has given us an advantage, and we take this opportunity. 
If we are real gamblers, we take the necessary steps to improve our chances rather than just relying on luck. And knowing more about the game or sports we bet on is the best move we can do. Or else, we are gambling for nothing and just throwing our money. I'm certain nobody would let this happen. 

Like many have posted on this thread, betting on the sports you know and have an
interest in should be a good route to take but it doesnt guarantee profits.

We might gamble on the sports we know but we also take chances or back favourites
that lose or underdogs with tasty odds which also lose too.

Analysis is really essential and we can do this on matches and sports we dont
follow or like as well as our favourites

Yeah that's true. It's better to place bet on games that you are familiar with because it gives you the ability to properly analyze and speculate the rights teams to bet for and also the right teams to bet against. Most gamblers have a particular team they support and there is always a high chance of them betting in favor of their team to win. Betting on games that you are not used to is difficult because there is a high chance you would probably speculate wrong based on the fact that you are not familiar with their teams or their rules too.
Gambling can be very speculative sometimes and in order to take advantage of sports betting you need to have some level of experience with that particular game and their teams involved. Else you may actually end up losing instead of winning.

There is no guarantee at all, so I think betting on any sport will not be a problem. Because anyway, to analyze the match there are many sources that can be obtained from google search, so they can still find out when they want to bet on any unknown sport. After all, I think betting based on the odds will also be fine as long as we are also aware of the risks. At least, the more we know about a particular sport I experience will also make it more difficult for us to make choices because it will cause a lot of consideration in making choices in betting. So yes, of course it comes back to each of us whether it is comfortable to bet only based on the odds, or it will be more comfortable  to bet by making an in-depth analysis.

This thread is underrated but to be honest, this is the best advice a gambler can give a fellow gambler in this new year. Don't gamble on something because you you see people are doing the same, you will only be losing without having the time to discuss that you actually won, don't copy others because you see them winning bets they prepared in Hockey game and you don't understand how they work, you will be the liquidity the casino is losing to winners.

There was a time I on NGN timeline saw a couple of guys were winning basketball games, I don't know much about basket ball then and then I decide to follow their lead, I was losing money and losing game while this guys where really winning. I later found out that I was playing NCAA basket ball while they were playing NBA games. That was how I knew I was dumb and knows nothing about basket ball, it took me another time to later understand how to play basket bets.

This is actually true. Betting on sports that you know well gives you an added advantage, but there are times when I have used my intuition and my analysis to bet on sports I don't know well and won. The problem is, I know too much about football and when it comes to betting on football I overthink it and in the process pick the wrong option, but with sports, I don't know too well, I don't overthink, I just go with the obvious options and I win.

The sports I bet on the most are football, Basketball and tennis, in that order. I win the most on football because I bet the most but whenever I bet on basketball I usually lose by a very low margin because I don't overthink, I just pick what is obvious, especially in the NBA.
i try to bet on only sports I know well though because I don't believe in betting blindly.

It's not a wise move to bet in something you didn't know nothing, or you never have idea how the game goes, or how its history or pattern do the thing. Betting is like an investment, you bet on something that suits your personal knowledge and skills, otherwise it would turn into a failure if you only bet just because you have funds to lose and nothing else.

Most people who gamble on sport they don’t know are people who actually gamble for fun. When you are the type that gamble for the money, every penny counts and you can’t actually afford to lose any cash. There are people who totally believe in luck in bet, most of them don’t even analyze games before picking them, probably all they do is they just the odds and book their bets.

I also believe in betting in the sport you know much about, sometimes odds can be very deceiving, even the sport you know much about odds appear very tricky talk more of the sport you don’t know anything about. You will end up losing your money.