Topic: Copying Bet From Other Unknown Bettors, Is This a Good Practice? - page 5. (Read 642 times)

It is not a bad practice if you know what you are doing. Sometimes you will have a double decision about a particular bet and will be confused on what to do. At that moment, seeing other people's bet will be a good help for you. It does not mean that you will copy everything, atleast it will give you some clue on what to include in your own bet.

Just like copy trading, it helps when you that is the bettor has good knowledge of the bet you want to include. You don't do it blindly.

Unfortunately this sort of functionality on a gambling site is ripe for abuse and cannot be independently verified, so you could be following some rigged algorithm that has been set up by the casino / sportbook. It's not like the "clone trade" feature that has become popular on a few web platforms like Etoro recently, where you could at least get an idea of the buy and sell points of real stocks as somebody is trading them. You are relying on the company, the one entity that stands to gain when you lose money, to be totally unbiased and balanced. Even with the theory that they're making profit regardless, it is still way too risky to put a serious amount of money into copying what could easily be fake bots in this way.

It’s certainly not a good practice because you are increasing the chances to lose from your bets. You don’t know if that bettor is still a newbie and is still starting to explore in gambling, so there are high chances that he’s just also making a random bets which means you’re just putting yourself in a bigger risk of losing. It’s better if you bet from your own. At least if you lose, you have no one to blame and you will learn eventually from you losses even if it’s a luck based game.

For me it's not a good idea to copy the bets of others. Maybe you will be tempted if you see those huge amount of bets of others, but it's better to bet on games that you can follow and understand. Perhaps this is a practice by others, but what if you lost? definitely, you might blame yourself for just blindly copying the bets.

Yes, I will say that sometimes I check for other bets and I'm amazed with how these whales bet, big amounts. But I see a game that really turns out to be messy and the result? it really f**cked up their parlays.

I love betting on games which I understand that is why I don't need to copy anybody's game to gamble on. If you are copy from someone's already played game it is a 50/50 possibility of winning and losing just like you experienced OP. When you play games that you understand winning becomes the target.

Some persons that don't have an understanding of the game but will want  stake on the game can copy someone else game. Gambling is done for entertainment if you copied someone already played game is like you are not having fun but throwing away your funds since your winning relies on a third party. The question is how do you know if the copied game was played by someone who understands the game ? Sportbets are the games that you can copy from when you look at the odds but sometimes it turns out the other way round.

I copied several times the bets of other gamblers and realized that they are just as wrong as I am. So I do not see the point of doing it.

It seems to me that this function is used mainly by newcomers who are just beginning to understand the betting and have no idea who to bet on. But it makes no sense to do it all the time because it will not exactly add to your experience. It's the same as if a kid wouldn't draw his own pictures and would only copy someone else's.

I've known for a long time, sometimes it's useful if you follow single bets, but for parlay it's better don't do it with huge amounts. There will be serious gamblers with parlay bets and there will also be gamblers who are just looking for luck with high odds. Honestly I also often do it for fun in parlay, but the average copying bet result is lose because not analyze it "blindly", but this is good practice.
I mean before making bet, in parlay you can analyze it and throw out one or two team, which you doubt that bettor choice.

I didn't do this that doesn't mean it's bad maybe some people have done and copied random bets that I don't know, while I prefer to believe in what bets are made myself, even though I don't know or don't have a match so I pass it not to follow those who don't know who are.

I don't know if this practice is good or not but as long as I've never done it before, maybe you can try something new? because for me the choice of bet is up to ourselves.

You are absolutely welcome mate, I am very glad the thread is helpful for you, I knew a small number of players wont be aware of this feature, its one I was also very glad when  I discovered it, but like almost every user have commented here, the feature is most helpful if you don't use it blindly, like the two times i used it, i used it blindly to be honest, because I didn't have any idea what i was betting, not even the game, but I still copied it anyway , and luckily, one of it went through, and the next day, I returned again to and i used the feature blindly again but this time, I lost.

Yeah mate, its a very nice option to have indeed, most especially for the purpose you mentioned about, its very good for people like me that don't know much about football and some other sports games but would like to bet and don't mind loosing the bet amount, like two times i tried it, i knew absolutely nothing about the game, I just copied the bet and staked 0.5 usdt, it went through and i won 3 usdt( if I still remember correctly), the second day, i did the same thing but this time choose a multi bet slip( about 10 games in one), i staked 0.5 usdt again to win over $10,000 usdt ( odd was pretty high), eight games went through but two didn't, that was how i lost it   , pretty close I must say, for a game I have absolutely no knowledge in.

Gambling is a risky business that involves a lot of cautiousness because it involves an investment of money and regardless of the saying that being lucky plays a vital role if you must win but your knowledge of specific information and match history will be a bonus to the bettor because it makes you have better selections in your bet. In this case, copying a bet from an unknown bettor is wrong for me because in taking my selections I always cross-check each selection before adding each team to my list the bettor which I copied from may not have the time to make a certain analysis of the teams before adding to his list and this may affect the outcome of his winning but on the other hand, I have come across some people who has won big in gambling by copying the bets of unknown bettors so it all depends on the choice of the individual but I will always prefer to place my bets.

I didn't even know Stake has such options because I mostly play slot machines and only my leftover balance after I finish playing slots I usually play a multi ticket with a lot of games in it and really high odd,of course 100% of the times I have lost my bets by following my instinct and knowledge.

In this context I think it would be better for me since I play a lot of games with little leftover balance in sport betting to follow some high roller like that guy with 25 games in his ticket,if he hits it big,I am going to hit it big too and if he loses I don't care for my little balance lost,so in the end a very nice option to have.

This feature of copying bet slips will be favorable to people who are lazy and unwilling to learn about a game. It encourages lazy people to still bet regardless of if they know a game or not. It can be a wrong approach to betting as it discourages you to learn about a game and encourages you to become lazier. I know and have  heard of cases where people copy bet slips from people that they know but hearing about people copying from unknown people sounds too desperate for me. I'll habe doubts and will not be comfortable staking my money on a bet slip that I got from someone who I have no personal relationship with and cannot attest to his ability to stake games correctly.

Nope! It is not a good practice to be honest! It's very similar to copy trade functionality that some forex and crypto brokers offer. But people hardly make money there. Gambling should never become a source of money because that's when it ruins your finances. As long as someone gambles for relaxing, that's fine because that's when your finances stay under control.

Personally I would never recommend to try out your lick based on some third party. Gamble as per your knowledge rather than depending on someone else.

I wouldn't recommend copying bets from other bettors only because they appear in the feed and without knowing why they took that bet. I remember doing it once because I saw a user that shared his winning parlays and decided to follow him with a small bet after he posted his new parlay which ended up winning but that doesn't mean it's good. There's a lot of information available out there for us to use so it's better to take your time and decide than to just copy someone's bet.

@Fivestar4everMVP, this is a new thing for me, for some reason I didn't know this feature was in Stake, even though I've been playing there for a very long time. IMO, this is a very good feature to implement, especially if we don't know anything about those matches. Maybe I will try this feature in the matches this weekend, thanks OP, this is useful for me.

I don't think it's a bad method, but before I take someone's advice, I'd also like to know their thoughts on the subject. So, for example "Milan will win the match" is good advice, but I would also like to see an explanation about "why and how they win". Otherwise, such things would not be an effective sharing for me. But still, I think it can be improved and become better. I have no doubt that the stake team will make this practice even better...

I think it is good if you know the bet you are copying. Do not just copy blindly. At least you have the basic knowledge and can tell if the bet is good or not. Then you are can make a good decision if you copy or not.

It is a good way to find some good bets you might miss if you are just betting on your own. You can just scroll through the bets and you might find events that you have missed that you can bet on.

I hope you can know whose bet you are copying so the person can develop a reputation. Like if you know this person is good in NBA, then you can copy his NBA bets because you know he has a high chance of getting the bet right.

I personally don't see any thing bad about but it shouldn't be a habit on depending on people for the odds. But I have seen people win on numerous occasions from people's bets. Infact people even pay for what they call Sure Odds, so if it brings more profit than your own judgement then one could still with it. Although there's no fun in that and some people love to add fun to winning.

This seems to reinforce the lazy attitude of many gamblers who dont wish to do research and place bets on their gut feeling or emotions. Sports betting is an EV+ game and can be used to make good money unlike dice, but if done in the wrong manner, it can end up being a EV- game at any time, like this.

Just because the site is offering an option does not mean it might be good for you, like the "Max Bet" option previously seen on Primedice (hidden by default now) - it was like YOLO option for frustrated gamblers.

Reminds me of copy-trading to some extent. Some players may have found this option profitable but the basic remains same, this is betting down without doing research from our end, hence a risky step.

Copying bet is good if you keep on winning, but if you’re like betting blindly and make you lose everytime, then you have to decide for your own bet and trust your self. While most bettors always think and analyze first, some just simply copying bet and lose eventually. The reason why I always think copying bet is never  a good practice, aside from you lose your self-confidence, you become dependent on others to chase your luck.