Gambling is not a means to an end and their is no guarantee that you must win in the process so just do your prediction and enjoy the fun, if you win, thumbs up for you but if you don't win don't allow it get at you and don't assume you can always win back your money, learn and master the right time to walk away.
There is a misconception about this gambling of a thing as a source of income, as side husle and the fun of it. If gambling is really as fun as it is said to be, we will have more people that will dwell on that all the tune but ask people around you about gambling, they will tell you not to start it if you haven't try it and if you have try it, they will tell you to stop because of the addiction and losses some people has experience for some time.
However, that doesn't mean we don't have people have made through gambling. We have people that has made fortune from gambling and they are making it as we speak right now from gambling, such people are destined to create wealth from gambling but they are few so judging by the numbers, gambling as a source of income isn't a thing to even try.
As for side husle, I think it's good got the seasonal gamblers that has win to loss ratio of 4:1, they win 4 and lose 1 and they have been able to make money from gambling and doing their other jobs. Some even use the money they make from gambling to increase the size of their business and continue to run both of them and it works for them as a side husle.