Topic: How long have you been gambling in sports? (Read 904 times)

Age doesn't justify addiction I think what mostly count here is the level of self control, if someone doesn't gamble responsible then they are easily open to addiction that is why gambler must apply moderate gambling. To know when to limit, to stop and to start probably the amount to gamble and maximum amount to be used sometimes we can say amount to allocate in gambling for the week/months if a gambler can be able to moderate all these be it underage or not they won't suffer addiction. But however, I don't still encourage underage gambling for the purpose of self decision, and kyc documentation because most of the underage gambler may faced lot of difficulty while passing through kyc making some of them to either borrow someone's documents to pass kyc.

You are right for me, because I do gambling under the age of 18+, it's just that the soccer betting that I do is without a third party broker or casino as a betting service provider, I do it directly with close friends when going to watch the soccer match that we like , I think this can be included in this category even without a betting provider or third party.
So it's quite long too if it is calculated from when we start betting in football, only the seen or not betting is difficult to assume to take the middle path because sometimes 6 months in the past could not bet.

For me it a long walk down the line sport bet have been my thing since secondary school dayss when we use to bet on our local football teams, and when I entered into the university I became more advanced with online sport betting and since then I haven't quite all seasons but I do that with loads of limits since I know sports bet are somewhat a constant thing.


I believe most of the members here are very well familiar with sport bets and have started right from when they are much younger let say when they pass the age limit of 18+, or even earlier than such age which is not advised to do at that point and age to avoid getting into addictions easily.

I think i can't remember it exactly but i started gambling on sports since 2018. Many of my friends are addicted to gambling and among them there are some who win every day. It was tempting for me that's why i started gambling. From childhood we enjoy betting on sports and from there it is very harmful for us due to which we are more addicted to sports gambling. Within that there were a few years in particular where my losses were huge. But now if i take more risk, the money can be huge. But this time all situation in my country is very bad like economic crisis. Cost of living is high as food prices have gone up. All in all i have reduced my sports betting right now.

Maybe 3-5 years i've been dealing up myself on gambling which at first i've been that loving on playing with casino based games like slots,dice,crash games in the past and later on i did put up myself
on such field on trying out to learn sports betting and since im a fan of basketball and e-sports then this is the time or moment i do make myself involved with sports betting on which i've been doing
this for 3 years as far as i remember and talking about figuring on how to win? No, i wont really be that making myself getting stressed out on trying to find ways on how to be having that sure win and
profiting with gambling or betting because it would really be just that make you desperate on the time that you would really be doing it or having in mind. Just be normal and always mind about
having leisure and entertainment nothingless then you should really be just that fine.

I have been gambling for over 10 years now and I must say that the system has a lot ups and downs. I have made some profits from sports betting to be precise, gambling is all about luck but strategies and analysis actually plays a huge role.in my opinion I don't think there are people who actually figured out how to win, no matter how good your predictions are anything can still happen along the line, so there's no sure system that works everytime.As someone that has a little experience the only advice I can give newbies is to always gamble with what they can afford to lose, odds can be very enticing, no matter how small they are don't get too comfortable with them thinking they are 100 percent safe

A very interesting topic, I Ve been gambling for over ten years now, I started in 2014 a friend of mine introduced me to it,  he won about 20 thousand naira on bet9ja , this gave me some sort of motivation to try , at that time I didn't know that it was possible to gamble online so I always went to a bet shop to bet..had some little wins after two weeks, it was about 15 thousand naira, since then I've been playing constantly and that's how I got into lifestyle...I haven't had much problems with gambling until I discovered casinos that was were the problem started..From my experience so far I think it's better to stick to sports betting.

Casino games are mostly depending on luck and sports gambling do have some luck as well but you're right that it's safer. I can't remember how I started gambling in sports and now mostly with esports, there's so much in the past that I've learned about betting from the seniors that I've been with. I think the influence that was done to me was strong and that's why when I grew older, I was able to adapt that activity. Now, whether I've figured out how to win or not, sports betting is still an unpredictable matter. You may be the most accurate sports bettor in the world but, the time of losing will come to you unexpectedly. That's why no matter how good you are as a sports bettor, you'll have some bad days for which some terrible twists of the games you've bet for will come. But the fun part is that you just love what you're doing and you're enjoying how the matches and games will end up as you bet them because it's likely requiring you to enjoy and watch it.

If you don't want to risk at all then you should always consider a strong team as your team and bet on the strong team when the weak teams play against that strong team. Betting with this strategy may be less bet but I am sure you will be successful gambling with this strategy. The problem with this is that since you will be betting against the stronger team and you will have a weaker team on your side, even if you win, your profit will be much smaller. If you are satisfied with relatively low profits then you can gamble with this strategy. And what I sometimes do is I bet a small amount of money on an underdog knowing I'm sure I'll lose, but if for some reason the underdog wins, I'll make a lot of money. I like to gamble with these two strategies, you can apply whichever strategy you like.

We will still difficult to figure out how to win because until today, I do not wins too often and I think that is because I don't have much luck in gambling. But although I often lose some money in gambling, I still playing gambling in my spare time but I don't use too big money for a gambling games. The thing that makes us continue playing gambling is because we want to feels the winning and makes us curious how we can win. We keeps searching for the strategy or other ways about how to win.

That's why we must realizes that we will not have a big chance to win some money in gambling. And even if you have been gambling for a long time, you will not easy to win because gambling is not design to gives you the wins easily. You can only keeps playing gambling and wait for your turn to wins but that doesn't mean you can use more and more money in your waiting time. You must use limitation using your money to playing gambling because if you don't use that, you can lose too big money without you can realizes.

I also love sports betting, when I lose it doesn't hurt me as much as casinos, not knowing if you are going to quit when you are old is quite funny to me because there's a point you would get to in life you won't really have time to do some certain things and gambling might be one of them,... is your passion and drive enough to keep you going in the game considering the fact that you said your losses outweighs your wins , I can't remember the last time I placed a bet due to this factor, do a little calculation on what you spend on sports betting at the end of every month,  even if you stake low the cumulative amount will surprise you

hahaha, you gambled with your school fees. You should not do this at all. Since you were studying at school, it is clear that you were clumsy at gambling. And that's why you lost all the money. But hopefully now you have become experienced in sports gambling. And like never before, you won't lose as much money on sports gambling.

I think sports gambling is safe for me. Because here if we can observe everything correctly then chances of winning in sports gambling are high. But other gambling is mostly dependent on luck. But I think in sports gambling the chances of winning are high if the analysis is done properly. However, this also depends on luck. I feel more comfortable playing games that require knowledge and skill.

Mine is a 13 years journey now when I joined the gambling world, where I started my gambling with "sports betting" and betting only on the occasion of first half draw and it was sometime around early 2011, however I took a break when I tried to focus on my academic career and that was during my days at the University, where I almost gambled away my school fees that led to my pause and after then before I went into gambling again I developed a stragy which I'm using as of today.

Figuring out how to win, you'd just get bunch of answers that are too generic to understand. It's hard to determine how to win a game with the actuality.

But in paper and in theory, it's very easy to say that I've figured out how to win in sports betting and all it takes is a simple DYOR or research of the upcoming matches.

Being connected to the news and public affairs of these clubs, athletes and teamsports that you're going to bet will give us certain edge in potentially winning a bet and this one kind of generic answer that we get a lot.

I think the right question should be if we have figured out how to gamble responsibly and control our emotions while in a gambling session. seeking profits and gambling solely to secure it is the reason most people ended up becoming gambling addicts.

Securing win today or currently does not mean you have it figured out at all because there is always a very big possibility of the tables turning around on you and you taste the other side of it.

Most important thing is that you are gambling with minimal amounts that means nothing to you and having fun in the process, reserve the winning mindset for other more important walks of life.

I have been gambling quit awhile and i think by now, its more than a decade already, also to talk about the second question that if we have figured out how to win, i don't think yes could be an answer for me because there is no particular winning strategy on gambling in which we must have to go through or learn before we can win, instead, am being able to know that gambling is all about having fun, whether we win or not.

I'm not sure if this strategy has been explained before but I have a believe that a game you don't understand, never bets on it. If you don't understand about a league, you don't have business staking on any of their game even if you see people playing it, you will be putting your wager on high risk and that can make you lose money you don't even expect in the first place, avoid leagues you don't understand.

When you are not sure about a game, don't include it if you are playing multiple games, the ones you always doubt are the quickest ways to cut your games. I'm not sure if it happens to me alone but when I'm not sure about option that I choose, it do cut my game and since then, I make sure I delete the game I'm not sure about and don't gamble it blindly.

I don't know why there is a tendency to measure oneself by single "bets", one-bet, there is no such way to reach profits in that way, as I think you have interpreted what I wrote.

The advantage in sports betting from a statistical point of view is governed by continuation bets. So, if I measured myself by single bets in a given period, I would go through that cycle countless times, not just in one betting session.

That is, that does not exist, in short periods, Win, lose, is the norm and this is true in the trend of variance based on your odds that depend on a return based on the size of the bet.

Then you "play/strategy" with the odds vs bet size to compensate for those odds that are eventually going to fail.

People want to take $100 (or whatever amount) and bet it in a single bet, and then decide:(1) they lose and say bad luck, what a bad team.(2)You don't measure yourself by that single result, you measure yourself by hundreds, thousands of bets, in a period of time "x".

Then you mention mathematics, man this is about statistics, it is not pure mathematics, statistics are used to determine probabilities, understand me, mathematics is used in statistics, but it does not govern them in their essence.

If you roll the die 7 times,that fact is accounted for in the sum, ok. pure mathematics. But, its result is statistics, you use mathematics in that second calculation.

You are not alone on the fixed matches. Then, fixed matches were the most trended sport bet scam that ever exist because most of the new casinos I'm seeing now didn't exist back then, even online gambling was less that time and to get accurate informations were had at that time because the likes of Fabrizio wasn't active and some of this handlers that gives accurate information about football. I spend teaching salary on that fixed game and it was one of the useless game I ever played that if I used my head to pick the games, the result would have been better.

However, some of those bad experiences makes me a better person today, I don't spend much time analyzing games. I just pick 4-5 and put my money and I'm good to go, unlike the when I can spend the whole week trying to select games that will give me good result for the weekend and in the end, I will win nothing. I have also do some basketball gambling but not often as I do football and the experience were fun and result were remarkable.

If by the red zone you mean a loss, and by the green zone a profit, then your path is extraordinary and very unlikely from a mathematical point of view. If reaching breakeven and then turning into profit was not due to an abnormally (relative to previous) large bet, then I would like to know how this happened. You need to answer the second question that was voiced in the first post.