I remember until today, I was starting with sports betting, so I created an account on a sports betting site, but I didn't know how to analyze the games, but how I thought that if I bet on the game in which I had a favorite and that I I just had to bet on the favorite, so I bet 0.005 btc on barcelona but barcelona lost against a weak team, game odd was @1.55, after that defeat, I got irritated and went back to bet 0.004 btc on manchester united and lost again, I got irritated and thought about giving up, but I see a notification that I won a free bet worth 0.001 btc. even earning 0.012 btc
I still had a big loss, it was a terrible experience, so I didn't enter that sports betting site anymore and I stopped doing sports betting and I didn't enter any casino for a long time, only after 2021 did I enter any casino but I didn't play anything, I just watched the games and read and commented on the games, that experience of having lost money at the casino made me angry for years, currently I always avoid betting or playing at the casino all the time, I usually stop for a month or more and then I go back to placing bets, then stop again, this is so that I don't become addicted to gambling
Sports betting is usually considered to be safer than other casino games since you have the opportunity to analyze the games and teams and select a team based on that, but this proves that when you are unlucky, even a favorite team can lose the game and you will lose your bet. So even in sports betting, luck does play its roll.
But generally if we see, even the poll on this post shows that, sports betting has less risk than gambling on casino games like slots or any other game because there is an house edge and the chances of losing are more than winning.