Topic: Luck and skill, which is more important for gambling success? - page 6. (Read 1121 times)

IMO, skill is more important, because that is something what you can do about to minimize the risk of losing. Also you need analysis in the case of sports betting. Luck is something that is out of our control, so I don't think we put more importance to it over gambling skills and analysis.
Gambling with pure luck is the worst way of gambling IMO. I'd better have my own strategy, skills, analysis or whatever you call it to minimize the risk of losing on my bets which is far better than just depending in luck.
I have another interesting question. Does winning in sports betting because you did your research and analysis were considered luck?

What do you call a mixture?? Kind of a merge or something? That mindset is delusional bruh... There's actually nothing in your capacity to be done which would guarantee a win on your games... NOTHING!
Afterall, every speculation 95% of the times don't even fall in as predicted so what?? Lol.. I see it this way - luck is real... There's a woman that wrote out random numbers from a coupon, making a code from it - and what happened? It actually cut ! Mind you, she's got zero experience about gambling and how it works...

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It depends on what type of gambling games you are currently into. If you are into roulette and lotteries, you surely need high amount of luck if you want to  be successful on your bets. However, if you want to bet on sports betting or play blackjack or poker, you have to necessarily know the game well as it could add to better chances of winning.

In general, both luck and skills are at stake when you are gambling. If you can't have them both, still the risk of losing high is there.

Both is what you need but be sure to have more in being skilled because you have no control over your luck.

You don't also need to pick between the two because what you need to do is to improve your skills in the games that you're playing for the longest time.

Like in sports betting, although you can easily pick between the two teams or players that you are watching. It's a simple thing for you to analyze because you already have 50% of winning on it.

Well, I will say according to my point of view and also based on experience. so, let's get started. Firstly, there are many types of gambling. there are those that require skill and there are games that don't require any at all. Basically, every gambling game has been designed in such a way as to appeal to its audience. be it Dice, Roulette, BlackJack, Baccarat and also Slot games. plus, sports betting. of the games I mentioned, although only a small part of gambling games.

The point is, they all have their own features and uniqueness. Basically, you can assume or believe one of these two options. Believe me, no one will ever blame you if you choose luck or skill. But for me personally, I have to choose what type of game I play.

Let's take an example, for example slot games. In slot games, it is purely based on luck. In fact, we can't determine which machine/game will give us a good shot. at this point, we will choose the type of game we want to play.  and every game session, we will really rely on luck even though we are presented with RTP and RNG. But in fact, there are variables that can invite luck itself. In slot games, there are several features that we can choose. and make no mistake, these things can have an impact. why, because if there is no effect, why would the developer provide this feature? but again, as I said, the luck factor is very closely related to slot machine game.

Another example, we are talking about football.
First of all, someone who wants to get involved in sports betting must at least know the type of sport itself. for me, luck in football betting is another matter. I mean, if you want to minimize losses or losses. You have to understand football itself, like our own version of a pundit. So like this, in football there are eleven players, each player has their own task. However, in the modern era of football, every player is required to be able to play several roles, including when playing a match. Apart from that, there are coaches, systems, patterns and strategies. If you have the skills or knowledge in this field, you will look at two aspects of the teams that will compete. why, because we try to read the scenario patterns and systems run by the trainer. Apart from that, aspects of injured players, home away games, the strength of the two teams, available odds, will be part of our research and analysis.

After we do a series like what I said. we just wait for the results, in this phase let luck get involved. Well, the point is, expertise, skills, understanding, insight, play an important role in sports betting gambling. and for the rest, let the results decide. if we lose, it means we are unlucky. but if it's the other way around, it means we're lucky. and that's why, I say that luck is another issue from the aspect of sports betting.
Anyway, what I say may be contradictory to some in the community and I think that's fine. after all, we all have our own opinions and different ways of thinking.

But if you DYOR, what's actually true is you need luck to win when you're playing against the house edge of the casino, but in games like BlackJack, Poker, and gambling on sports, you can find situations that make YOU have a statistical advantage against the house. It may not assure you of the "win", but if you put yourself exclusivley in those situations when you gamble, you definitely will win more than you lose if calculated long term.

In the casino it's impossible to have those kinds of situations because the house edge is constant against you. You may win sometimes, but that doesn't change the fact that the house edge is there. Over a longer period of time, you're slowly losing to the casino.

Gambling is 99% luck and the remaining 1% is base on skills. If our skills is what gives us win, most of us might not win anything because many don't even have the skills at all, all they have been doing is try their luck which some do have a good result while the rest have lost all the time.

In casino, skills is what you even need to win because the game is a program that you want to see it in your favour but you can't do that in sports. Look at how the game of Manchester City against Chelsea turn out, the fact that Chelsea hosted the match is going to be an advantage for them but nobody expects them to react that way to equalized all the goals Manchester City, now imagine you have given straight win to Manchester City because they have been having winning streak on their previous matches whole Chelsea has been having less contributions in standing but they ended up as a draw.

In a casino game, you can depend on your skills and if you are lucky enough, you can make cook money but it's not guarantee though but sports, most of the time it's all about luck and luck. However, you have to be good in sport analysis before you can achieved a lot.

It's true that both are equally important when it comes to gambling, you have nothing to lose if you really combine these two, it's more exciting when you have these two, the more you enjoy gambling. Just avoid getting addicted to it, so let's not forget that self-control is still valuable.

I am one of those who believe that success in gambling depends only on luck. No matter how high your skill level is, it’s all nothing without luck. It's simple math. No matter how many skilled gamblers there are, only a few will be successful. They can't all be successful. But if skill played a role, then all skilled gamblers would already be successful. But since this doesn't happen, it means it doesn't work.

Only luck. RTP (Return-to-Player) will not let me lie.

Try to defeat RTP with your skill. In fact, the main role here is played not so much by luck, but rather by mathematical calculations (probability theory) when calculations are made to determine whether a player has won or not, that work in favor of the casino.

It's all skill, luck is out of your control so how can you train something to the point of improvement if you don't have any direct control over it? It's common sense so I don't get how people have a hard time thinking over which is important. Some say that it depends on the game but fuck that because that's not true, luck will never be a factor that can contribute to your gambling success so just improve solely on skill in gambling, maybe if real life was some kind of a role-playing game like Dungeons and Dragons or Diablo, you can probably argue to me that luck can be improved as we have an access on our own character stats and we can choose which attributes we want to allocate are points on. Another noteworthy thing to add is that if you're aiming to be successful in gambling, prepare to be frustrated because gambling should be fun and gambling competitively is not the way to go gambling because being competitive and too serious about it is going to suck the fun and enjoyment out of it.

Gambling does have different types and just like been said by most people on here is that you would really be needing skill to deal with when you are dealing with gambling type games which does really require that proper
analysis like in sports betting or even with those known card games on which these things cant really be possible if we do speak casino games which doesnt really need those things. Success in gambling is something that
very slim because this is a game of chance where everything is something that cant be known or something that could really be achievable which risky things like gambling is something that doesnt really need to have that kind of approach.

Dont think about success on the time that you do gamble because this is really just that for leisure or entertainment and not something that do talks about investment or earning money on long term.
It doesnt really fit out on the criteria and also it is really just that too risky for you to be able to deal up with long term or something that could really possibly
make you impulsive on this case.
Luck+Skill. these two things cant really be that be removed but if we do speak about main things on what we do really need
then luck would really be always the best choice or main thing we do need and this is something that cant be influenced nor be altered and does
come randomly.

Would you like it to be that skillful in gambling without having luck, or you will like to appear being unskillful and be lucky to win, how long will this keep going, i will go by saying this that the two are very important for us to use or have, we cannot leave one for the other, when we have this completed combination in our gambling lifestyle, we are going to enjoy gambling with lots of fun from it wether we are winning or loosing, our target will not be shifted towards having one particular aspect leaving others uncovered.

I think it just depends on what kind of gambling you're going to choose, if you want to gamble on bets that are really purely based on luck then yes the answer means you need full luck in that session, but the question is that anyone will never know when they will be able to get lucky and go home with a win, that's the initial problem. Another thing, if indeed you choose to gamble on some bets that really require skills such as one of them may be sports then yes obviously you must at least have some skills that are needed there, have basic analysis and knowledge of the sport you choose which indirectly it will be useful to increase your chances of winning.

But on the other hand even though these two things look separate, still in any bet basically you will really need the luck factor, because obviously for the final result will still refer to how lucky you are. So in my opinion the two things above cannot be completely separated because everything will be involved in each other to achieve quite tantalizing results.

I would like to add that we need to do only what depends on us. Luck doesn't depend on us and therefore there is no point in being happy, sad and worried. But a skill is something we can work on and use our brain. And if you make this your life habit, success won't be long in coming (as far as poker is concerned). All this can't be done without a healthy interest in the game itself.

I completely understand this about attractive design. Just look at Las Vegas and its bright lights to attract players from all over the world. I don’t have high expectations and I think that many people understand at the expense of whom these bright lights sparkle.

Gambling's appeal is apparent, but its not for everyone. Seeing friends win at the tables or slots is alluring, but gambling is a gamble. Why join the uncertainty trap because others do? The discipline you suggest is crucial. Gambling should be fun, not stressful. Discipline separates gambling delight from foolishness. How to keep it fun? Set time, money, and emotion boundaries.

Lets not romanticize luck as skill's fuel. Fortune is fickle and elusive. Depending on luck is like building a fortress on sand—it may last but finally collapses. Skill is like establishing a sturdy foundation. It takes time, learning, and healthy skepticism.

Luck would really be that always an important factor or shall we say that it would really be the most main thing that would really be needing because if you luck isnt on your side on the time you do play whether you are playing luck based or strategic based then you would definitely lose 100% no matter how well you do analyzed on things or on how experienced you are on a certain gambling type. The key on here is that you should not really that make yourself that too hopeful on things like being successful in gambling on which we know that only a few or could really be just that rare or not usual for someone to be able to sustain up on gambling
world or industry. Yes, its possible on making a living with gambling but it would really be never be that something that too easy for someone to deal with.

Never ever make yourself that too anticipate about positive things towards gambling. It is really just that design for the sake of entertainment and leisure and you shouldnt really be that
expecting something which it would bring out positive outcome for you because it isnt really that something that could be easily happen on someone unless if you are really that extremely lucky on that particular time.
Dont think about success because it would really be just that make your desperate.

Yes, luck runs out sooner or later. Even if you take a professional poker player, he plays a huge number of hands over the years, it can be more than 100k hands. So, no matter how well he plays, luck may not work in his favor over a long distance. For example, in a year he could have won $30k according to the poker program, but in reality he lost $10k. All because he got into a downswing. But in the next years this will stop and in any case he will start making money, because the downstreak also continues forever.

Yes, for example, sports betting relies on skills and knowledge about the strength of teams or athletes, of course it also still relies on luck, maybe some people see a lot of football matches, for example, where the club that is the favorite can lose to a bottom club that is clearly not the favorite, so it all comes back It's all about luck because not everyone who can master gambling games can always win.

Talking about consistent wins, it seems impossible to get, even a professional can still experience defeat, especially ordinary people like us, it is definitely normal to experience defeat like that, the point is to always take important lessons when gambling and experiencing defeat, keep control of your emotions when gambling. because that is the most important thing and also make sure you don't fall into becoming an addict.

There are skill based games (sports betting and card games like poker) that knowledge and strategy are an edge for a gambler to increase the chances to win. On the other side there are also luck based games wherein the chances to win is entirely relying on luck.

However, regardless what games you're playing, luck has a major role for a gambler to win the game. That being said, it is the important factor in gambling. But, it's hard to be successful (to have a consistent winning) since the profits are not guaranteed. Thus, we should not treat gambling as our source to earn money. Hence, don't gamble if that's your main desire.

Skill is the most important factor in gambling. You need to understand the game and know the winning strategy before you can even successfully place good bets. Even some games that are somehow based on luck require skill because it increases your chances of getting lucky. Depending entirely on luck in sports bets and other games that require skill will always lead to losses this is because you need to do some analysis or research to understand the ability of both both teams before placing your bet.

But gambling like lottery tickets and slot games might be determined by luck than skills. However, it is better to acquire gambling skills than to depend solely on luck because nobody can predict the lucky times. So you need skills to keep sustaining your gambling activities until you get to your lucky day.