Topic: Paper Betting- Would You Consider it if you Were to Start Sports betting Again (Read 590 times)

The difference is that it does not guarantee what is going to happen in the future. You might win or lose some paper bets, but the upcoming bets where you are wagering in real money might not be all wins. Testing the game and all might be one thing but this is what is different from paper trading.

Of course in sports betting where skills are involved they can be like practice bets. I am not sure how much it actually helps though. Most gamblers are just ready to jump in without thinking.

You’re absolutely right that the experience of paper betting differs significantly from real money betting, particularly for seasoned bettors. The thrill of winning real money and the risk of losing it are integral parts of sports betting that paper betting simply cannot replicate. These emotional highs and lows often drive the decision-making process and can significantly influence betting behavior.

For experienced gamblers, the lack of financial stakes in paper betting might make the exercise feel less engaging or even irrelevant. The adrenaline rush and emotional investment when real money is on the line are crucial aspects of gambling that contribute to its excitement and appeal. This is why, although paper betting is a fantastic educational tool for beginners, it lacks the visceral impact and immediate consequences that come with actual betting.

Thus, while paper betting serves as an excellent platform for learning and experimentation without risk, it does not prepare one for the emotional aspects of real gambling, which can only be fully understood and managed through experience with real stakes.

Yes, that is what is said above. Many are saying that gambling should only be for fun and should not be taken seriously but I think sports betting has an exception here since I already saw lots of professional sports bettors and they can also make more money through their skill by offering a tipping service. To be pro is not easy but it takes lots of practice which can be money-consuming if we do it for real.

It is still more enjoyable or thrilling, and if we are lucky we can also earn a profit. Even if you use demo betting, mistakes are still there. Early mistakes are normal and even professionals can still make a mistake. They aren't totally a disadvantage because it's also the ones that shape us to become better. Once you correct your mistakes, that only means you already made a comeback.

It's good for someone who hasn't started b getting real money before as they are learning and analyzing teams and athletes. But if you already tried betting real money which you already learned watching bet pickers because you have cut corners from the beginning then the thrills are already within you. Gamblers always seek to satisfy those thrills.

And the bigger the amount wagered the more satisfying the result for them when they win.

I see nothing wrong in using paper to practice, because one may do so just to know if this aspect of gambling or betting is and will be a favourable venture once started with real money.

Only the more passionate bettors will be able to understand what it is they are actually doing and be able to explain to anyone interested party because real emotions isn't involved but the knowledge of the game to be bet or gambled on, will be clear and visible during the predictions on paper.

Still, there's much truth in the sense that paper betting might be a waste of time because the betting apps are simple enough to navigate without even placing a bet and even if one just wants to know the final results of matches or games, upon making personal predictions, there are live score apps that tell the results and as such one can know if what they predicted in their mind is sure or not.

 

For some it could be a waste of time because they don't understand what they are doing.

Okay, so gambling without using a real money might be differenet from gambling that you risk a real money, but paper betting* is still very useful to us gambler as we test the water before we actually do gamble. If your result is positive, meaning profitable, that means you are good at choosing the winning bets, but of course it doesn't replicate your actual experience, however, since you have achieve positive result already it is a good sign that you can achieve that when you are in actual  gambling, you just have to control your emotion and be discipline all the time.

I appreciate your point and indeed as long as no real money is involved the impact of the game is less understood as compared to wagering money on a casino and then eventually losing it. What I feel is that it can make the person aware of how the game works and that is almost everything about it. Paper-trading on the other hand might be something that every trader needs to do in order become a future trader and not someone who goes FOMO.

It may help in diagnosing those who are prone to getting addicted, but I might be thinking longshot, professionals in these fields might have a better opinion about further research.

The same could be said about demo trading accounts, but instead traders consider them very useful tools that will allow them to familiarize themselves with most of the aspects real trading will present to them.

So if that is true for trading, I do not see why the same train of thought could not be used when it comes to sport betting, now with that being said, if you have no intention at all to become a professional gambler, and you just like to bet to have some fun, then you could be onto something and this could be a waste of time for that person.

Is this not a wasting of time? Although it could be a good way for beginners to learn about some gambling strategies without risking money but this doesn't necessarily replicate the emotional aspect of real gambling. The moment real money is involved, people's behavior can not be controlled again. I see it as a waste of time because there is no real money to be won even if you got it right on paper and sports games are not computer based games where you expect the event to repeat itself. Sports games is real life game and it's better you utilize the chance when you can than to draft on paper with no impact.

For me of course I will gamble and risk money directly on real bets, not demos, I think demos only provide theoretical value, I like in gambling a real challenge, not paper, I think we generally know about sports, especially football, boxing, basketball and so on, if this type of sport is being bet on, in my opinion there is no need for a demo, straight to the point it seems more profitable.

My understanding is sports gambling, the understanding is different from other gambling such as slots, plinko, blackjack and so on, maybe you need a demo before jumping straight in, but sports doesn't seem like that, sports is more about real life and is understood.

Sports betting is still gambling that requires luck for you to consistently win aside from analysis skill. This is why you can still have a bad result even after you have good run on paper bet.

The worst possible outcome is you lose confidence after losing your first bet right after you decided to go real because you already have good result on paper betting. There’s no fix strategy on sports betting unlike trading that there’s TA using indicators. The only strategy on sports betting is to rely on statistics of the team and hope that they can perform the same as predicted to them based on their previous performance.

I wouldn't mind doing that, it is a good way to see if you have still got it or not, and if you see that the results of your selected games aren't in your favour, you can revaluate your strategy, improve your knowledge, see where made a mistake and then retry again with other games. One should keep doing this until they see that their predictions are finally working very well and they can win more games now.

It is just like using a demo account where you can put your skills up on the test to see if you can do something or not or whether your chosen strategy is working or not. So I think everyone should do this before getting into the real thing so that they can understand if sports betting is for them or not.

That demo is important to test what we can do in sports betting, if our result is profitable using that demo, it should not change using the actual money. If that changes and you loss, that means you have a problem with controlling your emotion, as you change your judgement because of that. So the problem here is your emotion, not until you fix that problem which the solution is to control your emotion that's the only time you'll achieve the same result during your demo outcome.

Peopel loss in gambling not because they don't have the skills or it's not winnable, but because gamblers doesn't have the discipline and they could easily make a bad decision once they are tested with a losing streak, human nature, we want to get our money back, so we loss focus.

I do agree with this that it would be better that you should start up with mere amounts as some form or trying to test on what it do really looks and feels like on using up a real balance because if you do make use nothing or simply free then its true that there would be no thrill on the time that you would really be making some betting. Totally that different experience if we do compare about free and something that you do make some bets on.
Just like you said that its impossible that you cant be able to tell the difference among the two on which it is really far more entertaining if you do make bets with using a real money.
Emotions that could be felt would be real and not something you do look numb because you have nothing to lose when you do test some demo funds or something that doesnt have any value.

There's no enjoyment on that or thrill and the main reason on why we do gamble is for leisure and entertainment and there's no fun on betting with demo money or
simply the experience is whole lot different.

True, I don't think that strategy will work, because when betting with real money, our minds will focus on choosing which team or which market is the best choice to win.
And in most cases, in the end we will definitely be placing bet on the favorite team/market.
The pressure to win when betting with real money will definitely influence our choices, which is different if we only predict the final result of a match without any money involved.

Yes, i do really feel up that you are just basically wasting up your time on betting without having any bets and just like been said by most people on here that there's no fun
when you do bet on a sport without having those real money. You would really be having no feeling of excitement since you know that you cant really be able to gain up something on which
its better that you should be starting at least with some small amount on which you would be having that kind of impression that they would really be having that thrill
on the time that they are seeing on whats the outcome of their bets.

It doesn't make any big deal. For those that haven't learned about sports Gambling and are probably non conversant with it, it's more like a demo that can serve as a guide before the main game.

Thier is nothing like not risking Money. What brings out the real fun in gambling is when you've played with money and so after playing the demo, you will still stake with money so it's not an issue at all. The question should be that, what happens when you only play demos without staking real money, is it still Gambling?

I don't know the number of gamblers that can be patient enough to be doing paper gambling. I don't think many gamblers learn from that way. Most gamblers started by direct gambling and newbies too are doing same.


People demo trade because of the process of trading which is not really straightforward . You really need to learn about it before you start because apart from the finance involved, it has different compactment that you actually need to study and have basic knowledge of them before you can start trading proper and it is not everyone that can go through that or understand it and I don't know if I will be right to say there are quite larger number of gamblers than traders and that perhaps is because of its cumbersome process.

I believe I would rather start betting with actual money instead just noting on paper my picks. Though, I would make sure to start with very small amounts like 1$, instead going for more risky amounts of money.
I think having something at stake while gambling works as a encouragement for us to further out effort into research to pick up the right choice, instead making our bets all about luck, you know.

If I started paper betting, I would not put as much effort into thinking my choices and the chances of winning, because I would not feel any pressure to do so.
Paper betting is good of the person betting is passionate about the specific sport, but otherwise, I would not recommend it. It takes time to do some analysis and be convinced on what team to pick, in my opinion.

In case I had no experience with sports betting at all, then this would probably be my first step before putting any real money down. Keeping track of our bets is a good idea to see how well our convicitions are doing and to check our long run profitability. The issue I have with demo trading or betting is that it takes some of the fun out of it and I am not sure if's really necessary. When it comes to sports betting the minimum bet sizes are very user friendly. With 10 USD we could already start placing bets on multiple matches. So, instead of making paper bets where I don't get any profits I would rather start with placing 2 USD bets and spread my money across a lot of different matches. Then after a few weeks I can quickly see how much profit or loss I made without really losing a lot of money. Another benefit of starting with real money is also that we can take advantage of welcome bonuses for new gamblers. Especially when placing a lot of small size bets getting 100 or 200% on our initial bankroll can make a big difference.

Good idea but I'm sure that some people here would disagree and say that they should just do it for real and bet money while practicing and in this case, relearning. I do think that it's a neat idea and I don't see any problem in doing this one too because it's a good help to gauge how good you are with your betting and your analysis of the teams and the games. I think that practicing your bets or any kind of practice including the trading is an underrated thing for many of us, it's such a good way to make sure that you're ready for what to come and at the same time make sure that you're going to be confident with yourself and that you won't be quickly fumbling on things that you're doing, I advocate for people to be doing this kind of thing even if some might think that it's stupid.

It doesn't make sense to me, because you aren't learning how to read charts, what are you going to gain from using a demo in gambling? If your prediction goes right or wrong what is the end gain? You aren't improving yourself in any possible way, you can even end up jumping right into gambling if a few of your demo bets come to a pass.

No expertise or strategy can make anyone a ruler over luck, you will lose money if luck isnt on your side and you will win when it is time, don't try to confuse yourself that gambling is for you, it's not for anyone, you are just lucky for the time being.

Avoid confusing yourself that you are a pro, even if you win in a few rolls, it's possible that gambling will take everything back from you, this is why you must erase any greed off the table, and focus on how you will keep risking a certain amount on gambling either it's favoring you or not.

I agree with you because I was just thinking if Is it assumed one is taking bet for a professional by going back to learn about it and spending all those times in playing demo just to check your gaming and prediction capacities. How weird it sounds.

So I as assuming if would that system eliminate loosing on stakes? Because as much as it is, gambling is a game of luck that nomatter how expertise one may claim about it, the system of gambling and winning remains a game of luck so if your winning can not be guaranteed after those while going back to relearn again and passing through those processes while it makes of luck chances changes then it is not worth it.

The idea behind it is the same as demo accounts on trading, if you are planning on turning your hobby into a professional activity then it is a good idea to test your method and strategies without using money at first.

This way if you happened to find a weakness or a problem with it then you will not lose any money because of it, which is not bad, as very often what end ups limiting the chances of someone becoming a professional gambler are the mistakes they make on their early stages, and which do not allow them to make a comeback even when they correct those mistakes.

I never did it at all and I only did the same thing when I didn't have any experience.
I mean, in the past when I first got to know online sports betting I did not use paper betting just to try something that I had never done just to get knowledge or experience, but I did directly bet on a sports bet with a small bet ($1) to find out anything what must be done and chosen to bet on sports betting even though several times lost $1 but it is not a large amount for a very valuable knowledge and for me it is a faster way to gain experience and knowledge despite having to defeat but that is valuable lessons.

maybe paper betting it can be a way for beginners who have never made bets in sports betting to find out all the options such as money lines, double chance, BTTS etc.

I would do it if there's a convenient way to track your bets because you could avoid mistakes that casual bettors frequently fall for. I remember using a website that allows you to track your units and use the odds from popular sportsbooks like Bet365, FanDuel, and DraftKings. I'd assume it wouldn't take long, and IMO it's a good way to start things out, knowing the markets, different types of bets, and more until you get the gist of sports betting overall.

Those who want to be entertained should be the older folks. The younger folks lack the patience to just want to be entertained without making money.

Yes, educational purposes it is because since no real emotions would be involved the risk of getting "addicted" will be decreased right?. Well, but I think any education can be gotten from reading articles and joining gambling communities to mix with folks of similar interest.

No, this is not how it works. The person do not have to go around pieces of paper from betting slip. I think you got the idea of paper betting wrong. Read the OP again.

I guess you are a high risk person. In paper betting the individual who may be low-risk first tries their hands on it just to test the waters and gather confidence before then doing the real thing by then the would have been a bit prepared for the pressure and would take a loss differently than of they had zero experience.

This is not a bad idea, it's close to opening a demo account and practicing trading online, very close, if a beginner wants to see and feel how gambling works they can use this process instead of risking some money, this should even be better than demo online accounts, because demo isnt the real thing but this idea is based on a real event and real result, without risking any money.

The only concern I have is that this won't stop a beginner from turning into an addict, if you don't risk any money and your first set of games comes out right, you will dream about using money, and you can even blame yourself for not risking money in the first place.

Beginners should learn protection when they are planning to start gambling first, not after they have ruckus up their brain or after they have become addicted to gambling, learn how to protect yourself, and do not be fooled by what you can make from gambling, it doesn't always work like that.

It's still an old methods of betting that is accepted in my country. A lot of betting stores still have our slips as papers after you had placed your bets. I really don't think it can ever be outdated in some countries even with that advance of online sport betting. Well, yes it's most times feels annoying as your pocket gets filled with lots of papers slips you get from betting events. But still, you have to make sure you keep them well till your games score are out.
Similar to demo trading, I think online betting is more advance for of sport betting as you are exposed to more ideas and better ways plays you bets. And there forms of gambling activities that might not be opened to you on your local betting shops.

I guess it could work but what's the point?

Personally, I get a rush of adrenaline whenever I play or wager my money on betting, that's primarily the reason why I bet in the first place. I live for the nervousness and anticipation that gambling brings and betting without using real money just takes the fun out of the game in my opinion. I mean in some cases and for some people, it could work well especially those who are trying to recover off of their bad gambling habits, as this allows them to still be able to enjoy gambling without having to spend money in the process, but for the rest of us who are gambling as responsible as we can and are literally just gambling because we want to take the edge off sometimes, this is not going to work.

I guess it's just another case of to each his own since again, this wouldn't really work for me, but even if it was there's just no reason for you to do so in my opinion. If you're having bad gambling problems gambling more wouldn't solve it, even if you take the money portion out of the equation.

This could be a good preparation for the real gambling activities and you can have a good idea about how the betting works so when you’re ready for the real thing at least you will know what to expect. Betting is not an easy activities and bears a big risk as well, good preparation and good knowledge is advisable.

Learning before engaging in real gambling is good to avoid costly mistakes. I never engaged in paper bets because I was not aware of it but I was fortunate to learn how to place bets from my friends. This type of demo gambling would have been very helpful to me because my learning process would have been fast and easy. Paper betting has become outdated but demo games are in vogue currently. Some online casinos have sections for demo bets and I would encourage every newbie to engage in them. New gamblers shouldn't be in a haste to go into real gambling because a single mistake can make them lose money because of lack of knowledge. These demo games are available for us to make and correct our mistakes.

Betting on paper is crazy today, why should you bet on paper when you can make a virtual ticket online, just don't place a bet, make a snapshot of it and that's all, your virtual ticket that also looks beautiful, is ready.
I think that betting is not as risky activity as trading. It's nothing to bet $1 on your ticket and move on according to your strategy. I wouldn't feel stressed either if I lose $1. I think that method is only for old-fashioned people who still visit bookmakers in real life to make a bet.

Agree 100%

But if you are someone who doesnt really like to lose up money directly and just want to be sure that you do find yourself that being prepared then its not bad to have
those kind of backtesting just like on what you are doing in trading. Making yourself familiar with something that you dont know and tending up to learn.
Yes, there's nothing bad with that as long you do make yourself that been aware of things.

Somehow on the points you've been said above that there's no fun nor seriousness on the things you are dealing with because you do know
that there's nothing you can lose or simply risk free. So there's really that main difference.

Jump into real thing and just like with any demo whether on trading/gambling or whatsoever. There's no fun on making up those actions without having making use of real funds or money.
You would really be taking things seriously if you are really that making use of real funds because if you are really that having those kind of paper betting just for the sake of trying out to monitor
whether you are really that doing well or not then it wont really be accurate.Why? you wont really be that serious on making up bets or something that you would really be doing the actual
thing since you do know that you cant be able to lose up something which is unlike when you do make use of real funds on which you would really be serious on taking up
such actions or decisions since we are talking about real funds on here.

I don't see how this helps, and i don't think there is anything you need to learn about sports betting in itself, i.e. if you are a football fan and you know a thing or two about many football teams, you can make your predictions and stake real money on it. What ropes are you learning if you select games without wagering on them, the team you played to win today in demo mode can lose tomorrow when you actually put real money. Simply gamble with an amount you can afford to lose and stop to return later, when things are not going in your favor.

As paper trading it could be a good way to learn how things work. Only part of them through, but it's enough to understand and learn few important ones. It doesn't include the mindset part through which is very important because it's when you lose your mind that you can take very bad decision when you gamble. Paper trading doesn't learn to not gamble money you can't afford to lose for example while it's one of the most important thing in gambling to play safely.

I doubt someone's decision-making skills will improve in that way. There's no risk at all involved in paper betting.

The decision-making requires real factors to be improved: there should be risks, there should be pressure, and the bet should win no matter what.

It's easy to make a decision when there's no risk involved since losing that bet is just nothing at all.

Yes, if you can't be disciplined, then your desires and dissatisfaction will control you, so that learning on paper that previously worked will be in vain. Gambling will always involve making decisions for an uncertain matters, so it is necessary to build a strong psychological mindset because it will make it easier for gamblers to manage their emotions and get used to always being disciplined when making decisions, so that everything can work as planned. This still doesn't guarantee that everything will go as expected because in gambling the element of luck will always have a part but at least it can prevent us from making impulsive decisions.

I'd do this even now with Excel. Heck, I'm doing this now with all of my bets and have been keeping score of everything for the past few months. It's actually a good thing to do even if you're already betting with real money. It makes you aware on where you stand regarding your bets and whether you're really making some money or not.

As for building experience, it's not a bad thing to do. Though of course, you're less motivated to be on your A-game when you do this since there's nothing at stake, just your stats on a piece of paper. Nevertheless, better waste time rather than waste both time and money.

This depends on the situation of my finances.  If I have the money to bet on the sport then why should I use a demo and bet on paper that does not yeiled me anything?  I would only consider this strategy if I do not have the amount of money to bet on the game.

As far as I know in sportsbetting, the information, skills and knowledge acquired about the competing team will enhance the possibility of winning. So, if I already made the preparations and effort to analyze the possible outcome of the fight, it would be a waste of energy and time if I had the fund but I did not bet a real amount on it.


But the thing is, sportsbetting does not have a pattern since the result is dependent on the performance of the players and the current moral/spirit of the team.  One simple change in-game strategy of the competing team can completely change the result, so I think there is no gambling pattern in sportsbetting.

Gambler with ambition to be successful in the long run would try this. Writing in paper and see the results for a span of time is good, once you are convince, you can start with real money. However, the most challenging part is on how to be discipline with risking money since it's quite different when you are just writing on paper without a bet than betting with real money. It's more like the actual vs theory thing, but in order for you to follow your strategy, what's in the theory (on paper), that should be followed and maybe adjustments will be made along the way, but never loss your discipline in managing your funds.

trying out paper betting first is like dipping your toes in the water before diving in. It's all about making picks without actually putting any money on the line. Kind of like practice runs in demo trading. It's a smart move to get the hang of things without risking your cash right away. By tracking your picks without the pressure of real money, you can learn the ropes and fine-tune your strategies. So yeah if I were starting over I'd definitely give paper betting a shot before jumping into the real action

I would prefer to gamble with the real thing, and if the reason is to be able to learn then we can use real money but with a small amount so that we can immediately feel the pressure of the bet, because only using a demo account there will be no pressure felt, just like a demo trading account, unless what is offered from the gambling site is a very different thing or still gives a prize when players reach a certain rank.

Short answer Is no.
I don't think it's a good strategy.
When you don't risk money, you play differently. And moneymanagement is an essential part of Gambling.
More over if you play without money ... Its like to drink a glass of wine without alcohol..if you don't have fun and better let it go and have another hobbie.

Demo is a good thing, it helps you get accustomed to the gambling patterns before going into the real thing and is essential for proper understanding and reduction of the complications people face while gamboling, especially when they're new to it. During my early days in gambling, there was nothing like a demo and I struggled terribly, lost  a lot of funds before getting accustomed to the offline gambling patterns, sometimes I was even a laughing stock among my peers when I ask for clarifications from them about betting patterns I'm yet to fully understand.

All these difficulties I experienced could be averted if I simply had a demo to work with properly before actually engaging in it. So I'll go for paper gambling before diving into the real thing.

Imagine if they're actually profit in paper betting, but they're in loss when they bet using real money. They might don't believe what have they done and they're keep thinking they will able to make money because they might be unlucky before.

There's difference between paper betting and real betting, in paper betting you don't care with analysis and emotion, while in real betting you could easily change your picks because you're worried if you lose.

I've tried but I don't find it fun... What I did is just I bet a small amount only so I could still somehow feel the thrill, a little one.  The plan was to increase the bet once I can already see the consistency, meaning I should have a good winning percentage. Actually the real challenge here is on setting up a decent bankroll and managing it.

Rules though or sports betting are very easy, if you are a beginner, you can just bet on the teams that you think who will win that's it. And then as you go along, you might see options like handicap or multi-betting which makes it more exciting.

And for sure majority of gamblers didn't started this way, they go bet online or even with others to see who will win, that's it. Very easy to understand. Getting into this kind of demo mode will just delay the inevitable in my opinion. That you're going to fall in love with it and become addicted.

I do not see why not, in my case I paper traded for months before doing so for real, so that kind of experience will not be odd to me at all, the only difference is that I do not really have any hopes of making any money while gambling, so making such an effort for months seems like a waste, as I could do something else with my time.

That being said, those that have hopes of turning professional gamblers through sport bets, will do well to try this and see if their strategy holds up when used on the real world.

Although I don't need this to start somewhere again if I'm going to get into sports betting since I don't need some refresher. But I do see those that want to try it for their first times like having a play money, this is just for fun and might helpful for them. If you are fearing of losing your money and just want to test how good you are then you can always get into paper betting or any of these play money just to have fun. Because if you don't have anything to do and yet you don't have money to gamble and bet some with your favorite sports and the casino that you use have this or you know a platform that supports this kind of feature then you can simply enjoy.

But in return, you are not expecting real money to come to you because you're playing to have fun with those paper betting or play money and that's not convertible to cash but I think of it as a way like a training ground for someone who's training himself to have some good experience in betting. You can improve your skills doing this and you'd get to see how well you're doing on it.

It is a good way to practice for the newbies and a good way to analyze your decision making skills. When you are doing this on paper try to write out the reasoning as to why you thought a specific event outcome to come or not come. That way when the event happens you can look back at where you went wrong or right.

However sports betting still carries a luck factor in it so you might not be able to do justice with your predictions. If that happens, dont bother because it betting and is supposed to be like that.

Not just you mate, many other gamblers won't do it and it could be considered to be a waste of time in doing that when the game gambling is not about how much time you take to learn about it that determines how often or consistently your winnings will be coming in but basically  determined by chance if you will win or lose.

Furthermore, sports betting shouldn't be that had for a pure beginning in as much as he has some ideas about the team's and the rules of play in that particular sport he's interested in making his predictions on for a bet. Football for instance, as a football fan you don't need be told a team like Manchester City is with high chances of winning a team like Aston Villa in a match, it's just for you to go ahead with a straight win for Man. City and that's how it begins down to other gambling options as you proceed. Right?

It is a waste of time. It is not even games that I do not know about but sport betting. I bet on sports that I know. That is why I prefer to just go for football. I know everything and what I need to go for without any demo. Demo is used by people that wants to know something but do not want to use their money to learn the thing. I know about sport betting and I can not go for paper betting.

Yeah, there's still a part where you can win based on luck, but the thing is, analysing and formulating a strategy to formulate your decision is a must even in sports betting, and it gives those sports bets more chances of winning if you carefully analyse the game or the two opposing teams or players. That's why being updated on the sports you are betting on is important, so you can know or have an idea who will win or not. 

I like sports betting, and it makes up my whole gambling career, meaning I mostly do sports betting rather than gambling, such as relying on luck. Sports betting is my number one gambling game, and second is card game-based gambling because it does not rely on luck more. So I'd rather play sports betting than every other gambling game, and if I have to start playing paper-based betting, then I'm open to exploring it.

I preferred to learn through my experience on gambling because it’s just a based on luck even if I do some analysis on a game. There’s a lot of unknown variables that affect a game such as star player not performing well, injury and other unforeseen event. I just use small amount whenever I’m still on this learning phase and increase gradually when the result is looking good until I hit a bumps of lose which means I start again from scratch.

I usually watch a lot of matches on a same league before I place a bet and enter to my learning phase of actual betting. Nothing is wrong when playing using paper bet but there’s really no fun if there’s no money involved.

The importance of paper betting just like paper trading should be limited to helping the gambler master the gambling environment, the rules and various gambling options. It should never be used as the real gambling experience because gambling with real money is totally different from paper gambling. The simple proof is that in paper gambling, emotions are not engaged, the gambler is scared of losses because it is not real money. But in real gambling, emotions are active, the feeling of fear alone can result to mistakes and eventually losses. In demo trading, almost all traders make profits and find trading so easy but when real capital is involved, everything changes, the once winning strategy will start to give losing streak. This will not be any different from gambling the reason I suggest any newbie gambler should fund small amount of money and test gambling with it rather than using paper gambling.

For me, no. But I'll recommend it for beginners. It would help beginners to understand the basics of sports betting with the financial risk. Track picks, analyze outcomes, refine your strategies, and gain confidence before wagering real money. All in all it still depends on an individuals personal choice if paper betting or use real money. Take time to learn and practice.

I would love to print out previous results and do a thorough research and do some analysis on past performance, past results, how many goals achieve in each match and summarise them to give me atleast %90 accurate predictions despite I know that gambling is a game of luck but chances of winning will be higher than chances of loosing.

If a starting gambler knows his sport then I bet he will jump the gun and start betting with money at risk. Plus, the best part of today's sports bookies is they are not expensive. You can bet to as low as $0.09 in one sport and you can even boost the odds by making a parlay if there's a feature added to boost it.
I don't think this will work out in today's era considering how cheap the minimum bet is. I mean, for me I'd rather take my chances on that and spice up the game because I put money on the line.
Also, the ease of access to all the information about sports is out on the internet so making the winning chances higher is easy. But, maybe I want to try those kinds of things just for experience. I mean, that's old school and it could be fun.

But OP I did not remember talking about how I have quit gambling to restart up again or you mean to say assuming I am to begin betting as a beginner?

I will take it from the above. Lol.
As a beginner at all costs, one would always stand that chance to resolve with its financial potentials looses especially when you engages on some demonstrative exercises towards your endivoirs so, betting on a paper shit as a beginner without staking a fund and could keep my prediction results on track is a buyable and acceptable suggestion OP, I understand that gambling is a game of luck that even a beginner can make a straight winning while the experienced gamblers could be doomed and loosing.  But that does not make a change of illiciting that you do not need to study the gambling networks and its formations on how the games are picked with some strategeous analysis because that lies your confidence even though the game did not countered as predicted.
So playing a demo or playing on the paper and keeping your games on track at which you don't need to loose or win any stake can enhance your gambling experiences after which spending much practical times on a realistic gaming but only that there was no stakes involved.

Hence and afterwards you must have learnt some lessons on what could cause your winning and what you bring you to fail. I love demo practitioner.

Naturally before one goes into gambling there is always a force that drives that person into gambling which is called "Desire" and this eagerness will caused you to go learn lot of things about gambling in order to start playing gamble. In nutshell we don't going back paper betting before going in the real betting but however, gambling is a game of interest and likeness if someone do not develop interest she will never gamble no matter how hard you tried to push that person.
With the look out of things there are people who might not want to go back to paper bet because they always want to start it straight that will be better for them than going through those long processes.  

Well, having to spend time to learn something before doing it is always an advantage to a person or people, but to be honest with you, I see no way betting on paper actually helps a gambler, because there are no technicalities in sports betting, so what exactly is there to learn?

You either risk the money or you are not betting, it's as simple as that, paper betting does not help a gambler learn anything, because that someone won several bets on paper doesn't mean that he or she will also win several bets when money gets involved, I personally remember that most of the time when a sports match is on, or there is a game coming up, I usually in my head choose who my favorite team is, and hope for them to win the game, and sometimes, it does happen that the team I loved and hoped for them to win actually end up winning, and some other times, it turns out that I was wrong, as the team I believed would win end up losing, if I had betted money on this games, It would have been the same, some wins and some losses.
So, of what essence is betting on paper before actually betting real money? When in reality, I don't see how it helps a gambler?.

That good because this will give gamblers experience and learning to be able to make good predictions before actually going to the gambling site to risk their money, especially beginners must know this method to avoid losing too often.
In sports betting, knowledge and experience are very useful so carrying out several activities that can increase experience and develop knowledge is effective.
But unfortunately most gamblers don't care about this because they are too curious and have the ambition to immediately risk money and hope to win.

I never done it before but this is good advice, I loved sports since I was teenager and football was the first sport I liked.
I have watched lot of matches and read lot of information about sports since I was teenager, so there is some knowledge and experience that I can use as basis for making predictions.
Hahaha, I remember betting with childhood friend on football match where the loser had to give up some of his school pocket money.

I agree with your point of view. I don't see anyway where we can feel the real thrill of betting when it is done on paper. There is no psychological trick that can make the person feel it is real.

I also think that the paper method is for the older folks who like to take it slow and steady. As for younger folks, real betting is the fastest way to learn from your betting mistakes an be the best at it.

 Paper betting is no fun. I can't do it but doesn't mean I lack the discipline. I would rather do bank roll management using an amount in an afford to lose and start betting a unit or two a day after dividing it by 100.

No!

I know that many people will argue that this is the best way for you to start betting, get to know the games better and learn the best strategies, but I think this is nonsense.
Do you know why?
Because only the psychological pressure of putting in real money will teach a person to play for real.
No one will bet, for example, $100 on a real game knowing that they can lose it just because they think that is the best strategy, even if it goes against all predictions.

When placing real money, the probabilities are much more important than any strategy a person makes in a fake game, that's a fact.

Only those who put real money at risk learn to bet for real.

I started betting with odds and I’m not a fan of betting on such much games at a time, and the most games I can have on a bet slip should be 5  but I don’t know for others
And since you’re already comparing this to demo trading, I think it’s not the right thing to do, as basically I think, demo trading is of no use but just to help a trader get familiar with the broker without having to use real money and anyone who ever got confident after using demo accounts would understand that, trading with demo is absolutely a different thing from trading with real cash and same thing might also happen in this type of betting as one might be very good on paper and end up being a flop in real life money account.

Hence I don’t think I might be interested in paper betting but rather head straight to betting with real cash as long as I’m already familiar with the casino.

I learned about sports betting without these tests. I think new bettors or not, don't need a sort of demo account in sports betting. They will feel comfortable and just relaxed betting anywhere since there's no risk money. As a result, they won't learn something about what they're doing.

For preparation purposes, they can risk about $5-10 as a start per match. At least in that way, they will be serious about forming their respective analysis since there's real money involved now on their bets unlike feeling comfortable and might not apply any serious analysis if their bets will be done in a paper betting.

You can kinda do paper betting on your own by noting down your preference on a match and taking a screenshot of it.
Ofc it requires a bit of tracking but I like to do it this way because for me it  matters to get the same odds as in the provider you'll be playing at later, even if at the moment you're out of disposable income that you can feel comfortable to place bets with.

The thing with sites that offer paper betting is that they have slightly better odds sometimes so its easier to get lured in the action through them. An alternative would be to place minimum value bets. It's like 0.2$ or 0.30$ for a minimum bet on most sites. Not 0 but not too high either. So this way it also helps you take it a bit more seriously.

For a started it’s just like a demo trying to explain what some terms means but after that I do not think it will go in a way to help them psychologically when trading with one’s real funds. The paper betting doesn’t comes with emotions so the fun isn’t there and once this person gets to the real one they start to get scared as not to lose money and with this fear one definitely ends up picking panic games or odds and later end up winning.

There is no doubt that this is a good idea, because it allows people to practice more and develop more efficient strategies, for example if a person wants to start betting on the over and under goals market, then that person first needs to identify the leagues that has a lot of goals and the leagues that have few goals and then which are the teams that score a lot of goals and which are the teams that score fewer goals, then that person needs to test betting with little money if they start to see that they are getting it right often then You can increase the amount of money, but if you are on a site like this where the person does not need to use money to place a bet, then this is a very good thing for that person to do all the testing.

also if a person decides to start betting on the card market, then that person should also start researching the leagues in which there are a lot of red and yellow cards and which teams receive the most cards and the teams that receive the least cards, Then that person can use this site to bet and when they see that they can get a lot right then they can start betting a lot of money. The truth is that when we are in sports betting it is difficult for us to dominate all markets, so every time a person wants to dominate more markets then that person needs to do tests to see if they can bet on that market and make a profit.

after the tests and that he can move on to bets with a higher value of money, there are many cases in which in a game betting on the winner, loser or draw does not have a good odds compared to the risk, but also betting on over and under goals does not have good odds either. good odds compared to the risk, in this case when the person dominates the cards and corners market they can bet on these two markets if they have good odds and with acceptable risk and the person who has already practiced a lot can get it right and come out with a profit. So there is a lot of advantage to dominate many markets

I started gambling on sports games, football to be precise, and during that period, it was my friend who was guiding me on how to make predictions and would also give me an already-booked game to just enter the code and stake on the same games as his. I did not find it fun to learn gambling through the paper method, and even if I were to start learning gambling from a fresh start, I would not use such a method but would go straight to business. 

Honestly, if I was just gettin' into sports betting nowadays, I'd definitely put paper betting first on my agenda.  It's kinda like those training wheels for learnin to ride a bike.  Just divin' right into plunkin' down real dough can be a fast-track to a nasty money migraine, right? Paper betting lets a guy sharpen up his betting skills without takin' shots to the wallet at first.

Oh, so it's like play money. Yes, it could be good, that's okay with circle of friends doing that. We usually do that on our childhood games but not with gambling.
Although it could be good for demo, but i guess it won't take long that you will be bored and wants to bet real money to win real money too.

I found that boring. How can a newbie bettor improve their betting skills if there are no risks? The real pressure is when there's at stake.

Honestly, there's no need to learn sports betting deeply before a newbie will try to engage. Basic knowledge is enough and advanced knowledge can be learned along the way. A newbie can also practice sports betting for real without risking a large amount of money.

As I mentioned, basic knowledge is enough to start sports betting. For a newbie who is already familiar with and knowledgeable about the sports they prefer to bet on, they just need to learn the interface of the betting platform, how to make deposits, understand the terms, and how to place a bet.

The OP presented a beginner bettor who is trying to understand the world of betting by using paper slips to list his bets but not really placing money for such bets. So what the person trying to do is to just list his bets and see what the results of the games so he can practice betting once he actually place money on it. Though it is a good activity to be familiar with the sportsbetting game but do remember that each betting game is still different. Even with the same sports, as each game is different, different teams/athletes, venue, coach among others.

No not really. Long before I've started gambling I was already trying to predict winners/losers between matches of my favorite eSports games, so I don't really think there's a difference between that and this. And at this point, I can pretty much afford what I can lose when gambling so I'm completely fine with me actually losing it all lol.

In fact I don't think they even need to pick a choice from a bookie. They can just reference it even after the match itself and see if they won or not.

Carrying around pieces of paper from betting slips can be tiring and fill up someone's pocket or purse unnecessarily. Many bettors who started sport betting in places where it is paper used like in physical shops did so because there was not the option of online betting available to them then. Betting online is what paper betting has developed into, any gambler who still will want to paper slips from betting is very old fashioned and not easy to accept change.

This is a good one for those that don't want to risk their money and just testing the waters. But the next part of the story is on how good they are in doing these predictions and bet in paper and when they're done with that phase, they'd do the actual thing.

Now, here's the matter here, when they go into the actual gambling. It is not what the expected thing of theirs to happen and that's going to make them surprised with that because the anticipation from doing paper bets is what they have been based of.

But then, after trying the actual thing then it's best to just welcome them to the real thing and the real world with these kinds of bets that they would do soon.

Maybe for beginners, but for those who have been in sports betting for years, I doubt that they will go in this stage. If ever they try then there will be something of a void, something is missing and that is the adrenaline of winning real money here.

Nothing is bad for those who are going to start with paper betting, but this could be just for education purposes.

And as I have said, when we gamble there are a lot of emotions involved. And it can't be replicated in paper betting. The dynamics of betting with real money is very different and it can't be replicated without wagering.

It is an alternative to which those who do not have experience and would like more than to earn money to be entertained should go, in my case I would not do it, I can assume at sports betting losses without problems.

If you were to restart sports betting again, would consider learning first by betting on paper. This involves selecting 1 to 2 games daily and tracking the outcomes of your picks without wagering real money on a sportsbookie platform.
It is just like demo trading. Would do it if you were to begin sports betting again or jump right straight into the real thing?