Topic: What makes a good bettor? - page 2. (Read 1025 times)

In a roller coaster, there is no winner. It is full of ups and downs with a lot of people having fun and if you give in to that feeling, you will puke your way out. The best thing here is not to give in to that feeling, and aiming to be a winner in a long time is not bad either it will just make some bad results in the long run. Always remember that a gambler can win in a day but it will not be the same in a month. Keep track, Keep safe and keep being emotional.

That's right, everyone should acknowledge that it's not easy to be a good better, similar to saying it's not easy to win. Gathering information is just some basic requirement as you needed that to analyze a game before you put your bet, but the real battle was really when you are already in the driver's sit as you have to play against all odds, I mean, just like a roller coaster ride, you go up and down, so you have to survive and make sure you'll be the winner in the long run.

It is not easy to be a good bettor, because we must have knowledge. Without knowledge we are just playing on instinct and that's a bad idea.
Another thing to be a good bettor requires expertise in gathering information, because the more complete information we can collect. The more
accurate our choices are for betting, even the more information we can get can increase our winning chance.

Not common.

If I want to bet on sports I should know the odds. I should know about the teams which players is resting which is playing what is the previous score of the team/batting order and many things like that. I just cannot simply bet on England over Indies or some other team.

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You can be good on games which are somewhat based on skills (like poker). But, other games like dice, slots or roulette requires no skill at all. Those are game of chances which depends totally on your luck. No skills or "strategies" will change the outcome of your bets. Anyone that claims that certain trick or way of playing will give you profit, are actually being delusional. They are ones who say you will win after "x" number of losses. Google the term "gamblers fallacy".
On game of chances, everyone has the equal chance of winning/losing. If someone is getting really lucky, tell him to keep on betting and you will see that in the long run, his win/loss ratio is the same as others.

Those knowledge are common, obviously, you need those to play those games because how can you play if you don't know how to play. A good bettor is probably a calm and casual gambler, of course, you need to think well to be a good better and the important thing is not being a greedy person.

Greed will make you lose all of your income because your mindset is to gain more even at all costs, in that way, you will lose a lot and that isn't considered as a good bettor.

What I believe if a person wants to start betting then he must have knowledge about that specific game first. Secondly he must know when to stop so he must not end up with nothing and losing all money. He must fix a amount that he will not bet more then that no matter he wins or lose.
And the most important part he must not get greedy.

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Please, share with me at least a simple "strategy" and tell me how it will help me if i don't have a knowledge about the subject to which i bet. I want to hear a real example, even the simplest. Thx

Although playing betting game is mostly based on probability and luck associated on the games, still being a good bettor in need to have prior knowledge about the game he wishes to play. Sometimes gut feel works on placing bets but that was just pure luck for standing a chance to place the correct amount of bet on that particular situation. Being a good bettor must know the rules of the game and how the game works because on that cases, you will be depending the strategy you will do on how you will manage to place your bets on that game.

Just placing bets on any game you do not know is simply a gamble and a risk taking making luck works on your side. But the game of bets does not always be favorable to you so to be able to be a good bettor in a sense that you are enjoying playing and making the game took a long run, you must know everything about the game so you would know how you will strategize managing the amount of bets you will place.

Having that kind of attitude is good, that would make your approach realistic and you'll be able to adjust accordingly as you learn from your mistakes and you continue to grow as a gambler. We will understand that gambling is not easy if we are realistic because we have to prove to ourselves first if we are really profitable with what we are doing, if we are not realistic, we will forget the loses and only count the winnings, that's why we aren't going to the right direction.

I agree with what you said. I have only recently become interested in betting like this. You can compare it to science as if you were just experimenting. I do not rely too much on luck because when you know you have a strategy that is used for you that is effective you can achieve what you expect. However, what still matters is that you know what you are doing and the limit. I just enjoy my games, win or lose is okay because I know that only two sides are the destination result.

Why bet if you just lose? You should not think of losing ...

That said, if you are going to fight you must be ready, carrying a weapon ...

You will learn a lot from your future gaming experiences. Of course, you should also know what you are playing. Choose where you are good ... Once you have learned something, then you can think of ways to somehow have a chance to win.

That's what you called luck, but you can't be a good bettor if you always rely on luck, you need some consistency here so you'll be able to survive when time comes that you will be tested, gambling if you take it seriously, you need to consider it a journey where you face challenges along the way and you just have to improve.



Hardwork is useless if you can't win, that's a waste time, you need to be smart to win, and you need to stop when you don't have a chance.

It is "possible" to know the winners without "the stats" or having "ample knowledge about all of the subjects"
It can be revealed to you "supernaturally" by our CREATOR. This is the part many people don't want believe exist even though HE does.

But we would just rely on hardwork because of other bettors... so we don't have unequal advantage over them just for selfish reason

Their ratio doesn't matter.

What matters here is how you would be able to do such things, better things than them. I am not saying that you should be competitive with these people, what I am saying is that if you gather enough knowledge, enough experience in this platform, in these bettings, you should be able to start something that they might not know and you will be popular in your own way. It is hard but gathering information and analysis based on others could led you to something good. Despite all of that, you should not always depend on what they can give, it is always based on what you can do.

If you're uncertain whether or not you'd make a good gambler, then chances are you're not.  As others have pointed out, for wagers against living animals, knowing their previous wins and losses / whether they are at or near their peak performance can play an important factor, however, more random games such as the throw of the dice, flip of the card, or where the ball lands, these increasingly require a different kind of skill.

But if you could predict where a ball will land, then the game isn't tough enough to wager on in the first place.

I totally agree with you, that experience plays a very important role in making us a good bettor. But many people prioritize other things
such as knowledge and making the best strategy as the main factors of being a good bettor. Even though we shouldn't be too focused on it.
If you have a long experience, it will automatically create our knowledge develops and from experience we can learn from the mistakes we
make, it will create a powerful strategy.

You will eventually become good at something if you have been dong this for a long time and you spend a lot of time analyzing and setting up a system to make analysis much easier, they do exist if you look around you will eventually meet people who are successfully betting with a higher ratio of winning against losing.

More on controlling yourself, if you have that discipline and you are precise with doing your strategy, it will allow you to stop when it's needed either sides win or lose, it's best to have a good control with your emotions, its saves you a lot, not just your bankroll but also your temper, without good control, you are more prone to addiction and that's not the qualities of being a good bettor.

That is the tempted of the gambling that will make gamblers always back to the games and spend more money. We cannot deny that when we play gambling, our passion will become bigger, and we still want to use more time to play. But of course, that will not make our luck will always beside us. It is why we need always to have control to say stop when we think it's enough to play gambling.

The gambler will decide when they will stop gambling, but most of them stop gambling because they run out of their money. That is one condition that forces them to stop and cannot continue playing gambling.


I hope there will attract more gamblers who can stop when they win, so they can save the win money and enjoy that money. Although they cannot always win, with just one big win, and they stop from playing gambling, that will be worth for them because they now have the money, and they can use that money for anything they want.

We need to control the curiosity that we have because that will makes us need more time to play gambling. That will not be good for us, especially if we are tempted to continue playing gambling.


I feel that too, and I have that bad experience before. But if we don't learn to anticipate ourselves from playing more rounds, we will not have a chance to save our money. But I am happy that now I can at least hold myself from playing gambling longer than others because I always remember my bad experience, and I don't want to repeat the same thing.

So true. If we can just get ahold of ourselves, we will not be having a problem with a lot of losses especially those losses that we shouldn't even be a loss. I do said this but there are really those times that it is really hard to control ourselves, it is just like you feel you are very lucky and you feel that you can go home with a lot of cash but the opposite happens. A good bettor has control over themselves and is always rational rather than emotional.