Topic: What makes you hide your bets in public? (Read 324 times)

A brief summary of the response:

1st reply said - not really something urgent for a small bettor. Username is enough for him/her.
2nd reply said - complete discretion and zero public influence.
3rd reply said - only if the information given on the website is related to players real identity.
4th reply said - like the privacy of being able to wager without anyone knowing how much he/she lost or won.
5th reply said - embarrassed to show himself/herself betting.
6th reply said - should be between the casino and the player only. No sense in displaying it in public.
7th reply said - mostly seen on highrollers to avoid other influencing other players to passively beg.
8th reply said - everybody has a right to discretion and right to his privacy. Usually hides his bet from public when betting high.
9th reply said - To avoid being in the position where players ask for tips.
10th reply said - To protect strategy.
11th reply said - Does not hide his bets. But also do not give recommendations to avoid blame.
12th reply said - observation is that hiding bets are for highrollers. He himself do not see this as very essential.
13th reply said - To avoid public attention. For safety.
14th reply said - Privacy to avoid being targeted by hackers.
15th reply said - Dont want the public to see if his winning or losing. Also helps him focus.
16th reply said - Dont see sense in publicly showing his bets.
17th reply said - don't want lurkers to see him as he feels embarrassed when he lose.
18th reply said - to avoid public attention and to protect strategy. Personally hide his bets when stakes are high.
19th reply said - to avoid prejudice from people in his location.
20th reply said - embarrassed of his small wagers.
21st reply said - personal choice not to show anybody if his winning or losing or how much he bets. Also to avoid public attention that sometimes results into having unsolicited messages, requests for tips.
22nd reply said - only considers showing his bets in public if he wins jackpot and wanted to share it to public. Also to hide strategy from others.
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24th reply said - to avoid unwanted attention.
25th reply said - for contests advantage..
26th reply said - dont hide his name from public bets list. To interact with other players.
27th reply said - showing it in public is only for marketing. Hiding it is personal choice.
28th reply said - privacy advocate. Tries to stay away from public.
29th reply said - do not hide it unless it can harm his account .
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32nd reply said - Dont want to influence others into gambling.
33rd reply said - Dont use it much because he feels that nobody will be interested with "anchovy" gambler.
34th reply said - Havent tried hiding his bets. Will probably do if lose streak will make him feel embarrassed.
35th reply said - Dont care about his account total statistics but if he is to gamble more, then he will consider.
36th reply said - Dont care if his bets is shown on public. He prefer to have his username private.
37th reply said - Hides his bet when stakes are higher.(bankroll is high) To avoid unsolicited attention from public which distracts him. Also shows his name when necessary for challenges.
38th reply said - Hides his bets to avoid prejudice and being ridiculed. (Mushi lang sakalam!)
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40th reply said - small bets, sometimes hides it for privacy. Dont want others to have an idea of his balance.
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A little less than 40 inputs. Thank you guys.

To prove a point this is a lot of inputs thank you all.

Locking this for now. Next step is to tally....

This is what i do have in mind and on the first place i havent put up into my mind about hiding your bets into the public.Im not really that too confident that i could really beat up the house or beat up gambling or do make

out some strategy that you do believe that its working.If it does exist then thats the time you would really be considering out on not to make it public for it not to be saturated or being patched but we know thats not how reality works because there's no such thing about holy grail or what thats why i dont really bother most of the time.

Also, im just a small time gambler so making bets according into some betting habits will always be the norm and nothing special about it and just use on the amount
which i can afford to lose.

Am also of this opinion of not trusting my betting techniques since gambling is basically rely on luck, so if my bet is made public that does not mean others should copy my betting formula since it is not a guarantee for winning, individual differences and luck have a lot to do in the outcome of each bet.

Actually maybe my reason is the same as the people who have responded here because I am also a gambler with a fairly small bet so it doesn't really matter to me but there are indeed some cases that I do a little differently to hide it because there are some that I have to protect and I don't really want people to see what I do and how much balance I have there and I usually hide it.
But this only happens if I use my name which the public doesn't want to know.

Same here mate, I would be real glad to give some tip-off because that is what they want in the first place but I try to consider some things because my tip wasn't a guarantee for them to win because I cannot even guarantee myself with every bet I had. I just try to give some advice just like you but that doesn't mean a given name and team for example.

Also this one. I remember my days in nitrogensports wherein I posted a bet slip which is against the majority of the bets that time. I got ridiculed and laughed at for choosing the 'underdogs' with players that are 'inexperienced and washed out.' I won that bet, it was a tier 2 dota 2 qualifiers to a major that I already forgot which teams, but I remember so vividly how they mocked Mushi for being too old to play dota and whatnot. Afterwards I never posted a bet slip anymore even if it won due to that unpleasant experience. Nothing major but it still is infuriating whenever I remember it.

Most crypto users value their privacy, therefore, hiding usernames and bets details on crypto casinos is supposed to be the default setting not the other way around.
Personally, I have the same username on almost all casinos, so being able to hide it is very important to me just in case someone is tracking me (regardless of whether he has malicious intents or he is just a curious person).

The situation is same here. I also hide my username when I play with bigger bankroll. I wasn't doing it in the beginning stage, but nowadays I keep my username hidden. Because, I had received lot's of mention in the chat, also PM from various people when my big wins appeared in the bet history page. It destruct my attentions from the betting. But I keep my username publicly available too when it is necessary for taking part in the challenges.

I don't mind showing people my bets, but I want my username to be private.  that is the only reason why I disabled showing username and hide it under the anonymous player.  I always play slots so there isn't much strategy from it.  I just press bet amount and auto spin, and everyone does that.  Aside from that, I don't have a huge bankroll so there is really no reason to hide my bets.

If you are referring to the total bets that has been wagered, I really do not care that much on making it known by the public. But maybe if I have more to gamble, I might consider hiding it.
On the other hand, if you are talking about bets... that on sports betting, I think it is much better to just not make it post in public as it might affect the amount of your winnings if the odds changed significantly. Maybe just share it once the event is completely done.

I haven't tried hiding my personal bets before since I'm just a small bettor. I guess I will only do that if I will feel ashamed of my continuous losses but so far, I still feel comfortable showing it. Some players like checking the account of huge bettors because of curiosity but I guess that's still safe as long as we're on a trusted site.

Actually I rarely use this feature because I rarely use my real name just pseudonym, maybe only the same name of this forum and even then it depends on the casino usually different too, another reason I want to look normal too but if want activate it maybe like you are concerned with strategy when participating in contests. After all no one will be interested in anchovy gamblers like me.

That's because I don't feel comfortable showing my gambling activities publicly. Besides, I don't want to be the reason someone will become addicted to gambling because they see me playing gambling. It is better for me to play gambling secretly in one place than to gamble in public. In addition, I play online gambling, so it won't make people suspicious if I'm in front of the computer because they will think I'm working.

Yes, this usually happens like this. Common new casinos keep bet history open on their site's home page. And there they show plenty of bets. Most of these are fake which they do themselves using bot. So I think it is better not to use such gambling sites. These sites are likely to be deceived.

Yeah, new people who see the other users bet history will feel attracted since they think the casino is really have many gamblers that played on their casino. But sometimes it can be faked, especially for new casinos. If you see the chat that only have few gamblers but the replay is really crowd, obviously it's faked.

This mean you did hide something since it will harm your account?

I personally don't hide it as long as it will not involve any sensitive information that may harm my own account. I haven't hide any bets in public since it's not that much they can get to anyway on  all of my accounts in online gambling. I think those whales probably needed it the most but for as shrimps, it won't matter I suppose.

To me, I always decide to stay private, as long as I don't have any connection with the public. I am a privacy advocate and I try as much as possible to stay away from the public, so if peradventure any newbies want to copy my betting formula is up to them to understand that my personal experiences are what influence decisions, understand that betting or gambling is influenced by so many factors and following a laydown technique is a wrong betting behavior but following the right statistics will give you an accurate result.

Usually many sites keep their site bet history open.  Where everyone can see that history. Through this they increase the publicity of their site. It looks like new gamblers are attracted to that site.  For this they made such a plan. But if you are a professional gambler.  So I think it's best to keep your bet history hidden. And all those gambling sites hide their bets history.  That site should be used

Privacy might be more important than to have fun, and its really a choice of every gambler.
I do prefer to gamble with my username in public, I don't take this seriously and sometimes I also want to interact with other gamblers and I see this more fun. There's an option with this where you can set up your account as a private, we've seen this before and that's fine. Hiding means you want to be protected, regards of your status you can still have this kind of settings.