Topic: What to read about gambling? - page 6. (Read 2486 times)

I don't know if I have something contrary to these, someone who doesn't know gambling can not achieve how to gamble with reading, the only process whereby you can achieve gambling is through making research and a tutorial that has to do with video coverage, so that person will learn or know gambling with a demonstration, I don't about other people's, gambling is something I know that people don't learn about it, but the environment they find themselves will make them to know about it, I haven't seen someone who practice gambling with book reading,  it might be new methods but I don't that it will work, because they will be a lot controversial things about it, that will make the reader to lose concentration  to read and learn more.

Reading a book? I think it is the same as riding a bi-cycle by reading a book. You know very well it is not easy to learn how to ride a bi-cycle by reading a book. I think it is the same regarding learning how to gamble by reading a book. It is useless except for research knowledge of sportsbooks. It may only help a little of a sportsbook.

Yes, in my opinion, there is no need to read books, the important thing is that we already understand how to play and the game and have knowledge about the sport we want to bet on. Maybe when we want to bet, we just look for ideas and also look for the best and most accurate information and see previous matches, injuries, and so on that can help us in making decisions. If we have to read books, it's the same as we are very intent on becoming true gamblers which in my opinion is just a waste of time and in the end, whatever the reason, gambling still relies on luck. In fact, there are still many things that are important and useful for us and if we want to read books, it's a good idea to read books that are indeed useful for us in the long term.

Of course, betting carelessly without having skills and knowledge and also research will make betting in vain and risk losing, and if it continues to be done, it will only waste money.

I am not sure that if what is funny there but are you guys best friend? And are you the the friend that he is referring in his post? HHmm.. Not all that is being ask are common for us and that is the reason why they are being asked. Online courses are the same as studying in schools, so I think all of them are legit, although maybe not all are good enough. Even though we have a sport that we are good at, there will still be times that we can get unlucky, resulting for us to lose a lot. More number of games can lead to more profits if we are lucky even if we only bet small but most who does it are only doing it mostly for fun purposes and trying their luck.

Great that you are like that. Even though you seek knowledge but at least you are still on your own when it comes to development.

Here is the situation. I like playing poker, Texas hold 'em. All the game rules and aspects can fit on a single A4 sheet of paper. 5 minutes of reading, hour of practice and anyone is ready to start. All the skill comes from the more I play. What will I get after reading 670 pages long Super System II: A Course In Power Poker? I doubt that after reading I can to any tournament and win it. As a literature to kill time or to read something about poker it is perfect. But would reading it give me any benefits or improve my skill?

Sports betting often has an element of surprise that makes us sometimes lose money although we have analysed all the matches, especially if we bet blindly, obviously it will make our chances of losing money even greater, doing analysis before betting is a better thing even though it cannot guarantee that we will win in a bet, in my opinion, what you have done has shown the depth of thought needed in sports betting, but remember as I said above, even with very deep analysis, betting still has an element of unpredictability.

Yeah. We discussed whether reading books is necessary and what to read about gambling. As you can see, I have mentioned a couple of points and believe other forum members agree. If someone knows the sports where they place bets, they don't have to read books for strategies or ideas about winning more bets.

If don't know a team and their potential, but still decide to bet for them, then I am a dumb guy. No matter how strong my strategy is, I am going to lose my bankroll if I continue doing same thing over and over.

Everybody's preference is different so if your friend prefer reading books to articles on forum like Bitcointalk or talking to gamblers that are ahead of him in gambling then I find Amazon as go-to option. He can go on Amazon and type in gambling and a lot of books on gambling will pop out for him, from how to make profit on slot machine gambling to dealing with gambling addiction.

There's a lot of options for him to choose from.  While I believe in books, I think talking to experienced gamblers have actually played the game on recent would help a lot you know and that's why I love trying out different games so I could get practical knowledge on them to share for someonelse.

Reading a guidebook does allow you to increase your knowledge of how to properly analyze all matches, but in my opinion it is nothing more than basic knowledge because in gambling, everything is very possible to change when someone is already in a game session, many gamblers forget the planning they have prepared at the beginning and usually it happens because they are carried away by the atmosphere.
So it does not mean that I am saying that reading books is not important, but in gambling, direct experience is usually what will be a provision for consideration when they enter the next gambling session, such as the ability to stop at the right time because they have previously felt regret for applying greed instead of cashing in, believe me someone will usually obey something they have previously experienced, whether it is positive or negative.
Basically in any case, experience will always be the best teacher, reading books is good but it is usually very easy to forget when someone is already in a game session because the atmosphere in the game is usually different, so changes for the better depend on whether a gambler is able to learn from his experience or not and not about books.

Yes, in fact, the issue of accidents cannot be ignored. Sometimes, even strong teams unexpectedly lose to weaker teams, because the playing conditions of each player are not always the same, sometimes they perform much better, and also sometimes their playing performance is very bad, this usually happens.
However, knowledge of sports, match statistics, and experience of these allow us to make better decisions when betting (but not for sure win), but the most important thing is that we always need to keep the risk in mind. Because any strategy, or any research, can't give you guarantee a sure profit in gambling. That is why we must be prepared for both final results (win or lose), because losing in gambling is very natural.

You do the right thing. That is how every sports bettor should place bets. I don't think strategy matters too much if you don't know match facts and if you do not have knowledge about the sports and the match where you are going to place bets, and you are relying on just your strategy, then you won't be able to go too far.

When I place bets, I check the previous match stats, Head-to-head stats, the availability of favorite players, and team news. That actually helps to understand if your team is going to win or not. Accident happens, and sometimes big teams lose against weak teams.

Books? I have never read a book about gambling, and for sports betting it would be very helpful if you understand the sport or can be said as a lover of the sport because it means you follow every match and development of the club or athlete from that sport which can be used as a reference for choosing bets, and this is not obtained from books but knowledge because of following the development of this sport, you can get knowledge about gambling from books maybe about the types of bets or terms but don't know what the name of the book is because I only use sources on the internet which are quite a lot can be used as material for learning.

That is correct. Gambling is the only way to improve chances of making a correct guess when placing a bet. Gambling makes gamblers understand when it is a proper moment to act. I can read 100 books about riding a bicycle, but without trying to ride and riding it for a while, I wont become better. I can read various science books, but that wont make a scientist not even close.

 

A brand new account suggests that you don't need to read about gambling if you want to learn more about gambling. Haha.

It's always good to learn about the basics of something, like trading, casino games, and BlackJack before actually trying them with your own savings. BUT, don't make a presumption that because you "know" the basics that you won't lose money trying them. It's a fact that about 90% of all "traders" lose money after a large sample size. It's 100% for playing casino games - you simply cannot beat the house edge.

I believe in practice make perfect. If anyone wants to learn more about gambling, they have the be ready to learn from the people that have been in the game for a very long time. With this way, we would learn about gambling with ease and also reading books and other interesting events is very good to help sharpen our knowledge about gambling. Those that do not know much about gambling can be taking some of their time to play games especially with people that have good experience about betting.
No hard about gambling and all that is required is for us to keep trying playing bets for a better winning.

What kind of information is he looking for exactly?

I am guessing he isn't betting on poker, so poker knowledge wouldn't help him. There are no books that would be up to date when it comes to teams or their performance. Nor there are books with good gambling strategies that aren't 100 years old or recycled ideas that fall under the gambler's fallacy.

I understand where your friend is coming from, but sounds like he needs to read about gambler's fallacy and psychology behind the gambling, rather then look advices or tricks that work.

Just because something is physically printed doesn't mean it's not false or made in order to sell more books, just like influencers sell their tricks for ad money now. There really are no "better" tricks in books then online, which your friend shouldn't trust either.

Hmm being a professional gambler is indeed possible but in my opinion it will not make you completely avoid defeat because in any case defeat will always be a part of the game that can never be separated and that is the reason why I think gambling should not be taken too seriously in life because in the end gambling is still a game of probability, but yes it doesn't matter if for example you want to increase your knowledge by reading books or looking for lots of references from various other sources because maybe it can help to increase your chances of winning especially when you are involved in a skill-based game type, but actually regardless of whether you are a professional or a gambler usually for the matter of the results in my opinion will not be too different, so in my opinion it is better to learn various things that are useful to minimize risk.

I think the more obvious something is about a certain game, the less advantage will there be in terms of identifying favorable odds. Especially in sports betting in very popular sports, there isn't usually much of an advantage that you can gather by processing additional information. most of the important aspects are known beforehand and sometimes you might be able to find good odds when the game is live because you have a different opinion about certain adjustments the bookmakers might do during the games.

Then I think there are certain offers that make more sense than others to bet on, but you can see that this is mostly a question of preferences. Some prefer to go with 3-way results most of the time, some prefer bets like BTTS and some prefer over/under.

I think it was a few weeks ago when I went with the top favorites only in all leagues and none of the three teams won their game. No rules or theoretical knowledge would have helped, it is the variance that you face whenever you gamble.

So again I think having good knowledge about a sport can help and otherwise it doesn't make a lot of sense to place bets if you have no idea at all about what you are doing, but no matter how well you know a league, you'll be wrong about the outcome more often than you think. Just do the test, take one league and fill in the results for every single match day and see how many of the results you actually get wrong. It is astonishing because so often it seems to be the easiest pick ever and than some superior team fails again. It reminds me of Liverpool losing against Nottingham at home. Or the bad streak that Manchester City went through, I bet that a lot of people lost money because of Manchester City for months now. Whatever theoretical knowledge they have, they lost money because nobody goes against Manchester City for like ten games or so.

So far in my years in gaining I haven’t heard or seen a book about gambling, maybe there is a book about gambling honestly I don’t know but so far with my little knowledge in gambling especially sports gambling because that my line of gambling, I think you just need to follow your team and know them well, know there weaknesses, their advantage over the other team, advantages such as who is playing at home, is any of their key players are injured and players that are available due to card and so on. So these are what gamblers look at before they bet on sport betting.

There are others who don’t even believe in such and all they do is pick there games base on luck and big name. I have a couple of fellow gambler who only gamble on big team to win and sometimes it pays him off, sometimes it doesn’t. As for your friend I think he just had a couple of bad luck in his betting, he will only get better. Even for people who gamble every day there go through periods like that.

Do you want to be a professional gambler? Of course, if the goal you want to achieve into a big -class gambler then read a book into one way to add insight into games and gambling, but if you only become a gambler in general to seek pleasure or entertainment, I don't think it needs to be that serious in learning gambling , the important thing is also to do when you want to gamble even if you become an ordinary gambler, namely reading SOPs and other rules in the casino so as not to get lost and or things that make us lose in the future because of our own mistakes.