Topic: What's your take? - page 4. (Read 891 times)

Point of correction, there is no risk in predicting the outcome of a game, the risk is with only when you bet money on the prediction, then you stand a chance of losing that money.  
Any body can predict the outcome of a game, and it is completely harmless to do so, and when one does, he or she will either be right or wrong, no body will flog you if your prediction is wrong, but when you stake money on your prediction, the risk is that, you will lose your money if you are wrong..
So, it's a wrong wordings, or sentence, to say, "it's risky to predict the out come of a game".

Gambling is actually gambling, how ever we chose to go about it, or what ever form or style, or approach we try to take, the truth remains that, we can only win if and when luck is on our side.
Some people have lost millions betting on low odds which supposedly was supposed to be a sure game, few months ago, or I think some time last year actually, we did discuss on this board, about a gambler who lost around $1.4 million dollars in a single bet with a 1.01 odds, that is, if he had won, he would have made a profit of around $11k, and he risked $1.4 million dollars for $11k, now, can you honestly say that the potential winning worth the amount he risked? Of course no, but I believe he did it because he believed that game was a sure win for him, but unfortunately, he lost.

This goes a long way to she that nothing is guaranteed as long as gambling is concerned, how ever strategy we implore in our sports betting, one will still win only when luck is at work.

For any gambler to win their bets, it only take luck to be on their side, else they will lose their stake. If I want to stake on a single match, I will rather make sure to add more game with small odds too or I will just stake the 1 game but with a small amount that will not give me emotional trauma. Since gambling is not something that anybody can be sure about the end result when the game is still on, there is no need to game with much money on a game that is not sure of being successful.

Small odds are for newbies who are gambling to be on the safer side even when they recorded losses on their ends. It's high time to know what's good and start doing the needful, having excellent experience and doing everything to positioned tougher outcomes when they come, atleast one wouldn't be shocked. I'm coming for significant odds, not holding back from hitting my spots in the system, I know how complicated it can become but these are the necessary risks that's worth taking. Winnings is based on one's arrangements.

Honestly I couldn't care for how much the odds are, although of course as a big bag baller myself I oftentimes find myself betting on larger odds for larger wins, but if I were to be held at gunpoint and be asked to choose between safe plays and larger odds, I wouldn't really have much of a distinction between the two and I'd end up getting shot lol.

But in all seriousness, I don't see how different and bad playing larger odds is against playing small odds or whatever, at the end of the day you're still gambling, and if you're bound to gamble on a fixed budget, chances are you're still going to spend the money anyway, you're just stalling to make the money last longer, and that's not bad either.

I'm all for every type of gambling/betting playstyle and I wouldn't really have much to say against them, I can play both and you wouldn't hear me complain. As long as the gambler, or in this case, me, is gambling with a sound mind and a setup that couldn't be broken by back-to-back losses, I can play without much trouble.

Besides, it depends on your familiarity with the teams involved. There are so many betting lines in each game. So if you are into sports betting, I guess by now, you already know what money line you are more comfortable of or you feel have higher chance of winning. May it be the "home or away" betting line or "over/under" and other MLs.


The probability to win for each money line depends on the current performance of the team and other factors such as weather, home turf or not, coach, athlete's lineup and others. So if you think you have better chance to place bet on other betting lines, why not?

OP, it's not bad risking on low odds with high amount. As long as we are willing to lose the money in gambling then it is worth the risk. Of course, it is crazy to choose a team with lower performance to win against t a team with a better performance, but crazy things happen sometimes in gambling. Especially sports betting. I have seen a scenario where gamblers win huge money by betting on smaller teams to win bigger teams of which it became worth the risk.

I feel like we should try things like this sometimes. It's easy, whenever you see that the smaller team have strong defensive players in you can chose them to win. This is because in the game they would hold their defense so strong while looking for the slightest counterattack to use to score their opponent. This is not a new thing, that is how all of these smaller teams know they could win the big teams. At last, it's just luck!

Betting on small odds is good but the possibility of one winning is very slim though they are both risky because you can't actually predict whether your favorite team to win or lose to me what I do bet most time when a game happens to be so is to "home or away" with this option you are not certain that your favorite club to will win. At times if the game night come out draw then I will select over "0.5" if the both team score or even one score maybe they played 1:1 then you still win the game than giving your favorite club straight winning while the outcome is against your favorite team.

It's a mix of everything, you can't live off sure bets, you make individual bets with low, medium and high probabilities, and then you make multi-bets of equal categories, it's a mistake to always be thinking about low probabilities.

Then after you make that mix of bets, at all the levels that suit your criteria,, then just wait, see What worked, what didn't and make the corrections or leave everything the same for the next betting cycle.

Winning in gambling is not always guaranteed as one can not predict the total outcome of a particular game before it ends that's very correct and yes nowadays odds don't determine the outcome of a match but on several occasions you get to see teams who are doing very well in in terms of their performance for instance a team that is first in the table playing at home with a team in the bottom of the table, the possibility of winning the game is far better than making several selections with hope that luck will help you to win. Gamblers needs to understand that there are more chances of winning when the right selection is made adding few games with few points will help the bettor to win.

This is the most hilarious thing I have hard while reading through this thread, betting $1 million on an 1:1 odds is quite insane and unimaginable thing, I am sure that that gamblers didn't know the risk and also the rewards,  or is it that he did not check the potential total rewards on a 1:1 odds, it's almost near zero let say he will be getting 100k return on the $1 million dollars stakes.

Quite sure the risk outweigh the possibility or even the advantage that come if he win the bet,  for me this is a near suicidal approach and not fair way to gamble at all, how can someone risk such an amount on a bet that have every chances to fail, or he was deceived in believing that lower odds will increase his chances of winning the bet.

No result is certain in sports betting. Making predictions is so difficult. One of the most difficult things is prediction. When you predict right, the outcome is left and when you predict left, the outcome is right. What makes this more difficult is that the odds do not give you glue as regards what the outcome will be. As you noted, accumulating small odds will not guarantee you winning because the outcome of sports betting is determined by factors before and during play and so even when a gambler is aware of some factors capable of making a decider before the match like home advantage, h2h record, officials etc, the gambler cannot predetermine factors like red card, referee bias and injury during the match and so this can affect the outcome of the game.

While betting on lower odds may provide a sense of security, especially when compared to compiling higher odds with bigger potential payouts, gamblers need to consider the balance between risk and reward. Placing large stakes on low odds can lead to significant losses if the prediction does not materialize so gamblers should assess their risk tolerance, set realistic expectations, and diversify their bets to minimize potential losses while maximizing profit opportunities.

The strategy really depends on the circumstances and also the mood in gambling. There are times when I take bigger risks with small bets with considerations such as doubts and also considerations of having fun. We know that the results of some international sporting matches are determined by the mafia, yes... instead of risking a lot of money, it's better to risk small money in the hope of getting big money on a team that is not at the top.

But opportunities are still opportunities, there are still lots of losses experienced by underdog teams, so sometimes betting on the number of goals is more interesting when there is a big team against a small team in the match.

However, betting on the Man City and Arsenal teams is currently a fairly safe choice when the top 3 teams play against the bottom teams. The odds offered may be very small, even touching x1.1, but that is quite fair because getting 10% of the money in 2 hours is not easy either... only in gambling can that happen and other factors of luck must come into play.

I don't see anything difficult with trying to know the outcome of a particular match in sport betting. Sport betting is one of the easiest bets we can play because getting to win is not far from 80% most time. The mistakes many people make us greedy of winning continually. Some are so greedy that would want to make a win of 200k at these time with small bankroll. Thing does not work like that and doesn't have to see it has too late for us to make sure that we such kind of betting would not works for us. It may work for one in one million gamblers and maybe in every 10 months. We don't need to gamble too much and use good funds that would fetch us good earnings.

I think playing a particular bet is the best way to stay from lose , playing several games is not a guarantee for one to win. I prefer a playing one game, with this I'm playing with amount that I can afford to lose . The mistake people do make in gambling is that they feel if they should play several games it is a chance of winning  but doing this is very risky that it is even easy to lose all and this will be a painful lose.  Playing with amount that you can afford to lose is the best way to go about gambling,  it will help one from losing much money in gambling. I believe in playing one game with amount I can afford to lose.

I prefer what I like even if it's big odds, but there's a certain satisfaction when you bet at big odds and then win it, so the satisfaction with pleasure will be even more passionate.

Unlike the small odds, for example you choose odds of 1.30 by betting a large amount and then the team wins then you are a little upset why not in a large amount again? Of course there is always a feeling like that, right?

Sometimes there are people who always choose with big odds and prefer the underdog team with great pleasure they don't care about losing, but when the underdog team wins then your satisfaction will be greater.

This is like betting against the odds and many bettor are doing this for some reason.
If you have the money then you can gamble like this but if you value your money and don’t have that much, then better to bet on good odds where you can have a good chance for winning. Some gamblers still love to gamble that much and take bigger risk, and personally I’m not that type of gambler because I always bet on the good odds.

Straight win? This is never a scenario where you have 100% certainty. What if the team you bet on does not win? The fact that theam has 1.3 to 1.5 means it's favoured, so more people bet on them, but its not a given win. You can still lose. I've seen favored team s lose many times. It's never a straight win.
Bet on the teams with high odds and you might get lucky, but that one time out of x (like 3 or 5) you will lose and that loss will hurt because yo were always making less money than you would in lower rankerd games where odds are different.

It seems like this depends on the goals and indeed the way of thinking about gambling of each individual because after all there are still those who will like single bet matches even if the odds are low but in other conditions many also like matches with higher odds.
I personally like the second option so when there is a match where the odds are quite small then I prefer to double it with a multibet and of course that is with the observation of several other matches that we have done.

As for both teams scoring although it is still possible and I still always do it but in the end this is looking further at what club will compete because it is indeed decisive in the end considering that sometimes even if something like this is still possible to be a bet but sometimes the situation in the match is quite difficult if you have to bet on this.

What's even the point of tossing a bunch of money on something that's pretty much a sure thing, when the payout can barely cover a small cup of coffee? I don't say you gotta go all in on some wild longshot, but if youre gonna try your luck, take a bit of a chance instead of playing it safe with pathetic returns.  Do some homework first scout out places where the odds are good but still interesting, then lay some bills down.  No guts, no glory as my grandpappy used to tell me before he lost the farm.   

Anyway, point is liven things up if you really wanna make bank.  Careful though, don't get too crazy chasing the thrill. What I personally like is try building a parlay with smaller wagers on different games. It forces me to actually analyze multiple matchups, not just pick the "safe" option.

I totally agree with your opinion on the issue on discussion mate because it tallied with what I also have to say now. I've always told as many people that are ready to listen that when it comes to gambling, there are no perfect rules because gambling is majorly decided by how lucky a gambler can be. The same gambling trick Mr A applied to win big is unlikely to produce same result for Mr B if he decides to do it as well and that's why we should only try to figure out what works for us as individuals when it comes to gambling and not seeking unnecessary opinions from different people. The only thing I think a gambler should seek opinion of others to do is when he becomes addicted in gambling and decides to break free from it or seek people's opinions on issues that's that has to do with safety measures in gambling