Topic: Which one is fun, watching with bet or without a bet? - page 9. (Read 3202 times)

We join the game's story when we bet. Our emotional investment rises since there's more at stake than pride or watching our favorite team win. The excitement of risk and reward, the adrenaline rush of maybe winning something concrete. However, does this financial engagement enhance the pleasure or overshadow the sport's sheer joy? Losing can make an exhilarating game frustrating for some. Others find the risk thrilling. A tricky balance, right?

We could learn more about human psychology and risk and entertainment if we had statistics on how many individuals enjoy betting as part of their sports experience and how many don't. Imagine understanding why we bet: for money or for a deeper joy? Sports betting could become more about human behavior than gambling if such data is collected. Interesting, right?

Yes if you're watching a game to chill, maybe skip betting on it. Otherwise, you might find yourself in a frustrated mood, complaining about every play. It's cool to catch another match or do something else while your bet game is happening. After all, the score's gonna be what it is, and stressing won't change that 

We should think of gambling like once it's gone, it's gone. Treat wins as a bonus, not a paycheck. If a bet doesn't go your way, shake it off by doing stuff you love. It's all about keeping it light and remembering there's more to life than just the bets.

It's possible that the OP doesn't really enjoy the match so his mind is only focused on winning the bet, even though he already knows that sports betting is also full of risks so he should understand that it is part of gambling, so the OP should be able to just enjoy the match as if he had never bet. so you become more relaxed and can enjoy the match without having to complain about losing.

Every strong team doesn't always win but a weak team can lose, that's why don't hope for sports betting, if OP wants money, go work and trade, it will be easier to get money than complaining about losing at sports betting, I often bet on sports but never I feel stressed about my losses because it is a game where there are always losers and winning is normal, so just enjoy it

I got what are you trying to say and yes, technically, still, it's a game of luck.

But with experience gained in sports betting, I believe that contributes to the improvement in gambling. Since these bettors always used to place a bet, they were able to create automatically what's the best match to bet and the options to choose. Especially if that bettor is a long-time follower of the said league, their knowledge can give them an advantage on what's the best betting option they will choose from a certain match available.

Haha  do you really think that there is improvement in gambling? Because in prediction the matchs are always accumulated and if you improve in a particular match, what happens to others. The Game is a game of luck no matter how you study them the match will still play as it wishes. Sometimes the match you are more confident in, is the one that will disappoint you. While the ones you least expect will play.

Having to bet sounds like a danger signal, maybe some sirens going off there :p   Bet every other game, collect research on the team you bet etc.   Nobody can win every time so in theory not betting some games does actually improve your win ratio and overall profit, its just knowing when.  For sure a break is good sometimes as you may observe more when not biased in your view to win or not.  If not a skip then half the amount bet could be completely wise decision to take.

If you want to enjoy the game you are watching, make sure you did not bet on it. Because when you watch it, you may start getting frustrated even before the game ends. Normally, if you lose, you simple lose, but when watching the game, you may be tempted to nag, complain and this can put you off mood, Making you sad even before it’s all over. Also, for most people, they could be anxious multiple times in between the match. Best thing to do is, watch another match while the one you staked on is ongoing, so you at least take your mind off it because it isn’t your mind or wish that determines the score… you’ll still see what it was meant to be anyway.

For me, I will say the opposite works best for me, because I enjoy watching a football match I did gamble on, as it gives me the joy their the game is going as play, but days it goes the opposite, it gives me the opportunity to realise what I did which I didn't do best so as to improve on it next time while gambling on same match. Because when I'm watching the match I gambled on, I always try as much to zero my mind, and let the game go whichever way it ought to.

Watching without bet is more fun than watching with bet. Because when you play a game and you are watching that same game, you behave like all your whole life depends on it. Especially when you are loosing your ticket. But when you are wining you feel so exited about how everyone is playing.

Things becomes addictive on the time that you are already doing it that on a severe manner on which there would really be people who would really be sticking out on doing things just because they do really enjoy on what they are doing and there are ones who could really be able to deal with in moderate manner on which it isnt really an issue whether they had put up some money or not on a particular thing in speaking about  gambling scenario or situation. Fun thing? It would be always on depending whether they had put up money on a certain bet or not, we do know that it do really adds up some thrill for those  bets which do really involves money. Its up to you whether you would be putting up some bets or not. Addiction talks would be on different situation though.

Well, we be for fun, not to make up for something, could also be wishful thinking for a lot of people. I think that a lot of people gamble exactly because they want to make up for something. It is not necessarily the gambling itself, but sometimes people gamble to forget the time around them and get their head to deal with things they should not be dealing with or to forget about something else. That's the point why it is addictive. People drink alcohol to forget about bad things or duties. That's by no means a good thing of course, but it is how it is in reality.

Maybe other forms of gambling addiction vary depending on how someone interprets it. And when we only find happiness in the gambling house, maybe for us, it is a gambling addiction. But we must be grateful if we can realize that we are addicted to gambling and want to cure our gambling addiction. But when we place sports bets and feel we are getting pleasure from watching the game, maybe it is not another form of gambling addiction because we are watching the game just to know how it is going. We also want to get more information from each team to get more knowledge about each team. This is useful for us because we can make special notes about each team, which will be used as material for our consideration later when those teams compete with other teams.

For me it's watching with bets because you have something to gain or lose when the team that you're rooting for wins or loses but to each person this is going to be different since we have different levels of care for money and finances, some of us don't mind losing some money to bet on our favorite teams or the teams that have a favorable odds while others see what we could've spent those money so we have a hard time having fun while betting.

This is a really fun discussion thread as I have an eyeball that there's a balance between people not having fun and having fun while betting, it would be nice if someone's able to gather the data so we can see which one's the winner and see how close the gap between the two is, OP should've put a voting to this thread.

What you call enjoyment in gambling might just be another form of gambling addiction.  I have been in a situation where I feel so incomplete and restless until I gamble. Then I only find happiness in the gambling house irrespective of if I win or lose. With time I realised this was an addiction I had to deal with to reclaim my peace. Many people might be experiencing this yet calling it having fun while gambling.

I don't think all gambler based on your assumption, I enjoyed with my bet watching match exactly with my favorite team what ever the result give us some happiness how their game plays exactly for sport betting in football.
Its not about the money but keep watching favorite teams match give us motivate and not really get pressure if result of our bet is wrong, we can watch and enjoying the match what ever bet result but get happy if favorite team win the match and we are winning the bet place.
You can feel adrenaline when watching the match for your bet team because always have more excited moment exactly few minutes before match ended and we can feel how most happiness that moment.

Yeah. Yesterday I lost some bets in a boxing event but I enjoyed the whole fight. But not all people will enjoy watching especially when their team or athlete is losing. But as you said, only gamble an amount that we can afford to lose. I don't know but there are a few times when I get disappointed when the team or athlete I am betting on is losing. But I am pretty sure that I am only betting in small amounts.

But at least there is nothing compared when watching a game where our bet is winning. Sometimes we even stand, shout cheer, and clap our hands even if we are only watching alone in front of our television or computer.

That is true, but some gamblers can still enjoy it because they can learn how each team plays. It can provide knowledge to them that will be useful in the next game. They can also accept the final result of the match and if the bet loses, they also don't mind and can accept it because that is the bet they placed. And if they lose, it means they have to continue learning to analyze so that in the next bet, they can win. But some people will choose not to watch the match because they will have mixed feelings and cannot bear to watch their chosen team lose. They may not be able to accept the final result of the match so they choose to do something else.

Watching a match you placed your money on is no fun at all. You cannot enjoy the match because your mind will want to only see what will make your betting option work and anything contrary to it will make you feel bad. Assuming I support team A and place money on them winning, I will not feel comfortable when team B is in possession of the ball, this will deny me the fun. I don't know how people manage to find fun watching the match they put their money on because the only time I see fun in that is when my selection is actually working.

There is lot of advice and suggestions presented here about how to approach gambling well, risking money will indeed produce a number of profits when you win and of course you can feel satisfaction.
But when defeat occurs, regret and psychology will be disturbed so that in the end whoever will never accept the loss, they may vent their emotions in various ways and there may also be those who try to recover the loss.
It would be great for those gamblers who are able to accept every loss, but not many can do that and the first step in trying to accept defeat is to gamble using money that is truly prepared to be lost.
Seeing your favorite team play and betting on it may be fun if you win, but when you lose, the disappointment will be very deep because you are disappointed by two things, namely the team you are proud of losing and losing money.
You are right, anyone who bets must always be able to stay within limits or not exceed their limits.

Of course, people bet for fun, so when they lose they won't feel disappointed and try to recover from their losses, they will learn and understand the situation and conditions of the team they are betting on so they don't experience the same mistake.
Watching the game and betting on it is really extraordinary activity because the adrenaline rush is much more challenging.
But on the other hand many gamblers are too careless in betting and in the end they feel pressure when what they bet on makes them lose more money.

Being responsible would be definitely be just that depending into someones character or type of person because there are indeed people who are really that mindful towards their actions on which
on the time that they are seeing those risks then would really be refraining or would really be having that break if ever they do saw about some issues and this is why it would be that wise
that they would be stopping or having a break if they have noticed something. Making out some bets into those gambling games you are dealing with will really be adding up the spice and thrill
compared to those who have none or something that it is really that in demo. You cant really just that make yourself able to resist on the time that interest on betting with
money becomes that your main concern from time to time on which it is really that bad.