Topic: Would you bet against the club you support? - page 2. (Read 1251 times)

Yes, and I believe no emotions should be involved when someone is making a gambling bet because you can't earn money if you are emotional, and your emotional attachment to a team shouldn't disrupt your gambling because if you are sure that the team you support is up against a team that is stronger than your favourite team and it's a sure bet, you should go for it despite having an emotional attachment with the team.

But as you said, a lot of people can't do that, even if they know that their favourite team is playing against a team that is way stronger than it and their team can't win the game, such people will always lose great opportunities that they could use to earn good profit only if they weren't driven by emotions and had full control of them.

Absolutely you should be ready to bet against your own team, only die hard fans will say otherwise.   There are some teams which never seem to have bad luck which justifies the betting bias.  I would suggest only to skip betting sometimes if your team is really the best ever, there will be times you should 'stay your hand' to save a bad loss.  Learning when to temper your enthusiasm is a good lesson imo.

How then do we determine if a team would win a game when we don't mainly know the future? Sport gambling truly works on analysis, some of the times, but that is not enough to make us accept the winning opportunity of a specific team. That's why a hysterical fan wouldn't risk handing out a bet against his team. What if his team ends up winning the game. How would the fan free? He is going to feel both bad and not completely win/for himself. He'll most probably also will have this thought, what if my team wins? If the analysis which may be the reason you said something about know if a team would lose or not, the best sport analyst would be making kill I guess. Yet, they end up fetching slips with errors. It's always better to hold the funds.

Betting involves money and majority of people place bets in order to win so if you find out that the team you support may not win a match then there's need to bet against them instead of betting in their favour and at the end of the day you lose your bets. I know that being a fan of a club you either work for or support how they play means that you have to stand by them even if they win or lose but it shouldn't be when money is at staked.

Most people do say that they are die hard fans such that they always want the team they support to be favoured all the time, it is not bad to be a core fan but in a case where you know the that the team you support will lose a game it's rather you just discard placing the net or you bet against your team even though you still wish for them to win.

Of course, anything can happen in sports matches, and it doesn’t matter whether we bet on or against our favorite team. But the fact is that before betting, we can know many things that are not visible to ordinary players, for example, various little things in the mutual understanding of players and other subtle points. As a fan of one of my favorite teams, I saw this and bet against it, and in the end I managed to win a couple of matches. But I want to say right away that I was not very comfortable with this. I couldn’t watch the match as usual, which I wouldn’t bet on. Because on the one hand I feel joy for my favorite team if they get a point, and on the other hand I am happy that I will win money if they are deprived of a point. This match turns into such a chaotic game of emotions for me that I would rather not bet on it at all in order to get completely bright and sincere emotions from a regular game.

When we included emotions in our daily loses on our bets we are making also developing a place for lore loss and truth be told that addition is not too far from such person. Even when one is not gambling for fun he's supposed not to include emotions on the games he play even when he lose or win. However betting against the club we support is not a bad thing when you are gambling to make a few cent of profits so one need to protect that potential winning att all cost but he shouldn't stake wager high if he knows he can not afford to lose the amount. And again, even if you are gambling for fun and you know the game you are about to stake on is not going to bring success to you, it will be wise for you to skip it or bet again it.

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Yes exactly. As a matter of facts the team guy support doesn't know you as a fan so any team a bettor know that will bring success to his ticket he should bet on it. But as a gambler we need to follow our instincts because most times our instincts doesn't lie to us but the problem is we fails to understand it.
IMO the real reason for a gambler to support a team is for entertainment and might be that the team plays the way he likes. But if the team performance is no more encouraging as previous seasons the gambler shouldn't be blamed for betting against the team.

In fact, there is nothing wrong with whatever decision they will take, even if for example you gamble by deciding against the team you work for for some reason then there is no prohibition, or vice versa, for example you gamble by supporting the club you work for even though you know that the club you are much worse statistically than the opposing team so that doesn't matter either.

There is nothing wrong with these two decisions if you are truly able to accept the consequences of the risks that will occur, because in fact in sports, even if for example you bet against a team that is statistically stronger, it does not mean that you will really win in the end. matches, there are always things that happen unexpectedly, especially in sports betting, you can see some weak teams succeed in beating stronger teams who are in the top 5 of the standings, and this can indeed happen due to various factors, such as the team that are stronger in making mistakes such as fouls that result in one of their players having to be sent off, where it is clear that the game becomes unbalanced because one of the opposing teams loses one player, and this happens in several ongoing leagues. This means that whatever your decision, it is better to prioritize self-acceptance regarding the possibility of defeat rather than having high hopes for victory which cannot be guaranteed.

Sometimes emotion or simply being a fan would really be that making that huge influence on how you would really be making out those bets. It would really be that impossible that you cant really be able to make yourself that be able to distinguish when it comes to those possibilities that your team/club you are loving will really be at great disadvantage.

On the moment that you would really be able to see up those probabilities but still you do end up on betting in line with the team you do like then this do basically shows that you are really that
a die hard fan of it. Yes, there's no one could really be stopping us on doing since its our money that we are really that making use of and if we do have this kind of approach then so be it.

For me then i would definitely be going against if i do see those chances that the opponent would really be having that high chance on winning up the game.
Yes, it would really be that hard in some point specially if you are a fan but since we are talking making profits then it would be always the main priority no matter what.

Well, the truth is that I admire that attitude. I can't , just thinking about it Personally, there is something that doesn't let me do something like that. Maybe I see football in a Way that Encompasses many things , feelings, joys, Deep Defeats , Everything. Although, let me tell you Something , at the Moment the teams are so well prepared that they are capable of facing any kind of Eventuality Even an easy Dortmund can beat a Real Madrid that has so much Power in its players and knowing that most of them are Stars But in general terms, I Admire that Determination that everything can be done from Reason , which in the end is the most Intelligent thing.

Agreed with you. There are people who won't bet against their favorite tem because they loved the team and their performance even if the club performance is bad or good they will still support them, and sometimes the reasons why they support the team might be because of one good player or other specific things in the team. If one is a type that do gamble to make profits is betting against his or her favorite team I think it's not bad because he's not gambling to be entertained but needs the profits. Reason why a gambler who supports a team bet against his favorite team is because the performance of the team he supports is becoming weird and they don't trust the team anymore so they have to bet against them just to protect the winning. But a gambler who supports a team even if the team performance is not encouraging is a type that just there to be entertained by the both team.

I think there is no need to do anything complicated, when we feel that our team is not in good shape and then against other strong teams too, there is no need to bet for the opponent let alone for our team, there is no compulsion to bet with the team we support, I If given the choice, you would definitely prefer to just watch it and bet on another match so you don't have to feel annoyed when you lose a bet but are happy to see your team win because you bet on your opponent, and vice versa.

The point is how can we bet on something that is impossible for us to win, I once had a moment when the team I supported did not play its key players because many were injured of course it would be difficult to win but in the opposing position they were also a strong team and have never been defeated, it will definitely be an advantage to bet on the opposing team, but that doesn't mean the team we support will also lose because they can also play because they have a lot more playing experience than the opponent, so the solution that is not the most confusing is not to bet on that match but bet on another match.  

In fact, betting against the club you support is quite rational. I will now explain why I think so. I used to think that betting against your favorite team was a betrayal. However, I once watched a video with a blogger who made excellent arguments for betting against your favorite team. And vice versa. It is absolutely wrong to bet on your favorite team. When you bet on your favorite team to win, you most likely will not be objective. You will exaggerate your chances of winning. Conversely, you will downplay the chances of your favorite team losing. It is much better to bet against your favorite team. If you lose, you will have fun. If you win, you get money.

For me personally, betting is about personal choice and has nothing to do with one's personal place of work. Because after all, when someone bets then of course they will hope for luck. After all, the person or employee may also only work there even though they are not basically fans of the team. Therefore, it is normal for him to bet on different teams or bet on opposing teams. Unless someone is a member of that team's fans, then it might be very inappropriate for someone to place a bet on the opposing team instead of their favorite team. But for me personally, the case here is about work and not being a fan member, so the case is different, and for me it is very inappropriate to treat it in that way, but hopefully the person gets a new, better job.

Not everyone would bet against their club, but some people do not mind. Look at it this way, it can turn out to be a win-win situation for you, if you bet against your club and your club comes out victorious in the game, you very well lose your money, but you are happy that your team won. Then again, if your team loses, you win your bet, and that can help cover the sadness of the defeat, as for me, i can't really remember the last time i bet against my team, if i think they'd lose, i'll avoid adding the game to my bet slip.

Gambling is a game that one must input his resources before he can be eligible to play and that's why when a gambler is gambling, his emotions aren't expected to be his priority rather his quest to win his bets should the top factor in making any decision. When I started sports gambling, I was losing a lot of money because I was more interested in banking on my beloved Real Madrid to win and that was the era they weren't doing well. Despite my losses, I was still betting on my beloved team to even when the odds doesn't favour them until a day a close friend of mine told me that that isn't how gambling works. He said if I must succeed in gambling, I must learn how to do away with my emotions and chose the the teams I'm more confident with to get me winnings so I accepted what he said and started gambling without emotions and saw a big change in my winnings.
Today, Real Madrid my club is doing exceptionally well and I'll definitely bet on them to win games but whenever I sense that they're not inform again, I'll stop banking on them fir victory.

that's right, we have to be able to distinguish between gambling and support for the team. when we play as a gambler, we have to choose which team has the highest chance of winning, even when it has to fight our favorite team, then we have to be able to choose the opposing team. because money is money. we have to be able to think wisely and choose which team benefits us. unless we really don't want to gamble against our favorite team, that's another story, but i personally when i have the opportunity i will take the best that benefits me.

Yes and let's look at this from the other side, which I think is obvious that if you are forced to vote for the club you work for for reasons such as not wanting to be called a traitor then if it turns out that in the end your club loses will they compensate you for the money you lost? I think of course not. What this means is that from a common sense and rational point of view as long as you are gambling with your own money then everything is up to you and you are free to choose any team to bet on.

As you said, gambling is after all about the choices of each individual whose decisions affect the fate of the money they bet (although the outcome is quite dependent on luck). This means that the case described by the OP is an unfortunate situation for the person, there is no justice there because after all, all the actions and decisions he made were for him alone regardless of winning or losing. It is very unreasonable to hear a company sacking a worker just because of a choice in betting, because after all he did not harm the club because of gambling using personal funds.

When that is related to money, people can against their favorite club and place their bet on the opposite club. No one will know what they will do because they can place a bet secretly and not have to tells to other people about what their choice. Many cases happens between the fan of every club and that will still happens in the future although many of them gets educating from others not to becomes emotional.

When we wants to place a bet for our favorite club, we can do that without telling to other so there will be no problem between us. We can place a bet, enjoy the match, and see the outcomes. That will be better to all people who place their bet because they will not becomes emotional because a simple thing.

Gambling isn’t all about taking the side in which they are close to you, but it’s all about money making and looking for big chances where you can maximize your profits. And for that, even if it means betting on the opposite team, I would still do that. Betting against your club that you supported does not necessarily mean that you are betraying them, but it’s because you just bet on which you think there is high probability of winning. After all, gambling is all about money, so we should stick to it.

Of course, a true fan will not bet against his favorite team, but there are also fans who can make this bet and make money on it, because they see a lot of what is happening in the team, feel what is happening between the players, what teamwork they have, honed by years of playing together and other little things that even a professional may not notice. After all, professionals watch many teams to place a bet, but fans only watch one. Generally speaking, betting against your club shows what is more important for a person, the team or the money.

A few years ago I also had this choice, one of my favorite teams was very weak, and at that moment I desperately needed money, and I had to make one bet, although not a big one, and it won against my club.