One of the main reasons gamblers lose is emotional bias toward their favorite teams. If it’s your favorite team, you’ll probably back them every time without properly analyzing if they’ll cover the spread, which leads to blindly betting. Now, there's another popular option: betting on the total. If we find ourselves emotionally weak when betting, maybe focusing on the total is a better option since you’re not choosing sides. You just analyze if the combined score will go over or under. Less emotion, better chances of winning, don’t you think?
Most serious gamblers I know do not play their favourite teams to avoid their emotions getting in the way of their decision making. There are also people who do not care if their lose or not when they want to place their bet; this set of gamblers have been able to suppress their emotions and have placed the money first over emotions. The two types of gamblers I described above are those who are serious about their gambling because without handling the emotional aspect, gambling will never yield good results. I will go with the option of avoiding my favourite teams as that is what I do often unless they are in a position to win convincingly. 
Topic: Would you prefer betting on the total or the point spread? - page 5. (Read 743 times)
I do this when I cannot decide which team might win. I know their histories and I know if they are a good team or not but when it's difficult to choose even with the spread options then I switch my eyes to the total score. Sometimes I even parlay them if many games in the NBA are played at the same day.
Don't force it. I believe in that sometimes. If it's not easy to pick on the team that might win or lose then just look for another option to bet or just take a pass and wait for the next game.
Spreads are sometimes not appealing especially if you know the record and performance of each team. I even lost a +15 one time and I did regret that I made such a bet because it was a forced one.
Don't force it. I believe in that sometimes. If it's not easy to pick on the team that might win or lose then just look for another option to bet or just take a pass and wait for the next game.
Spreads are sometimes not appealing especially if you know the record and performance of each team. I even lost a +15 one time and I did regret that I made such a bet because it was a forced one.
One of the main reasons gamblers lose is emotional bias toward their favorite teams. If it’s your favorite team, you’ll probably back them every time without properly analyzing if they’ll cover the spread, which leads to blindly betting. Now, there's another popular option: betting on the total. If we find ourselves emotionally weak when betting, maybe focusing on the total is a better option since you’re not choosing sides. You just analyze if the combined score will go over or under. Less emotion, better chances of winning, don’t you think?
I think when it comes to choosing side in gambling, it's best to chose the team with higher chances of winning. You should actually avoid betting blindly as it will lead to loss. but I guess another situation is when I bet my country for instance is going to win as I know very well I can't get for some other country to win. Well for betting on total it doesn't always give the better results though. But if you are lucky you can get better odds betting on one side. 
One of the main reasons gamblers lose is emotional bias toward their favorite teams.
I do not think most people that are betting are like this. But if someone bet on his favorite team like his country's team, it is not bad at all if he can afford to lose the money, if he knows what he is doing and also if he knows how capable the team are. I have not done that before and I can not do that. I bet on clubs that have high chance to win. betting on the total. If we find ourselves emotionally weak when betting, maybe focusing on the total is a better option since you’re not choosing sides. You just analyze if the combined score will go over or under. Less emotion, better chances of winning, don’t you think?
This would be an easy means to lose money. But like what I meant, not bad if you can afford to lose the money and also knowing excellently the chance that your guess can occur. The chance is low. 
I almost never gamble on my favorite team to win out-rightly. If I am completely confident, I can bet on them to win once or twice, if I am not, I never bet against them and would rather pick different matches to add to my slip.
- Jay -
...maybe focusing on the total is a better option since you’re not choosing sides. You just analyze if the combined score will go over or under. Less emotion, better chances of winning, don’t you think?
There could still be some bias here as you subconsciously have scorelines you expect to happen in favor of your team but will likely not be the match being under 1.5 which does not favor your team winning.- Jay -
One of the main reasons gamblers lose is emotional bias toward their favorite teams. If it’s your favorite team, you’ll probably back them every time without properly analyzing if they’ll cover the spread, which leads to blindly betting. Now, there's another popular option: betting on the total. If we find ourselves emotionally weak when betting, maybe focusing on the total is a better option since you’re not choosing sides. You just analyze if the combined score will go over or under. Less emotion, better chances of winning, don’t you think?
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