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5 phrases you never hear from successful sports bettors

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Many dedicated sports bettors like to talk about their successes and the large sums of money they make from betting. Such stories should be treated with caution, because after all, sports betting is still a game of chance, and very few people make a profit from it. And those few are mostly not surprised by their success, and besides, they don’t hear some of the stupid things that less experienced bettors love to come up with.

  1. I have a good tip because I got the inside scoop from an acquaintance!

If you look around your circle of acquaintances, there are definitely those who know a football player, tennis coach or horse breeder. Unfortunately, there is nothing to do with such acquaintances when it comes to sports betting.

For starters, sharing inside information is illegal. At the same time, insignificant information such as “I saw his last training very closely and he is in great shape” is not directly illegal, but completely useless.

Who wouldn’t want to receive valuable inside information, but unfortunately, such a thing does not exist. Most of the usable information is available to everyone, but only those who bother to find and process it will benefit from it. An acquaintance offering the “world’s best” betting tips at the bar is definitely not a reliable source.

  1. I have had bad luck for so long that my luck must finally turn around!

For incomprehensible reasons, people stubbornly believe that if they have been unlucky in gambling for a long time, then at some point their luck must turn in their favor. Some may also send a corresponding request. But the bad news is that there is most likely no god of gambling. Or if he is, he doesn’t mind anyone’s streak of bad luck in the least.

The fact is that bets made blindly and hoping for good luck have a 50% chance of being successful. After the first loss, the next bet made in the same way still has a 50% chance of success, not 60% or 75% as some would like to think.

  1. When placing sports bets, listen to your intuition!

If there’s one thing you shouldn’t listen to when betting on sports, it’s your gut. Intuition, namely, knows nothing about statistics and is also weak in mathematics.

When it comes to sports betting, it’s worth listening only to logically thinking areas of your time. A “good feeling” about someone winning is certainly not reliable and will only make things more confusing. Experienced sports bettors tend to avoid placing bets on games featuring their favorite athletes or teams because they instinctively believe that the favorites will never lose.

  1. The best tips can be found in Facebook sports betting groups!

If there tend to be few sports betting specialists in your personal circle of acquaintances, you can turn to Facebook groups. Unfortunately, the information you can get from such groups is no better or more accurate than what your personal grandmother could provide. In general, the sports betting groups are full of poor logic, frauds, and lost sense of reality “professional sports tips”.

  1. I don’t care about odds, I just pick winners!

Picking probable winners is completely pointless in sports betting. If you do not pay attention to the coefficient, it is possible to make very poor bets.

If, for example, you bet on a horse whose winning odds are 1.4 and according to your calculations, its winning chance is 70%, then this horse may win. But the fair odds for a 70% chance of winning should be 1.43, not 1.40. So it is a rather poor offer, and with a bet of, for example, 10 euros, the bettor would lose 21 cents (if there are no commissions).

10 (1.40/1.43-1) = -0.2097

Any bet that is not related to the odds is not serious.

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