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Do you believe in predicting what's coming up in a horse race, a boxing match, or any other match with the use of a Pendulum a divination tool in the olden days it may sound ridiculous but there are hidden stories about people who actually use divination with the use of Pendulum swing.

Many years ago a friend told me he is trying to perfect the use of Pendulum he has a 70% betting average, I lost contact with my friend and have no idea if he becomes successful.

 

Article about using Pendulum in football betting
The Mystical Magical Pendulum (That Loves Making Football Picks) (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-mystical-magical-pend_b_5914490)


How To Use A Pendulum: The A-Z Guide (https://tinyrituals.co/blogs/tiny-rituals/how-to-use-a-pendulum)

Do you believe that you can actually predict future events like horse racing and boxing match with the use of Pendulum.

I prefer to entrust this choice to my skills and knowledge and not to a magical remedy :)
after all, it's like the story of the monkeys who choose stocks better than a stock market expert.

“A blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a newspaper’s financial pages could select a portfolio that would do just as well as one carefully selected by experts.”
https://prosperitythinkers.com/personal-finance/three-monkeys-and-cat-pick-stocks/

Very often the luck factor actually exists;) but I wouldn't rely too much on it,  I don't believe in magic, and I guess that magic doesn't believe in me :P

Damn, honestly, I don't know what you are talking about until I read the link you provided.

So this is being superstitious (more like) in gambling which I don't really do.
I believe in my skills and my strategy is very simple, and that is betting against the Public, way more effective than anything.

Anyway, thanks for educating me about that kind of technique, I'm now aware about it.

Whatever tool you're using you will eventually develop those skills in predicting future matches if you play or watch the game too long or so many times, I have a friend who is very much indulged in our national basketball league he can accurately predict based on past performances and circumstances, but if you are good in using a tool to predict then continue using it as long as it will not harm you.

This life is so fun now than thinking of the olden ways, I do not know much about pendulum or what you have called it, gambling should just be taken as fun. I do not bet on horse racing and sometimes I prefer not to bet on boxing. I bet on what I see as fun which is football and table tennis as I do watch it often and bet just what I can just afford to lose. I hope you can understand this than getting yourself into what is not.

sorry to say, but i don't believe this kind of prediction. i don't think there is correlation with the potential results with the movement of the pendulum. i am more on if you truly know the sports, you have better chance of getting the right outcome. also, if this method has high success, we should already have read many of these bettors recommending the use of pendulum to predict the results of the game. but is there any news something like that??? a bettor using pendulum with high success. i guess, no one yet.

It is according to people belief. I believe that what you believe is what will work for you. This is like the believe in magic as it exist that you can achieve something through that and many people get consulted for that. Maybe it is divine skill that has come from family inheritance but I don't believe that to be use to predict outcome of event like sports. Some sports are not based on luck like football and other physical games relating to strength, style and knowledge. Pendulum may not be easy with the kinds of sports.

Yes it is kind of superstition where you are using a tool called by pendulum.
I knew about this thing long time ago when I was a student in Junior High School and I believed in it at that time but I dont believe it anymore.
It works like you are holding the pendulum and ask something in your mind about anything then command the pendulum to move right to left or front to back.
It was being said that we are transferring our energy to the pendulum so it can move based on our question.
Never tried it myself for gambling purpose but I've tried it few times, what were the results of my tries?
Some tries were correct and some other tries were incorrect, means that it was just a coincidence when prediction is correct.

Predicting can be possible in some games but horse race looks a lot difficult to do. Hell we have a hard time forecasting who will win in boxing match. Which an underdog can suddenly win over an undefeated boxer who reigned for more than 5 years.

I have no idea about that pendulum really until that link come up. And I still don't get it even after reading a bunch of paragraphs. But I can tell its BS. 70% can be achieved if you are really into the game, you'd have to be addicted to horse race and maybe lived among with those horse to see their capacity lol

You can be your own worst enemy when it comes to gambling quite easily.   On that basis some system like this could show positive results short term but also just keeping some rules to your gambling patterns and perhaps mark down a bet in a book, just writing things down is a kind of system.  I know people who track every sports bet they consider, not even just the ones they actually bet on and in this way their choices are more considered and in time successful.

No.

I don't think that there's even a good accuracy rate using a pendulum and a result with any gambling game you try to predict. It's still like trusting your own instinct that we have no idea if it's going to be accurate.

Well, I used to see this type of use just on the movies and never have thought that there is really someone that's going to do it in the form of real life application in gambling.

This is the beginning:


When a story starts like this, it's a scam 101%! Magical and mystical powers are just some kind of illusion used to trick people! And to take their money and other possessions!

I guess this guy has a good average, probably he is doing his research (or someone is doing that for him), and he is selling that! But there's no pendulum or stuff like that, it's just some weird kind of marketing that I don't like, but looks like some people still do!

this kind of reminds me of the octopus that predicted who will win the world cup. as much as entertaining that was, I still think that what the octopus did was just out luck. just like how I think the prediction the octopus made was out of luck, I also think what happened to the dude who wrote the article is just luck.

I'm not into it just crossed my mind that maybe there are among us or knowledgeable about the subject of using a tool to predict the outcomes other than past results and data,  I had this topic using pendulum based on my friend's experience and what I come across the internet, but maybe only a few of us are aware of it or it's totally scam, but it still goes up on what you believe in if some people have success doing it, then its fine with me.

I never heard of using Pendulum, but I wouldn't trust it though. For sure this is just another superstitions and it could be a hit or miss or you are just lucky that you made the right bet with this system.

So I would say this could be included in the psychology of the game just like Gamblers fallacy.

Same here, it's quite new to me but I do understand it now.

It's a gambler's fallacy, maybe it's effective to some but definitely not effective to every gambler, otherwise, we will all be rich and the gambling industry would not be that profitable, they are a billion-dollar industry for a reason.  I still choose probability before anything else and if it's the sport is rigged, probability or stats would not work, just use your personal instinct on the game considering that factor.

There's no Science behind it but even if it has, there's no reason to believe that winning can be done through the use of a predicting tool. I even think it wasn't worth discussing. We should not involved any mysteries in gambling just in order to win.

Let's make a habit to rely on our own references and factors when picking a bet.

I respect others' beliefs but they should wake up now that gambling is not a joke. That predicting tools are not useful and will just create thinking that results can be predicted easily.

Sorry for my own view here but predicting based on these stuff is the useless thing I have heard of regarding gambling. Predicting thru experience is what I prefer of. Even without putting a heavy analysis, our experience will tell us where to place our bet.

If your friend do have a good winning chance rate using that pendulum then good for your friend. But don't bring it to the fact that it affects the result. There is no such thing as that and I will just call your friend lucky.

I read the story ad it's all about just magic. Not sense to put magic in my gambling experience.

This idea were just the same as "flip a coin if you'll make some decisions" kind-of scenarios. Pendulum is just pleasing to watch as it lets you focus on it while unconsciously you are making and focused on making your decision. You cannot just let the randomness of a thing/event to be something you'll depend on. It's just irrational. As what others also prefers, it's better to just research of which teams/players has the better chance on a match than to waste my time and money for an irrational decision.

This industry wont really be that big for no reason which its understandable that there are no holy grails or techniques but simply pure luck and some strategic kind of approach for strategic kind of
games offered in the industry.There's no way that you could really able to know the outcome on just having that pendulum swing which is totally not that relevant.
This is my first time on hearing it out which it is really that totally unbelievable if we  do talk about odds or chances which could really be influenced.

Still boils down to luck I guess and I doubt that the anyone can predict the future anyways. So this is just another way of putting our luck on something so as gamblers I wouldn't do that. It's better to make and analyse the game itself before you put your bet on certain games and sports.

I prefer to use oracular animals like Paul the Octopus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_the_Octopus) but he sadly passed away about a decade ago. Need to get a new one for the 2022 world cup!

I don't really believe in mystical things like that but I just accepted it because it seems, that some people still believe in such things. Maybe it can indeed give success to some people while others don't get it or win some money. But we can still predict horse races or boxing matches but we shouldn't really believe in these mystical things. Better to enjoy the moment of betting and choose our bets and let the results come out by themselves.

Pendulum has been used only in the ancient age, so i don't have any idea that its still working up to these days. But just like you, i prefer to believe from my own instinct, my skills and strategies in gambling. And of course, a little bit of luck adds more to how we end up doing good in gambling. However, using pendulum might be very advantage way back then, and that magic nowadays may not be working anymore as everything in gambling purely based on luck and skills.

When it comes to pendulum thing then this is usually in talks or in correlated with some hypnotizing or something in related but i was surprised that its involved on gambling
too which to believe on adding up some good bet calls or being lucky? I dont really believe such thing for it to be effective or really be having that placebo impression.
Let people decide for themselves whether they do really believe for such thing to be that effective or not.

Maybe, there are still few people who are using this type of technique but more than likely, they are the old ones or very superstitious people.
I haven't known anyone using this method. And I don't even know that this is still a thing in this digital age.
But on this aspect, let us just respect those people who believe on this kind of thing when it comes to prediction.
It is their own belief, and we are all free to use our own way to predict something.

People will do anything just to win or get luck in gambling many of them wear gambling talismans or lucky charms or do rituals to harness their luck, if they are having success doing this then we should let them, I know a friend who will always wear his favorite shoes for gambling, we do a lot of uncanny things although we are living in a digital age, the tradition and rituals live on some folks, every country and tribe have their own traditions and rituals, so this is not something to us.

If it's legit for sure a lot of gambler will rely on it, but you know we have different perspective and beliefs so it's too hard to tell if mostly gamblers will gonna trust on such way of making prediction especially when it comes gambling that most of live games are unpredictable such what you've mentioned above. :D

I don't know whether to believe it or not but if the prediction comes based on intuition, I think it could happen because some people can have a strong intuition in predicting something related to gambling. I've never heard of someone predicting the outcome of a match but it can happen because there are a lot of things we don't know in this world. So believe it or not will come back to each individual. And hopefully, you can successfully contact your friend so that you may be able to get his predictions that may be useful for you.

Prediction or any forms of guesses would really still remain an speculation or totally in random.There's no way that a human could really know on what would happen ahead.
Yes, we do really have that intuition but doesnt mean it would be 100% precise which it is just bad if you do really make it as a behavior when predicting prices
basing with these kind of set up or considerations since we know that no man does have the ability to know on whats ahead.

Betting are not about pure luck since there’s an odds to follow and if you analyze the team or the players you can just easily place a bet but wince this is gambling, there’s no guarantee for this. I haven’t tried any strategies on betting so far, just a simply analysis and it works for me, if this one works to other bettor then I think its worth to try.

i do agree that when it comes to sports betting, it is not pure luck in play. it is also how knowledgeable you are with the particular sports. the more you know about the sports, the better chance of selecting good odds. though luck may have a role but you have better winning chance if you truly know the sports.
using pendulum for me in this case is like asking the crystal ball what is your future?  ;)

If anyone has enjoyed wild success in gambling using the pendulum method. They have not done much to publicize their achievements.

Sports gambling is binary based. Either 0 or 1. Win or lose. A pendulum which swings to 2 points of extreme polar opposites could represent a binary pattern which can be applied to true or false conditions. The same as the flip of a coin. Or other events with non deterministic binary output.

There are schools of thought which claim to address probability aside from bayesian probability and normalized methods. Probability itself is an interesting thing to consider. While I wouldn't rule out probability in boolean terms. I think that such a thing would be highly specialized and inaccessible to most, if it does exist.

Gamblers will do anything and everything that will summon success if they are successful in having a lucky charm or some rituals to summon success, they'll go for it, they have nothing to lose I know a friend who applies FengShui in his gambling days and time and he has good success doing it, but he also admits that everything does not lie on luck alone you have to research and employ a good strategy, luck falls on people who have a plan ahead on them.

no offense but using pendulum to predict game results is the same as someone saying they are using crystal ball to predict game results. Let's put things like this:

predicting the outcome of a game that hasn't happened yet means that the person would be predicting the future, so how could opendulo predict the future? Is there a ghost on the pendulum, is there an angel on the pendulum? only if there is some entity with super powers on the pendulum could it be possible to predict the future something that I don't believe is possible

It cant never be possible or whatever other people been doing things which saying that they could know the outcome of a particular game that would happen which i would say to be bullshit.

If they won games on high precision and using up this then its just purely coincidence where luck is on the move plus your own analysis do the work and not with just pendulum.
Dont know on why they do really end up with that kind of idea and believing that it is true and works.Arent they high on believing into this one?

You are correct, we should just let these people do their traditional or superstitious beliefs if it's effective for them.

We can't do something about it but for me, as much as possible, I like to change their mindset that no lucky charms can affect their winning rate. I will just do this to a known person of mine and will try to wake them up to the reality of gambling as a whole.

It's fine to rely on those lucky charm stuff but not a good thing if they will keep on that belief for long. But we should respect them in the end.

No of course not, that is not working. Anybody offering you betting tips based on pendulum is just after your money and that is not a legit business. First of all, if that technique would actually work, why would anybody then give away his tips to you? Even if he charges a fee for his advise, it would be much better for him to keep quiet and use his exploit himself. Taking out a few loans and winning guaranteed bets would make him a millionaire very quickly. What you see with a pendulum is pure randomness at work. If you win a bet based on that it was just luck and no skill. Repeating to use a pendulum will eventually lose your money. There are some similar stories, for example scienticst used monkeys to throw darts on a the stock section in the newpaper and started trading those stocks (https://www.forbes.com/sites/rickferri/2012/12/20/any-monkey-can-beat-the-market/ (https://www.forbes.com/sites/rickferri/2012/12/20/any-monkey-can-beat-the-market/)). These stocks ended up outperforming professional fund managers and still nobody would give his money to a group of monkey throwing darts. It's better to stick to our own guts and choose for ourselves than relying on other predicitons that might be a scam.

I think it has something to do with your subconscious, we all know that subconscious is the inner mind that never sleeps and stored all our knowledge and experiences since the time of our birth it also has a connection to hunches, so people who believe in this are trying to connect to their subconscious for the answer to all their questions, I don't know how is it possible in gambling but if a practitioner has success doing this, then who we are to criticize his belief.

We can only guess what will happen, and even then, it will not be accurate because we will never know. Intuition may help us predict prices, but we must also remember that gambling is something that many people don't know when it comes to the outcome. So if we really can use intuition, use it properly and keep analyzing. And keep in mind that we play gambling just for fun and not for money.

Lol are you being serious? No I don’t believe in any sort of weegie board nonsense like this. If some “magical” thing like this actually worked then people would have been using this already for centuries and the word would be out and there wouldn’t be any sort of gambling since everyone would find it so easy using something like this.

I know gamblers like us are really up for risking their way towards winning, but this is another level of gambling your faith when playing. As idealistic it sounds, that using pendulum strategy could give predictions, it is not something I could risk listening and following to when playing.

When we talk about pendulums, there must be some countries in Asia that still sell these tools, they say they still have a mystery, I've seen pendulums for sale, if the one who sells it, is a psychic, he says he can predict, hypnotize or something mystical, magicians also often use this tool.

What I want to talk about is: now that we live in an all-modern era, what's more, nowadays people play gambling via the internet online, not traditional, horse racing betting online, online boxing, all gambling bets can be bet online, betting predictions with pendulums, one of the most ridiculous and unreasonable things that pendulums do is not read on the internet.

I don't believe gambling bets can succeed by using the pendulum method, we live no longer in ancient Roman and Greek times.

If you need the mystical arts to gamble then I can only assume you are preparing an excuse for when you lose your money. It was the pendulum and the alignment of the stars! Should have spun the crystal counterclockwise, not clockwise. Well, whatever makes you feel emotionally better after losing, I guess.

For myself, I do not believe in such things and I already expect to lose money when going into a casino. Thats the only real way to cope after you have lost your money. ;D ;D
It would be easier to face reality and just accept things for how they really are, instead of deluding yourself into believing you can magically influence the universe into helping you win a gambling bet.

But, whatever makes you happy, I guess. No haters here.

It seems to me that you might as well use a coin or dice to determine the winner. Personally, I think this is complete nonsense and do not believe in such predictions. I try to believe only in what can be proved by empirical experiments, and predictions by pendulum is rather closer to fortune-telling on coffee grounds to which I am very skeptical.

Cool stuff, didn't knew that pendulum can also be use that way, I thought pendulum are only use for hypnotizing or to make you or someone fall asleep but I can believe it more better than pendulum being used to predict the future. Maybe there is only a co indent that happens and that makes them believe that it was the cause of pendulum.

If there is one thing that is being used to predict the future, that would only be crystal ball not pendulum but even crystal ball seems like a hoax. I don't think there is a person or a thing that can predict the future. That is unnatural already in the real world or in this era. Those stuffs are only an old story or just a myth.

I've done that once, on divination or something, to do some gambling. I was very sure of winning but the harsh reality hit me, my bet ended in lose, the conclusion was just a lie by fooling self without careful analysis. Some people might win using that method but not for me, and my luck is a little less than theirs.

This sounds worse that the octopus that was predicting the results of the football match as well I do think it would be wise to understand that these things won't work, divine intervention? For what ? Gambling? Isn't it banned according to most of the religions texts? Why would god wanna help you with that? Sorry but for me this is far too contradictory. Maybe you might have something called the 'intution' which means that you can have few moments where you might feel that you made progress and should not blame it on some divinity for sure. Still better to use your brain at the end of the day instead of relaying on these things.

Honestly, I do not believe in stuffs like this, and this is not me saying they do not exist, of course they exist, for I believe that as long as God and Satan exists, then there are spiritual powers at our disposal which some people, (according to their belief system or faith), can be manipulated into giving them answers to what the future holds concerning certain things even in the world of sports and betting.

So in as much as this things exist, I still do not believe in them cus my faith forbids me from believing in them, there is no enchantment, neither is there any divination, anything gotten outside prayer is a no for me.
I have some set of people in my neighborhood who go as far as getting charms to be able to know which team will win a match so they can bet and win huge amount of money, and some times, they do win, other times, they loose, and when they loose, they consider it that their charms failed them, but to me, they just appear unwise and foolish because I believe not in such things.

A 70% successful rate is incredibly high when it comes to picking winners, many professionals are way less accurate when making their bets and they still make money, someone that could in fact predict a sport match with that degree of accuracy will earn an enormous amount of money regardless of the method used, however when we consider the method that he is supposedly using then I cannot help to think that he is exaggerating the precision at which he can pick the winners.

It's a good way to lose your money. I agree with what bitbollo said:


Although here I would qualify that in gambling luck only exists in the short term. Or it would be more accurate to say that what we call luck is the variance of short-term results.

Your friend's results are due to pure statistical variance and not to anything magical about the pendulum.

The pendulum is usually used by people who have a sixth sense but looking at the link you shared with the techniques and methods, can it work for ordinary people?  regardless of whether you believe it or not about the myth of the pendulum, the fact is that there are still many people who believe in it.  I've never tried it and I guess it's the same as betting, so I prefer to use strategy and experience for betting

What a load of bollocks. You might as well believe in ghosts, unicorns and dragons. Anyone who goes by such logic is destined to lose their money, they might go on a wild run that lasts in the short or even medium term, but reversion to the mean will mean they can never outperform thorough analysis. This is not to say that beating sportbooks is impossible, however it requires some refined skills, intimate knowledge honed over a long time and a keen eye for being able to spot pricing discrepancies that the very thorough analysis tools have not thought about. Just the other day someone posted here about a company operation that uses all sorts of micro elements like the weather on the day and if it is favorable to a certain team to try to determine an advantage.

well, some people believe in ghosts, unicorns and dragons.  ;D hence, you won't be surprised if some of them will use the pendulum thing to predict the outcome of their bets. but i can agree with you, they are heading to the losing end if they will do this in sports betting. i am more on, if you are knowledgeable enough on that sports, you have better chance of winning.

We are really different in various things which even on how many times we do convince or explain to them about the reality of gambling based on real experience but still won't be enough for you to stop them on to follow on what's up into their minds when it comes to this.

Just let them be because they'll soon realize on what's the actual thing and will really find out that swinging a pendulum to know the gambling or betting outcome is totally a bullshit thing to believe on.

I do not think that I will be dependent on a pendulum if it is related to sportsbetting or anything that is related to it. Maybe for some fun games and it is not really a concern to lose then it might be a good idea to try it out and see if I am someone who is lucky with it.
This is new to me and like those people that do rituals and beliefs, I can this is part of that category.

Even myself can't really believe that there are people who do really believe with this kind of ritual or act for them to believe that luck could really be altered or be influenced by something but we know that luck isn't something that can't be controlled and it would really come and go and knowing it is impossible.On what others been saying that they will realize on what's the truth about gambling winning chance through pure luck and nothing else.

I believe everything in gambling is based on probability and their is about 50/50 probability that such guess could have a positive occurrence. I have seen so many games that the outcome is based on probability and it does have 90% of predicted outcome. Everything is based on the strategies that are used and how they are modified to get am accurate outcome. Most of those guess are not just based on simple hypothesis, they have complex strategies that is been used to get an accurate outcome.

This is something different from superstitious beliefs. There can be more successful outcomes, but this is like believing something beyond your knowledge. Because, with sports betting it is possible to predict based on the players and the teams involved. Even after that there is a need for luck, without which it is impossible to win. When we take this pendulum as a deciding tool, the winning coincidence gets connected. That's it!!

It's more like a perspective view of what you want to happen in the future thus, believing what should've happen will increase the possibility of winning but it's not that guarantee though. I still believe this due to the luck what you have and doing this will most likely going to manifest what you wanted to happen. Prediction seems to make sense when you are feeling it that it's going to happen and in gambling it's more like an intuition maybe because you did manifest your energy from the start when you were at home until arriving at the casino.

I hope the trend of animals predicting the results comes back!  ;D

Paul the Octopus (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-11626050) was spot on, and there was a German elephant (https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2086866-german-elephant-is-new-paul-the-octopus-predicts-world-cup-matches) as well.

Much more fun to see an animal doing these predictions than a random human  :D

I think this is silly, when it comes to betting the only thing that can beat the odds is your knowledge of the game/sport, plus everything is random and unpredictable (if we disregard the technical criteria among the participants).

Nature does have some standards, but I don't think they apply to gambling.

I believe that people who make use of these "techniques" are much more interested in becoming popular or making illicit money from it than in making a profit using it for themselves.

I honestly think it's a real thing BUT they do tend to, well, forget about all the wrong predictions done. So really, it's NOTHING impossible, even someone can predict a thousand matches and if he got 1 or 2 right, then he can also say that he, well, predicted a match no? But well it is a confidence booster for some people to actually trust their prediction to something else, it's like a sense of relief that the burden is removed from your shoulders.
Probably popularity. Though it's honestly going to be short lived in these cases imo.

I think the same, all these superstitions serve no purpose other than to give a false sense of security to those who believe in them, and if at some point they have a positive streak, it is not because the superstition works but because of statistics.

Much better to know about odds and know the specific mathematics of the game you are betting on if you want to make a profit. As well as self-control, because sometimes emotions can play tricks on us.

I don't believe about that including pendulum, someone who use that in gambling and claiming they're made more correct bet is mostly only lucky. Pendulum have nothing to do with the match and why should I bet on the club that I think they wouldn't win? That would disappointed me if I choose the wrong club and I don't like the club, gambling is for fun.

Basically the animals didn't know anything and they just move on where he like, same like playing dice where you're prefer to bet higher number or low number. Actually you don't need an elephant to see how animal choose the club, you can just place a bit sugar on 2 different place and then look the ant choose which sugar :P

It may still happen today but I think that the only ones who would be using it would be some really desperate people in their life.Normal people and normal gamblers don't have superstitions,some of them may have some rituals which they consider to bring them good luck but using Pendulum I highly doubt it.A friend of mine,an avid gambler,he believes that when a bird enters your car it means good luck and when such thing happens to him he spent a lot of money on slot machines because one time after a bird entered his car he hit the jackpot (a small one but nevertheless still a jackpot).

Yes, sports betting against crowd expectation is the most optimal gaming strategy. 

Using this gaming strategy gives a probability of winning more than 50 percent.

This is due to the fact that among the sporting events on which you bet there are most likely fixed (fictitious) matches.  The result of contractual (fictitious) matches was originally planned in such a way as to significantly differ from the crowd's expectations. 

This increases the chance of winning your sports bets. 

At the same time, if you can provide a probability of winning more than 50 percent, then you are a consistently successful player.

Paul the Octopus did fantastically well with his predictions in the 2010 World Cup (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_the_Octopus#2010_FIFA_World_Cup):

https://i.imgur.com/Tijh26K.png

The probability to guess all them right would be 1 in 256 (if we consider only 2 options for each, no draw)

I mean, of course the Octopus doesn't know anything about football and it's all just random... or is it?  ;D

The pendulum is about interacting with your subconscious I don't know if a gambler using a tool like Pendulum can accurately predict the winners or the results if he has no or little knowledge of the sport he is betting, so knowledge about the sports is a more preferable than a mind over matter tool if you want to increase your chances better have a quiet mind while picking your bets because good judgment comes when you are on a more peaceful state of mind.

One possible interesting effect with these popular animal predictions (and similar) is that, whilst they are of course entirely random, they may influence betting patterns, and so affect the odds. If a million people see a video of an octopus picking a winner in a world cup match, then that could potentially result in a lot of people making a lot of real money bets based on this prediction... which can then cause the odds to change, and make betting for the opposition more favourable.

I've no idea if there is much of an effect on betting patterns or not, but it's certainly possible.

I think that the bird sat on his car completely accidentally, the same can be said about his winning. Most likely after winning he wondered how he could win and could not find anything better than to build a logical chain of events that led him to win. But in fact these are two separate events not connected with each other. And he chose this event because it is quite rare. I do not think that if he sees the bird on the car again it will bring him luck.

It's like we have our own ways of doing things. Some are just rare and odd and also we can be odd to the others in our own ways. This is how far the others can do if it's all about the luck that they can have for the bets that they'll do. You can think of yourself on how far you can do such as doing this and having that random pointing where you must bet and if you're going to follow that random choice based on the pendulum.

Yeah completely accidental, it could be that he didn't close his car's doors/windows properly and at that time the bird is also tired and decided to relax inside the car as he/she sees it open but it does not mean that the bird has some kind of a special powers that gave him a blessing/luck to win. We can also say that it was just a coincidence.

When I win, I also think of how did I do that but not to the point where I end up thinking other events other than the gambling itself. To prove if his friend is right, why not he will do the same act? And see if he will win again or not but I bet he can't win again so better if he must not be confident as it can drain his wealth easily.

Believing in superstitions isn't a bad habit but we shouldn't expect that it will be effective in the world of gambling. We can play positively and make our personal beliefs as a motivation but they can't we should always be mindful that they can't lessen the risks of gambling.
I personally believe that if we have a positive vibe while gambling, we'll be able to create good decisions that will make our gameplay better and more enjoyable but we can't always win in gambling so we should also be ready to face losses.

I don’t understand why fans of such exotic prediction methods try to test them on sports bets that are very random? There is an easier way - take a coin and try to predict whether it will come up heads or tails. I think the result will be predictable: the average guessing accuracy will be 50%, as in blind guessing without any pendulums and other devices.

Whether you do make use of;

1. Coin
2. Pendulum
3. Whatever that do have those properties

It would really be still ending up on 50% chance since you do only need to choose which one of the team/players on whose gonna win the game.
But sometimes these steps or behaviors arent really that sensible to be done because if we do stick on that realistic principle then
these kind of behavior is pointless overall specially if we do talk about gambling where winning chance would be always random or in totally
unpredictable manner.

Though i respect others those who still rely for pendulum  for good predictions, but for me it won't gonna work. I prefer to based my predictions from my own knowledge, skills and strategies because i think that's how gambling works, with a bit of luck of course. There's always an advantage if you know the game well, or the sports betting you are playing, than just basing the result of the game through the movement of pendulum. Not really surprising if those old people still rely from pendulum as they are more superstitious than the present millenials these days.

I don't believe it works. What happens is that people pick one event where a gambler using pendulum had success on his bet, so his story becomes an example of how pendulum is effective, although everyone else who also used pendulum, but lost their bets are just ignored by the people spreading the story ahead. If this mystical method worked, I'm sure many other gamblers would have already adopted it along the years, especially because it's a divination tool since the old days. Consequently pendulum would have already completely broken the gambling industry and the future wouldn't be unpredictable anymore.

This is a perfect example of the survivorship bias, in which people only take a look at those people or events that were successful and ignore the failures as if they did not existed, it is obvious we can make use of almost any method of prediction to try to guess which team will win in a sport competition or which number will appear next on the roulette, but even if we were to succeed it will be nothing more but a coincidence as it is impossible to predict the future with any divination tool.

You don’t seem to understand my point: in order to check whether the pendulum method works, I suggest checking this method not on sporting events, but on trying to guess how the coin will fall (here the probability is known initially, so it’s easy to check the accuracy of predictions). Naturally, if the pendulum method does not work, we will predict how the coin fell with an accuracy of 50%.

But unfortunately, there are still many people out there who may still believe in superstitions so they still use mystical things. They feel that using them will give them a greater chance of winning. Even though it is just a tool that cannot guarantee we will always win because gambling is related to luck. Maybe in other types of gambling, such as sports betting, we need the ability to analyze the teams that will compete so that we can choose those with a higher percentage rate of winning.

I also agree that there are really culture that still believing with superstitions, gamblers who like to seek for spells of luck charm

that will add to their luck when they are playing, but it's more on your mindsets and how you play the game, experienced is the

big factor that bring some other gamblers to take advantage but more or less, there are lots of gamblers who lose thinking that

they can overthink the house.

And anyone that took the time to actually go through the trouble of actually doing an experiment like that and flip a coin enough times to get results without any bias will understand that something like this does not work, people need to accept gambling for what it is, which is a way to pass some time and use our money to get some fun, any attempt to try to make money with it will simply bring us too many problems which could be easily avoided by simply accepting the reality that the vast majority has no chance of ever profiting from gambling games.

Even though that there are culture that believe in pendulum gambling, in as much as it is working for them then no problem. We need to what works for us not just gambling blindly.
If a gamblers can be able to use the pendulum strategy in gambling and they are making good results then that is better than using our modern strategy in betting and then making unnecessary loses. Our major aim why we go into gambling is to make profits and live a good life so anything that works is a better strategy to embrace.

As long as a certain strategy is effective and helps us win in gambling, I see nothing wrong with it. Anyone could use their own belief as a winning strategy. It might not be effective for us but might help on their gambling journey. Gambling is either winning by skills or by luck and we could pick our personal choice of mantra or pendulum that could make our gambling journey more exciting.

Any scientific explanation about this thing?  If there is none, I think I won't believe it.  Using a pendulum is the same way as guessing IMHO.  Well in a match game, there is always a 50/50 chance that the pendulum prediction will come true but making choices complex will prove its ineffectiveness.

It's started with the use of a divining rod and it was used to locate precious stones and water in the olden days check this article to know more about this divining rod (https://www.encyclopedia.com/earth-and-environment/minerals-mining-and-metallurgy/metallurgy-and-mining-terms-and-concepts/divining-rod) but it evolves to what is now called pendulum divination, it has something to do with your subconscious mind interacting with your conscious mind, some have success on it but others see it as no scientific basis if you gifted with a third eye or in predicting the future this is a good tool.

Maybe someday, people who still believe in superstition or lucky charm charms will realize that playing gambling really requires luck and is not based on spells and so on. Their mindset needs to change so they don't rely on spells and the like and don't really expect to get big wins on gambling. But for now, we can only allow them to continue to have that mindset and hopefully, they will wake up soon.

no one can explain scientifically about pendulums and such. However, things that don't make sense can happen. In some Asian countries, rituals such as using a pendulum are not taboo or strange, the main factor is cultural influence. I think gambling that uses a pendulum or similar rituals is a dupe for sure players must use reason, skill, dexterity and strategy, although that does not guarantee someone gets a win.

Yes there's no science behind that pendulum can help you to win or predict something. The thing that they want to believe by using pendulum is just superstitious belief, it needed to be corrected so that people will stop believing in such things, if you want to win in gambling make some realistic strategy for it.

No science at all and it was just a self-claimed belief by people/gambler who thinks that it added luck when believing to this superstition. Though it's more on thinking that you have some advantages when you use it but in reality there's no change that may affect your game, luck or knowledge behind the game is what matters in order for you to win the game.

You need to do your research and make sure to follow the game in order to get deeper ideas on how to make some decent strategy.

Yes, even if someone uses it, I don't think it will win the bet of those who use it.
Gambling is pure luck that only relies on skill or looking for accurate information obtained from hard work from the previous match onwards, and even then sometimes it doesn't bring winning results.
So gambling only produces wins as a result of skill, strategy, effort or hard work and a strong hunch.

I believe in supernatural occurrences.  Science at its current stage is not yet absolute knowledge there are still unknown things by science but using a pendulum to determine a winning party like in sports betting, or any form of sports, I don't see any connection between them.  Unless a person has a gift of foresight then the doubt in my mind would not settle down.  Only those who can tell the future will know what will happen next, but I don't know if anyone knows one living in our present age.  Besides, if it is true, it must be 100% correct all the time.

Not only there is no science that backs up any claims about the effectiveness of using a pendulum to try to predict the outcome of gambling games, scientific studies say the opposite and that things like that are never going to work, unfortunately when it comes to gambling some players have some outrageous beliefs about it, like those which have a particular object that according to them it brings them luck, when we know that such a thing is impossible.

I think it will have to do with intuition or feeling that will tell you something that can lead you to victory. But what is clear, you can win if you have luck, and everyone cannot obtain this. We must realize that using a pendulum or something like that can't give victory, even though some people still believe in a pendulum that can help them win. We can't do much other than allow them to keep using the pendulum, and as long as they don't cheat, we'd better keep playing as usual.

Well, I think that all this about the pendulum and everything that has to do with things like that, for me I see it as beliefs, as things that can happen and that many people cling to believe that it is thanks to it, I know that there are people who read pendulum, who even look through the pendulum for information, but I think it's more subjective than quantitative, if the pendulum gave details of a number or something like that I think I'd dare to try it, but I know it's not, in fact if in Asia they do it, I imagine because it is part of their culture and that through it they give it that value directed towards gambling, but I think there are many more things to apply in gambling.

I personally don't believe in superstition when it comes to gambling because it doesn't sound really ideal well enough to me because I feel somehow the accuracy will not be such that I can really relay on, moreover I will be more vexed if the results turns out wrong because such situations would make you want to use so much at once because of their said credibility.

After investing so much and it turns out it's against you, taking responsibility becomes even difficult because you weren't expecting such out come probably because of a possible track record that has been kept over time that has probably turned out in the favour of the prediction, so people will probably become so dependent and reliant on the predictions such that they will stake higher than usual and probably be affected badly because they have staked heavily, I personally don't believe I'm such.