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Sports live bets are full of sentiments, grudges and unnecessary arguements because there are always persons you could Chanel your grievances towards.
I as a Nigerian went on a bet with a South African friend on today's match for the Semifinal of the African Cup of Nations league, my prediction was that Nigeria was going to win and my friend predicted that South Africa would win and we had our stakes of $10 each deposited on a reliable and a trustee so that there isn't going to be bridges of bets.

Buttressing this whole thing, we individually feels cheated at every blown panelized whistles and of course there is are felling amongst us that any goals scored against our oppositions is not Worth it so there is always room to point at either the referees or the coaches for being biased just because of the game ongoing is not playing towards the favours of our desired teams.
This is to an extend, there was no more funs about the game due to the point of personal interests to make sure our supported team wins the match.

Question:who has been in this scenario before? And how did you managed with your emotions then?

From your explanation, it was not a live bet you had with your friend, it was just a bet. Live bet should mean live matches or in-play. I will call it that because you can not bet on a match that are no more live because it has been played and the outcomes has been known.

People that took draw won. It match was drawn and Nigeria won during penalty shootout. It would be a disappointment for those that either chose Nigeria or South Africa to win. But if you use little amount of money to bet it, it was still fun.

I don't know what the correct term is to describe betting with our own friends, not in a casino because both can be called live sports betting.

Of course I have experienced it, usually I bet with my close friends when our favorite team is playing and we do it just for fun, even though there are often arguments about referees, fouls, injury time, and so on, but I never get carried away by emotions, because we bet just for fun. And for various reasons I enjoy and have more fun betting with my own friends than betting in a casino

The name of such gambling is not live betting, but it could fall under or be called social gambling because you need no casino to serve as a third party or any bookmaker in order for the betting to take place.
 
All you did was challenge each other with which team you thought was going to win, and there was a price for whoever's prediction was correct, which is the same thing as social gambling.
 
It's important to note that social gambling is one of the forms of gambling that promotes violence a lot. If you get involved with someone who is not good at anger control, the argument can escalate to a point where he can no longer hold it, which could result in a physical fight, so I will advise you to avoid such gambling either in a public place or in private for your own safety.

I do not think that the scenario you stated is a live bet but rather just plain betting since a live bet is like putting a bet while the game is happening not before the game is played just like what Oshondy stated.

Honestly being a fan of a playing team, it is hard to contain one's emotions especially if we have a bet that our favorite team will win.  I know it is really disappointing if the calls of the ref and the game performance of the team don't go what we expected.  It is normal to be emotional during the heights of the game and it even lingers even after.  I managed my emotion by simply making sure that whatever the result of the game was, I did not let it affect my next activities.

I try to avoid placing a bet with a close friend in this way, it doesn’t matter if your a patriotic citizen or a fan to a team, I don’t just like the idea of having to bet between myself and my friend. It often don’t seem so comforting should I happen to win and have to take my friends money (which is now mine by virtue of having won the bet) for myself. In most case, I always tend to give it right back, at least my point of prediction have been proven but,

There isn’t anything strange about this while gambling or watching a game. This is the very reason why, you don’t have two contrasting fans positioned together in the stadium. In fact, you’ve got a steward at every close proximity of contrasting fans because, there would always be grievances and when the other fan is happy, you are sad and that could result in conflict.
Don’t be surprised should your friend hold a grudge over this but then, it was a bet and I hope you guys are really matured about it.

I have exclusively only had the exact opposite of this happen to me. When a match with teams I like happens and I have a stake, o feel more satisfaction watching the match if I have placed a small stakes... But there's an important catch, I only place small stakes..especially when gambling with friends, you can't expect them to have the same money as you.

On that note, I don't know what 10$ is for Nigeria but it probably is a lot of Naira. So if losing that amount makes you feel sad, always best to not place bets at all and just watch the match for fun.

Simply, just accept the result. If by any means you think some cheating happened, then stay away from betting on that league anymore.

Just move forward and later on, you will know how to deal with such kind of game and will have a better decision on what bet type should be picked.

More importantly, try to also consider using your own money without sharing stakes to your friends to avoid unnecessary arguments.

More like p2p (peer-to-peer). No third party. Just the two of you are betting against each other but in this case, there's no application, it was done physically with someone trusted holding the money for them.

Why? What happened to the game? Was it a draw?
Well, I've never been in that situation before because I mostly bet against a friend in sports either basketball, boxing, or MMA which draw games are very rare to happen.
Regarding the officials, referees are always biased and that cannot be controlled, there's always a preferred team for them, and then if there are two referees, the other one balances it. It cannot be stopped because they are also humans who may be fans of one team. But they still must act like professionals when they are on the field so if ever they make an obvious call, I bet they will be fined or disciplined for doing that considering this is a professional league.

The live sportsbet was not the recommended one,because the feedback from your friends will make you confused on the game.So the gamblers will make the stake of funds on the different betting site.The betting of you and your friends on the different team,So any of you had make the money for sure.But the drawback is the person who loss the money.In deep the winner who get the money of the loser in that game.If you know who is the best team,then both bet on the same team is better option.Because either both or both loss,but this also the risky option of both on the same side.

I think I've done this a couple of times before, not in person but over in discord. We were watching it via Discords YouTube activity back then so we both got to watch the match at the same speed and time (YT sometimes has that weird delay that differs from pc to pc), and it was a wild ride. We were both screaming at every intense moment of the match and since it was a BO5, we had to be like that for a couple of hours lmao. Let's not even mention the bloody anger in our voices whenever YT ads started playing in the middle lol.

To answer, I didn't. It was with friends and even if it had a bet involved, we bet on our respective teams anyway, something we probably would've done regardless if we talked about it or not. Rather I just enjoyed the experience of watching the game together and the experience of frustration and talking about what could be, the best moments of the game and stuff like that after the game itself.

Well, I have not gambled like that before because I don't see it being necessary after staking on same game on the casino. Form your explanation, you place a bet of $10 on your country while your friend also placed a bet of  $10 on his country, which at the end, if you friend lost the bet you only would have earned the $10 which he staked. Just imagine if you have stake that $10 in a casino, do you think it's only $10 you would have won? If I stake on a game in a gambling site, even if the match is on and am watching it live at a viewing center, I don't bet with any body in that place.

I’d simply say it that if you can’t manage your emotions, you should be gambling. I don’t see why you’d be pissed or upset if you lost the prediction when you knew very well that it is a 50/50 probability. When you gamble, assume you’ve lost the money so when you actually lose it, it doesn’t surprise or hurt you. I’ve been in a similar case before and I didn’t care what behavior the other person had. I took my winnings as per the agreement and off I went.

I believe something like this only happened to me once when I was matching the semi final match of the Football World Cup of 2014. It was during the infamous matches between Brazil and Germany, which out in complete humiliation the host team. I was in favor from the beginning of a German Victory and a female friend of mine was rather fond of the Brazilian football selection, we made a little symbolic bet on our preferred teams snd decided to watch the match Live on TV.
Needless to say that because of the insane amounts of goals and the historical moment we were witnessing, she did not take any joy at all on seeing her favorite team of the World Cup being completely crushed.

Fortunately, it was not a big bet or something, because it could have negatively affected our friendship back then. In the end, that match and the day we met in my family home to watch it live will remain as a good memory.

Keeping my story aside, I indeed believe a bet which hss enough money staked on it could easily erode a friend and make almost imposible to enjoy a match, because of the bad feelings one could have when seeing ones preferred team being put in disadvantage by the referee.

I haven't been in the exact scenario, but I've had similar experiences with friends while watching games, and I've witnessed similar situations unfold. It's completely normal for emotions to run high, especially when money is involved. Sometimes, things just don't go the way we hope. If I were in that situation, I would remember that it's just a friendly bet, and whoever wins, sportsmanship should be present. Our main goal is to enjoy the game and each other’s company, not just to see who wins the bet. After all, it's just a game, and I won't let the outcome define our friendship.

I'm sure everyone who likes football must have done this betting between teams between countries or clubs, but I don't have any friends out there, but betting with friends around my house since I was young used to bet on my favorite club and so did my friends, but Even then, it seemed like it was just an ordinary bet, it didn't require money and was just a treat to eat at school for one week, so coincidentally at that time I won, so I was treated to a meal at school for a week by the friend who bet with me.

Never experienced full emotions. Sometimes the team that we were leading in the past couldn't be forced to win against the team chosen by my friend because basically the gambling we did at that time wasn't too excessive, maybe because we were still immature so we weren't full of emotions, even though that was true. It's not a direct bet as friends say here because you don't use a third party platform site, but whatever it is, this bet is definitely often played by those who are still gamblers and often bet on football sports, whether league championships or between countries.

Please I do not know about you guys but for me this is simply live betting in his own terms. Who defines what live betting is and what it is not. This may be the OP's operational definition of live betting and that is okay with me. The bet were place after the match had begun which is also one of the features of a standard definition of live betting. They bet on the out come of the match - another very solid characteristics of live betting. Despite not having a platform, it was a simple arrangement with themselves where they had a third party hold the stake. If this is not live betting in their own definition and even similar to what the bookies give us, I wonder what then it is.

Several years ago, I was in that scenario when I often hung out with my old friends. It was the World Cup and my friend and I competed against each other by holding the country of our choice. Victories and defeats came and went between us so that we could say that we could break even.
But the emotions we experience are only during the match and will not continue after the match is over because we know it is pointless. Yes, we enjoyed the betting moment because we watched the match together so we knew what score each country got. And it was truly a moment I will never forget.

Most of the time we watched with my friends with the sports betting because of course we want to compete with each other and at the same time enjoy the game, getting excited and disappointed to the game its part of it at the end both of you, you know that this gets entertained you both but of course make sure you are still in a good shape if someone losses the game or bet because you play gambling there's no game that's no winner.

I often make bets like that, betting with close friends and watching the match together, but I'm not sure if it's a live bet because I do it just to have fun with my close friends.
every weekend I often bet on soccer bets with my friends but I never feel emotions, I just always joke around making fun of each other supporting teams and usually when I win or my friend wins we never use the money personally but we use it to buy food or buy drinks and continue betting on the next match.

for me, this is a normal betting scenario to have fun with our friends and there should be no need to feel disappointed or emotional if the team we support loses because it's only $10 and after all our goal of betting is for fun, not to make money, so get rid of your emotions and your feelings of disappointment and just think you're unlucky.

I usually find it more entertaining since imagine you have your friends beside you watching those live games and there's a bet at stake for sure the whole betting experience is really different comparing betting alone since there's a lot of things to discuss and also we can really joke around if something exciting happen on that games.

This is really a normal betting scenario since there's a lot of people been hook up with sports and for sure your friends have same interest of you when it comes on that category that's why we can't avoid to have this moments and we could really enjoy this time especially if there's a beer in the table and for sure we will forget about if we are not lucky or what actually happen on the games we are betting.

When I saw the topic I was thinking otherwise but opening the thread was just another thing. Although I have played several games and which the amount was higher than $10 and I didn't feel somehow or being emotional about how the game would play. So talking about being in the same shoes, I have been in such situation before, but not like these type of yours.

But I believe the real cause of the panic was the way the match was played yesterday. Emagine when you played a game, and it came to penalty, you would definately be afraid or frightened because you never see that coming. but funny enough you where lucky yesterday to have won $10 from him.

If you bet while watching the match, of course you will feel something like that because I feel it too and sometimes it's quite annoying, when the referee does something that we think is detrimental to the team we have chosen or even when a player fails to score even though that is what we really hope will happen, and I am sure all gamblers experience this, disappointed and all thing that comes to mind, if it's too disturbing it's better not to watch it or it could be that you are too hopeful of winning either because you bet a large amount or because you bet an amount you can't really afford to lose, so it's very important to only use money you can afford to lose so You can still enjoy the match and when you win you will be happy and if you fail you won't get too emotional or get angry.

I have a group of friends where we communicate through a facebook group. We do betting on a regular basis, daily actually but I'm not betting on a daily basis but the channel is very active. We have like 15 members, we all know each other and we are betting, of course we can't avoid getting emotional, but since we are doing this regularly, we get used to it and still enjoying until now.

The best advantage when doing like this is we get a good odds since you don't have to pay the bookie for the comission. Say the spread is -5 for a certain team, you'll get x2 if you win but on bookie, you'll get like x1.90 or even lower.

I have not been in such a situation before; I find it discomforting to get involved in physical live betting. I'm not emotionally strong for such a kind of betting.
 
On betting once's the game enter's penalties shot out, it's already a draw game, which means none of you were able to win the bet, so there should be a refund of cash to both parties as it could be considered a void game.
 
On the other hand, the game ended against almost everyone's prediction. No one was expecting the last goal of the Nigerian team to be cancelled and a penalty awarded to the South African team.

Immediately that happened, and that was the moment we all started seeing the game end in a draw. But I can't say the referee was biassed; he wasn't, but Nigerians were just unlucky for a fair ruling.

What you experienced is what anyone who bet with his friend will also experience, because there will be room for blams and excuses, since you guys are after winning the money and that is why you want your team to win, even when your team did something wrong, you wouldn't accept it.

I have gone on several bet with my friend and at most times, we want to be the person that will win the bet, so that we can see the other person who lost the bet as a weak person or to make him feel that we are right with our decisions. I was also watching the match with a friend yesterday that said whatever makes the match to get to penalty shootout, that South Africa will win the game, because Williams was able to catch the Cabo Verde players penalty in the quarter finals, that the same thing will happen to Nigeria, and we placed a bet, which I won the bet because I told him that I have the confidence in Nigeria's goalkeeper.

There is one thing I know about football fans, when your favourite club is losing that's when you will see some injustice happening, they will find some excuse, it will surely be more worse if the bet is between you and a friend, I have seen one that escalate into a fight between two friends.

Whatever happened in a football match is already in the past, either the ref is not doing is job well or not that's not the thing here, if you lose it's a lost and if you win is a win, once the final whistle is blown just accept whatever happens.

When arguments about football unfolds, it's always the losers that finds excuses just to make his favourite fan club look like they are been ripped off and cheated.

This feeling is common in sports bets where both parties feel that the referee is favouring a team. But referee Amin Mohamed Omar was fair in the game. The only exception to some persons is the penalty he awarded to South Africa after cancelling the goal scored by Osimhen. A close look at the replay proves that he was right because there was actually an impact on Percy Tau by Alhassan Yusuf and they deserve the penalty.    

That is why it is important to gamble with what you can afford to lose so that you will not be emotionally unstable. We shouldn't also know that in gambling you either lose or gain, so as you target the win and also expect loss. Since I don't have control over the outcome of the game, the best option is to keep your cool.  

I would prefer to have my bets placed in a casino than challenging my friend on a bet for which team to win.
Challenging a friend on a bet has caused misunderstanding between friends which has taken their support for a team to win too seriously. Any wrong blown from the referrer might cause a disagreement between friends and it can lead to an exchange of words that can trigger anger.

In avoidance of this, bet ordinary on casinos not with friends because that could save the friendship and not cause anger and envy of who later wins the money of the bet.

Things like this has happened in many gamblers in the gambling center but there is nothing you can do at the moment with the loss you experience from the bet than to learn a lesson from your mistakes which are part of some of the things we keep learning from gambling.

No matter what is happening in the game you bet, never allow emotions to bring you down because you know that there are two things we must experience from our gambling which are loss and gain and, anyone that achieve loss from among the two have to bear because, that is not the end of your gambling.

Meanwhile, what you gambled is not live. In local parlance it should be called side. Like two people are playing and you are supporting one side by gambling on it.



It is a right feeling and truly there are high moments of the game where Nigerian goal scored by Victor osimhen was cancelled and the decision of the referee to award penalty to South Africa. So it is understandable if two people who staked against each other feel such anxiety.



But that is where the fun should be where two friends are disagreeing peacefully with the decisions of the referee. Those who say gambling is for fun should also see such moment as the fun aspect of the game and not to get agree because they are probably seeing the decision of the referee as for them to lose their money.

Somehow I think you both allowed yourself to be denied of the fun in the game because of your bet probably you both staked more than you can comfortably afford to lose and that was why it was able to draw your focus to be more on your stakes and not on having fun because if you both had gamble for fun there would be no need for the whole worries.

Staking what you can afford to loose at a time on a bet is what allow you have fun amidst the bet regardless of whatever is it the results bis turning out to be, a similar experience once had was a live game at the casino and I actually wasn't interested in the game but the results and winning so I definitely didn't have any fun watching the game, such situations make you have too many biases about the game and so the only way I tried to get my self out of such situations was to make sure to always stake that which I can comfortably afford to loose and allow myself enjoy the game.

I've experienced this, but the bet is not money. Whoever loses must be willing to buy the winner's favorite drink. Unfortunately, I often lose and buy drinks for my friends who win. There was a feeling of disappointment because I had lost, but in the end, I decided not to think about it because it was a normal game and I didn't use money. Even though I lost, I can still accept it, especially since he is one of my friends who is used to gambling, especially sports betting. Yes, there is a feeling of wanting to win, but we have to leave it to the performance of the team we choose so that if they lose, we also can't blame them, so we should be able to accept the loss. But there was indeed excitement among us, especially the winner because he got a free drink.

The scenerio OP described is perfectly normal imo. The fact that both you and you friend want your respective team to win is perfectly normal in my books because everyone who places a bet is hopeful that they'd win their bet. That's why it's easy to get attached and emotional when it doesn't go according to plan because no matter how we try to sugar coat it, it sucks to be on the losing end of every bet.

See it this way => your friend is losing money to you, that's appropriate. Compared to him losing that money to a random guy on the internet plus there's bragging rights too. Bets are a zero sum game anyway.

The grievance in this bet is something exceptional that one gets provoked at any point the referee blows the whistle against your supporting team or at the point the referee is sensed to being biased in the game. The worse of it is watching your friend walking away with your money if be the winner. Lol

The fun about some activities for some people is after the activity has been Carried out, not during the activity while it is still ongoing. Gambling on some of these kind of games where you are a strong supporter of one of the teams can take away the fun during the game but later after everything is completed, if you sette and think of it, you actually had fun, just a different kind of fun.

Whether it's betting live with your friends, or betting via casino and sports betting platforms. When you don't have good enough emotional control and are unable to accept defeat, something bad will still happen to you.

A person who bets directly with his friends, and one of them has poor emotional control and is unable to accept defeat, then when the betting session is over he will immediately divert and vent his annoyed feelings towards his betting opponent by saying things that don't make sense. sense until it ends in a fight. Likewise, regarding someone who bets through a casino and sports betting platform, when they have poor emotional control and are unable to accept defeat, after the betting session is over and the result is a loss, to vent anger, emotions and disappointment over the final result of the bet, I Seeing them look like crazy people because they keep babbling incoherently and often blaming the platform for being deceptive and unfair, and quite a few times when they lose, they immediately throw their cellphones to pieces.

This is why you separate your emotions from your bets. If you keep getting emotionally invested at every bet you make, you will really not make the most of it and will always be looking for reasons to justify your emotions instead of accepting this as they are, to the point that it's no longer enjoyable to watch the game you used to look forward to. For me, the best thing to do is to pick favorites but don't get so invested in them that I throw rationality out of the window just to 'defend' my team.

I can imagine the rivalry, but Sport being Sport this is a perfect example that sport unites even in times of divergent choices..bet you still buddies even with your friend losing their bet  ;D

Not sure if you watched this match live with your buddy in Ivory Coast or just went to some public place with all other soccer fans to catch the game on a cold drink  8)

Otherwise, being a social fan am always surrounded by friends and family watching a game and we have deliberately agreed we all can never be on the same team as it takes the fun out of the game and agreed to have supporters for each side just to mix things up while watching these games on a big screen...and sometimes it does get heated up as the underdog does come on top with people losing big bets & the alike , but at the end of the day its all fun and games and we  have a good laugh and move on..nothing personal to hold to heart!
  

the truth is sometimes it is hard to separate the emotions especially if you are a die-hard fan of the team you are betting with. so you feel like you are also part of the team while they are playing the game. but if you are betting good amount of money, you should be very practical on things as the team won't care about your funds getting lost with your bets. maybe root for them, but also don't forget that you are staking your hard-earned money and as much as possible, at least get something out of it and not just follow your emotions


if you are doing this activity with your friends, losing is not hard to accept as you can have a good time with them afterwards. but if it comes from random people, i bet, not only your pocket will hurt but your ego as well. let us put it this way, if you put yourself in this situation, it means, you are amenable to consequences that are about to happen. so don't play sorry for yourself if you will end up on the losing side.

You guys have to be the most emotional of fans to not enjoy the game because of a bet in opposing teams. Some may find a $10 bet too big but the amount is too small to ruin the fun.
It's the opposite case for me. It actually adds more since we can tease whoever placed money on the losing team.

If you are getting too heated over $10 you might need to stop gambling right now. No telling what you might do if you were betting a couple thousand. Better to not find out right?

In all seriousness, a little bit of trash talk is fine as long as it stays fun. If you guys are getting really crazy with each other you prob should just watch the game and not bet.

Was the bet for only full time or it included extra times and even penalty? The match was an emotional one, more like the final of the competition and I know many people, including friends engaged in similar bet because the fixture had some political undertone that covers the supremacy struggle between South Africa and Nigeria whereas the former see herself as more advanced and better while the later pride herself as the giant of Africa.


You cannot be a citizen of either countries and not have your emotion fully engaged in the match. There is no point fighting the emotion that should be fun of the game. As for engaging in such bets, I have not done it in international match before, unless I have forgotten when but it should be a regular thing for club sides are popular among strong club supporters.

I guess we've all experienced this, although in different degrees. We're sometimes emotional when it comes to the teams we support, cheer, and bet on. But I see no point in getting really angry except perhaps if it is very obvious that a victory is stolen or something like that.

But some fans are just unruly that even ordinary calls are enough reason for them to yell or even mob the fans of the opposing teams and even the players themselves and the coaching team.

With the game itself, the emotion is already great. With bets and a friend by your side being in some way your opponent at that moment, it will really be a very troubled time. I don't think it's worth discussing this, just accepting the result, unfortunately.

To be honest, I once watched football with a friend, at that time my favorite team was going to play and before the match started he talked to me to invite me to bet on the match we were watching and I agreed to bet with him. However, when the match started, there were lots of tackles against my favorite team, but the referee didn't give any violations and I didn't feel angry, because I thought this was normal. In the end, my favorite team lost this match, but I never felt annoyed or emotional at all during the match.

In my opinion, if you lose a bet on a match that you are watching with a friend, maybe this is normal, because if you don't want to lose the bet then you have to have very strong predictions or instincts in making choices. Not only do you blame the referee, because it is impossible for the referee to blow the whistle without a player making a mistake on the field, not only that, the referee also has the authority to lead the match that is taking place on the field. .

Well, a bet is a bet and whatever happens to the match is that you can't do anything with that. Much better to avoid betting against a friend so that you won't have any issue.

This is common in circle of friends and that's sad that there are friendships that have been destroyed by betting.

You should have always put a disclaimer that no matter what happens to the match, you're still friends and add some flavor like making fun of your teams. You guys are too serious with these teams and betting where in they don't care if both of you does a thing or two.

I feel like it doesn't kill fun it actually makes it more fun to bet on a match that you will watch. I understand that you feel bad anytime your team gets foul whistle and that kind of regular events happening in a match. Also you bet with your friend which is even more hilarious in my opinion. Whenever I bet with a friend we discuss our matches a lot and sometimes argue. But I don't think it's anything stressful. Its lighthearted fun for me personally.

I have also been in the same situation. We always get this intense feeling when being emotionally invested in sports, especially when supporting teams.But we should keep in mind that every games are unpredictable and it might not align with our expectations. Just enjoy the agme and maintain a healthy relationships with friends.

We are gamblers and whatever happens in match cannot be changed or recovered as we hope, when the referee or coach makes mistake and makes us think it is unfair or not good then we can only feel disappointed and emotional.
However, as bettors we can only be guided by the final result in the match because we won't be able to do anything to change it and of course things like this happen quite often.

I quite often bet directly with co-workers or colleagues who live in the same area, but when things are not expected as have said then all we can do is try to accept it.
Moreover, the bets are also for amounts of money that are not that big so the regret is not because of losing money but because the referee does not work well or the coach cannot make his players have perfect performance.
We will just laugh and make fun of each other when something like this happens so that we don't focus too much on emotions that might become excessive.

Betting with friends directly will provide different sensation and this is the main goal, not to win and make money.
We as gamblers can only continue to try as calmly as possible and try to avoid all bad things when unexpected things happen that cause emotions to rise.

I don't know how my emotions would be if I experienced such a scenario because when betting with our friends and watching the match together, there will be pressure between us, which can lead to mutual teasing of each team. Well, it could cause a small fight between us, but if it were a close friend, we wouldn't have had a big fight because it was just a game. Maybe our emotions will increase during the match, and hopefully, when the match is finished, those emotions will decrease, and we will return to normal. But if the money isn't too big, I don't think emotions need to escalate because it's just for fun between us.

So far I don't experience this kind of situation maybe a situation wherein after the match and me and ny other friends have different supported team so, there will be a winners of the bet but the thing is there is a slight awkwardness because the losing friend is sad or feeling sulking because the team he supports lose, the fun yes in betting with your friends is very exciting and full of thrill as your friends have different bets also added with the presence of money, but of course there will be a friend that would feel upset after the result of the match and it can't be helped that's how the bet is, the important is after some time you will still be friends and will still do another betting among the group to have an exciting event or something to talk about, this is based on true events I like betting with my friends on who's team will going to win in every NBA games especially in finals.

Makes sense. Me whoever wins between me and my friend, we spend the money together haha especially if we play alongside each other. Lots of sports fans get how emotions run high during live bets especially when cheering for their fave teams. It's normal for personal biases to mess with how you see the game. Having friends around makes it more of a social thing and eases the tension

Gambling is your specialty, or so you think. Betting with friends, accepting sports' unpredictability, and accepting losses are admirable, but strategy and understanding are essential. Every game and bet teaches. Accepting the outcome isn't enough; you must learn from it. Like referees and coaches, bettors have bad days. Real question: how do you adapt? Based on observation and experience, how do you adjust your strategy? Your betting strategy should be as varied as your games. Not just shrugging off losses, but gaining insights and grasping the game's subtleties. Though casual, betting with friends is unrivaled in excitement

Let me first say that I've never been in this shoe before, but possibly I can be in it in the future, nevertheless, one thing that is certain about me is that I am always polite and try to act like my real self always and not as what the thing I am facing or the situation I am in wants of me. For this, if I am in the same situation as you, the fault for unruly behaviour can't come from me.

Besides, I always challenge my younger brother in this regard but he has never obliged me of it despite being richer than me. :) I always tell him that we should bet, but in my case, my demand is way more than yours, I've never challenged him with less than $1,000, but he has never obliged me. Maybe I can tell better in this situation if he did, but still, I doubt it that I will be unruly because it is one of the ways I trained myself.

Money or no money, it shouldn't cloud my judgement and real self, so I do not think that I will be so sentimental about betting. But I don't know if the other party is now initiating an annoying attitude instead of being neutral and well-behaved about it. It is only that annoying attitude that can provoke me, and as a human being, we are entitled to that when we are not foolish.

The essence of betting with a friend in the first place was all for fun, definitely a team was going to lose the match. The outcome of the match was not supposed to make anyone bitter with the other because none of these friends influenced the result of the match. Moreover, we are not interested in how the match was played, gamblers often lookout for the outcome (final score). If the outcome of the match eventually ruins the friendship that exists between these two, it then means one or both of them have problems dealing with his/their emotions. If this is the case, they have to deal with their emotions first before even talking about placing bets. Ihave been involved in similar bets like this with friends.  It is usually fun watching matches together.  If I eventually lose, no matter the errors in the game, I accept the results the way it is and the friendship continues. No good gambler should take situations personal,  it was a gambler.

Well if you cares, it wasn't about the bet that ruined the whole thing but about out interests based on the team we individually supported.
We had the best just to reward the winner amongst us and not because we needed it for a profit.
But however, at the end of the tournament, I the Nigerian whom supported my country with an utmost empathy made it the winner and I took it all for joy that my country made it to the final round of the African Cup of Nations after beating the South Africans. Lol. Meanwhile... My guy needed a consolidating sympathy basically for the fact that his country lost the match to emerge in the final rounds of the League.

if it ended like one of you took it personally, i wouldn't be surprised. i have the same situation at some point even when we are just watching the game on TV. people are emotional when it comes to supporting their favored team and even when there is no bet involved it could result in having cracks in a relationship.

i guess it will matter now who you should be with when you watch live games. you wouldn't wanna see your friend frown while you celebrate your win. that's really insensitive. but maybe buying something to eat as your treat relieves the stress especially if you won.

I don't do that kind of treating you as friends, because that's what you say, it can ruin the friendship and it's something that I don't want, in the country I'm in when issues of money, games and anything like that are discussed, Well, I prefer to do it alone without anyone, because it is the only way to have good friends and not get into trouble, and unless one is a cheating person and takes advantage of things, it is necessary to make things different in every way. .

In the casino and in any business I believe that things should be written down so that there is never any misunderstanding and only then can the difference be made, it is better to assume things that are money oneself and not start inventing them and also money has many suitors, there is nothing better than doing things with our own capital and without compromising anyone at all.

First of all, that is something you shouldn't be mad about. First, because results from a match are out of your control, as there is nothing you can do to influence the outcomes. Second, because a sports match's result won't make any impacting difference in your life. There is only 10$ at stake, and even if your team wins, you will remain the same person on the next day. You won't become wealthier or poorer and your reality won't change for the better or worse due to a game's result.

I actually think it's funny when people put all their hopes, focus and expectations on World Cup or a determined league's games, as it was a decisive event for their lives to watch their favorite or national teams winning a trophy. They argue with each other, cry, scream, don't sleep, and in winning case, they become euphoric. However, the impact on their daily lives is ZERO. It doesn't bring any benefits at all to affect your emotions due to sports' matches. So, just be more rational about it, and work your emotions to impact yourself on things which really matter in the end.

Money is involved in gambling but if you will only bet small, your emotions will also remain stable. Not just sometimes but it was most of the times where our expectations won't be met, especially in gambling because the house has more advantage over the players.

It's important to think properly if what will be the outcome of our actions. We wouldn't want to hurt the feeling of other people just because of it and what's funny is that we can still regret it later on but it might be too late already. If the players on the matches that we are betting can be able to show a sportsmanship, then why can't us? But they are professionals, that is why.

This is so common among me and my friends. We bet on live games especially when our different teams are up against each other. Recently, I placed a bet with a friend during the recent game between Arsenal vs Liverpool game. Initially, Arsenal was leading by a goal but when Liverpool levelled the goal, I told a friend that Arsenal would still win the game but he said no that the game would either end in a deadlock or Liverpool would win the game because he is a diehard Liverpool fan. So, I told him lets place a bet.

We placed a bet of $50 each. After the bet, we started feeling so emotional because we had something at stake. We lamented on every decisions made by the referee that weren't in our favour. Fortunately, I won the bet and he gave a bad review about the match that the referee was so biased and that was why Arsenal won. The thing is none of us hold grudges for long we have always moved on. Sometimes, we still use the money to give each other treats.

I would never bet with a friend who would have grudges against me or arguments and stuff, it's only fun if you have a good understanding and you guys enjoy the game no matter what the results would be. There shouldn't be sadness or exchange of harsh words between you guys while the match is live, just sit together, have some snacks and drinks, watch the game together while enjoying every moment, and make fun of each other whenever something happens in the game regardless of which team has scored and stuff.

At the end of the day, it should be a fun activity and not something that should create a gap in the friendship after the game is over, because the game wouldn't last forever, but the relationship you guys have with each other is supposed to stay and it should stay as strong as it has always been.

I think of it this way, betting between friends should be something that is fun and makes the game more electrifying. There is no need to fight or argue seriously, just jokes as you well mention.

A fool's game, especially when emotions are strong. My friend, you've fallen into the traditional trap. Not Nigeria or South Africa. Money and gambling thrills are involved. You're on an emotional rollercoaster with your wallet open, not watching a game

Your feelings? Control them or they'll control you. Not the referee, coach, or players. It's about your rationality in stressful situations. It's $10, not your life savings. But principle? It's worth more than betting. If you can't tolerate the heat, avoid the betting kitchen. Watch the game, not the money. Buddy, that's personal finance 101

One of the most common emotion or feeling that you could really be able to get and experienced when you are dealing up with sports betting is on having those kind of reactions
specially into those ref calls and other correlated things on which you do see that it isnt really that something that you would be saying that it cant be justfiable and this is something
that giving out those kind of reaction on which could cause up some stress and impulsive approach but well this is part of the entertainment that you could get
on having those reactions with those calls.

It is really that part of sports that there would really be having those conditions on which it is really that totally opposite on what you are seeing.
Is there something that you can do? there's none but to sit and just accept those calls.  :D