Is your win a function of luck or how much you know a sports?

[Docnaster]

When it comes to my winning in gambling, I wouldn't want to say that my winnings are mostly as a result of how strategic I can be or my level experienced about sports in general because some of the times I predict games with high probability of winning, I do end up losing my gamble. There's no doubt that my experience and strategies does play a huge part in helping me win but I think the major factor that ensures my winnings most times is luck. Since I made peace with the fact that luck is the main decider of a gambler's fate, I do gamble with the best of my experience in sports but with the belief that luck will decide if I'll get a win or not at the end of the day.

[mirakal]

From the title of your thread, I'll say that win most times in sport depends on how well you know the game and the players. I don't think it would be wise to place bets on random sports without even know any thing about them. You might end up making too much losses. You were lucky as your predictions went well. But in reality it wouldn't be wise to take such bets. In sports bets you have to understand the game, which would in turn enable to make good strategy to place your bets and wins.

There’s this beginner’s luck for gamblers which they can surprisingly win from their bets even from random choices. But that’s actually one of the casino tricks to attract the gambler’s interest to bet and spend more, only to find out in the end the house has gained all the edge while leaving the players at loss. So if you think betting randomly is a wise decision most particularly in sports betting, think it again. It’s either you end up with few gains, or you mess up with your funds and see them all go into waste because you lose them all.

[stadus]

I believe in luck, but I believe more in my skills. If I win in sports betting, I attribute it to my diligent work in analyzing the game, allowing me to make a winning pick. If we really want to win and maintain consistency in sports betting, we need to forget about luck and focus on making informed bets. This is possible because, eventually, in the long run, we will master what we are doing if we continue to learn from our mistakes.

There are beginners luck, but if you gets more ambitious like thinking you want to win big, you need to change your mindset.

[Apocollapse]

Luck.

If knowing and understand about the sports is the reason why I win my bet, my win rate must 100% because I never doubt with my analysis. Many of my predictions goes wrong, even though I don't understand how it can be like that, luck never lie.

Same like career, even we learn very hard, understand many thing and have many degrees, it doesn't automatically make you become the top 1 in your career.

[TheUltraElite]

If the statement was actually true, then the people who would be rich from sports betting would be the coaches.

There statement is not entirely false either. A person who is conversant in a certain game along with the teams competing in it, will have more chances of making a correct prediction as compared to a person who is not.

Still a lot of factors are involved, the day of the match may not always reciprocate previous matches. Hence luck factor is always there you will have a chance of losing a sure shot bet.

[348Judah]

In gambling, it's not about how far, but how skilled and lucky we are from the kind of game we are having in consideration, betting is something that many do in other to know the strength and weakness on how they understand the nature of a particular game or sport event in consideration, anyone is bound to fail in making any prediction of these games, the same way we can as well get the right precision on them each time we are gambling, with all these,  we may also accept that we make winning as a function of our experience , luck and the kind of game we are playing.

[Sandra_hakeem]

I looked out for sports I wasn't conversant with the athletes and didn't  know who was better at the sports and did a random prediction on the outcome of the game. I did it for swimming competition and some random boxing yesterday and out of up to 7 predictions I made, almost 6 went the way I predicted it.

Alot of gamblers today haven't had any experience in sports, neither do they know the capability of each teams in different leagues; It takes an active viewer to understand why, how and when a team is on form ... Why have casinos improvised over the years with options like head-to-head, winning probability scale, performance on last meeting etc??  That alone should tell you that they don't wanna have you guessing who's better, especially as a newbie.

I have not tried this in real games that involves using money but would want to know if anyone has ever tried it before.

I've tried it severally times.... It was almost part of our jobs - especially to old customers that had anyone behind the counter as a friend.. what I didn't get involved with was casino gambling.

[AmoreJaz]

In gambling, it's not about how far, but how skilled and lucky we are from the kind of game we are having in consideration, betting is something that many do in other to know the strength and weakness on how they understand the nature of a particular game or sport event in consideration, anyone is bound to fail in making any prediction of these games, the same way we can as well get the right precision on them each time we are gambling, with all these,  we may also accept that we make winning as a function of our experience , luck and the kind of game we are playing.

If you are talking about sportsbetting, the more you know the sports, the better is your chance to select odds that will favour the results. Hence, being familiar with the sports itself is an advantage to get some winnings from this game. Yes, there is a factor of luck also in sportsbetting, but your knowledge of this sports will give you an edge to bet on odds with high likelihood of happening.

[Wakate]

In gambling, it's not about how far, but how skilled and lucky we are from the kind of game we are having in consideration, betting is something that many do in other to know the strength and weakness on how they understand the nature of a particular game or sport event in consideration, anyone is bound to fail in making any prediction of these games, the same way we can as well get the right precision on them each time we are gambling, with all these,  we may also accept that we make winning as a function of our experience , luck and the kind of game we are playing.

If you are talking about sportsbetting, the more you know the sports, the better is your chance to select odds that will favour the results. Hence, being familiar with the sports itself is an advantage to get some winnings from this game. Yes, there is a factor of luck also in sportsbetting, but your knowledge of this sports will give you an edge to bet on odds with high likelihood of happening.

We don't even have to be the ones that should be making the predictions. There are so many gamblers out there that are good at making predictions which we can use to bet and make money from ourselves. I don't support a person that do not know much about sport bet to be making unnecessary predictions which could cause continuous loses. It is better we look for professionals that are very good that would be giving us predictions instead of wasting money and taking our time that should have been used for something else to predict sport bets when we can join groups we can be getting signals to bet.

[swogerino]

I tried out something while I was watching some games in the ongoing Olympics and this is what I did;

I looked out for sports I wasn't conversant with the athletes and didn't  know who was better at the sports and did a random prediction on the outcome of the game. I did it for swimming competition and some random boxing yesterday and out of up to 7 predictions I made, almost 6 went the way I predicted it.

It reminds me of writing an objective examination in high school and when you're done with the questions you're certain of, and you just do some random selections and luck could shine on you and you get up to 70% from your rough prediction.

I have not tried this in real games that involves using money but would want to know if anyone has ever tried it before.

Have you ever placed a bet by just doing random guesses on the outcome of the game?

You mean that you randomly picked 7 games out of the ongoing Olympic Games?If that is the case more needed to be said,like from which pool of odds you choose your bets,like did you choose some 1.30 against 3.10 for example or 1.7 against 2.00 as in the later it is truly random and the bookies just favor some team just a bit more,the same can be said for baseball games in the MLB in USA where I play a lot and I never play money line because most games do not come as predicted by the bookies,some of them do but a good 70% majority of games come completely with surprise results.Therefore I always go for the luck part and not for the skill part in here.The luck is for example playing all 14 games of this baseball league for example with 1st Inning over 0.5 which has an average odd of 1.90 and the total is well over 3000 as multiplier.This I do but if I picked out from these 14 games each with this type of bet I am sure most of the bets would be a win and in fact going to try this new strategy of mine there.

[gabbie2010]

My winning in gambling is like 80% of how well I knew the sport and 20% luck, my preferencial choice of gambling is soccer bet which requires knowing much about a particular team, as in how stronger they are compared to a weak team thus the chances of the strong team defeating their lowly rated team is bright and with two goals or more  this is an additional  options in soccer betting, these are some of the basic knowledge that I knew about soccer bet and once I placed a bet I knew the odds favours me though many of the sure bets has small odds yet with accumulation of two or three matches I stand a chance of winning these are pure research with some little luck.

[Antotena]

When it comes to my winning in gambling, I wouldn't want to say that my winnings are mostly as a result of how strategic I can be or my level experienced about sports in general because some of the times I predict games with high probability of winning, I do end up losing my gamble. There's no doubt that my experience and strategies does play a huge part in helping me win but I think the major factor that ensures my winnings most times is luck. Since I made peace with the fact that luck is the main decider of a gambler's fate, I do gamble with the best of my experience in sports but with the belief that luck will decide if I'll get a win or not at the end of the day.

There is no way one will gamble and there wouldn't be an atom of luck. You might not even notice there was luck but it does. There are some goals that do come in some matches that even the players do have by luck and without such goals, tickets would have been cut off but because they happened, they are won even when the players might not be competent.

I have selected a game that initially I regretted in the first stage and I couldn't delete it but luckily for me, they did some magic which ofcourse it was ouch that made me win that ticket. The funny thing about that game is that it was my last game which would have spoil everything I struggled for in that game but the team won and I was lucky to have that bet come home.

[libert19]

It reminds me of writing an objective examination in high school and when you're done with the questions you're certain of, and you just do some random selections and luck could shine on you and you get up to 70% from your rough prediction.

I can relate to that, literally passed examination once with random answers on subject I knew little about.

On topic, I'd say you got really lucky with your predictions and luck might not favor each time, there being no real money involved also played it's part because it's like a beginner trader who does well in demo trading but gets bad results when trading with real money.

Have you ever placed a bet by just doing random guesses on the outcome of the game?

No, and I have no plans to do so.