We can be friends with anyone, but at the very least, we must maintain our ability to control ourselves in making decisions. We cannot rely on the opinions of friend, or we may always live in their shadows. I have also seen someone in that situation, we can still gather and share gambling experiences with our friends. But it would be better to think about the impact when we might unconsciously gamble out of control. Although for some people, there are also those who prioritize validation from friends over progress in their lives.
Indeed, better to keep that distance as you have your own knowledge and skills, it's not bad though exchanging knolwedge to your friend but in terms of making decision, it's always best to rely with your own understanding, if you win you'll praise yourself then if you lose you'll take it as learning experienced and needed to adjust to have better chance on your next try, unlike if you rely with someone else knowledge you'll find yourself chasing them and you are giving yourself to point someone if you lose your bet.
I also have a friend who asks everyone in the hangout about betting predictions before placing a bet. When he wins, he often buys drinks for everyone. But it's always like that when he wants to make a bet. My friend certainly lacks confidence in his own abilities and starts to depend on other people's predictions.
I think the situation where gamblers start depending on help from others in making bets is commonly experienced by beginners. They feel that friends with more experience have more accurate predictions.
Yup, those newcomers who experienced a good win with the help of someone may turned themselves dependable to other's prediction, thinking that experienced of a friend might be better compared to how they select their picks, most of the time it ends up messing a lot since the trust to someone may also lead them to suffer as there's no guarantee that the share picks will always win, and if they place their bets with the wrong picks most of them will blame someone to excuse their mistake following others prediction.
That is bad if we are going to rely on others for our bet, let's say sports betting. Yeah, maybe in the first few games we will seek help, just like in my case early on. To be frank, when I started on sports bet, I don't know what is the handicap betting, I only knew money line. So someone teaches me, and it's easy to learn. And with I have that knowledge then I uses it to my advantage.
So that in any case you losses big amount of money, then you have nothing to blame but yourself. And it's good to have that kind of experience so that you will really know what to do the next time. So it's like a learning curve, that there are processes before you become a successful gambler
