E-Sports is actually a field where I never had a bet. This is a completely unknown world to me and one that also does not interest me, but where you can make good money imo, since these are relatively young markets, so lots of imperfections to be expected.

For the second question the obvious answer is of course value. I have to admit not being able to tell you, what could be angles in betting on E-Sports profitably. As with all sports, studying the game and watching as many games as possible should be helpful. Just by watching, you can extract a lot of useful information, which might help for future bets. Things like general approach to the game, strenghts, weaknesses, matchups, maybe even things like stamina etc.
With E-Sports, more than with any other sport, it is very important that you have actually done the sport yourself from my point of view. I can bet on Tennis never having touched a racket, I can bet on NFL never having worn shoulder pads etc. But betting on E-Sports never having played LoL for example, I imagine to be tremendously difficult. There is just so much more dynamics and unknown variables in these computer games. From time to time I stumble upon some E-Sports in TV and I have no idea what they are doing tbh. Someone who plays these games himself might see some patterns, that he could use for making bets. But not every expert in a sport is also good in betting that sport, so that is that, it takes both.


I am not betting for the moment. I had my last bet in the beginning of March, so a lot of time for my standards without one of my favourite things to do. I do regularly check out some outright markets, like I did with the US election for example (and where I opened a trade with Cuomo - not looking good atm ). I miss watching sports and having some bets, but I am not that desperate to take my chances with these few little leagues still running. I know a lot of people do (maybe out of addcition), but I am sure that I wouldn't be able to make any money there, so better just stay away. And it wouldn't surprise me, if there is also lots of fixing going on right now with more money involved and players on low wages.

I am looking forward to the NFL Draft and will dive into the betting markets the next days (already had quick looks in the last days). It's nothing where I expect to make huge money, but I assume to have a fair and good chance at least, with lots of information to be found.


I am doing well all things considered, thanks. Hope you too

There is this one poker buddy that I know of who told me that his way of gambling is that he treats gambling as a business. He calculates his profits from a game then put some money back to his "bank" so to speak. If he lost on certain days, he will calculate again so that he will be sure that he can get his losses back once he wins on some games. And the cycle repeats until he can save enough to buy things he want or put money to their existing business. I want to ask if that is a doable strategy in living a gambling life as another source of living?

The governments thing and taxing people unfairly sounds familiar and not that surprising.  I think a better system is to tax the companies themselves on profits made (indirectly this will always impact customers in some cost or less profit), not players especially not ignoring all their costs thats the worst kind of punitive unworkable tax but its happened before in history so I got little doubt its a thing.
    It might be a little extreme but would you ever consider I have to leave this country Germany or EU or wherever and move to a more hospitable regime.   People who are 'too lucky' must do this eventually I guess.    Not in gambling but I know of some who spend 50.1% of their time outside their home country to avoid being taxed 50% like you describe and though awkward its workable like that.

I wasn't able to get his whole strategy in gambling but kidding aside he was able to buy a car and a house in the 7 years that I know him gambling weekly. It really baffles everyone in the neighborhood as he does not have a job and judging by my previous visits, he frequently visit poker sites and invests heavily in cryptocurrency. So I guess he is diversifying his gambling profits to other ventures which is good, I mean most of us know the saying "Don't put all of your eggs in one basket". After all those years he now has a small business and still gambles from time to time. But I was impressed that he was able to pull it off. I might not be able to gather the courage to do what he does but he is an inspiration to me as a crypto enthusiast.

People say go big or go home meaning to commit everything you have so whats your take on this

to live off gambling, do you go for large lots or for the purpose of good account management you place a percentage of your a/c.

Well now that live sports (no fans) have been back for a while, and with it live sports betting; I'm curious. How has it been? On paper I expect that most matches would have similar odds to what it would have been pre-pandemic, but I got to thinking about just how different games look. Not to mention the behind the scenes of practicing and out of game lifestyle for players.

Have you noticed or did you notice that there has been a major difference in teams and their performances, and/or that the odds on matches are a little skewed now or early on after the return. Any sports that were affected more so than others that you generally bet on?

Solid answers, thanks for the insight. A few guys I work with have been glued to the Hockey games lately and listening to them got me thinking about this. They made similar comments to this.

For sure I did. Every professional gambler will have had losing months; the exception are maybe arbers, when it comes to betting. One month is a too short period to get rid of variance all the time, thats why you should think more longterm than a month.


The first post in this thread has some table of contents, where you can find posts about my journey.

I think I talked about that already in the past, but probably not enough for it to make into the table of contents And maybe rightfully so, since there really isn't much to talk about. You can play these games, but you will lose money. It's fine to do it for entertainment purposes, but don't expect to get anything out of it (longterm). With some strategic play, you can reduce the house edge, but you won't win that way too, you will just lose less.

I don't like to play games, where I don't have a fair chance of winning anything and my opponent (the house in this case) always wins. I played BlackJack and some slots, but only when I got freespins or some bonus/free money for the Casino from a bookmaker where I play and they happen to have a Casino too. I have to admit, that it's maybe some fun to play these games, but the fact that I will lose, never got me really excited about these games fortunately. And imo these games are highly dangerous, because so addictive and can destroy peoples life.

We have loads of offline arcades (not sure about this term) here. In every little village you have them, and no matter at what time you drive by, there are always cars parked in front of them. Also look at how many online Casinos promoting their services in here (you wear a signature from one of them as well). They are making lots of money and there seems to be no saturation - because there are so many addicted players and the house always wins.

I can only recommend to never start playing these kind of games. It's better to play or Poker or do sportsbetting/-trading, if you are looking for a thrill, because these are skill games, where you can beat the house. And you are no gambler then anymore, but an investor - you are investing in good odds Hopefully.