Betting small amounts on a lot of matches or big amount on couple of matches?

[bitzizzix]

I have been gambling a lot these days with soccer matches but I'm not enough lucky to make a profit. Howeber, I'm not into huge loss. It's very tiny amount if I check all the previous P/L.
I don't bet big amount. Usually, I bet $4/$5 worth of BTC on a lot of matches; sometimes I win and sometimes I loss. But that can't make me any profit.
Should I go for bigger amount of bets on few matches or stay with current strategy (placing many bets of small amounts)?

If you are going for profit I recommend that you go for bigger amount of bets on a few matches pick the matches that you think you know who is playing, if you want to bet for entertainment and just for curiosity sake then betting a small amount in many matches is good this is to tryif it's your lucky or you are good in sport betting.

It all depends on your goals and finances, and if it is for fun and just out of curiosity and picking more for smaller stakes, I think it is the right choice for satisfaction and curiosity is fulfilled and victory is simply luck.
and if you choose more bigger pairs, you have to really pick the right pair for you to get the big win, and you have to have good skills and knowledge for your choice to be right.

[Saisher]

It's hard to cover a lot of matches and have a good measure of success, only pick team battling that you know very well or you can analyze 2 or three matches is already good then bet a big amount, you can make a lot or make even but covering a lot of matches with small bets will get you nowhere.

[maydna]

It all depends on your goals and finances, and if it is for fun and just out of curiosity and picking more for smaller stakes, I think it is the right choice for satisfaction and curiosity is fulfilled and victory is simply luck.
and if you choose more bigger pairs, you have to really pick the right pair for you to get the big win, and you have to have good skills and knowledge for your choice to be right.

But we also need to remember that what we choose can't always give us the big win because everything can happen in the gambling games as long as we can accept the risk and the result that will come at the end of the match, we can try to pick the bigger or small pairs. Many gamblers can't realize the risk and the result, and they can't just accept that.

It is better not to have a goal to make money from gambling games or sports betting because that is not easy instead of working in a job. The gambling games can give us the money, but the chance to lose that money will be there.

[Reatim]

It all depends on your goals and finances, and if it is for fun and just out of curiosity and picking more for smaller stakes, I think it is the right choice for satisfaction and curiosity is fulfilled and victory is simply luck.
and if you choose more bigger pairs, you have to really pick the right pair for you to get the big win, and you have to have good skills and knowledge for your choice to be right.

But we also need to remember that what we choose can't always give us the big win because everything can happen in the gambling games as long as we can accept the risk and the result that will come at the end of the match, we can try to pick the bigger or small pairs. Many gamblers can't realize the risk and the result, and they can't just accept that.

Actually what He was asking is about Betting Big and play shorter or Bet lower and stay longer.
He can't find winning in smaller bets so maybe looking for a chance in Big bets.

It is better not to have a goal to make money from gambling games or sports betting because that is not easy instead of working in a job. The gambling games can give us the money, but the chance to lose that money will be there.

well if you will use gambling as a source of living is not good but when we are playing with friends sometimes then it is not bad to expect winning when we play.
and having a goal is what we will make us confident in our betting.

[daarul50]

It all depends on your goals and finances, and if it is for fun and just out of curiosity and picking more for smaller stakes, I think it is the right choice for satisfaction and curiosity is fulfilled and victory is simply luck.
and if you choose more bigger pairs, you have to really pick the right pair for you to get the big win, and you have to have good skills and knowledge for your choice to be right.

But we also need to remember that what we choose can't always give us the big win because everything can happen in the gambling games as long as we can accept the risk and the result that will come at the end of the match, we can try to pick the bigger or small pairs. Many gamblers can't realize the risk and the result, and they can't just accept that.

Actually what He was asking is about Betting Big and play shorter or Bet lower and stay longer.
He can't find winning in smaller bets so maybe looking for a chance in Big bets.

It is better not to have a goal to make money from gambling games or sports betting because that is not easy instead of working in a job. The gambling games can give us the money, but the chance to lose that money will be there.

well if you will use gambling as a source of living is not good but when we are playing with friends sometimes then it is not bad to expect winning when we play.
and having a goal is what we will make us confident in our betting.

Nobody can ever achieve to stay longer and longer alive to gamble for no matter it was small bets or big bets.
It is like a curse for the players themselves as the gambling design is for the bookies benefit not players.
I can never enjoy gambling myself , obviously make a living out of it is non sense nor to have fun.
To waste more time , use small bets and to get your adrenaline high use big bets, going down to have zero money in your pocket is a bonus.

[Gotumoot]

For me it is better to have few bets if you know the game and the teams rather than spreading it on to many bets and just randomly picking.
Bet only in the match that you know too well that the team have a huge chance of winning don't just bet on random team and match,
I know some people who does it betting on random match and teams even if they lack of knowledge about the team that they are betting on.

[Sanitough]

For me it is better to have few bets if you know the game and the teams rather than spreading it on to many bets and just randomly picking.

That's better as you can increase your percentage of winning, the lesser the games the less mistakes you'll make.
Some gamblers put a lot of bets with their money as they are having fun, but if you are doing both (having fun and making money), better be clever.

[maydna]

~snip~

Actually what He was asking is about Betting Big and play shorter or Bet lower and stay longer.
He can't find winning in smaller bets so maybe looking for a chance in Big bets.

He can look that chance in bigger bets, but I don't think he can win easily as he already knows what he got in smaller bets.
We all know that no matter what we bet (small or big), we will not have a chance to win many times, but we can win for some time. To get that "some time" will be an unpredictable time which no one will know.

~snip~

well if you will use gambling as a source of living is not good but when we are playing with friends sometimes then it is not bad to expect winning when we play.
and having a goal is what we will make us confident in our betting.

Playing gambling with friends will be fun because we can play together have fun, but I don't think we will expect to win because our purposes to gamble with friends maybe not money-oriented. But if you think having a goal can make you confident, I hope you don't expect too high because you can feel disappointed to reach your gambling goals. Gambling is not a source of living.

[peter0425]

It's hard to cover a lot of matches and have a good measure of success, only pick team battling that you know very well or you can analyze 2 or three matches is already good then bet a big amount, you can make a lot or make even but covering a lot of matches with small bets will get you nowhere.

Yeah That is actually what we need to do if we wanted to use gambling as our bonding or unwinding moments because Time is much pressure than money that is what my stand now.
though i once a addicted gambler spending almost half of my day betting.

[shoreno]

last day i was searching stuffs about lottery and i ended up on scratch cards . i then came across a line that goes like "its better to buy a high cost scratch card than buying cheap numbers of it " it then reminds me of this thread of yours  .

so its really better to bet on one or two match with a big amount than any other way around  but if your a person that are not gifted to have a better life or a better job  . dont get too ambitious to bet big but you can enjoy betting on where you are comfortable  .

[Timelord2067]

The larger the number of matches you place wagers on, the more likely you will win some and loose some possibly even breaking even.  You're going to have to work out just how many Wins Vs Looses you have week to week and then decide to keep playing at that level, or more likely dial it back to a lesser number.

I'm guessing you'll dial it back.

[Ucy]

I have been gambling a lot these days with soccer matches but I'm not enough lucky to make a profit. Howeber, I'm not into huge loss. It's very tiny amount if I check all the previous P/L.
I don't bet big amount. Usually, I bet $4/$5 worth of BTC on a lot of matches; sometimes I win and sometimes I loss. But that can't make me any profit.
Should I go for bigger amount of bets on few matches or stay with current strategy (placing many bets of small amounts)?

If you are going for profit I recommend that you go for bigger amount of bets on a few matches pick the matches that you think you know who is playing, if you want to bet for entertainment and just for curiosity sake then betting a small amount in many matches is good this is to tryif it's your lucky or you are good in sport betting.

As long as the bettor can afford to lose the "bigger amount of bets". By "can afford to lose" I mean a bettor has lot more money for his basic needs than he is spending on bets. (Basic needs also include things that are profitable, or things that earn more income for a bettor.)

I think It's better for a bettor to research and learn a game (and be sure to be consistently profitable) before betting with "bigger" amount...That should be by, increasing the bets abit higher as the bettor becomes confident, successful and better in his/her skills.

[Porfirii]

If you consider that you have some kind of control on the probability of guessing the result of a match because you are somehow savvy on the topic, then I can't tell, but if you have no control over the outcome, for example, talking about roulette or some 49%-51% probability games, then it is better betting big amounts on a couple of matches. You can dig into the mathematical explanation on this topic in Taleb's "Black Swan" as he answers there this very question.

[Janation]

In the past, I usually do the same as you.

Invest in a lot of esports games I know with a low bet and I usually lose a lot since I don't have that much time to analyze and look into their past or previous games. Then I started to do make a portion of that low amount to a few games so I could make more analysis and since I could catch up with their past games. I tend to win more bets there than those bets with a lot of bets in small portion.

[shield132]

Betting on small amounts is a waste of time and probably will make you nervous:
Okey, let's imagine:
FC Barcelona VS Arsenal - 1 win - 1.50x
Real Madrid VS Atletico Madrid - 1 win - 1.95x
Bayern VS Liverpool - 1 win - 1.45x

If you bet on each of them and you succeed, you have to bet, for example $1 on each of them = $3 and you'll win $4.9 = $1.9 pure profit.
But if you beat on all of them together, for example $1, then your total win will be - $4.24 = $3.24 pure profit.

Now, you can also calculate what happens if one or two or three match fails, you lose 1, 2 and 3 USD and won't profit much even if one match fails but if any match fails in second case, you get nothing too. That's why I think it's better to bet couple of matches where you are 100% sure rather than bet small amounts on a lot of matches, you'll lose much this way.

[Natalim]

Betting on small amounts is a waste of time and probably will make you nervous:
Okey, let's imagine:
FC Barcelona VS Arsenal - 1 win - 1.50x
Real Madrid VS Atletico Madrid - 1 win - 1.95x
Bayern VS Liverpool - 1 win - 1.45x

If you bet on each of them and you succeed, you have to bet, for example $1 on each of them = $3 and you'll win $4.9 = $1.9 pure profit.
But if you beat on all of them together, for example $1, then your total win will be - $4.24 = $3.24 pure profit.

Now, you can also calculate what happens if one or two or three match fails, you lose 1, 2 and 3 USD and won't profit much even if one match fails but if any match fails in second case, you get nothing too. That's why I think it's better to bet couple of matches where you are 100% sure rather than bet small amounts on a lot of matches, you'll lose much this way.

I understand what you mean, yeah that is surely a waste of time if your purpose is to make money in gambling as you'll never maximize your profit betting with small amount of money only, I usually do this when just trying to have fun but if we are ambitious, we need to be realistic that we need to have a decent bankroll in order for us to win a decent amount.

[TheGreatPython]

I think the answer is obvious. Thorough the years as a gambler, I have realized that it is more profitable to place higher amount of money on just a few matches than to place small amounts on lot of matches.

Yes because making more bets only means that we are picking too many markets and not feeling confident and I agree because I have seen some successful gamblers and they always pick a single match and go all-in on that and unless they get another confident pick they will just wait out and not make any bets at all. They are really professional and wait for the odds favor which means there are times when the odds favor a particular team but the gambler feels for some reason that there is a good upset potential and they will bet on that.

Betting small on many markets means that we are a regular gambler who is actually betting for fun because we love enjoying the game and not as professional as others.

You can greatly the reduce the risk of losing and increase your chances of winning by just selecting a few matches ( ones you're confident on) and stake a high amount of money of it

Also avoid betting on every match because I have seen people make good wins on some games and start betting on basically everything and any sports that is going on.

[XCANA]

It's hard to cover a lot of matches and have a good measure of success, only pick team battling that you know very well or you can analyze 2 or three matches is already good then bet a big amount, you can make a lot or make even but covering a lot of matches with small bets will get you nowhere.

The system work differently with individual so this should be handle individually. In my position, i do bet for some few trusted matches which i have good confidence in without having a long bet without a good convincing about the teams. Some-days ago, i won some good bet from my four teams bet which eared me some good profit, so, choose what you can rely upon is far better than making a long list of teams without good knowledge in their potentials.

[Darkelf11]

I have been gambling a lot these days with soccer matches but I'm not enough lucky to make a profit. Howeber, I'm not into huge loss. It's very tiny amount if I check all the previous P/L.
I don't bet big amount. Usually, I bet $4/$5 worth of BTC on a lot of matches; sometimes I win and sometimes I loss. But that can't make me any profit.
Should I go for bigger amount of bets on few matches or stay with current strategy (placing many bets of small amounts)?

It depends upon your gambling strategy. There's nothing you can do to have accurate guess on matches but there will always be a technique. For me, placing bigger amounts of bets is too risky but there's a high chance that your money will be doubled. Just a tip, if ever you will win a match, the amount of money you spent on matches must be kept in your wallet and the remaining money that you gain will now become your fund for other matches. Just for you to have no regrets because that fund is the money you gain from gambling and not from your prevous money.

[bitbunnny]

Gamblers always try different techniques to find their winning strategy. I don't think there is some proved receipe that will always work and everything depends on your preferences, how much funds you have, on how many different matches your want diversify your bets and many other things. No one can't tell you exactly what to do, you have to find out what suits you the best.