What Aspect of Sports Betting or Casino Gambling Posed a Challenge for You?

[mvdheuvel1983]

What aspect of sports betting or casino gambling posed an initial challenge for you when you first started, but which you eventually grasped? How did you finally understand it. Did a friend explain it, did you watch a YouTube video, participate in a sports betting community on social media, or did you figure it out through a trial-and-error approach?

[rdluffy]

I'm going to talk about sports betting, which is where I started a few years ago
My biggest difficulty was understanding the types of bets that existed beyond the basic: win / draw / loss

I didn't know what a handicap was (yes, you can laugh but when I started, I didn't have anyone to explain it to me), I didn't know what a multiple bet was and all those bets beyond the basics were a lot of information for me who was just starting out.
If anyone else has had this problem, I'll find out in this thread hehe

Also, I had a hard time understanding the "provable fair" of the casinos

The third and last thing I had trouble with was understanding the bonus rules of most casinos correctly, and I think a lot of people suffered from this too, because to this day I see people complaining about it
I found it difficult to understand all the rules about depositing, earning bonuses and having to meet some requirements in order to withdraw

Today I'm used to it and it's easy, but at first it was a lot of information to understand, and the way I learned was through trial and error, since I started betting before I even got to know this forum, so I didn't have and/or didn't know any other place to ask these questions, and on YouTube there wasn't enough content for these doubts

[un_rank]

I have not found any aspect of sport betting challenging. I have already accepted that it is very unpredictable and the best I can do is make a calculated guess based on the information available to me and hope for a positive outcome.

Some gambling websites are more difficult to find your way around than others. I stick to those with clear navigation and more game options to choose from. More generous odds also play a role.

- Jay -

[Oshosondy]

Gambling is fun. There are varieties of games in casinos and sport that you can choose from. In casinos, you can first go for fun or demo mode before playing at all with money. But sometimes, I can gamble with friends, but that is just for fun and nothing more, no friend has taught me how to play a game and I have not taught any friend before about how to play a game. Sport betting is also simple.

[ryzaadit]

Lose around 1-2 ETH playing house-game.

While I don't understand anything about original-games from casino ~XD IMO, most people are gonna to watch youtube for their gambling activity. At least learn something from there rather than ask some question.

Because is to long wait some answer, meanwhile you can playing + watching tutorial at the same time on youtube.

[electronicash]

What aspect of sports betting or casino gambling posed an initial challenge for you when you first started, but which you eventually grasped? How did you finally understand it. Did a friend explain it, did you watch a YouTube video, participate in a sports betting community on social media, or did you figure it out through a trial-and-error approach?

when you begin to find ways to win, you will also search or ask the sports community. i joined a sports community where i am also actively participating in that community.  like every other community there are lots of channels where users discuss matches and from there i learn who they are betting on and just trial and error after learning.

whether i win or not i will still be watching the sports that i like anyway so with the bet slips they share, i started copying.

[Hispo]

Since I first began playing games like dices, mines and then eventually tried plinko and crash, one of the first things I did not understand was how it was possible to adjust the multiplier by our own so we would go for small and safer multipliers. I was a newbie and I thought I was possible to beat the house/casino by going by rolling multiple dices at x1,01 until reaching a significant sum of money. Though, I took me a while and trial and error to realize that the risk will be always proportional to the reward one is trying to get out the session.

I only took some sessions of a couple of hours before I lost my wager to that strategy, since then I have tried to limit myself to use such approach for entertainment purposes and never to assume I will get lucky enough to defeat the mathematical law of chances by playing the safest as possible.  

I know it sounds dumb and something anyone here takes as obvious knowledge. It was several years ago when I realized it.

[swogerino]

What aspect of sports betting or casino gambling posed an initial challenge for you when you first started, but which you eventually grasped? How did you finally understand it. Did a friend explain it, did you watch a YouTube video, participate in a sports betting community on social media, or did you figure it out through a trial-and-error approach?

The only thing that I had a hard time was on my beginning trying to figure out Asian lines and Asian handicap in soccer betting and then the Overtime in Basketball,Baseball and Ice Hockey but this was easily figured out once some time passed,in the beginning I had this difficulty.

Also when I switched to online slots from offline ones I had difficulties to understand the bonus rounds or some game mechanics as I was rushing to win money and never taking time to read the instructions,once I started reading the instructions everything was clear so in the end only in the beginning people may have some challenges.

[letteredhub]

I'm going to talk about sports betting, which is where I started a few years ago
My biggest difficulty was understanding the types of bets that existed beyond the basic: win / draw / loss

I didn't know what a handicap was (yes, you can laugh but when I started, I didn't have anyone to explain it to me), I didn't know what a multiple bet was and all those bets beyond the basics were a lot of information for me who was just starting out.
If anyone else has had this problem, I'll find out in this thread hehe

Also, I had a hard time understanding the "provable fair" of the casinos

The third and last thing I had trouble with was understanding the bonus rules of most casinos correctly, and I think a lot of people suffered from this too, because to this day I see people complaining about it
I found it difficult to understand all the rules about depositing, earning bonuses and having to meet some requirements in order to withdraw

Today I'm used to it and it's easy, but at first it was a lot of information to understand, and the way I learned was through trial and error, since I started betting before I even got to know this forum, so I didn't have and/or didn't know any other place to ask these questions, and on YouTube there wasn't enough content for these doubts

Hello mate take it from me you were not alone in this, we were all together but different geography . You would find it hard to believe that I concentrated on straight win, draws  in the first six months of my sports bet gambling, at most I could go was both team score  (GG). And it went on like this not until a friend saw my ticket and ask why I didn't play other better options, due to my ego of not letting him know I was yet to understand about those other options  I had to tell him I prefer these options and am sure of my predictions.  This mainly was the reason I made a lot of losses in my first phase of starting sport bet gambling so I couldn't help it and decided to be open to my friend and he started putting me through on many options and their meanings. Today I am masterpiece with different options.
@rdluffy, There's no need to be ashamed, anyone can laugh if they want to, one thing for sure is that we were all beginners at different point.

[Sandra_hakeem]

What aspect of sports betting or casino gambling posed an initial challenge for you when you first started, but which you eventually grasped? How did you finally understand it. Did a friend explain it, did you watch a YouTube video, participate in a sports betting community on social media, or did you figure it out through a trial-and-error approach?

I don't gamble but the first aspect of sport betting that drew my attention - and at some point, I started seeing it as an opportunity for regular gamblers to keep their stability is the "draw" options...halftime draws, quatertime draws, 10, 15 and 20 minutes draws...I also fancied the overconers too but after sometime, I realized that most of the options that are most probably gonna play won't be included ...
well... For sports betting, it might not actually be the case anyways..

Sandra 🧑‍🦰

[Westinhome]

What aspect of sports betting or casino gambling posed an initial challenge for you when you first started, but which you eventually grasped? How did you finally understand it. Did a friend explain it, did you watch a YouTube video, participate in a sports betting community on social media, or did you figure it out through a trial-and-error approach?

Casino was my favourite game,because we can predict the outcome of the casino using the possibility.But the game in the sports bet can’t be find for the Eighty percentage of chance of not winning the sports betting.Because the player performance can’t be predicted in the particular days,So many of my friends also using the casino game like poker then the football game betting.At my first gambling was starts in the sports betting,because of less winning chances and loss of money in the sports betting in the larger some money.I had decided to do the casino games which now giving me good returns.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

I think gambling is not just what some wake up to start doing; either you just pay attention to see how other gamblers are doing and pick up from there, or if you have a friend who is a gambler, you can get them to explain things for you.

For me, the first sports bet I placed was not predicted by me, and I don't think I won that bet. The second time I got help, and so on, but along the line, I just keep learning how to make my own predictions, and it did not take very long, like up to two weeks, before I understood how to make my own predictions.

[livingfree]

Many actually but eventually, I just observe the others on how they explained it when I have some words that I don't understand and then later on I do my research about it to see what it is all about.

Although those things are just trivial things in sports betting like the terms such as parlay, etc. You know, most of those words that are not easily understood by a newbie.

Anyway, if there are challenges, questions or words that we don't know. We're just a few clicks and types away from doing it to find out the answer if there's no answer from the casino you're playing with.

[Accardo]

Playing slots has always been a challenge, tried it with my girlfriend and figured she is quite good in slot games. Her numerous wins in demo modes, helped me to try out slot games. Although in different forms, not exactly the one she played. Moving further, I read a book on slot games, and how slot machines can be manipulated to eat up the gambler's money without returning any win, how gamblers can take advantage of a bad slot machine and the house edge. These factors helped to reduce the challenges I had in gambling. Never was good in sports gambling, due to the odds. And I prefer watching matches with a free mind.

While trying to master Roulette games, choosing the right number indeed posed a threat to me, I normally skipped them and went for a slot with a higher winning chance. Picking the red and black sides of the table helped me to stay winning in roulette games. Card games like Joker posed a threat because I feel people at the same table as me play better than myself. But, sooner I started winning, even to the championship stage, where I'd have to compete with the last man standing in the tournament. At the initial stage, every single game, normally, posed a threat, but continuing and trying again helped us to pose a threat to the game. While we try again, we must be conscious of our money or bankroll.

[Beparanf]

What aspect of sports betting or casino gambling posed an initial challenge for you when you first started, but which you eventually grasped? How did you finally understand it. Did a friend explain it, did you watch a YouTube video, participate in a sports betting community on social media, or did you figure it out through a trial-and-error approach?

Most of the mechanics of the casino game and sports betting is pretty straightforward nowadays but the one thing that makes me confused before is the US format for the odds on sports betting which is in the form of positive and negative numbers and not in decimal format. Until now I’m still confused on how to understand the payout because I’m used to decimal format.

Same with Blackjack game which I don’t know how to play properly on when to hit and stand because I just play it without reading the mechanics of the game fully.

[Johnyz]

What aspect of sports betting or casino gambling posed an initial challenge for you when you first started, but which you eventually grasped? How did you finally understand it. Did a friend explain it, did you watch a YouTube video, participate in a sports betting community on social media, or did you figure it out through a trial-and-error approach?

Understanding the odds, since its not just a simple bet on those who will win, you still need to analyze so you can know where to bet properly. Sports betting is not that simple at first but the moment you understand its concept and how it works, I’m sure you can easily do it the next time you place a bet. Initial challenge also is looking for the best betting site, you have to search for the best and choose the best platform for your betting activities.

[darkangel11]

Most of the mechanics of the casino game and sports betting is pretty straightforward nowadays

It was pretty much the same in 2016, with the main difference being that dice was the king. There was much less slots, no crash or things like that, just dice everywhere with a bit of roulette, poker and BJ here and there.

I did everything by myself and haven't watched any tutorials when I first started to play. I did it the safe way though. My first online gambling experience was through bitcointalk where casinos were giving free money to try out their games. I also took advantage of free rolls and played with virtual money to see how it all works. It didn't take much time before I got a grasp of how it all works.

[Cantsay]

What aspect of sports betting or casino gambling posed an initial challenge for you when you first started, but which you eventually grasped? How did you finally understand it. Did a friend explain it, did you watch a YouTube video, participate in a sports betting community on social media, or did you figure it out through a trial-and-error approach?

The aspect that posed as a problem to me in sport betting was the sport itself, not until I started gambling I wasn’t a sport freak - I rarely watched football matches but when I started gambling I started with slots and also relied heavily on one of my friend’s predictions but eventually I became good at sports and started to make some good predictions for myself.

That above was the major challenge I face, I could also add understanding the interface of the casino that I was using… the first one I used was a bit difficult for me to understand since I was still learning about sports, what I’m allowed to bet on, things that are not allowed in betting, and so on… there are still some certain games that I’ve never placed a bet on since I started gambling although I have heard people discussing about it but I’ve never been curios enough to check it out.

[$crypto$]

Sports betting which is a challenging aspect of gambling and this is also the first experience...

I used to be confused about how to place sports bets with so many choices of odds, it actually didn't become difficult because there were many ways to explain it. I saw from Youtube and several articles about odds but now I understand how all sports bets.

If the casino may be too common and easy to understand, we just choose slots or other types of games then you can bet directly.

[Yatsan]

The idea of fixed matches and cheating I guess and its outcome. Well this is because of negative impressions as well to some sports association and leagues. Losing bet is a normal and acceptable outcome but if it is due to fixed matches without my awareness, then it would be hard to accept a single one. It'll probably question me with regrets. Fortunately, I haven't encountered one yet. The only challenge I experienced is delay and holding of funds to some gambling sites which are somehow bearable and understood.I hope there is always room for improvements in this field in general to lessen the worries of some gamblers.