Don’t treat gambling like a job or you might end up losing your real one..

[Ziskinberg]

A lot of people say that to succeed in gambling, you need to take it seriously. Build a strategy, be consistent, and treat it with discipline. Let’s focus on sports betting for example, since it's one of the most popular forms and many believe it’s the most "winnable" because there's no house edge. That means long-term profit is possible.

If you look at the math, hitting around 53% win rate with proper bankroll management can already make you profitable.

Let’s say your goal is to earn $100k in a year. If you start with a $100k bankroll and double it through consistent bets, then technically, you’ve already hit your target. No need to clock in or out, just stay at home, do your research, place your bets, and enjoy your freedom.

Of course, many people don’t believe in this mindset. For them, gambling is just entertainment, and those who take it too seriously are bound to lose in the end. But not everyone agrees with that, and some have actually made it work.

[Altryist]

A lot of people say that to succeed in gambling, you need to take it seriously. Build a strategy, be consistent, and treat it with discipline. Let’s focus on sports betting for example, since it's one of the most popular forms and many believe it’s the most "winnable" because there's no house edge. That means long-term profit is possible.

If you look at the math, hitting around 53% win rate with proper bankroll management can already make you profitable.

Let’s say your goal is to earn $100k in a year. If you start with a $100k bankroll and double it through consistent bets, then technically, you’ve already hit your target. No need to clock in or out, just stay at home, do your research, place your bets, and enjoy your freedom.

Of course, many people don’t believe in this mindset. For them, gambling is just entertainment, and those who take it too seriously are bound to lose in the end. But not everyone agrees with that, and some have actually made it work.

To begin with there are not that many players who have a bankroll of 100000 dollars. It is necessary to set more realistic limits so that users who hang out here on the forum can actually apply this example to themselves. As for doubling a bankroll I agree that it is a realistic goal if over a distance you win more bets than you lose. But I also understand that for most players their bankroll is unlikely to exceed a few hundred dollars let alone the 100к you mentioned.

When it comes to making gambling your main source of income basically turning it into a job I do not know maybe a player can handle it for a month or a few months but to play steadily for a year or several years is too emotionally difficult and for that reason gambling should not be compared to a regular job. A job will always be much easier especially if you manage to find one that you actually enjoy. Gambling is almost a constant state of stress especially with a bankroll like the one you gave as an example.

[DaNNy001]

A lot of people say that to succeed in gambling, you need to take it seriously. Build a strategy, be consistent, and treat it with discipline. Let’s focus on sports betting for example, since it's one of the most popular forms and many believe it’s the most "winnable" because there's no house edge. That means long-term profit is possible.

If you look at the math, hitting around 53% win rate with proper bankroll management can already make you profitable.

Let’s say your goal is to earn $100k in a year. If you start with a $100k bankroll and double it through consistent bets, then technically, you’ve already hit your target. No need to clock in or out, just stay at home, do your research, place your bets, and enjoy your freedom.

Of course, many people don’t believe in this mindset. For them, gambling is just entertainment, and those who take it too seriously are bound to lose in the end. But not everyone agrees with that, and some have actually made it work.

Some people put their jobs in jeopardy because they pay too much attention to gambling. A banker lost his job because he was caught gambling on multiple occasions while customers were waiting to be attended to. Gambling isn't a source of income and when you get too obsessed with it this can gradually turn to an addiction. Focus on what pays you, gambling is just something that you should do for fun

[swogerino]

A lot of people say that to succeed in gambling, you need to take it seriously. Build a strategy, be consistent, and treat it with discipline. Let’s focus on sports betting for example, since it's one of the most popular forms and many believe it’s the most "winnable" because there's no house edge. That means long-term profit is possible.

If you look at the math, hitting around 53% win rate with proper bankroll management can already make you profitable.

Let’s say your goal is to earn $100k in a year. If you start with a $100k bankroll and double it through consistent bets, then technically, you’ve already hit your target. No need to clock in or out, just stay at home, do your research, place your bets, and enjoy your freedom.

Of course, many people don’t believe in this mindset. For them, gambling is just entertainment, and those who take it too seriously are bound to lose in the end. But not everyone agrees with that, and some have actually made it work.

Nowadays you can apply all of this mindset and strategies mentioned here to gambling without the risk of losing your real job as you can do so by using an online platform. It is easy to study the events one day or two days before and bet accordingly if at your real job you are audited and leave trace of what websites you access. Let me tell you though that no matter how good of an expert you maybe in the long run you will absolutely fail like everyone else has done in history so far. Most people will be against such behavior but anyway as I said no one stops you from applying what you are suggesting here in an online betting platform and be patient enough.

[Charles-Tim]

Let’s focus on sports betting for example, since it's one of the most popular forms and many believe it’s the most "winnable" because there's no house edge. That means long-term profit is possible.

I have not seen anyone that said this before.

Also what makes you think or what makes them think sport betting does not have house edge? If you check the odds and the possibility of winning, you can easily notice that sport betting sites have house edge. That is the reason they always still make money from their customers.

[Frankolala]

No matter how you feel that you can make a living from gambling and come up with various strategies and discipline yourself, you will end up losing more than you win in the long run. What people forgot to put into consideration is that gambling is a game of luck and not by your skill, strategy or experience in the game. Luck comes by chance when you wouldn't expect it.

[Patikno]

A lot of people say that to succeed in gambling, you need to take it seriously. Build a strategy, be consistent, and treat it with discipline. Let’s focus on sports betting for example, since it's one of the most popular forms and many believe it’s the most "winnable" because there's no house edge. That means long-term profit is possible.

If you look at the math, hitting around 53% win rate with proper bankroll management can already make you profitable.

Let’s say your goal is to earn $100k in a year. If you start with a $100k bankroll and double it through consistent bets, then technically, you’ve already hit your target. No need to clock in or out, just stay at home, do your research, place your bets, and enjoy your freedom.

Of course, many people don’t believe in this mindset. For them, gambling is just entertainment, and those who take it too seriously are bound to lose in the end. But not everyone agrees with that, and some have actually made it work.

Maybe in theory it is very easy to imagine being able to double the bankroll, especially with a sufficient bankroll, along with a sense of consistency. However, in practice I think not many can succeed, especially in the long term. Because we know that there are so many temptations in every betting or gambling session, especially when talking about sports betting, and one of them is the temptation of the odds provided in the market, and things like this usually happen to every gambler who is so active in betting.

Therefore, I feel it would be better not to chase victory too much when gambling, I personally prefer to keep betting for entertainment purposes, while I consider the victory to be an additional entertainment bonus, so that it keeps us safe when we lose when gambling.

[stompix]

Let’s say your goal is to earn $100k in a year. If you start with a $100k bankroll and double it through consistent bets, then technically, you’ve already hit your target. No need to clock in or out, just stay at home, do your research, place your bets, and enjoy your freedom.

The goal and the bankroll are all over the place.
You need for your goal a $300 profit per day, as we assume we're doing this with sports and not poker or any other card game that bankroll is an over exaggeration, if you ever go during your timeline to let's say 30k from there you would need to make nearly double while having your bets cut at least in thrid to keep your bankroll alive. Since your strategy is not hitting multipliers but keeping a positive winning/loss, you're already done by the time you lose that much, there is no recovering from it, the next target should be minimizing the already incurred loss let alone a dime in profit.

If you look at the math, hitting around 53% win rate with proper bankroll management can already make you profitable.

Again, this is sports, it's not about the win rate it's about the profitability, you can have a win rate of 20% if you take only 10:1 bets, you will be doubling your money and you could be losing worse than in slots at a strike rate of 53% with 1.5 bets.

[EluguHcman]

Of course, many people don’t believe in this mindset. For them, gambling is just entertainment, and those who take it too seriously are bound to lose in the end. But not everyone agrees with that, and some have actually made it work.

Don't get it twisted. Gambling as formally introduced is a game of entertaining players who might either just be inconsistent bettors or regular gamblers who should feel free to participate on the gaming events but must rekon that it is not worth taking unbearable risks of staking with with is not affordable upon as outcomes may have potential returns as a reward when a player wins.

So unjustly, some gamblers just kill that urge of fun and focuses on the profits and that practically tends to fume them with the insights of greeds and getting their minds lost believing they could make riches out of it and then may ignite them to leverage their hard earned money at the course of chasing the profits.

[cryptomaniac_xxx]

A lot of people say that to succeed in gambling, you need to take it seriously. Build a strategy, be consistent, and treat it with discipline. Let’s focus on sports betting for example, since it's one of the most popular forms and many believe it’s the most "winnable" because there's no house edge. That means long-term profit is possible.

If you look at the math, hitting around 53% win rate with proper bankroll management can already make you profitable.

Let’s say your goal is to earn $100k in a year. If you start with a $100k bankroll and double it through consistent bets, then technically, you’ve already hit your target. No need to clock in or out, just stay at home, do your research, place your bets, and enjoy your freedom.

Of course, many people don’t believe in this mindset. For them, gambling is just entertainment, and those who take it too seriously are bound to lose in the end. But not everyone agrees with that, and some have actually made it work.

I don't treat gambling as something like a job and for most of us here, that could be the case. We haven't heard anyone to be successful with that kind of approach. I mean how it can be a good job when everything is unknown? You don't know the results of the game that you play. Although there could be a good chance for sports bettors or a pro poker player to make a lot of money.

But still though, for us regular and average gambler, it's a difficult task. That's why there is also this school of thought that says we should be gambling and just have some fun and not really aim to win. It's just bonus when we go home or play online and win some money. But the morals is just take it easy and don't take gambling seriously as means to an end that will bring food in the table for your family.

[DanWalker]

Agree. Gambling can never be our job or it cannot be the only means of earning money. Gambling should be considered as entertainment. If we consider it as the only means of earning money then it will not take us much time to go bankrupt. We can gamble along with our job or business.
Also gambling is not something that we will do all day long. I would say that we should not spend more than 1/2 hour in gambling in a day. So we can gamble along with our job or any other work. Gambling cannot be made the only means of earning money. Because if we face loss then all our assets will be gone.

[Cityhunter34]

A lot of people say that to succeed in gambling, you need to take it seriously. Build a strategy, be consistent, and treat it with discipline. Let’s focus on sports betting for example, since it's one of the most popular forms and many believe it’s the most "winnable" because there's no house edge. That means long-term profit is possible.

If you look at the math, hitting around 53% win rate with proper bankroll management can already make you profitable.

Let’s say your goal is to earn $100k in a year. If you start with a $100k bankroll and double it through consistent bets, then technically, you’ve already hit your target. No need to clock in or out, just stay at home, do your research, place your bets, and enjoy your freedom.

Of course, many people don’t believe in this mindset. For them, gambling is just entertainment, and those who take it too seriously are bound to lose in the end. But not everyone agrees with that, and some have actually made it work.

Well I think is the addicted gamblers that would only have such mentality in gambling. As a good gambler that knows what gambling is all about would never in any way take it as a job. Though, when it comes to gambling there is nothing like strategy or being consistent, because having such thought in gambling is always the cause of many losses. However, it's very essential for us to always understand that gambling is not a get rich quick scheme, that is the mean reason why they always said that we should only gamble with the amount that we can afford to lose. because there is no guarantee of winnings in gambling.

[Kelward]

Every experienced gamblers must understand at one point that gambling shouldn't be treated like a job or business because of the casinos house edge. It doesn't make sense to put in reasonable amount into something that the chances of making profit or winning is low. That is why experienced gamblers uses small amounts that they can afford to loose because they don't know if they will win. Whatever percentage of your income that you choose as your gambling bankroll should be amount that you can spend to entertain yourself without expecting anything in return. If you treat gambling like a business and you're not lucky enough to be winning most of the times you might end up becoming an addict.

[freedomgo]

The figure you mentioned is a lot of money, not everyone can start with that kind of bankroll. For a gambler to begin with that amount, he must already have full confidence in himself. That’s basically betting on your own skills to generate income.

Earning $100k a year is a solid goal, especially if you're not living in a Western country. But if you truly have the skills to make consistent profits, why limit yourself to just that? I mean, I could even mortgage my house to raise a bigger bankroll and go for higher returns.

[GiftedMAN]

No matter how you feel that you can make a living from gambling and come up with various strategies and discipline yourself, you will end up losing more than you win in the long run. What people forgot to put into consideration is that gambling is a game of luck and not by your skill, strategy or experience in the game. Luck comes by chance when you wouldn't expect it.

I wonder why any one will feel safe for having gambling as a source of income when they know the risk that is involved with any kind of gambling, there are so many strategies, styles and predictions to help gamblers feel safe to continue their guess work but nothing is sure in gambling you only lose more than you win and you can never outwin the casinos or betting companies.

[xenomorfo]

A lot of people say that to succeed in gambling, you need to take it seriously. Build a strategy, be consistent, and treat it with discipline. Let?s focus on sports betting for example, since it's one of the most popular forms and many believe it?s the most "winnable" because there's no house edge. That means long-term profit is possible.

If you look at the math, hitting around 53% win rate with proper bankroll management can already make you profitable.

Let?s say your goal is to earn $100k in a year. If you start with a $100k bankroll and double it through consistent bets, then technically, you?ve already hit your target. No need to clock in or out, just stay at home, do your research, place your bets, and enjoy your freedom.

Of course, many people don?t believe in this mindset. For them, gambling is just entertainment, and those who take it too seriously are bound to lose in the end. But not everyone agrees with that, and some have actually made it work.

You say you can make it a job? i don't think so. How do you get 53% win, if you can do that you are truly a magician.
i am not an expert in betting, but if a poker player has those statistics, he's definitely going to the World Championship in Las Vegas, i am sure of it.

[Botnake]

great advice.. but at the end of the day, it really depends on the individual’s skills. If you don’t have what it takes to be profitable in sports betting, then it’s definitely not wise to treat it like a job.

When you treat gambling like a job, that means you're serious about it and willing to take on the challenge long-term. It’s not just about luck anymore, it’s about strategy, discipline, and consistency. That’s why it all comes down to self-awareness. We need to be honest with ourselves and evaluate if we’re really built for this path. If not, then it’s better to just enjoy gambling for fun, nothing more.

you can’t force something you don’t understand.. just like an engineer can’t suddenly become a doctor.

[giammangiato]

I've always said it, I fight for this statement of yours so true!
Many broadcasts deceive users, making poker players believe they are professionals, they undoubtedly know the game, but considering it
as a job absolutely not.
The job requires years of study, professionalism and is not based on luck or probability, what we know professionally
we know because we have studied.
I love gambling but mistaking it for a real job, never!

[crwth]

I believe those who are professional players in gambling are the ones who should treat it like a job, and if you have a very different job. It is in a different industry. You shouldn't really treat gambling as the main one because I know a lot of people who have really regretted gambling because of the money they lost.

As long as you can control yourself, I think it's okay to gamble, not just go overboard with what you have.

[passwordnow]

That is the one of the reasons why many fail in gambling. It's because they are trying to hit numbers and goals that they think are achievable through it. Let's not go that far that gambling is totally risky and it could ruin not just your day or week but your entire year trying to chase losses and the goals that you have set for yourself. In my style of doing things with my bets, I don't mind losing them. I bet, and the money that I have used for is gone as good and if it wins, that's nice but if I lose, there will be no heartbreaks on it. That's the hard part, while others keep on saying that we should gamble for fun. Well, they're all right with that and that's an honest opinion when we do it to avoid pressuring ourselves with gambling.