What is pro sports bettors for you?

[peter0425]

Instead of calling them professionals I prefer the word experienced. Experience is obtained through consistency and time. What separates us from those that are more experienced is the time and effort they put into it. You can't compare someone who has been betting for 5 years and someone who has two years experience but here's thing, long years of experience doesn't guarantee Profit or winning.

This is a good perspective. Because what does really make a gambler professional? Is it how serious he is in gambling? How much money he is gambling? How often does he gamble? But if we say an experienced gambler, it’s simple. Someone who has been gambling for a long time. That’s it. No need for any further complications.

[bounceback]

We usually call those who take gambling seriously, those with a solid bankroll and a strategic approach as “pros,” while the rest are just considered typical gamblers.

This isn’t based on research, but from your own perspective, what really separates us from professional sports bettors?
Sure, we all have different approaches, but what about the results?

If we’re losing, does that mean they’re always winning? Or are they just managing their losses better and staying consistent over time?

Professional gamblers are the right term for gamblers who are able to restrain themselves and are able to control their emotions well so that they know when it's time to stop and usually professional gamblers often take smaller risks in the game and when they want to place a bet they are usually not in a hurry so that they can anticipate defeat and avoid consecutive defeats. Professional gamblers are not only those who have large capital and always place bets in a hurry because usually people who are emotional when gambling eventually have to lose everything, in gambling games discipline is a very important thing for us to apply when betting.

[Botnake]

Professional gamblers are the right term for gamblers who are able to restrain themselves and are able to control their emotions well ...

These are just some of the characteristics of pro bettors, but honestly, even regular gamblers can develop this kind of discipline. You can still enjoy gambling and take risks, but the key is not to lose more than you can afford.

I think the main difference with professional gamblers is that they treat sports betting like an investment. They really work on developing their skills so they can be profitable in the long run. Their mindset is different, they have a long-term vision and consistency, while most of us are more on-and-off when it comes to betting.

[mirakal]

I cannot tell that they’re consistently winning, but most probably they can manage well their losses and maximize their winning potentials. Pros have their own fair share of losses and wins, but most likely their winning rate is higher than their losses, as they are more inclined to their games compared to those typical gamblers.

However, we all know in the long run, there is no pros and non-pros when it comes to gambling, it boils down to the fact that those who are lucky win more while those who don’t got the luck at all keep losing in the end.

[Frankolala]

Instead of calling them professionals I prefer the word experienced. Experience is obtained through consistency and time. What separates us from those that are more experienced is the time and effort they put into it. You can't compare someone who has been betting for 5 years and someone who has two years experience but here's thing, long years of experience doesn't guarantee Profit or winning.

This is a good perspective. Because what does really make a gambler professional? Is it how serious he is in gambling? How much money he is gambling? How often does he gamble? But if we say an experienced gambler, it’s simple. Someone who has been gambling for a long time. That’s it. No need for any further complications.

Exactly, it's better to say an experienced bettor, because nobody can be a professional gambler since gambling is a game of luck and not skill. However, those people that claim to be professional gamblers are only using it to extort people to subscribe to their channel, because if truly that they are professionals, they should have made millions from gambling and casinos would have packed up.

[o48o]

Instead of calling them professionals I prefer the word experienced. Experience is obtained through consistency and time. What separates us from those that are more experienced is the time and effort they put into it. You can't compare someone who has been betting for 5 years and someone who has two years experience but here's thing, long years of experience doesn't guarantee Profit or winning.

I always had a problem with the whole concept "pro gambler", so i am taking your "experienced gambler" into my vocabulary.
I am not sure if i ever used it but it sounds like something i want to use. Only way i have used the word pro in front of bettor or gambler is when i do it sarcastically, like pro alcoholic or pro in lack of planning.

When it comes to question from OP (and i am changing pro to experienced here): Experienced gamblers are most likely learned to cut their losses, that's why they are able to stay above the water in the first place. Either that or they will have to quit at some point because they end up digging themselves a hole they can't get out without help.

That result separates experienced gamblers. It doesn't necessary bring more wins, no matter how experienced you are. Nor it's going to be a career, other then for people who give tips for living or get referral money.

[Accardo]

Exactly, it's better to say an experienced bettor, because nobody can be a professional gambler since gambling is a game of luck and not skill. However, those people that claim to be professional gamblers are only using it to extort people to subscribe to their channel, because if truly that they are professionals, they should have made millions from gambling and casinos would have packed up.

There are indeed professionals, especially in the offline settings, who has been in the gaming niche for years and have written books on the subject and yet didn't get addicted or run into debt. Being a professional doesn't mean they don't lose, no, their session is under control and they also understand that the house isn't a friend to meddle with or neglect the rules for because of the number of years spent in the Industry. The misconception with players is that they assume being a professional implies winning all the time.

[Akbarkoe]

We usually call those who take gambling seriously, those with a solid bankroll and a strategic approach as “pros,” while the rest are just considered typical gamblers.

This isn’t based on research, but from your own perspective, what really separates us from professional sports bettors?
Sure, we all have different approaches, but what about the results?

If we’re losing, does that mean they’re always winning? Or are they just managing their losses better and staying consistent over time?

There is nothing certain in gambling even though they are professionals, but it can be classified that ordinary gamblers certainly lose more than the losses received by professionals in one betting session, they are also human and of course they can be wrong, especially gambling which is an industry full of mystery to get its victory.

I do not discredit them ordinary gamblers but we need to be self-aware, for example like me, defeat is a bigger part than victory, don't be too naive, their calculations and ours are clearly different.

[SATWAT]

I cannot tell that they’re consistently winning, but most probably they can manage well their losses and maximize their winning potentials. Pros have their own fair share of losses and wins, but most likely their winning rate is higher than their losses, as they are more inclined to their games compared to those typical gamblers.

However, we all know in the long run, there is no pros and non-pros when it comes to gambling, it boils down to the fact that those who are lucky win more while those who don’t got the luck at all keep losing in the end.

Yea they are not able to win consistently but they have few good edge with maturity and calmness which allow them to keep things balance and never cross their limit because this has never been easy just professional person can do this.
Wins and loses are part of gamble but having some strong strategy and staying in without emotions always helps and improve chances of living on better side if anyone try to cross these surely he is having big setback with loses as well because things have never been easy to keep on right track.
While having bad periods they are well aware how to stay in and not give up because they always well aware about things how to bring back their loses and have some motivation for themselves gambling is now having good new improved techniques which are needed strong minds.

[KTChampions]

We usually call those who take gambling seriously, those with a solid bankroll and a strategic approach as “pros,” while the rest are just considered typical gamblers.

This isn’t based on research, but from your own perspective, what really separates us from professional sports bettors?
Sure, we all have different approaches, but what about the results?

If we’re losing, does that mean they’re always winning? Or are they just managing their losses better and staying consistent over time?

For me personally, it's not those who know how to bet at the right moment, but those who know how to wait for this moment 
I am sure that many of us place bets not when necessary, but simply because, for example, it is a weekend and there are many football games, and even if we have not found a profitable bet, we make at least some bet simply because we are bettors. From my experience, I realized that skipping days when there are no profitable bets is even more important than being able to find profitable bets.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

Pro sports bettors are bettors who make money, that's it.

Never claim yourself to be pros if you not making money, winning chance is just an illusion and not always in profit.

This is similar like business owner, they only mention the total sales instead of the total profit, if the sales is $5 Million but the expense he spent $4.999.999, he only earn $1

The difference between we and them is the skills.

Yeah you are very correct, winning is the most important thing in sport betting and for someone to be considered a sport betting pro that person must have a record of long term winnings and alot of sure predictions in game's which is proven by other not himself alone, but then this take us to the next big thing, which is the unpredictable nature of most sport games which make it hard to have a sure bets.

Winning is the most important thing in gambling generally, not just with sports betting, any body can claim to be a pro gambler if he is able to constantly win far more than they lose, and we all know that what is most important is always the most difficult to achieve, this is possibly why winning is also the most difficult.

And yeah, if predicting sports matches correctly was easy, we all will be millionaires of even billionaires, and most casino or even all casinos would have gone bankrupt because of too many people winning their bets everyday, building and managing a casino wouldn't have been a viable or profitable business since mostly the casino will run at a loss, so this is why winnings in gambling generally is celebrated, what's hard to achieve is always valued.

[Odusko]

And yeah, if predicting sports matches correctly was easy, we all will be millionaires of even billionaires, and most casino or even all casinos would have gone bankrupt because of too many people winning their bets everyday, building and managing a casino wouldn't have been a viable or profitable business since mostly the casino will run at a loss, so this is why winnings in gambling generally is celebrated, what's hard to achieve is always valued.

Gambling without winning is like going into a ponzi scheme, since you never get any returns from your investment, the reason why we warn gamblers not to take gambling too seriously is because the games are mostly unpredictable and unstable so for that gambling with small amount of money is most important, most gamblers who feel the most negative impact from gambling are those that gamble with an amount that is way above their financial benchmark, so winning to them means a jackpot and losing also bring them down as well.

[|MINER|]

I think there's something to say about professional gamblers, and it's that most of them that I've seen are next to useless. I've had a guy who gets capital from me and places range of bets and record a little win from the ones that wins. The guy was kinda good at prediction, but ends up getting little profits which we share at the end of the day. I had to stop giving him capital so he can be more useful to himself and do something better with his life.

What you did in the beginning, I think, is not justified in any way Gambling never depends on the skill of a person. If you look then you will find multiple matches where strong teams have lost to weak teams where we ourselves have lost bets.
But I appreciate your next step, which is to stop funding him. It's not just for his good, but for your own good because if you become very confident in him later, you can invest a lot of money there, which won't be a drag on your image either.

I've met someone who boosted to me that gambling is his full-time job. From that day I started distancing myself from him cos that lifestyle is a no go area for me

If you don't always maintain your distance from this kind of public, you will have bad days in the future, these are just like virus who will effect you if you are around of them.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

Professional gamblers make sure they uses every available data that will enable them make an accurate prediction and they also win more often that the normal usual bettors. Professional bettors doesn't leave any data untouched except they forgot to do so and the reason is because they want to be as accurate as possible. I know a man who doesn't make quick predictions, it take him hours to think and research properly before betting. While most common bettors just want to make quick prediction and some do not even make to make research at all but just want to pick randomly.

Professional is a hard word to choose when describing oneself as a gambler. If there are professionals, means there should be series of records completed that a normal gambler hasn't, from winning large amounts with small bets, consecutive wins than usual, ability to predict over multiple events on one slip over consecutive times, and winning them. A professional gambler goes beyond winning only, checking out the winning rate, several gamblers win their bets often, but don't call themselves pro, see "pro" as a self title.

If all you have said are the only requirements to qualify a professional gambler, then there's no gambler like that.  Especially where you said that the person must be able to predict many games on one slip and must win all, what you are saying is that they must bet on parlay and win the ticket? You know that's not possible, to win a parlay is more difficult than a single game and perhaps not every bettor likes to bet on parlay but it doesn't mean the person doesn't know how to predict games. Well, maybe there's no pro title in gambling.

[LUCKMCFLY]

It is difficult to have a definition of professional gamblers or professional bettors, just by simple inspection the first thing that comes to mind is that a professional player is someone who has a high success rate in the game, that is to say, who wins more money than he loses, but to reach that level? maybe experience, trial and error, analysis and knowing how to have intuition and a lot of cunning as intelligence, but in itself a professional gambler for me is someone who has a success rate greater than the loss rate.

[Oluwa-btc]

We usually call those who take gambling seriously, those with a solid bankroll and a strategic approach as “pros,” while the rest are just considered typical gamblers.

This isn’t based on research, but from your own perspective, what really separates us from professional sports bettors?
Sure, we all have different approaches, but what about the results?

If we’re losing, does that mean they’re always winning? Or are they just managing their losses better and staying consistent over time?

Professionalism in gambling seems to be hard, because you can't really predict the outcome of it even when you give a try and sometimes apply some strategies. As we all know luck plays a big role but then a professional sports bettors can be seen as someone who excells in his gambling activity and all what he gets is a win win though there may be chances of loses, this is why I still think a pro sports bettor is hard to come by.

[rachael9385]

A pro sports bettor is somebody who gets most of their income from gambling. It’s somebody who comfortably lives from their gambling proceeds and doesn’t struggle to pay bills or have disposable money.

There aren’t all that many pro sports bettors around because it’s very hard to be one. Most people are unable to be one, you never see a broke bookie.

Do they actually exist, a lot of people talk about experts that make their income from sports betting but we don't really have a clear proof that people are making such regular income from sports betting. It's possible to make profit from high accuracy in predictions but for it to become a source of income is something that I have always doubted. It's not possible and anyone claiming that they do is a fraud

[Fivestar4everMVP]

And yeah, if predicting sports matches correctly was easy, we all will be millionaires of even billionaires, and most casino or even all casinos would have gone bankrupt because of too many people winning their bets everyday, building and managing a casino wouldn't have been a viable or profitable business since mostly the casino will run at a loss, so this is why winnings in gambling generally is celebrated, what's hard to achieve is always valued.

Gambling without winning is like going into a ponzi scheme, since you never get any returns from your investment, the reason why we warn gamblers not to take gambling too seriously is because the games are mostly unpredictable and unstable so for that gambling with small amount of money is most important, most gamblers who feel the most negative impact from gambling are those that gamble with an amount that is way above their financial benchmark, so winning to them means a jackpot and losing also bring them down as well.

You are very correct and I completely agree with you, but then, gambling and ponzi scheme are not exactly the same and I don't think both should be compared, I honestly don't know which to say is better though 😁, but if I must think long term and be sincere, then I would say that gambling is much better than ponzi scheme since it's only early adopters who always stand a good chance of benefiting from a ponzi scheme, late comers always end up in a loss.

But gambling, someone who has been gambling and losing will definitely win one day, unlike a ponzi scheme where money lost is lost forever 😎

But then aside the above, I agree with every other thing you said, winning from gambling can't be predicted and such, it's wise we always risk only what we can afford to lose anytime we gamble.