Can you really master sports betting, or is it still all luck?

[Altryist]

I’ve always wondered if sports betting can actually be learned the same way you develop skills in poker or trading. Some bettors claim they’ve improved over time , studying player stats, team form, odds movement, and even learning how to manage their bankroll properly.

But others still say it doesn’t matter how much research you do, because one bad call, injury, or last-minute play can ruin everything. So is it really a skill, or just controlled gambling that gives you the illusion of strategy?

What’s your personal experience? Do you feel you’ve gotten better with time, or is it still just luck deciding the outcome in the end?

A random mistake can ruin everything, but for a single bet, and if you practice risk management, it won't affect you in the long run. Trading can be learned, too, but how many successful traders remain who trade profitably? I think the same is true for betting, this can be learned by developing your own strategy and being disciplined enough to resist the temptation to bet on individual matches. I believe some bets have a higher probability of winning. Evaluate all bets with the same degree of risk, determine a safe bet, and stick to it without exception.

[Jaycoinz]

No body can master sport betting people win base on luck but that is after you have done some good prediction, when i start gambling and now there is an improvement i win more often now than when i started so even before luck come you have to also put some hard work to be able to analysis and gamble on games that have that gives you high chance of winning, those who analysis and predict well may likely win than some one who just rely on luck without doing some analysis. So winning required both skill and luck.

Yeah luck have a big role of play in any aspect of gambling be it slot games or sports games, but let's not forget the fact that sports betting still needs some understanding to pick the right odds or potential winning odds so instead of using the word "master" sports betting I think people should rather say understand sports betting cause no matter how you master it the house edge still supercede and the bettor still have to fall back to being lucky, yes those who understand the game, analyse the stats, forms and potential of different teams would likely have a better chances of winning than someone who doesn't.

Even in that understanding there is still one big factor which covers the basic reality of you winning and that's the luck factor there is absolutely no way to go about without inputting the fact that no matter what game you pick or play there is still this factor that overrides everything although some may argue that it's different with sport betting but trust me even in sports betting you would still need to be lucky because things can virtually change within a matter of seconds.

[Nwada001]

sports betting You can have the best skill and upgrade your prediction knowledge base on experience, which will help you in the long run, but that does not still change the fact that anything can happen on the field that will affect the outcome of the match just as you have predicted it, which is where luck comes into play. If you are unlucky, unplanned things will happen that will jeopardize everything you have predicted, and if you are lucky, congratulations to you.

[Su-asa]

No body can master sport betting people win base on luck but that is after you have done some good prediction, when i start gambling and now there is an improvement i win more often now than when i started so even before luck come you have to also put some hard work to be able to analysis and gamble on games that have that gives you high chance of winning, those who analysis and predict well may likely win than some one who just rely on luck without doing some analysis. So winning required both skill and luck.

Yeah luck have a big role of play in any aspect of gambling be it slot games or sports games, but let's not forget the fact that sports betting still needs some understanding to pick the right odds or potential winning odds so instead of using the word "master" sports betting I think people should rather say understand sports betting cause no matter how you master it the house edge still supercede and the bettor still have to fall back to being lucky, yes those who understand the game, analyse the stats, forms and potential of different teams would likely have a better chances of winning than someone who doesn't.

Even in that understanding there is still one big factor which covers the basic reality of you winning and that's the luck factor there is absolutely no way to go about without inputting the fact that no matter what game you pick or play there is still this factor that overrides everything although some may argue that it's different with sport betting but trust me even in sports betting you would still need to be lucky because things can virtually change within a matter of seconds.

The truth part of this all is that there's no winning without luck, even if you have mastered the game you also need luck to win the game. Sport games are very intense, because if it's not, weaker teams can not be winning the stronger team some times. However, the funniest nothing about sport games is that, the weaker teams mostly win the strong teams when almost everyone have believed that the stronger team will defeat wick team. So the game is all about luck and not even strategy. Strategy only helps sometimes but it still needs luck.

[Abu-Naim]

I’ve always wondered if sports betting can actually be learned the same way you develop skills in poker or trading. Some bettors claim they’ve improved over time , studying player stats, team form, odds movement, and even learning how to manage their bankroll properly.

But others still say it doesn’t matter how much research you do, because one bad call, injury, or last-minute play can ruin everything. So is it really a skill, or just controlled gambling that gives you the illusion of strategy?

What’s your personal experience? Do you feel you’ve gotten better with time, or is it still just luck deciding the outcome in the end?

Sport betting is something straight forward and also tricky, you can learn it, but if you are also a footballer or basketballer, you can get it clearer than who is just betting and have no experience about the games.

Talking about football, you can be a good gambler in football games without been a football player, you just need to be good with analysis and also make sure you study the current form of players and teams, and also take note of their recent games and their head to head performances, if you can get everything right, your predictions will be easy because there are several options to bet. You just need to chose the one you believe will play and get irrespective of the odds, and I am sure if you pick limited games and stake good money, you will win.

[happybitcoinph]

I’ve always wondered if sports betting can actually be learned the same way you develop skills in poker or trading. Some bettors claim they’ve improved over time , studying player stats, team form, odds movement, and even learning how to manage their bankroll properly.

But others still say it doesn’t matter how much research you do, because one bad call, injury, or last-minute play can ruin everything. So is it really a skill, or just controlled gambling that gives you the illusion of strategy?

What’s your personal experience? Do you feel you’ve gotten better with time, or is it still just luck deciding the outcome in the end?

Mastery means an experienced sports bettor. That's an advantage instead of just guessing randomly.

But let's not forget that we are talking about gambling here, where luck still plays a big role.

Therefore, why rely on pure luck alone? Combined with our "mastery" and "experience" to increase our winning chance.

[₿itcoin]

So is it really a skill, or just controlled gambling that gives you the illusion of strategy?
What’s your personal experience? Do you feel you’ve gotten better with time, or is it still just luck deciding the outcome in the end?

yeah imo, sports betting is not entirely luck there is a lot of skill &  strategy. Professional bettors always look for value bets that have a higher probability of winning than the bookmaker. Bankroll management is very important, the loss of a bet can be reduced, the chance of losing money by making too many mistakes is reduced. i think the biggest difference is consistency &   discipline, also   a mindset of learning from mistakes. Those who gamble only out of emotion &  are anxious to get a lucky streak, often end up with big losses, I think.

[Moreno233]

There can be some level of mastering in sports betting that can give you huge advantage in gambling. If you rely on luck in a game like sports betting, you will be humbled  by unbreakable loss. I'm not not neglecting the importance of luck because it is also needed to avoid certain matched such as those you will play the underdog, who are usually given bigger odd, to win.

[Ivystar5]

There can be some level of mastering in sports betting that can give you huge advantage in gambling. If you rely on luck in a game like sports betting, you will be humbled  by unbreakable loss. I'm not not neglecting the importance of luck because it is also needed to avoid certain matched such as those you will play the underdog who are usually given bigger odd.

In sport betting I don't think there is anything like mastering because sports that I know are volatile, that means a team could be unbeatable and end up lossing to a small team, having mastered their game play you could swear they will win but at the end they loss. Perhaps luck plays a crucial role too but then strategy and luck combine is a show killer.

[GiftedMAN]

 You can study everything in sports betting, master all the teams their best formation and their best position to win games but they doesn't give you a guarantee that you're going to be successful your betting, you can even select the most informed teams in your betting but end up becoming so unlucky because the decision of the referee during each game is not the same something can happen and it will spoil all the analysis you calculated before placing the bet.

[skarais]

I’ve always wondered if sports betting can actually be learned the same way you develop skills in poker or trading. Some bettors claim they’ve improved over time , studying player stats, team form, odds movement, and even learning how to manage their bankroll properly.

But others still say it doesn’t matter how much research you do, because one bad call, injury, or last-minute play can ruin everything. So is it really a skill, or just controlled gambling that gives you the illusion of strategy?

What’s your personal experience? Do you feel you’ve gotten better with time, or is it still just luck deciding the outcome in the end?

Every gambler has their own way of choosing which team to bet on, but the fact is that most will list the favorite team to win on their betting slip. I think it's a reasonable decision considering the odds of winning the bet are quite good, but the favorite team is never guaranteed to win either. I think this is the easiest approach to win bets regardless of knowledge or experience, meaning the favorite team tends to win and you don't have to bother analyzing so much data from previous match history.

The gambling approach I've mentioned isn't always profitable. Favorites tend to have low odds, sometimes excessively low when they face relatively weak opponents. However, there are always gamblers who will only bet on favorites. They might have a winning streak, but a single loss could wipe out several winnings.

[Awaklara]

But others still say it doesn’t matter how much research you do, because one bad call, injury, or last-minute play can ruin everything. So is it really a skill, or just controlled gambling that gives you the illusion of strategy?

Gambling cannot be separated from luck. Even if you become someone who is very good at making analyses. 
If asked to choose, honestly, I would rather be a person with good luck in gambling than the best in analysis. 
However, sports betting can be learned. Teams or players that compete can be studied. The analysis we make before placing a bet can be considered a step to reduce the risk of losing. This is better than betting solely based on instinct.

[Muba20]

No body can master sport betting people win base on luck but that is after you have done some good prediction, when i start gambling and now there is an improvement i win more often now than when i started so even before luck come you have to also put some hard work to be able to analysis and gamble on games that have that gives you high chance of winning, those who analysis and predict well may likely win than some one who just rely on luck without doing some analysis. So winning required both skill and luck.

Yeah luck have a big role of play in any aspect of gambling be it slot games or sports games, but let's not forget the fact that sports betting still needs some understanding to pick the right odds or potential winning odds so instead of using the word "master" sports betting I think people should rather say understand sports betting cause no matter how you master it the house edge still supercede and the bettor still have to fall back to being lucky, yes those who understand the game, analyse the stats, forms and potential of different teams would likely have a better chances of winning than someone who doesn't.

Even in that understanding there is still one big factor which covers the basic reality of you winning and that's the luck factor there is absolutely no way to go about without inputting the fact that no matter what game you pick or play there is still this factor that overrides everything although some may argue that it's different with sport betting but trust me even in sports betting you would still need to be lucky because things can virtually change within a matter of seconds.

The truth part of this all is that there's no winning without luck, even if you have mastered the game you also need luck to win the game. Sport games are very intense, because if it's not, weaker teams can not be winning the stronger team some times. However, the funniest nothing about sport games is that, the weaker teams mostly win the strong teams when almost everyone have believed that the stronger team will defeat wick team. So the game is all about luck and not even strategy. Strategy only helps sometimes but it still needs luck.

Yes, it has been proven again and again that in sports betting, a bettor must rely on luck. In sports betting, we often see a strong team easily losing to a weak team. Although this result will not always be the same, no one knows which bet the stronger team will lose. There are many who choose a relatively strong team to win the bet, but there the victory is not guaranteed, rather the team loses due to overconfidence. If someone loses on this type of bet, their losses are much greater than others.

[Raflesia]

sports betting You can have the best skill and upgrade your prediction knowledge base on experience, which will help you in the long run, but that does not still change the fact that anything can happen on the field that will affect the outcome of the match just as you have predicted it, which is where luck comes into play. If you are unlucky, unplanned things will happen that will jeopardize everything you have predicted, and if you are lucky, congratulations to you.

That's true. In sports betting, good skills can help us, and it could even be said to be sustainable in the long run. However, that doesn't mean it's free from luck. No matter how good your skills and knowledge are, luck still plays a role. As you said, anything can happen on the field and affect the outcome of a match. This is certainly something that luck involves.

However, I doubt that someone with good skills can win consistently. It's certainly a lucky bet if you can win consistently, but it's unlikely. And perhaps not many highly skilled people have good skills. I suspect quite a few people are interested in games that rely purely on luck, like slots, which don't require much skill to win, as winning depends solely on luck.

[Victorybit1]

There is mastery to everything but we shouldn't neglect the fact that luck plays a vital role in gambling. Sports betting requires both skills, strategy and level of mastery to win most times, unlike other casino games like slot, roulette which rely mainly on luck to win. If you are good at making good analysis you will become more lucky to win when you bet.

Funny, well I think am totally against that logic because in as much as we would want to master the act of gambling or making good analysis that yield good results there is still this huge factor that would override all our efforts almost all the time but to some extent it still plays a very big role in management of our winnings.

Luck is everything in the gambling industry be it slot games or even sport games like soccer and the rest although good analysis will get you an edge but even with that there is 100% possibility that your might turn out the other way round.

[TrialBitcoin]

I’ve always wondered if sports betting can actually be learned the same way you develop skills in poker or trading. Some bettors claim they’ve improved over time , studying player stats, team form, odds movement, and even learning how to manage their bankroll properly.

But others still say it doesn’t matter how much research you do, because one bad call, injury, or last-minute play can ruin everything. So is it really a skill, or just controlled gambling that gives you the illusion of strategy?

What’s your personal experience? Do you feel you’ve gotten better with time, or is it still just luck deciding the outcome in the end?

Mastering sport betting can be difficult most times because you might predict a current score or goal goal situation and it turns out to be a goal less draw, however one can still learn and actually be perfect in sport betting through analysis,you go back to previous games that the teams have played, watch their highlights and examine their style of play,stats, formation and tactics.
Most times it's all about been lucky as your predictions will all play out the way you have predicted them.
Personally I have predicted some games based on their previous stats,performances and won  the games.

[Unsoldier]

I never really got why people want to become “pro” sports bettors. Those who try usually just end up losing money. Me and my mates used to throw in five or ten bucks each and make our own little pool while watching football. It made the matches way more exciting and a lot more fun to watch.

[Slow death]

When I look back and do a self-evaluation of myself, I realize that in the past I didn't know how to analyze games, so I bet based on the favorite. Then I started learning to analyze games and my results improved. Over the years, analyzing many games constantly, I realized many mistakes I made in the past. So, it was clear that I only improved because I kept practicing. This shows that sports betting is about skills. It has nothing to do with luck. If someone keeps counting on luck in sports betting, then that person will constantly lose money and will hardly be able to win bets.

[tread93]

I’ve always wondered if sports betting can actually be learned the same way you develop skills in poker or trading. Some bettors claim they’ve improved over time , studying player stats, team form, odds movement, and even learning how to manage their bankroll properly.

But others still say it doesn’t matter how much research you do, because one bad call, injury, or last-minute play can ruin everything. So is it really a skill, or just controlled gambling that gives you the illusion of strategy?

What’s your personal experience? Do you feel you’ve gotten better with time, or is it still just luck deciding the outcome in the end?

The only way to become true sports betting master is to get time machine car from back to the future and pull that almanac that has all the game scores from the past millenia because without that there is no way to be a master of sports betting

[Floxynice]

If we keep emotions aside, one can really master sports betting. Yea! One of the reasons people often lose is because most of the times, they follow their emotions instead of the main fact. Sports betting is one form of gambling that is easier to win with the right analysis. Even if a person who has mastered the skills of betting loses, the losses will not be much compared to a bettor who is only relying on luck.