Would meeting a profitable sports bettor change your mind?

[MRY]

I have hear stories of gamblers that had huge wins, I have read about it and I have witnessed a few but still many huge wins of people but yet it didn't make me to seriously and compulsively want to start betting more often than usual. Not that it doesn't make me feel like wanting to win such huge amount that they won but I can not chase it but will still keep trying my luck responsibly until any day the luck locates me, but I won't be compulsive to chase for it. Gambling is not a source of income for me, unless there is a full proof of how you can consistently remain profitable, then I will turn it to source of income but for now, it's not.

It is evidence that we know our own shortcomings well by observing the monetary success of other people and not feeling obliged to follow in their footsteps and lead their irresponsible lifestyles. I have understood that human appetite to make big is not an obsession that we should allow to influence our day to day reasonability. You underline that the absence of signs of profitability is the reason why we have to remain with this activity as a simple hobby. Tolerance of waiting until we are lucky, we do not force things, and we will lead a peaceful life.

[LastKiss]

If you believe sports betting can’t be profitable, and you meet someone you know is consistently winning long term, would that change your opinion or would you still say it’s just luck?
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From the beginning, I’ve believed that it’s possible to be profitable in sports betting. If I got a chance to meet someone who consistently wins over the long term, I’d like to ask about his strategy and which sports he focus on. However, finding someone like that around my place has been somewhat impossible. So far, I haven’t found anyone like this most people only flex when they win and stay silent when they lose. Do you think hearing such stories like that can motivate someone in a positive way or just making them just chase wins?

[Oluwa-btc]

If you believe sports betting can’t be profitable, and you meet someone you know is consistently winning long term, would that change your opinion or would you still say it’s just luck?

And if you already believe it’s possible, would that motivate you to seriously try the same path and aim for real profitability, not just casual betting?

Simple question, curious to hear honest answers.

Not necessarily,you shouldn't rely on someone else motivation for your outcome.Maybe you need an accountability partner,a system that works,a strategy and skills set that converts.But also remember that betting isn't a reliable income generator.So follow up with mentors that their skills sets always impactful.

[junder]

I myself am a person who can be said to be easily influenced especially by things that have advantages or things that I really like. I have a preference for something so if someone else has an advantage it might change my mind, but it's not certain because sometimes I have other things to do. And I don't have a strong interest in sports betting.

[arwin100]

If you believe sports betting can’t be profitable, and you meet someone you know is consistently winning long term, would that change your opinion or would you still say it’s just luck?

And if you already believe it’s possible, would that motivate you to seriously try the same path and aim for real profitability, not just casual betting?

Simple question, curious to hear honest answers.

Not necessarily,you shouldn't rely on someone else motivation for your outcome.Maybe you need an accountability partner,a system that works,a strategy and skills set that converts.But also remember that betting isn't a reliable income generator.So follow up with mentors that their skills sets always impactful.

This one need to think about by people since even if they meet those profitable sports bettor it won't change anything. Only those new people will get attracted to look at those things done by those what they said successful sports bettor then try to chase to hit big gains same as them.

But to bad its rare to hit those the status what gained by what so called successful people since they provably experience lots of defeat before they became profitable.

Also not all the time they can really make sure to win on all bets they places, since live games result might come different and those they called expert still has a chance to lose. That's why they better live on their own means and don't try to get hype with those people they meet then claim that they are successful sportsbettor.

[iBaba]

If you believe sports betting can’t be profitable, and you meet someone you know is consistently winning long term, would that change your opinion or would you still say it’s just luck?
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From the beginning, I’ve believed that it’s possible to be profitable in sports betting. If I got a chance to meet someone who consistently wins over the long term, I’d like to ask about his strategy and which sports he focus on. However, finding someone like that around my place has been somewhat impossible. So far, I haven’t found anyone like this most people only flex when they win and stay silent when they lose. Do you think hearing such stories like that can motivate someone in a positive way or just making them just chase wins?

I do not believe that there is someone who wins consistently for a long period of time in gambling, I don't even think that is spiritually possible to achieve but what I understand by statements and stories like that is about people who have outgrown talking about the losses of gambling and they only see the wins and ignore the losses behind them which can push them to consistently learn how to gamble better than they are doing already. It is stories of people like that thst have created such unrealistic picture of winning consistently for a long time in a literal meaning but for someone like me, I can only accept such statements and understand them figuratively.

[taufik123]

I myself am a person who can be said to be easily influenced especially by things that have advantages or things that I really like. I have a preference for something so if someone else has an advantage it might change my mind, but it's not certain because sometimes I have other things to do. And I don't have a strong interest in sports betting.

If I talk about gambling I am not so interested in the advantages of others and how he does it to get more profits, because a person's luck is different,
it cannot be learned by the same method except for games that require more knowledge such as card games and similar games that require foresight and calculation.

If you are the type of person who is easily influenced by seeing someone's advantages,
you need to think for a moment before following them because the people who you think have an advantage or gain more from gambling are not necessarily what you think.

Many influencers look successful and hit the jackpot but the truth is that they have a secret behind it,
some casinos sponsor their winnings and those winnings are usually just a piece of content that is set to always win so that more people are interested in playing.

[Wakate]

I myself am a person who can be said to be easily influenced especially by things that have advantages or things that I really like. I have a preference for something so if someone else has an advantage it might change my mind, but it's not certain because sometimes I have other things to do. And I don't have a strong interest in sports betting.

If you don't have a strong interest in sport betting, gambling on casino games should be a very good option for you.
What I know is that meeting someone that is very influential can be of an advantage to us if they are ready to share their secret and success story that could motivate the spirit and soul. Meeting someone that is influential can be very helpful to us.

[JunaidAzizi]

Luck alone won't allow you to consistently win at gambling, because luck is fickle. If someone can win consistently, it's clear they must be applying something else, some knowledge, and perhaps their approach is different. I'd love to talk to someone who can make money from gambling, but I don't know anyone I know who's into gambling, so I don't even know how I could meet someone who makes money from gambling.

Yup, luck is just a temporary activity, and you can win 2 or 3 times, let's suppose. But for consistent winning, you will need knowledge, discipline, and your experiences, which can be best for some sustainable wins. Finding someone who is a winner in sports is difficult but not impossible, as they do exist. The reason is that people look narrowly at gambling and at gamblers, that's why most successful gamblers hide their activities. If you can look in your surroundings with zero judgmental eyes, then you will easily find them, or maybe they can approach you once you start looking for them.

[boltz]

If you believe sports betting can’t be profitable, and you meet someone you know is consistently winning long term, would that change your opinion or would you still say it’s just luck?

And if you already believe it’s possible, would that motivate you to seriously try the same path and aim for real profitability, not just casual betting?

Simple question, curious to hear honest answers.

Uhm no. I refuse to believe there are such persons in this world and if they are , they know rigged games , have super insights and so on and that's why I refuse to actually believe anyone who things he can win non-stop in gambling.

So for me this is a big no and I don't want to ever moving away from being a super casual gambler. For what ? to be a professional gambler ?  there was a movie about such thing called Two for the Money

[Asuspawer09]

I mean at first I only do gambling casino and hoping to win since I don't believed that it is posssible to just completely win stratigically where you earn a profit daily something like that, so most of the time I just do gambling just for fun just to test my luck and see how lucky i am today, and it doesn't really matter anyway since I only gamble a very small amount it's not really something that is going to flip me or change my emotion just around 5- 10$ is already enough for ocassional gambling back in the day.

But when my friend show me how he do sportbetting I start to believed on it that it is way possible and that it has higher chance of winning since it is way better since you could do some kind of analysis and statistics of some kind of players like for example in the NBA, you might predict the winning easily if you know the players and how they play you would somehow going to have an ideal on who's going to win, I mean it is not super accurate but it is going to increase your chances of winning for sure, there were just some that is going to be difficult to predict I mean if both players are great or two teams are good it is just going to depend on how the game turns out. But that is just how I started to do sports betting since I was just influenced or got jealous of my friend winning with a small bet and turning it into a huge amount. So i think yes, meeting or knowing someone could somehow change your mind on it.

[Dr.Osh]

What I see and my personal experience is that there is nothing profitable in the long term, unless he is really focused and he does not see the prediction he only sees the market, people who are really experts in arbitrage I believe he will be profitable in the long term. In my opinion, it requires adequate knowledge and skills so I am not interested in following him because of the big risk if you make a mistake

[KTChampions]

What I see and my personal experience is that there is nothing profitable in the long term, unless he is really focused and he does not see the prediction he only sees the market, people who are really experts in arbitrage I believe he will be profitable in the long term. In my opinion, it requires adequate knowledge and skills so I am not interested in following him because of the big risk if you make a mistake

The problem with arbitrage is that it is impossible to follow because it is a high frequency process. Those who make money in prediction markets through arbitrage make hundreds of trades per day, often using bots. Even knowing their strategy, it is pointless to follow them, you can only launch your own bot, otherwise everything is pointless. And yes, trusting money to a bot is always a risk, as both markets and algorithms can fail.

[Agbe]

Sport betting is profitable and every gambler knows that. Buy you have to wait for the luck to hit the jackpot. If someone is winning streak then that should be his luck. I have followed someone who was winning frequently and he told me the odds to follow but I didn't win and I also asked him to bet for in other times, yet no wins. Since after those incident. I believe in winning with my own luck and not another person luck. Those those winnings would motivate me but I can try my luck to win games.

[Z_MBFM]

If you believe sports betting can’t be profitable, and you meet someone you know is consistently winning long term, would that change your opinion or would you still say it’s just luck?

And if you already believe it’s possible, would that motivate you to seriously try the same path and aim for real profitability, not just casual betting?

Simple question, curious to hear honest answers.

Sports betting is definitely profitable and you can easily win from here if you have good experience on sports. Many people can win regularly from here. I have seen many people win frequently. However, they cannot keep the amount of money they win because they try to enjoy other gambling games with it or place large bets on sports. Unfortunately, once they lose, they lose all the profits of that continuous winning. Gambling is basically like this, no matter how much the winning possibility is high, a single loss takes away the profits of that long winning. That is why not everyone is seen to be successful in gambling, although they can win.

[Hewlet]

If you believe sports betting can’t be profitable, and you meet someone you know is consistently winning long term, would that change your opinion or would you still say it’s just luck?

Id it about a change of opinion or that after listening to someone who has supposedly been on a consistent winning steak that you also started winning as much yourself? Of cause, everyday people win same way others also loose and that's what has been the case right from time, the goal is not that you get to win other that are winning, the man goal is that you also win as much as others are winning or even better than them.

If you're loosing too frequently and have decided to give it a pause. Even though you at the time meet someone else that tells you how much of a winner he is, still go ahead with your pause because that person is more like a distraction that might make you an irresponsible person even when you want to take responsibility of your gambling .

[Versatile_choice]

I myself am a person who can be said to be easily influenced especially by things that have advantages or things that I really like. I have a preference for something so if someone else has an advantage it might change my mind, but it's not certain because sometimes I have other things to do. And I don't have a strong interest in sports betting.

Sure, it is normal for you to be influenced by the things you know it can add a value to your life if you try them. But one thing you must know is, there's always a disadvantage in everything so you should also think about the disadvantages while trying a new thing more especially when you're recommended by a friend or an iinfluencer because most influencers are bent in spreading or sharing fake informations and if you're not wise enough you might feel that it is as simple as that until when you finally going into the stuff then you will see how difficult it is.

[jostorres]

It's true that sports betting can be profitable but bettors should have it in mind that winning is not constantly guaranteed cause of the luck factor and house edge, which is why only few people hit it big and the funds of the rest who lost would be used to pay those who win larger rewards. That's the reason why sports betting shouldn't be relied on cause you never can tell if you'll be among those that would be lucky to win bigger rewards. Only a fool would quit his job to rely on sports betting and from your statement, you've made the right choice mate.

This is why I always wonder how people can think "maybe this can be a job", while it is true that there are very few people in the world who does it as a job, but it's a very rare situation. In most cases, long term you are going to lose money, even if you make a life like a job income for a year or many years, eventually you will lose it all and be jobless and without any capital. This is why it's important to realize, even if sportsbooks do not have house edge, they are still raking, and that means you are going to lose money.

[SamReomo]

Uhm no. I refuse to believe there are such persons in this world and if they are , they know rigged games , have super insights and so on and that's why I refuse to actually believe anyone who things he can win non-stop in gambling.

Well, no one can win non-stop in gambling and similarly no one can win 10-20 bets consistently. I know there are some sports bettors who win more than losses but still they can't claim that they win non-stop or they can win 10-20 bets consistently one by one.

A good better might win more bets than others because of the research and understanding of sport games and teams/clubs at deeper level but no one is perfect and even sometimes top betters lose games multiple times consistently one by one.

[icebar]

It's true that sports betting can be profitable but bettors should have it in mind that winning is not constantly guaranteed cause of the luck factor and house edge, which is why only few people hit it big and the funds of the rest who lost would be used to pay those who win larger rewards. That's the reason why sports betting shouldn't be relied on cause you never can tell if you'll be among those that would be lucky to win bigger rewards. Only a fool would quit his job to rely on sports betting and from your statement, you've made the right choice mate.

This is why I always wonder how people can think "maybe this can be a job", while it is true that there are very few people in the world who does it as a job, but it's a very rare situation. In most cases, long term you are going to lose money, even if you make a life like a job income for a year or many years, eventually you will lose it all and be jobless and without any capital. This is why it's important to realize, even if sportsbooks do not have house edge, they are still raking, and that means you are going to lose money.

Some people consider gambling as a source of income because it is easy to earn money, but they should know that if they lose, they can easily lose a huge amount of money. But despite knowing this fact, they gamble without giving priority to the issue of loss. There are some gamblers who consider gambling as a source of income, but their number will definitely not be large. If all gamblers imitate this small part, it will never be acceptable. No one benefits in the long run in gambling. Therefore, one should not expect anything through it that is not possible to get. Those who gamble with this false assurance will never be able to benefit, but in the long run they will only regret losing.