If you had more time for betting

[Maslate]

When I bet, I don't do it just for entertainment alone, I do it to secure profits and make significant gains.

But I don't think this is how gambling works. Increasing the time spent betting will never increase the chances of winning, but it will only guarantee higher probability of losing our money. That's the essence of having a house edge, no matter how long you stay gambling, no matter how skillful and strategic you are, the house will always have an advantage over its players.

The bottom line, the longer you spent betting, the closer you get into gambling addiction, the bigger the chances to experience substantial losses. Gambling is not designed for us to make a living, let's just treat it as an entertainment more than a reliable source of income.

[ralle14]

If that happens to me, then maybe there's a world where I could have a good betting season, but i'd rather not go that path because it's a slippery slope and putting in more hours won't always give you better results.

I wouldn't expect much difference other than maybe one decent year, because it's not that simple to stay in the positive and going full-time requires an insane amount of effort.

[ruykeri]

I try not to take out extra time for gambling. I don't even give time to gambling, even after leaving other important work. Since it is a way of entertainment for me, I give it only the time that remains as free time after all my work is done. And in the case of sports betting, I don't take so much time. Because I have an idea about the teams or matches I bet on. And many times, even after analyzing, it is not possible to give an accurate prediction with any guarantee. Because the result can change at the end of the match for many reasons, and it also depends entirely on luck.

[freedomgo]

Treating gambling as a full-time job, then saying you still need other money to take care of your expenses, what is that?

When you say you treat gambling as a full-time job, that means it should be paying you. Not the other way around.

The thing is, the more you gamble, the more you can lose if you are not really good at it. So if you still have another source of income that pays your daily expenses, then I think you are actually risking that money with your gambling habit.

We all know emotions can easily get into us. One wrong decision, one bad chase, one overconfident bet, and it can already damage your finances.

Think about that.

[Tungbulu]

When I bet, I don't do it just for entertainment alone, I do it to secure profits and make significant gains.

But I don't think this is how gambling works. Increasing the time spent betting will never increase the chances of winning, but it will only guarantee higher probability of losing our money. That's the essence of having a house edge, no matter how long you stay gambling, no matter how skillful and strategic you are, the house will always have an advantage over its players.

The bottom line, the longer you spent betting, the closer you get into gambling addiction, the bigger the chances to experience substantial losses. Gambling is not designed for us to make a living, let's just treat it as an entertainment more than a reliable source of income.

Definitely, gambling is designed for the advantage of the house edge, that is why players are to just follow the right procedures in gambling by betting with what they can actually afford to lose and not to stake high with the mindset of getting huge profit from it, one can have profit from it but that doesn't mean they will rely on it for life. And also, they should not spend more time in gambling as it could even lead them into changing their perspective for the worst and the moment they give their emotions the chance to make decision for them, the game won't no longer be fun to play with.

[Y3shot]

Have you ever thought about what you could achieve in betting if you were able to focus only on it? If you had enough capital or maybe even passive income to cover all your daily expenses, so you wouldn’t have to worry about going to work and earning money, and you could treat betting as a full-time job. Do you think that would affect your betting results in any way, or would everything stay more or less at the same level it is now?

How do you usually analyze a match, do you do it superficially because you don't have much free time, or do you devote enough time to it, that you wouldn't be able to change anything even if you could only focus on betting?

Having full concentration on what gambling is all about does not change gambling. Even if you already have enough money and decide to concentrate more on gambling, you can't get exactly what you want from it; it still remains an unpredictable game, and you end up getting disappointed because you couldn't achieve what you were expecting. Having full concern about gambling or not desperately trying to make money from it won't make winning easy. Gambling remains what it is; even people who understand it and approach it responsibly still lose and get disappointed. This is why one needs to gamble with an amount they can afford and never take gambling seriously because it is a game of luck.

[Finestream]

You can find a full time job working inside the casino, but you can never turn gambling as your full time job, as your main source of income. Because if that's the case, we wouldn't be here gambling while waiting for our luck to sink in but still keep losing, but we will devote our time 8 hours a day to maximize guaranteed income.

Also, if casinos can offer us a reliable source of income, then it will lost the essence of having a casino as a business, but a job opportunity that if you work hard and work smartly, income is highly guaranteed.

Having more time in betting will never make us more profitable. But it will be the opposite way around, the more we spend our time and money betting, the bigger losses we will incur in the long run.

[Somto9Light]

If that happens to me, then maybe there's a world where I could have a good betting season, but i'd rather not go that path because it's a slippery slope and putting in more hours won't always give you better results.

I wouldn't expect much difference other than maybe one decent year, because it's not that simple to stay in the positive and going full-time requires an insane amount of effort.

Gambling should not be given an extra time because its not worth it, instead given it an extra time can make things worst for them and this can either lead to addiction or having more losses that before, this game should just be for limited time and if things isn't actually going as you want, it will be good if you give it a break or stop gambling, but if one refuses to stop gambling expecting or hoping they can make it in gambling, then they should also be ready to face the consequences of their actions, as their effort will just be wasted.

[Rockson1]

I try not to take out extra time for gambling. I don't even give time to gambling, even after leaving other important work. Since it is a way of entertainment for me, I give it only the time that remains as free time after all my work is done. And in the case of sports betting, I don't take so much time. Because I have an idea about the teams or matches I bet on. And many times, even after analyzing, it is not possible to give an accurate prediction with any guarantee. Because the result can change at the end of the match for many reasons, and it also depends entirely on luck.

There are other things we do in real life, we do other work to earn ends meat, it means we should not give gambling all our attention, there should be time for everything is just like having budget for gambling, as we have our budget for it, it means we should have time we gamble, I'm a gambler, I have ways I follow gambling to avoid things getting wrong, you are right that gambling is for entertainment and that is why we should follow it that way although there are those that started gambling for mainly profit, they have their reasons and if they can gamble responsibly I do not think there is any issue with that.
I'm a bettor, I also bet on my free time, I do not combine betting with what I do for a living and I will not advise anybody to do that because it divert your attention, everything should be one at a time.

[xenomorfo]

When I bet, I don't do it just for entertainment alone, I do it to secure profits and make significant gains.

But I don't think this is how gambling works. Increasing the time spent betting will never increase the chances of winning, but it will only guarantee higher probability of losing our money. That's the essence of having a house edge, no matter how long you stay gambling, no matter how skillful and strategic you are, the house will always have an advantage over its players.

The bottom line, the longer you spent betting, the closer you get into gambling addiction, the bigger the chances to experience substantial losses. Gambling is not designed for us to make a living, let's just treat it as an entertainment more than a reliable source of income.

This thing is very dangerous, think about it, what you are doing is wrong.
This is a game, gambling and you cannot make any profits or gains.
If you start following this path, unfortunately it will never end well since what dominates the game is luck, and luck is sometimes there and sometimes not.

[Nahl]

Being an professional gambler or make living from this industry isn't my plan even i don't dare to considers can earn passive income from gambling because i do realize my skill in gambling are bad especially for sport betting that although i did this games plenty even for years but i still don't want to force myself to do more gambling because in my opinion more time to gambling potentially it will turn to became an addiction and i don't want it happend to myself although probably i will have more time to betting but the result won't satisfied me and i liked my current condition that i can relax doing gambling without pressure which mean whatever the results which i got from sport betting at least i can enjoy the game and i think this is much better rather than to thinking about make living from gambling

[danherbias07]

Focusing on betting only. Hmm. I think I have answered this before, and my answer will still be the same. It's a job that is uncertain, and there's no way it can be perfected. Even if I have a lot of time to focus all my brain on analysis when it comes to sports, there's still a chance that I will lose.
It's a no for me. I know how fun it can be to do what you really love to do, but the uncertainty of what could happen is very high. It's like you are always ready to fall down a cliff. I'd rather just get a day job and do my job over and over again every day. There's assurance there and also benefits.

[giammangiato]

How do you usually analyze a match, do you do it superficially because you don't have much free time, or do you devote enough time to it, that you wouldn't be able to change anything even if you could only focus on betting?

If I had enough capital or passive income (so I wouldn't go to work) for daily sustenance, I would certainly do what I would like to do, but not in the sense of leisure, but of work that I would like to do, which unfortunately would not allow me to live today.
So I fall back on some minimal hope in gambling, which, in addition to having fun, gives me that little hope of maybe one day getting a life-changing win.
Having more time and using it to study betting (although I enjoy doing so) I see as wasted time.

[bitLeap]

Have you ever thought about what you could achieve in betting if you were able to focus only on it? If you had enough capital or maybe even passive income to cover all your daily expenses, so you wouldn’t have to worry about going to work and earning money, and you could treat betting as a full-time job. Do you think that would affect your betting results in any way, or would everything stay more or less at the same level it is now?

How do you usually analyze a match, do you do it superficially because you don't have much free time, or do you devote enough time to it, that you wouldn't be able to change anything even if you could only focus on betting?

With all the resources available, financially more than stable, what I will do is devote that time to learn to understand every opportunity, both in terms of game analysis and risk management. Starting from building understanding, accumulating experience, and how to control emotions.
Or if you say that we don't have to worry about going to work and making money, then I can probably make my own gambling site.

[cxtreenal]

Have you ever thought about what you could achieve in betting if you were able to focus only on it? If you had enough capital or maybe even passive income to cover all your daily expenses, so you wouldn’t have to worry about going to work and earning money, and you could treat betting as a full-time job. Do you think that would affect your betting results in any way, or would everything stay more or less at the same level it is now?

How do you usually analyze a match, do you do it superficially because you don't have much free time, or do you devote enough time to it, that you wouldn't be able to change anything even if you could only focus on betting?

Many things would have changed. I mean if I had enough funds, my betting would have been in line with my capital. I would have been able to spend more time gambling. The most important thing would have been that the losses would have been higher and the risk of addiction would have increased.
I could have spent more time analyzing the matches before placing a bet, but it would not have been certain that the team I was betting on would win. Analyzing the teams would give you an idea but would not have had any influence on the outcome. Many things would have changed, but there would have been no possibility of reducing the losses.

[Ishicryptic]

Anyhow you choose to look at betting and gambling in general I believe that it is a very bad idea to see it as a full-time job, no matter how skillful you are at analyzing sports bet and how much time you have to analyze you still need luck to win. Luck doesn't happen because of your ability, it happens by chance and you need to be precisely at the right place at the right time to get it so it's a bad idea to depend on luck for your everyday survival.

If you depend on luck for your survival it means that sooner or later you will become addicted to gambling, if you lose you will be desperate to recover it and you will keep chasing loses until you become bankrupt and in dept. Better to have a guaranteed source of income to take care of your responsibilities then use your spare money to try your luck in gambling.

[Satofan44]

Have you ever thought about what you could achieve in betting if you were able to focus only on it? If you had enough capital or maybe even passive income to cover all your daily expenses, so you wouldn’t have to worry about going to work and earning money, and you could treat betting as a full-time job. Do you think that would affect your betting results in any way, or would everything stay more or less at the same level it is now?

This kind of thread shows that you are completely delusional about gambling and do not even have the faintest idea of what you are talking about. If you did gambling full-time, you would be bankrupting yourself full-time. Pretty much nobody is able to "achieve" much with gambling no matter the amount of time that they have put in. Even the biggest winners have lifetime losses in amounts that 3rd world people can only dream of.

How do you usually analyze a match, do you do it superficially because you don't have much free time, or do you devote enough time to it, that you wouldn't be able to change anything even if you could only focus on betting?

More analysis does not necessarily mean that you will have better outcomes, it has diminishing results. No analysis at all is terrible, most of the advantage already comes from doing some analysis. Doing a medium quantity or a large amount of analysis has diminishing results.

Most likely if everyone has more time then we could have analyze the game like in sports betting and most likely could have won big.

This is false, don't spread damaging misinformation.

You can find a full time job working inside the casino, but you can never turn gambling as your full time job, as your main source of income.

A voice of reason, surprising given the number of shitheads in this thread. Congratulations for understanding a core and basic concept of gambling, do not let anyone ever fool you otherwise. Many here seem to try to spread all sorts of misinformation relating to gambling.

[L E G E N D A R Y]

You can find a full time job working inside the casino, but you can never turn gambling as your full time job, as your main source of income. Because if that's the case, we wouldn't be here gambling while waiting for our luck to sink in but still keep losing, but we will devote our time 8 hours a day to maximize guaranteed income.

Also, if casinos can offer us a reliable source of income, then it will lost the essence of having a casino as a business, but a job opportunity that if you work hard and work smartly, income is highly guaranteed.

Having more time in betting will never make us more profitable. But it will be the opposite way around, the more we spend our time and money betting, the bigger losses we will incur in the long run.

Of a truth, the house are the one's that have more benefits than the players and in my opinion, I don't think its advisable for one who has the inability to control their emotions to work in a casino company, as it will even worst the whole situation by becoming more addicted to the game and this will no be of any good both to them and to the company. So, they can go look for other alternatives to earn money or make money because as an addicted somebody, both to work and to play is not good for you, as you will start to regret everything and if care is not taken, one can even commit sucide.

[SamReomo]

How do you usually analyze a match, do you do it superficially because you don't have much free time, or do you devote enough time to it, that you wouldn't be able to change anything even if you could only focus on betting?

Well, I give proper time to research before placing my bets. First I read about both teams and about their good players and health condition of the players and other factors.

If I find something in that area then I dig deeper with the help of AI platforms to even improve the research and when it's fully completed then the final step is to place my bet.

When I place the bet I leave it there and see it the next day only for the results. I totally ignore the odds these days because I've seen teams with 5.00 odds winning those with 1.1 odds so odds don't work in most cases.

[Alex077]

I bet a lot of traders asked themselves the same question and decided that if they made it a fulltime job they would be able to analyze better,,, make more money,,, make less mistakes etc. If you treat gambling like a hobby,,, you are having fun. Mission accomplished. If you think it will make you money,,, wrong idea. The more time you spend, the more you will lose...

I’d say I mostly agree with you, because in reality a lot of gamblers really do start with the idea that if they spend more time on gambling and treat it like a “job,” they’ll eventually be able to make consistent money from it. But the main problem from the very beginning is that casinos and most gambling games are built around the mathematical advantage of the platform - it’s literally part of how the system works.

I think you made a very good distinction between gambling as entertainment and gambling as a way to make money. As long as someone treats it as a limited hobby for emotions, fun, or excitement, the risks are usually much lower. But once the idea of “making money through gambling” appears, many people gradually start increasing their bets, spending more and more time in casinos, and eventually losing far more money - sometimes everything.