Are “safe bets” really safe, or just overpriced?

[Felicity_Tide]

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For those who do sports betting, do you still trust favorites when the odds are low, or do you avoid them once the price looks too expensive?

Lol, I know what you're trying to pass across here, but in my opinion, it's a very terrible idea.
So, just because a particular team happens to be the favourite to win a game, and bookmarkers issued a very small odds, which means you're likely to receive a small pay when they get the win, and you opted to bet against them because that odds looks way bigger, trust me, you might wrap up with betting even before you begin.

AFAIK, it's normal to issue out smaller odds to conditions with higher probability. That's literally how the game works. So, choosing to bet against the odds itself means that you believe In the 'nearly impossible'. I have done this a couple of times, but I didn't just do it because I thought I could outsmart the bookies. I did because I felt there was a chance, and mind you, it was all based on a calculated risk. I understand that there is no such thing as safe bets, but we have favourites for a reason.

[GiftedMAN]

For some favorite with low odds but good performance all round regardless of the odds given I still make bets with them for either direct win or over 2.5 goals if they are facing a team that scores goals. But any favorite team with over 1.7 odd has the probability of winning either half so the best option will be to for them to win either or the half so if they win in the first or second half your bet will still go through. Remember the term favorite doesn't mean they will always win.

Betting strategically on the favorites is more preferable than hopping on a winning prediction alone, over 2.5 is a better way to be on the safe side, because it'll be hard not to get more than 2 goals in games involving favorites and underdog teams, which ever side wins, you're on the verge of getting rewards.

Football goes south ways some timesso you don't have to be too confident when betting on favourite teams cause they can disappoint you and not score a goal when you expect them to score up to 3 goals. Be very selective in your pick when you are choosing favourite teams and also pray to be lucky because without the luck factor you will play with big amount and still lose.

[WhoYouCantKill]

Such "guaranteed" bets are not suitable for me for several reasons. The profit percentage is usually very low. Therefore, you need a large amount of money to win a significant amount of money. Since I don't have a big bankroll, I don't even consider such bets. Moreover, even if there was a big bankroll, the winnings are not guaranteed at all. And in such a situation, there is a risk of losing big. In other words, there is no value in such bets.

The biggest issue with these so called guaranteed bets is that the potential risks attached to these kind of bets are always far bigger than the potential rewards promised. The rewards rarely matches the risk because the returns are most times very small to be worthwhile without a much larger bankroll, and since we already know that there’s really no bet that is truly guaranteed, just one loss can rapidly make all the profits you’ve gathered overtime to disappear in an instant.

[Cointxz]

For those who do sports betting, do you still trust favorites when the odds are low, or do you avoid them once the price looks too expensive?

I always avoid it because there’s potential small gain while there’s still a risk of losing everything of my bet which I find no worthy the risk.

I only choose this bet when I’m farming wager since it’s the easiest way to accumulate wager as much as possible using a tight bankroll and minimal risk.

Honestly, it’s dumb to place a huge bet on small odds thinking it’s a guaranteed bet.

[Odohu]

There is no such thing as safe bets because nothing is guaranteed in gambling. Instead of using safe bets, it is better to use high probability bets to denote bets with high chances of working as predicted. Using the term 'safe bets' be dangerous because it can make a player go beyond their risk limits and since anything can happen in gambling, losing such bets will be disastrous. I rather avoid engraining that idea into my head so it does not hurt my gambling in any form.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

There is no such thing as safe bets because nothing is guaranteed in gambling. Instead of using safe bets, it is better to use high probability bets to denote bets with high chances of working as predicted. Using the term 'safe bets' be dangerous because it can make a player go beyond their risk limits and since anything can happen in gambling, losing such bets will be disastrous. I rather avoid engraining that idea into my head so it does not hurt my gambling in any form.

Well, the word "safe bet" may likely not be misunderstood by people who are already well experienced in gambling, but definitely it can be misunderstood by the newbie gamblers amongst us who in their quest and hunger to win from gambling and make money, they may go all out seeking for find that safe bets being refered to here, and like you said, this can be very bad because many gamblers have lost money that later ended their life due to over confidence in a game, and carrying that mentality that some certain types of bets is safe is something that could install that over confidence in the head of a gambler, causing him or her to bet with an amount of money they can not afford to lose.

So I completely agree wit your input here, so far as there are no guarantees in gambling or betting, then what this means is that there is no such bets as "safe bet".

[alastantiger]

Betting strategically on the favorites is more preferable than hopping on a winning prediction alone, over 2.5 is a better way to be on the safe side, because it'll be hard not to get more than 2 goals in games involving favorites and underdog teams, which ever side wins, you're on the verge of getting rewards.

Over 2.5 means 3 or more goals to be scored and although most matches seize more than 3 goals but in some instances this type of bet are not usually safe because a team can end up drawing 1-1 or 0 and then your slip cuts. Safe bet aren't that safe since it is not every time that you are going to get what you wished for and even though you get an exact score the amount of odd for those games are not that high and unless you stake a very high amount of money the chances of you getting a big profit is going to be less. Considering that you stake a high amount and then you lose you understand why this games are still not safe. Getting results from gambling is always about luck that is why there is no specific bet that is a safe bet.