The Accidental Win

[CryptSafe]

Winning in gambling is all about luck and no one knows how luck works. What happened in the OP has proven that skills cannot do it without luck. Casino games are big examples that with luck you can hit the highest multiplier.

However, in sportbet it's good to make your analysis and research for the sake of knowledge because no knowledge is wasted even though, you didn't win your bet at that time, that knowledge can be useful in your next bet

I agree with you here that gambling is all about luck and that, in some cases, games you might think could give you a big win might turn out to be a big loss for you and vice versa. But in all, playing with funds you could afford to lose could help you reduce the stress level of losing your bet with such an amount of money in the game.

I have had my own experience in my early days as a player, where I randomly picked games, and I won them, although it was not a big amount I won, but just a small amount of money that I used for the bet. In one of the casinos here on this platform where I did a review, I placed a random bet on a combo package, and I won a reasonable amount of money with just a buck. That made me strongly believe that most times, it is not about skills and strategy but rather luck in play.

[IjawMan]

Luck is involved in gambling and there is no way to dispute it for a fact that we have been getting losses in spite of giving in many hours of analysis and researching on statistics of teams which informed the betting decisions but the result does not reflect the commitment.

Knowledge is necessary in sports betting but it does not do much in determining the results for loss or win, you've to be lucky to be having accurate picks that leads to winning streaks. We can control how we gamble but not how we win and this underlies unnecessary efforts by gamblers  just to win a bet.

[iv4n]

Gambling is all about luck. Nothing more. But there are instances were proper research gets you wins. That's why I call it luck.

It's all about luck, nothing more... BUT?

You took only one example, but to understand it better, you need these two friends to repeat it at least 10-20 times... 10-20 blind bets vs 10-20 bets with research. Over time, research, intuition, and knowledge about the game can give you an edge... or not if you are a really unlucky person.  

By the way, it's not just gambling, it's life in general... success is always a good combination of skills, knowledge, luck, and other factors. If you wish to win in the long run...

[Charcol]

Gambling is really a game of luck. It is possible to win only if luck helps. And luck does not always help. From my point of view, I would actually call slot, roulette, casino games a matter of luck. Because there is nothing for us to analyze there. And a person cannot find the right win even if he analyzes there a thousand times. So it is better to leave this casino type betting completely to luck.

But in the case of sports betting, research is not completely useless. Because then if you know about your team form, injury, odds value, bookmaker margin, probability, then you will be able to make the right decision to a large extent.

[Smartprofit]

In ancient Rome, there lived a dictator named Sulla. He readily admitted that he wasn't the smartest, most knowledgeable, or most powerful man in Rome... However, he considered himself superior to all other Romans because he was favored by the goddess of luck (Fortuna). He positioned himself as a lucky man and believed that this was enough to be a worthy dictator of Rome. 🙋

In my opinion, luck is essential in all human endeavors: business, sports, career, personal life, and (of course!) gambling.

However, in my opinion, gambling should be divided into two types. The first type is gambling based solely on luck (dice, slot machines, etc.). The second type is gambling based on both luck and skill.

Professional gamblers understand perfectly well that they can't win every game.  At the same time, they are confident that their long-term winnings will outweigh their losses. This is where their professionalism lies.

Sports betting allows you to win in the long run if you have a truly deep understanding of the sport or inside information. Yes, you will still pay the bookmaker's commission, but this won't prevent you from making a profit.

In prediction markets, your potential profit can be even greater if you are an excellent analyst, skilled at calculating probabilities, and have a good understanding of laws and human psychology. Moreover, the professionalism (or lack thereof) of your competitors also plays a significant role. The lower it is, the higher your chances of winning.

It's ideal if your competitors are schoolchildren betting with the money their mothers gave them for lunch at school... It's much worse if your competitors are professional analysts with modern computers and powerful analytical software. 🤷

[purple_sparkles]

Gambling is really a game of luck. It is possible to win only if luck helps. And luck does not always help. From my point of view, I would actually call slot, roulette, casino games a matter of luck. Because there is nothing for us to analyze there. And a person cannot find the right win even if he analyzes there a thousand times. So it is better to leave this casino type betting completely to luck.

But in the case of sports betting, research is not completely useless. Because then if you know about your team form, injury, odds value, bookmaker margin, probability, then you will be able to make the right decision to a large extent.

I completely agree with your point of view. However, it often happens that when one team is the clear favorite and has a very high chance of winning, the odds are so low that there's hardly any point in placing a bet, unless you're doing it simply to support your team as a fan. Gambling should never be viewed as a way to make money. If you place a bet and win, that's great. But if you lose, you should be fully prepared to say goodbye to the money you put into the game.

[Itz-prisigold]

Gambling is really a game of luck. It is possible to win only if luck helps. And luck does not always help. From my point of view, I would actually call slot, roulette, casino games a matter of luck. Because there is nothing for us to analyze there. And a person cannot find the right win even if he analyzes there a thousand times. So it is better to leave this casino type betting completely to luck.

But in the case of sports betting, research is not completely useless. Because then if you know about your team form, injury, odds value, bookmaker margin, probability, then you will be able to make the right decision to a large extent.

I believe another distinction is that while research can really help you to pick a team,  it can also help you determine when not to wager. Most times after you must have gone through everything, one might realize that the match is too unpredictable and just abandon it, this act alone can help avoid unnecessary losses.

A gambler might decide to bet on a random game and could still win,  but if he continues doing the same thing, he will probably lose more often than he wins.  While luck can definitely decide the result of a single bet, but a good research can make a difference in the quality of your decisions over time, even if it doesn't pay you off in every bet.

[Derekfunds]

I want to paint a scenario. I got a friend that won without any research. Just went ahead to pick random teams and placed a bet on them. And another friend that did a lot of research, spent hours doing it before he picked the team he would like to bet on. At the end of the day, my  friend that did so much research lost. Gambling is all about luck. Nothing more. But there are instances were proper research gets you wins. That's why I call it luck.

What's your luckiest win in gambling?
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This is the reason why some people say winning in gambling is luck and not how good someone is in predicting or forecasting. I have seen a lot of people who just make some random selections and they boom while people who settle down and take their precious time to analyze game won't win. However, I have also seen people who had a big win on their first time of gambling, sporting betting to be precise. And the way gambling is, even newbie can make a huge profit.

[Joca97]

In the long run research really matters because you get better edges and you cannot always depend on luck. For newcomers mostly this happens when they dont do any research and just pick blindly and win,its just beginners luck. But its really annoying when you research for hours and someone just picks blindly and wins.

For accidental wins for me the most intresting one is when i better one of the biggest bets i ever made and i was thinking i was watching the right game and the game that i was watching lost and i wake up in the morning and see the bet won and it was a different match but similar team names. So yeah funny story with a good ending.

[Yorubek]

I want to paint a scenario. I got a friend that won without any research. Just went ahead to pick random teams and placed a bet on them. And another friend that did a lot of research, spent hours doing it before he picked the team he would like to bet on. At the end of the day, my  friend that did so much research lost. Gambling is all about luck. Nothing more. But there are instances were proper research gets you wins. That's why I call it luck.

What's your luckiest win in gambling?
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Luck plays a big role in winning in gambling, but the chances of winning increase by using proper research and strategy, but if luck is not good, proper research or strategy is of no use. Therefore, it is very important to always be aware while gambling. We cannot be confirm about the outcome of gambling in advance, so gambling with extra risks in the hope of winning more money is absolutely not right, as this increases the amount of loss. I once chose a strong team with more money to win a bet. I was pretty confirm that victory would come my way, but at the end of the day I lost, so no matter how much we research or use strategy correctly, victory depends a lot on luck, gambling with the hope of winning more money is not right.

[Porfirii]

I want to paint a scenario. I got a friend that won without any research. Just went ahead to pick random teams and placed a bet on them. And another friend that did a lot of research, spent hours doing it before he picked the team he would like to bet on. At the end of the day, my  friend that did so much research lost. Gambling is all about luck. Nothing more. But there are instances were proper research gets you wins. That's why I call it luck.

What's your luckiest win in gambling?
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I would say that almost all of us have heard the story of a grandmother who filled out a multiple sports bet without having any idea of the sport in question and that she would have won a life-changing prize as a matter of pure luck. In my country we have a national football parlay that is very famous, and that type of news is relatively frequent.

In my case I am not lucky enough to have won any particularly noteworthy bet or jackpot so far, but considering my style of play that falls within what we could call "expected" (I risk too much expecting precisely that life-changing victory). Although it is true that I once won a PlayStation, so I think that would be my biggest win to date, even if it's a pretty quirky and unusual one.

[shawonngp]

I want to paint a scenario. I got a friend that won without any research. Just went ahead to pick random teams and placed a bet on them. And another friend that did a lot of research, spent hours doing it before he picked the team he would like to bet on. At the end of the day, my  friend that did so much research lost. Gambling is all about luck. Nothing more. But there are instances were proper research gets you wins. That's why I call it luck.

What's your luckiest win in gambling?
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Even if you do a lot of research, there is no guarantee you will win in gambling. But research increases your chances of winning a lot. If you consider sports betting, we all do research-based betting. In sports betting, most bettors try to select a strong team before placing a bet; no one picks a random team. In slots, poker, and casino gambling, we completely depend on luck. No research needed here. Personally, I don't like to gamble blindly. But I won many bets, even by betting blindly.

[YellowSwap]

I want to paint a scenario. I got a friend that won without any research. Just went ahead to pick random teams and placed a bet on them. And another friend that did a lot of research, spent hours doing it before he picked the team he would like to bet on. At the end of the day, my  friend that did so much research lost. Gambling is all about luck. Nothing more. But there are instances were proper research gets you wins. That's why I call it luck.

What's your luckiest win in gambling?
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That friend that won without doing any research, keep your eye on him, because normal that win at first trail is always a trap of the mind, if you love your friend please keep an eye on him.

The dopamine effect is already active in him, he will start feeling like he can win more, that first win is a reckoning for anyone who knows, it's not always a good beginning for a beginner.

Sit him down and lecture him about gambling, let him know that his first win happened to him for some reasons, and that reason is for him to go and find better amount and return to the casino to try and win again.

 

[Ziskinberg]

With or without research, I feel like I still lose. But what is the point of researching? For me, it is because you love what you are doing, and that is one of the main reasons why you still feel the thrill in gambling.

So although, like I said, I still lose, I feel more attached to what I am doing when I do my research. I become confident with my picks, but not too overconfident to the point that I would put a bet I could no longer accept if I lose. That is gambling, and that is fine. We have our own beliefs or strategies, and whatever makes us happy, we do it.

[Agbe]

There is no need to share any gambling story and you friend who won without making any analysis and research was lucky to win his bet and that will not make him to win always and he should not think of that again because the end result will not be a pleasantly one and because of that first winning, he might even end up as an addicted gambler. He should know who is playing.

[Pandu Geddon]

What's your luckiest win in gambling?

The luckiest wins are of course, when playing games of chance like slots or roulette. When you win a bet, it feels like you’re really lucky. But in sports betting, the feeling of winning is different. That’s because you’ve done some small research beforehand to place the bet, so there’s a high expectation of winning. 
Even though luck still plays a role, you won’t just place a sports bet randomly. At the very least, beginners might look at the odds that make winning possible.

[Marvelockg]

my  friend that did so much research lost. Gambling is all about luck. Nothing more. But there are instances were proper research gets you wins. That's why I call it luck.

Like you have rightly said, what happened to your from is just accidental win that is not a function of his level of analysis on the prediction he made. as unpredictable as gambling can be, it still requires some level of analysis because in several instances your analysis helps and gives you an higher chance of winning. random prediction is far from being looked at as a betting strategy and we can be certain that you friend only won at that instance and never won again.

[Rruchi man]

I want to paint a scenario. I got a friend that won without any research. Just went ahead to pick random teams and placed a bet on them. And another friend that did a lot of research, spent hours doing it before he picked the team he would like to bet on. At the end of the day, my  friend that did so much research lost. Gambling is all about luck. Nothing more. But there are instances were proper research gets you wins. That's why I call it luck.
 

The kind of research that works best for gambling is a kind of research that is done but clarity is preserved, the kind of research that does not complicate decision-making and for many researchers it is very difficult to achieve this state of mind after research because research to most people who do it in gambling, only clouds their judgment and makes them overthink.

[Achalugo BTC]

Gambling is really a game of luck. It is possible to win only if luck helps. And luck does not always help. From my point of view, I would actually call slot, roulette, casino games a matter of luck. Because there is nothing for us to analyze there. And a person cannot find the right win even if he analyzes there a thousand times. So it is better to leave this casino type betting completely to luck.

But in the case of sports betting, research is not completely useless. Because then if you know about your team form, injury, odds value, bookmaker margin, probability, then you will be able to make the right decision to a large extent.

Everything that involves betting of game its just luck, though analysis can be helpful but be rest assured that luck will do the remaining ones for you, that's why I completely agreed with on that. Gambling is called a game of entertainment, if one is luck they can win money but if one is not, they will experience loss and that doesn't happen often, so its winning, so the best option for one to do in terms of gambling, its just to treat it like a game of luck and do it with the money they can easily dash away without asking for refund, which some people does by chasing after it.

[giammangiato]

What's your luckiest win in gambling?
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To tell the truth, I often place meaningless bets, even games that seem impossible. I place the exact opposite of what the bookmakers "suggest."
I can confirm that I have won more times with meaningless and unexpected bets than with those where I think about it and imagine the result.
Moral of the argument I bet instinctively, luck always reigns supreme (for me), not least Spain's match at the World Cup which, with a completely unexpected result, caused a flood of bets to be lost.