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Great to hear he's ok and his absence was expected
Needs to get his priorities in order though
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I’m getting a huge sense of Deja vu around you posting along these lines!
31 minutes ago, Maxi Stavros said:Football betting is nothing more than betting on luck. If you cannot make money from it, what is the point?
The first statement is untrue (at a wider level; it may be true for you). The answer to the question is “for entertainment”. The vast majority of people who bet will lose (out of necessity or bookmaking wouldn’t be a viable industry) but do it because they enjoy the challenge and it enhances their enjoyment in watching an event. If you can’t accept losing and end up not enjoying betting as a result then don’t bet.
It sounds like you know a lot more about football than me but are unable to profit from applying that knowledge to your bets. If I was going to blow my own trumpet slightly I’d say I know more about the way selected markets work and are priced, and that’s more useful when it comes to profitable betting. Don’t bet on what you think is going to happen, that’s what pretty much all losing punters do, bet on the prices you believe are wrong whether you fancy the outcome or not. You’re more likely to win if you can price the event up first than if you go to the market wanting to back a particular outcome as long as the price looks “ok”.
Either accept the losses as the price of your entertainment, stop if you’re no longer enjoying it or try different markets. There’s some guy on here who’s always banging on about spread betting and anytime goalscorer betting! The former is the closest thing to a “can’t lose” proposition you will ever find (plenty of what amount to even money shots willingly priced at 5/4 because “no one” bets them) and the latter benefits from only being priced one way by the bookies (they rarely price up not to score) so there’s more scope for inaccurate pricing. And there’s also a viable exchange market which often offers even more value.
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