How not to lose at betting.
Beware of sharks exploiting your illusions!
I.Counterfeit sellers
The easiest way to lose at betting is to trust an internet guru. You know them. It’s full of them on social media. You can no longer open a sports forum or search some football-related news on social media without a guru (who pretends to know everything) coming your way. He’s got information, he’s heard it from someone who knows it from someone else, he’s ready, day and night, to give you a tip, he knows fixed matches, he even knows the exact score with which some matches will end. You think that you struck gold? Nope, you didn’t. In fact, it’s the other way around.
II.The need for illusion
The number one problem with betting is that many punters lose and so it is natural for online tipster services to exist. But the offer of these social media gurus is based on an illusion: immediate, overnight winnings on bets, fortunes made out of nothing, out of a moment of inspiration. Some of the punters want the guru’s ravings to be true so badly that they are ready to abandon logic and any sense of reasonableness. They simply believe that they have been extremely lucky to have found this guru and that the guru’s information must be true – and that their long-awaited moment of enrichment has finally arrived. But it’s not true.
Once the tip turns out to have been a hoax, and after the guru has been paid off and made himself invisible (you didn’t have a contract!), the naive gambler counts a double loss: he has not only paid the false prophet but also lost the bet.
We at bets.ai do not offer this. We don’t offer rapid enrichment schemes or the secret to happiness, especially since there is no single secret. We offer those few ingredients (statistics, betting strategies and predictions based on scientific methods) to which if you pay attention you will increase your chances of becoming a football betting winner.
III. A taxi to the 3rd millennium
Sometimes at betting someone wins a lot of money, a sudden win that probably won’t happen again for years to come (and for some of us will never happen).
Instead, a well-chosen strategy (a strategy that you stick to) can bring you something else: more or less constant income over the long term.
A wise gambler takes statistical information into account. Hazard, superstitions, and fanaticism belong to an older world, a period that didn’t bring in many profits, a world in which people who wanted to make money by taking advantage of the naivety of others thrived.
In the old days, in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and beyond, taxi drivers were renowned for driving the customer around, confusing him with unnecessarily long and complicated routes for no reason just to increase the bill. That’s no longer possible, since everyone now has an app on their phone that shows them the map in real time. So it is with the transition from the all-knowing internet gurus to the beaten path of science and technology.
In betting, those who don’t let themselves be cheated by the fake calls of gurus touting quick miracle profits will win. The bad news is that there is no hocus-pocus, overnight enrichment. The good news is that science, method, and hard work have always paid off. It’s no miracle: it’s simply the consequence of having the wisdom to not let yourself be fooled and of following a long-term strategy.
