For beginners
Honest answers to direct questions asked to oneself help to achieve high performance in any field of activity. All this also applies to sports betting. Having figured out the main nuances of betting, having played a certain time in the bookmaker itself, the bettor should ask himself several important questions and try to give them an honest answer, which will determine what place the bets take in your life, what is worth changing, and is it not better refuse them.
Content
- What is betting for you – a hobby or a source of income?
- Are you a pro or an amateur?
- How do you feel about mathematics and analytical work?
- Is a negative result intimidating after hard work?
- Can you safely refuse bets?
- How often does betting lead to a nervous breakdown?
- How has betting changed your personal life and attitudes towards work?
- Do you believe in the possibility of earning money in a bookmaker?
- If successful, are you ready to change your job and the pace of life?
What is betting for you – a hobby or a source of income?
Many people play in the office to increase adrenaline, interest in the chosen match. For them, sports betting is a simple hobby.
There are also enough of those who want to make betting an additional source of income, sometimes the main one. By choosing this path, the user should know the following things:
- Most bookmakers are actively fighting with positive customers, prescribing in the rules that they provide their services only for gambling, and not for constant earnings;
- Earning money in the office is possible with the daily hard work of collecting information and analyzing it;
- Income in the bookmaker's office is not permanent: a plus is possible at a distance, when for 1-2 months the bettor can go into a small minus and not earn anything, after which it can go into plus for several months.
Betting as a source of income is one of the most difficult areas.
Are you a pro or an amateur?
The amateur just plays for fun, without spending a lot of time analyzing. He trusts his instinct more, maximum can study the predictions and opinions of other bettors.
A professional spends at least 3-4 hours almost every day doing the following:
- Collection of information on preferred sports and tournaments;
- Analysis of the data obtained in order to find promising matches;
- In-depth analysis of the selected oppositions;
- Maintaining and studying statistics of rates;
- Adjustment of the used strategy;
- Self-improvement: studying game and financial theories of other pros, independent search for new directions, etc.
On IronBets you can find a separate section called Sports Predictions, prepared by experienced bettors. From them you can understand how to analyze matches.
How do you feel about mathematics and analytical work?
Without the ability to quickly carry out not the most complex mathematical calculations, it is difficult to learn how to make money in sports betting. To understand why, there are two important topics to learn:
- How bookmakers create odds;
- What is margin overweight.
Prompt solution of mathematical problems is half the battle, you need to be able to conduct a competent analytical analysis of sports events selected for the game. And this is very hard, painstaking and often exhausting work, which includes many stages.
If mathematics and in-depth analysis of matches are not scary, then the doors to the world of betting open wider.
Is a negative result intimidating after hard work?
When playing in a bookmaker's office, losing a bet chosen after many hours of analytical work is a common thing. And the reason for such a failure is not always hidden in the bettor's mistake. The success of a bet is influenced by a huge number of accidents, which are almost impossible to predict:
- Athlete's injury;
- Referee, coach error;
- A sharp deterioration in the weather;
- Psychological breakdown of the player, etc.
All this sometimes negates the hard work of the bettor and leads to the loss of a part of the deposit.
Can you safely refuse bets?
This is one of the most difficult questions that requires an extremely honest answer. Many can deceive that I can easily refuse to play in bookmaker, subconsciously realizing that for them it will be a very difficult act.
If sports betting starts to drag on, thoughts spend whole days revolving around the choice of matches, analyzing their mistakes and it is impossible to break out of this cycle, then you should familiarize yourself with gambling addiction
The sooner the bettor realizes that he has become a gambling addict, the easier it will be for him to overcome his personal strong gambling addiction.
How often does betting lead to a nervous breakdown?
Betting in a bookmaker's office is a hard psychological work. Each bet is a certain blow to the nerves. In case of winning the bet, there is psychological satisfaction from the positive result of the work done. But even the tough pros have enough losses and sometimes they go in whole series. A frequent result of a protracted losing streak is a strong nervous breakdown, which in turn causes a loss on the emotions of the entire bank.
If a bettor can calmly endure losses or can easily stop after them, rest and continue playing, then he will achieve a lot in betting. Otherwise, it is better to think about stopping playing in bookmaker.
How has betting changed your personal life and attitudes towards work?
The bets shouldn't change the current life for the worse. Changes should only go for the better, which is possible with the ability to make money through sports betting. You can make money on bets not only by the game itself, there are other ways:
- Selling forecasts;
- Work in a bookmaker as an analyst, etc.
If bets cause financial deterioration, quarrels in the family, poor performance of their duties as a husband, dad, son (daughter), there are problems in work with the risk of dismissal – betting must be abandoned and as soon as possible
Do you believe in the possibility of earning money in a bookmaker?
Many people start betting at bookmaker offices in order to make betting a way to make money. Faced in the future with problems, and they occur with every novice bettor, many begin to doubt that sports betting can really bring income. But the very way of earning money is very attractive (betting at home, lying on the couch, and getting a lot of money), which is why many continue to bet in the office, but already without a strong belief in success.
If there is no faith in success, then it is impossible to achieve high results. To understand the indicated question about the possibility of earning money in a bookmaker, we can use a special material written by a bettor with great experience.
If successful, are you ready to change your job and the pace of life?
And yet, making money on sports betting is real, and this is done by a certain part of professional bettors. For some, such earnings are additional, there are enough pros for whom betting brings the main income. And at such a moment, the player may face a difficult question: “Should he refuse his main job, for example, as a manager, car mechanic, surveyor, etc., and start earning exclusively on bets, or keep betting as an additional income?”
This is a really difficult question, because you will have to change the rhythm and algorithm of life. You will have to work for yourself and no one will control from the outside, except for conscience and needs: personal and family. You will have to spend a lot of time online, constantly studying various information, looking for promising matches. Earning wages is hard work.
It is for this reason that it is so important to honestly answer to yourself – “What do the bets mean in your life?”
