As I posted on this thread about my strategy of betting against my favorite team, another strategy I used is betting against my intuition. LOL. In the last World Cup, I only bet against who I thought would win, and luckily, I won so many games. I didn't expect that, but I think I will try again sometime in the future. 
I have similar periods too, everything I bet ends up opposite to my prediction... And at those moments I think that I would do much better if I bet on the total opposite of my intuition, but unlike you, I have never tried/tested this method. It's not like didn't think about it, but I'm not sure if that could work for me, sometimes when something doesn't work it just doesn't work.
If there's one thing I have learned after all these years of betting, it's that there is no one strategy that always works. Each strategy is good in its own way and each of them has periods when it works and periods when it doesn't. So the best thing we can do is to try to mix different strategies and to somehow try to be unpredictable as much as possible.
)) I will bet for Man City (yes, I'm an Arsenal fan). The betting companies would have all closed down if most bettors are able to get winnings with just one strategy that's why you see them giving you different options to bet on while you calculate and come up with the right strategies to bet in a particular game. Ww all need different patterns to follow different games as one pattern can't be used all the time to play in different gambling selections and as for the movie you mentioned now, am going to check it out tonight and see if i can get more knowledge about what i should do in gambling. For the Arsenal and Manchester city game, both teams are good at the moment but it would take one mistake for the other team to win and I wish Arsenal will win to increase their chances of winning the league ahead of City and Liverpool.