Re: Gambler Loses 1.4 million USD in a bet with lower than 1.01 odds!

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One bettor wasted a massive $1.4 million wager after betting on Los Angeles before the Jaguars mounted an epic comeback to beat the Chargers 31-30, according to Action Network’s Darren Rovell.

It seems that a gambler has loss this massive amount (1.4 million USD) playing a bet with an odds lower than 1.01! (exactly 1.008)

I think there are several lessons here:
- there is not easy bet! even lower odds there is always a risk.
- it's really risky playing an huge amount. This not helps gambler because the risk is much much higher then rewards!
- gambling is not easy at all! it's really hard achieve a profit even for easy games!

what your opinion about this gambling issue? did you had experience similar experience? how a good gambler should avoid such mistakes?

In my opinion, with such low odds, you can lose your deposit not so slowly. I have never liked such odds, because you can lose everything and, most importantly, if you win, we get very little. I never bet like this and I don’t advise other players to bet with these odds; in my opinion, it’s absolutely pointless. I am sure that such players think that they are smarter than everyone else, and that he will bet 1 million all his life on small odds to win, but this will definitely come to an end. This player simply did not want to believe it and the situation that happened to him simply showed him that he is not the smartest here. It would be better if he put the money at a small percentage of return, and not engage in such nonsense, although we all know that banks also have a chance of default and there is no good place anywhere so that there is no minimum risk.

Who would like that odds? I mean 1.01? I will never bet on that kind of odds as there are still chances to lose that one and that's what happen here to this big whales who think that he can out smart or he is just so unlucky and lose it.

And it just shows how sports betting it, we don't know what will be the outcome even if the spread is that huge as any teams can make a huge comeback and that's what happen here, just a point is enough for the Jaguars to win.

The daring nature of some people makes them opt for such odds, but this is certainly not wise and shows overconfidence which is not a good characteristic of a gambler. Also, such odds come with tempting assurance because no one will bet on that kind of poor odds except that it will be an almost certain outcome for them. But they often neglect that an almost-certain outcome is not a certain outcome, so even if the possibility for the gambler to win the bet is 99.95%, such should know that the 0.05% possibility of losing it could be catastrophic and could actually be the outcome at that time.

This is why we should be sensible and going for higher odds with a very reasonable amount of money is the right approach here. I see mainly two issues in the betting of that guy, and they are Wrong betting decisions and Improper management. Aside from the lame option, no one should bet that huge amount in a single bet just like that, it is wrong. He should have divided it into at least 10% ($140,000 per bet) in my opinion, which could have saved his head better in a situation like this.