When gambling there are options that always look very enticing but those ones are the most dangerous to pick because its actually a trap..This is why I don't pick an option in gambling based on the number of odds, when the odds are very small we feel absolutely safe at that point you are already in a psychological trap. When it's too obvious it's definitely a trap, But this always seem to be case, you can't get trapped in every situation,. This is probably your terrible experience with gambling someone else might have something different to say about it.
I will agree with your explanation, but I don't buy the idea of betting on small odd to neither be a way of excaping trap of being too obvious to be true. Because even some Small odd may also be too obvious a trap. which after you bet on it hoping to win since the odd are little, they may disappoint you. When something is too obviously a trap it's is not only when something is highly attractive but also less attractive to be true. Meaning that the lesser thing you see as an escape routes can also be a trap, but just that it may not appear so obvious.
In other words that is to say nothing is certainly to be a trap because at some point we feel it is a trap it is not and when we feel it is not a trap it will becomes a trap and this can only be justified until the end of the game and at such, that is apparently the main reason where we are always being encouraged to only gamble with that very amount we can afford to lose as a way of not being carried away by over confidence because nothing is certain.