Quote from: btc_angela on February 02, 2025, 09:44:54 AM

Quote from: Distinctin on February 02, 2025, 05:08:40 AM

My personal take on this one is that sports betting is that it’s skill-based...

I think if I just work on my skills, I can turn a profit eventually, yep, "eventually" is the trick word here. But after more than five years of sports betting, I'm still not making money. Now I'm wondering: is sports betting really about skill, or is it just luck? If it's about skill, maybe I just haven't got what it takes, and I'm just riding on luck.

What do you think about this topic?

Based on your experience, is it primarily luck, or do you still believe it’s skill-based, even if you haven't proven yourself yet?

If you are not making money, then obviously, your skills is not that sharp, just saying. Or maybe your betting style as well is the one to blame, or how much money you are betting and what kind of line, are you doing parlay and targets higher odd?

So I would say that skills has something to do with winning in sports betting, definitely there is this element of luck. But if you really follow the sports that you are betting, then you can make money because you are all familiar with this sports already.

Losing constantly means you are doing something wrong but you must understand that skills doesn't really guarantee Profit in gambling, your predictions and analysis might be on point but there are some things that might affect the game from going in the predicted direction, this doesn't mean your analysis was poor it's just how the game is. Being familiar with the sports you are betting on doesn't really matter sometimes, in sports betting a lot of unexpected events happens. It's just like the match between arsenal and Westham, with the way arsenal has been performing the odds were in favour of them to win and a lot of people staked on them to probably win or score a goal but the opposite happened. Skills are important but it's not everything.