I’ve also had my own fair share of gambling losses due to relying too much on punters and other people’s predictions, and that’s why I had to stop it. Yes that strategy might be working for them, but I realized that it doesn’t guarantee that it’ll also work for me, and that made me realize that the best solution was to come up with my own personal strategy, whether I win more often or less, what matters more is that I’m doing it my own way and I’ve calculated the risks carefully before making my bets.
That might work for some time but it's not going to be a payday always. That's why there is a reason why we shouldn't be too reliant on these punters whether they are friends or families. Unless you're okay to go down and take losses with them, that's up to you. But if you don't want to be dragged down if they're also dragged down by their losses, it only means that you need to stand up and choose the better path of being reliant only to your calls and shots with your bets.