Maybe for your understanding or to find out the confidence level, go for a bet with a very small amount. It can be just a dollar. Now you'll understand the reality. When you don't spend, you make the prediction with the perfect analytical mind, and you're free to do it. That doesn't happen when you go spending money. You'll not do the prediction right. Your mind always has the spending in mind, and for the spending only, you'll be choosing the odds and not based on what you've known about the athletes or the team. So, don't just get dragged as your predictions keep winning all the time.
That is the logic when we gamble and when we're not.
Whenever we gamble, we think that we've got it right because when we don't bet, the best predictions comes out to our mind.
And that's why we think that it's a missed opportunity if we don't bet at all. That's the reason why we feel regretful after not betting when our predictions are right with the sports that we're following.
This is normal and the opposite usually happens whenever we bet and so, that's particular for gamblers and we encounter that in most times.