A few months ago, I came across a post that claimed that the world of risk, that is, stock markets and sports and non-sports betting platforms, is counter-intuitive. This means that you can’t rely on intuition there, but you have to rely on counter-intuition. I must admit, that was the first time I heard the term counter-intuition. This term was first used by Russian trader Alexander Silaev. However, I would like to talk about counter-intuition in relation to sports betting. Do you admit the existence of the term counter-intuition in relation to sports betting? If you ask me what it is, I will answer that it is a set of rules that limits decision-making based on the “unconscious principle”. But intuition is an unconscious principle, in which you cannot clearly tell yourself on what basis you made a bet.
For me, counter-intuition is better explained or defined as the reserve side of intuition itself, and whether this exist in sports betting is positive for me, though it depends on one's style of betting..
I understand counter-intuition in sports betting to mean betting against your own intuition, that is, your mind tells you to bet on this club, but for some reason(s), you deliberately choose the bet on the opposing site, for example, let's say Manchester united and Chelsea are playing a match, your mind tells you to bet on Chelsea, but you deliberately decided to bet on Manchester united instead, this could be because in previous times, you always lost your bet whenever you follow what your mind tells you to do, so this time, you decide to do the counter-part of what your mind told you to do, just to see if you would win, and sometimes, it does work though.