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As long as you are doing something that improves your chance in winning it's be on your call whether to keep your own way or to blend your strategy with someone who also understand the game you are betting with.
A kind of combination strategy that can provide predictions that may be more accurate because your friend or someone knows better how the game will go.
I also usually receive advice from those who are good enough in terms of betting and game predictions,
so it can be a reference to determine whether the bet is worth it for me to make or not.
That way we can also learn how good and correct predictions are produced when the bet is successful,
but if it still fails then it needs to be evaluated what makes it fail.
That's the beauty of having someone who also in the same passion as you can use their strategy or the patterns that they are using either to follow or to check if your analysis might work or if you the same view with the bet that you are going to pick, though as usual gambling can't guarantee anything as upset can happen even how good you analyze it, bet then wait for the outcome just make sure that you are good in accepting the result.