How to Improve Your Betting Success

May 18
07:59

2011

Robert Gillespie

Robert Gillespie

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Starting from the presumption that statistically you are likely to win and much as you are to lose, there are a few techniques that can tip the odds of winning more in your favor. Gambling should be fun and the more you can win, the more fun you will have.

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Even though we all know that there are as many ways to lose a bet as there are to win,How to Improve Your Betting Success Articles as a species, we tend to bet to win. Even losing does not stop us because we want to believe that the next bet will be a winner. This is why gamblers can rapidly get in over their heads and even become addicted to gaming.

The truth is that it is often a coin toss as to whether you are going to win or lose. It is also true that there are a few very particular things you can do to tilt the odds in your favor. So, let’s consider practicing a few winning tactics. I’m not suggesting that a person should take up betting who is not already interested in doing that. I am only suggesting that if you are planning to gamble, do what you can do to amplify the likelihood that you will win more often than you lose.

The other thing to think about is that gamblers don’t go to Las Vegas or Atlantic City only to win dollars: They travel there to have fun. If you can’t have fun gambling, then I suggest that you give it up and do something else instead that excites you and makes you smile. While no method is perfect, the following tips will help you to win more than you lose and that just might be a lot of fun.

Gambling, unlike the stock market or real estate, should not be thought of as an investment but, rather, as a source of amusement. Betting is not a way to try to make a living. Wager for recreation and only recreation.

Don’t get carried away and gamble huge amounts of resources. Keep your bets small and then, when you lose (and you WILL lose sometimes) there won’t be very much of a sting. I once went to a casino in Las Vegas with only ten dollars in my wallet. I left the rest of my assets in my hotel room on purpose. I turned my ten dollar bill into a paper container of 200 nickels and passed the next 4 hours playing the nickel slot machines. My intention was to play until all the nickels were gone, just to discover how long I could make that container of nickels last. I hit a few small jackpots and was thus able to stretch out my nickels for 4 hours. I had a lot of fun for my ten dollars!

If you are one of the few lucky persons who hits the enormous jackpot, be ready to walk away with your winnings. Have an intention, in advance, to govern your actions in such an event. I had a friend who won a $100,000 jackpot. He was so excited that he thought he could not lose. By the end of the evening he had lost every penny. The sad thing is that one hundred thousand dollars would have altered his life for the better.

Now, I can’t corroborate this scientifically, but it seems to me that there is such a thing as luck. Gamble with the lucky winners. See if you can duplicate their luck. You don’t have to make gigantic bets. Just bet the way the winners are betting and more times than not, you'll come out ahead.

Use your natural psychic abilities. The first intuition you get is usually the perfect one. Don't change your mind.

See if you can discover patterns that are happening right now. Plan to bet on numbers that seem to be coming up over and over again. Keep notes so that you will know for sure that a pattern really exists. Decide to keep your emotions under control.

Finally, do not bet the “favorites” or so-called “winning numbers” because they have a way of letting you down. Alternatively, weigh the odds and work on improving your judgment.

As I said before, these are not tactics that always will be triumphant. It’s just that, over time, they tend to win more than they lose. Have fun!

© 2011 Robert M. Gillespie, Jr.

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