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Jonny
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Jonny asked in Games & RecreationGambling · 7 years ago

Professional Sports Gamblers. How often does ...and how do you perceive the situation?

How often does a bad call from the ref ruin or help make your ticket?

I lost +115 m/l kings vs red wings because of a goal that hit off the safety net on the top and went off the back of the goalie.

Any advice on how to perceive these kinds of losses?

How do you perceive the situation?

Update:

hey fahQ isf your going to talk in an arrogant manner, at least now wtf you are talking about. This is recent, it happened, and it was not reviewable. It is not like the NFL in that sense. but uh yah. you are fail.

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  • 7 years ago
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    Refs favor the home team a little more often, that's most of the reason for home advantage in just about every sport. But it's already accounted for in the line.

    As mentioned, a winning bettor perceives flukey losses like that the same way a winning poker player perceives losing to a 2-outer on the river.

    Even the professional bettors lose like 40-45 % of their ATS wagers. They know that even when they make a good bet, in the short term it's in the hands of chance.

    A bad ref call, an injury during the game, things like that are just as likely to help you as hurt you. If you make enough bets, eventually you'll win a bet that way.

  • 4 years ago

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  • pdq
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    How do you "perceive" it? Well, you lost. That's the way sports betting goes. That's the way sports goes. Any given game can win or lose on any given day.

    You've been on these forums for a while, so I know you've heard me say this, but I'll go ahead and say it anyway - Only 1% of folks who bet on sports do so profitably over time. These people know how to find FLAWS in the betting line, AND they also never bet more than a small portion of their bankroll.

    IF you were one of the 1%, you wouldn't think anything of this. You would have only placed that bet because you knew that the +115 was a flawed line. You figured the game should have gone off at EVEN, but since the bookies offered +115, you knew the bet was a profitable bet. The fact that the game lost should be irrelevant to a profitable sports bettor. They understand that sh*t happens in sports. They understand that they are going to lose many of their profitable wagers. They understand that as long as they continue to make profitable wagers, that the amount they win will always be more than the amount they lose at the end of the year.

    Losing a game to a profitable player is insignificant, regardless of how the game is lost.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Refs at times just increase the variance in sports betting, that's all there is to it. Sometimes you will benefit off their poor calls, and sometimes you will not. In the end, for most gamblers, it evens out.

    At a paranoid standpoint, refs will help you more in games when you bet against the public. That's how I see it. Personally, refs have helped me a bit more than ruin me. I once even bet on a game that was clearly fixed, but I picked the correct side out of luck.

    How would I perceive your situation? It would disappoint me very much only if I bet an amount I couldn't afford to lose (which I like to do). But these things happen. If you can't handle bad luck then gambling isn't for you. Getting really unlucky is a part of gambling.

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    5 years ago

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  • 7 years ago

    If you do this long enough you will view losing and winning on Hail Mary's, fumbles, interceptions, 3-Point Shots, fouls and the list goes on and on.

    Don't let it bother you either way.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    just like the NFL all scoring plays in the NHL are reviewed.....puck is dead when it hits the safety net...you don't know the rules...since your hypothetical is flawed so too is your line...you just are not very good at picking winners.. So, PDQ has said many times only 1% of gamblers on sports are long time winners..........would he care to annotate??? last time I challenged him to verify hypothesis he SIMPLY whined to the yahoo police instead of giving accurate information......He isn't even close .....

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