Margin
The bookmaker initially has an advantage over you, since it is he who accepts the bet and does it on his own terms. Having secured itself with the rules for accepting bets, the bookmaker also has a reliable backing in the form of a margin, which is initially included in the line at each event. How important is it? It’s like you sit down to play chess with black and you no longer have a pawn. Approximately this advantage has a bookmaker before each bet. Further, it depends on your skills, how strong you are as a player and how you can correctly assess the probabilities in order to beat the bookmaker’s margin. Let’s make a reservation right away that few, real betting masters can do this. To achieve this level of understanding of the craft, you will have to make more than one thousand bets and fill more than one bump with lost deposits. Accept this if you come to the stakes for a long time.
Psychology
As long as everything is going well in the betting, you are calm. But as soon as something goes wrong and the series of failures drags on, there will be no trace of your psychology and calmness. If the losing streak drags on and the losses from losses increase, then the level of pressure on you becomes higher. There is a big difference – to put from scratch or under the weight of failures, when you no longer believe in your strengths and knowledge. Betting is primarily about psychology, because it is one thing to win “on paper”, without any pressure, count in a vacuum, and it is quite another thing to do it against the backdrop of a series of defeats. Here, as in sports, each new misfire undermines your confidence in yourself and makes the subsequent choice more difficult. You will not be able to abstract from failures, we are all living people.
At the same time, the winning streak is insidious in its own way, since it also creates pressure, albeit of a different nature, but most importantly, it dampens. The bookmaker is always equally good, yes, his lines are not always perfect, and sometimes they can be beaten, but he is always ready to accept a new bet, his task is to accept as many bets as possible, because the more bets, the more chances for a mistake.
Distance stability
Many people can show the result in a short period. For example, inspired by the good start of the World Cup, you may decide that you are already a pro and will be able to regularly replenish your balance at the expense of a bookmaker. But do not rush to conclusions, only the distance will give information about the real state of affairs. Only a few remain in the plus at a distance. The reason is simple: in order to win on bets, you need to have an advantage over the line, and for a noticeable plus, if you play with a bankroll, you need a good turnover, in other words, a large number of bets. And finding a large number of bets with an advantage over the bookmaker is not so easy.
So it turns out that for turnover you play a lot of near-zero matches according to your opinion or even with a negative expectation, convincing yourself that this is not so. In a short distance and in a specific period, even for several months, this may not manifest itself, but after a thousand bets it will become clear that a huge number of events that you played were superfluous. To be able to keep a balance between favorable rates and the need to make a turn is a great skill, which is also subject to units.
Sports betting is an exciting marathon, where the very fact of your race already makes you a winner.