TOP Tips on How to Overcome Emotions in Sports Betting From Pro Tipster

Overcoming emotions in sports betting and acting rationally is the best thing you can do to start winning.

There are a few basic principles that must be followed:

• Don’t chase losses
• Don’t bet when you’re angry or upset
• Don’t try to bet when you’re under the influence of alcohol or other substances

Knowing when NOT to bet is one of the wisest pieces of advice you can hear in sports betting.

Also, taking a step back after a particularly satisfying result or a big win may turn out to be the right choice at a given moment. Ultimately, balanced and rational people will always win the race against emotionally charged ones.

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My personal experience with controlling emotions in sports betting

We are all individuals, and it is difficult to share a universal theory that is suitable for the majority. I still hate losing and desperately want to know what, why, and where it went wrong, especially after spending hours cultivating a plan. I doubt I will ever escape these feelings of dissatisfaction, irritation, and bitterness. I am still a sore loser.

Personally, I try to analyze every bet I’ve made, often the next morning, with the main question: Would I make the same bet again under these circumstances? If the answer is “yes” most of the time, there’s nothing more I can do but shrug my shoulders and move on.

In early 2022, I experienced my longest and most severe losing streak, perhaps since I started betting. It was a brutal experience, but all players will go through it at some point. What advice would I give as a professional tipster? Trust your process, analyze the results, understand what or where you went wrong, learn from your mistakes, and remember that sometimes it’s all a matter of variance. In other words, there will always be good and bad periods, and it’s inevitable that you’ll experience them.

How to achieve CONTROL OVER YOUR EMOTIONS in sports betting?

I am a proponent of personal rules, rituals, and work processes. By systematizing your behavior and following a pre-programmed set of rules for behavior, you can delegate the management of your emotions to processes. People like routine, so this is feasible. However, at least in the beginning, you have to be ruthlessly strict with yourself in order to ingrain the desired behavior.

If your dog poops on the carpet, you shouldn’t just shrug your shoulders and hope it won’t happen again next time. Train it, rub its nose in it, so that it never wants to do it again.

Getting rid of emotions is almost impossible, so what remains is strict personal discipline and a plan to follow.

First you build your habits, then they build you as a person.

The ability to ignore emotions when making betting decisions helps distinguish the true professional from the amateur. The professional bettor approaches betting differently than the amateur or even the semi-professional player. If you think that every betting market is in equilibrium, a professional will see only balance and imbalance. Understanding the true odds of a given selection within a given market is crucial to long-term success.

THE ATTACK OF THE BOOKMAKERS

Gambling is disguised as entertainment and heavily advertised as such. The goal of marketers is to attract players for entertainment, targeting the emotions of potential players. It takes experience and determination to remove emotions from betting decisions, and we must not forget that many people bet only as a supplement to their love of a particular sport. It is probably necessary to have some level of emotion or at least interest in order for the player to engage in understanding and carefully researching the bets they can make.

There is a reason why the application of the margin is often aimed at reducing the value of actively occurring events (e.g., over 2.5 goals). Betting enthusiasts invariably prefer to bet on active action, and this is an example of emotion clouding the decision-making process. In other words, you will much more often see players betting on “Over 2.5 goals” instead of “Under 2.5 goals,” not to mention “Both teams to score” versus the opposite. And accordingly, the higher margin, i.e., the bookmaker’s commission, goes precisely there.

This is one of the dozens of little tricks bookmakers use to earn a bigger profit at the player’s expense.

Tips for controlling your emotions in sports betting

A useful tip – I recommend having a partner with whom you can discuss your bets and the decisions you make regarding strategies, tipsters, and bets. Choose someone you trust and who will not be afraid to ask difficult questions and challenge your approach. You can also turn to them when you are experiencing difficulties or need an outside observer to comment impartially.

And one last tip to help you control your emotions even more easily. Instead of wondering who and how much to bet on, just bet where you see value, and you should determine the amount in advance as a certain percentage of your bankroll. Almost always, the best strategy is a flat stake, i.e., the same amount on all bets. 

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There is a lot of good information on the internet about how to understand your own risk profile and how to understand variance. For example, Pete Ling and the guys at Smart Betting Club have some excellent material on the psychology of betting. If you want to understand variance better, check out Joseph Buchdal‘s articles on the Pinnacle blog, where you’ll find a number of other excellent articles. If you want to understand what variance is, however, be sure to watch one of our best videos on the channel.

CONCLUSION

In conclusion, I would say that the idea is to try to understand how professional bettors work. It helps you assimilate the concepts of long-term value and variance. This does not mean that you will become a numb, emotionless betting robot. Losing streaks will still be annoying, but they won’t cause you to blow your bankroll out of frustration.