If you are reading this content, it is safe to say that either you are tired of losing your football or sports bet or you are new to football bets and are keen on knowing how to avoid losing your bets. Then, you are reading the right article for that because I listed out five possible ways how to avoid losing football or sports bets.
Six Ways to Avoid Losing Football or Sports Bets in 2024
I have used these methods or ways on several occasions, and they worked for me, so I thought it was the right time to share these tips with our readers. It is vital to make it clear that it is not an assurance that you will always win your football bets if you always use these five methods, but it is safe to say that your chances of winning bets are roughly 97%.
It is advisable to always use all six methods whenever you want to play a football bet rather than using only three or two of them, because using all six methods actually means you have a 97% chance of winning your bets.
1. Avoid betting on football matches you don't watch
When you reluctantly bet on a football match or football matches you don't know, 95% of the time, you pick a selection based on the odds you see and not on your knowledge of the teams playing or the records between both teams. You see, when you decide to bet on a game because of the odds, you have definitely put yourself in a trap. Sometimes you win, but 90% of the time, you lose because the bookies understand that not everyone who bets on football matches knows the teams playing, and they can easily feature some matches people don't really watch and put the wrong odds, so their users can be tricked into selecting options based on the small odds they see, not knowing it's a trap. Bet on football matches you are familiar with, and by doing so, your gut feelings will also help you pick the best options for these football matches.
2. Decide on how much you want to stake and win
This is where many punters get it wrong, and it is exactly what the bookies want punters to always fall for. Make a plan before visiting any bookmaker website. Prepare a sheet of paper and write down how much you plan to win and how much you plan to stake before you visit any bookmaker website, and when you do, do not exceed what you have budgeted. These bookie websites have some spirits that can lead you astray and trick you into exceeding your budget while making you feel like you can still win your bet. DON'T FALL FOR IT. Always plan how much you want to stake and how much you want to win, and DON'T make any late changes upon visiting any bookie website. One of the 24 laws of power warns us not to exceed our plan or mess everything up.
3. Don't select your football matches on bookmaker websites
This is one of the major reasons punters lose their football bets. When you decide to select matches on betting websites, you tend to select matches based on the odds, and then you subsequently pick the wrong matches and predictions because you are not informed about the No. 1 and No. 2 methods. DON'T DO THIS but rather visit any website that displays the matches that will take place on the particular day you want to play your football bets and write them down. By doing these, you won't be under any hold or pressure to make uninformed predictions on these matches because there are no odds attached to them, and you will have the time to analyse the matches you have picked and make informed predictions.
4. Properly analyse your selected matches
Do not base your predictions solely on h2h records or something. H2H records don't always work, but it is a good idea to check the recent meetings between both teams before placing your bets. But when you are familiar with the teams that are about to play, you can easily predict how the match will end, thanks to what you watched in their previous matches. For instance, if Luton Town hosts Manchester City or Manchester United at home, some people will be scared of predicting both teams to score for this game due to what the odds may look like, but because you watch Luton Town matches and know how dangerous they can be when they come up against big teams at home, your gut feelings may advise you to go against the odds and predict both teams to score or over 2.5 goals, given how previous matches ended, and you could win. It is never written anywhere that going against the odds will always result in failed bets. In fact, I recently used this method to predict a win for Girona and both teams to score when they came up against Barcelona at Camp Nou, and the odds were 7.34, and I won it.
5. Do not accumulate too many small odds or big odds
It is not written anywhere that selecting 15 matches with less than 1.30 odds is a sure path to winning your bets. Nah. You need to pay more attention to No. 2, if you are this type of person. Betting websites are fond of featuring unfamiliar matches on their home pages with small odds in order to trick punters into accumulating 15 of them, and then eye brows will be raised when five of these matches fail. Do not accumulate high odds as well, regardless of how familiar the matches are to you. Understand that we are trying to avoid losing our bets, and if you accumulate five matches with odds between 1.80 and 2.30, there's an 80% chance your bet will fail. Keep it moderate with the help of No. 1 and No. 4.
6. Mix your predictions and tips
Do not always use one prediction method for your bets. There are a couple of nice betting options that can elevate our chances of winning our bets. If you place your bet with mixed betting tips like over 2.5 goals, 1.5 goals, corners, both teams to score, HWEH and AWEH, 3-way (home win, draw, away win) and double chance, then your chances of winning your bet become 97% sure, although it is assumed you correctly follow the previous five methods.
Conclusion
Just because you follow these methods doesn't mean you will always win your bets, but it is 97% likely that four out of five bets placed will be won. And always pick the best betting options that best fit the matches you plan to bet on. Winning a bet regularly, but as Kenny Rodgers said, "Everyone is a winner and everyone is a loser." When you always bet, you have a decent chance to always win.