See nothing. Hear nothing. Say nothing.
This article asks you to look in the mirror and rethink what gambling really gives you, and whether you’re being honest about your motives and your future.
You Truly Enjoy Losing Money?
Be Honest With Yourself…
People are Losing Large and Small Fortunes with Gambling
It Is So Much Easier to Make Serious Money With Any Activity…
Re-think Your Position in the World
If You Are Truly Into Betting – Then Learn The Maths!
Gambling for Fun? ⤴️
When people tell me they gamble for the fun of it, I find this hard to believe. It beats me but I simply cannot see the point of ‘enjoying’ losing money for the sake of it.
Honestly, if I found any pleasure in losing money, I’d seek out far more thrilling methods of parting with it.
I can assure you that watching cinders of cash 🔥💨💵 spiralling away in the air is great fun. Alternatively, take a wad of bank notes and flush them down the toilet 🚽 – disposable income can be art! 🎨
You Truly Enjoy Losing Money? ⤴️
The point is, if you truly enjoy losing money, there are better ways of getting rid of it than gambling it away with all the dashed hopes and strained emotions which go with it.
Unfortunately, gamblers are masters in the art of self-deception.
They are convinced they gamble primarily for fun and don’t mind losing. However, I would bet their real motive is to make as much money as possible from as little funds as available.
Research in psychology shows how people consistently over-estimate their influence in chance-based situations.
I am sorry to shatter your dream, but getting rich quick with gambling is practically impossible!
Be Honest With Yourself… ⤴️
Indisputably, there are sometimes cases of people winning the lottery, or making a fortune by placing a high odds accumulator. This cannot be denied. These rare examples exist and are widely broadcast in newspapers, used for marketing by bookmakers, casinos, and stock exchanges.
Why? – Because big wins such as this happen rarely and people get sucked into dreaming about replicating such successes.
Please, be honest with yourself…
How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy through pure gambling?
Even if I think for a very long time… I don’t know any. On the other hand, I am personally acquainted with quite a few people who have become millionaires by managing or investing money in businesses – or by selling shovels to gold-diggers like you. For example, bookmakers, casino operators, online betting exchanges, and payment processors.
- Software and odds-compiling firms
Supplying data and platforms to bookmakers.
- Affiliate marketers and tipster websites
Earning commission on your losses.
- Sports media companies
Selling advertising to betting brands.
- Influencer accounts
Paid to promote betting offers.
- Streaming services
Charging for “in-play” access.
- Gambling consultants, compliance lawyers, and financial advisers
Specialising in the betting sector.
- Merchandising firms
Selling betting systems, spreadsheets, or analysis tools.
In short: the real money is made by those who service gamblers, not by those who try to beat the house.
Therefore, if you are a pure gambler, if you are somebody who regularly bets or plays cards, or risks money on financial trades such as shares or forex, your lack of knowledge and skills probably mean you are just ‘hoping’ to strike it lucky on something you know little about.
Don’t tell me that it’s your hobby to lose money!
People are Losing Large and Small Fortunes with Gambling ⤴️
I can assure you that I also know enough people personally who have lost large and small fortunes; people who cleared their hard-earned savings accounts and, in some cases, undid a lifetime’s work by overestimating their own abilities.
Those people believed they were smarter than average – and took that as a licence to beat the market.
It Is So Much Easier to Make Serious Money With Any Activity… ⤴️
… but not with gambling!!!
Are you looking to escape the rat race and join the nouveau riche?
What do you have to offer? Which standards of expertise and excellence can you exhibit in a conversation interesting enough for successful people to value your thoughts?
Why should managers, investors, businessmen, and other entrepreneurs listen to your opinions and wish to spend time with you?
It is likely that you won’t be able to answer these questions immediately but start thinking. It is never too late!
Begin working on changing your mindset. Reflect on your skills.
Become somebody successful people want to mix with.
Re-think Your Position in the World ⤴️
Not your friends, not your family – the system you nourish with your bets, your hope, your money.
Would the odds shift?
Would the market twitch?
Would your exit leave a dent – or simply make space for another dreamer?
This isn’t cynicism. It’s scale.
You are one of millions – one more hand placing bets, one more wallet draining slowly in pursuit of a big win.
A better loser (as you say that you enjoy losing money) – or a clearer thinker?
Because unless you’re willing to let go of the identity you’ve built around your bets – the streaks, the close calls, the glory stories – you’ll keep orbiting a game designed to drain you slowly.
Back your own discipline, your capacity to learn, your refusal to chase noise.
But don’t pretend that a small bankroll and a big ego make you part of the elite.
Are you a fool?
If You Are Truly Into Betting – Then Learn The Maths! ⤴️
That’s where the Over/Under Course Book comes in. It doesn’t offer secrets or shortcuts. It offers knowledge.
It shows how to turn historical data into probability, how to compare market odds against your own estimates (fair odds), and how to think in terms of risk, not hunches. It won’t make you rich overnight, but it will change the way you see the numbers behind the game.
Because let’s be honest – if you’re avoiding the maths, you’re not betting. You’re just participating in someone else’s margin.
Odds are already a language. Bookmakers speak it fluently. If you want to keep up, you’ll need to learn it too: probability, variance, expectation. It’s not mysticism. It’s arithmetic.
- Learn to use Excel properly.
- Learn how distributions work.
- Learn to think like a bookmaker – because they already know how you think.
Once you do, you’ll stop chasing luck and start recognising value – not just in football odds, but in everything from fake business propositions and unsuitable job offers to scam investment schemes and so-called “opportunities” most people never question. Because markets all follow similar dynamics. The same statistical traps, the same cognitive bias, the same noise dressed up as information.
If you’re serious about betting, stop treating maths like your enemy. It isn’t. It’s the tool that bookmakers use to separate punters from their money – and the tool you’ll need if you want to resist that design.
Thank you for staying with it. ✅ Attention is a rare currency. 🙂
If you have a thought worth adding, please leave it in the comments. Thanks again! 🍀
About the Author
I’d like to add something with regard to betting for entertainment.
By far the most entertaining way to bet is to bet accumulators on outright sports markets.
I could say a lot more but I would probably get carried away.
I just think it’s a real pity that more people dont realise that you can effectively ‘support’ many of the best teams by placing them in long term multiple bets.
Hi Tony,
Accumulators may feel entertaining, but it’s worth knowing how heavily the odds work against you in those bets. Accumulators happen to be where the house margin is at its strongest. Every selection adds another layer of bookmaker advantage, so the “entertainment” often comes from a price that looks generous but isn’t.
If you’re interested, here’s a short explanation of how that works: Impact of the ‘Overround’ on Accumulators, Multiple Bets, and Parlays
Best wishes,
Soccerwidow
Hi Soccerwidow.
I really like the tone of honesty in all your posts I have read so far. However, I just don’t get it. Why do you do this? It’s like shooting yourself in the foot. It’s one thing for bloggers in the betting industry to put a link of “Bet Responsibly” in their posts (for legal reasons I guess), and another to go extra miles to give evidence of the negative effects of gambling.
You give solid anti-gambling advice but at the same time sell products that help people gamble. Does this not affect your sales negatively? If you have answered this question already, can you share the link to that post, please?
I got into gambling only recently, and I consider myself lucky for finding your site. I don’t think it will stop me from gambling completely, but when I do gamble, I hope to do so from a more enlightened place by using your products.
Thanks
Hi Melba,
Many thanks for your comment! I was genuinely pleased to read it because you’ve touched the core of what this website is about.
It may look contradictory at first glance: on the one hand, we publish very clear warnings about the illusions and risks of gambling; on the other hand, we sell products that use football betting as a framework. But the purpose has always been the same from the beginning:
We teach statistical thinking and probability – using football results as the practical example people actually understand.
If someone uses this knowledge to gamble, at least they do so with a clearer view of what the numbers really say.
To understand the roots of our blog, you are very welcome to read one of our earliest articles: Observations of EPL Football Mania in Uganda. It explains quite well how and why this site came into being.
We also answered a few ethical questions at the end of the FAQ section for the Over/Under Course — those may help provide additional context.
🍀 Good luck!