I wonder how many people like to have a bet now and again,in the hope of maybe winning a few quid,if you bet trebles and accummalators you will be the bookies friend,if you bet single bets and win even small amounts online,im talking less than £50 all the big bookmakers quickly limit your account to incredibly less than three pound bets,i cannot help wondering if professional gamblers are just an urban myth,put about by the bookmakers themselves,it may be possible today using the exchanges,but it would be impossible to make a regular profit online at the bookmakers,even when pricing the field for a guaranteed profit they only want mug punters,just google any major bookmaker account closures limiting bets,they will love you if you lose,they will quickly restrict you to less than three pound bets or the virtual racing and slots if you win.
Anybody like to have a little bet.
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Professional gamblers used to exist in Britain, I knew of one but that was very many years ago. Todays national bookmaking seems too sophisticated for them to operate easily.
It seems to be internationally that the large scale individual wins are possible, as the sport fixing for gambling profit shows.
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It seems to be internationally that the large scale individual wins are possible, as the sport fixing for gambling profit shows.
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Perhaps the bookies don't need to trip gamblers up - if the great majority of serious gamblers will keep playing until they've lost all their gains. My understanding is that for every professional winner at gambling there are probably tens of thousands of professional losers. That's not an insult, it's a psychotherapeutic term of art deriving from probably centuries of doctors trying to help sufferers of the terrible illness which is gambling addiction, of whom there are apparently lots (many many more than successful professional winners at gambling).
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We sort of play the lottery. Every week we put a couple of quid into a jug on the kitchen dresser. When we go on holiday we empty the jug and have a meal, part paid for by the 'winnings'. Never fails - we win every time ... sometimes there's even enough for cake ...
My point is that the bookies are happy to take the cash, from the great majority of losing gamblers,a few winners will soon see online accounts limited,i do not think that most punters realise, it is impossible to win from online bookies.
I think you need to make a distinction here between not being allowed to win, and the bookie not being willing to take money for another bet. If you win a bet which is accepted, they have no choice but to honour it. It's a contract, they agreed to it. But nobody is obliged to agree to a new contract, i.e. a new bet.
Anyway my point is it's not possible to win at gambling, full stop. Because people don't do it to win. They do it to lose. After all who needs proof that they can be lucky and do statistics? What purpose does it serve? Nobody needs that, it serves no practical purpose - except in practice to **** up the lives of hundreds of thousands of gambling addicts in the UK. If anyone wants to show themselves their own prowess at statistics they should do an online course in it or a BSc, and stay out of the bookies.
Interestingly, that is true now - but only since 2005 - before that a gambling contract was unenforceable and you had to trust the bookie to "honour" it.
Think there's a lot of pro gamblers, mainly on the exchanges. Have known a few who've done it for a while then stopped. One system betting on football, other per hole golf. Both stopped as very time consuming, dull, and could make an easier living working.