any experience anyone. Are smarkets any good? Notice bet fair give you your stake back if you loose..is this a gimmick?
IMO it's should be banned I was offered a job 10 years ago but declined it after thinking about online betting and estimating where it would end up. I was tasked to produce front end design for gambling and even then they were planning for mobiles Mobiles will always be safe unless you lose yours. The code and encryption for money transfer is extremely safe on mobile if anyone wants to know why then I can but I won't bore you The back end models were already built back then and of course they were rigged So today you have an addicted nation on their phones betting a complete set of new product just in football ... Cash in Cast out Corners next goal ... In Play etc etc all calculated by a metric that makes profit. I ask who would ever get involved? Who is strong enough to not get addicted? In a world where people are starving should you even be allowed to be so thick?
Yes, because people would still be starving if I had a £10 treble or not. It's a hobby or a bit of fun if you're one of the vast majority of people who can treat it that way. If you can't then it shouldn't stop others having fun just as I can have three pints and go home rather than needing ten pints and a bottle of vodka.
The gambling industry in this country is a scourge on our society. I used to work for a bookmaking company when it was just about betting on horses and dogs. If you walk into a betting shop now you will hardly see anybody interested in the racing, it is all about the FOBT machines - crack cocaine for gamblers. The betting industry pays lip service to having concern for problem gamblers but they actually thrive on their weaknesses.
They all take your money, some just do backflips to get it. Sorry, not big on betting but hope you do well.
I don't blame the betting industry for providing a service which takes advantage of problem gamblers much as I don't blame pubs or off licences for serving alcoholics. I blame society/education for allowing so many people to get that way.
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Here in Oz, back in the seventies, there were only government betting shops for horse racing ........... called Tabs. A Tab had to be a certain distance away from any pub or club. Nowadays, most betting is done inside pubs and Clubs ........ funny that. So, the people I blame are solely the politicians who weakened and changed policy.
This one pretty much sums it up: "Betting is simple enough, when you lose we win, and when you win, well we still kind of win as well. Because odds are, you’ll want to keep winning." I'm a regular betting man myself. For me it adds that little bit of extra fun and kick when it comes to football. I rarely bet on my own team though, as the heart often rule the head in this case. Like Watford says, if you can keep it to a controlled level then go on and enjoy it. Not everyone can though and there is problem like DT and Stroller refer to. But it shouldn't rule everyone out of it because a small minority can't controll themselves. In my opinion of course. If you want my tip then go for BET365. They have the best selection, best odds and most user friendly site. Be aware though that you will be sponsoring Stoke, but IF you beat the 'house' then you're ripping them off instead Don't necessarily go for the highest sign up/welcome bonus offered by various sites. There is ALWAYS a catch, and better the offer the worse the catch.
When my lad was about 14 - approx 10 years ago - he had this great idea that a bet on nil:nil half time and a QPR win at full time would produce a return over a season. He asked me to place a bet for him on a game (can't recall which). I went to the game with another son and put a £1 bet on for the lad as requested and £5 of my own - I thought in for a penny etc. I advised him that I was doing this to show him that betting was a mug's game and that he would lose his money. Needless to say it came in at 5:1! The humorous bit was his outrage that I had 'stolen his bet' and him trying to argue that the £25 I had won was somehow his! That was an argument he did not win! That's the sum total of my football gambling but I have dealt professionally with a number of folks who have lost their lives because of gambling. It is a frightening addiction. Their advertising today parallels tobacco advertising in the 60's and 70's - designed to attract you to an addictive and potentially very destructive commodity or habit.
Not a big gambler myself because I learned from my dad, a successful high stakes poker player in his fifties, that you have to work hard at it to be good. He just stopped and took up bridge when he felt he wasn't mentally sharp enough anymore. I haven't got the patience and I'm too old to be any good now. I'll take the amount I'm prepared to lose and keep smiling on my rare trips to the racecourse and incredibly rare ones to the casino. No problem with gambling, booze, even drugs. Everything is potentially addictive - QPR, jogging, the internet, the Archers _ and we are all addicted to some extent to fat and sugar. You live, you die and if you engage in a little activity in between which releases some pleasurable chemicals in your brain to fill in the time, fair enough. Some people will fall into addiction most won't. What I don't like about the UK gambling industry is the fact that it's ****ing everywhere all the time - the TV and on line advertising, the high street presence. Opposite Glasgow Central Station is a little row of shops - 2 bookies, 3 loan/pawn shops and a bank. It's aesthetically offensive.
".........Opposite Glasgow Central Station is a little row of shops - 2 bookies, 3 loan/pawn shops and a bank. It's aesthetically offensive" That in a nutshell.
As long as you follow the maxim of only ever betting what you can afford to lose, and also accept that there is no such things as a certainty, it is an enjoyable thing to do. I'm not a serious enough gambler to know what markets are the best to get involved in from a profit making point of view but agree with Norway that in terms of on-line stuff Bet 365 is very good. As a fun bet I think a both teams to score accumulator is the best one as if they do there's nothing that can happen later in any of the the matches for you to lose your bet and you're also still in the game to the final whistle. There's been way too many times where i've gone for the correct score only to see some git score in injury time. The only other advice I would give is that if you win a bet you should buy something with at least some of the winnings rather than "reinvest" it
I've won a lot this season already, a little thing called match betting it works wonders, idea of it is you don't use your own money you just take advantage of their free bet offers. for Example: To qualify for a £10 free bet I must deposit £10 of my own money I choose a game / horse race or anything else with odds of 1.5 or above I find the same bet on another betting site but I will be betting against that team / horse with similar odds so to give you an example Bet for QPR to win on Coral for 3/1 Bet for QPR not to win on Betfair for 2/1 ( covers the draw as well as the loss ) This way either way ill win the bet and also get given my £10 free bet, now I do exactly the same with my free bet Bet for Horse A to win on Coral 6/1 ( Free Bet ) Bet against Horse A on Betfair 7/1 If my free bet comes in I lose on betfair but still come out with more money, if I lose on Coral I have loss nothing as it was a free bet and win on Betfair = Profits! Can take awhile but if you have the time its well worth a try.
