Today we delve into one of the most crucial but yet the least discussed aspects of the betting scene. When punters place bets on sportsbooks, they are sometimes pushed by emotions to choose a particular team, or a bet type based on their feelings at the time and this can result in unsound decision with the punter either winning or losing it depends on luck.
A punter who’s smart enough will always try to avoid using emotions and luck in order to make a living out of gambling. So first you need to understand how feelings affect your decision making and how does it impact the final result when you are not using logic as a basis of decision making.
If you are feeling anger, this will most likely lead to impatience and rash decision making. If you feel afraid, this may cloud your judgement and you may take longer than expected to make that decision. In the case of excitement, this may cause quick decision making since you are more confident and optimistic about the final outcome.
In order to succeed in gambling we need to keep this emotions in check each time we are betting online, so we are going to see some of the steps we can use to try and keep our emotions in check. So we have outlined some of the steps that will guide punters from emotions and they include
Check your emotions
People say feelings control your decision and naturally we under the same problems as any other normal human being. But we first have to check on triggers and causes of emotional decision making by understanding your source of emotional anger, excitement or fear we can better control them.
Let’s say you are waiting to watch a football match with friends and immediately before a match starts we get involved in a bar fight. Then you are kicked out from watching the football event and this anger stays within until you reach home and as we are still angry based from another event we may make decisions that are not logical especially if the bar fight broke out due to heated views on the match.
In the case you may pick your team as favorites despite being shown detail facts that you team will lose at the bar by the rival fun and this unsound decision usually leads to losing of bets since you are not taking time to analyze.
The only way to earn a living is by putting a leash on our emotions and by playing it cool on anger, fear and excitement. You don’t need to book an appoint with your therapist in order to control your emotions we only need to identify this emotions and find a safe place where you feel that emotional balance with you, away from the triggers and causes.
Start using your mind
A consciousness mind makes match better decision making than a one clouded by emotions and this may be a great advantage if you can master the conscious mind set. In psychology the mind can be manipulated deliberately and the effects can either be positive or negative.
If you can master this physiological skills in mastering how to control and active the conscious part of your brain well things will start looking up for you. Am not saying that all possible decisions made will have a greater outcome but will be put in a better position due to logical thinks and increase our chances of winning.
Another trick we can use is creating balance of the mind whereby we lock all our humanly emotions to achieve an emotionless state and thus leads to better decision making. If you can work under pressure the better and the outcome has been proven to be rewarding for punters under the emotional state.
The mind is a complex systems of brain cells and we can’t just master it in one day. It can take up to weeks or months to manipulate the mind to an emotionless state and in order to achieve such a state we need to first understand how we work and think.
Virtue of Patience
When it comes to money patience is key and in the field of online betting the chances of making a living are high if you understand your priorities. The capacity to accept or delay an event without becoming emotionally annoyed or anxious is patience and this improves your gambling skills since you can better understand the possible outcome.
Winning takes time and patience is a virtue if mastered we get better the chances of winning with the help of research the event can be easily predicted and we can also know when and why to quite an event/match.
Management of time and money is also key when it comes to patience we can better manage limited resources and achieve emotional balance. If the mind is in a state of peace we can better play and win the bets to earn that living.
Being sincere and direct with yourself, acceptance is important get to know yourself better and don’t compare yourself with others. Each one of us has a hidden talent and maybe patience is the key to unlocking this talents.
Discipline and intelligibility
Emotional discipline is achieved through patience, time and accepting yourself. By first accepting that sometimes mistakes are inevitable in sportsbook betting we can gain experience that everything we touch cannot always be right and this is necessary to achieve a balanced mind of state.
An experienced punter knows when to quite especially in a losing streak it’s important to take time to play it is safe and based on discipline we can better make decision making. Also it’s important to watch our health both form the mind and the body, by reducing time browsing the internet since bright screen displays have long term effects to both the eye and mind affecting sleeping routines among other health issues.
Discipline is key when it comes to keeping your emotion at a balance and will help in money management therefore ensuring we benefit from betting.
