Professional Sports Betting

As someone who mixes with professionals on an almost daily basis in one capacity or another, I feel that I know and awful lot about what makes professional sports bettors tick. Many people try to emulate them but quite often fail to see the wood for the trees so to speak. There is one overwhelming facet to being a successful sports bettor, one that if you don’t have then your chances of succeeding are slim.

This is sheer undiluted dedication and an almost fetish like interest in sport. This doesn’t just apply to sports betting, it applies to all fields if you want to be at the top. How do you think a really good online poker professional operates? Well some may play SNG’s for a living, with others it may be six max full-ring no limit.

But one thing will dominate their personalities and that is the ability to work hard and in the right way. This is absolutely critical because success in any particular field often comes down to the individual. This means that it isn’t so much what they have learned or been taught but very much how they have absorbed that information.

I know numerous people in sports betting who never seem to make any progress year after year. Some of them have even asked for my advice and when I have given them advice, they have still gone and ignored it and carried on doing what they have always been doing. In my mind, you need to be very hard working first and foremost but that hard work has to be directed down certain channels.

If it isn’t then all you are doing is working hard. For example, there is little difference between someone who earns 100k a year as a sports bettor doing it professionally and someone who breaks even at sports betting but who earns 30k in their day job. The amount of work done in both instances will be identical but the professional sports bettor is directing their efforts into channels and not blindly down numerous paths.

This is why you have got to specialise if you want to get ahead. This doesn’t just apply to sports betting, it applies to any field of operation. A doctor would hardly become a doctor if he spent as much time computer programming and doing IT and several other fields. He became a doctor because he specialised and channelled his efforts and when mixed in with a large dose of hard work and dedication….paid off.

Getting to be a professional sports bettor is hard…..no make that very hard. In fact depending on your mindset and financial and personal situation, may be near impossible. But it is certainly impossible for those who do not channel their work and try to do too little in too many different areas.

I have been involved in many areas of gambling over the years from blackjack to online poker to sports betting. But at no time did I ever mix the two until I had reached a stage where I could do certain things automatically without it affecting the other.

Working hard is the key as if you don’t do this then how can you possibly expect to gain an edge over all of the other people who are prepared to eat, sleep and breathe it? Sports betting for a living when done properly should be tedious and boring. It is all about preparation and research and working very hard. This means staying up beyond the hours that you would normally stay up just doing research. This means not going out for that meal or that night out that you normally do.

Anyone who tries to tell you that its all about placing your bets and then living the life of the jet set while the money rolls in is either not telling you the truth or they haven’t the faintest idea of what is entailed.

This article was written by Carl “The Dean” Sampson