This negative period will come from time to time to pay you an untimely visit. And there's nothing you can do to prevent it from showing up during the season. However, there are correct ways to deal with this unwanted visitor. Also, there are bad ways to act. Here we will list attitudes to help you survive a bad run.
What is a bad run?
This phase is usually transient. But it often leads many gamblers to ruin. For emotional control will be required, in addition to testing the psychological side of the gambler. Generally, the first-time gambler does not have a defined bankroll management and ends up succumbing in times of difficulty. Precisely because they are not prepared to deal with this phase.
The biggest mistakes a bettor makes during a bad phase
What most occurs in these situations, is the gambler trying to recover the lost money. It seeks to increase the amount of money wagered, compromising its bankroll with high values. Another very recurring factor is the bettor betting on leagues that he doesn't dominate the information. In addition, during this loss period, bettors often increase the volume of bets. Over-betting and placing bets with no long term value.
Another very recurring problem is that the bettor wants to make up for lost money with very low odds bets. Bets you consider risk-free. Biggest mistake of all. This compromises the entire structure of your long-term work. As a result, that bettor will have only one possible destination; bankruptcy.
Tips to survive a bad run:
Below are some tips for when you're going through a bad run:
- Stay within bankroll management
- Don't break your own defined rules
- Keep the strategy
- discipline
- Do not bet more than what was defined in your bankroll management
- Do not bet on leagues that you are not an expert
- Do not bet on lower or much higher odds than the average odds set in your strategy
And this difficult period does not necessarily have to be just for sports betting. It may be something that is disturbing you in your personal life, that affects you in some way when making decisions. We have to remember, sports betting is based on decision making, if we are not able to decide in full integrity, we should not bet on anything.
When losses in a row affect you, take time to get your head together. Empty the mind and accept the loss, because in any case, it is a mourning, even if it seems silly, we bettors feel the loss of a bet as something very painful, and it is necessary to understand this and know our own limits to not let the compulsion speak louder in decision making. Thus, the creation of rules becomes fundamental, as its established rules will inhibit compulsion, discipline its actions and make its attitudes more professional.