Let's start this advanced guide to sports betting with the fact that there are many methods, bets, and systems of playing, but players can be divided into two types: “players – winners”, and “players – losers”. The difference between them is that winners are able to accept occasional loss, and this can even make them stronger.

However, “losers” are incapable of coming to terms with a loss, and this makes them unlikely to win with bookmakers. I put a lot of effort into making this advanced sports betting guidebook the first step to your final success.

Thus, study this sports betting guide for advanced players and get all the sports betting tips, learn about the best strategy for sports betting and discover available advanced sports betting systems.

1. Elements and Factors Determining Victory

1.1 Mental Factors

“Winners” have a positive attitude even when they loss. They understand that negative emotions, the willingness to regain the money, and playing at all costs cannot be the priority.

However, “losers” are restless and nervous, losses are difficult for them to take, and when losing they cannot help themselves and immediately take a further risk by betting more and losing twice or three times the amount of money than what they invested at the beginning. They bet on events they have not previously analyzed (in particular this applies to “online” players).

It is, in my opinion, a mental factor. Each player should learn a method of controlling this because without this skill they act in the dark – and this leads to certain failures.

1.2 Indispensable personality traits

Players – winners can be patient. They wait for an opportunity and persistently act in accordance with their system or scheme. Players – losers do not know and/or cannot manage self-discipline.

1.3 Systems or Methods of Playing

They are fundamental to each kind of bet: if you play “by chance” with no system and without understanding one’s actions and one’s goals, the results will be poor. Every player should set the amount of money to be invested and the method of investing it. It should not be done by chance, or even worse, on the spur of the moment. Nobody forces you to play on a daily basis. If you do this it is only because you are convinced of placed bets.

It is a mistake to play in accordance with various systems. The primary rule is to understand and find a system which suits your goal. This system should be perfectly adjusted to the amount of money you want to invest in your bets. People who cannot control themselves will never make any profit. To resolve doubts – there is luck but in the long run it is not possible to move on without a route. It is like sailing at night when you do not know where to go. 

1.4 Risk Control

Whoever decides to play for money should primarily get through a trial period, during which they will have a chance to check their skills. One can undergo this trial period on JohnnyBet. You don’t need to invest money but you will be able to check your betting efficiency. If your profit will be negative in the long run, perhaps you’d better give it up and count on somebody else.

A “player – winner” is able to accept every loss (obviously it is not possible to be happy when one loses, but if the information obtained is correct and precise it is the player and not the bookmakers who wins), whereas a “player – loser” cannot understand being losing and simultaneously bets again, non stop, being deluded into trying to quickly regain the money he lost.

2. How to Place Bets

Narrowing down the area to the kind of “players – winners” who are able to control the above-mentioned elements, those who can take a risk and do it consciously should also be patient. We often encounter a large number of opportunities (particularly during the weekends) and a huge number of matches which take place in various parts of the world. Take a pen.

• Begin with excluding competitions you do not know anything about. Do not be deluded by exotic names: it is all about money and is not about organizing distant travels.
• Exclude any bets with odds below 1.40.
• Analyze information available on the Internet – which you can find on official websites of clubs or experts’ sites.

Remember that everybody can be an expert. You must decide whether a given person is credible. As a rule this can be done by monitoring the statistics of a given adviser (on JohnnyBet you can find the statistics section in the profile of the user). Personally I recommend only following the tips of 2-3 experts who gain regular profits at 10%. If you notice that a given adviser publishes tips for at least a year and these tips are profitable at 10% you can be sure they are professional.

Key elements the experts find fundamental when selecting:

• Teams’ scores in the period of last 4-6 matches
• Squad: absent players due to disqualification or injury. One has to answer the question of whether teams are able to replace certain members. Do not let your attention be drawn by numbers. Pay attention to the role and importance of absent players: no primary goalkeeper, the best striker, team captain or defenders are key elements responsible for a team’s strength.
• Pitch: to my mind, it no longer matters as much as it used to, especially in the strongest European leagues, yet you ought to focus on HOME/AWAY scores as if a given team has gotten 80% of their points at home it is certain that playing at home is crucial.
• The situation in the club and in the dressing rooms: arguments and tension between a team owner and a coach and players are key to understanding the atmosphere in the team.
• New transfers: can be an impulse but it’s necessary to accommodate.
• Change of coach: has negative effects (a new coach needs to get to know the players and use his methods), but also positive ones (particularly regarding players who are assigned new roles, substitutes, but also in the case of a lack of communication and trust between an old coach and players).

3. How to Obtain Good Information

Good news is usually credible information which comes from a credible source. It often happens that the news we read is incorrect and does not correlate with the facts. It also happens that we link a single piece of information with a sudden drop in a bookmaker’s odds and we do not analyze the whole match, and we believe that it must be a 100% victory. Remember to check all the competitors. On the basis of my experiences, I advise you to be careful about other Internet users’ comments on blogs (free or chargeable) and forums: remember that everybody can publish their opinions “from the viewpoint of a fan” and can also post false information, which is close to placing reckless bets.