Bookmakers never lose due to their individual approach to every category of gamblers. Under correct approach they benefit even from losses. In order to see into a matter we have to analyze all categories of sport tipsters:
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Common gambler (amateur).
Such tipsters never play for high stakes. Only small or average bets. Common gamblers won’t risk with hundreds of dollars even for an outcome with low coefficient. The main attraction of the pool betting for the majority of such tipsters lies in ordinary hazard. Betting helps to increase an interest to the match and a way of getting emotions from watching it. If the bet wins, you can make another one. In case of several failures such gamblers make a pause or cease betting at all.
Bookmakers do not pay attention on such players. Amateurs bring good profit only if considered in mass. In addition, their interest to betting can be easily controlled.
If a bookmaker needs to “launch” a risky variant for prediction, it is enough just to decrease a coefficient on it. Many gamblers think that this is a right bet with a high win probability.
For example, a bookmaker proposes coefficient 1.35 on a win of first team but in reality the success of a bet is estimated only with 55% that is the coefficient should be about 1.80. In such a manner, pool betting has forced the amateurs to make a bet on this really risky outcome.
In case of common gamblers it is possible to tell that they are playing against bookmakers.
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Addict gamblers.
These are hazardous people who are psychologically disturbed. After a series of foolish losses they develop a fixed idea to win back as soon as possible. As a result they make a lot of risky bets and sometimes they are large. Of course, another failure occurs. Hazardous people bring great profit to bookmakers. And in this case the tipsters also practice pool betting.
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Professionals.
This category of gamblers differs by the fact that they make only large bets. They usually analyze statistics and the strength of the rivals, their motivation and other important aspects of the game. Professionals always choose in a match line an outcome with high coefficient and make a huge bet. If they win, bookmaker experiences great loss.
In order to exclude the probability of large losses, authoritative pool betting offices distribute proportionally the betting line.
The matter is not to let the professionals to come to one and the same bet. If the line has a lot of interesting variants, the large gamblers will make predictions on different outcomes.
As a result some lose and others win their money and bookmakers take a so-called fee (margin and the last part of the money lost by gamblers).
In this case we can draw a conclusion that the professionals are playing against each other.