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SnooPuppers1978 t1_ium035d wrote

Reply to comment by Sys32768 in Being a young man, religious, and with a high income, may make you more likely to gamble on sports, according to international research which also suggests that betting on sports, daily fantasy league play, and betting on e-sports all increase the risk of developing a gambling problem. by MistWeaver80

If you don't believe in anything supernatural there's no way you can justify making bets on e-sports in terms of thinking you can make money considering the odds.

Only way you could justify is if you found a flaw to use for arbitrage, if you build an algorithm that was somehow much more intelligent than betting system's own, you had extremely deep knowledge of the teams playing or you were participating in fraud for one team to lose on purpose.

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AlternativePool5618 t1_iumh52g wrote

I think that people are just very bad with statistics. It goes something like ‘well somebody has to win, may as well be me. ‘

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