I Lost Money Betting for 3 Years
45sRelatable confession about losing money despite thinking you're winning hooks viewers interested in betting mistakes.
▶ Play Clip"Title promises a rags-to-riches story, but the video is a personal journey with heavy promotion of a paid product."
The video chronicles the creator's 12-year journey in sports betting, from casual bets and tipster subscriptions to discovering value betting and building a profitable operation. It emphasizes the importance of tracking results, avoiding scams, and the potential for significant income through disciplined, mathematically sound betting strategies.
Started betting 12 years ago with sure-fire bets and combination bets, spending winnings on partying and restaurants without tracking profits or losses.
Created an Excel spreadsheet to track all bets, discovering that despite thinking he was a genius, he was actually losing money over a year or a year and a half.
Hired tipsters for €20/month, but after tracking results from scratch, he found the balance remained negative month after month, leading to losses of thousands of euros.
After a year and a half, he found arbitrage betting, which guarantees profit but has low margins, low turnover, and accounts get limited quickly.
Arbitrage proved that making money with sports betting is possible, providing the motivation to continue researching.
After 3-5 years, he learned about odds fluctuations, identifying winning bets regardless of match outcomes, and how bookmakers operate.
Discovered value betting (positive EV), where odds are higher than they should be, guaranteeing long-term profit despite individual losses.
Started using betting software (costing ~€195/month, except Bet Investors at €195/year), and scaled by hiring people and operating in multiple countries, increasing bets and profits.
In 2024, opened a YouTube channel to teach sports betting and prevent scams, offering a free course and weekly videos.
Promotes Bet Investor software for value bets at €195/year, significantly cheaper than competitors, and encourages watching the free course first.
The creator's journey shows that while casual betting and tipsters lead to losses, value betting with proper tracking and scaling can generate substantial income, and he now shares his knowledge to help others avoid scams and succeed.
What did the creator discover after tracking his bets in an Excel spreadsheet?
He was actually losing money despite thinking he was a genius.
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What is arbitrage betting (surebets)?
A method that guarantees profit but has low profit percentage, little turnover, and accounts are limited quickly.
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What is value betting?
Making bets where the odds are higher than they should be, guaranteeing long-term profit.
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How much does Bet Investor cost per year?
€195 per year, compared to €195 per month for other software.
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Excel Tracking Reveals Losses
Demonstrates the importance of tracking bets to see true profitability.
01:26Arbitrage Limitations
Shows that guaranteed profit methods have downsides like low margins and account limits.
03:38Value Betting Definition
Core concept of the video: betting on odds higher than they should be for long-term profit.
05:18Scaling with Software
Illustrates how capital and software can create a snowball effect in betting profits.
06:02[00:02] life, and today I'm going to tell you how it could change yours. I probably started like all of you, placing bets I thought were impossible to lose, with good odds, or combination bets on
[00:17] sure-fire matches where betting just 5 could win me hundreds. And that's how it all began about could win me hundreds. And that's how it all began about 12 years ago. I earned money giving private lessons and spent it partying and eating at restaurants, but I
[00:33] also used some of that money for sports betting. And honestly, I didn't keep any kind of accounts. I didn't look at the money I bet, whether I won or lost at the end of the month thanks to betting. I
[00:49] simply bet when that sure-fire match came up—great, that's what had to happen. And when I lost, I cursed everything, wondering how the hell it
[01:01] had been possible. And let's not even talk about the combination bets. Obviously, not all of them came up—that's normal—but every now and then one or two would, and I'd
[01:13] one or two would, and I'd win hundreds of euros, which made me think I was obviously making a profit. However, the money kept going profit. However, the money kept going out, and I never saw
[01:26] that money coming in as profit. It was simply like the money I spent partying, money I spent. And of course, I was never going to... So I started keeping an Excel spreadsheet with all my bets. And yes, exactly what you're
[01:43] imagining happened. Even though I thought I was a genius, I was actually losing money. This period lasted about a year or a year and a half, so in 2015 I decided to
[01:55] change that. And I probably ended up where many of you must be now: hiring tipsters. They charged me about 20 a month, but on the other
[02:07] hand, they were offering incredible results. If I was betting between incredible results. If I was betting between 300 and 500 a month, paying 20 was n't a big sacrifice. But this time, I started making an
[02:22] Excel spreadsheet from scratch. After all, I'm paying for a service, and therefore I want results. So I'm going to monitor and analyze it from the beginning. The first month, the results, of course, were negative; it
[02:37] couldn't be any other way. But, well, you know how this world of tipsters works. The reading was perfect, but three shots hit the post and one hit the crossbar, and we lost the bet. We had bad luck; in the end, it rained, and you know that's not
[02:52] good for the team, or simply... Don't post anything about the loss, just put lots of green ticks or bury it under dozens of messages, but in my Excel spreadsheet, my balance was in the red. And of course, it wasn't just the first month, but also the
[03:08] second, the third, the fourth, and so on. Well, I think you all know how this works, right? If not, well, I'll leave you a video here on how to spot scammers. Despite having lost thousands of euros, I knew there had to be
[03:24] some way to make money with sports betting, so I kept researching and, of course, betting. After a year or a year and a course, betting. After a year or a year and a half, I came across arbitrage or surebets,
[03:38] which, if you don't know what it is, is also explained in the free sports betting course; you have it in the description. And I'm not going to lie to you, it's a method that works and with which you can make a little money. However, with all my
[03:52] experience, it's not the method I recommend the most. As I said, I explain it in the free course. The profit is guaranteed, but it has a low profit percentage, little turnover, and accounts are limited quickly. But I did reach the point where I
[04:08] knew it was possible to make money with sports betting. And that's all I needed. I made some money, and now I'm good. With real profits, we're not
[04:20] talking about huge amounts of money, but enough to know that it was possible to make money in this sector. And here comes the turning point that comes the turning point that changed everything. After three to five years of
[04:34] experience in the sports betting sector, I already knew that I was n't going to make money with my bets, that I shouldn't trust tipsters too much, but that it was possible to make money with sports betting, in addition to many
[04:49] other lessons, such as odds fluctuations, knowing if a bet is a winner regardless of whether the match was won or lost, and how bookmakers work. And again, all of this is explained in the
[05:03] free course, so I continued studying and learning. And I ended up arriving at value betting or positive EU betting. This is explained in the first video of the free course, but basically, it's making
[05:18] bets where the odds we were betting on are higher than the odds they should be. In this way, in the long run, you're guaranteed to make money, even though, of course, some bets will win and others will
[05:32] lose. In the long run, you're going to make money because... We're going to have some mathematically estimated profits, that is, the profits I should have with the difference in odds I've already mentioned and the profits we're
[05:48] actually making. You can check the results from Bet Investors and see that they match almost perfectly. If you want to see them, just go to the Telegram channel; in the description, click the results link. And by the
[06:02] way, you can also access the free course from there. I discovered value betting around 2017-2018, and I haven't stopped since.
[06:14] I started with the only software that sent these types of bets, and from there I these types of bets, and from there I kept adding another and another and another and another. By the way, these software programs are generally not cheap, as they
[06:27] cost around €00 per month, except for Bet Investors, which is once a year. But I'll tell you about it at the end of the video. But as I had more capital, I made more bets, therefore I earned more money, and therefore I could afford to bet
[06:43] even more, have more income and more profits. And it's at this moment that profits. And it's at this moment that the money-making cycle started, and yes, I could easily have ended up earning around €2000 or 3000 a month and live
[06:58] comfortably, however, I've always been the kind of person who, when I'm good at something, always wants more and more and more, so I started hiring people, living in different countries like London or Australia where I am right now, and
[07:12] or Australia where I am right now, and making this snowball bigger and bigger. More people working means more hours where bets can be placed, and therefore more bets placed. More bets placed means greater value
[07:25] placed means greater value generated and therefore greater profit. More countries means more accounts, which with more people means more bets and more profits. I think I've explained myself, right? If you want a video talking about
[07:38] this whole process, where instead of betting individually you practically build a multinational sports betting company, leave it in the should charge good money for a video like that, but don't worry, I'm not
[07:54] going to. To finish this whole journey in sports betting, in 2024 I decided to open a YouTube channel talking about this topic, not only to teach people about sports betting but also and above all
[08:09] to prevent people from being scammed. My initial idea was just to make the 10 or 12 videos of the free course, but The truth is, people have really liked it, and let's be honest, I've people have really liked it, and let's be honest, I've
[08:23] content too. So the idea now is to bring you a weekly video teaching everything I 've learned and also answering any questions you might have. And by the way, you also have the Bet Investor software to receive all these
[08:37] value bets, but charging 10 times less than the competition. That is, instead of the € 195 per month that these types of software charge, Bet Investors charges €
[08:51] 195 per year. Although, the best thing you can do is watch the entire free course before making any decisions. And if you then decide you want to enter this world, you can take a look at the Bet Investor software.
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