Football Tips: How to Handle a Losing Streak and Get Back to Punting Success

Dealing with multiple losses in a row can be psychologically challenging. Many bettors do not understand that an essential element of winning is managing your emotions. The inability to do so can lead to serious problems, such as a lack of discipline and poor money management. The ability to ride the losing streak “unemotionally” is the key to opening the door to return to profitability.

It is practically impossible to be completely devoid of emotion. But the more we understand how our emotion can influence our betting decisions, the better the results will be. Our excitement has a lot to do with our next bet.

Here are the four ways to handle the losing streak and get back to punting success:

1) Look at your losses in perspective

Accept that a losing streak is inevitable in a long football season. Don’t let emotion become your boss. Don’t complain or curse the players, the refs, the weather, the grass and anything else under the sun. The emotional outburst will cloud your perception of the gambling opportunities and dangers that lie ahead.

2) Keep your rage and anger under control

If your life and the lives of those around you are negatively affected by your losing streak, you are losing control of the situation. It is under such circumstances that you must remain focused and sane, that you have what it takes in the football betting business.

3) Stay positive

All successful bettors accept that losing streaks are part of the game. They will not lose sight of the fact that their main goal is to stay in the betting business for as long as possible. Regardless of whether they are down 10 (10 losses) or up 10 (10 wins), the true pros will act the same way according to their pre-arranged plan. They know that they are not less intelligent when they are below 10 and they also know that they are not more intelligent when they are above 10. Of course, it’s natural to feel better after a winning streak than after a losing streak. It is also easier to make the next bet after raising 10. This is really the essence of the problem, ie whether a bettor can raise to make the next sure bet after going 10 down.

Stay positive and patient. Don’t abandon the current plan that has brought you winning smiles before. A losing streak does not mean that your strategies and methods are flawed.

4) Learn from your mistakes

This is what separates the winners from the losers. Winners learn from their mistakes. If you have kept a betting log, you will have identified the causes behind losing bets. If you haven’t, the importance of a systematic betting record cannot be stressed enough.

The bet log will show you: why you win, why you lose, which league is the weakest, in which period of the football season you performed the worst (beginning, middle or end of the season), etc.

Losing is bad. But losing without knowing why is worse. The winners will know what they have to do. If they need to gain more knowledge or learn more techniques, they will do so to avoid making the same costly mistakes. But sadly, most losers don’t have a clue why they lost.

Another key feature of a betting record is that if your record shows that you have been consistently winning for the last 500 bets, the psychological effect of a 10 bet losing streak is greatly reduced.

Conclution

No matter how bad your recent results have been, they do not reflect the odds of your bets today. Just because he’s lost the last 10 bets doesn’t mean the chances of his 11th bet are bad. He continues to have the confidence in the plan and the discipline for him to follow it. You want to avoid letting a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad month damage you mentally. It is wise to remain emotionally detached from the outcome of any given day’s bets.

So what’s your reaction to your latest losing streak? Are you going to kick the cat or the dog? The measure of your return to punting success is this: if you can go up 10 or down 10 WITHOUT a sharp personality change, you’re already a winner!