Would you ever bet against United?

comment by Slack Alice: Amorimmers Are Anti United (U9489)
posted 9 hours, 32 minutes ago
Sociedad have been garbage this season, surprisingly so. Inamol looks like he’s off too and he’s been there ages.

We will beat them 3-1.
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This aged well

2.25 is 9/4.

comment by Melbourne Red (U5417)
posted 1 second ago
2.25 is 9/4.
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5/4, apologies.

comment by Melbourne Red (U5417)
posted 8 hours, 45 minutes ago
comment by Melbourne Red (U5417)
posted 1 second ago
2.25 is 9/4.
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5/4, apologies.
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You were right the first time surely?
2.25 x 4 = 9

for decimal odds to fraction, you take 1 off the decimal first to get the fraction odds. With decimal, it effectively 'includes your stake' when it is stated.

So 2.25 is the same as 5/4

Going to the Op, I could never back against Utd, and don't understand people who can bet against their team.

Because of the 'emotion involved', I rarely back Utd outright, because it may be more hope than a genuine belief that they will win.

Tend to do a bet builder type bet if a Utd game, so I don't need to rely on them to win

comment by kinsang (U3346)
posted 41 minutes ago
for decimal odds to fraction, you take 1 off the decimal first to get the fraction odds. With decimal, it effectively 'includes your stake' when it is stated.

So 2.25 is the same as 5/4
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Gotcha

comment by kinsang (U3346)
posted 2 hours, 57 minutes ago
Going to the Op, I could never back against Utd, and don't understand people who can bet against their team.

Because of the 'emotion involved', I rarely back Utd outright, because it may be more hope than a genuine belief that they will win.

Tend to do a bet builder type bet if a Utd game, so I don't need to rely on them to win
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It's easy if you are not blind to your teams faults.
Betting against your own team doesn't mean you want them to lose, it just means you are able to use all the knowledge you have of the team you watch every game to benefit yourself when they do lose.

You have to take emotion out of betting.

comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 1 day, 19 hours ago
comment by kinsang (U3346)
posted 2 hours, 57 minutes ago
Going to the Op, I could never back against Utd, and don't understand people who can bet against their team.

Because of the 'emotion involved', I rarely back Utd outright, because it may be more hope than a genuine belief that they will win.

Tend to do a bet builder type bet if a Utd game, so I don't need to rely on them to win
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It's easy if you are not blind to your teams faults.
Betting against your own team doesn't mean you want them to lose, it just means you are able to use all the knowledge you have of the team you watch every game to benefit yourself when they do lose.

You have to take emotion out of betting.
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In folk are content to make money by betting against their team, that is their prerogative, but I just don't like that feeling.

My view is that I don't need to go into that conundrum - it just doesn't feel right and it wouldn't make me feel any better winning a few quid, knowing that Utd has lost.

So a simple bet builder to keep things interesting for me, but there's enough other things to bet on that no need to get involved in backing against Utd

So I remove any emotion by not

Might bet against em today losing by 5+