Because smart betting is about edges, not guesses
Let me paint a picture for you.
Sports betting has frustrated you lately. Even when you have a hot streak, your winnings slowly seep away. You try to avoid the inevitable deposit of another $50 into your sportsbook account, but nevertheless the day arrives. Surely something must exist out there to give you an advantage.
You stumble across several outlets on the Internet: a guy on Instagram who wants to give you his daily “lock” (and then you see his daily bets are -200, -250, -190 odds). You trip into a Twitter handicapper who is +120 units for the season in baseball (and then you play their plays and wake up to a “sorry, guys, back to the lab!” with a hook emoji). You become flummoxed by a handful of vague, shady-looking websites that use AI and advanced analysis tools that claim to pump out winning bets (and then you start a free trial and lose 3 of the 5 bets recommended and cancel the trial). You will ultimately try another similar tool down the line, and perhaps get the same results.
Have I produced a pretty Picasso for you?
Well, allow me to tell you how you are going to right the ship and turn your personal franchise around. Using an AI tool, like anything else, takes practice. The assumption most people have is that they will sign up for an AI tool, they will ask a few ham-handed questions, and get a list of winners ready to line their pockets with boatloads of money. If it was that easy, everyone would do it, everyone would win, and sportsbooks would be shut down in a week. If you come into AI sports betting analysis with that attitude, yeah, you’re going to cancel that subscription and perhaps fire off some angry feedback about the tool “not working”.
So here is what you’re going to do instead. For starters, you are not only going to sign up for a free trial, you’re going to commit to sticking with EdgeHawk for 3 months. Begin with the starter plan if you want. That will be 60 bucks out of your pocket. Treat it like tuition—money spent to learn the tool.
Then you are going to invest the time tinkering with the tool. Click on several events and get the analysis. Save a few bets you don’t plan to place, just to see how they play out. Pick a few that you find intriguing and read the analysis. Perhaps ask follow up questions. Learn how to ask questions that guide the tool to what you really want to see. If you have the pro-tier membership, use the bankroll feature to assess risk management. Set realistic expectations for your growth over time.
Wait, what? Read? Think a little harder? Yeah—it’s going to take some work, but take a look at where you are in 90 days. Make sure you have a large sample size of information before deciding if this is worth it or not. With a smart, disciplined approach, a 60% win rate is not out of reach, and should be considered a success. Good gamblers live off of small margins; win 52% of the time this week, 61% of the time next week, 58% the week after. That’s the math of it: small gains over time that have a big impact on your bottom line.
Grab a brush. Time to paint a new picture for yourself.