I am MB, the founder of this site, Bet Analyst, Entrepreneur, and Sports Betting Consultant. I want to quickly share my story, my ideas, and my philosophy of betting and life. My whole work is dedicated to making a positive impact on Sports Bettors Lives all over the World.
Before we continue, I want to thank you for taking your time and reading this.
I was born in 1980 in a small town in Europe. My parents always told me, go to college, get a job and this is formula for happy life.
I love them with all my heart and I couldn’t be this person without them. But I ignored that advice later when I was in college. They lived in some other political system, without internet and since then things have changed dramatically.
I went to college, I was studying Water Science and Environmental Engineering. But never finished it, despite I passed most exams and at the end I even almost decided to finish it.
But I didn’t and this was the best decision, because I would never be a good Engineer. You must love what you do and I didn’t love that. However, I learned a lot in the college, especially how to use statistics and without this knowledge and without college, I couldn’t become what I am now.
I am huge believer in “it is more important how you make money, than how much you make” and I always loved two things: Sports and Mathematics.
My father was a goalie for a local football team and a professor of mathematics. He showed me the love for sports and mathematics and more importantly, he showed me how two think like a mathematician.
After I saw, that I can combine those two things, I knew it. This is it.
And this is how my sports betting journey begins…
I made my first bet somewhere in high school. There was no restrictions and after the school we went to a local betting shop and we made bets. It was more for fun. But I knew that this is something, that exits and if you bet and if you predict the winner you can make money.
Of course I didn’t make any money,…
In 1999 I moved to college and learned basics about statistics and mathematics. Because of that I already understood what are the odds, what are the margins and many other things, that most sports bettors didn’t understand.
I also saw, that my local bookmaker don’t move the lines, when at the same time some other online bookmakers moved the line dramatically. It was easy to bet only on bookmakers mistakes.
I paid more and more attention to sports betting and I was really successful back than. My local bookmaker closed combination at the same time, when I bet and sometimes I asked my friends to go to bet with me at the same time on different locations.
I started to read more about sports betting, about money management and I also started following all kind of betting forums, portals, etc.
But the things have changed. My local bookmaker didn’t make big mistakes anymore and I knew, that I need to adopt to new situation…
I knew, that betting on local bookmaker, which has big margins is not profitable anymore. This is why I started betting online. During all those years, I had couple of side jobs and I also studied at the same time. But the more and more I was involved in sports betting world, the less motivation I had for my college.
I was reading books, forums, articles, everything related to sports betting. I started analysing games and making my own bets. At the same time I knew how important analytics is and I knew, that if I will watch games and read news will not be enough at some point.
I knew from my college, that if you want to be successful in the world of data and the numbers, which sports betting definitely is, you must take analytical approach. If not, it is only matter of time, when you will lose.
The most success I had in tennis, basketball and US Sports.
At one point I decided, that I will specialise for one or two sports and I will go as deep as possible. After I made research I decided for US Sports. Mostly MLB baseball. Why? Because no other sports has that many games in half year. And this is not all. Baseball is probably sport with most historical data on the internet.
I was very successful back then, but I also had ups and downs which are completely normal in high speculative business, like sports betting. I was working for some sites and portals and at some point I was also selling picks. People would pay me a lot for my advice.
I didn’t like this job too much, because the business model of selling picks can not give true value to bettors – in fact ti can put them in much much bigger troubles.
But I experienced this too and I saw everything what is wrong in sports betting world, how people think and why they lose all the time.
Selling picks was not the best decision I made and I didn’t like it, despite I made good results.
Most people don’t understand the basics and most people are gamblers, who are looking for someone, that will make them rich over night.
Majority of them don’t have discipline, knowledge strategy or money to bet.
Beating bookmakers, which are smarter and smarter every day is not easy, especially if you don’t have skill and the knowledge to bet.
To make money with betting on sports requires not only good predictions, but also a lot of discipline, good strategy, selection of good bookmakers and couple of other things.
Because most people just wanted to get picks, so they can bet everything they have in very short time with the hope of big return, they were basically gambling and it was only a matter of time, when one game or one bad streak will kill their bankrolls.
It is a story that many bettors face. Maybe you faced this story too.
Once I fully understand betting market, the odds and everything else, I felt that is is unethical to sell picks. Picks on the long run will hurt bettors, who have no other skills.
It would be like a selling a bomb to someone, who don’t know how to use it. Unfortunately there are still a lot of very bad sports betting services, that sell picks and take money from foolish people…
This is why I decided, that I will not sell picks anymore. It is not for me, I don’t like it, It gives almost no value to bettors and it simply doesn’t work for most people.
I was still betting, improving and during this time I went trough very bad and very good days in my life, like we all do. I got married and my daughter was born.
Despite there was a lot of changes in my life, I was thinking how to help people, how to give them something, that will really help them to understand sports betting world and how to help them, that they can make money.
I was thinking about this for whole year.
At the same time I was still betting, creating models, testing the models and doing what I love.
When you look around you see a lot of betting services, that sell picks. I would say, that they sell unrealistic dreams. I didn’t want to sell “bombs” to people, who don’t know how to use them.
I asked myself, what I want to do and what I want to become. I want to help people in sports betting world, I want to be different and I want to generate more incomes – from sports betting world and everything that is connected with it, including cryptocurrencies.
Rich people and the smartest investors generate more incomes. In average 7 different income streams and betting on sports is just one.
I wanted to generate more different income streams.
This is why I made step forward and I started to learn basic programming. I believe, that code will be very important in the future, so I need at least some basics.
I took programming courses and this is how I gained enough knowledge to create this site in wordpress.
Not only that I made this site for myself, I have created couple of other basic sites too.
I started to learn about marketing and become an affiliate for the best sites, that I use and I like.
I researched other investment option, that are related to sports betting world. I started to learn and invest in cryptocurrencies.
With this I generated more incomes and betting on sports became one of many.
At the same time I was still thinking how to help people to make money in sports betting. What they need, why they lose, what is that missing part?
I decided to create an online betting course called A-Journey.
I love sports, math and betting. I don’t sell any picks – I share them for free.
I want to help people with the advice, that they really need, not some picks.
At the same time I show you through my own experiments exactly how you can become better bettor and make a business from sports betting.
This is how I am different from all other betting sites and bettors.
I am sports betting entrepreneur, mentor, coach, tipster, handicapper, bettor, investor,… and my mission with my site is to teach you how to make money in sports betting world. Betting on one game is just one of many opportunities, that sports betting world offers.
My moto is:
I love watching movies and documentary films: There are many great movies that I watched and my favourite are: Shawshank Redemption, American history x, The Deer Hunter, Casablanca, Forrest Gump, Rudy, It’s a Wonderful Life,…
I love nature and freedom: I am not big fan of big cities, crowd, lights, etc… I like nature, I could sit whole day in the forrest, reading book, watching trees and listening birds.
I love soccer: When I was younger, I played soccer in my town, where I was born. I played in third national league at some point, but after I went to the college, I played less and less. I will remember those days forever. It was so beautiful and peaceful after every training. Small village, green nature, playing for fun and relaxing with friends after training. The times that I have experienced in my old village, I never experienced when I moved to bigger city. Sometimes I felt, that the time stopped.
I love cryptocurrencies and new technology that is coming: I am huge believer in cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. I think this is a game changer. A lot of things will change in next few years. When dotcom happened I was young and didn’t pay attention. When bitcoin happened, I knew it but didn’t invest in bitcoins. In 2016 I started to pay attention to blockchain technology, bitcoins, cryptocurrencies and I don’t want to miss this train now. A lot of people are sceptical, like they were sceptical with every new technology, but I am confident that this is a HUGE. I love sports betting, but investing NOW in cryptocurrencies and blockchain companies can make us a millionaires in the future. A lot of people think, that bitcoin is the whole story. No it is not, bitcoins are just one small piece of whole story. Imagine that bitcoin is just email and blockchain is internet if we go back couple of years. Blockchain is a game changer, like it was an internet.
I love reading books: When I was in high school I didn’t read books. I just read what I need to read for school. But when I was 18 years old, my aunt gave me one book from Sarah Jeffers – Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway. Since then I like to read books that helps me to grow.
I love to motivate young people: I love when I see other people’s success and I am rewarded if I help them. Yes, it is probably selfish too, but at least it is a good intention.
I love animals and my dog: I like animals and I like my dog.
I love my country, my family and I am grateful that I was born here: I am grateful that I was born in one of the most beautiful, most progressive and most successful countries in the world. Slovenia is at the top in blockchain, Slovenia is one of the safest countries in the world and I think that our country is nice example of combination of Balkan relaxing culture and German discipline. This is just my personal opinion. With only 2 million people, we were two times at soccer world cup, we are European basketball champions with couple of current and ex-NBA players (Dragic, Nachbar, Brezec, Nesterovic,…future: Doncic), we have less ice hockey players, than Canada arenas and we are constantly on ice hockey olympics and we have outstanding player in NHL (Kopitar). We are amazing in ski jumping, where we have couple of champions (Peterka, Prevc,…), we have most successful alpine ski racer of all time (Tina Maze), we are very good in handball (Eurpean Champions Celje, silver medal European Championship) and more and more…. First Lady in USA is from Slovenia. President of UEFA is from Slovenia (Aleksander Čeferin). World’s famous philosopher is Slovenian (Slavoj Žižek). And there is more and more… It is a huge percentage of very successful people from a population of only 2 million. I am very happy and grateful that I was born here.
Ljubljana, capital:
Cheers, MB
Contact: mb@underdogchance.com