How-To Never Lose a Sports Bet Again

​This is by no means expert advice, but if you are new to sports gambling, I do have a tried-and-true method to ensure that you never lose. 

A few nights ago, two of my least favorite teams in college basketball were squaring off against one another. The Duke Blue Devils and the North Carolina State Wolfpack. Now, I am a born and bred Tarheel, so naturally, I hate both schools. I can't speak for the entirety of the Carolina fan base, but for me personally, and a percentage of the fan base, we can all agree that when Duke is a good team, it is good for Carolina basketball. Nothing is more magical than when the two are ranked in the top 10 and Carolina smokes those bums in Durham. As for the North Carolina State Wolfpack, I would be perfectly okay if they never won a basketball game ever again. 

I have a lot of friends who pull for the Wolfpack, and individually, Wolfpack fans are all right; this is my best attempt to cover my ass here so I don't burn any bridges. But the fanbase as a whole is insufferable.

After Christian Laettner's years at Duke, North Carolina State became a little brother school on Tobacco Road. As Duke and Carolina consistently compete for conference and national titles, every year, now and then, North Carolina State will come out of the woodwork and make a run like the one they are currently on. 

Twenty years from now, when Duke and Carolina have won a combined five or six national titles, the Wolfpack fan base will remind us of the 2024 NCAA tournament. They will cling to that until they make another miraculous run. Rinse. Wash. Repeat.

You know, the guy that rode the bench for the local high school back in the 90s and got in one time and made a tackle who is now fifty years old, still single hitting on barely legal girls, somehow manages to bring up that one tackle in every conversation, and definitely could have gone D1 if coach let him play? That's the NC State fanbase. They refuse to let go of the one good thing that happened to them thirty years ago and try to rub it in the face of fanbases who expect that year after year. 

So let me circle back and tell you how you can never lose in sports betting because that's what this article is really about. I promise it wasn't supposed to be an NC State Roast Session, but here we are. 

Always put money on the team that you are rooting against. As a Tarheels fan, it pains me to say this, but I was cheering for the Blue Devils the other night. I do not want to give NC State fans a reason to be delusional for another 20 to 30 years. So I put money on the Wolfpack. Either the team I was rooting for would win, or I would win some money. Either way, I couldn't lose. 

I'd pay $10 to see Purdue win on Saturday night. But hey, if they don't I win $32.50. Is this a healthy mentality? Probably not, so don't listen to me. This isn't advice you should take seriously, so you can't sue me if you lose $1,000,000 betting on sports.