“If you don’t arrange your bets well you will still lose”: Gambling strategies of visually impaired students

in gambling activities. However, people with visual impairments’ energetic participation
in sports betting activities is unexplored. This article highlights sports betting strategies of
visually impaired students to understand how their motives affect their gambling behaviours
as an alternative to their survival. Six male adults aged between 27 and 40 years participated
using semi-structured interviews, which were conducted face-to-face, recorded,
transcribed, and thematically analysed with the Braun and Clarke model. Findings show
that sports betting prevails in communities fostering peer persuasion including family
relations serving as an inducer for visually impaired students. Their strategies are varied
including the fewer the better concept based on teams’ selection dynamics. While they
are inspired by potential economic gains, some recognise it as acquiring entrepreneurial
skills because of risk-taking, thus asymmetry and disconnected. The article recommends
stakeholders’ education to provide better policies that can remind them to bet for leisure or
desist from gambling.