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Hi everyone!

I was looking for a thread on here for the Winter Olympics to see if anyone is having a bet on the events. I couldn't find one so I thought I would make one for everyone to post their opinions on each event and who people will be betting on. This will be my first time betting on the Winter Olympics so it will be interesting to see how well I go.

If anyone knows of any BTC betting sites that are taking bets on the Winter Olympics please let me know as right now I'm just using Bet365 to make my bets on the games.

I was also looking for such a topic, so thanks for opening one  ;).
Right now I am placing my bets on Unibet, so I can not help you with a BTC betting site.

The only bet I have placed until now is over 6.5 gold medals for the Netherlands (before the tournament started).

Hello! I was just talking about the Korean events. My own personal favourite crypto bookies haven't really picked up on it, but Nitrogensports does have a decent offering, the main events are all there: skiing, hockey, even curling (yeah, I know, but it's the only sports there I sort of really understand haha). For men's curling, I'm going to omit Canada (favourites to win) and go for a three-way even ML bet on Sweden @3.0, Switzerland @13.0 and Norway @15. If Sweden win, and they've got a good chance, I don't lose any money, but if the Swiss or Norwegians win, easy x10.

Canada's hockey looks good @5.3 too...

I am wondering if the number of gold medals are the only thing that one can bet on in the winter Olympics?

I have checked for you in this section but did not any thread as you looking but still if you want to bet for the winter olympics 2018 you can check the onehash betting site.
They are one of the long term running gambling site and well known the forum to trust to play the betting you wish. I see that winter olympics on the special events in the home page left pane. Please check.

Just like to thank the ones who looked for a BTC betting site taking bets on the Winter Olympics, I guess there isn't any which is a shame. I'll just continue to bet with Bet365 then. So far I have just been betting on the Ice hockey as I know a little about this winter sport compared to the other winter sports. In the upcoming USA/Slovenia I got over 5.5 goals @ $1.70 and the USA -3 at the line @ $2.45 which is a more risky bet. Good luck to all betting on the Winter Olympics.

I'd be careful when betting on the Olympics. A lot of these events is where anything can happen, and there's always controversy with the judges and such. Gambling with the winter Olympics is really high risk risk in my opinion. Stick to what you're good at!

Yes I agree with this as I have seen some athletes do well but score very low which makes me think that they could be rigged some of the times. This is why I prefer to bet on the ice hockey as its like betting on the football with the over/under goals and the lines which I like to bet on. I think the gold medal bets are good for the countries which people think will do well.

That is quite high for their team are known to be strong at hockey and since they are the favorites to win I think I will take those odds on just a small bet.
Didn't know they offer betting on the olympics good to know that they offer some bets since covering them all would be a daughting task to try to do with the many events changing times at a moments notice.

I'll be betting on most favored odds offered by Nitrogen and try to win a portion of the prize pool that they have for the contest/promo. My strategy is not recommended because not all favored are guranteed to win i'll expect to have some losses in the way but that's how my betting goes for the Winter Olympics. 

Nitro always put up lines for the olympics and to make it more interesting they have a contest. Last olympics during 2016 they had a lottery and gave out a lot of bitcoin to those who bet.

Not familiar with the line of bets but since its Olympics then I think its better to play with those favored countries even small odds, I think it will be much better to take that risk as we see more games are regarding to the pride and honor for each players to represent their homeland, I'll be checking this out from nitro especially that contest. looking forward to see more lines coming from the house, good luck.

For some reason, I don't really like to bet on or watch the Olympics anymore, just too much scandals going on there in terms of illegal performance enhancing drugs being used by entire national teams (Russia).
And then you've got the usual stuff like corruption within the IOC. I just tend to ignore most of the event entirely nowadays.

It's not like Fifa doesn't have its scandals, but at least you can be fairly sure that the top players are clean.

Thanks for making this thread. I also want to share few my thoughts about Winter Olympics 2018.
I mostly like to watch biathlon. So far German athltes won 3 gold medals there - one by A. Peiffer and 2 by Laura Dalhmeier in women races. But finally today Marten Fourcade won pursuit race with big advantage, despite that he started only from 8th position. And it's sad that biathlon legend Ole Einar Bjørndalen didn't qualified to Olympic games, I'm a big fan of him.
It's also interesting to watch hockey. But without NHL players it's not same. But I still will try to bet on some games, but without players from NHL it's less predictable.
And I'm always trying to watch bobsleigh, luge and skeleton, I think it's the most extreme sport in olympics, and also ski jumping.
I'm rarely betting on Winter Olympic games, because I'm not expert in winter sports. I'm only betting on hockey and curling mainly.

Yes that is right but it is part of every sports, some big whales always try their best to make pollute the environment but i do not think that we should stop playing gambling on Olympic games because of such s candles or activities, because if we will miss the Olympic then we have to wait for next 5 years, Hope that this time Olympic will be free of such things.

Welcome to nitrogen sports,you can wage in for winter Olympics and there are many options and have a good time, the problem with me is that i am not used to winter sport and i do not have a clue what is happening,since in most of the events ,the prospective winner does have odds around two and the rest of the opponents are having very high odds,looks attractive but i am sticking to the games i know.  ;D

Thank you!

I will check out Nitrogen Sports and place some bets on there with some BTC I have spare. I always forget to check this BTC betting site when looking for betting sites that take BTC lol I mainly used DirectBet before they closed down which was a shame as they always took bets on the Olympics.

I have placed another bet on Thursday's Men's ice hockey between Switzerland/Canada over 5.5 goals.

Olympic hockey tournament started today and we already have 2 sensational results.
Slovakia won against Olympic Athlete from Russia team 3:2, despite that russians were leading 0:2 after scoring two early goals.
Slovenia wong against USA 3:2 after overtime. USA were also leading 0:2.
I'll just remind about tournament system. Group winners and best best second-placed will advance to quarterfinals directly, all other teams will have to play in 1/8 final.

The Slovenia/USA result was a bad one for me, it was looking very good when the USA was 2-0 up and I thought my bet looked very good for the -3 for USA to win but I give Slovenia a lot of credit for fighting backing and making the game go into OT. I also lost my bet on over 5.5 goals for this game lol so it wasn't a good day for me. I'm hoping that I can get my next bet on the Switzerland/Canada match over 5.5 goals.

Currently I only have my eyes set on the figure skating/ice skating event as that is the knly event where my country has a contestant/competitor. I’m actually not really partaking in the part for the Winter Olympic betting but I can see how people can get exctied on that especially with how escoting it is to gamble it also comes as a national pride when your country wins

I was always interested in the olympics, but was always pretty sad to see that there are not a support from the gambling websites, you can't really see a good platform to bet on olympics and it's sad that the only things that most of the gambling sites support is team-sports and tennis, you won't see sections like swimming or running although I believe that there is a demand for that.

Nitrgoensports has once did the section and soon after that they posted that they had to close it because it was hard to maintenance the lines and it had a very low demand, I really hope that another major gambling website will give a support to the olympics soon.

I must say I'm not having much luck betting on the winter Olympics this time. I am mainly betting on the ice hockey as that is a sport I like to bet on with the over/under goals but its been hard to predict as some teams that ain't all that good have been playing well. I might try and have a few bets on the other winter sports and see how I go.

You must know that hockey in the olympics is not like in the other professional leagues like the national hockey league or the russian leagues(KHL) because they don't put on the players that outperform the others. They have a rotation that they must follow so ALL players, whether they are good or bad, must play in the game and given generally the equal amount of minutes on the ice.
Just for example the team I heard are playing against the korean team are putting in a professor by trade into the net for their next game. So that right there says it all. :D
Also the womans team for another scored 8 goals against none in one game earlier in the week.
So it was definitely one-sided with this game inparticular and are should be an indicator that interleague play are never this lop sided. :-X

There are certain sports where it is hard to notice if the athlete lost deliberately. We should avoid betting on those sports.  I do bet on gold medals but it also requires a lot of reserach. To make good money there, you have to bet of countries with good potential.

Betting on the winter Olympics is not really what i would recommend, there are a lot surprises and anything can happen which makes gamblers lose a lot of money as a result.Norway seems to leading the medals race at this juncture.

Yes true! But I don't bet on the teams to win head to head and just bet on the over/under goals which is normally easier to bet on then head to head as like you said some countries don't play their best players and sometimes even rest their good players for later on in the tournament so that is why I bet on the goals. But even this has been hard to predict as I was certain that the USA/Russia game would score over 5.5 goals but it ended 4-0 with Russia winning. I don't bet big on these games as I just do it for fun as its the winter Olympics.

Today we saw amazing finnish in Biathlon mass start race. Martin Fourcade won gold medal only after phot finnish when he overcame Simon Schemp only by few centimetres.

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And today group stage in hockey tournament has ended and now pairs of 1/8 final and quarterfinal are known:
https://talkimg.com/images/2023/09/10/m00Ao.png
Winners of USA-Slovakia will meet Czech Republic, Korea/Finland will face Canada, Slovenia/Norway will play against OAR and Switzerland/Germany against Sweden.

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After first week of Olympic games, for me most memorable moment was gold medal of ex snowboarder Ester Ledecka in alpine skiing slalom giant when she won only by 0.01 second. And her reaction after finnish was priceless - when she saw results after finnish, she didn't believed that she won and thought it's mistake in results. If you didn't saw that, I strongly recommend to watch rhat episode :)

I'm enjoying watching these winter Olympic games however I'm not having much luck betting on the events lol I just have a bet to make watching more fun and entertaining, well I have only been betting on the ice hockey. Overall I'm at a loss but not a big loss as I don't bet much on the games and just do it for fun.

Norway (35 medals: 13 golds,12 silvers, 10 bronzes) and
Germany (25 medals: 13 golds,7 silvers, 5 bronzes) are literally dominating these winter olympics!

For the third place, Canada (24 medals: 9 golds, 7 silvers, 8 bronzes) and
USA (21 medals: 8 golds, 7 silvers, 6 bronzes) are fighting.

I would say this is the main thing with the Olympics, is to not bet on the games because they can be out of the ordinary results, especially in hockey with shootouts usually deciding the final result.
You definitely should just be watching them to enjoy the play of the different countries because they only come by once every 4 years. ;)

Hockey is one risky sport even though a team is down by 2 - 3 goals they could still win. It almost happened earlier with the canada vs germany match few hours ago where canada was down 0-3 and almost climbed back to tie it. I was also losing with my betting strategy but with my OAR prop bet to win the men's hockey I could break even.

The German hockey team dropped the bomb today. I had the absolute pleasure of watching the game and I have to say it was a lot of fun. I think OAR are the winner-to-be come Sunday. Nevertheless it will be another cool match to watch  ;D

Yeah, it was pleasure to watch how Germany played against Canada. But in 3rd period they were really tired and Canada was very close to equalize score.  Yeah, OAR will win probably, I hardly can see Germany making another sensation.
3rd place game between Canada and Czech Republic should be interesting, I can't predict which team have better chances to win. But honestly, I would prefer to watch classic rivalry between Canada and Russia in final :/

Yes true ice hockey is a risky sport to bet on even when I bet on the NHL its hard to predict and that is why I go with the goals over/under but in the Winter Olympics even this has been harder to predict lol. Most games where I thought more then 5 goals would be scored the opposite happens. In my opinion the NHL is much easier to get the over/under goals. As we know the Olympics are always hard to predict the outcomes which makes betting even more risky but like I have said I mainly do it for fun as its something different to bet on then the regular sports.

I expect this to be the case with high scoring games above 5.5 goals is because each game that these teams play is like a finals for them. And they are playing for their country's pride so they give their all out effort in each and every game because they all know, it will be their last if they do not produce enough goals to get to quarter finals and it is decided in a shoot out like most of the games that I have witnessed so far have been decided in this way.

Well, well, no one would have guessed US to win their first gold with the curling event. I lost all my bets on Sweden, Swiss, and Norway... guess it always pays off to pick one crazy underdog in the US, I just never saw it coming. Anyone know what the odds must have been for them? Wouldn't be surprised if it was even 100+.

Germany even knocked out Canada in ice hockey, so glad I didn't decide to take that bet. They were at @60 odds to win so you bet there'll be plenty of Germans looking forward to the last game. OAR in the final too, so I'm really wondering if I should take these kind of tourneys more seriously next time!

Yeah same, after tossing a medium bet on OAR to win at the semi finals I was thinking to roll everything on canada lucky for me I forgot to bet on that match. It's up to you if you're looking to make a profit (big or small) from this event I suggest to take it seriously.

The hockey match right now is going to a penalty shootout/overtime score ended 3-3 in regulation hoping for OAR to close this one out so my prop bet would hit.  

Sick final game dudes  ;D Germany were literally seconds away from winning lol. Fucking hilarious actually  8)

very surprising, and indeed hard to believe, this is a game and sport is difficult in tebsk. sometimes the team in the proposed can not provide the best performance. defeat at the end of time is sad  ;D

Bad luck for the Germans :). When the tournament started, bookies rated the chances of Germany to win the gold at 60 to 1  ;D.

That was an epic gold medal final that had it all. This was one of the most entertaining games of the tournament and will go down as being one of the greatest gold medal finals in Winter Olympics history. Congrats to Russia on winning their first gold medal in ice hockey for 20+ years. Overall for me betting on this tournament is a loss as many games were hard to predict but I had fun with it all. I thought overall it was a great Winter Olympic games, South Korea put on a great show!