I have played some Cash Game in the last days to unlock the chat feature and get accustomed to the UI. Saw Iv4n on the tables making big money Software/Connection is very stable, suffered no lags or disconnection. The button arrangement is a bit strange in web version, since they are positioned left hand. And the chat window is overlapping with the table, which is inconvenient:



I would recommend using the client for playing, since this is more like one is used to in other poker sites.

Unfortunately there is not a lof players. Tried to play a Sit&Go, but it takes ages to fill up

The thread you mentioned is unfortunately not self-moderated and I don't like to scroll through 20 shitposts to find a valuable one So I will keep this thread (open) for more serious, non-spammy discussions by deleting all spam and everyone, who is interested in such conversations, can feel free to contribute here. I consider the other thread for those users you mentioned and if I am only talking to myself in here, so be it

This board needs some overhaul anyway, because the amount of shitposts is just unbearable. So I think it's fine to have two seperate threads for the same event - one for spam posts and one for more quality-oriented posts. Unless the mods decide to go a different route of course and only allow one thread per event If the good posters, and there is quite a lot of them in the gambling section, are able to discuss their passion in a non-spammy environment, that is already a win in my book. There is still hope for the gambling board to not have the same fate as the Altcoin boards.

Those Playoff games will surely be postponed until further notice and now some journalist on german TV said, that UEFA will announce on Tuesday, that the Euro 2020 will be held in 2021 with all locations etc. staying the same. For Champions League there will most likely be some kind of Top8 tournament, where the teams meet in some city (he was talking about Istanbul ) and fight out the winner in knockout format during one week. Same will then go for Europa League maybe.

Looks like the 2020 NFL Draft is in danger to be postponed and also Free Agency is being discussed about. With all sports more or less on hold, I have to admit, I am a bit bored and was really looking forward to have at least FA to cheer me up. With some hope left, I had a look at the cap space from each team at spotrac:


From what I read, Bruce Arians is very interested in getting Tom Brady and TB certainly has some cap space available. Should be interesting what trades and signings will be made and tbh I find FA way more interesting than the draft, because apart from a few players, I am not very familiar with those gazillions of college players.

It's actually not the only issue with the Schwarzwaldstadion in Freiburg Their pitch is officially too short for the official Bundesliga rules. It's 4.5 meters short - needs to be at least 105 meters, but theirs is only 100.5 meters. They play with a special permit for years already. But they are building a new stadium right now, which is ready for next season and everything will be fine there

Out of curiosity I have looked for the different pitch sizes and found some information here:


So while Camp Nou is big-ish, there are other pitches with the same size or even bigger (Old Trafford). The difference to f.e. Anfield might not look big on paper, but makes quite a difference in reality imo. It's 272m² more to cover.

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Yes, good point. While the teams in Lithuania probably are used to change between artificial/natural grass by now, I remember some discussions regarding the Europa League, when teams that always play on natural grass had to go for an away game and play on artificial turf there. If I am not mistaken, there are some teams from Switzerland and Norway that play on artificial turf and were participants in Europa League in the past.

Interesting, thanks. Refs are also always a little biased towards the bigger, more well-known players/teams (without me having any data to back that up). Like for example, if Ronaldo gets tackled, the ref is more likely to blow the whistle, than when a 19-year old scrub gets tackled. As for the article mentioned above, now that I think of it, it definitely makes sense. I guess this is especially valid for possibly game-changing incidents like penalties, free-kicks near the box, handball etc. When 50,000 people scream "hand", the ref might be urged more to give a penalty for example. But with the introduction of VAR, this maybe does not have such a big impact anymore, since everything is reviewed.

I would also claim, that a ref is more likely to give a foul, when the fouled player is screaming loud and doing some Hollywood afterwards - even if there was no foul at all. Would be interested in some analysis about that

This is a private fun tournament and though some money is involved, this is not supposed to be an event to just look for your own financial benefits. You can think of it as kind of socialzing in times of social distancing due to Corona So you can judge for yourself, if it's appropriate to join with multiple accounts


Password will get posted in here tomorrow, if you don't get the password sent via PM by then.

It's definitely a very special and unique song and has over 6mln views within 24 hours

Eurovision Youtube Channel has added official videos for all countries except Albania now, which still only has a version with lyrics; guess they are still producing something after changing/modifying the song. Here is a video with a short summary of all songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkUbBsdwQvU

Here are some stats from Youtube ESC channel with views, up- and downvotes. Those Russia numbers are insane, but is has to be taken into account, that people watch their own entry the most. Lithuania and Georgia have best up-/downvote ratio and Czech Republic the worst.



Here are the odds as of March 13th 2020, taken from Bet365:



If you want to bet on some underdog, you will find way better odds elsewhere (Slovenia @760 f.e.). Quite some discrepancies sometimes between the Youtube numbers and the odds - thats the hard thing to figure out when betting. And Youtube isn't of course the only source you should look at. It just gives an idea, but more research has to be done before placing bets.

Die Kryptomärkte sind aber alles andere als effizient Das wird auch in den nächsten Jahren so bleiben mMn. Trotzdem sind so Fragen nach dem Kursverfall natürlich unnütz, da sich alles immer noch recht gleichmäßig bewegt. Coin X fällt dann halt mal um 20%, während Coin Y um 30% fällt, nicht der Rede wert. BTC-mäßig ist der Kurs von IOTA nur unwesentlich gefallen, aber BTC als Leitwährung ist halt in USD/EUR extrem gefallen und deshalb fällt dann logischerweise auch der USD/EUR Preis von IOTA/IOBA^^


Bin erstaunt, dass du davon nichts wusstest, ist eigentlich allgemeinhin bekannt, wurde hier im Thread auch schon erwähnt und die langjährigen User können sicherlich aus erster Hand davon berichten. Musst mal bisschen in den Annalen dieses Thread graben, da findest du wilde Sachen:


Aus meiner Erinnerung (was ich las), waren die User "angehalten", 5% ihrer IOTAs zu spenden, um die Foundation aufzubauen. Keine gespendeten IOTAs = keine Foundation = langsamere Entwicklung. Das Team um IOTA selber hatte ja nur die ICO Einnahmen iHv ~$500,000 und da kommt man langfristig nicht weit mit. Das gesamte Vermögen der IF besteht aus diesen damaligen 5%. Die nicht geclaimten ICO-IOTA befinden sich zudem nicht im Besitz der IF, sondern "gehören" David/JINN oder halt CfB, je nachdem, wem man nur mehr Glauben schenkt.

Sind schon ein paar Dinge sehr unsauber verlaufen imo und David hat sich privat auch unrechtmäßig die Taschen vollgemacht.

Maybe the other way round would do better - just list all the sports/leagues, that are still running From the sports I follow (a bit), only Snooker is still running. In cycling, Paris-Nice is still going, but most of the upcoming races have been cancelled as well. This will be some boring upcoming weeks, but on a positive note, once everything starts to resume again, we will have a very busy schedule. Every day will be full of sports to watch and bet on.

That is definitely true. Playing in front of your home crowd puts some additional pressure on you, but this is clearly outweighed by all the positive aspects home advantage brings.
I remember tennis player Samantha Stosur, who was Top10 player for several years. Now in tennis, there is not that much of an home advantage, since a lot of advantages don't apply here (it's really mostly the fans), but Stosur was always a nerve wreck when playing at her home Grand Slam in Melbourne. She just couldn't handle the pressure with all the Aussies expecting her to go deep and/or even win the tournament.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Stosur

She also did pretty poor at Wimbledon, which is a surprise regarding her playing style and Aussies normally doing very well on grass, but this is another story.


You can't deny the fact, that there is the factor home advantage. Just look at the records for Football, Handball, Basketball, Icehockey etc teams. 95% of them do better at home than they do in away games. When Liverpool plays ManCity at home, they definitely have higher chances of winning than playing @ManCity.

The UEFA is really creating a mess here, with allowing games to be postponed/played and not interfering. Whoever wins the Europa League/Champions League, will surely have an asterisk next to their name. Some teams will already be in QF, while others still have to play two rounds of R16. And I don't see how these postponed games should fit into the schedule, when domestic leagues are suspended too and you have to catch up there as well. Poor millionarios would maybe have to play 4 games a week and we all know, that his is not possible for them

I think postponing the Euro 2020 is something the UEFA is not really thinking about, there is too much money at stake. But it would be the best thing to do imo, to give some breathing room to the leagues and CL/EL. Just cancel that silly Nations Cup and play the Euro in 2021 then.

Really strange why they would want to promote four teams from 2. Bundesliga to Bundesliga, instead of just two, makes no sense to me (they are probably afraid of Stuttgart/Hamburg fans burning down the DFB headquarters). Would also cause some bigger domino effect into the lower leagues. But you never know with these old men running the DFB/DFL. Already looking forward to all the discussions, if this really happens. Lets hope Uli Hoeneß will make a live-call into the Check24 Doppelpass and rant about that

So here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_dWvTCdDQ4

I would have expected a little bit more tbh. Stage performance will be something to watch out for, but the song itself, hmm. Odds have gone up a bit. Already 150k+ views 38 minutes after the video was uploaded is huge though.

We finally have all songs now

Betfair is geo-restricted here too, but there are workarounds with white-label exchanges. Probably not worth it though, if you are fun bettor or only play with small stakes (no offense meant here). Will post as soon as I find markets on "normal" bookies.


It was said to be announced today, but it's already late-ish in Russia now and I haven't seen anything official

Great thread, but you should format it a bit and/or put some tables in and divide between countries or sports to make it more clear. I have lost of track of what is cancelled until now and for how long etc. In the end I would think that everything gets cancelled until further notice, but even then, we would at least have a table, where we could put the dates in when certain leagues/sports are expected to resume again - if ever

It's especially bad for the lower-ranked players money-wise. They are kind of self-employed and have some staff to pay. These players often live from paycheck to paycheck and with all tournaments cancelled, they won't earn any money for weeks/months. Their travel expenses will also be less, but some fixed costs remain. No problem for ~Top70 players, but everyone else will surely be worried.

I think they should just cancel all games, because watching Gladbach - Köln right now is just utterly boring without spectators. It's like watching some friendly match during winter break in Malaga They should just record some chants and play them over the speakers or put some music in the stadium, because this is unwatchable I'd rather watch no football at all then.

I am not sure, what the crypto books will be offering, but the FIAT bookies always have a lot of betting markets for ESC. In the past this included H2H bets, group bets, finishing Top10/Top5/Top3/last, over/under points and finishing position for countries, jury winner, televoting winner and basically anything you can think of. The inplay market at Betfair is going nuts once the points announcements start -  prices going up and down like crazy then.
A thing that is always very funny, is, when the first country announces their points from televoting. The odds for the country they give their 12 points to, will drop like crazy. And if those 12 points are maybe some friendly points (Cyprus giving 12 points to Greece), this is insane to watch, because it doesn't reflect the voting reality. But there are a lot of traders in this market and they will look to buy high and sell low.

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If this Corona virus keeps on spreading like it does, especially in the Netherlands, I fear it might have some effect on the ESC as well. Lets hope the peak is reached soon and everything gets more under control afterwards.

Yes, good points. My little list is of course not exhaustive, there are lots of other points and each sport probably has its own little details that add to home advantage. So everyone feel free to share your thoughts. I know most sports or watched them at least once in my life, but for example Cricket is something, that I have no, really no, idea about. So would be interested to hear, if in Cricket there are certain things, that add to home advantage. 


Yes, this could maybe be included in travel stress in general, but I have to admit, that I didn't have that one in mind. In Europe this is not that much of an issue, but already in the US when travelling from one coast to the other, it can be important (f.e. the NFL west coast teams playing at 1pm at the east coast). I remember, when Vladivostok was in Russian Premier League and the mostly in West Russia located teams had to travel there. It was a) a huge travel and b) some hours time difference. And vice versa, the Vladivostok team had to basically go on a world trip every two weeks for their away games


I know Barca has a huge pitch. It was intentionally designed as big as possbile to suit the playing style of them. In german Bundesliga you have Freiburg and the pitch in their stadium has some gradient (it's around 1m iirc), so for one half you would always have to play a uphill a bit.


Yep, we can witness that very well every year in NFL. Carr doesn't like to play in cold weather f.e. and going to Foxborough or Lambeau in January is even more of a problem for a lot of teams than it normally is anyway.


In the Copa Libertadores you have these teams from Ecuador (?) and Bolivia that have a huge home advantage, because they play on 3,000m+ altitude. It's extremely hard, even for way superior teams on paper, to play there, because they are just not used to it and struggle like crazy with their breathing.