Good round for Serbian teams. Crvena Zvezda won against Maccabi, though, they almost choked in the end, after wasting solid lead. Wade Baldwin, who had career night with 38 points almost made buzzer beater from the middle of court which would lead to overtime that was close.
Partizan won against Bayern confident, Virtus had no chance against Barcelona.
Interesting game between Zalgiris and Baskonia. Bookies have no favorite there, giving 1.90 for both team wins.
Efes - Real and Fenerbahche - Olimpia games postponed after terrible disaster in Turkey.

Congrats with your first earnings. It should be great feeling! I still remember my first earnings from signature campaign. Initially I didn't believed that someone can pay money for posting on forum. I realized that's real thing only after I got first BTC to my wallet.
English is widely used in Nigeria, it's official and most popular language there. So, maybe it's not so surprising that he have good English skills. And I think it's more like stereotype that people in so called third world countries don't speak English. Opposite, try to find someone talking decent English in France or Spain. Probably not easiest task.

Without age limitation it would be become more prestigous tournament. In all other sports, winning World Cup or EURO is very important, but Olympic gold is biggest achievement that you can get. And I doubt that getting medal in Olympics is among main reasons why countries invest in football development. They do it to grow up players for clubs and national team.
5 on 5 football, never heard about it. There is already 3x3 basketball or Rugby 7 in Olympics, so, why not. Or it would be interesting to see futsal or beach soccer added

It looks very different from pictograms that we had in previous Olympics. I agree with post above that some don't look clear enough to see what sport it represent. I prefer more minimalistic style.

I don't agree with you. In most sports competitions Olympic Gold medal is biggest achievement that you can get. In football, Olympics probably is just a bit more important than FIFA U-20 World championship. Without biggest stars interest in Olympic football tournament is low and probably not many can name winners of few last Olympics.
Look at basketball, NBA players have huge contracts, but they play in Olympics without getting paid for. Or best tennis players always participate in Olympics without getting rankinf points for.
In Winter Games hockey have similar problem like football. NHL don't want to release their players and without it tournament lose lot of prestige.

Finally Olympic games will be at good time for Europeans to watch. For the first time since 2012 London, we won't have to watch Olympics at night or early morning.
If you already mentioned new sports added to Olympic programme, it's worth to mention that they dropped out karate and baseball/softball.
About Russia and Belarus, don't to go into politics here, but my opinion that they shouldn't be allowed. It's not just war, but also doping issues of Russia, don't forget that in previous Olympics they had to participate as neutral athletes without a flag.

It's shocking to see huge apartment buildings falling like house of cards just in a few seconds. It's more shocking when you know that it's full of people who had no chance to survive.
My thoughts with people of Turkey and Syria who are affected by this huge tragedy.

BADecker is already doing his job in other thread.

Few days ago we discussed about potentially having Sportsbet logo on F1 car. And today watching Alfa Romeo launch, I noticed Stake logo on their car. They become name sponsors of team, deal worth $100 million in 3 years. Interesting part that they haven't even mentioned word crypto in whole their press release.
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/alfa-romeo-unveils-new-look-for-2023-f1-car/10428851/
https://www.planetf1.com/news/alfa-romeo-crypto-stake/
It's time for your move, Sportsbet!

Good, but same as always . But in general, 2023 cars in launch looks almost same like last season. Teams don't want to show their real cars now.

It sounds shady and I think that people who will get involved here may get serious problems and risk isn't worth money that you can earn potentially. After all, it's illegal immigration. I'm not very familiar with this stuff, but how it's possible to employ person who don't even have permission to be in that country.
I think it's very likely that not just these poor migrants, but also people who will help will get scammed or will have problems with law enforcement.

Finally had time to read everything. It would be great to get into Division 1, but getting into lower division wouldn't be less interesting for me. Trying to get promoted also sounds fun. Prediciting American football, cricket or e-sports sounds a bit scary for, but as you said, it will be football mainly and major sports like tennis, basketball or F1, I'm ok.
Really liked World Cup competition, can't wait for this one to begin. You guys together with Sportsbet come with really big thing, I'm more than confident that all 3 divisions will get filled fully.

You raised good question, but I don't think that new board is needed. It's likely that spammers simply will move to this board. Maybe one pinned topic about gambling awareness in gambling board  is needed with important information and warnings.
Also, in general, here on Bitcointalk gambling is only shown in positive way without showing dark side of it. Maybe it's not perfect example,but I think that in Gambling/Gambling discussion board similar warnings like we have in Investor based games section is needed.

Thanks, guys! Didn't had much time over the weekend and didn't checked forum actively, so, offcourse I had to miss something very interesting . Checked how this competition is going to work and damn, it's big thing.
Back to La Liga, backing Rayo to win tonight.

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Typical game of Barcelona, it's completely one-sided, but again they struggle to make something dangerous. But as Xavi said, at this time of season with intensive calendar getting 3 points is most important thing, rather than trying to score as many goals possible. So, we can expect another game with 1:0 score, but so far in 2nd half Barca struggle.

Elche win had to happen sooner or later, but it wasn't easy to expect that they will do it against Villarreal. But it was deserved.
Probably worst round in betting for me. Backed Villarreal, Betis and Real Sociedad. BTW, wtf Betis 3:4 Celta, that's crazy.
I don't even talk about Real loss, but my money wasn't there and it's great result for Barca. Atletico draw with Getafe probably is least surprising thing last round.

That's great to hear, I definitely will join it. Please post message here when you will start, I don't want to miss .

Widzew - Jagiellonia game also were suspended for some time due to heavy snow, but when it stopped, they resumed game. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think it's a bit too early to end winter break in end of January - beginning of February. Other leagues in this region resume their action a bit later, closer to end of February.
Both leaders got their wins, Rakow won 1:0 against Piast, Legia won 1:2 away against Zaglebie.

That Feyenoord draw with Feyenoord goes against logic. Feyenoord dominated game, especially in 2nd half, but PSV managed to score 2nd goal when they already were one man down. After all, Feyenoord made comeback to 2:2, thanks to Jahanbakhsh goals, but draw isn't good outcome for both teams.

Seems that Ajax is back on track. Very comfortable win against Cambuur and completely all their main opponents - Feyenoord, PSV, Twente and AZ dropped points. Twente and AZ done it against weak teams.

Interesting idea. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think I remember some users having QR codes on their avatars in past. Question how effective and actively used it would be. After all, most users who aren't in signature campaigns don't free place in their avatar area. Also, I doubt that many just would scan that code. Probably some text under avatar in personal text area is needed to attract user to scan it. Something like ''Scan QR ^{insert your phrase here}''. And as Loyce said, QR's don't work on websites that well. It fits better for TV screens, street billboards, paper and etc.

Solid game of Partizan in front of 15k Zalgiris fans. When make 60% successful 3-pt attempts, you simply can't lose. As I said earlier, it may be one of key games in fight for Top 8. But everything is so close that few wins or losses can change situation dramatically. I hope that Euroleagye is considering to introduce play-in like in NBA because now tournament is so competetive that 8 places isn't enough.
In other game Olympiacos achieved important win against Efes and now leading together with Real. While current champions Efes now is just 11th.

Main game today probably is Olympiacos - Efes. Currently Oly is leading Euroleague and they are undefeated for long time. Efes is still fighting for Top8 and still aren't playing stable. Bookmakers are favouring Olympiacos clearly - 1.65 for their even, despite that they will play without Sloukas again.

Zalgiris looks very vulnerable now without their main guard. They were destroyed by weak PAO last week, also lost Lithuanian league game, what happens rarely. So, 1.71 odds looks q bit strange, I would avoid it. It can be one of key games for both teams in fight for Top 8

Maybe it wouldn't look good on Aston Martin British racing green color, but yeah, on Mercedes it should look great. I think it also wouldn't look bad on Ferrari .
There was a lot of crypto related sponsors in F1 in recent years, but I think we didn't had any sportsbook there so far. So, it would be cool to see Sportsbet logo there one day.

Thanks for update! But fact that significant number of people from this list become scammers or ruined their reputation. Escrow isn't just some random service, it's thing where people trust other poeple with their money, and often it's big money. It shows that even most trusted members can turn into scammers one day, especially when there is big money on the table.

No idea, maybe someone who have closer contact with him may know. But seems that he is another famous Bitcointalk member who disappeared strangely :/.