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1941  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 🥊 The UFC Info and Prediction Thread on: November 21, 2022, 01:38:40 PM
Very disappointed to see the previous UFC fight night main event got cancelled, however the next UFC event is also fight night and it will happen on December 4 or next 2 weeks. I think the next main event would be more interesting since Thompson vs Holland is 50/50, much harder to predict. The other match is also interesting to watch: Barberena vs Dos Anjos, Nicolau vs Schnell and Tuivasa vs Pavlovich.



UFC Fight Night Quick Card:

Date:  December 3, Saturday
Main Card:  9pm ET
Preliminary Card:  7pm ET
Venue:  Amway Center, Orlando, Florida


Main Card
Stephen Thompson  vs.  Kevin Holland 170 lbs
Rafael dos Anjos  vs.  Bryan Barberena 170 lbs
Matheus Nicolau  vs.  Matt Schnell 125 lbs
Tai Tuivasa  vs.  Sergei Pavlovich 265 lbs
Derek Brunson  vs.  Jack Hermansson 185 lbs
Eryk Anders  vs.  Kyle Daukaus 185 lbs

Preliminary Card
Niko Price  vs.  Philip Rowe 170 lbs
Angela Hill  vs.  Emily Ducote 115 lbs
Clay Guida  vs.  Scott Holtzman 155 lbs
Michael Johnson  vs.  Marc Diakiese 155 lbs
Darren Elkins  vs.  Jonathan Pearce 145 lbs
Tracy Cortez  vs.  Amanda Ribas 125 lbs
Natan Levy  vs.  Genaro Valdéz 155 lbs
Francis Marshall  vs.  Marcelo Rojo 145 lbs
Yazmin Jauregui  vs.  Istela Nunes 115 lbs

Source: https://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/events/91801-ufc-fight-night

^  Added a little more info there.  I hope you don't mind...

Anyway, that's a decent event for just Fight Night.  Make the main event a championship event and it could pass for a PPV event imho...  At first glance, it's a parlayable event with the favorites looking like their opponents won't give them any surprises.  Except maybe for a couple or so of them.  Brunson could surprise Hermansson, so will Schnell and Michael Johnson.  And prolly even Guida..?  :/

And the books have Thompson vs Holland as a coin flip.  I think Thompson is washed and Holland might look like more than a 1.50 favorite.
1942  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Motosport General discussion tread --- Formula1, MotoGP, WTCC, ETCC, DTM..... on: November 20, 2022, 03:27:29 PM
Verstappen won 15 of the 22 races. Is anyone ever going to beat that record again? Certainly at the beginning of the season, no one saw that coming. At the beginning of the season, Leclerc was still able to catch up, but after that it was over for Ferrari. It's a pity for Perez that he didn't manage to get 2nd place, otherwise he would have also taken 2nd place in the general classification. All in all, a supsr season for Red Bull, and let's hope that next season will be a lot more exciting and that Hamilton can also participate in the title fight.

I don't we could say that it's really surprsing or 'no one saw it coming'.  At the start of the 2022 season, anybody who follows F1 more closely would already have some sort of inkling that either Verstappen or Hamilton could somewhat win majority of the races with Leclerc as the dark horse.

So who watched the race?  And how was it?  I should have watched it as it was Vettel's final race but I forgot.  Lol.  I already liked him when everybody was annoyed by him and the finger during his younger years.  Cheesy  But in the end he was one of the most liked personalities in the sport.  He's a good guy.
1943  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: Duelbits.com | Golden Boot ~ Win $250 by guessing top scorer/total goals! on: November 20, 2022, 03:16:18 PM
Kylian Mbappe (11 Goals)
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1944  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: Duelbits.com | World Cup Predictor ~ Win $500 by guessing Group/Final Outcome! on: November 20, 2022, 03:11:36 PM
Group A: Netherlands
Group B: England
Group C: Argentina
Group D: France
Group E: Germany
Group F: Belgium
Group G: Brazil
Group H: Portugal

Winner:  France
Total goal in final:  5 Goals
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1945  Economy / Speculation / Re: Markets pumped quick after CZ said this, but don't FOMO yet! on: November 19, 2022, 05:45:37 PM



This surely does not mean that the markets will revive so fast the way we saw during previous bull runs. Firstly Luna and then FTX have worsened everything, else we were going to see some great moves during November and December.

My take...  Great moves, nope.  But yeah I think November or December could've been a bit better for BTC if the whole FTX thing didn't happen.  But then again and I'm not trying to break everybody's bubble, but December historically hasn't really been good for BTC or altcoins.

Now I know I've been saying that the bottom could be in but looking at the chart again now makes me feel like it could go for another leg down.  Dunno...
1946  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Motosport General discussion tread --- Formula1, MotoGP, WTCC, ETCC, DTM..... on: November 19, 2022, 05:09:49 PM
^  At this point of the season, I hope something exciting happens.  Lolol.

Mercedes are just as most people expected. They are stronger from now on and they are again a big challenge for Red Bull drivers. I think we will watch another domination by Russell and Hamilton on podium. This time Hamilton might go for the win on his last attempts for a win in this season. Russell got his first career win in the previous race so he might race a little more comfortably maybe.

I'm curious about what Perez and Verstappen will do this time as well. After the recent incidents I can't predict what can happen if we see some competition between them in the race.

In the end, it's F1 after all...  And in order to get pole position and win races, you need a really good car besides having a really good driver.  That's why Mercedes dominated the sport for 8 years prior to Red Bull winning it with Verstappen last season.

Anyway here are the results for quali.  I didn't watch it because I...  forgot.  Lmao.  And I didn't really care much about it anymore and had no interest taking a little action in it as the lines really have no value.  The books have gotten really sharp.

2022 F1 Abu Dhabi GP Qualification Results

1   Max Verstappen   NED   Oracle Red Bull Racing   1m24.754s   1m24.622s   1m23.824s
2   Sergio Perez   MEX   Oracle Bull Racing   1m24.820s   1m24.419s   1m24.052s
3   Charles Leclerc   MON   Scuderia Ferrari   1m25.211s   1m24.517s   1m24.092s
4   Carlos Sainz   ESP   Scuderia Ferrari   1m25.090s   1m24.521s   1m24.242s
5   Lewis Hamilton   GBR   Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team   1m25.594s   1m24.774s   1m24.508s
6   George Russell   GBR   Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team   1m25.545s   1m24.940s   1m24.511s
7   Lando Norris   GBR   McLaren F1 Team   1m25.387s   1m24.903s   1m24.769s
8   Esteban Ocon   FRA   BWT Alpine F1 Team   1m25.735s   1m25.007s   1m24.830s
9   Sebastian Vettel   GER   Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant Formula One Team   1m25.523s   1m24.974s   1m24.961s
10   Daniel Ricciardo   AUS   McLaren F1 Team   1m25.766s   1m25.068s   1m25.045s
11   Fernando Alonso   ESP   BWT Alpine F1 Team   1m25.782s   1m25.096s   
12   Yuki Tsunoda   JPN   Scuderia AlphaTauri    1m25.630s   1m25.219s   
13   Mick Schumacher   GER   Haas F1 Team   1m25.711s   1m25.225s   
14   Lance Stroll   CAN   Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant Formula One Team   1m25.741s   1m25.359s   
15   Zhou Guanyu   CHN   Alfa Romeo F1 Team Orlen   1m25.594s   1m25.408s   
16   Kevin Magnussen   DEN   Haas F1 Team   1m25.834s       
17   Pierre Gasly   FRA   Scuderia AlphaTauri   1m25.859s       
18   Valtteri Bottas   FIN   Alfa Romeo F1 Team Orlen   1m25.892s       
19   Alex Albon   THA   Williams Racing   1m26.028s       
20   Nicholas Latifi   CAN   Williams Racing
1947  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: MMA Info and Predictions - Bellator, KSW, PFL, ONE... on: November 19, 2022, 04:45:11 PM
Did anybody watch ONE FC?  Christian mother fking Leeeee!  The guy is one tough mother fker!  He just won another belt at ONE's 170 weight class in what was a really good match albiet both got a bit fatigued.

In hindsight, I think Lee's camp knew their guy could take on Abbasov as Abbasov just fought at 205 and lost and it's a huge weight cut going back to 170.  And it showed as Abbasov missed weight.  Christian Lee went in there as the fresher guy being a true 155'er moving up in weight.  So that means almost no weight cut needed for him.
1948  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 🥊 The UFC Info and Prediction Thread on: November 19, 2022, 04:31:33 PM
Fialho has a lot of potential, but he's not very versatile at the moment. I remember when he went on that little mini run of wins, and was basically fighting every two week period until he got humbled. Hopefully, he's learnt from that, and put the work in training. He needs to get better at grappling, and wrestling, and not load up on every single shot he throws.

If he continues to do what he has been doing the past year, and a bit. I think he'll lose this weekend's fight. Although, I do like him, as I said I believe he has a lot of potential, which hopefully won't be wasted. I don't think he's champion material, don't get me wrong. However, he's a fun fighter, albeit a little low on the volume side of things.

Yup as a pick I got Fialho just because of the age.  Salikhov is 38 and he didn't look the same at his last fight vs Jingliang Li.  Now I know Li is higher level of an opponent but still, Fialho can pack a punch and is one tough dude.  Overall it's tough to pick between the two and the lines show it...  It's a coin flip.

Salikhov fought better competition, he has more experience but the age..  Fialho, younger, tougher but fought mostly low level guys in the UFC and lost his biggest test in Jake Matthews.  So dunno...  But is the UFC throwing him a bone by matching him up vs a guy who could be on his way out in Salikhov?
1949  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: Bitcasino.io 💜 — Bitcoin Predictor November 🚀 - TOP 3 share 15 mBTC! on: November 18, 2022, 05:46:10 PM
15000 EUR

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1950  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: ETH Sentiment Poll for November on: November 18, 2022, 05:42:54 PM
^  It's part of an overall trading strategy aka the stop loss.  Go long or short on a coin at some price then set the stop loss if the coin goes below or above some level from the price.  Stop loss placement depends on the trader tho.  Some traders like using a stop loss based on volatility while other traders like to use support and resistance levels. 

And it's easy to say 'sell now' and wait for a dump.  But what if the dump never comes and ETH starts rising higher then your sell price?  Sometimes it's better to get confirmation from the market then react than to anticipate it.
1951  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: Doge can it go 1$ on: November 18, 2022, 05:29:34 PM
Doge can go 1$ many people waiting that.

Based on what?  Just because people want it to go up doesn't mean it should or it will.  A lot of people want to win the lottery doesn't mean they are gonna win.  Tell me one reason why doge shoukd go to a $1 from where we are at here.  Market sucls and doge has 10,000 new coins minted every minute forever.  Demand needs to forever grow otherwise it will drop in value.  Supply and demand rules.  No doge shouldn't go to $1.

It's getting close tho and it did out pace BTC for the last couple of bull markets with the last bull market being its biggest move to date.  I'm not saying the next bull market would surely bring DOGE to 1 USD but I don't know man, anything is possible with how insane everything is in crypto.    

And who knows...  ETH could even flip BTC in market cap.  Again not saying it's a sure thing but I think it's better to be ready for all scenarios.
1952  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ⚽ FIFA World Cup 2022: Tournament Discussion Thread for Qatar 2022 on: November 18, 2022, 04:35:20 PM
^  Meh..  Everybody should just ignore all the stuff that has nothing to do with the World Cup and enjoy the event for what it really is.  A tourney.  Too many people in the world are taking themselves too seriously these days and want us to take them clowns seriously.  Lol.  No thank you.

Anyway, FJ has a free to play bracket challenge for the WC.  First prize is 20k USD.  Not bad for a free game.  But terms and conditions apply tho, so expect KYC if you win.

https://fortunejack.com/promotions/world-cup-bracket
1953  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: MMA Info and Predictions - Bellator, KSW, PFL, ONE... on: November 18, 2022, 03:58:40 PM
^  Corey Anderson was owning Nemkov for all the rounds while the fight lasted.  He was cruising to a win.  I'm not sure if he could do it again this time tho as Nemkov has an idea what to expect from Anderson.  And that's the wrestling.  I hope Nemkov worked on his TD defense so we get to have a more competitive match up unlike last time.  If not for the clash of heads, Anderson would've been the champ.

Besides the main event and co main, the rest of main card looks decent judging from the fighters' records.

Edit:  This looks like it's gonna be good...

https://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/bouts/692230-one-on-prime-video-4-kiamrian-brazen-abbasov-vs-christian-the-warrior-lee

I think Christian Lee loses this one.  The other guy is yuuuge.
1954  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 🥊 The UFC Info and Prediction Thread on: November 18, 2022, 03:27:16 PM
Anyway let's move forward, who do you guys got this weekend?

Do you think Ion Cuțelaba gonna make his usual "shout on opponent" during staredowns ? Cheesy

I think I am gonna watch main event and Cutelaba fight. This is going to be a hard (mentally) fight for Lewis. Spivak isnt easy opponent. Lewis has a series of two losses.

Some news: It was said Chimaev next opponent is going to be Covington, but he has signed the contract yet. Dana White said, that UFC matchmakers are considering Shavkat Rakhmonov to be Chimaev next opponent then, but they havent decided yet, should Rakhmonov have one more fight before facing Chimaev or not.



Cutelaba will look good in the first round and half of the second round then start gassing out if he doesn't finish Nzechukwu.  But the thing with Nzechukwu is he seems like he doesn't have some sort of killer instinct.  I'd pick Nzechukwu to win but I'd be wary to make a bet with how juiced the line is.  It's prolly good as a live bet after R1.  Stake has live betting now.

And nooooo!  Why do they have to do Rakhmonov like that?  Chim should fight Covington and use that as some sort of stepping stone for Chim to go for the title if he wins.  Rakhmonov should fight Burns to rank up or Masvidal to build up some hype.

Weigh ins for the event start in 30 mins or so...

UFC Fight Night 215:  Live Weigh In
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct4eki8wMT8
1955  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 🥊 The UFC Info and Prediction Thread on: November 17, 2022, 02:00:34 PM

I have not yet seen this news about suspension for 60 days anywhere. Yes, the revenge will be interesting to watch, but in general the fight will most likely be the same, Adesanya will wait for his chance if Pereira allows him to do it, now he has already realized that he has a clear advantage in close fight, and he will try to take advantage of this. Adesanya said before the fight that it was personal to him, perhaps this was what prevented him from winning.

As I have said it was for health protocol, and I should have clarified that it was a medical suspension and not just only Adesanya but 19 fighters in the event were given a medical suspension to recuperate from the fight, and if you want to read it here in the Article, and what Adesanya has shown on the fight could be his triumph card against Alex Pereira, but surely a rematched is fitted for these two fighters,


This will certainly surprise a lot of people because I think most people thought that Israel Adesanya is going to win this fight against Alex Pereira. I am quite sure that he was a hit in terms of score. And if this was not a knockout, I am also quite sure that Israel Adesanya would have won the fight.

But that one slip in the fifth round cost him the fight. At the end of the day, it does not matter who was the head on the scoreboard. Israel Adesanya got knocked out and lost because of that. That is the end of the story. And currently, there is a lot of controversy going on about this fight. But I have not seen anything about any Ban anywhere.

my bad, Sorry for the wrong quote, edited it now.

Well, it really happens It happened to Kamaru Usman, against Leon Edwards, and Edwards like Pereira would just need 1 round to finish the fight, there is no immortal fighter in the UFC, there would be a better fighter that will surely emerge to get that title from a known fighter that many surely think will win, and that Israel Adesanya VS Alex Pereira have provided us with good entertainment and that is what's important, for me both fighters really did win it, and there is no doubt about that,


^  And on a lower tier match up, it could also happen to Sergei Spivak this weekend.  I got Spivak to win but we just never know with Lewis and he did it before...  It could also happen just like the one vs Volkov imho.  Cheesy

Anyway let's move forward, who do you guys got this weekend?  It looks like everybody is still hung over 281 as the discussion still won't go away from the event.  Lol.  At first glance I think the most likely winners who could make a decent 5 leg parlay are Turcios, Johns, Johnson, Don Anjos and Pearce.  That would be around 6.45 or something close to it.

Edit:  Here's the Multi Master.

UFC Fight Night 215 - Multi Master Challenge
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5420994.0
1956  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ⚽ FIFA World Cup 2022: Tournament Discussion Thread for Qatar 2022 on: November 17, 2022, 01:42:11 PM
^  Politicians always try to find a way to get the lime light and get themselves at the center of attention.  It's like a game for those idiots just to have some sort of show that they're doing they're jobs when they're really not.  They're useless most of the time.  They should just do their own thing, make their money and just leave the people alone.

Oook now that we have that over and done with, what are your bets for the first round of matches?  I really don't know what I'm mostly looking at here so I did a 7 leg parlay with England, Netherlands, Denmark, France, Belgium, Brazil, Portugal at 11.31.  Grin

i hope I get the first few picks in so it gets entertaining towards the end.
1957  Economy / Speculation / Re: BTC Sentiment Poll for November on: November 16, 2022, 06:32:46 PM
^  So you think we could go lower from here?  I used to really think we could go lower around 12k - 15k.  And with the FTX fiasco, that's exactly the kind of thing that could take us there...  But it didn't.  That seems to be like a sign of strength as nobody really sold it down during one of the worst scenarios in crypto ever.  Think about it...  That's prolly because the ones who would've sold already sold.  There's nobody left except holders.  Everybody else left.  Lol.

But yeah..  We'll see.  But in a couple of months I think we could be trending up above 20k - 25k.
1958  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Motosport General discussion tread --- Formula1, MotoGP, WTCC, ETCC, DTM..... on: November 16, 2022, 06:17:03 PM
Ferrari will never totally sack Binotto.  He's the best technical guy they've had in years.  I don't think Ferrari can afford a set back at this point in the game as they're close in winning a championship...  Maybe within three seasons or so.  But what Ferrari can do is put Binotto back to his former role as the chief technical officer and remove him from any role that has something to do with race strategy...  I'm mostly a fan of RBR but I also root for Ferrari and other teams like Williams and would also appreciate to see them do something great again in F1.
I'm not sure about Binotto. He had goal to become champions, but in seasons in Ferrari, they weren't even near to it. Ferrari mostly failed in strategy, he is directly responsible for it, but when something goes wrong, usually head of team have to take responsibily.
BTW, remember former Ferrari boss Arrivabene. I'm interested what he is doing now. And seems that he is CEO of Juventus FC. Very unexpected, I thought that he is still working somewhere in Ferrari.

That's because Binotto is more of an engineer than a team principal.  It's like if Red Bull gave the team principal role to Adrian Newey instead of Horner.  

Binotto is a good engineer and he's irreplaceable.  If Ferrari does give him the sack then that would be the most idiotic decision making for the team.  Ferrari should put him where he's good at as chief technical officer for the team and let him continue making competitive cars.  Removing him totally will bring Ferrari back to square one imho.
1959  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 🥊 The UFC Info and Prediction Thread on: November 16, 2022, 06:05:39 PM
I have read a very weird theory, that Alex Pereira was signed from kickboxing into UFC to add more excitement to middleweight. Because Adesanya has kicked everyones ass there, and fighting second or third time with his fighting style would ruin interest to that division. Any decent fighter that has wrestling skills would submit Pereira. He has done his mission - removed current king. Now it is Adesanyas time to regain belt back. Pereira would lost belt in next title defence, Adesanya would have 1-2 fights before he regain belt back.

If you go to ufc.com, you would notice VeChain banners everywhere. UFC is now VeChain official partner Smiley

That's true and Alex Pereira is the only guy who has ever beaten in kick boxing...  Twice!  And now in MMA too.  After everything and all the talk, Pereira proved that it was no fluke.  It's now Adesanya's turn to prove if he's really the best in 185.

I think Pereira could even move up to 205 and be double champ.  It could happen if Glover Teixeira loses vs Jiri Prochazka next month.  :/  And Pereira has been training with Teixeira too.  Smiley

And as for Vechain, are we back at 2017?  Lmao.
1960  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: Sportsbet.io 🏈 Week #11 Thursday Night Football Giveaway 🏈 on: November 16, 2022, 03:05:50 PM
1. GB
2. Ten
3. Ten
4. Yes
5. Under
6. 3rd
7. Odd
8. Odd
9. Ten
10. GB

Final Score prediction:  21 - 17
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