I even mentioned before that in the incident of hacking and scamming where the involved casino is running anonymously (decentralized), their users will seek assistance from the authorities which leaves the question of how the case can be filed if the operators are hidden. The investigation can't also be started since where it is supposed to be should start.

These decentralized gambling platforms can also run away smoothly without being tracked. I know there's a contract to be executed so the bets are always secured but there are lots of things to do to initiate the trick of scamming.

It's good to be decentralized but I can't apply that to my gambling-related activity.

What do you mean by "reliable" when in fact we are talking about predictions?

Most sports review sites will surely have a good technical analysis and you can refer to those but still, that won't assure you that those predictions are close to being accurate, especially for sports like football/soccer. Analysis is made to give you the possible outcome of what will happen to the match.


Being part of the "Hall of Fame" does have criteria to be eligible. It won't come just by favoritism.

Therefore, Cole achieved those eligibilities that's why he became one.

In the case of OP, I think let's say maybe he's tired but still knows what he's doing.

Like I said previously if exhaustion already dominates our whole body system, even your mind wants to do something, even how much you want to do something in your mind but your body won't cooperate anymore and automatically you will be shut down without realizing it.

It's crap to just blame being tired when someone losses to gambling. If ever OP got a win that night, I'm sure he would be like, "I'm not really tired".

Just take it as a positive thing towards you that they think you are a lucky charm helping them when you are around.

If we take this thing into technical explanation, obviously there's no correlation between being you and their luck.

Coincidence or you have that lucky energy, doesn't matter anymore. Just be thankful that you are one of the person who they think bringing them luck and positive energy. Don't also mind that even you are like that, it doesn't work for you. You might not just realized but there are might good things too that happening but you are not just noticing it.

As if Mike Tyson will always go forward to chase Jake Paul.

You already said that stamina might be the issue for Tyson therefore, he will just stay in defensive mode the whole time and let Jake Paul do the attack. Even in his prime, that's how fighting in the Heavyweight class is always seen compared to Jake Paul that always in attack mode since he's comfortable at a much lower weight class.

But anyway, any technical analysis of this fight is totally useless for me. This is an exhibition fight, not a professional fight.

And let's say that would happen, there is a thing called "adjustment".

Bettors will be used to gambling without those sports as time passes by and sooner, they will just do their usual gambling habit without involvement in sports betting since that was all gone. These bettors will still be gamblers and will just simply shift to other gambling types.

Gambling in general isn't possible be lose interest by many. The only way it could happen is if the whole world will ban gambling but that is impossible.

I'm curious about what you have said. In that state of mind you have mentioned, how can you guys even start gambling at that moment?

As far as I know, and should be the supposed thing present in that gambling session, a person who is under the stage of anger and tired won't even bother to gamble even if addicted since it won't even pop out on their mind because of anger and being tired. The focus is not there as their mind is full of what's the source of their anger therefore, you guys supposedly shouldn't end up gambling that time.

Am I missing something on the story?

Generally yes, we can achieve fully anonymous gambling in crypto. Though of course, only if you gamble in decentralized gambling platforms.

I'm sure decentralized gambling platforms will grow in numbers as time goes by. Additionally, several centralized crypto-gambling platforms still don't force a mandatory KYC and most of them are popular crypto-gambling platforms.

Since regulations in crypto are becoming hard, platforms need to comply as that is a requirement for a legitimate business operation. It has pros and cons but having KYC shouldn't be a problem to comply with. There are lots of cases already where users got scammed by crypto platforms that the team is hiding behind it. These users are asking for help from authorities but where should the investigation start if the involved casino is anonymous?

Remember way back during the prime of the COVID-19 pandemic? There are no sports activities at all, as in total zero.

What happened to gambling? It has even become more attractive to most people that even those who are not into gambling get in to kill boredom until they become regular gamblers. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the gambling industry is one of the most performing industries in the whole world and the number of online gamblers is insanely growing in numbers even as we speak.

Gambling can lived even without sports betting. Not all gamblers are fans of sports betting.

There would be no such thing as a gambling rehabilitation program or gambling-related problems if an addicted gambler could think properly.

Since these people can't think properly anymore, they don't know what's the best thing to do as they rely on gambling to solve anything.

We can blame that person for allowing themselves to be like that but in that critical and worst situation already that are stuck with, that's not important anymore as these people badly need help. It's the unfortunate reality that we can see anywhere in gambling.

Let them think like that until they realize that no working pattern can last a long time.

We can't blame them if they end up thinking like that if they are following a regular pattern, and that gives them winnings "for now". Later on, when that pattern isn't working anymore for them, I hope that will make them realize that it does not make sense to believe in such patterns, especially in a game of luck.


Crash games are not gambling anymore if it's profitable. There's no profitable gambling game in a game of luck.

Simple statement but the message is deep.

In other words, everyone should accept that in gambling, there are only 2 results, winning and losing.

However, I understand that for an average gambler, especially those who can't afford to withstand the effect of losing, it's hard to understand that statement. Rich gamblers on the other hand can just simply walk away with their losses and move on easily and that's the reason they can truly understand what gambling is all about.

Even for a person who is already addicted to gambling, once exhaustion dominates our whole system, even if you want to gamble, your body will automatically shutdown after a tiring day of work. Your eyes will close without noticing it and suddenly you are now in your dream.

I think OP should not blame his tiredness for the lose. In the story, he can even properly navigate to the platform and aware of what he's doing.

Either way, what matters is, in any kind of doings, gambling or not, of course, we need to have a relaxed mind.

As far as I know, YouTube doesn't just throw ads and video recommendations everywhere and anywhere without following an algorithm.

Advertisements are mainly based on user's activity. The target advertisement should be shown to those users who are relatively watching related content as much as possible. In fact, even though I watched previously some gambling-related videos, still, I'm not getting any gambling-related advertisements or video recommendations about gambling in general. Maybe YouTube changed their terms about how gambling-related videos on their platform should show.

I admire OP's effort to put this guide but for me, it's not necessary if the only purpose is to stay away from gambling-related videos. Gambling-related content and stuff are everywhere, even just by walking simply at busy streets, which is far more spread out compared to the YouTube platform.

The answer typically is, that no one knows until the gambler reaches that stage of having children or generally, a family.

Some people will change their habits once they already established a family, especially if there are children, while on the other hand, some will just remain in their habit like nothing happened and no need for any adjustment.

Supposedly, maturity should be improved once we already have our responsibilities and if we talk about having our own family, but unfortunately others are immature. It's not that we need to stop gambling at all but there should be a good change once we make our own family.

I suggest not making that as a big deal. Who the hell cares for what others think about our winnings or earnings? Why should we adjust? As long as we know to ourselves that we are not stepping on other people, it's just a normal approach for anyone to be happy with achievement. If these winners want to show their victories either to brag or just simply because they are happy, let them do what they want.

It's not our fault if someone got into a worse situation just because they found out how much we earned, how much we won etc. In the first place, where should we put ourselves? I'm not the type of person who brags about something, either achievement, money-related things, etc. But I can't control if that will be exposed to the public because I have friends who know me personally and also have their respective social circles.


Blame themselves for having that kind of feeling. Again, it's not our fault and we don't need to adjust for them.

I was one of the bettors (I think others on the NBA thread also did this) who risked betting on the Cleveland Cavaliers to win the NBA Championship way back in the 2016 NBA Finals after the team was down 3-1. It's nearly impossible to bounce back from that situation especially in the NBA Finals and against the prime Golden State Warriors which has the biggest record they did on that season, 73 wins and 9 losses only. But in the end, they won and I won't forget that moment.

Isn't it a foolish move? Isn't it because I'm a fan of that team? No. As a bettor, I just want to take advantage of the odds since betting on the Warriors doesn't give you any more profits and everyone was betting for the Warriors then I have no choice but to take on the Cavaliers. Aside from that, I know the Cavaliers can still pull the win and won't give up. I also added some bets for them after they won Game 5 and were downed by 3-2.

And the rest is history...

I agree that it's annoying, and somehow I feel bad that the streamer doesn't show any sympathy to that guy, at least, knowing the person is one of his avid fans and following him. But generally, it's not the streamer's fault that it happened. We don't know the real story behind it and maybe the person does have lots of problems already aside from gambling addiction.

I also don't like streamers but what a bullshit if we allow ourselves to be influenced by these streamers. It should be obvious from the start that these streamers, especially those who are gambling, only care for money. Why become weak and be under these streamers? We should be the ones to control our decisions, not them.

In some cases, when a problem in the internet occurs while a bettor is currently active on betting, can be realized later on as a blessing and a good thing it happened. If the internet didn't crash at the point they are about to hit that BET button, they might end up wrecking the whole bankroll.

Generally, the response of bettors depends on the match result that they are supposed to place a bet.

Internet crashes while betting might angered others because of the missed opportunity in case of a win but on the other hand, it also saved others from losing their money, at least. But in today's internet status, it's a rare case now for the internet to suddenly crash a bit while actively betting.

The same question also applies as well to other game providers.

Being worth it or not can only be seen in the result. It's not about being the "Pragmatic Play" but users purchasing the buy feature should understand and realize that the purpose of buying it is to skip the manual betting and wait for long for the bonus feature to come.

P.S. I don't like to play PP games on Stake because of the high minimum bet amount. I usually play PP games on local online fiat casinos because of the user-friendly minimum bet amount. I just wonder what's the basis for why the minimum bet amount is different on other gambling sites on the same game.