For me, the gift was Milan, which won against Atalanta and that's the only reason I didn't bet on Roma  Dumb systems are absurd but they work!  Now Roma have obvious problems in the fight for getting into the top 4, so the game next round, where they host Juventus, will be especially important. It seems quite logical to me that after gifting points to an outsider, Roma should beat the favorite, what do you say? They work until they don't. Really pleased for you of course, wins are to be celebrated, but I'd like you to just stop doing so well in the pools? I'm predicting against Roma, in a big way. Juve seem to be resurging, after locating their 1-0 DNA all of a sudden, now they want to score goals. While Roma... they're not even that big of an underdog (27/10 vs Juve 26/10)... ...but you're right. Worth putting them on an acca and that's already done now for me! |
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Small wins for me with Arsenal players, all good point collections (shame I used captain on Salah but who was to know we'd draw a Palace blank?).
So I got my old squad now, feel like I could have used FH chip better but not complaining for a better-than-average haul, actually climbed a couple of spots in the crap league, and making myself feel better about everything.
I'm with Trofo, bringing back Brentford and Brighton players (they were anyway in my squad for value). I will likely want to hold on to Saka/Rashford, despite tough games, but I do want to avoid the derby as I have a feeling we'll beat United.
Gonna be a penalty week for me, but I don't mind really.
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Arsenal hit easy, if late in the first half, Saints, well, did not. So I ended up with a net $9 loss from the $100 outlay, but the $20 freechips puts me in possible profit. I'm throwing it all on 32/36 on Roulette both ways (Evo and Bombay).
I did put a lot more money on Liverpool, being incorrigible, so I did walk away with some greens yesterday. 2% of my season misery recovered is still a recovery. Ha ha.
Euroleague special is up. Basketball... so I'm not keen.
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Liverpool VAR no-goal, I didn't feel was harsh, just unfortunate, and I find it acceptable. Probably the right call, I'd hope it goes our way next time.
Moot, since we won. It was not comfortable though, even if I have to say I can't recall a single time we had a proper threat on our goal.
Spurs and Newcastle the teams we need to catch up with though. Let's see if we got the blood for it.
Do agree with Welsh: it's a good time to start putting on the cream on Liverpool, now that people forgot how good we can be. Bajcetic is incredible, I know he gives away attacks but we need that kind of forward-thinking midfield. I have to remind myself often I didn't rate his debut. It is definitely going to be a problem to replace Hendo. Thiago is a Fabinho. Need them fit and on form, but they need someone more reliable and energetic. Can't say we have a solution easy, so we may need to dig deep into Academy again... I feel like Fabinho if we can get him out of his funk, fully fit again, we'll be okay.
Man I still miss Gini.
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It's got to be user experience for me, more than anything else. We're talking mainstream here, so we have to accept, for better or worse -- people don't really care about security, about sovereign money, or even inflation, and that's judging from the majority of crypto "users" I've come across.
It needs to be cool and easy to use. It needs to be simpler than an existing form of money to use. It needs to solve problems too (and less about my money's not worth anything and more about I need to be able to buy this but I can't because I don't have a debit card or PayPal).
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1. Leclerc
2. Leclerc
3. Verstappen
4. 1 second
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Game 1: 41, 20'
Game 2: 41, 22'
Game 3: 41, 33'
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14. Ciryl Gane
13. Valentina Shevchenko
12. Shavkat Rakhmonov
11. Mateusz Gamrot
10. Bo Nickal
9. Cody Garbrandt
8. Dricus Du Plessis
7. Amanda Ribas
6. Julian Marquez
5. Ian Machado Garry
4. Cameron Saaiman
3. Tabatha Ricci
2. Farid Basharat
1. Loik Radzhabov
NOT go the Full Distance 5
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It's a populist move, but crime coming down might be at the expense of unbridled dictatorship (read, corruption).
I cannot completely disagree with you buwaytress, and there surely is a bit of injustice in terms of potential lack of due process - yet I have my doubts that there is a complete lack of due process, but perhaps a bit of a "desperate times call for desperate measures," and perhaps it takes a long time to process cases, and surely a lot of injustices have likely already occurred due to lack of process and perhaps will continue to keep occurring due to how long that it might take to process cases, and even the fact that some of the lock ups might be on shaky grounds to prevent crimes rather than for crimes that have had already happened.. so yeah, I am bothered by some of those kinds of matters too.. . And, I am not going to proclaim to know all of the details, and surely I am bothered by the extent of sweeping that seems to have had taken place.. and I would also be concerned about making sure that there might be resources to process cases and to even release folks.. and yeah it is bothersome in regards to merely being in a gang or being affiliated would not generally tend to be enough to cause someone to automatically be guilty of a crime.. and again, I don't claim to know enough of the circumstances to presume that some variation of what Bukele did might have had been justified given the extent of the corruption and shake downs that seemed to have had been taking place on regular folks trying to carry out businesses or to live their regular lives prior to the sweep. Yeah, I don't know the details either, but I am following some of it a little more than most. We in Southeast Asia had a similar "experiment" with organised crime in the Philippines -- the ex president Duterte basically gave free reign to citizens, urging them to deal swiftly and violently with criminals. A period marked by increased extra-judicial killings, it also received widespread approval. But now he's out and the "war" on drugs is relenting, things will resume after a while. And that's for me proof that you got to deal with underlying issues -- what caused that narcostate situation in the first place. And that's corruption, mainly, and the unwillingness to put the state as accountable. Anyway, as I said also, I'm more likely than not to support hardline stance. Lesser of evils? A few innocents for the many? It's just for me somewhat incongruent with what Bukele says he wants for his people with Bitcoin... All that bitcoin won't be of any use if one man (or a few) get to decide what to do with it -- remember it was bought with public funds. Need to see proof that those coins are accounted for and transparently audited, with access in hands of the elected.
For sure, Bukele is supposed to be acting within the public interest with public funds that he uses to buy and accumulate bitcoin on behalf of El Salvador, so for sure, it would be a calamity if he were to either rug pull or to escape with the coins - yet at the same time, there may well be a certain level of justification too, in regards to his attempting some levels of secrecy.. especially given the international rhetoric that may well attempt to compromise the security of those coins that he supposedly purchased on behalf of El Salvador. Of course, agree. But on one hand, announcing buys on Twitter, and then on another signing off on multi-million dollar contracts with service providers we now know weren't exactly kosher. I see that secrecy benefiting those that have more than those that don't have. And, as in the case of Duterte... continuity is important. If Bitcoin is to succeed there, it has to be the will of the people, not the will of a man, or a few men. |
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I don't know what to say sir buwaytress, but I made one nice prediction and I see Leicester is losing with two goals now, but there is lot of playing time left.
Well done, man, well done. I also benefited from their loss (a draw would have been enough in regular time) as it gave me a precious point in the BSFL competition, but yeah, no money for me in this performance. The question tonight is, should we go boldly with West Ham and/or Sheffield United? Blades are "only" 5/1, Hammers 6/1, so it's not really getting my juices flowing but I suppose their fans might be tempted. |
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^ Only way to not avoid those specials are just to bookmark the Specials page... but yeah, I don't take them as often anymore.
2 games you want to bet on today for those freechips: and last week I lost on both, so I'm hunting them back with half time wins... Everton should be poor enough for that. And Saints good enough for Grimsby! Both partner teams play at home so we've got to hope they want to wrap the game up early.
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If there ever were to be one team to gift Cremonese their first ever win in 24 games, it was always going to be Roma, hahaha. A first ever Serie A win in 23 years actually, history is so strange this way!
Didn't watch, don't know anything about the match, so I don't know if it was a fair result (and I don't care, who does) but man, Mourinho is the gift that keeps on giving.
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Arsenal vs Everton tonight, hopefully Arteta’s machine keeps rolling. I don’t see Everton putting up much of a fight if I’m honest. They’ve been terrible all season which leads us to Liverpool vs Wolves. LFC have been really bad, hopefully we can somehow get a win but I am far from confident.
Yeah, we've been the worst bed-shitters this season. Only Chelsea is doing spectacularly badly that we are just a notch above them. I think about at least 2 wins this season where we didn't really need to do much. The recent Newcastle gifting us 2 goals was one, but the Leicester 2 own goals too... without those 6 points, we're flirting with the bottom half, below Chelsea. Really want Arsenal to win this too. |
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Not sure if anyone noticed or if it had come earlier but the Promo page is bristling with new offers for the upcoming World Baseball Classic. Plenty of offers and the most I'd ever done at Sportsbet is outrights on MLB (BoSox) and I think I won a few nice ones on Astros last season following jeremypwr threads. This is something completely new to me, but I opted in, maybe $100 on Japan isn't a bad idea (outright promo, $10 with each win) haha. See it all here: https://sportsbet.io/promotions/2023-world-baseball-classic-promoI never would have imagined Australia or even GB playing baseball, but look at the list of countries in the outright selections, 4 European countries... plenty of LatAm, didn't know baseball was big there! |
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Kind of regretting picking "No" in the FA Cup ties today, I was thinking maybe Leicester might find it troublesome, especially with their biggest playmaker an injury doubt but I see now they're playing quite well. Hope Faes can do another weird favour heh heh. Going to try watch City now, that Haaland-less lineup still looks scary af. Edit: I post, and Rovers score! Considering that I am one of the organizers, I'll be sending a PM to Trofo, buwaytress and jeremypwr to guarantee that my picks are correct. These members were picked due to their forum status.
Picks received, I'm sure dittoup trusts you anyway |
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Building a biggest prison in Americas for tens of thousands prisoners looks risky: they collect criminals from all the country in one place. If all will go right Salvadorians will remember both anti-gang measures and bitcoin adoption as the time when the country started doing better. But in case of prisoners rebellion... it fears me a bit: too many dangerous people concentrated in one small place. Hope better prognosis will come true, not worse. I'm probably hardline when it comes to cracking down on organised crime too, but this one I feel went a bit too far. Just arbitrary rounding up of people (from what I read, you got a tattoo, you're gang, so you come with us) and going to prison for the rest of their lives (reading quotes from the politicians suggest that anyway). People do got rights too, and I'm sure there are many caught up in the dragnet. It's a populist move, but crime coming down might be at the expense of unbridled dictatorship (read, corruption). All that bitcoin won't be of any use if one man (or a few) get to decide what to do with it -- remember it was bought with public funds. Need to see proof that those coins are accounted for and transparently audited, with access in hands of the elected. |
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Any good news from Liverpool fans about Darwin? Was it flu or cold, and is he in contention to play on Wednesday? I have so many questions, but I need answers. The destiny of my team rest on his shoulder.
I transferred him in knowing about injury but I thought it was nothing serious if he played that CL match. Unfortunately I don't see Klopp risking him so soon now that he has some other attacking options back and after he was not even on bench last time. Yeah, I gambled w Nunez and it didn't work out, for reasons absolutely out of our hands (or shoulders). Apparently he can't even move the arm now, don't think he should have been playing! I know it's an early question to ask for MD26 but I'll get Rashford back in my team (I used FH chip). So... Rashford v Liverpool = more points in the bag for believers and more misery for the Reds? Or do I be stupid and weed out United in favour of Salah + co? |
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Don't think there are any more psychological points other than $10k (and ATH).
I'd say maybe $50K. It's half of $100K (previous bull target for many including myself) and probably where a lot of people wished they sold in hindsight, in order to buy twice as much at current prices. You're right, actually, now that think of it. It's very nicely poised at roughly 75% of ATH and the hallway mark that includes me as one so certain that was the minimum target (a big reason I completely missed the top, particularly when 60k was breached twice). So even if it touches $20K in the next few weeks, I don't think it will be a good indicator. I also anticipate many will be getting very bearish around $20K, fearing the worst, whereas after the golden cross on Daily time-frame (50 & 200), it'd potentially be a great buying opportunity for many. [/quote] Yeah the 200 is really the only one left I pay attention to. People are still bearish even now, so yeah, 20k especially sub -- and it won't matter if it happens sooner or later, but this year -- will break a lot of resolve. I don't mind saying I'm very comfortable in this range or lower, so my DCA squeezes as much juice as possible. |
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wasn't aware of this topic, where only you two discussing Championship It's not only me and buwaytress talking, but we are most active and I am trying to post predictions each round for picks I play myself. There was Sportsbet sponsored competition before but I had to cancel it because of my personal life stuff. I don't mind you posted something about League Two, but please try to stay on topic, Championship league. Thank you. Hey casper! Yeah, I actually used to follow Championship quite a lot (I say used to because this season I've toned down on a lot of sports). And I guess, like you, it's a few teams I follow to be honest, to try and get an idea of who's coming to the better league. Plus, so many personalities who are now either approaching the sunset of their playing careers or starting new careers as managers (and that's always somewhat nice for me to continue following). League Two? That's actually almost beyond my knowledge but I happen to have some close connection with Leyton Orient and IIRC it is one team someone at SB follows |
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So I don't really understand what's going wrong with McLaren, and why they seem to have found a shortcut to hideousness, but I'm a simple guy and I believe in what I see on social media #nosarcasm and this is where it all began. coinlocket really, not even top 7? |
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