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Bye, bye, Eindhoven. I know you weren't meant to be, but you were supposed to prove us wrong for a little while more. Took the lead, couldn't hold on. And you can't say Utrecht didn't deserve a share of the spoils, either.
P.S. Branthwaite been in the news all the day today, and seems he is already opening up channels with Dyche at Everton. Decided to celebrate with a yellow card.
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What is this guys? I went to holidays and you let the thread fall down almost to the bottom of the page. Not good enough  Sure was nice to see Liverpool get those 4 shots on target yesterday. A bit surprised that my colleague cryptofrka managed to miss this one as a big Liverpool supporter. Seems like most of the pool knew better after all. Would love to put more salt in the wound but he destroyed me on Tennis question so I will better not push too much. Whoops, I knew I forgot something when scrolling on that first page haha. I normally even have recently visited pages but on mobile it's impossible to see the URLs properly. I think cryptofrka is one of those pragmatic supporters. They know how bad the team is, where as I simply can't bring myself to ever bet against my team. It's a really bad disease. Only match left of interest to me is Atletico. It's the only answer my BSFL opponent has differently and will decide the winner of this round. |
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A) Yes
B) Under
C) No
Tiebreaker: 319
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Ya I made a big mistake with Haaland too -- and as usual forgot to look at my picks properly (I already selected the team early, best call was to take out Newcastle players just before the hammering they got to their defence).
Pope was actually my go to keeper early part, and for a time considered putting back in but of course GK's my least urgent part of the team that needs fixing.
Rashford. What to say?
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If you are in the 10th position in a pool consisting of 16 participants then you wouldn't absolutely think that you are successful. However I think my performance has been just fine so far. My finishing another pool as the 27th among 224 people also proves this. In short, I can say comfortably this pool is the most difficult one I have ever joined. I respect the football knowledge of all the people in this pool  I hope you slow down by a little on next weeks.  What about if you're 14/16? Would one say I should just give up and find something else to do with my free time? At this point, should I be taking upsets all the time now (so we don't end up like today all not gaining any points because of Lecce)? Or at least putting in strange scores? I mean, I'm only doing better because most likely the 2 guys below me aren't even putting picks anymore =D |
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Neymar assist and goal, Mbappe on the scoresheet, damn you Lille, couldn't you just make this league stretch on for a bit? Second half still to come but the game looks done and dusted for now. Fonseca should have kept his mouth shut about this being the best in the world heh heh.
Not really trusting any of the other teams but I've got Monaco, Marseille and Nantes on my next tickets, let's see if they can do their part today.
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Yeah, I'm cool with everything else except the altcoin hashtags. Not that I'm uncool with it, either, it just rubs off the wrong way. Bitcoin clones, Litecoin, even Ethereum might be worth mentioning if related to, in the book itself, but xrparmy especially made me cringe.
Still, credit where it's due. Books aren't... simple tasks to complete. Best of luck.
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Massive day so far in the PL, Arsenal with a dramatic winner and City dropping points at lowly Notts Forest.
Just sitting down with an alcoholic beverage to watch my beloved LFC. Hoping for but not expecting a win.
Not sure what to make of it as I watched first half, missed whole of second half except last few minutes, enough to see Milner make two super tackles and Jota almost heading to Bobby to goal... 2-0, so fast, could have been another day at office if Nunez/Gakpo missed those, but Pope sending himself off sort of guaranteed either side would not get a goal. If Newcastle end this season on a high, let it be reminded it was only us who did the double on them haha. -snip
Next is City to respond, and to give some weird context of what bookies are rating them, Forest are ONLY below 9/1 to win. Southampton away to Chelsea are less likely to win according to odds...
Pep is a character, looking at their play I cannot decide are they just having fun, or want to get this title nevertheless, Everton took important points at home, clean sheet is a standard at home since Dyche came, and we are scoring that one that brings three pointers, by defenders Dyche started an investigation into DCL car seat and matress, to find a reason for injuries I tuned in on the last 10 minutes of that, enough to see Chris Wood tap in. 1 shot, 1 goal, it was a familiar story for us... saw that Pep got a card, can't find out how yet, should be funny. That... is so Dyche. He did use to joke with press a bit, didn't he? |
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good news from Valencia, Voro is out, and Ruben Baraja will take the team into relegation fight, not sure will we make it or not, but it will be better than with Voro
first match and really important one, with another struggler Getafe, and a chance to put them down, and maybe reach safety after next round
That is good news, I might put them in on a ticket after tonight in this case -- I'm hoping they stay in, but also that they do something more permanent to make sure they stay up and put in a better showing next season. What that fix exactly is I can't say. Good day for me on my 3 main tickets that isn't an acca... I'd have put another against Real today but Osasuna is not even 5/1 to win. I thought odds might change but a couple of hours to the game and it's refusing to budge. Atrocious! Oh and yeah, Sociedad let me down, Villareal looks about to do the same. |
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Damn, but I didn't think Freiburg would ever come this close again to the top after tasting the heights of Bundesliga for some period. And BVB can even clamber into second place temporarily on goal difference if they win... not to leave the best for last with Union now wondering if they can invite destiny back into their hands with a win tomorrow. Everyone can thank Gladbach for making Bayern their whipping boys (the early red of course helped a lot) but it's been so nice betting on this tie every time and counting the wins. Long live Gladbach! |
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Nice promos, jeremypwr and SB! Forgot to mention I'd seen them here and then went to make my picks yesterday, not to mention all the free predictions contests ongoing.
I also didn't forget to put my $50 bets each on the Gunners and Saints games today (to take advantage of the "Return of EPL" Casino freechips bonuses). Arsenal ML it was for me, that hit, and a +1 Asian total at half time is returning my money back thanks to JWP, so I'm all good today and get $20 freechips waiting for me later.
Saints ML also waiting so I hope that hits!
Life can be good =D
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Was out (am still out but en route to a tv) and was able to check around 10 mins left to see it was 2-2. Thought that was it. A bit unlike Arsenal to fire home late goals so emphatically (or was one an own goal or something) but damn, that was close.
Next is City to respond, and to give some weird context of what bookies are rating them, Forest are ONLY below 9/1 to win. Southampton away to Chelsea are less likely to win according to odds...
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I know it's not totally unrelated but Monaco won an important match in Europa League -- keeping them alive on all fronts they want to win. I don't dare to say it, but could they be turning a tide? My man Mina's still not really hitting top form but mark my word, he will come good. BTW, does anyone know much about this? 70 euros for a game, doesn't sound like much when you consider what people are paying in London for years, but I can't imagine how anyone can afford that money to watch their team every week. F Football huh? |
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There goes the ATP question for most of us as Tsitsipas got eliminated and looking at the current odds we could potentially see Medvedev and Sinner reaching the finals. I'll be needing Team Giannis to step up in the all-star game this weekend so they could save me from losing a crucial point in the h2h matchup.  Yikes, Tsitsi, but I no longer look at him with any love and hope, he's disappointed me far too often in past two years my heart's broken. Even tried to woo me back with the last GS but of course, Djoko a step too far. My Week1 opponent has the same picks as me anyway (Tsitsi, Medvedev), so it's not going to change our outlook. |
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No... If I'm right it all goes back down to 16k - 18k: buyers come out then it goes back up to 23k - 24k: sellers come out. So BTC ending up being range bound for a time until the buyers get their fill at the bottom of the range and the sellers run out and will prolly end up buying too at some point. Dunno.. But all these guys blindly saying to buy the dip are right for now.
And I still think all the stuff that's going on in the world will still have an effect crypto. And it's all not looking good rn.
My latest "realistic fantasy" scenario is like this: I save as much fiat as I can this year (by converting a little more BTC than usual each week/month) and hopefully, after 10 months I can set aside as a reverse DCA, maybe $6k (it's the best I can do, about $500 a month)... and then by then, or soon after, we see that super dip. If you're right at 16k (I'm thinking $14?) then that gets me almost ~0.4 BTC, something difficult for me to get anyway. If we're wrong, and BTC goes back to say $30k, I'm buying it all anyway and get only 0.2 BTC. It's not even much but as I said, I'm willing to try this, because if worst case scenario happens (I also believe the bad stuff going on around us has yet to really bear in) and we even see sub 10k, I would be very well positioned. And I've never been in that position =) |
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e.g. What if Mt Gox v2 happens and some random CEO decides f it, I'm keeping my private keys. Not their keys not their coins.
And i can see a point of that "CEO" from doing it (Why did you trust them?). In any case, he should just transfer the funds, not reveal keys. But in a well made exit scam they would have moved slowly those funds elsewhere by the time "oops, we ran out of money, our business model failed"... People should just be educated about the true dangers of "custodial"... Won't stop people from choosing what's easy for them. Or what fits their greed (think most people go on exchanges these days for their interest bearing stuff from "saving/staking". I would actually say if you run a business and also requires being regulated, then the private keys must at least be retrievable by the same regulating authorities. Personal privacy shouldn't apply here to CEOs of regulated businesses that act as custodians for customer money. The law should be able to seize funds of rogue CEOs -- doesn't matter bank, company, or exchange. The court will still see how much funds he holds through his adresses and public keys, and if he doesn't want to give on his own the amount of money ruled by the court they could seize all his other assets and put him in jail until he agrees to give the rest.
That's probably what they already do, but it doesn't solve the problem for the claimants... Knowing how cray people get in that position, he might just try to blackmail instead and say he's willing to go to jail for a lifetime and take his keys to his grave. Can't imagine what people would do to him if he's out to force the keys out of him heh. |
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The important thing is they're being seen. Users, and moderators will never agree on everything, and moderators can't act upon the assumption that a user wouldn't reply to you or they're doing it simply to fill their quota. There has to be some sort of evidence, and that's what we act upon. However, I can confidently say that all your reports are being seen, and it's very likely a lot of those unhandled one's will be handled eventually. Although, if they do stay unhandled it could be a borderline case which no moderator feels confidently enough to act upon it, but don't necessarily think you're wrong. Unhandled reports have their uses. Anyhow, all the reports I've made there recently have been handled, and I'm planning on visiting the Gambling section, and actually reporting regularly soon. I'm just going through the motions in the Altcoin section at the moment . We just need a few reporters that don't necessarily care about their percentage, and just regularly report there. Once they start losing their activity or earnings they'll think twice about spamming in the future. Unfortunately, they only do it because they know they can get away with it. That's no backhanded insult to the moderators that receive the reports ther either, like I said all of them are seen, and most of them are acted upon. It's just there's so much it's a full time job to actually get that section back to acceptable levels. Agree! And I'm not calling out anyone (I hope it didn't come across like that). I know mods work hard, and there are more users than we think also contributing. And the forum is cleaner than it was in 2017 (that's my impression). Only seems that the spam's moved to gambling and it's probably going to take some effort that can't be made by users+moderators. Altcoin section, I haven't looked in ages. It was scary then..! Oh and I don't care about percentages either... I have hundreds of unhandled. It's just the "Bad" report came out of the blue for me haha. Altcoin section is where reporters are required eh? Interesting! P.S. Curiously, that post that gave me the bad report I mentioned is now deleted. Did someone change their mind maybe? Not (that) important heh |
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Nothing else on my radar today, too late to add Blades ML on another ticket, as I've kind of got my laces all tied up already!
Don't worry, there are more matches and predictions coming this weekend. A lucky miss, as it turns out. I've been saying for the past weeks to myself to spam on Burnley and Sheffield Utd... and then they both lose winnable games. Doesn't really change my outlook though, I still think they are good teams to bet on as long as odds are close to 2/1 than to 15/10. I see you agree with that. So it's them and Boro also to make up 3 teams on my fresh acca today (the other two are EPL, so it's all English). Did you notice QPR is now almost in relegation mode? They've somehow slipped out from my radar... would bet on them on a game if the odds weren't so ridiculously low for their current form. |
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F* me, I chose Napoli... I did read the question but I assumed (wrongly) it meant, current game week (I myself always use that term or even day to reference match day or game week, which is one of the odd things I picked up from football.). No difference, I'd have gone for BVB anyway and lost. This means LTU_btc, we're tied for points as you chose Benfica  See, I do like giving my opponents a fair chance! But more to the point, I think there's nothing wrong with the format or questions, atm. It's meant to be challenging, even tricky, and that only helps people who pay more attention or who care more, and that's sort of the point of this whole thing? So come on, guys, stop ranting at the match officials and get on with it =P |
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^ Just put my picks in for that, I went in blind on my picks, and went for team LeBron, who else right? This match is of particular importance also to BSFL peeps... I'm hoping LeBron gives others a chance for MVP while ensuring everyone scores a point.
Also don't forget the new round of Bet-6-6 too, always 100k free money to win (heh heh).
Look out for specials tomorrow. Big, big game for Arsenal to try and nudge City all the way!
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