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2561  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: NBA 2020-2021 betting on: April 13, 2022, 02:42:25 PM
Does anyone here take the Clippers ML live?
KAT already has 5 fouls, and he might sit for a while as they want to preserve him in the 4th quarter, LA Clippers can take advantage of this situation.

What do you think?


I think Clippers got this despite 4pts deficit with 4mins in the clock. Paul George is very good on crucial match like this. I already place a +4.5 for the Clippers just to be on the safe bet. KAT is already tired and cautious on his defense so his effect will not gonna be the same as the earlier quarter. I hope Clippers really got this.  Cheesy

Turns out the decision was wrong, Clippers were already at a very comfortable lead, and KAT was already fouled out but Timberwolve made a huge run and beat the Clippers. PG was hitting 3 point shots, but I think it was a wrong play for the Clippers to rely on PG, they did not share the ball well compared to what the Timberwolves are doing.
It was really another sad lost for the Clippers and it seems that Paul George can't really get over during play-in or play-off. He has a good performance tonight, but it wasn't enough for the tough Wolves at home.

And most of us thinks that a +3.5 for the Clippers is a good bet and not a trap, but majority of us are wrong. The Clippers have the experienced but the Wolves has more heart in the game.
2562  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 2022 NBA Season on: April 13, 2022, 02:12:37 PM
I was expecting tha the Clippers will win the game after seeing them having a comfortable lead when KAT was fouled out. But, the young roster of the Timberwolves did not gave up, Edwards was so big in this game as he leads the team for this victory.

Congratulations to the Timberwolves, they are now officially in the playoffs.
Can they beat the red hot Memphis?
I also predicted on the Clippers on winning on this one but I was wrong. Well, the Clippers still has another chance to maintain the 8th seed if they will win against the winner of the 9th-10th match-up.

Now with regards to TWolves beating Memphis, they simply can't. Just look at how the Grizzlies played this season. From being 9th only last season to now the top 2. That is a huge jump of the standings and with their young and talented roster, I believe that they can be a playoff team for at least 3 years. There is no chance for the Timberwolves to beat the Grizzlies. I'll go with Memphis in 5 games here.

Wow, that is a bold prediction.

Well, we all know that Memphis has had a great season so far, they even win many games without Morant, but we cannot underestimate the Timberwolves, they are also a balanced team and they are hungry for a win. They are now back in the playoffs after missing many playoffs, so I believe that they'll give the Memphis a good fight.
True, I'm sure this is controversial, but for me it has something to do with Pat Beverly.

He showed great leadership with the young Wolves this season and it's good to see how vindicated himself winning agains the team that traded him. So can see how emotional he is after the game even going on the stand of the Wolves fans. However, I don't think that they can beat the Memphis team, it could be a close series but I see the Memphis with Ja Morant leading them against the Wolves.
2563  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: No condition is permanent in crypto on: April 12, 2022, 10:13:16 PM
Take advantage of the moment, the price of crypto if permanent will not be as popular as now. Not only that even the stock market or other is also not permanent, and nothing is permanent in this world. Both sides are mutually beneficial but sometimes a prolonged bear market makes us hold for a long terms.
There are always bear and bull season of the market, and that is inevitable. Newbies should understand that the market is very volatile and that makes the market prone to changes. If we are in bear season at the moment, expect that in the next couple of months the market will turn into bullish. This is why we should always take advantage in every market's condition because we don't know what will be the behavior of the market the following day. Seize every moment so you can gain maximum profits in the end.
Crypto market is more volatile that traditional and that is because in crypto, there is no central authority to overlook everything.

And it's more prominent specially every 4 years of bulls and bear season, so far it holds true and yeah, it's going to happen and no one can stop it. Newbies should understand this before they join crypto world because it is going to be very hard for beginners. But once they learn the behavior of the market, and when to take advantage of it, maybe they will earn money even if we are in the worst bear cycle.
2564  Economy / Speculation / Re: Bitcoin Breakout on: April 12, 2022, 09:41:27 PM

 Looking at how its not doing so well right now, I could say that there is a good chance it may not do so well later on either. We just need to realize that breakout "could" happen, but there is a big possibility that it may not happen neither. So all we can do right now is that wait for it, but also make sure that you have some DCA or stop loss in place so that you wouldn't be hurt if the price goes down. We moved between 38k-42k prices for a month before the last good increase, we are down to those levels now meaning we could see 38k all over again, and we should be prepared for that AND the 50k+ possibility all at the same time.
$39k today, so the avalanche or sell-off continue as to this hour. So to much for the pump to $48k as the market reacts negatively to so much news, specially the Feds raising up the interest rate, and the inflation rate of US is in highest in 40 years and of course the war itself. I guess we need to go down to even lower to be able to see $50k in the future. Maybe around $30k before we can go up and rise to $50k or more before the end of the year.
2565  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Inoue vs Donaire II discussion on: April 12, 2022, 01:54:25 PM
Here comes with the age issue again, why is it that you're so certain that age is an important factor? I'm not a fan of Donaire but I disagree about it, age will only become a factor if the fighter or boxer isn't active for years or not getting a fight for two years or more.

In the case of Donaire, he already fought twice last year and ended it with a KO and now he's fighting against the Japan's monster Inoue with just 6 months of rest period.

Those people who treat age as a factor for Nonito Donaire are not doing their respective homework and just relying everything on the "name impact" and "age". They are not aware that Donaire even much older compared to Inoue, still has that speed, quickness, and Knock Out power.

The reason is, that Donaire is always active doing his routine operation and always has a match, therefore, training is almost part of his entire life and never stopped. That results in his body not adopting the aging effect.

If Donaire will lose for the 2nd time, it's 100% not because of his age but for other reasons.
What other reasons? Can you elaborate on what would be the other reasons?

Age would really make some toll and its a major factor that could effect overall performance of a fight/athlete which is something inevitable.Its not really a shame if he would really be accepting that reality but as long his

passion and interest on fighting on his career doesnt goes off then lets just respect and its true that he do still have that good punching power,stamina and other aspects.
Its bit exciting that we are closer day by day for this upcoming rematch fight.

Donaire did said that age is just a number after beating then WBC champion Oubaali. But it is a fact that age is a factor. No matter how much you train yourself, you cannot stop the effects of aging when it comes to reflexes, speed, stamina and strength. They slowly start to diminish at 30s. One can simply watch his previous fights since winning his first world title against Vic Darchinyan at flyweight and then later terrorizing divisions up to featherweight. The thing that keeps Donaire a champion is his power, something the bantamweights cannot take.

We seldom see late 30s becoming world champions. And most of them are technical boxers like Floyd Mayweather and BHop. Brawlers, they rely most on strength like Miguel Cotto and Iron Mike will have difficulty when it comes to career longevity.  
I somewhat agree with you, specially fighters that has a very quick hand speed, has somewhat will see a downturn when they hit age like 36-40 plus, classic example Roy Jones or Manny Pacquiao. Donaire doesn't have a fast hands, but he rely on his reflexes to counter and maybe as you aged, this might affect you as well.

He has a good reason to stay at bantamweight and continue to win because of his power, however, he can't bring it to the next division. So Donaire knows to protect himself and become the fighter that he is even at his age.
2566  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 2022 NBA Season on: April 12, 2022, 01:06:25 PM
Well! that's just how it is if the management doesn't like the result of your hard work and you failed to give them the championship they wanted to further expand their profits from the Lakers merchandise and other stuff. The question is, who will gonna replace Frank after this season? I'm sure it will be a huge challenge for whoever it will be because they will gonna overhaul the entire roosters and they gonna trade Westbrook
Just hours being fired and this article suddenly came out.
https://www.nba.com/news/lakers-part-ways-with-coach-frank-vogel
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Lakers coaching candidates: 25 possible options -- from the obvious to ridiculous -- to replace Frank Vogel
Mike D'Antoni, Quin Snyder, Juwan Howard, Doc Rivers and many more show up on this list
I am a bit sad and relieved about the news. Coach Vogel had been making bad decisions on his rotations especially when their opponents are literally weak teams that should have been an easy win even with his bench players.
There are a lot of rumors going around now. Juwan Howard paired with Rajon Rondo as the coaching Staff and even Nick Nurse's name floated.
If they like run and gun style it surely is Mike D'Antoni and the opposite of him is Quin Snyder but they already tried a defensive coach which is Vogel so I doubt they will do that again.
On the contrary though, coach Vogel tried to be a Mike D'Antoni on Lakers and I don't see him a defensive coach. But good riddance though for Vogel, for sure he will find a new coaching job maybe somewhere else.

It's just the everything was a disaster from the very beginning for the Lakers, compounding by Lebron getting injured and Davis. Hopefully they will have a new team next season and forget about the debacle of Vogel + Westbrook + Carmelo pairing.
2567  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: [BOXING] George Kambosos vs Devin Haney - Undisputed Lightweight Title - June 5 on: April 12, 2022, 12:20:21 PM
^^ There will definitely a shift as far as gambling bets on this fight.

So we are not sure if Haney will remain the favorite or Kambosos fans will put huge amount of him to change the odds. Remain to be seen. What's important that this fight will live up to the billing and I can't wait till we see an official face-off because we wanted to see the two talk smack against each other, gonna be fun.
2568  Economy / Speculation / Re: Bitcoin price stay above $40000? on: April 11, 2022, 11:50:24 PM
Bitcoin touched the crucial support of $39200. From that it have bounced reaching close to $40k. Right now it looks like the time to make profit out of scalping. It looks like the market can move downwards/upwards. If downwards below $38k then we can expect the worst scenario of touching $30k and if upwards then we can expect it to reach $50k at the earliest.

For now it looks like $40k to be the major resistance barrier to decide whether the market is on the bullish move or on the bear trend.
The support becomes the resistance now, we thought that $40k is a strong support but it did crumble to the selling pressures.

Hopefully we can go back to the $40k line again, otherwise, if the market didn't hold obviously we might see another downward shift to mid $30k and this is going to be scary and critical again. We've seen lowest low as early as January-February, we might see it again this Apr-May.
2569  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Another day, Another Lesson for those who want to learn on: April 11, 2022, 11:01:17 PM
I tried to visit the site from your screenshot ape-nft.io but it seems like that address is wrong.
At any point of time you can just dig in to the smart contract to find out which nft is genuine and which is fake.
Just verify and compare it to the original smart contract and you will find out if it's fake or not.

Yes, this is obvious a fake website and the good thing is that you can check if in the smart contract to see if this is fake or not.

Everything here should be taken with a grain of salt, and everyone has the responsibility to verify, verify and verify. I can't stressed that anymore, and if by chance you feel to this scammers, then its your fault for not doing your due diligence.
2570  Economy / Speculation / Re: A Little Surprised! on: April 11, 2022, 10:36:35 PM
And just like that, the support around $40k is broken right now. So we are in the danger zone again and might be back to the lowest low of the year or even dip lower again.

So much for the good news, the selling pressure is now at full swing, everyone wants to get out or at least hedge their bitcoin again so that they won't lose any money during this current down turn that we are experiencing.
2571  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: NBA 2020-2021 betting on: April 11, 2022, 10:13:36 PM

Dallas (-10.5), and Clippers (-10.5).

Won on the Clippers game but lose to the Dallas game, just 0.5. Sad
So that's the last game of the series, we have 1 day rest then we will proceed to the play-in tournament.

Early betting lines.

Nets -8 against Cavaliers
Clippers +2.5 against Wolves.

That's fine, these last few games were really unpredictable because we cannot be sure if their star players will play or not. But that's so close! Let's try our luck again on the 1st day of the play-in tournament as for sure teams will try hard to compete to have a spot in the playoffs.

I'll follow you on those bets, Nets -8.5 and LA Clippers +3 .. GL!
Seems everyone is really on the Nets to win against the Cavs so I'm also tailing this one. For sure though this is going to be a battle, but the Nets have the home court and then Durant and Irving so the -8.5 is still doable and maybe they can win in double digits.

The odds still very attractive at 1.89. Goodluck to everyone. I might skip the Clippers vs Minnesota game though.
2572  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Boxing Speculation, Odds and Predictions on: April 11, 2022, 09:52:43 PM
Finally the match began. It brought lots of excitement to the boxing fan. Now finally up card is over. But GGG did not cease to impress me, I was betting on GGG as well. What a strength  at this age Keep Rocking!
He won, but do you think he can win against a prime Canelo? I doubt it, his win against Murata is not the impressive to me, he was slow, maybe Murata has a good chin, but he didn't knock him out in the early round.

But we will see how he can stand up against Canelo. He will have to win against Bivol first. As I have said, Canelo is still in his prime years and it is going to be difficult to beat him.
2573  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 2022 NBA Season on: April 11, 2022, 12:09:18 PM
Now that the regular season is over, I actually got quite excited about the play-in games, especially Nets v Cavs. Nets had big issues and big ups and downs but at the end, they still have two superstars and it can be their time to shine more than ever. Especially Kevin Durant, who is an excellent player and hugely motivated superstar, can do marvellous things in the playoffs. On the other hand, Cavs were much better during the first half of the season. But by the end of the season, they are having serious problems. Even though I personally like the Cavs, I have my doubts about their performances in the play-ins.

They just newly acquire some good players in their team so I guess they struggle on their chemistry but I believe if they can work this things together for sure they can still be dangerous since they have full talents on their rooster. Their coaching staffs should find ways on which of this guys would be a perfect fit on their stars since I guess this will be good for them especially they are placed on crucial situation.
The Cavs was one of the biggest surprises early, and just like the Bulls in the West, they struggled after the All-Star break because of some injuries on their key players. But the Cavs still have a chance though, but it will be a tough one as they will have to go against the Nets. So I wouldn't be surprise if the Nets with their game against the Cavs, because of KD and Irving.
2574  Economy / Speculation / Re: A Little Surprised! on: April 09, 2022, 05:54:12 AM
As much as we think that the war will bring good to the market, because it did initially, I think this is one of the factors why the price continue to do down despite the many positive news that we had right now.

To much uncertainty going around us, investors might be hesitant to invest because of the situation and then we still have the Covid-19 and recently there is a discovery of a new variant.
2575  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: [Boxing] Errol Spence Jr vs. Yordenis Ugas 3-Belt Welterweight Unification Match on: April 09, 2022, 05:20:52 AM

That's already a fair cut because the distance between Crawford and Spence is not that big, he should already accept that deal if he was offered by Crawford's team. But it seems to me and probably for others that Spence is still not interested about it because he really looks like that he was avoiding Crawford for some reasons that he himself only knows or was he just trying to hype the fight.

I'm afraid that he will regret this decisions sooner or later because if Ugas will upset Spence, then that idea would become into ash as Ugas will be the one who will fight Crawford now. But if the opposite happens, I bet that Spence will recommend that he needs to get the 60% cut of the purse just for the fight to happen.

If Spence wins and demand or ask for that cut if Crawford's camp is very much willing to fight Spence it won't be a problem, they can accept that just to proceed with the talks, aside from this cut there are still many ways to earn from this possible fight, sponsors and other things behind this sport will be happy to engage.

It's more about what will happen from this upcoming fight. Everything will be discussed again after for now. Let's continue in our opinion

between Ugas and Spence and how we see the fight will end up. Roll Eyes Cool

Well I hope that Crawford's camp will just agree that they will be having just 40% cut from the purse just to make the fight happen in reality, but I still doubt that they will just agree about it easily even if there's still some other ways that they can earn. You know, 10% is already a big money.

I agree, that discussion will come soon if indeed Spence happens to be the winner in this fight. For now, let's talk about Ugas and Spence as this is also an anticipated and interesting fight to see.
Money wise, it's already huge a 10% cut in the purse could mean millions for this boxers. But if Crawford really wanted to see who is the best, then maybe he will go down and accept that split so that they can dance together. And if he believes in his talent then if he wins then definitely he will be now the A-side if Spence wanted a rematch.

But we will have to see Spence performance against Ugas first and definitely he needs to win it. Before we can speculate the possibility of a Spence vs Crawford unification and super fight.
2576  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Sent coin on wrong blockchain? on: April 08, 2022, 07:02:15 AM
If you sent some coin to Binance exchange with wrong network you can contact Binance costumer service team, they will guide you how to get back your fund but usually you have to pay for Binance team to get back your money, ever I sent wrong coin network from Metamask to Hotbit but I have pay more than $250 to get my coins back but not process it because have lower value from my coins than fee have to pay.

Yes, there are exchanges that are willing to help, but as far as I can remember, way back in 2019, I was also in the same predicament. I contacted the exchange and they said that they are willing as long as the value or the amount is amounting to 1 BTC. So I didn't proceed because obviously the value is less than that amount. So for $500, I don't think that Binance is going to extend their hands here.
2577  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Tennis League All Thread on: April 08, 2022, 06:31:45 AM
The Quarter Finals of Houston are set and playing later today are:

Opelka v Brouwer
Mmoh v Kyrgios
Garin v Fritz
Tiafoe v Isner

As I mentioned earlier Kyrgios has a great chance to get to the final, if he wins
his match against Mmoh who I've never heard of he will play either Opelka or
Brouwer. what do you think?

Personally I would like to see him win it, it would give him confirmation that he can
still win a tournament as a singles player and maybe it would change his mindset?
Ok, so it's already the QF now, I think Kyrgios might have an easy path because as you have said, we haven't heard about his opponent Mmoh, so chances are high for him.

The battle between Tiafoe v Isner and Garin v Fritz might be difficult to predict though, I will try to look at the odds later and see if there is some interesting odds to bet in those match.
2578  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Inoue vs Donaire II discussion on: April 08, 2022, 05:51:24 AM

I will agree that smart money should be on Inoue in this match. But stop saying that Donaire has no dedication because he did his time in boxing and has been a multiple champion and accomplished a lot. If he losses then no excuses, but it doesn't mean that he didn't put 100% on training, it is that Inoue might be the best boxer in their division, or at what they say, the best fighter win that night.

I am just going by my own analysis of the probable outcomes and what reasons could be driving those probabilities. I am no statistical data scientist so I am probably way off when it comes to the odds. Its just that Donaire has been giving off an air of retirement/tiredness or something similiar. Maybe its just me that is getting that feeling but if there is one thing that is certain is that odds are in Inoue's favor, no matter how you look at it.

Inoue has proven that he is not a force to be trifled with all throughout his fighting history.

I don't mind being surprised by the opposite
I would agree though, specially when he did try to go up in weight but then brutally knock out by Nicholas Walters, we might see some glimpse that he might be slipping away. And then he had this string of victories after that, maybe against some low level fighters, but when he step up the plates again, he losses to Diego Magdaleno and then to Carl Frampton. But then again, he redeem himself by knocking out two young champions, Oubaali and fellow Pinoy Reymart Gaballo. So maybe Donaire has some still in his tank against Inoue in this fight.
2579  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 2022 NBA Season on: April 08, 2022, 05:11:19 AM
Looks like the Lakers released Trevor Ariza today.  I'm not sure why they had such high hopes of him making a difference when it was obvious while he was with the Suns that his career in the NBA should be over. 
He has been in the Lakers before, when Kobe was at his prime if I'm not mistaken. So it means that Ariza has been in the NBA for many years and we really don't understand why the management get him when he is injured and not even a contributing player this season.

A lot of talk about what the Lakers are going to do with Russell Westbrook has already started.  They're saying the Lakers may release him and take a 15 million dollar hit to their salary cap for the next 3 years, or they are now discussing a trade with Charlotte where Gordon Hayward and Terry Rozier end up on the Lakers...  Not sure if that would be any better, but maybe they could trade them easier than Westbrook.  It would be great if LaMelo wanted to be a Laker and get himself in that trade, but I don't think the Hornets are going to let him go for anything.
Maybe the Lakers are going to offload Westbrook as long as other teams are willing to get him and hopefully this time, the Lakers will get some good players in exchange of Russ.
2580  Economy / Speculation / Re: If Russia goes full Bitcoin adoption on: April 07, 2022, 08:44:09 PM
In my opinion, it would be great if Russia adopted bitcoin completely because bitcoin could be a great haven for the Russian central bank avoiding the sanctions imposed by the EU and US because there is no censorship on the bitcoin network and cryptocurrency transactions.
Some may use bitcoin in this way but it does not seems as if this is going to become the official policy from the government, as it seems they are focusing their efforts in protecting the ruble and forcing other countries to use it from now on when they deal with Russia, and at least to me this seems to be a decent measure to counter some of the sanctions against Russia due to the war at Ukraine, however depending on how long the war lasts Russia may reconsider their posture once again as I do not think that sanctions will stop coming their way if the war continues.
Yeah, Russia has nothing to lose but everything to gain if they are going to adopt bitcoin for now. We all know what bitcoin can offer, so to protect their rubble or at least the government hedging everything they have to bitcoin, it will somewhat negate the sanctions against them temporarily. And then the Russia people too, can used bitcoin as well. But I don't think it will last, as soon as the war comes to an end, the Russian government will simply dump their bitcoin very quick.
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