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2641  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: [BOXING]: RYAN GARCIA vs EMMANUEL TAGOE - April 9 on: April 07, 2022, 01:55:50 AM
^^ Knock out artist though, doesn't look for an early knock out, it has to come and they don't want to force it otherwise they might get hit by one hail mary punch that will change the complexion of the fight.

So Ryan might be looking for a knockout, but it it doesn't come as expected, he needs to just play it and let Tagoe make that mistake that he can take Ryan's punch and then boom, perfect left hook.
2642  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: [Boxing]: GGG vs Murata - Reschedule on: April 07, 2022, 01:20:31 AM
I can't also believe that he's more famous than the monster Inoue himself, Murata is viewed as a hero in Japan. I can't know for sure why but my best guess would be that he gave honor to Japan when he acquired the gold medal in Olympics.

Naoya Inoue is a Bantamweight Champion where weight plays at 115 lb to 118 lb.

Ryota Murata is a MiddleWeight Champion where weight plays at 154 lb to 160 lb.

That will tell us why Murata is more famous than Inoue. The upper the weight class, especially a Title Holder, the famous they will be.

Murata's WBA Super Middleweight Title was a vacant title previously held by Canelo Alvarez. That's also one of the reasons why Murata is more recognized and popular compared to other boxers in Japan.

I think it is also that Murata has been in the game for so long now, he has traveled and fight in the US way before we even heard about Inoue even campaigning in the States. Nevertheless, Inoue could be the next Japanese boxing superstar no doubt about that.

So this is still very interesting match, and although GGG is the favorite, Murata is a good fighter in his own right.
2643  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Tennis League All Thread on: April 07, 2022, 12:52:42 AM
15-year-old tennis player Michael Kouame slaps opponent at the net after losing in ITF Juniors tournament in Accra. This is very rare to happen in tennis. There is no clear information on what reason the player slapped the opponent. This should not happen and should be heavily punished. Doing such act at this young age is really a bad approach towards the game.

15-year-old tennis player slaps opponent

Damn, I watched the video so it's not clear as to what really happen in the game that might have tempted Kouame to slap his opponent. I haven't seen this kind of disrespect to an opponent physically. There is verbal abuse and that is very common. But for the customary handshake and then you gave your opponent a slap? he should be punished by all cost by ITF here.
2644  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: How are you preparing for bear market on: April 06, 2022, 06:44:18 AM
Of course, it's a more difficult period to make a profit, but I think the harder you work, the better it will be. With what I've been through, it's not that difficult as there will still be small opportunities for you to invest and make profits, but I find it more effective than farming stable coins. It's really stable and profitable. They have a much better interest rate than the bank, and I always advise my friends not to bank when investment channels become difficult, simply learn more to have more opportunities.

Well there are speculators that can still make a decent profit in a bear market because they have the experience. But for the majority who wanted to try, it's going to be a difficult path for them. So they have to be very careful in this bear market. Others might just continue to accumulate in the cycle and buy cheap altcoins and they for sell later when we are in a bull run.
2645  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Tennis League All Thread on: April 06, 2022, 05:44:36 AM
Big things to come in the future from Alcaraz! He's capable of playing a physical game and has great technique as well! Just hope he can stay injury free. Few years ago, Hyeon Chung was the hottest prospect and he won the next gen finals as well like Alcaraz, but just couldn't shake off injuries and now he's become obscure. Hopefully, not the same case with Alcaraz.

Alcaraz is a big talent but we have a lot of young talented players out there, so we will need to wait and see who will really breakthrough and start winning grandslams. Till date, I don't really see anybody (except for maybe Medvedev) who will able to dominate the field in a similar way as Djokovic, Nadal or Federed did.

I agree that Medvedev was the only one so far who did standout amongst the young generation of tennis player that will replace the old guard. But so far, he has faltered, recently in this tournament wherein Alcaraz is the winner. So all the attention has shifted to Alcaraz as there are too much hype around him but he was able to back it up with a huge win in Miami.
2646  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: [Boxing] Errol Spence Jr vs. Yordenis Ugas 3-Belt Welterweight Unification Match on: April 06, 2022, 02:19:24 AM
^^ Thurman is just lurking in the shadows, he just come back from a long layoff and for me his latest win against a balloon up Barrios is not that impressive. He needs to fight quality fighters fight in the division before he can fight for the belt again. So right now, it's Spence, Crawford and Ugas as the top dog and maybe they should fight each other first and then Thurman builds up his resume again before he can fight anyone of them.

Maybe Thurman can fight the loser between Ugas and Spence instead of having a rematch, the winner can move forward and face

Crawford, this would be a good chance for Thurman to aim for the belt if he wins, then waiting for the loser again, then challenge the

overall belt holder. Just a wild opinion though, but for now, everyone's eye is on this upcoming fight. A winner takes all fights that will

add a good hypes to the winner's resume and accomplishments.

But Thurman doesn't have any bargaining power right now, he doesn't have a belt and just coming back from a long layoff and just won against un-rank Barrios.

So money wise it is not a safe bet for whoever win in this match. So they should really aim for the next belt holder which is Crawford to unify all the belts in this division and of course to make more money.
2647  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: [BOXING] George Kambosos vs Devin Haney - Undisputed Lightweight Title - June 5 on: April 06, 2022, 01:22:17 AM
Ok, watch this press conference to announce the fight:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhEbVTqBGu0

As you can see there's already a heated argument between the two, hehehe. Yeah, and this is going to be a war, winner becoming the undisputed champion.

That would make this fight very exciting to watch. Kambosos needs to collect one belt only to become an undisputed champion but Devin Haney is sure a tough opponent and he should stay focused like what he said in the conference. Kambosos looks so confident, I like that, it means he believes in himself that he can beat Haney although I think Haney is the favorite to win.

It will be an easier way for Kambosos to gain another title in case he'll win this fight but I'm sure that Devin Haney will do everything to defend his title so it will surely be a tough match. If we'll look at Haney's previous fights we could see how aggressive he is and that's something that Kambosos should be ready for.

George is good at taking out the strong points of his opponent and so is Haney. But it seems that Kambosos is prepared for what Haney will offer in this fight. Haney doesn't is not a good puncher, no power behind it at this weight class but he cover it with his technical abilities. On the other hand, George has the power, it was evident in the Teo Lopez fight. For me Lopez is one of the biggest puncher in this division but George was able to take that out from Lopez and then he himself dishes out one of the worst to a champion in this division. And now that he has the belt, everyone will go for his head including Haney but I think Kambosos will win this fight.
2648  Economy / Speculation / Re: Terra cofounder Do Kwon is the one who is pumping Bitcoin on: April 06, 2022, 12:43:51 AM
This pump will run day after day as the Op described, which is $3 billion to start with. at one point this move will be the point at which BTC will rise above $50k this week. BTC is still holding $45k/$46k today if the close occurs at $46k there's a great chance that $50k will be reached.
This news is currently being discussed, especially on twitter. I'm sure they will be very serious about continuing to buy Bitcoin until their target is achieved. all of our hopes for bitcoin to break through the $50k price will surely come true soon.

Luna Foundation Guard (LFG)  is no doubt buying bitcoin continuously but this does not mean that they are the only ones pumping the price. Their buying orders are giving a big support in the market and retailers & other investors are also buying bitcoin. Bitcoin needs to cross the psychological resistance of 50,000$ and then we may see a big strong bullish momentum towards the all time high. Do Kwon decision of buying bitcoin in order to back up the UST has suddenly shifted the market back on the bull phase and we avoided the bear market for the time being.

True, but we can't discount the fact that when they released this in public, the price seems to pump, from lower $30,000 to almost $50,000 right now. I will not call this a bull run though, we haven't break the big psychological barrier of $50,000. Maybe if it will be broken and then the run continues, perhaps the bulls is back. But be very cautious as well as there could be some entities riding this and trying to manipulate it from behind.
2649  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Inoue vs Donaire II discussion on: April 04, 2022, 01:43:33 AM
If I just say something about your discussions, Donaire has been a champion, beat a lot of prime boxers, loses some including to Inoue, but it just shows that he is dedicated to his craft because he has reach the pinnacle of it.

So as far as dedication, there is no question about it, he is still motivated ever since his breakout win against Darchinyan. As for his social media, every boxer has an account with boxing and non-boxing followers. So it doesn't mean he is not dedicated just because all of his followers is non boxing fans.
2650  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Tennis League All Thread on: April 04, 2022, 01:06:58 AM
Alcaraz has just win Miami Tournament! 2 set vs 0!
7-5 6-4
it was not easy on first set but at the end he is collecting a well deserved title.
It was not really hard to bet on him since the other match they have played has been clearly win by the Spanish.

The odds offered on Alcaraz winner against Ruud are not high, but the Spanish seems to be the favorite.
There is only one precedent between the two players.
About a year ago they played a game that ended with Alcaraz victory (6-2 6-4) even if it was another surface much more suited to his playing characteristics.

Personally I will try to play a bet during the "live" match hoping for a 10% more odds.
It is a risk (because I could also get 10% less) but it is worth it to maximize the final result.

Today the women tournament ends with the match between Osaka and Swiatek!
I have my idea of how the match will end, but I keep it to myself Wink

It was a great win by him, to get broken early in the 1st set and to break back later
and go on to win the set. The 2nd one was easier for him, breaking Ruud's first game
and it was not too much trouble.

The interesting thing well, one of them anyway was his calmness to serve out for the match,
it was like pure belief he was going to win.

All our bets were fulfilled, I'm sure Trofo picked up better odds on Alcaraz early in the 1st set
after he went 0-3 down!

Good win, yeah, he deserves this tournament, he has been playing solid like Swiatek. Just like what he did against Tsitisipas, down in the first set, was able to make a huge comeback. But this time, he was really calm and know what to do in the first set as he didn't want to and playing catch up again.

And the score was enough to hit the -3.5 handicap so I'm very a happy camper right now.
2651  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Is it better to have 5, 12 or even more coins? on: April 03, 2022, 04:43:24 AM
I prefer to diversify but only to at least just 5 coins. Others might argue that more is better in crypto, but I will stick to the principle that less could be good because it will not make complicate things on your end. And it's easy to maintain your portfolio which such solid coins only, as you are not going to see pump and dump and the projects seems to be heading in a good direction people the behind people (devs and others), are working very hard. However, it's really up to individual preferences, maybe others wanted more in their portfolio and can take care of it.
2652  Economy / Speculation / Re: Bitcoin Price. on: April 03, 2022, 03:08:13 AM
At first I thought that as long as conditions in Ukraine were not conducive the price of bitcoin would not increase but it turned out that all of this was wrong because lately the price of bitcoin has been able to rise drastically even though the war between Russia and Ukraine is not over yet. today the price of bitcoin went up very drastically and the price of bitcoin was back above $45k, most likely the price increase that occurred during the last week could be a sign that the bearish phase will end soon.

And it means that we are not affected by the war, although not immune, but the effect is not that significant as we have seen the price has been moving positively to $47,000++ even if there is the noise of war in the background.

So let's see how far the war will go though, it's not really good to have it right now as the price of gas is soaring high. And maybe that's one reason that people are going to bitcoin to stop the bleeding of their wealth. Going to bitcoin and hedging their money is a good idea at this time.

With Bitcoin rising above $45k while the war was still going on, has proven that the war between Russia and Ukraine did not have too big an effect
on the movement of Bitcoin. It might have an effect when the war first broke out, but the effect didn't last long, because it wasn't long before
the Bitcoin price started to slowly go up and now it's quite surprising to be able to rise above the $45k price.

This means we don't have to worry if we want to invest in Bitcoin right now, because the price of Bitcoin will always go up no matter how much FUD
in circulation. Since Bitcoin's fundamentals have proven to be very strong, so any event that makes the price of Bitcoin fall, it never lasts long.
Even in my opinion in a situation of economic crisis that is happening around the world, where many assets are falling in price, but Bitcoin has
so far shown a pretty good performance, although the price has not returned to the ATH price. But in my opinion it is very safe to make Bitcoin
an option for long-term investment, because in the future the price of Bitcoin will definitely rise very high.


This is by far the most popular opinion, indeed the war didn't affect the price of bitcoin but instead it went the other way around. I don't think there is FUD right now, so I'm not seeing the price going down for the month of April unless there is going to be like a big cashout from whales and then there will be panic soon afterwards.

So let's just enjoy our mini bull run if we can it like that, although the price target should be at least $50,000.
2653  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: [BOXING]: RYAN GARCIA vs EMMANUEL TAGOE - April 9 on: April 03, 2022, 02:33:02 AM
Tagoe is 8.6, better odds than sportsbet.

That's a trap, I wouldn't take that 8.6 against Ryan Garcia because we know how capable he is especially against a fighter that has not fought big fights in the US. I'm not saying Tagoe has no chance, but if we are talking of a chance, that should be a slim chance.

Yeah, it could be a trap for us, I know it's very attractive and might be tempting to some because of the huge odds but for sure, you have one foot already on the losing end, very slim change for him to pull an upset against Ryan. We know that Garcia is coming from a long layoff, but it's hard to see him losing against a relatively unknown fighter who hasn't fought anyone at Ryan's level.
That odds can still be change once the match is near, I can’t believe to see huge odds to fighter who don’t have much experience with a great boxer, Garcia can’t underestimated here and should be more careful with that odds. The layoff of Garcia is due to some illness but it doesn’t mean he stop being great, most probably he’s more eager to have a match right now and he will start it against Tagoe.

The odds can change if there will be a huge bettors for Tagoe that will swing the odds. But i don't see it happening though, he is not well known amongst American bettors so I doubt that they are willing to risk their money on him.

Garcia says that the break in boxing did some good on him, mentally and that he has more energy and can focus on boxing now.
2654  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: [Boxing]: Casimero vs Butler ordered by WBO on: April 03, 2022, 01:49:15 AM
I'm starting to laugh at this one because you guys are the one who is anxious instead of Casimero who have been bombarded with misleading news. Just let that be, Casimero himself isn't even affected.

It's ok, mate. They are just sharing sentiments. Cheesy

Actually, it was a sensitive issue, and just to give you some thoughts, a pending lawsuit can affect the boxer's schedule and WBA might not allow him to fight. It's obvious that Casimero is not affected but surely it was on his mind and let's say that's not true, they still need to address the issue and answer the complaint at the given place and time at which the accused Casimero should also be present once the trial started. In other words, too much hassle even Casimero is not guilty.

The Tweet by Paul Butler's camp is just proof that there might be a change of plan since they know a boxer can't just fight if there's an ongoing lawsuit. Fortunately, no news about that and seems that there will be no problem.

Or Butler just playing mind games with Casimero, he might not used the case issue against John Riel blatantly, but this is somewhat a subtle attack on him.

So it's either Casimero will be affected or will he be ore motivated to knock out Butler because of that kind of "trash talking". So we will see, we are almost there, we just have to patience specially the odds on this fight because we wanted to beat already.
2655  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Tennis League All Thread on: April 03, 2022, 12:59:56 AM
I was shocked to see the final score on the Osaka vs Swiatek match, Swiatek completely dominated Osaka specially in the second game wherein she score a bagel in the finals.

Well, if you look at her winning path, Swiatek registered twice 6-0 wins if I'm not mistaken. But this is finals so I'm not expecting here to score like that specially against a come backing Osaka.

So congrats to Swiatek, Sunshine double winner.

Swiatek won 6-4 6-0 against Osaka . This is a big result and Swiatek destroyed Osaka and Osaka was playing really good in this tournament. Swiatek also with this title and win is one step closer to that first place in the world and its just a matter of time when she will grab it

Yeah, it was a good win for me as well as Swiatek covered the handicap points. I think the pressure is on Osaka in this game, but as we can see in the score, Swiatek was really above any girls in the tournament.

I have Alcaraz to win in the finals against Hurkacz -3.5 at 1.79.
2656  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Tennis League All Thread on: April 02, 2022, 08:23:42 AM
^^ I will also have Swiatek in this game, -3.5 still good odds at 1.98 right now.

They are in a contrasting style, Osaka more or her power and the groundstroke game, but I think Swiatek can offset it with her accuracy. It could go to three sets though, but eventually Swiatek will came out the winner.
2657  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Altcoin whales on: April 02, 2022, 07:48:26 AM
A lot of us are confused about the whales behind the altcoin blockchain, for the fact that the ethereum blockchain brought with it the ability for any programmer to make change to the blockchain which has given birth to several developments and new coins, tokens creation so the question is who are the whales behind the altcoin market development.

It's pretty obvious that altcoin addresses doesn't have a name so we really don't know who they are. All we know is that they have huge amount of tokens behind those addresses we see in blockchain and it could be in the millions or maybe the biggest whales could have worth billions already. Anyhow, what's your concern though? why do you want to know who are those whales? And for sure most whales wanted to remain anonymous and doesn't want to flaunt their wealth.
2658  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: [Boxing]: GGG vs Murata - Reschedule on: April 02, 2022, 07:17:18 AM
^^ I do agree that Murata's chance is slim, and it seems that GGG is going to prove something in this fight so that the trilogy will be very intriguing because at 40 years old, maybe he could upset the version of Canelo at his prime. And for sure the crowd is behind Murata specially if they feel that their fighter is behind, they could cheer him up to somewhat pull an upset and derail that trilogy but hopefully GGG will be smart enough for to fight against a hometown fighter.
2659  Economy / Economics / Re: When Will This War End? on: April 02, 2022, 02:42:25 AM
^^ It's understandable that it's only Putin that can design when to stop the war. But so far he has no sign of throwing the white flag as he doesn't want to lose in this fight.

So this war is going to drag for months or even years, until Putin give up. I don't think that the US will lift the sanctions against them. The only problem is that human casualties in both camps, Russians and Ukrainians specially civilians.
2660  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Inoue vs Donaire II discussion on: April 02, 2022, 02:18:37 AM
I hope that it won't be the same deciding factor and giving scores since the venue will be the same. That's a big worry for all the fans but Donaire just accepted it.
I'm sure that he's going to prove it that whether he got the crowd, the venue, the judges, he's going to take Inoue down and with a TKO. I guess this is what's on the mind of Donaire after knowing the conditions.

Regardless of the venue, I mentioned that Naoya Inoue might not allow to experience his struggle again during their first fight. He is surely much improved here and will do his very best to prove that he's the King of 117-118 lbs.

Nonito Donaire surely knows that very well that's why I like to put my trust in him finally, he can win this time even he will be the underdog.

A sweet TKO is a must but knowing the resistance of Inoue, that was hard to do. Inoue is also backed up by venue fans making it more difficult to fight.
Both has the better spirit but I think that Nonito is having more of that intense desire that he should knock Inoue out with all the favors that has given to him.
And I think he's anticipating that Inoue became stronger and better this time too. Well, we will see who's the better person this time and they'll just settle on who's on the favor and not.

That left hook of Donaire will be the big difference here, if he can abuse Inoue early and caught up with some big shots, maybe he will score a knock out and who knows, he had broken his orbital bone and it's possible again with that powerful left hook.

I know that Inoue is strong and fast, but Donaire's advantage is the experience and the timing. Timing beats speed in boxing, so let's see if he can land that patented left hook of his.
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