I have doubt that Qatar can take any point from their group because if they were able to have this then surely it's going to be a huge success for them and their fans because they are the weakest side in this world cup with we all know they are in just because of host country and in their country we have all three teams which are very competitive and have few very exciting players with this all going into PQF is just like a joke they are not going to have one point from here.
Ecuador and Netherlands are going to be fight for top two spots with Ghana is also good team which can create any upset so for Qatar just playing into this World Cup is big honor and now having one point could be the biggest achievement with no chance to go through into PQF.
I think Qatar is a bit better than what most people in the west think. For example, Qatar ranks between Ecuador and Paraguay in the FIFA rankings. Qatar is ranked 49, Ecuador 44, and Paraguay 50. So that tells you that it's basically around the lower teams of South America. That's not too bad as South America has a great talent |
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Yes, absolutely.
The more options for deposits there is, the more likely a gambler will put money in there.
Because sometimes people have their money in different stacks in different accounts, etc, so if one casino allows deposits from different types of accounts then people will be more than happy to use that. Even credit cards, which I don't think is a great idea for the gambler, but well, we're all adults here.
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personally I think bots take all the fun away from gambling.
Yeah, I agree with that sentiment. Part of what makes gambling attractive is the decision to play or not every time, if a bot decides for you then there's nothing you're really doing. And also if bots were so successful, then the creators would just continue trading with them personally and never sell them so to minimise competition. I think most bots are not profitable, and it's just the seller of the bots the ones making any money in the long term |
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This is what we called superstitious belief, right?
That is correct! Though it most certainly not gonna change anything as it's just called a belief, we don't know either if it really works. So, some people stands on Pascal's wager philosophy, as you lose nothing if you believe, but will gain everything if it's proven to be true and that really make sense. In business, you only wish for good luck so might as well attract them with what you believe is inviting the spirits of good luck to have them in your business. That's gonna be the simplest explanation for those people who practiced feng sui. However, feng sui itself is a business lol. I think that Feng Shui is based on good design, nice airflow, etc. All those things are real, of course. But the notion that there are bad or good energies is not really scientific. I think Feng Shui might be considered as a basic explanation for why some places feel better than others, but we do have better tools in science that describe those flows in much more detail, interior design usually uses those tools to create amazing indoor spaces. |
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I don't quite agree with you. Some people play for the sake of gambling for the pleasure that can be obtained by beating their friends. They gather in company in the evenings and play poker using a poker set. They are not playing for real money, but for chips. In theory, the chips are worth nothing, but this does not prevent us from determining the winner of the tournament, which in turn receives recognition and respect among the company. This is what causes excitement. Therefore, you can play for fun even without money. Yeah, you're right. But that's probably the minority of cases. If people use a free app for example, that app will be designed to lure in people to start using real money after they become used to the game with fake money. That's the whole reason for those apps to exist, for free. They're basically ads for the casinos. People that are on the fence will start there, and some of them will eventually switch to real money eventually. But yes, some people will just pay a bit for fun with friends, but even that can eventually turn into real money as well, specially with more competitive people. |
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Argentina itself has a chance to become world champions. They are now in a group with Poland, Saudi Arabia and Mexico.
Argentina have a chance to win the world cup, but it is not because of the teams in their group, Argentina are always expected to make it out of the group stage, they are a top national side, and being eliminated in the group stages of the world cup will be a shock. If they play to the best of their ability as a great national team they will finish top of that group, Poland seems like the only strong competition for them there, but they should finish above them. This world cup is going to be Messi's last one, that can be something to motivate the Argentine national team to go all out for gold when the world cup starts. Yeah, there's no chance that Argentina doesn't pass the group stage. But having said that, Italy didn't qualify for this world cup, and I would have never thought that, so you never know really. The world cup is a very competitive tournament, and it usually gives you surprises. But yeah, Messi is definitely going out with a bang in this world cup. Hopefully we'll see him playing at another level. This is the last thing he needs to win, even though he will always live in the shadow of Maradona. |
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Can someone still develop the habit of gambling and become an addict even though no one around gambles?
The answer is yes. Becoming an addicted gambler doesn't mean you are around an environment where everyone around you gambles, you can be alone and still become an addicted gambler when you have developed the mindset of trying some games out that you possibly watched in a movie or played a demo with your phone and seeing that you played well, you could decide to start the real gambling and before you would realize you have been addicted to it and you can not stop it easily. Another thing that can make someone become addicted to gambling when no one around the person gambles is the information someone gets on social media, there are so much information about people who made millions through the gambling this has made some of their followers addicted to gambling while trying to make the same money with them. Absolutely right. In the same way that people can become alcoholics by themselves at home, people these days can become a gambler at home. You only need a phone these days to gamble all your money away. Back in the day you needed to go to a place and gamble, but not anymore. I would argue that it's even easier to become a gambler than an alcoholic, because at least with alcohol you need to go to the shops or bars, and some places close down at some times, whereas gambling is open 24/7 from wherever you are. |
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That Iceland vs France match was crazy.
In a world without VAR France would have won 3-0 against Iceland!
But France got two of their goals cancelled after two VARs.
And then at the absolutely last minute, I thought that corner ended up in nothing and the game was over, but suddenly there was another VAR, which ended up in a penalty for Iceland!
Absolutely crazy.
It makes you think about the technology, and if it adds or detracts from the game itself.
Some people will argue that it's more fair to use VAR
But I don't know, I kinda prefer to have the judgement of the referee as the official last word, independent of technology.
Also using VAR a lot stops the game a lot. There was so much extra time because of the added VARs.
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I also saw this news (since it concerns my country), but it seemed doubtful to me. Bookmakers, when working properly, receive money regardless of how the game ended. In my opinion, it is much more difficult for a bookmaker to earn money if he tries to play against the total position of the players (who knows where it will swing in the next minute). In this case, everything was allegedly built precisely on this. I think either we do not see the whole picture, or the news itself is fake/prank/something combined.
Yeah, I don't know too much about that league news in particular, but I agree with you. It just sounds like an April's fool's Day kind of news to me. You would have to have a lot of people interested in doing this, and it would just turn into a comedy or something like that. And I don't think there's too many people interested in that for it to become real. |
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Wow! I heard of such a superstition, but did not think that it had such far-reaching consequences. In my opinion, the casino will never use such scripts because it does not play against individual players, but against the entire population of players, and the fact that an individual player is in the black does not mean anything - the main thing is that all players in total be in the red. And if each player is driven into a minus, then it will scare away all the players. While the presence of lucky players is good advertising and attracts new players.
I think it's just that, superstition. As far as I know every casino, online or offline, is tightly regulated, and the software has to pass certain certifications and checks so that they can prove the probabilities to win or lose for the player. I don't think online casinos will risk their licence taken away for doing that kind of stuff. They already earn a lot of money by just doing normal casino business. It's just another one of those things that some gamblers like to think, but it's just not true. Like for example that if there has been a few blacks in a row, then a red is "due" next. There's just no such thing. |
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So you see even if everything depends on luck and circumstances there are many people even non-Chinese are following Fengshui practices.
How about you? Do you have Fengshui practice that you're observing when you are about to play or while playing
Most hotels with casinos for international travelers will skip number four so that Chinese gamblers stay there. It's not like non Chinese people have tetraphobia as well. Nokia did this as well, they went from series 30 to series 50 for their Asian market. Superstition is not based on anything real though, but many gamblers are extremely superstitious, so it makes sense to cater for them in different businesses. |
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It's all about control.
Countries can control their citizens by controlling the supply of money. They can freeze the assets of any citizen.
Money is the lifeblood of any modern person's life. If you can control the access to that money, then you can control that person.
Bitcoin being global allows citizens to have financial freedom from any country in particular. Some countries don't like that.
Being decentralized is the main point of Bitcoin. Any other type of money can be used for crime, scams, etc...
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FIFA obviously wants, for financial and marketing reasons, that as many national teams as possible can participate in the World Cup, and the interestingness and quality of the competition is less important to them.
It all comes down to profit in the end, as always.
I think that the fans will always be interested in the matches of their national teams, and that they will start to be interested in the rest of the competition only when the group stage of the competition is over.
It is really a shame that such a great national team, such as Italy, will not participate in the World Cup, but I believe that they will surely participate in the next World Cup, because it will be much more easy to qualify, given the much larger number of participants.
Well, yeah, up to a point. If the tournament ends up being similar to the UEFA nations league, then no one would bother to watch the games. It's very different to watch your country in a friendly match or in a world cup qualifier, or at the final of the world cup. The UEFA nations league is not as competitive for example, so it's not as exciting to watch as the world cup. I hope they manage to keep the world cup as competitive as it has been. |
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I just hate the 'altcoin' term, but that's a different story XD 10 years from now we can still see BTC more or less on top, but taking a different position, more of a store of value and a payment method without any serious development made to it, whereas some other coins might be specific for this or that use. So surpassing might not be something that will be important or even looked at like that, as they will coexist on the same plane but in different uses.
Yeah, I see a similar future. Kinda like we now have cash, and card payments everywhere, I think in the future we will have cash, card, crypto payments everywhere. And for international transfer of money, most of it will be done with Bitcoin under the hood for minimal fees and extra security. |
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Interesting thought.
But Bitcoin is very human, think about the consensus rules. They are very specific to how we perceive time for example.
An alien would probably experience time in a different way. Even other animals on earth live vastly different amounts of time, so an alien would probably experience time in a very different way, therefore our consensus rules might not be applicable for them, therefore they would prefer an altcoin basically.
On the other hand gold is just a rock, so they might probably not value it a lot.
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I think the categories should be based on the amount of money the gambler spends.
Basically that would create two or maybe three types.
The gambler that plays once in a while and therefore pays very little.
The gambler that plays regularly and therefore pays a lot of money but still can keep it below what he makes as income. Basically a gambler that works for gambling.
And finally the gambler that loses control and ends up in financial ruin.
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I think that a gambler that plays with fake money will end up playing with real money.
Otherwise I don't think those fake money apps would exist. They basically use those apps to attract people that haven't gambled with real money yet.
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One of the best ways to make people deposit would be a promotion where they get paid a bonus for depositing.
As a second item, as said in OP, I think the ability to withdraw to different platforms would be interesting to people. But to be honest I think the vast majority of users will only care about withdrawals when they already deposited, so a promotion bonus would be better in the end.
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Personally I find gold very inconvenient to have as a savings mechanism.
I much prefer having extremely liquid instruments as savings.
For example, I think it's great to have a bit of money in a high interest savings account, some money in a stable coin, and some money in similar instruments.
Having physical gold seems extremely inconvenient when I have to get access to that money
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