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341  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: How Big is the online gambling industry today? on: August 16, 2023, 12:21:16 PM
Online gambling is a billion dollar industry. Even the country that doesn't have the perfect regulatory compliance makes billion dollar revenue. This is the reason we were able to see countries that doesn't ban gambling completely.

The increasing online penetration and the increasing usage of smartphones leads to the rise in the demand of online gambling against the traditional gambling service that were used by very specific category of people.

The healthy part is the growth of the gaming industry. There is good growth in the gaming industry which keeps people away from gambling. The growth of online gambling is experienced high during the COVID lockdown and the same is getting continued. Maybe if such thing hadn't happened we might've not experienced this level of growth.
342  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 on: August 16, 2023, 12:03:25 PM
Sam ker goal has just resuscitated the hopes of Australian women in the game. And from how the 18munites of the second half has been played Australia is possessing the ball and the game has become daisy at the moment. Its getting more interesting with a winner yet unclear.

Its too bad that she has to do it again because the Australian defense (which is usually very strong and solid) just made an error that cost them another goal. Its bad because this was a goal that could've been easily prevented since the ball was in Australian court but they miscommunicated and England capitalized on it.

England back in the lead, 2-1 now.  We're now heading to the closing stages of the game. I'm hopeful Australia can see another goal otherwise, it's the end of the road for them.
However, Australian's defense is performing poor right now, which is why cost them and England is leading 2-1.
Sam Kerr managed to equalize briefly, but Australia couldn't hold onto it for long. Just after celebrating Kerr's goal, Australia conceded another goal by Hemp eight minutes later, making it 2-1.

86' England 3-1 Australia

As predicted England have won the semifinal match with a big lead 3-1. Australia wasn't able to keep its competence high against England's performance. England made its first goal at the 36th minute. With hard fight Australia levelled the goal 1-1 with the goal coming from Kerr at the second half 63rd minute. Soon after that consecutive goals came from England players Hemp and Russo in the 71st & 86th minute. Australia isn't bad with its performance, they lacked in converting the chances into goals. Anyhow a good match. Final is going to be lucky as the tough one play against the lucky one.
343  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 on: August 15, 2023, 09:48:36 AM
1st semifinal is close to the end. As the majority predicted match is going so close, Spain took the lead with the goal in the 81st minute. Following the goal Sweden have made a goal in the 88th minute. Match is getting interesting at the last moment. Comeback goal from Spain in the 89th minute, and now with the goal from Carmona the lead is 2-1.
344  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin the powerhouse of cryptocurrency on: August 14, 2023, 05:59:48 PM
Thats the truth. Rather than mentioning it as the power house we can state it to be the backbone to the entire cryptocurrencies. If the bitcoin wasn't able to stand strong none of the cryptocurrency stands in the upright position.

The usage of BlockChain technology is quite effective and even the countries that had banned cryptocurrencies were in much favour on blockchain technology usage. Some way the technology is making big change around the world.

Altcoins kept separately will give good profit based on the asset. We don't know how many games were there to be prized. When something had gained popularity, then we shouldn't fall for it.
345  Economy / Economics / Re: Real estate vs cryptocurrencies vs business on: August 14, 2023, 05:42:46 PM
All the three forms of earning have got risks connected with it. Real estate is much about the property, and the pricing depends on the ease of access to the main region. All the three formats require good capital, without which it is really hard to earn good and sleep. Everything requires proper understanding and the examination is fast approaching.
346  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin has died 474 times on: August 14, 2023, 05:36:39 PM
Death of bitcoin is very common thing. In the past we were able to see the death quite often. Nowadays things have changed alot due to the awareness provided. Earlier whenever there is some negative incident happened relative to bitcoin, automatically the term bitcoin is towards death and other similar terms keeps popping. Now people aren't the same, they've realised the goodness and begun to use bitcoin for the good than just spreading the negative news out of panic and missing opportunities.
347  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion on: August 14, 2023, 11:35:20 AM
Indian T20 team can never be called a bad team just because they are doing badly in this series in T20 but there were several wrong decisions for this team which Hardik Pandya could not control properly. In the T20 series, however, two or three senior players such as Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli were definitely needed. The advice and leadership of senior players is definitely better than the leadership of freshers and they know how to lead the team in times of danger. In yesterday's match as well, Hardik Pandya had several misjudgments in the bowling department which were enough to send India down in yesterday's match.

I don't think it's bad performance from young India team. This is best way to test a new team and India have got a new talent in the form of Talik Varma.
Finally something to cheer about for WI cricket which haven't won a series in recent years. Yesterday match was interrupted 3 times because of rain but still we have a full match.
It isn't a bar performance from young India team. It bounced after losing the first two matches, and brought back the hope of winning the series as the young Indian team won the 3rd & 4th matches. The 4th match was massive win and the same increased the expectation over the team. In the final match the performance from the Indian players were good, while the West Indies team performance is better than before.
348  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod] on: August 14, 2023, 10:16:42 AM
Asia Cup will start from 30 August 2023. But before that we have a series of 3 ODI matches between Afghanistan vs Pakistan which will be started from 22 August. As we all know that Inzmam ul Haqq selected a new squad and they will show their performance in this series. Waiting for this series. And today we are celebrating our Independence day. Smiley
Happy Independence Day @ThemePen. Pakistan is in good form after winning the series against New Zealand. The series is won 4-1 and during the series new Fakhar Zaman played really well. Pakistan squad includes the best and Afghanistan team is also doing good with its win in the previous series against Bangladesh. Hope the upcoming Pakistan vs Afghanistan series will be very interesting to watch and I expect atleast a win from Afghanistan.
349  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod] on: August 14, 2023, 07:17:28 AM
People were much interested on short format cricket. Another reason, people have got interest on different other games played around. Particularly the interest over football have increased compared to the old days. Already with the T20 Leagues played around the national cricket have lost importance. Soon we can expect the world cup matches and the club based leagues to be dominant.

Well, I think people are still interested in ODI matches and we will witness this in the upcoming Asia Cup.

Asia Cup is not far away as on the 30th of this month we will see a kickoff match between Pakistan and Nepal.

Whom do you think is the favourite for this title?  India  Huh Pakistan  Huh Or maybe Afghanistan, Bangladesh or Srilanka can Upset:Smiley
Do you think we can witness three matches between Pakistan and India ?

Below is the schedule for this tournament.


The viewership for the ODI matches were still there. This can be seen for specific matches and not every series have turned to be popular. Nowadays media too started to give big hype and promotion to increase the viewership. Within Asia there is good support, beyond that there are some cricket series being played, and unknown to the world. Such scenario needs to change.

In my view there is less chance for India to win the Asia Cup based on the recent performance. Though it is an ODI the performance of the players doesn't have much of variation. I think one of the small team will make miracles and reach till the finals. I'm not sure about the result of the match.
350  Other / Off-topic / Re: Keeping your gambling habit a secret. on: August 13, 2023, 11:55:17 PM
But the bad side of it is that if the person happens to be gambling addict who tends not to control himself about gambling, he'll rarely stop the addict because of the fact that closed friends and relatives who were supposed to call him to order are ignorant of the fact that the said person is a gambler
I think we don't need to keep a secret about gambling to our family (especially to the wife). We only don't need to tell our gambling habits to other people such as neighborhood and friends. Sure, our family need to know it because they can help us if there is something bad to happen with us. For example, if we looks to be addicted in gambling. Our family can remind us to stop it if they see somethings badly with our gambling habits.
Thats true, whatever the scenario we should keep things informed with wife. None is sure of what happens the next minute and we all are dependents. When we're sad and if someone is there to hear our difficulty, it'll be so good and makes us come out of the difficulty at the earliest. Same is with gambling, whenever we loss our mind used to think badly and sometimes even to end life. At such situation sharing with wife or the close ones will give the solution and consolation. This could change our mind and stay positive and lets us to have control.
351  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Is bitcoin really not for everyone? on: August 13, 2023, 11:37:57 PM
In my opinion, Bitcoin is for everyone who really know what it is. There's no specific people for Bitcoin as long he knows to earn with it. If the person thinks about the future and really believe to Bitcoin, there's a high chance that he will going to buy Bitcoin and hold it long term. Some people just close minded and only focus on today, that's why their life will only stay on what they are today, just like a routine. But this is not permanent, since Bitcoin will be adopted worldwide as a mode of payment, some of them change their mind to encourage them to invest in Bitcoin just like what happened in 2021.
Agreed, there are products that are being developed for certain group of people or depending on the financial stature. Satoshi had nothing in mind, he wants the middle man to be taken off. This is common thought, when the middleman is taken off huge funds can be saved and the same amount will be in circulation among the users itself.

If he had kept in mind the financially grown people or something like that, he shouldn't have developed this as an open source platform. Bitcoin is for everyone and the goodness relies on the trust, believe it and it'll give good based on the learning.
352  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Gambling experience using loan money on: August 13, 2023, 11:33:29 PM
It depends your financial capacity on the effect of loan to your gambling experience. Some gamblers ask for short loan because they still waiting for their salary. In this case, they won't experience the scenario that you described because they have money to pay for it. They will just pay for additional cost on interest but nothing big changes than regular gambling using own money.

You will only be on disastrous state if you ask for loan without a way to pay it back aside from returning the money that you loan for repayment.

if the gambler has a salary that will be obtained to pay off the loan as you say, the loan made will not affect or put pressure on the gambler. it's because they'll stay calm and be able to pay off debts when they get their paycheck.
What's under pressure are gamblers who borrow for betting capital but they have no guarantee of paying it off other than luck if they win. As a result the gambler will force himself to be under pressure to win.
For someone who has a passive income stream or a good quality job, gambling with a loan may not be stressful for him. but if one does so then he can be considered as a gambling addict.  And even if a gambling addict has a fixed job, he will never improve financially. because the gambler will lose all his earnings if he fails to predict correctly and loses the bet. So instead of gambling with loans, one should gamble according to one's means so that the bad effects do not overtake him.
Most of the time the gamblers never allocate the amount for other needs. This is the major problem. If the money is being allocated and with the rest he had played, it won't affect the personal life. Some used to spend their earnings on gambling and further they tend to take loans and spend for the life needs. Whatever the scenario, we should learn to live with what is available. Whether it is gambling, or our life needs. When we go for a loan without reason, then it is the beginning of our life destruction.
353  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 on: August 13, 2023, 11:29:13 PM
Neymar agreed with Saudi club's proposal, joining Al Helal!

Great news for Arabian football lovers Neymar jr. Joining Saudi Arabian clab Al- Helal. French media LeKip Tackle says, Neymar jr agreed to join Al-Helal for two years. He proposed joining the club for 160 euros. Rumors were heard for some days that Neymar is going to join the Al Helal club.The poster boy of brazil will leave the French club PSG and return to the Spanish club Barcelona, newsed in many International media But that was not true. He joined Saudi Clab Al-Helal.

I just checked this news and yes some local media have published this news, @Fabrizio Romano also said the agreement was getting closer, n fact it is estimated that all the processes will be completed in less than 24 hours lol. I'm surprised it all happened suddenly, even though we haven't heard any news about this rumor before If the deal goes through then Al Hilal will be one of the clubs to challenge Al Nassr for the title and also Ittihad.

But I haven't found how much the transfer fee is, I just saw that this will be a new record between 150-200 million while for the salary range we don't know yet because it is still in the process of checking the contract.
When Neymar joined PSG, he was the most expensive player as the deal ended for €222 million five years back. He had helped the team win five titles and now he had confirmed his move to Al-Hilal. More popular players in every team had made the Saudi Arabia Pro League very tough and to give give better match watching experience. For now the negotiation is going on and it is close around $190 million package.
354  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod] on: August 13, 2023, 12:21:47 PM

To be fair to India, their 7 good years of test cricket came when Dhoni left the test captaincy and Kohli took over. India has been performing exceptionally well in Test cricket and a majority of the time were the number 1 test team with 5 Test Mace.

Also without any doubt, best test touring team in recent times but yeah in white ball cricket things are going in the opposite direction.

The thing is, the majority of cricket fans follow the shorter formats of cricket now a lot more compared to test cricket. So I think most of the people have been a little biased in their judgement. Most of the people have been a little biased because most of them have been keeping up with the shorter formats of cricket instead of test cricket.

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The situation is not black and white but gray.

It's true majority of the fans love fast-paced cricket that's why we are witnessing T-20 Franchise cricket everywhere but at the same Test cricket does matter, at least in England, Australia and India. Indian stadium might go empty during any test series but media rights for these test series are creating new records especially when it's against Australia and to some extent England.
People were much interested on short format cricket. Another reason, people have got interest on different other games played around. Particularly the interest over football have increased compared to the old days. Already with the T20 Leagues played around the national cricket have lost importance. Soon we can expect the world cup matches and the club based leagues to be dominant.
355  Economy / Gambling / Re: Stake.com - The Leading Crypto Casino - Drake, UFC, Everton, Alfa Romeo F1 Team on: August 13, 2023, 11:45:54 AM


Let's be real for some moment here...

Stake's expenses are rising constantly .... I think they are paying something like $11 000 000 per Week for the Weekly Bonus. They are also now helping to pay for Kick.com ($100 000 000 to acquire one popular Streamer)

They have a VIP system, where players are constantly going up in ranks.... so the expenses are just going higher. At some stage.... this is going to be hard to fund this. Eddie saw the potential in Kick, when Twitch started to ban gambling content.... so he jumped onto it... so Kick can be a much bigger money spinner, if they can reach the same level as Twitch.

My prediction.... The VIP program and the bonuses will get constant tweaks to make it more affordable for Stake and less advantageous for the players. (Example : Hosts being tuned for the VIPs / Wagering focused on activities that takes the most money back...)

These giveaways are nothing. Not worth even mentioning.
See it that way, the weekly bonus isn't even 1% rake back or bet back (i used toe be at least), the house edge starts from 1% and goes up to double digit %.
So, you have to wager around 1000$ to get back around 1$. Though with the smallest house edge you have to lose 10$ to wager 1000$.
In other words. Of 10$ they earn, they give back 1$ but more likely much less, and that is the ABSOLUTE maximum. And also about these bonuses, they get back most of it anyway. You think players withdraw them?

It's like giving drugs for free when you are a drug dealer. It's a good strategy cause the addicts come back for more.


Whats been mentioned were the real statistics of gambling. This can vary in both the directions, and the profitability is always there with the gambling platform. If they don't have big profit, it is really hard to manage such level of funds as bonuses every week. Most of the gambling platforms used to limit themselves, which means they don't try to establish the platform. Stake have been good in it and the same had made them high. Maybe they've got plans to take the position of Twitch, and those investments might be little heavy. This doesn't lead to the stopping of gambling services from Stake.
356  Economy / Gambling / Re: Stake.com - The Leading Crypto Casino - Drake, UFC, Everton, Alfa Romeo F1 Team on: August 13, 2023, 07:30:52 AM
I think Eddie said in a Stream where they interviewed him that a bunch of people invested as a group to create Stake.com and also into Kick.com, so there might be a round 2 ... but they are making a sh1tload of money with Stake and that is funding the fast growth of Kick.com

I think his main focus now is to boost Kick and I also predict that Stake.com will be sold in the future. (He said Kick.com will dwarf Stake.com in the future.... so he is really pushing it all into Kick now)  Roll Eyes

Stake.com is a money machine so maybe he will sell it? Stake.com distributes millions dollars every week to its users I'm sure stake.com will get more
while kick.com I don't know how to make more money, I think they will run both together I mean complementary each other Kick.com will still be used for promotion

By the way there is nothing special at the birthday celebration except 10 million races, as a little gambler we can only watch  Undecided

@Kakmakr I believe that after a certain stage people do sell their platform’s but as and when Stake is sold it’ll be sold for a surreal price and I hope that the new owners can maintain the good performances that the current team is managing to do. @zuzie I wasn’t even aware of Kick.com but when I open the site I’m confused because it’s a livestream site rather then a gambling site so is Stake team moving away from gambling if yes I hope that they’ll give their user’s a month or two notice before they’re sold.
I don't think stake.com will be sold. Quite often we were able to see good platforms making themselves more popular and then sell it. This keeps the owners clean and lets them concentrate on different other businesses. In recent years more gambling platforms with cryptocurrency have closed their businesses and moved to other businesses and none have sold it to new owners.
357  Economy / Speculation / Re: Will Bitcoin ever be 20k again? Why or Why not? on: August 12, 2023, 11:19:32 PM
We must know that every price movement scenario will not be the same every time before the previous halving, so even though they predict the price will fall significantly before the halving, it is not certain that this prediction must be trusted. Even though the price is dropping going forward but the market price position will not be below the expected 20k, the crypto market is currently trending positively with a fairly good market recovery from the previous 25k price, we just need to wait for the next bullish moment to reach 40k before the halving.
I could recall vividly in 2020 pre-halving the market got a significant price decline due to the Coronavirus pandemic, but I don't know what event is going to get us down if that should happen again, and it depends on where the price of Bitcoin will be at the time when we will be approaching the next halving because if the price is above 30k and maybe if the price is somewhere between $40-50k, I don't see the market trading $20k during that time.



Most of the time price decline were connected with the market and the scheduled incidents taking place with the network. With bitcoin the halving is a major event and it is a known thing that the price will reach the peak close to the days. There is difference between the price reaching the peak and bouncing to reach ath. For this it always takes a downturn and bounces than just getting pumped from the highest point which is hard for the market to reach better price points.
358  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Tennis League All Thread on: August 12, 2023, 11:13:05 PM
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Luckily, Alcaraz Garfia was able to actually make a comeback happen. He did also lose the first set. But he fought really well to win the second and third set back to back. He deserved the win.
When Hubert Hurkacz won the first set easily and then proceed to win the games in the second set i did not expect Carlos Alcaraz to bring his top game and win that set and then in the third set Hubert Hurkacz made a rally for the tiebreaker and it was a great match and the odds were moving rapidly with each game.

Tonight he is playing against Tommy Paul and it is better to place a bet live and i am expecting another great match up.

Alcaraz actually lost against Tommy Paul. That was a huge surprise for me. I thought Alcatraz was going to win that match. But I think he is definitely suffering from lack of consistency. And honestly, this has not been something very new for him. He has gone through this type of inconsistency before as well. But it is time for him to actually fix these problems to be honest.

In the next match, Tommy Paul is going to play against Sinner. I am expecting a win for Sinner in that match. But of course surprises can happen just like the last match.
Thats really surprising as he is at his best form after the Wimbledon Title. The loss had happened in a much easier manner without much of fight. Tommy Paul had played really well and I believe he will continue to hold the winning spirit in his upcoming games. Tommy Paul to  play against Jannik Sinner in the semifinals. These days better games and unexpected results in tennis had been a common thing. In every tournament we were able to watch similar matches.
359  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: BITCOIN: Give people time! on: August 12, 2023, 10:11:42 PM

2. The amount of energy and time you expend preaching to someone about bitcoin is not a warranty that he will accept what you're offering. Maybe not immediately!

3. We should always tell people to go do their own research about bitcoin after giving them some preaching about it. Doing their own research from with what they  get online can strengthen their conviction about what they've have been told.



I think when we educate people about Bitcoin, and try to get them interested in Bitcoin. Even if someone doesn't immediately accept our offer, we should keep trying. Because only with effort we can create awareness among people and attract them to Bitcoin.

Your suggestion is good that after preaching Bitcoin we should tell people to research about Bitcoin, it is natural that when a person researches and informs himself about something, his interest and belief. increases. Now getting information has become very easy. There are various platforms online for just about anything. People need to be aware that they can get information about Bitcoin online from various platforms.

We shouldn't disturb them if they aren't interested. We can insist them to be part and make them understand better if they had shown little signs of learning about bitcoin. Without any positive thoughts or interest on bitcoin, just a forced learning doesn't cause any change.

When a person gets to know about a new term automatically he/she will explore and find what it is. When someone does like this it is our responsibility to help them know better. We can suggest them with some sources available to know better about bitcoin. Even after that if they're interested it is time to give the best of our ability.
360  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 on: August 12, 2023, 07:27:25 PM
CR7 74',98'
Continuing.....

Congratulations,, Al Nasser
Champion of Arab Club Champions Cup

Ronaldo finally brought Al Nassr to get a trophy from this very dramatic match. and he won't get boos from fans. after failing to deliver the SPL trophy last season, now Ronaldo is showing his role. and this would suggest Al Nassr will be better equipped to start the new season in the SPL.
of course, the competition will be more interesting with Ittihat and Al Hilal. Al Nassr may not want to lose the chance to get the SPL trophy they missed last season. this season, they need to be stronger.
As stated the match is really dramatic. The team that leads on the goal all of the sudden missed opportunity and the opponent have won the match with two goals coming at the second half of the match. Somehow Ronaldo have fulfilled one of the expectation and soon he'll lift the Saudi Arabia Pro league. Now every teams were almost prepared for the next season of SPL.
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