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3461  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: An obvious rigging of Sports. on: May 10, 2021, 11:34:04 AM
for everyone who doesn't believe in fixed games in sports.

Since there are known and "documented" (on Wikipedia!) scandals about rigged games in Italian football - see here, or here - I don't know if anybody truly believes that this cannot happen... unless he's been living under a rock for far too many years  Cheesy

Also lower series have the same issues! Take a look of this news about the last combine in Serie D. Impressive see how much corruption there is behind this game even at regional/local level. I think this is a plague that affect most of famous sports / tournament...

https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2021/04/21/combine-e-scommesse-terremoto-in-serie-d-si-indaga-su-una-decina-di-partite-coinvolte-squadre-siciliane-calabresi-e-30-tesserati/6173646/

The article is in foreign language. However I understood about the key element. These days the sporting authorities too are money minded. This is where the corruption takes hand and supress the able players. I thought it was there in my country, but this has been universal and found all around. In my country we can see this happen mostly with cricket. Now this has decreased a lot than past.
3462  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: What age bracket is perfect for gambling on: May 10, 2021, 10:44:04 AM
The worst thing that can happen to a human being is getting addicted to gambling. Gambling can frustrate grown-up human being life talk more like an underage kid. I wouldn't bear it seeing an underage playing gambling around me cos I know how terrible the effect might be in his or her life when he comes in age.

The best time to get involved in gambling is when you already have something doing than you don't have at all and you found yourself, gambling with fire

Gambling at an age of 18-25 might be more risky to get addicted to gambling, but it has also upsides. First, you have less money as a student so it is more likely that you will lose money when trying out new games. As a new gambler we need to get familiar with all the different casinos games. If we start when already having a good income than we will likely gamble with more money. Second, we are learning better at a young age. It will be easier for us to learn new strategies. Third, we are less attached to others in life. Later it might be that our wife won't allow us to gamble.

Yes, between the ages of 18 and 25, many young people start gambling. 

This is not a problem if the boy or girl has many other hobbies in life (sex, sports, travel, work, business, parties, etc.). 

However, many young people are introverts.  They have no friends, strong social connections and a bright interesting life.  For such young people, gambling is very dangerous.  Gambling addiction may develop.  It will be very difficult to get rid of this gambling addiction later. 

Gambling addiction is considered the most difficult to treat.
Recently read a story about similar incident. A guy from the Asian country moved to USA. He has never been into gambling earlier. He went to USA for educational purpose, but for fun and spend the holidays he started to go out to casinos with his friends. Those people who grew up in the USA know well about gambling and has got their limits. This guy went out of control within few weeks, because of the wins he made on the beginning through luck.

The winning didn't continue, and he wasn't able to come out of it. This has made him spend for weeks and at some situation he wasn't able to pay for his accomodation. Even after such scenario he can't control himself. Finally he reached home with the help of his friends. If he were there for few more months we don't know what could've happened to his life.
3463  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: What age bracket is perfect for gambling on: May 10, 2021, 08:51:34 AM
Of course, children have no concept of the value of money, and this is when gambling addiction begins. So, if you know any children who are gambling, you should intervene right away because if they continue to gamble, they will face potential failure.
Children are not aware of value of time as well. If you notice when gamblers are not bothering about the value of their time, efforts and money, they will waste all of them and that may lead to severe gambling addiction. On all of above, we should never give out any chances for our kids to gamble; it means we should keep our gambling as secret as possible until they grow up and learn the value of money and time.

In my traditions, elders are keeping their alcohol and gambling habits as confidential as anything else. Even they do gamble/drink just for the reason of socializing, they prefer it not into reach of their kids. In my opinion also, it is a good thing and we should keep this habits up always.
In the name of socializing more negative impact happens in real life. We need to be careful handling this issues. People need to be careful taking care of the kids from social living. We need to make the kids understand the true need of social living, but the after effects of wasting time and efforts on luck based things.
3464  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod] on: May 10, 2021, 12:04:50 AM
Right now this helps Pakistan to rank up on the table. ICC knows well about the performance level of Zimbabwe team. It should have organised the series against other teams like Nepal, Scotland, etc. As in a quote the Zimbabwe Cricket board is into corrupt hands. Once Zimbabwe team is much popular, now everything has turned completely upside down.
3465  Economy / Gambling / Re: Duelbits.com | Instant BTC & ETH withdraws | Live games & Slots! | VIP | on: May 09, 2021, 11:54:13 PM
Altcoins aren't our huge update. I think everyone will be blown away Wink.

Speaking of Alts, LTC is now available to deposit & withdraw at duelbits.com

We have another mini but exciting update coming within the next few days too!

Have fun, gamble responsibly!
Nice update duelbits, now LTC lovers and holders can use it to bet on dueltbits.

I just check duelbits twitter and one lucky users has hit 5,000x from $2 wager win $10,000 a few days ago

source : https://twitter.com/Duelbits/status/1389686444269187079
The update is great and I saw that one too on twitter, that lucky guy made a huge money for a small wager. Can’t wait for Duelbits to share more winnings from the players which can attract more gamblers and inspire me as well to continue gambling, let’s all have fun and wait for more updates with Duelbits.
That's a big win. This kind of big multiplier can be seen often with primedice and Stake. This winning will attract more users who intend to test the multiplier with small amounts. The low transaction cost deposit too is an added benefit for the users of duelbits.
3466  Economy / Gambling / Re: Very immoral marketing strategy. on: May 09, 2021, 11:37:46 PM
I don’t think you can blame the advertiser for trying to make their product appear as exciting as possible. As long as their games are provably honest and they aren’t doing anything other than what they have promised their customers, I don’t think there’s an issue. It’s not like they’re going to show you someone losing their retirement savings and their family after using their site…
When we get into gambling it is our responsibility to set our limits and have self control. In reality many gamblers fail in it. Every way of promotion will show only the product to be exciting and enjoyable. We the users need to analyse and understand the reality and make right decisions. With our experience we can create awareness which is the only good that a gambler can do based on his experience.
3467  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Online gambling risks during coronavirus pandemic on: May 09, 2021, 11:20:27 PM
Online gambling is more convenient than traditional gambling for several reasons, but it creates one big problem that many people don't think about. We no longer notice how the money decreases because we don't have it in our hands. We can't see how our our stash depletes because we are only looking at the digits on computer screens. The money loses its value that way. If you have five $10 bills in your pocket, you feel the difference if you are only down to 1 or 2. But the digits on the screen don't feel that important. Whether it's 0, 5, or 20, it's not tangible.  

That's interesting; I hadn't considered that. Is this one of the reasons why some countries want to go all-digital with their currencies?

Maybe that's true and the prime reason for countries to keep them high on going completely digital. In my country these days we can see more and more number of online gambling sites and applications promoted through different sources. End of the advertisement they used to say in a faster note, it is subject to financial risk you're responsible for your own. What is the use of mentioning it.
3468  Economy / Gambling / Re: Stake.com - Casino & Sports - UFC Official Betting Partner - Play Smarter 🥊 on: May 09, 2021, 11:11:24 PM
How do you guys like the awesome new live streams for the #NBA and #MLB?

https://twitter.com/Stake/status/1391364848462835714
This helps sports betting people to watch the game on which the bets were placed. Many used to make subscriptions for this streaming, now user who have an account on Stake can make use of it without any subscription charges. This way it is truly helpful and more streams need to be added.
3469  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Online gambling risks during coronavirus pandemic on: May 09, 2021, 10:54:56 PM
Well, it would only be different if you struggle financially during the lockdown, and if you are not a regular gambler. 

True that we are more vulnerable now as usually stay at home to prevent from getting infected, therefore it's necessary to understand the risk whatever we do in gambling, but at the end of the day, it still depends per individual on how to manage himself to prevent himself from being addicted, in the first place, we need to be responsible to avoid all problems.
Yes, we're supposed to stay home and go outside only for emergency needs. This way it is possible to break the chain, and this has been proven during the first wave of covid-19. By the time if governments provide with relief fund it'll help them overcome the financial problems during the pandemic. When the government fails people look for ways and lands on gambling. With gambling staying within the limits is really a hard task when you're into it for money making.
3470  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Where to seek help if you need; concerned with gambling addiction. on: May 09, 2021, 12:00:58 AM
What the girl has been experiencing is true addiction. This is out of greed, but in most of the gamblers addiction happens as a result of trying to recover the loss. Here this girl is lucky, but the greed has made her get addicted. Myself an addict keeps losing and to recover the loss I used to borrow and gamble. Now my life has turned to be a question mark ?
3471  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Feel Pressed Something while Gambling on: May 05, 2021, 01:05:05 AM
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Maybe he's addicted in gambling or badly need the money or idk. Like you I rather lose some money rather than lose my dignity. I witnessed personally an incident like this. One night in our province I've watch people playing cards and there is one girl who peed on her shorts while playing. People talk about it the next day and have fun of her. But I also heard some telling it will be bad luck to her if she leave her position that's why she intentionally peed on her short.
surely the girl was really pressed and had no other choice but to defend her money...
being a gambling addict is a nightmare, with the excuse of wanting to continue to win someone is even willing to bet his pride just for gambling. selling body, house, inheritance, car, debt, and this time pooping in pants just to defend the position! what a terrible thing.
This looks terrible, but when you experience it the pain is unbearable. I haven't experienced it in Casinos, but I've experienced it playing online. When we're on the edge of losing all our funds the head weights like anything. Quite often I feel the urge of peeing. I used to tolerate and continue to gamble, at the end of I've taken the break I could've saved myself from losing.
3472  Economy / Gambling / Re: Stake.com - Million Dollar Race - UFC Official Betting Partner - Play Smarter 🥊 on: May 04, 2021, 11:17:00 PM
if a player came up with an $ 80m wager a day this might be a little questionable. You can calculate the max bet in each game and combine it with a $ 80 million wager

For dice the max bet is 100BTC (~$5.8 million).

So the fastest $80m could be done at 1 bet per second is ~14 seconds.



Yes I know that, unfortunately there is no 'MalteseFalcon' name on the big win list in the Dice game meaning he doesn't play Dice
No one can be sure whether he is real or not, let it be a mystery and MEGARACE history records Cheesy

There is no his name under the Big Win list in the dice game does not mean that he did not play game.
There are only 3 big wins on the list, he can be on 4th 5th and so on.
No one knows what game did he play, he may play dice by betting few hundred thousands dollar per bet with the highest win chance.
Lets say he bet $1 million with 1.02-1.1x payout, the profit is only $20k-100k so it wont be on the top 3 list.
Overall you cant say that he does not play dice game at all just because his name is not on the top big win list.

People seriously consider betting 1mil on dice to maybe win 250000$ in the race? Doubt it. When I play dice as soon as I raise the stakes I lose within the next 5-10 "throws" (with 98% win chance). Imagine betting 1mil.
That's the fact, no one will intend to spend such a big amount on dice for the sake of increasing the wager. As in the post, even with 98% win chance one easily losses this fund, and I kept watching the games played by MalteseFalcon. He has been playing Baccarat continuously while reaching the first position. By the time he was betting with the amount of around $27000 on a single bet.
3473  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: You won today, but then you will lose often on: May 04, 2021, 11:09:54 PM
Since you know that 10K wagering amount looks too high according to your financial status then you shouldn't have such goal of reaching VIP status. Make your goals realistic which applies to the gambling as well or else its like hitting a jackpot or lottery so you solely rely on your luck to reach that. You win and you lose so make sure you play with the amount which is not comes from your entire savings.

Reaching a goal like a special status on a casino can have one benefits like getting better rake back and maybe paying smaller fees. But these are just percentages of our winning. If in the quest to reach that status we turn our wins into losses than it's definitely not worth it. We need to gamble responsible and in accordance with our net worth. If our bankroll is only 10k than we should never bet all of it, the risk of losing it all is just too high.
I would say if your network is over million then you are ready to go with $10K bet but for someone who is having $1000 as their monthly salary then they should not try it and just play sensibly according to your value as you said. Gambling made for fun while people took it too serious and considered it as a race for small promotions and VIP level to exhaust their whole savings.
Gambling sites or casinos would definitely be making those kind of perks and promotions but actually the real intent for that is to deplete out your finance or life savings which same as you said.

This had been a common marketing stuff on where it do looks interesting and gamblers do look that it is their advantage but actually it is  really on their disadvantage on long term.

If you got lucky then you might able to pull some profits but most of the time you would really be on the opposite direction.Its up to you on how you would handle things up.
Lack of fund management and emotional failure easily make you loss even when you're lucky. I've experienced it several times. Another thing that leads to loss is the targeted gambling. Just enjoy the profit, never set a target and gamble. This ends in losing than wins.
3474  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Gamblers - How do you use your signature campaign earnings? on: May 04, 2021, 10:55:23 PM

Plenty of answers are repeated and spam is certainly a thing, but I have noticed a big difference between the campaigns that took place in 2017 and particularly those in 2018, in which crappy posts were so incentivised that there were sections in the forum that had lost any utility for anyone. My current experience is that the campaigns that pay in bitcoin can choose who participates and that is often based on posting quality and merit. They do want posts that the people want to read.

This is true
low quality posts will always exist when people are incentivized to make a min number of posts with min characters and obligated to post on a determinate session of the forum, but campaigns seems way better now than in the past, the merit system definitely helped.

personally, I like the idea of having less rules on the obligation for number of posts and sessions but I also understand the other side, gambling companies will prefer to have users to post on the gambling parts of the forum to raise awareness on their product.

That's true, that is why there is a minimum, some give 15 a week, that's already very low and there's no reason one cannot fulfill that requirement if he values his spot in a campaign. This kind of job has low requirements, we just post, share our opinion and we are getting paid, this is a kind of privilege that we should enjoy and value since it's a way of getting free bitcoin which is very valuable now and in the future.
The previlage needs to be enjoyed, by the time the same thing won't happen every week with the payment. Myself itself an example, I haven't cashed out or saved a single penny out of the campaign for more than ten weeks. Most of the time on the day of payment itself it gets emptied. This means, I try to play for a while and withdraw. But, I wasn't able to stop and loss everything.
3475  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Be a Responsible Gambler on: May 04, 2021, 10:17:40 PM
My heart beats high, my pressure keeps rising, my mind is restless, my body is shivering. It all means I've lost big. My girl is in deep sleep, once she gets awake I don't know what is gonna happen. I lost big of around $4500. Everyday morning she wakes and first see the wallet, if there is any change in the holdings due to market growth. I don't know what to do, this has been continuing with me. She had forgiven me several times. This time I don't know what is gonna happen.

Truly she is unlucky to have me in her life. She manages well the money, but I spend it completely on gambling. Last time she even said if something happens like this, next time I'll end my life. She said it out of anger and we have big debt. We don't have the source to repay, that's the reason. Gambling is a hell, I'm experiencing it in the world. I don't know whether being in hell will be this painful.
3476  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Fate or lack of control - Gambling on: May 04, 2021, 05:35:48 PM
I was in full control, but I lost $650 in thirteen rolls. If I'm not wrong, this is pure fate. Why I state it fate is due to the win I encountered. It all started with $5 worth of bitcoin,  roll over 50.50 and thirteen continuous fail of roll. To compensate the loss I kept doubling, and at some point I lost control taking the bet value to $160. Here it is the fate that I need to loss.

Have anyone encountered similar losses. I'm truly fed with this loss, because my girlfriend wholeheartedly gave to try my luck. What it shows is I'm an unlucky fellow, and I have hidden it from her. Because, she feels bad that we're unlucky.
3477  Other / Off-topic / Re: Slapping Tournament on: May 04, 2021, 08:23:22 AM
I was watching my favorite streamer MoistCr1tikal doing a side commentary on a Slapping Tournament, and what caught my eye was that it was sponsored by Totalbet, which means that it is a viable betting although I find it easy to bet if you have prior knowledge about who slaps the hardest. Are there any betting site that has this for betting?
Myself too watch this often, but there isn't anything universal. Only participants from limited number of countries can be seen. Maybe thats the reason why the betting access on these tournaments weren't available with most of our cryptocurrency accepted gambling sites. Look Totalbet being a sponsor adds its to their platform. Likewise when some of the cryptocurrency accepted platform conduct the tournament it gets added.
3478  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion on: May 04, 2021, 07:35:46 AM
IPL is stopped on account of increasing corona spread among the players and staffs. This is temporary for a week's time, based on the situation will be the further announcement on the league. Till date 29 matches have got over.
3479  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Dubai's Government and Gambling on: May 03, 2021, 03:11:43 PM
we have social media and online games to keep us company but this is not enough to the person that grows with gambling and they will find a way to sneak and illegaly gamble .
 is it true that thier laws are connected to thier religion but what if someone will transfer to a different religion .
can that be a solution to make gambling legal again ?
I don't think there need for someone to sneak and gamble in Dubai, Dubai is a world trading center and a country that holds such rank in the world is expected to welcome diverse of business benefits from different settings.
The truth is that the Dubai government never support gambling due to their religious law and they were also never against it.
For religious reason Dubai government doesn't support gambling activities. Dubai is a country which runs on the revenue from oil and tourism. For a country that grows out of tourism having casinos will be a big attraction. As the government is against gambling Dubai hasn't got one yet. In one way or the other they're against gambling with valid reason. If I'm not wrong, online gambling too is restricted within Dubai.
3480  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: Altcoin season ending in may ? on: May 03, 2021, 02:29:24 PM
2018 how long alt season survived ?
The previous big altcoin season is in 2017, not 2018. That season lasted from 2017 and reached the all time high in January 2018. Few months later the crypto market was called with bearish.

Stay positive with the market now and altcoins will have rises very well. In minimum, you can enjoy the season before the year of 2022. The season can last longer as the market for cryptocurrency now is bigger than in 2017 or 2018. Institutes will join more and with bigger capital, bitcoin and good altcoins will increase in prices.

I strongly agree that the increase in the previous big altcoin season was in 2017 not 2018 because I felt the joy of altcoins from the very encouraging hunting results, because we can have what we want from the results of hunting altcoins, and 2018 until now it is very difficult to find altcoins which is very good without any scams.
Earlier during the year 2017, we were able to hunt altcoins. Some of those altcoins turned to be scam whereas more users made good fortune. Now it is quite hard to hunt altcoins/tokens that are good for the long term profiting. Right now it is the choice of investing and making profit. Often we get to see good projects getting into the cryptomarket, but the rich keep investing and make the best out of it. So, altcoin season is there, but investing ability is a must for the same.
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