So I think that what we saw in the playoffs was legitimate and if a team underperforms most likely it is simply because the team in front was superior to them.
What I have noticed is that those saying that the playoffs is rigged are actually those people who don't watch regularly an NBA game. If only they able to watch some games, they can see if something wrong is happening especially with the player's behavior. Other series are not even ended on Game 7. Players are also determined to win. What's the purpose of risking in the bubble if they are free to opt-out playing in the resume? NBA does have a big stand for that. Players will not throw away their reputation by participating in rigged games. I saw the playoffs, in the bubble and looks like players are really serious with what they are doing, they put their passion and play to win. However, it's not the players who are rigging games, on the videos we saw that was already shared in this thread, it was the referees who are doing it by calling questionable calls to favor a certain team to win, now the question is whether they do it on their own or by the direction of the league's management, hard to say because it was not proven, so it will just remain a theory. |
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Buck have already offered Giannis a maximum salary, but not sure if he can get good role players than the current teammates, I guess the problem of Bucks is the coaching.
That's the problem with Bucks. They all did was to offer him a max salary. If Giannis wants to make money, I'm sure he will stick to the team. But if some team can match the salary while at the same time, he will have good teammates on the transferred team, I'm sure he won't hesitate to accept it. Giannis wants to fully use his prime and the championship should be achieved as early as possible. If a team wants to get Giannis, they'll attach him with good supporting players and they have to buy out the contract of Giannis. There might be teams that want to take him to their teams and would be willing to buy out his contract from Bucks but, it's also up to him. I've been scrolling in Facebook today and I've seen this post about Giannis. It is said to be a rumour about Giannis that might sign to Miami Heat. It is been a talk in the past here in the forum and after the playoffs, when Miami eliminated Bucks, he said that he will be staying. But then again, this rumour is alive again. I don't want this to happen and what I don't like more is that they are comparing him to KD, KD taking the heat while AD is safe? What are take on this? It's a rumor, no reliable source, and though Giannis said he will stay with the team, that still doesn't guarantee that he will as he could change his mind as he become free agent. Great players now are looking for championship, if he stays, he can satisfy himself with the money he will get as he'll be getting a maximum salary but having a ring, that's unlikely with the current squad and coaching staff. |
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But since it's a sports betting thread, I think it's worth mentioning here that you don't actually need additional provably fair system for sports betting. Sports betting is provably fair by itself - you can always verify the result by reading the news(if you missed the live stream of the event).
Exactly, and there's a lot of media outlet to verify and that makes it so reliable, you can't question the final score but as a gambler we can question whether the sports we are betting is rigged or not, but it's not easy to prove so let's just based on the result and continue betting. |
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Hotbit is a legit exchange because its already a year since i start trading on thier platform and never experience any problem. However due to the negative comments ive read about hotbit these days maybe i will stop for now trading on hotbit.
Things really changed, I look at their trading volume and they still have a decent numbers at $100 million per 24 hours. https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/hotbit/I have not traded in this exchange anymore for so long but my experience with the site is good, it's just that I prefer to trade in the most popular now that's why I focus my trade on Binance only, but maybe soon if I earn some bounty and get listed in this site, I could use my account again. |
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Buck have already offered Giannis a maximum salary, but not sure if he can get good role players than the current teammates, I guess the problem of Bucks is the coaching.
That's the problem with Bucks. They all did was to offer him a max salary. If Giannis wants to make money, I'm sure he will stick to the team. But if some team can match the salary while at the same time, he will have good teammates on the transferred team, I'm sure he won't hesitate to accept it. Giannis isn't really a top pick player in the NBA draft so there was no hype from him, he just improve because of the current team he is playing and their style of play, so I don't expect him to be greats like Lebron James and Kobe Bryant, if Lebron gave up Cleveland to joined the best players in the NBA to game a championship, I think Giannis would do if he really want to have one. Giannis wants to fully use his prime and the championship should be achieved as early as possible. Only if he will leave his current team. |
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I think that here everyone should do their own deep research into the tokens that you are going to keep for a long time. All the tokens that I had in 2017 are no longer worth anything, although in the medium term they could reach $ 2000-3000. Therefore, I consider only the medium-term outlook for altcoins (up to a year).
No one would hold that long if they are not convince about the future of the coin, thing is, during the year 2017 everything is worth as there was a hype of the ICO, but unfortunately, things have change when the correction started and that made most coins struggle, and actually even the popular coins now like ETH and BNB have struggled that time especially the ETH as it has yet to recover from its ATH. |
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My experience with signature campaigns are not much good. Because till date i managed to join only in token bounties signature campaign wich I got paid but those tokens are not trading yet.
Bounty signature campaign does not guarantee you'll be able to trade after the reward is given, and it's also not expected you'll get a good price as mostly they are trading below an ICO price or IEO price, that's why it's not really attractive to join in bounty campaign now, unless you are a holder. Also applied in bitcoin paying signature campaign but missed for few minutes or some entries.
You really have to be active and pay attention as a lot of members who are applying, in most cases it's not really on a "first come, first serve" basis, manager will check your post history and merits as well, that's their basis. But it doesn't stop me from posting on forum.  Just love to share what I feel and what I know. This kind attitude will give you a chance to be in a btc signature campaign in the future, but I suggest you also think of ranking up. How? By making good post as that's the key to getting more merits. |
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Also if you are looking for casinos without minimum withdrawal amount, then i can nominate CoinDragon.com to you. You can withdraw any amount from the site, just make sure, you cover the transaction fees.
Hope this helps you OP.
Well OP is totally looking for Casinos that has FREE withdrawal and not No minimum because there are other sites here that offers the same. This is a good reference tho I only tried a few of what's on the list. Paying a withdrawal fee as long as it is justifiable is just okay with me since I don't usually come in and out of online casinos, so I seldom withdraw my funds. This helps regular gamblers save funds, and it could bw a good way for platforms to promote their casinos.
If you are a visiting gambler meaning only gamble once in a blue moon,this is not an issue but if you are betting to win and use as food for the family then Fee is really an issue always. Not charging a fee is just an extra, the moment you deposit into a gambling site, you are already paying for the fee, bigger if you are transacting bitcoin as normally the fee now is around $1 at a very minimum if you like to ensure it will confirm at your expected time. Now, if they still pay when withdrawing from a site, that's another expense but I wouldn't use the "food" example here as if you can't afford to pay for the fee or it burden you, you should not really gamble in the first place since that means you can't afford to lose what you gamble. |
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So how are you guys feeling about next years odds? I am not surprised that the Lakers sit at the top, as I'm sure Anthony Davis and much of the team will be back. I was a bit surprised to see the Golden State Warriors so low on the list. I would think if they have everyone back and healthy, they will easily be competing for the title. Regardless, it's great to have a much more even playing field back in the NBA , almost like never before ( at least any time recently ).
That odds will still change, when everything is settled. From free agency signing to team trades. I'm not surprised with how that website give odds to GSW. The Brooklyn Nets will be a threat to the East if 100% healthy. While the Miami Heat might not have another finals appearance next year If they won't acquire a legitimate big man to fill the center position. It seems to me that the Denver Nuggets are a much tougher opponent than the Heat. It's better to bet this early if you are a GSW backers, that's the best odds we can get and they are still a good team to rely on to win the NBA Finals. Remember that GSW was Lebron's Kryptonite so at this point, it's wise to take them early. Lakers could win back to back but with that odds, it's not really attractive as you can still get that in the playoffs and there's a lot of things that could happen in the regular season, like injuries or sudden trade. |
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Interesting.
I think one of the reasons why cheating will likely be minimal or non-existent in sports betting is because the outcome of games is not dependent on or determined by things controlled or owned by betting sites. If a betting site owns and controls the football players(for example), things could be easily manipluted.
There/s no chance they can control the games, by providing the odds they can already make money. What people don't get is that sportsbook does not act like a house edge where they have a bankroll betting against bettors choices, not that way, they are making money from juice as that's what makes them profitable, so they would not matter anyway as they can always make money regardless of the result. Though we sometimes thought cheating is happening but we have no proof, that would remain our personal opinion and we can just based according to what we believe, let's man up, accept loses and try to enjoy betting as it is. |
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Those project you HODL are really valueable ones, the most painful part of this this is that since you have since them at high value before the bull ended, now that the value has so much depreciated, you won't even want to imagine selling it at any lower price than how you have ever seen. It happened to many of us too, but we have learnt our lessons though in a hard way, I pray those coin that get to the 2017 value again,any golden opportunity now we must be smarter.
The only reason to hold is when you trust the project, at some point those are good projects that is why OP was attracted to invest and hold but their value now have really dropped significantly, if you look at how it has fall, you can see that they are almost dead and has no chance of recovering anymore, however, it always depends on how we see the project as no one could really ascertain its future, it's just a big guessing game. |
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Betting on small amounts is a waste of time and probably will make you nervous:
Okey, let's imagine:
FC Barcelona VS Arsenal - 1 win - 1.50x
Real Madrid VS Atletico Madrid - 1 win - 1.95x
Bayern VS Liverpool - 1 win - 1.45x
If you bet on each of them and you succeed, you have to bet, for example $1 on each of them = $3 and you'll win $4.9 = $1.9 pure profit.
But if you beat on all of them together, for example $1, then your total win will be - $4.24 = $3.24 pure profit.
Now, you can also calculate what happens if one or two or three match fails, you lose 1, 2 and 3 USD and won't profit much even if one match fails but if any match fails in second case, you get nothing too. That's why I think it's better to bet couple of matches where you are 100% sure rather than bet small amounts on a lot of matches, you'll lose much this way.
I understand what you mean, yeah that is surely a waste of time if your purpose is to make money in gambling as you'll never maximize your profit betting with small amount of money only, I usually do this when just trying to have fun but if we are ambitious, we need to be realistic that we need to have a decent bankroll in order for us to win a decent amount. |
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Another marketing match ? Meh, I think I will pass this after what I've saw with McGregor vs Mayweather. This kind of matches are pure entertainment and not serious fights ...
This isn't a boring fight as Manny is not a boring fighter, if you didn't saw a KO on the first fight of Conor McGregor in boxing, probably this time you will see it, so missing it is not a good idea especially if you can watch it live though. do you think that Floyd wanted to hurt McGregord ?
If he wanted, would've been K.O in 1st 20 seconds. I'm not saying this match will not gather attention but I don't see it happen tho. Of course he can but Mayweather is not really known as an offensive fighter, more of a defensive fight so his KO rate is lower compared to some aggressive fighters in boxing. |
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Lebron made it all-in in this game and it was enough to beat Miami, congrats to both teams, could not say that i did not expected more from Miami in this match, but looking at their season, they were really great and above expectation
nevertheless, Lakers win was widely expected, it was a bit of doubt after Davis injury in fifth match, but obviously all that was not that bad, and he recovered quickly to play a good game last night
now we are in the line for next season, which should start on Christmas, if everything stays as it is
More than enough, Lebron gave everything he has, he is so aggressive from the start and until he sits down. A superb performance of Lebron James, got a triple double and deserve to be name as the NBA Finals MVP, Kodus also to Davis and Rondo for their all around performance, Lakers came to end the series and does not give the heat a chance to breath, the first half was really huge, Heat did not recover anymore. Lebron was unstoppable in this series, his teammates struggled sometimes but we never saw he had some struggle. The journey of the Lakers this season was very easy, now that Davis had already achieved his first championship, I hope he will think of transferring to other team and be a main man not only living in the shadow of Lebron James. If this rumor is still true. https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2870171-lakers-rumors-anthony-davis-declined-146m-max-contract-will-become-free-agent"Lakers Rumors: Anthony Davis Declined $146M Max Contract; Will Become Free Agent" Then it's good! |
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~snip~
Thanks for reading the full information for us, I'm just worried that my country is part of the list, but I haven't gambled so far, so I guess I'll be alright since I only made an account for the campaign purpose, but I would like to see more explanation from OP about it.
From those restricted countries my country were not listed. I think it's not a big deal to use gambling website unless your country over protective mode and blacklisted the site. There tons of gambling website out there, it's something impossible to recognize all and blocked. Even, It's extremely uncommon if any betting site going to make a move those users, however I'm not sure though. Anyway, I feel glad I'm not an inhabitant in those nations. Since this site does not require a KYC, how would they treat a user who would sign up and play if such IP address are listed on the countries which are not allowed or block from using the gambling site? I can wait all day for this reply as I can relate what happen to cloudbet with their recent scam accusation. We can follow the issue here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=333552.6800we don't want to see a similar problem in the future involving other site. |
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On topic reply, is this forum still breathing?
Website is still alive, so I assume it's still breathing, They can't afford to lose this site, they have invested so much money for the promotion and will just die, no, it might remain a bad forum but it will live. |
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Jimmy buttler does not really manage to be carrying his team. His teammates are competitive even if some of them are still rookie. Besides he is not the one carrying the team finals because Goran dragic could make 30+ points in their team to win. It was not only buttler that make the team to play in the finals. Probably it will still be James or it could also be Davis or Giannes for making always the team appearance in play offs and could carry a team to win in the play off series just like what James did during the earlier days of his career. But in my opinion the MVP of this season is James for always making team to play in Finals for consecutive years. He always letting a team carry with his athletic body, skills and good shooting in the basket that could change the course of the game. Thats for the finals mvp not the season. Those 3 players are the only 3 that I reasonably can be. Most likely Lebron, he is the ochestrator of that team the whole playoffs. Dragic can't be the mvp if the heat win since he really hasn't played. If the heat somehow manage to win the next 3 (nlt happening) then one must assume Jimmy will be a shoe in. Obviously that will be for Jimmy, but chances are very low. It will only be decided between Davis and Lebron James but as you said, Lebron is the ochestrator of the team, hence he will get this win and it will add on his resume, and based on Lebron's history, it has not happen that his teammate won a Finals MVP IIRC. |
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Any exchange getting hacked in going to make problems so far as reputation is concerned. It was only Binance that I can think of that managed to cover losses from that their users would face after that hack happened and they covered losses with their own funds. Not all exchanges are in a position to do that. The reputation and customer confidence in Kucoin will have dropped a lot no doubt. Although they claimed the funds were insured but till now there is no progress made into this direction. The effected projects are doing this job to make sure to return the funds to the exchange wallet. I also think this will damage the reputation of Kucoin in future. Back then, Binance was able to quickly recover the losses that occurred due to hack I think that's the reason their reputation was intact. I think It will all depend on how quickly KuCoin will act to reimburse the users who lost $$ during the Kucoin hack. They guarantee that they will reimburse the hack funds, did we see any problem already regarding their promise, do people complain about their funds not reimbursed by Kucoin? If they won't reimburse, that, we can say that it will affect their reputation which I doubt they'll allow that to happen. They are definitely going to reimburse, but they need to do that quickly to save their reputation in the crypto industry because you know the more time they take the more time FUDDERS will have to spread FUD (IMO). I have seen so many exchanges got shut down after they suffered a hack hopefully the same will not happen to KuCoin. They are back live 2 days ago. https://www.digitalmarketnews.com/kucoin-resumes-withdrawals-and-deposits-for-btc-eth-and-usdt/And their trading volume seems to be okay at $71 m billion now. https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/kucoin/ |
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Guess you finally stumbled upon provably fair and what it means. I learnt also that PF is not provably random, but at least if you can prove that the house and the gambler both cannot control the outcome,,, then it is fair for both (in some cases like if you RNG on blocks found on Bitcoin).
It's better that way, if both gamblers and house are unable to control the outcome then it's fair enough to continue enjoying the game. Most of us always aiming and looking for some ways to take advantages within any luck based games but there's none, maybe just maybe if someone can take some decent benefits it's still not the majorities. Definitely not because a luck based games always have the edge in favor or the house or the gambling sites, it's possible to win but only few will because the majority of us will lose in the long run, due to the "HOUSE EDGE", that's very important to understand, regardless of how small it is, it's still an edge. |
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Probably it will still be James or it could also be Davis or Giannes for making always the team appearance in play offs and could carry a team to win in the play off series just like what James did during the earlier days of his career.
You can't include Giannis in the discussion as his team was already eliminated by the Heat. The finals MVP will only be taken from either Heat or Lakers, most of the time from the winning team. But in my opinion the MVP of this season is James for always making team to play in Finals for consecutive years. He always letting a team carry with his athletic body, skills and good shooting in the basket that could change the course of the game.
The MVP this season was Giannis Antetokounmpo. Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo Wins Second M.V.P. Award
Finals MVP and Season MVP are different FYI. |
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