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4341  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A) on: March 10, 2023, 07:18:09 AM
Atalanta vs Napoli will absolutely be the match of the week in the serie A, Napoli will try to recover after losing against Lazio while Atalanta will do everything to get the 3 points to keep their chances for a champoins league spot, losing this match will absolutely lead them to Lose all hope in getting in the top 4 clubs this season

Atalanta I think is no big problem for Napoli as they have lost against Milan which is a weaker team compared to Napoli and Napoli even if they do not win this game they are still a long way ahead in terms of points compared to the second place in Serie A.This year we all know they have already won the Serie A and they are just maintaining their form,most likely they will move forward in the Champions League as they have already won away at Franfurt with 0-2 as a result,so they can most probably afford to not win with Atalanta but I think they will most likely.
4342  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: TP-Link ASIC is not TP-Link on: March 09, 2023, 07:28:52 PM
Interestingly mining on a router is a stupid idea, routers need to be secure. Mining is subject to false positive malware detection as well
as real malware, creating a gaping security risk. It's not the kind of thing I want running on a router.

Exactly.If the router is infected it can lead to all sort of malware and the hardest of all of them can be someone to inject a RAT-Remote Access Trojan over it and get access to a lot of your data,including passwords,keys and whatever information you put at it.Routers are the devices which connect us to the Internet and as such if they are compromised things will only get worse.

Using TP-Link though is not wise and this means that these impostors are dumb enough and nobody will fall for such a scam.
4343  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Would you Bet on a Fight that is Scripted? on: March 09, 2023, 05:35:18 PM
I would bet but only in the case where I know before hand how the script will be played out  Grin,unless I know such thing betting on scripted events like RAW or WWE is asking to lose money intentionally and that for me is plain stupid.Seeing that most casinos that allow you to bet on such events have limited max amounts means that they are aware that people with enough info can be pushing out that info to a lot of people trying to make money on casino shoulders and as such there is no point in betting in such events.

In here we all know that it is a scripted show,in football/soccer though we don't know but they play much better theater than WWE athletes and I can assure you for that  Grin.
4344  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2022/2023 on: March 09, 2023, 01:49:05 PM
Chelsea moving upward in the English Premiership league table is possible considering their recent performance the blues has not been in good form in their previous matches before their recent two matches that ended in their favour, the blues has to be more aggressive in their attack in other to achieve their goals in the club so that the good records of the team will not diminish.
Chelsea’s bad situation is now slowly starting to clear up with Potter able to field brilliant wing-back pair James and Chilwell in the same side for just the eighth time this season. Injuries are part of the game but Chelsea's pile up has been extreme. At its worst, the number of players out at the same time ran into double figures. As the injuries begin to pile down, Chelsea has began to field their first team players and now they’re playing good football and it’s been obvious in their last games.

What you wrote was a good summary about Chelsea.  In fact, they had been struggling with injuries for a long time.  Many of the reactions they received may also be due to the fact that they spent significant transfer money during the interim transfer period and still did not succeed.  The expectations for Chelsea are higher, so Potter is being criticized.

Of course the expectations for Chelsea are higher but you cannot directly criticize Potter when he had not enough time to showcase or to instill his thinking way of playing in most of Chelsea players as for this to happen this surely take quite some time,so if management of Chelsea is smart they will close an eye on any result Chelsea will be having during this season and start questioning into accounting Potter.

The injuries have surely add to their lack of results which lately they have shown some signs of recovery but let's see for how long they will keep this good run as in Premier League I am not convinced they will continue to do well with this way of playing.
4345  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: A remark on casino bonuses on: March 09, 2023, 12:14:14 PM
Usually the terms and conditions relate to deposit bonus that you have certain requirements on wagering but in Stake for example where I usually play,the weekly bonus,rakeback and monthly bonus that I receive since I have become a VIP there have no string attached,you can withdraw them directly,they are yours and are a valuation of your betting efforts from the company,in this case the casino.

They are right though to put wagering requirements into place for deposit bonuses as people can use such bonuses for money laundering and casinos are a good fit to do this,so these requirements are an absolute must and I fully agree with them.

I don't agree that for example other bonuses which has nothing to do with deposit bonus,to have wagering requirements.
4346  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: FIFA World Cup 2026 :Canada/Mexico/United States: Discussion Thread on: March 09, 2023, 11:53:58 AM
A joint South American world cup would be amazing to celebrate the centenary of the world cup.

I hope they actually end up winning, that would be very fitting.

If 4 countries are co-hosting the tournament, does all of them get automatic qualification? For the 2026 FIFA World Cup, all the three hosts (United States, Canada and Mexico) have been granted automatic entry, which has been criticized by a lot of people. But this will be even more tricky. If they grant automatic entry for a total of 4 teams, then it will reduce the importance of qualifying tournament. IMO, only one host should be given this right, and others should earn their place through participating in the qualifying tournament.

@Sithara007 this was actually a very interesting question and I asked it myself, but a quick google search gave this:

"World Cup: USA, Canada & Mexico will auto-qualify for 2026"

It seems that there have been some discussion about it, but when you give it some deeper consideration any other solution would have been unfair. It has been the rule for so long that the hosting nation is auto-qualified. Now even if it is three countries hosting this World Cup, I 100% agree with the decision to allow all of them to auto-qualify. It is an event that no hosting nation wants to miss and all hosting nations are so eagerly looking forward to.

Imagine what would happen if one of the countries failed in the qualification? I would say that that would be a very sad event and it would also suppress the overall mood among the fans in that country. You want the home fans and the whole hosting nation to be as deeply involved in the tournament as possible. All of that is in support of the enthusiasm and empathy among the guests and the people from the hosting nation.

So yes, all of them are auto-qualified.

As we saw in the previous world cup, the host got qualified for the tournament without playing any games or having any advantage over the other teams, just like we saw in the previous world cup. All I want to say is that the rule should be changed because if we have four teams qualified for the world cup who don't deserve it, there could be other teams that are stronger and they deserve a place in the world cup just as the host did.

Both teams who will auto qualify this time are much stronger than Qatar was as they were the weakest team of the whole tournament during this last World Cup that they hosted.It is a completely different things now,as we saw USA and Mexico to do relatively well in this last tournament,while Canada did not show a great performance compared to other big teams but they surely had improved themselves a lot from the last time I saw them in an international competition like the World Cup is.

So most likely they would have all qualified again even if they were not the hosts as we saw that they did just that in this last World Cup.
4347  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Sports arbitrage on: March 09, 2023, 11:22:38 AM
This is being done from quite a lot of time actually.There are people who deal exclusively with it and make money on it but as been said already here it is a daily job,you cannot just go and watch some sites that offer you the best deals like Betburger the most well known one.You need to maintain a lot of gambling accounts and that is a lot of work,to keep track of all of those.On top of all these things arbitrage gives you very little profit in terms of percentage so you need a lot of budget which is the most limiting factor for many people who want to do it but can't because they lack funds.

So it is a "sport" for the already rich ones I am afraid,the arbitrage betting.
4348  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: UEFA Conference League 2022/23 Season on: March 09, 2023, 10:28:40 AM
Today's one of my focused conference league matches will be between Gent and Başakşehir. Odds are like Gent 1.81, Draw X 2.88, Başakşehir 3.33. I think these are very exeggarated odds. There isn't huge power difference between these two teams to see these odds. That's why I see it as beneficial option and I say draw can be picked here to add. 2.88 is nice multiplier to increase amount of money you can possibly make through a bet in my opinion.

I think the same as the league of Belgium compared to that of Turkey have not that much of a difference and that is why I refrained from betting in this game.I think we have much better games where differences between the leagues are obvious and maybe the bookies are trying to intimidate us by giving 1.89 Villareal win against Anderlecht and 1.63 West Ham win against AEK Larnaca.I have exactly chosen these two games and placed two single bets on them for tonight games in the European competitions.
4349  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 🦊 Betnomi.com | Champions League Pool ⚽️ Discussion Thread on: March 09, 2023, 09:34:13 AM
PSG disappointed once again, their offensive line looks incredible on paper but their midfield simply cannot give the ball to them in dangerous zones often enough to make it count.

Bayern was way better overall in 2 games and deservedly goes through. And yeah - what a player Musiala already is, incredible.

They could not score a goal yesterday night which is a nightmare considering that the odds of Over 2.5 goals were 1.40 and both teams to score was 1.44 and I am sure many people including myself has lost a lot of money as I had one bet Over 3.5 goals and one bet both teams to score in this game.

Bayern showed once again that they are one of the strongest contender to the Champions League title and I can go ahead and predict a final of Bayern Munchen vs Real Madrid,one of those classics that we miss from so long ago.
4350  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Motosport General discussion tread --- Formula1, MotoGP, WTCC, ETCC, DTM..... on: March 09, 2023, 08:49:50 AM
What total dominance from Verstappen this weekend. Very impressive how much impression he has made again, but are we waiting for that as a Formula 1 fan? everyone likes it much more if other drivers also start winning races and that the differences become smaller at the top of the standings. It is very early to draw conclusions, but if RedBull does not experience any technical problems, I think that the world title will become a prey for Verstappen. In any case, Mercedes was already a lot better in this race than in the whole of last season. I think Hamilton can still win a race here and there.

From the last races we can see that Verstappen and Red Bull have improved in terms of performance and are already competing at a different level compared to the other drivers and teams. I think that if Red Bull's performance is maintained and even improved, it will not be impossible for Verstappen and Red Bull to become world champions. But that doesn't mean other drivers and teams can't compete with Red Bull, the most obvious example is how Alonso and Aston Martin managed to improve their performance and managed to get on the podium. So you could say that if Red Bull went a little wrong with their car it could be a nightmare for them.

There is nothing wrong with Redbull and I doubt there will be anything wrong coming into next races.The reason for that is simple,they have for my personal opinion the best aerodynamics engineer Adrian Newey and he has won many world championships with different teams including with McLaren in 2008 if I remember correctly.

He was the genius behind the winning car of last couple of years and he is again the genius of creating such a performing car like Redbull is.Unless other teams step up their game in a big way to get a name near the intelligence of this person they cannot overthrow Redbull at all and will not be winning any Championship,which can be bad for us as fans who want to see a lot of action and competition between teams.
4351  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2022/2023 on: March 09, 2023, 08:12:23 AM
This week Liverpool has opponent Bournemouth and on the paper obviously Liverpool is the favourite especially in first meetings Liverpool already won with big scores 9-0 from Bournemouth but just like i said before that i am a bit worried for Liverpool for away matches because they had poor records while playing outsides Anfield and during this season Liverpool has 3 wins from 11 away matches and this is poor records for the big teams such as them

After that 7 goals trashing of Manchester united, I doubt Liverpool won't be feeling too comfortable going into the Bournemouth game and this could backfire on them since Bournemouth are also in search of a win. Bournemouth were unfortunate not to get a win or a point from their last game against Arsenal even after leading for so long.

Bournemouth will be at home so they should be capitalizing on that advantage to upset Liverpool. Liverpool hasn't been consistent this season so their next game isn't always assured of them winning. They're the favorite but let's not rule out the possiblity of Bournemouth getting all three points or a draw from this match, they already have two lost in their last two game, they'll be more desperate for the win.
i like the fact that Liverpool management had faith and patient with Kloop in his difficult times, in football managers must face difficult times. But be assured they will recover at the right time, today kloop is happy. he almost lost his job, he took time to train these players to understand themselves, after Mane left the club to Bayern. it became too difficult for kloop to fill in his space. but in their last games kloop has been able to fit him player and is giving him results.
the game against Manchester united is a great boost for the Liverpool team, gaining such confidence into the next game is advantage for kloop men. the Bournemouth game this weekend will be easy for kloop men, they are favourite to win this game

In theory you are right but remember that there are no easy games in the Premier League.We saw favorites lose or draw several times against weaker teams,remember Manchester City vs Nottingham draw and yes I will keep saying this for so long because it was the worse result ever for a team like City who is fighting for the title.

I also think that Liverpool should win against Bournemouth and based on their recent form having played so well against Wolves and United this most likely should be the case here also.
4352  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: UEFA Europa League 2022/23 Season on: March 09, 2023, 07:53:50 AM
With the prospect of facing Thursday-Sunday football for the rest of the season, I have a feeling that Mikel Arteta will have to balance his squad and rotate effectively in order to overcome a tough schedule.Sporting CP is a heavy weight in the Portuguese league and Arsenal needs to enter that game with all manner of urgency. Mixing an unexpected title race with the chance of winning a first ever European trophy is still an exciting opportunity though. At the same time I think Arsenal can put up a decent team without a few key players and still get a result.

Sporting is a heavyweight in the Liga Portugal yes but this year they are not in the best of their form and the difference between Premier League where Arsenal plays compared to Liga Portugal is huge,Premier League being the major league in Europe for many sport enthusiasts and also for me.

With this said I think that Arsenal should be capable to close the game already in this first leg by winning here just with 1 goal difference like a 0-1 result so they remain focused on the Premier League as I don't think they will have problems beating Sporting in London and with a big number of goals difference.
4353  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: UEFA Champions League 2022/23 Season on: March 09, 2023, 07:37:18 AM
Tottenham could not qualify yesterday night despite them needing just one single goal to get to at least to additional time and then to try and go further.I think that this is the maximum for Tottenham as compared to Milan they lack completely the experience for such high performing competitions.

In fact it was exactly the experience that Milan has in this competition which they have won many times that gave them the qualification yesterday night,still I bet on Tottenham and lost my bet but I like to back up the runner up and not the favorite in such competitions.
4354  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2022/2023 on: March 08, 2023, 09:07:08 PM
Things are getting really heated as for the competition for the fourth position in the standings. Tottenham will need to play extra carefully and focusedly from now on otherwise they could be likely to lose their place to Liverpool in no time. Because Liverpool got an incredible win last week and its being against one of the biggest teams in the league makes the win more valuable for Liverpool. This should be a big motivation source for them to fight for a Champions League spot in short.

Tottenham are playing against Nottingham next time. Nottingham aren't a good team and they have many missing players right now. Tottenham should easily be able to beat them home.

Tottenham normally would have no problems for beating Nottingham at home but given that they are playing a difficult game against Milan exactly tonight in the Champions League which they are having difficulties to score,if they score though and end the game 1-0 they go to extra time which is extra burden physically for the players and this can be a determining factor in the game against Nottingham.

I also agree that Tottenham should not underestimate these type of games against much weaker teams and leave points in the games against them as this way they would be giving away their fight for a spot in top 4 and not many games remain to the end of this season.
4355  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Motosport General discussion tread --- Formula1, MotoGP, WTCC, ETCC, DTM..... on: March 08, 2023, 08:44:18 PM
Leave it to my dumb mind, today was a sad day for my wife, so to make her happy I looked at tickets to go see a show in the future, sure wouldn't make her happy right now, but it would be a good time spent to see whats out there, and I bought a ticket to exact date of the next race. Totally forgot about the race. And this one is super important because we have seen how amazing Red Bull is, but would they have any issues? Plus what about the whole ferrari, aston martin, Mercedes duel, I agree that it doesn't look much like a duel right now, but on second race everything could change drastically too.

I don't think the span time of 2 weeks can make any team to change drastically but for sure we can see if they are on the right road to improvement of their cars.Aston Martin should start from a good basis like should be the case for Ferrari also as they don't need to undertake radical changes to their cars and they can move in step by step.For Mercedes is a complete story,they need to think outside the box immediately to start applying radical changes,as Hamilton said together with Wolf that we have a lot to work on and we must start immediately.

Redbull so far are racing in another competition,against each other as from the first race we saw so far they have no rivals and most likely that would be the case even in the upcoming race.
4356  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 🏁🏎️ Sportsbet.io🏁 FORMULA 1 2023 Season🏁🏎️Prediction Pool Discussion Thread on: March 08, 2023, 03:02:02 PM

A small question about the submission before qualifying, can the submission be changed again or do I lose points when i changed before qualifying?


That is a wrong move most likely to put in place predictions without checking the driver performances during the Friday practices and the Saturday morning free practice before the official qualifying,you should definitely wait to see such data before you go and put in place your predictions because what you have done is just a gamble and not real study of the events  Grin.

I would always suggest that you have some data in your hands to analyze before going and putting your picks,of course you can do like that,putting picks 10 days before the race but I am afraid it won't end well if you use a set and forget style of predicting,this is not soccer which you can do that,in here a small change can cause dramatic changes to everything.It is just a friendly advice,I do not mean to scare you  Grin.
4357  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 🏁🏎️ Sportsbet.io🏁 FORMULA 1 2023 Season🏁🏎️Prediction Pool Discussion Thread on: March 08, 2023, 02:28:09 PM
I played the last year so i know so much points can be a winning round, and when i see i have 14.5 i say to myself, "Well maybe i win the round", but when i click in the leaderboard i see that tremendous 17 points made by fM.
Yeah, I'm having a similar impression because despite Leclerc did a DNF, I still had some good picks but seeing someone making 17 points is really surprising.  Cheesy
Last year in your Formula 1 pool, it was enough to have 11 Points for winning yellow cap for the first race (see here) and today, 11 points is just resulting in being somewhere in the lower midfield.  Cheesy
Sure: last year, Verstappen and Perez did an unexpected DNF as well as Leclerc did today but so much points difference in our pool is still surprising.

There were only 12 people in the pool last year but this year there are 29 members and this is making things much more difficult. Another example is that one needed to win approximately 11.78 points per race to finish the pool as the first last year. But it isn't hard to predict this point to be much higher than that this year.

Just wondering...  How many spots are getting paid out of 29?  Just so we know.  In the EPL pool I didn't know that 22 spots were getting paid until it was too late as I stopped trying to win and just started to clock buttons starting around November because I thought only 10 spots were getting paid.  Cheesy  I don't want to make the same mistake here in this pool.  Grin

Anyway..  Saudi Arabian GP next!  Let's see if Aston Martin can finish on the podium again.  They're the team to watch imho.

I am sure the prize structure will be put here for all of us to see and to motivate us further to take this pool seriously as this is a long one and just one mistake from one driver can make drastic changes in the standings,we saw that with the first yellow cap during the first race,if Leclerc had not a power failure we would not see 17 points which is the highest for this pool so far taking into consideration even last year,so there is plenty of room for improvement,as long as we are consistent we can grab a prize spot.

I think that Aston Martin will most likely be again on the podium as this is a very fast track coming to S.Arabia and they passed Mercedes on track and even Ferrari so unless Mercedes and Ferrari drastically improve their car I don't see them joining the podium either this upcoming race.
4358  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Is it worth staking stablecoins? on: March 08, 2023, 12:26:39 PM

However, there are also risks associated with staking stablecoins. These include the potential for price fluctuations in the stablecoin, changes in the interest rate, and the risk of loss due to security breaches or fraud on the platform.


That is why I never recommend to stake your coins on a third party no matter how trustworthy and for how long they have been operating,namely Binance being the biggest exchange we have but no one assure us that they won't go offline after some time.

The best to do is to stake in a wallet which gives you complete access over it,meaning "your keys,your coins" while at Binance this is not true,you don't hold any private key in Binance,you are letting them safeguard your coins which is a really bad security practice when it comes to crypto.

I personally use Atomic wallet and despite not having a lot of stablecoins to stake,I think it has the option to stake a couple of them but I am not sure about it as I only stake Zilliqa there.
4359  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: Can we see a huge rise in the price of Dogecoin ? on: March 08, 2023, 11:46:29 AM
No one can predict with certainty the large increase in the price of Dogecoin. Even though Elon Musk is a supporter of Dogecoin, we never know what his plans are going forward. Moreover, Elon Musk has caused a lot of controversy on Twitter, so it is difficult to predict what plans will be carried out in the future with Dogecoin.

I think the support of Elon Musk is largely out of the equation within the Dogecoin hodlers,they are keeping the coin as they most likely found their way sucked in after the first support of Elon Musk which truly gave Dogecoin back then a huge increase in price and many people who were holding such coins for fun,found themselves overnight millionaires and that is why this coin is still popular.

New people seeing those persons make a fortune thought that they can do it too and started investing in Dogecoin by accumulating a lot of it.The price though now remains in the hands of fate/luck as we don't know how it will be,but I have hopes that the next bull run can make this coin go to 1 as it was to 0.70 in the last all time high.
4360  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: UEFA Europa League 2022/23 Season on: March 08, 2023, 11:17:11 AM

The previous game should not have affected their mentality, I believe Man United will again play at their best level. Sunday's defeat is painful and embarrassing but it will hurt more if they don't get up soon and what is extraordinary for United is that they have the opportunity to get 3 titles this season, and Ten Hag won't let what happened before destroy the chances that still exist in this European league, they will face Betis at Old Trafford and this opportunity should not be missed, my prediction is Man United will score at least 2 goals.

Manchester United lost the game with a result that we always remember and it's not coming we can forget anytime but their coach Ten Hag knows exactly how to change this bad atmosphere in his team, after the matches finished he forced his players to watch Liverpool players celebrating victory and how he shocked the whole team and made them remember how they pay for the mistakes.

That does not mean anything for Manchester United.Every team can have a really bad day like the one United had against Liverpool last weekend and I am sure the coach has motivated them to focus completely on the Europa League as for the Premier League they most likely will end the season in the top 4,enough to be part of Champions League for the upcoming season.

For the game of tomorrow they are the favorites and I think they should secure the qualification since the first leg and not let anything to be decided in the second one,they have beaten Barcelona so they should probably have no problems beating Betis either.
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