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4441  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Bookies with stablecoin on: October 04, 2020, 02:19:27 PM
Moving USDT (erc20) is a bit expensive due to eth's network congestion and it's sometimes higher than btc.
I don't need to move fund from site. Once I will deposit there, it will be there as long as I don't need a lot of cash. I will be another form of bookie for a group of people as they had no idea how crypto works. I can use their money to pay them while I will only deposit a sum in the bookie. Well, this will an experiment basis.
Quite interesting, but isn't it risky on your part? you are like financing or running your own gambling platform here without a license. One of your possible bettors could report you to the authorities and they can witness against you, I know there's an opportunity, but look at the risk also.
4442  Economy / Speculation / Re: Bitcoin, Stocks Fall as Trump Tests Positive for COVID-19 on: October 04, 2020, 01:50:54 PM
I guess the BitMex mess has caused more damage to Bitcoin's price than Trump's announcement that he and his wife Melania got infected with COVID-19. Trump is no very special man and he's not the first head of state who contacted the virus. Before him, the UK's Boris Johnson was also infected. Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro also got the virus. The stocks may be affected by Trump getting positive in his COVID-19 test but not Bitcoin.

I agree with you, Trump has nothing to do with the dump of bitcoin, unless he says USA will ban bitcoin. It was the BitMex where people are panicking due to the recent news, however, it seems like the market is quite stable now, it has already survive the panic since it's just one site and we are not anymore in the old days that one site controls the biggest portion of the volume.
4443  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Do you believe NBA is rigged? on: October 04, 2020, 01:17:32 PM
Still, if you were to view it in an objective way, why would referees need more money when they officiate such games with big salaries right?


The very easy answer for that is they are greedy, they want to make more money as they were never satisfied. It's human nature but doing it in a bad way is not good as it affects the integrity of the game, and one thing, getting a good salary does not guarantee a person will do his job honestly.
I agree with what @stadus said.
A human is never satisfied, and even they get big salaries from their jobs, they will search for the other way to make more money.
Only people are honest and have integrity, which can do their jobs without greed because they know that the will to make more money will never be enough.
Rigged or not, we never know because they will not tell the public about that unless there is an investigation in that committee.
But I don't think that the person in that circle will let the investigation because they will keep that secret.
To give us an idea on how much NBA refs are making, we should read this.
How much does an NBA referee earn?
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Unlike the salaries of the players, the salary of a referee is usually not known. The average annual salary of an NBA referee ranges from $150,000 to $550,000. Like any other job, it varies with experience. According to Career Trend, new referees begin at $600 per game or $250,000 per year. After about three to five years of being a referee, one can become professional. A professional or a seasoned referee earns $3,500 per game or $500,000 annually.

Big amount already but lower than what NBA players are making, and if NBA players who got a good contract can still be broke, it could happen to refs as well if they are not living according to their income, and that would result them to make illegal activities as they have all the opportunity to manipulate the game.
4444  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: [Boxing]: Mark Magsayo vs Rigoberto Hermosillo on Oct 3 on: October 04, 2020, 12:40:15 PM

Judges has their own reason and it depends on their angle but the margin is to wide almost a shut out for Rigoberto Hermosillo I'm glad that Magsayo won, it's not the kind of win that you want on your debut but Rigoberto Hermosillo is tough even go for toe to toe, I want to see more opponents like this for Magsayo before going for big names, he needs to improve, boxers fighting in the US are world class.

It's better than losing his first fight in his new promoter. because had he lost this fight, the next one would be questionable and lots of stress and pressure. His future will be determined if he can do well in the next fight or not. The thing is, this guys should not underestimate their opponents whether it is a newbie or some veteran fighters because everyone in this sport can punch well and can do damage if they hit you on your weak spot.

The hottest boxer under MP promotion now is only Casimero, I'm seeing a good future for this boxer as his wins in his last few fights are very impressive.
I think Magsayo here should ask some tip from Casimero on how to finish the fight early so he will not get tired in the end.

Yes, I would say that Casimero is, however, we all know how experience Casimero is, so let's give a benefit of a doubt for Magsayo as he is still very young and lots of things to learn. What I like about Casimero is that he says positive things about Magsayo, even to the point of predicting that Magsayo will be the next Filipino champion.

Roach is working with Casimero, and with this fight, I think Roach will have to make a lot of adjustments to Magsayo, still very raw but talented though.

According to his record - https://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/653034, he has 14 KO wins of his 21 fight, that's a high percentage of KO rate but fighting in the US is different especially against Mexicans as they are a tough opponent for Filipino boxers.
4445  Economy / Gambling / Re: 🚀 Sportsbet.io - Official betting partner of ARSENAL FC 🚀 on: October 04, 2020, 12:17:11 PM
I'm sending the xrp to an exchange which requires address + destination tag, so my understanding on the format is correct?
Sure, with XRP transactions you need both: address and destination tag. Without destination tag, your deposits will be lost. Exchanges give you warning that you need to include your destination tag when you fill in your transaction details.

Or use an XRP deskstop wallet or mobile wallet when withdrawing and then send the XRP to an exchange of your choice if you feel the procedure is quite complicated and you don't want to take the risk of losing the money because you are not sure with it.

One thing I don't understand is with email confirmation, only receiving address is shown. No information on destination tag in email confirmation (I remember Binance does not provide this info in email confirmation).

Is this on the exchange side? I'm quite confuse here.
4446  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Do you believe NBA is rigged? on: October 04, 2020, 11:03:53 AM
I don't believe this kind of nonsense because if they had so, they won't gonna pay this ref to manipulate the game. if the game is rigged or whatsoever, they won't gonna need to pay him.



This is the reason why they are now often report some uncalled fouls or violations to the officials after the games. because those referees can't be trusted for some reason and the replay of the games will say it all.

Based on the report we can read like this one https://basketballforever.com/2019/02/19/disgraced-nba-referee-tim-donaghy-admitted-he-would-fail-polygraph-if-asked-if-he-fixed-nba-games

It was only the referee can rig games not the organization, but who knows if Tim Donaghy was just the fall out guy to save the reputation of the NBA, imagine how big of a money they will lose if it's proven they are rigging games by directing the refs to handle the business.
4447  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: everything can happen on bitvest on: October 04, 2020, 10:46:44 AM
It seems OP won 5 LTC by only bet with 0.001 LTC. What an amazing jackpot!

That's x5000 of luck, OP is very lucky to won that amount, yes anything can happen but luck like that only happen once in our lifetime.

Congrats OP.
4448  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 2020 NBA Season on: October 03, 2020, 08:09:21 AM
There is no way meyers can cover anthony Davis that is why he doesn't get as much burn.  Miami is just too undermanned for the lakers.  This is as boring as a finals can be.  Unfortunate but the ratings for this finals is probably going to be terrible.
Well according to this report: Game 1 of NBA Finals sees lowest viewership in recorded ratings history, probably it's because they know that Lakers are going to win against the Heat, and with the injuries of Bam and Dragic, maybe a lot has concluded that it may end up 4-0 in favor of the Lakers. Now they are up 2-0 already. The Heat really try their best against James and Davis, but it's not enough.

That's probably the reason, the series match up was not exciting to them but if Heat were able to give a close game to the Lakers in game 1, things could have been different. Actually Heat has to work here, they need to prove that people are wrong of what they are thinking, come on, this is just 2 games, they are down 0-2 but it's not over yet, I repeat, it's not over yet.
4449  Economy / Gambling / Re: ★BetBTC★ Sportsbook | Bitcoin Sports Betting | Since 2014 | Instant Withdrawals on: October 03, 2020, 07:59:22 AM
Yep. Officially off board. Missed Finals Game 2 which started at 9pm, because my Soccer wager, which ended at 4:30pm still isn't graded.

Does this help at all? Nac Breda won 4-0. I can provide sources if that's what you need?

Looks like there's a little bit of delay today, my NBA bet was not graded instantly as well, but it's been graded now.



Congratulations to the lucky winner today, my prediction did not hit as it was a very high scoring game.

BTW, update on the Miami Heat in game 3 is, Bam will play in game 3.

https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/heats-bam-adebayo-plans-to-play-game-3-of-nba-finals-im-feeling-better-i-believe-ill-play/
4450  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: [Boxing]: Mark Magsayo vs Rigoberto Hermosillo on Oct 3 on: October 03, 2020, 06:26:03 AM
Thanks for sharing, I've been searching for the betting odds for this fight but finally it's here, unfortunately, not much market, this isn't what I am expecting.

I found this thread posting the betting odds in sports betting and found out that this match are now available in these sportsbooks.
They got it listed at the last minute though.  Tongue
So for boxing fans, there's still time to place your bets.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5279405.0

https://www.bestodds.ai/odds/sport-boxing/matchups/mark-magsayo-vs-rigoberto-hermosillo




4451  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: NBA 2019-2020 betting on: October 03, 2020, 05:55:06 AM
I might bet on the Heat game 3 if the sportsbooks give us +16 hehehe. I have stopped watching the game, this again is another complete decimation by the Lakers. 4 - 0.

There's no +16 in game 3, the line now is only +9.5 and might reduce if Bam will play.
So for Miami backers, this is the time to take the ML and the plus points, if Heat goes down 0-3 after game 3, they'll sure go down in the series.
4452  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: ★BetBTC★ Sportsbook & Casino | Sunday Wizard - Win 0.05BTC every Sunday on: October 03, 2020, 05:51:45 AM
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80 goals.
4453  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: ★BetBTC★ Sportsbook & Casino | NBA Playoffs - Win 0.01BTC every day on: October 03, 2020, 12:03:50 AM
I got Heat tonight.




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4454  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: [Boxing]: Mark Magsayo vs Rigoberto Hermosillo on Oct 3 on: October 02, 2020, 11:24:43 AM
This is not a popular event, only one site has offer betting odds for this fight.

Do we have a crypto sportsbook offering the same? I'm just curious as I might bet on this fight tomorrow.

Looking for this match as well from the sportsbooks that I usually visit with, but to no avail. Seems no crypto sportsbook will list this match. Or should we say, wait until tomorrow. Let us see...

In the list, only BET365 offers betting odds, I don't know it's true as I have not visited the site yet.

And yes it's true.. you can see on the link ; https://www.bet365.com/#/AC/B9/C20007979/D1/E148/F2/

I've seen in this forum ; https://www.quora.com/Does-any-major-sports-book-like-Bet365-William-Hill-or-Ladbrokes-accept-bitcoins

and it looks like they don't accept bitcoin, too bad we can't bet but if they do, I think this site requires KYC.
4455  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: THE MOST PAINFUL DAY IN MY BETTING CAREER on: October 02, 2020, 11:07:36 AM
That was how my hope of winning 260k bet was dashed. I can never forget that very day in hurry, Sunday 10 Nov.2013
 

That was such a mount and no bettor can forget that and it will haunt him in the first week after that painful day imagine you can buy on this amount, but even though it hurts you have no choice but to move on, life has many ups and downs and it's just happen that you have to deal with a big amount but it's already 7 years the amount was never meant for you, maybe there is a bigger amount waiting.

If you can't move on as a gambler, that means you made a bad decision gambling what you can't afford to lose.

Okay, so given you win a big amount and you didn't stop and eventually you lose, that's what you called greediness, that's mostly the problem of gamblers, they lack discipline, hence that makes them greedy while gambling, and most likely they will fail to stop at the right timing.
4456  Economy / Gambling / Re: 🔥Sportbook and Casino: BITSLER > $10,000 DAILY Wagering contest < on: October 02, 2020, 10:51:25 AM
I also tried to collect coins that 25 times claim on the faucet to play with the dice but I did not succeed in multiplying it.  It's just amazing how others are able to multiply it like millions.  What strategy do they use?  Manual or auto?  What odds or multipliers do they use?  As far as I know, BSTLR coins can not really be used in sports betting.

TBH, I don't see any strategies applicable on winning such huge amounts, they just accumulate and bet on super high multipliers in games like BOMB or they play slots where there are chances of big wins. I personally saw someone winning BTC0.3 against a very small 100 Satoshi bet with a multiplier of 300k times. Unbelievable but true. I think Mrounds1978 was the lucky dude to have got that win. Smiley

Wow!, that kind of luck only happen one in 100 million people or even more, that's what you called real luck. Anyway, I am not so much into faucets lately, I'm done with that, what I like more about this site is their new sportsbook, I'm enjoying using it.
4457  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Anyone know a dice game that is actually fair? on: October 01, 2020, 10:15:50 AM

This is the reason why casinos survive in business, they have house edge on their side. You can't expect anything much from dice game. Most reputable casinos here has their provably fair tab if you want to check the fairness of their game. But even if they have this provable fairness, don't expect that your chance of winning is high because it's not. This is luck-based game so it really depends on your luck to win this game.

Exactly. I don't really understand why people look for a fair casino. In a fair casino, you are guaranteed to lose in the long term anyway.  Grin A casino has no reason to put a hidden script behind its code to win against you. Mathematics do that job for the casino just fine.

I'd rather look for a dishonest casino with a broken script that's leaking money.  Tongue

Very well said, if you can see that opportunity then you can make money, if they are fair that means they are winning against the majority due to the house edge, and there's no reason for them to cheat if they are already winning as they are risking their future if ever they get caught, imagine a big casino making millions per month and caught cheating, it's a goodbye to millions of income per month, so.. they would not do that for sure.

They are fair, they need to be fair.
4458  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Do you believe NBA is rigged? on: October 01, 2020, 09:52:28 AM
I have read a lot of theories about NBA being rigged and a little portion of me were convince, so I would like to ask you.

If you believe it's rigged, is it a disadvantage or advantage to us bettors?

Share your opinion and if you have some proof, kindly post.

I have just seen sometimes "strange matches" were players try to make only 3-pts meanwhile other team continue to make 2-pts on every play.
But I am not able to judge their gaming strategy.... and however I don't think it's easy to rig a multibillionaire industry like NBA since you should involve too many people.
Ok there is always the possibility that someone can take advantage from a specific situation as described before by other posts.
Corruption is everywhere we are all aware of it. but this doesn't mean an entire competition can be rigged.

The idea is, if the top management is trying to rig the NBA, the whole competition will be rigged. Players doesn't need to be involved as it's hard to dictate them, and it's not safe for them, but we have the referees, if you also see some strange calls, then that prove somehow this league could be rigged.
4459  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 2020 NBA Season on: October 01, 2020, 08:31:18 AM
Game 1 beat down. It's like the Miami boys playing against LA men. Looking forward to game 2 and the adjustments the Heat coach will make. I'm pretty sure his boys will try to take revenge. Their embarrassing loss should wake them up from their dream hehe.
it is a great game mate,nothing to be embarrasses on that part,and being in Finals.all are contributing in games giving their best each shooting.

L.A is really the favorite in this face off but Miami won't give that easy,there will be a good game in the 2nd final.


I'm hoping.... yeah, hoping that Miami would bounce back after they got blowout today.
We know that they are the underdog but we never expected they will be blowout in the first game of the NBA Finals, plus those injuries, that's a big minus.
4460  Economy / Gambling / Re: ★BetBTC★ Sportsbook | Bitcoin Sports Betting | Since 2014 | Instant Withdrawals on: October 01, 2020, 08:12:02 AM
Almost. maybe you'll exactly hit it next time.  Cheesy

Not next time, Ill be the first winner in the finals  Grin

We will see tonight, the previous winner hope I'll be the winner tonight, lol..

Anyway, good luck again, unlock your biggest bet in game 1, it should be fun.
Whoever picks the highest score if any of the games go into OT wins.
Thats the only way to know for certain if you will be the winner. LOL! Cheesy

Everybody is on the Lakers but I wouldn't back them for the very first game. Because wasn't Anthony Davis injured in the last game of the denver series? He stepped on somebodies foot going to the rim and twisted his ankle.
But he was good enough to do the free throws. Wink

Being the first game it is hard to say who and what team will be on the court. Have to see how they are playing then place a live bet sometime in the second half is your best bet if you want to come close to winning this one. Embarrassed

Yeah, but in this game there was no OT as it was a complete dominant game of Lakers that was shown here.
And Davis, he seemed to be fine, he lead the Lakers in scoring in game 1.

Bad for the Heat starters.

Butler - almost injured.
Adebayo -  Injured but might come back in game 2.
Dragic - injured, might be out of the series as per report.

It wasn't I was expecting, the game is suppose to be close in my imagination, lol.. but the Lakers came strong and show their dominance. Heat should prove that they aren't  a soft team, if Lakers will play physical they should also do the same, bring this game to game 7 please.
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