Guess you both lost your bets then, and it's weird you were both half right (one scoreless draw and one BTTS), so the bookies won the day on both matches.

Nothing very interesting for me to be honest in this week, just waiting for La Liga again to start, both Real and Barcelona dropped early points, so I'm waiting to see some good specials.

Envious of you guys who can watch the games, me I'm betting and then sleeping and waking up to see how it turned out. As I get older, I watch less games also as the lack of sleep gets me more and more.

Real Betis  vs Real Madrid
1. Match line - Draw
2. Both to score - Yes
3. Number of yellow cards in the game - 4-5

Atletico Madrid  vs Villarreal
1. Match line - Home
2. Both to score - Yes
3. Number of yellow cards in the game - 4-5

Time of first goal in Atl. Madrid game: 51st minute

I never really thought much about all the seasonal effects that normally affect markets. There used to be the thing about Christmas, about Chinese lunar year, even about monsoon floods in china but I never really thought they made a difference.

Or if they used to they don't seem to with every passing year. Of course if things happen as you say, you will not see me complaining at all.

I did notice the second option my friend, but I still insist, gambling is not a double-edged sword in this respect. It should never be seen as an alternative to gaining wealth, it should only be seen as entertainment, where, if you're not lucky, you don't get your deposits back but enjoyed it anyway. If you're lucky, you had fun AND won some money from it.

I love gambling. But for me, it can and never will be an income or wealth alternative. If I get lucky sure. But I can't count on luck.

Pinging again because we have games tonight. Valencia are the bookie favorites and they did start well but I keep wondering if we will end up getting scarred if we put our faith on them because last season, they were horrendous overall, only winning 10 games, while bookies kept putting them as favs.

First game is hard to pick though. I guess a draw?

Nice finds, buddy. I think the "smart" way to play and win on casinos, including on lottery like here, is to collect sats at all prices, and hope you win big during bear markets. Happy I gambled most of my RPs and balances during low price periods too. Those sats really become worth something every bull run like now.

Just wish I'd also been smarter about actually NOT losing them as often;)

I know, I remember also missing the last one, that was actually the promo that caught my eye before I finally joined properly Sportsbet here (even though it was Casino).

I Googled and found the last one is still active on this page: https://sportsbet.io/promotions/live-casino-hero-participants so it seems 43 people ended up on the last spot after 92 days for 23.5 mbtc! 460mbtc wagered each if they made minimum! Now I'm not sure I can make that amount but maybe patient betting on roulette or blackjack? I see one forum name I can recognize - actmyname. I wonder who else from here made it;)

There are only a few countries that don't accept Bitcoin (by making it illegal). And in the recent times some of them have changed their minds or are at least considering not totally banning it (like India).

In most cases, it's a lack of understanding and fear. But in some cases, like I believe in India, it's actually because of higher and higher scam complaints from citizens. Without resources or ability to prevent, sometimes the government considers a ban to be more convenient.

No man I was just making a joke. Or was that not clear enough?

Of course old investors are always after the money. They would even invest in ponzis if they somehow knew they could guarantee getting out of it alive and I bet you they throw "change" into high risk ventures.

If big banks can change their minds about bitcoin, for sure these old men also can. Isn't his son already into Bitcoin anyway? For sure on advice or guidance from the man himself.

In the spirit of fast, I also like Lightning Roulette and sometimes I use it to get my Clubhouse levels up quickly (I know this is the same from Sportsbet casino right?). I guess crypto gamers like me are so used to getting fast settlements from dice and the like that we also can't stand to wait for roulette tables to spin their wheels!

I like Dealer too of course but if you don't have very good speed it's not so fun anyway but it's nice to have the "lite" option too!

So the top prize in the latest lottery winner is 0.1 BTC which is roughly $5000 worth of bitcoin. I never really did calculations here, but for sure I know the amount of prize in btc is reducing over the years. Does anyone know what the maximum prize money used to be (in USD equivalant) it ever was for 1st place win in lottery?

Just curious;)

If your parents are smokers, children have a higher chance of becoming a smoker. The same thing happens with drinking, gambling, and other vices. It's a common problem and no surprise because well, if you grow up in such an environment, then you become accustomed to it, you get peer pressured into it, and it becomes normalized.

This isn't about occupation either (although actually in the past, occupations of parents also bear an impact on children, again, at lower income levels). If farmer parents manage to break it to middle class, like you, then great. But if you would still be living on a farm in a lower class family, what would your likely job options be?

Poverty is a huge obstacle...


No, gambling is not an alternative to gaining wealth. That's the first mistake you make that'll lead you down a wrong path.

Governments should be learning about this for hundreds of years. When you restrict or try to control something your people want, they go underground, they do it with more risk. We've seen it with gambling, with alcohol.

But this isn't even about what people want, but what people need also. Nigerians and others need this new form of money because they know the current one is weakening.

About your question, I would suggest like Yogee South Africa is the most obvious? I know Binance tried to go there because of huge demand. But I think even Morocco and Egypt it is rising up, just I'm not sure if they are also considered Sub-Saharan?

Yep, I don't think this one's a 50k thing at this stage (60 is the natural psychological barrier as it also happens to be ATH). Bears definitely see 1 T as the failure to keep tabs on crypto, so even with market pressure on selling, new coins entering circulation will keep pushing back and then when they get tired and the barriers break, we'll not be stepping backwards.

This is one thing people forget sometimes. I hate being monitored and regulated all the time but I have to admit, for some things, I would prefer this consumer protection.

If you go to regulators office anyway in some places (I do not know how it is in USA) especially in Asian countries I think many headaches they get is public calls asking them to help get back lost money from Nigerian scams, phone scams, HYIPs, and now from crypto scams.

For regulators a lot of the problems now are online business and the only way they can deal with it because people refuse to educate themselves.

I used to do this actually, but not playing that kind of lottery, since the only one we had before is sweepstakes, where you can only pick the tickets, not really the numbers. Then I used to pick the same "pick 4" numbers every single draw (about 2/3 times a week). Stopped after a few years finally after always hitting consolation prizes.

Fairplay to the man. He's the ultimate DCA gambler lol.

Game 1:  35'  2-0 Man City
Game 2:  35'  2-1 Southampton

The poverty line is $2 a day. If you earn $2.01 a day you only earn $60.30 a month so you are living above poverty line and are therefore not "poor". And you are talking about "only" $100?

You do realize also now that 200,000 satoshi = $100 and if you want to buy, you have to pay commissions and then withdraw, most places and exchanges will charge at least 10,000 satoshi or $5 in fees right?

To be fair I think Bitcoin expected timelength to make the same profits as stocks is also getting longer and longer. 2014 to 2017 20x was three years and now 2017 to 2021 a longer period of 4 years, it is "only" 3x.

I guess we know why Buffett is starting to like Bitcoin (by not saying so much against it anymore).

Agree I guess heh, it's just that I also use my same name everywhere and made the mistake from before of putting my age, which of course I am no longer 29;) And then it became my habit. I use BigSlam on Sportsbet chat and I guess it's because online I just use a variation of my nick. Obviously not my real name.

There is a lot of overlap agree. Small world in crypto.