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461  Other / Off-topic / Re: Does having children have an influence on gambling habits? on: March 25, 2024, 09:36:52 AM

Still for some it is tough and it will be difficult for them to balance both eventually leading to dysfunctional families.

Surely taking care of a family is not an easy task and with a larger home, it becomes more difficult to do so you just have to cut down from gambling expenses. Moreover, gambling itself is not really profitable for total average of gamblers so most likely family people also lose their bet too .

It could lead to break in homes which will take more resources, time and apologies to come back especially if you have a wife who has warned the husband off it and he refused, she might take a drastic decision to leave the home and that will definitely affect the man or the children whose growing up will be full of pain and lack of parental control of either the father or mother depending on whose arm they eventually grew in.
462  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Politicians playing politics on a polluted democracy on: March 24, 2024, 11:11:36 PM
What is going on is neocolonialism, that is a different kind of colonialism of the modern age. The established continents are still manipulating the underdeveloped continent, they show their leaders bananas just to attract them to come surrender their countries wealth with them and allow them access to their natural resources which they use as raw material for their manufacturing sectors and after they resell some of them back to the poor countries who buy them with foreign currency which further devalue their local currency and economy. Those third world country leaders need to wake to know that they are equals and begin to utilize their raw materials and that will stop brain drain. Some of the best brains leave their countries because of insecurity and no job. It is unfortunate and those leaders need to wake up from their sleep to do the right thing for their people and not to be stooge in the midst of plenty.
463  Local / Off-topic (Naija) / Re: Will the Prices of Cooking Gas Ever come down in Nigeria on: March 24, 2024, 09:01:36 PM
The government keep making alot of promises on the refineries especially the one wey dey ph wey government don suppose finish since last year. So as long as Nigeria government still dey carry crude go refine outside and carry dollar take pay for the transaction, things go still dey high, make we no feel say one aspect of the economy suppose dey cheap and the other go dey on the low, no because na one economy since you buy things expensive you too go put money for your own product to cover cost. As fuel high, I don know say e go affect every other products coming from crude oil, so make dem fix the refinery then running cost go drop.
464  Local / Nigeria (Naija) / Re: Wetin fit make an experienced Bitcoin hodler to sale during bear run? on: March 24, 2024, 07:31:58 PM

I just sidon dis afternoon come de reason wetin fit to make a Bitcoin investor wey get di knowledge of how di Bitcoin cycle de work to sale during bear run, because i feel say no be clear eyes for investors wey know wetin de to sale during bear run. E must be strong financial need wey go make experienced investors to sale during bear run. Abeg which reasons una feel say e go make experienced Bitcoin hodler to sale during bear run?

No be really say a Bitcoin hodler wey sell now get financial need. In fact e no financial need but target. Usually by this time, in the past when institutions never begin hodl firm to btc and when the adoption never reach like e be now, when halving don dey close the price dey drop but that never really happen now rather since few months ago the price just keep increas even enter $73k or so

So I believe say investors still dey feel say price go drop before halving proper and as e don begin drop already some people still dey take the opportunity to dump and expecting say dem go buy more from below and it is risky because the price fit no go down as they expect as everything don change with bitcoin movement for this season.

Make you no call this time bear season, na correction wey just dey happen, we dey expect full bull to happen soon.
465  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Gambling until you go totally broke on: March 24, 2024, 05:16:36 PM

The fear of returning home with half of your salary of money for something else is just pandering your heart and you think the only solution to play more, maybe you'll get lucky and then win it back,  but that is just a trap to loose even more.

The urge to win back your money doesn't even let that addict gambler to realize that as trap and that he could lose more. Just like you have made the analysis of salary. I have seen someone, a father after receiving his salary went to gamble in a gaming house and unfortunately for him his loses didn't make him realize that to continue playing is more risky than going home. He eventually kept trying his luck to win back his salary but he didn't succeed and all he was left with was money that will barely take him home and he was despondent.

It is sure to say that one reason for more loses is trying to get back the loses from your gambling bets. The best is walking away when you are not making profit.
466  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Invest Only In a Coin that Increase in Value in this Bull Run. on: March 24, 2024, 04:48:04 PM

Investing in altcoins is a very good idea and decision but invest wisely and not to regret later because the coin you invested was nothing but a cymbal drum from the ecosystem to make noise for recognition and the developers of such coins are not to make you benefits from them but for them to make money or profit from you as you invest.


Bull season is suppose to be the time for cash out whether shitcoin or utility coin and if we fail to watch for the right time and it escape from you then don't expect that during the bear that any coin will rise including Bitcoin. Bear time is not a profitable time for hodlers only traders who buy or sell and at same time making profit if they get it right.

Hence some shitcoins won't come back to the market or won't get to your entry price again, some will end up being delisted from some exchange because they are not creating liquidity as developers have dumped them. We therefore need to understand that during bull, so much low value shitcoins enter the market all for developers instant gain and not that they intend to create any service. So if you identify this kind of project as an investor who has bought in, be ready to dump at the ATH or immediately it is close to that because the rug could be pulled off the feet of such investor.
467  Economy / Gambling / Re: ⭐ Gelato.bet - 73% Win Rate - 20% ROI - Maximize your sports betting profit ⭐ on: March 24, 2024, 04:13:21 PM
It is all about business for call groups and for me I will just rely on the internet and those existing for free and try to pick out single game that all agree on to bet on or add one more game to it and making it two. It is strategic to bet single game because they are closer to winning than to bet multiple games and that is what call groups do, they send single games with low odds, those games likely to win come with low odds. To pay for tips isn't more profitable than DYOR.
468  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Always check the deposit address on: March 24, 2024, 03:30:15 PM

To make the story short. The balance is not credited but after a lengthy discussion with the support and after sending proof that my old wallet address is still the same when I made the deposit(loan) then they recover my funds out of good will.


You are right and they were able to track the transaction back to you because you actually used the address traceable to that wallet or casino account despite their update of the previously used address on your account because the record will still be there, maybe they changed into another current wallet for you after they have updated it.

So it actually a lesson to be sure even if you are using a casino address, you use the address traceable to you. However, it has been said that addresses are better to be exclusively yours and not a centralized wallet address and in such cases you don't need to send centralized wallet address to collect a loan.
469  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Everything falls on leadership on: March 24, 2024, 02:48:46 PM

Leadership is the starting point of any country if you want your society to change and be like your dream societies then try to change the leaders that you have


Yes to an extent the leadership is important to the society but the question is that, is it the society that makes the leaders or is it the leaders that makes the society? I think that it is the society that makes the leaders then it means the leadership is the function of how the society is and how it is constructed. Therefore, a corrupt society will most likely create leaders who are also corrupt, leaders who are selfish and only interested in personal gains and not working for the people.

Imagine where leaders will consider their businesses first before making and implementing policies, a policy that is not favourable to their business dies a natural death, the policy is aborted before it is born. Like if government wants to better the people life by providing infrastructure, instead of going straight to do that they would channel it through politician company who now milks of the people and provide inferior material that will end up shortlived so that their own business will exist without competition and unchallenged.

It is the kind of society that we live determine its leaders until the people stand up to it in revolution before things can start changing for better.
470  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: International break's in football. on: March 23, 2024, 09:40:11 PM

As for the fans I can't imagine what the fans will be needing moderation for in games they are not the ones in active play on the pitch buy just mere spectators on the sidelines or TV screens.

Of course this is the angle I was referring to moderation, on the side of the fans. Like you posted in Op, some fans are so hooked up to football that it could affect their daily lives especially if their team loses which means they are so engrossed in it , the passion is so high. But if they have a moderate passion or zeal for it then when they go on break, that fan won't feel like a rib was taken out of him and he will missing it so much like water. In moderation I mean not to be glued to it to the extent that if there is a break for the players, fans will start wishing they didn't go for such break. I understand it is almost like that for most of the football fans that they get bored that the game will go on break but some fans will also not miss it as such because they are moderate lovers of the game.
471  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: International break's in football. on: March 23, 2024, 06:18:17 PM
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so will you as a football club fan wish/like it if international breaks is scrapped in football yearly calendar, so we can continue watching our favorite football club leagues and teams all the weekends and midweeks. Are you a fan of international breaks or not let's know your thoughts.

Well I believe I don't have to explain to you why there are football breaks because you quite understand it very well as a football fan yourself but you just want to know what others feel as a rhetorics. For me I think it is not always good not to do things in moderation. If we are in moderation with what we do then we have space for other recreation and fun stuff that will also keep us busy.

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Another interesting question is this, as a father would you force it on your child to also fan the same club you're a fan to, or you will allow him be himself to fan any club of his choice even if it's your most rival club of all times.


If a father tries to influence his child to love his club then that father is autocratic and that is not good. People are suppose to have liberty of association so any club that the child choose to support, it should be his choice not that he should be forced into where he isn't free to associate with. And this is likewise to fathers who want to force their children into educational field that he or she does want. There is freedom and liberty and no body has the right to limit them against another person if the action of the freedom those not affect someone's life. However, I have witnessed in a family where the husband, wife and children belong to different political parties and also supporters of different clubs and yet they have fun in the divergence and live peacefully. Gambling is game and should be played like that with no hostility.
472  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Gambling can bring positivity and light into people's lives on: March 23, 2024, 05:10:35 PM
1. Bonding and Socialization
This is a good example. in my family gambling games has always been part of a celebration. It has become a great entertainment on our occasions and everyone enjoys it. I guess whats different from it compare a "normal" gambling is that you have a chance of winning something without risking anything.

How do you mean by having a chance of winning something and risking nothing? When it is about gambling, you must have to risk something before you win or get something from it. You will gamble your money first before you can have hope to win. Moreover, the bonding that comes in gambling is especially when you win then people want to associate with you notwithstanding if they were criticising you as addict. Of course failure has no followership but success has many that will begin singing of praise and worship. Same as in your family, I assume in the reason for such bonding and socialization is because of winning, if there are no winning and there are hard times through seeking for the winning, there won't be such bonding and in fact there will be criticism of money wasted and addiction Grin
473  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: What's your take? on: March 23, 2024, 04:39:18 PM

For example, there could be a match between Newcastle VS Tottenham Hotspur and both teams are having 1.5 and 1.3 odds respectively, a gambler may decide to bet only on Tottenham to straight win by only selecting this one game on his slip, what is your take on this kind of gambling, risking bigger money on some low odds with a small potential win and still the possibility of your pick to win is not even certain.


What you are talking about is generally referred to as single betting and it is better, easier to win it than to bet on multiple. Betting in such way limit the chances of any other game interfering with it and thereby causing losing of the slip. Some gamblers prefer that they but the shortcoming is that it odd is reduced and therefore you will have to increase your staking power unlike in multiple bet where with like bankroll you could have a reasonable amount of potential profit  Grin

So to choose only Tottenham Hotspur to bet means there are no bonus to the odd and it will not have the kind of potential winning that multiple bet will have. However, most gamblers who have won their bets have done that through single betting not multiple bet slip.
474  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Gambling until you go totally broke on: March 23, 2024, 03:40:15 PM

But then, this got me wondering why a full grown person will gamble until he or she has no money left in his or her bank account, and no cash at hand, I personally have on several occasions gambled away every single cash I had at hand, but I always had some money in the bank to fall back on, together with my family.

The reason is trying to recover your losses. Many gamblers have lost all because they are bent on recovery what they have lost. They have decided within themselves to keep playing until they get back what they have lost but unfortunately it doesn't happen like that.

Many gamblers try their luck to gamble to double what they have, they have a misconception that gambling will generate income for them but unfortunately gambling is different from invest. Investment is where you put in your money and you expect some dividend or return later.


Or maybe gambled until you are one bet away from going broke (if you lose), do you go ahead and risk the money, or cancel the bet and  keep that money for something more important?

Not many gambler will back down when they are losing. If you experience such losing time, you are lost in your mind on what to do but what will keep coming to your mind is to keep going on. So it takes a very strong self control to stop or take a break when you are losing.
475  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Gambling can bring positivity and light into people's lives on: March 23, 2024, 12:39:11 PM
While gambling is often associated with negative consequences, there are instances where it has brought positivity and light into people's lives. Here are a few cases:

1. Winning Life-Changing Prizes: For some individuals, a significant win in gambling can change their lives for the better. There are numerous stories of people winning large jackpots in lotteries or casinos, allowing them to
    pay off debts, support their families, start businesses, or pursue lifelong dreams. These instances of financial windfalls can bring newfound stability, happiness, and opportunities into the lives of winners.


This is the most important of all the reason that gamblers bet. In fact, it is the number one purpose. Many gamblers gamble thinking they can be lucky to be able to win a jack pot to help them go out of poverty but how far this becomes a reality is more to be debated upon because at the end of the day it is only few people that can talk of jackpot and those people still lose part of their winning back to the gambling company.

I have not been in this level of thinking of jackpot because I know those thinking of that are big stakers. There are people who have won big but at the same time whether it is life changing is a far cry. To win a life changing money, you have to really be lucky to do that and it involves huge risk of high staking. Thus, a high staker has capacity to win big but fellow is more than winners. To gamble for the sake of having a life changing experience is difficult.
476  Local / Politics and society (Naija) / Re: Can't we stand up to defend our right? on: March 23, 2024, 06:43:52 AM
For this country, right no be wetin dem dey defend again except if you be someone wey fit take up your issues to the high places, that is if you dey alive to take it up if accidental discharge no happen on top your head.

We dey under police brutality just like insecurity too dey increase, so if you no dey dress well and you no get contacts to call, e better make you give yourself brain and not to fall for police hand just as dem molest the guy wey op dey talk about.  Police no get right to dey search person phone, of course wetin dem dey look for na means to see whether dem go see incriminating evidence for the phone so that dem go ask you for transfer instantly. God help Nigerian youth.
477  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Gambling still pays regardless of our losses on: March 22, 2024, 04:57:32 PM

Luck does not come according to what we expect, but winning in gambling with this kind of psychological method cannot be repeated. Its presence is truly coincidental and cannot be easily predicted. I consider this just a coincidence that is difficult for anyone to repeat.

You are right such chance seldom come. You can't determine a way that your bet will go and that is why you bet an amount that you can have calmness even if you lose but if it turns good then that is where luck comes in. Therefore, no prediction can be correct until the game is played. We need to have this at the back of our mind so that we bet responsibly by being moderate.
478  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The use of non state actors in politics and the dangers in it on: March 22, 2024, 03:54:14 PM
The problem with some non state actors are that they want to spit in other peoples face and not minding any consequences because they feel that they are protected by those in power.

In the true sense of non state actors they are suppose to be of two different groups, those that are with the government and hose that are from another divide that will try to be a watch dog on the government and make sure that they keep government on toes to ensure that the people benefit from the government. All things being equal, the government is suppose to find a way to balance the excesses of the non state actors who carry their shoulders high and spew inhumane things against citizens who didn't support the government because in every circumstances there will be people who are going to be opposition to the government.
479  Local / Off-topic (Naija) / Re: Now dollar is #1,400/Naira. Will the prices of food items and commodity reduce? on: March 22, 2024, 01:56:14 PM
How far has fuel price dropped? To me na dat one be the koko wey go even make price of food drop. Once the fuel drop then e reflect for transportation fee, traders go begin realize how much them go remove from their cost of bringing the goods down to their place.

Again, the actual thing wey go follow reduce price be say government dey serious with price control, monitor and punish offenders then business people no go like make price drop as Nigerians .
480  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: brazil sanctioned law that taxes online betting in the country on: March 22, 2024, 12:10:59 PM

The funny thing is that he didn't take into account the loss that bettors have before calculating the tax (that's a lot of bullshit).


A law that is contrary to naturally justice is harmful to the people and should not continue. If government wants to tax on winning then they should also compensate losing.



Summary of the story: the government wants to be our partner only in gains, but in losses, we alone are forced to bear the financial losses. Very convenient, right?

It is not fair on gambler, the government should face the agents or casinos who on a daily bases gets income accruing from losers money  Grin


What do you think of this? Is there any regulation in the betting sector in your country?

None that I know of. I have not seen gamber who won his game and he is paying for tax, no I don't think so but I believe the company agent should pay tax as income tax like a company operating in the country.


Do you think the government should really collect alternative sources of income from its citizens such as online gambling?


No I don't think so. To win gambling bet is not easy and so to charge tax on winning isn't fair because who takes care of losses when the gambler loses.
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