I gotta put Stake on top of the list. Intuitive UI that doesn't blind you with information and bright lights, and just enough tools/features on the landing page for you to start and know about the games you're going to play. I've seen them doing this first and a lot of other newblood casinos started emulating their UIs which just proves my point. I couldn't really say anything bad against their user interface cause it's got everything that you need as a gambler, heck they're even generous and smart enough to include an accounting tab where you get to see how many people won in respective games which adds a layer of transparency and integrity over the site and the brand. They also have chat support available which is a big plus for me!

Second best, I'd say is duelbits for pretty much the same reasons, and the only thing being the reason why I'd put it under Stake in this situation is the fact that I had a hard time signing up and logging in with them a few dozen times which aggravated me a lot. Pretty sure it's an isolated case for me but still, it's enough for me to still recommend them but at the same time put them under stake.

A site that I suggest they work more on BC.game. Their translations are ass and needs work, and I'm experiencing issues with signing up on their account where I can't register because I'm region-locked despite the fact that they literally offer tagalog assistance which means they service to Filipino users.

Honestly that's really smart in my opinion. I myself am just content with getting my wins, cause the way I manage my money for gambling is that I separate it entirely from my savings and expenses.

I gamble on a separate bankroll, and every win I get goes back to that particular bankroll, over time it's gonna lose money, so I top it up but for the most part I made a system where most of the wins that I am able to bag goes back towards the bankroll effectively topping itself up so I don't really have to waste money for gambling anymore. I think for people who can't help but blow their gambling money or couldn't help but spend their shit back to the casino where it came from this would be a very smart trick to implement in your gambling behavior. You integrate a win-loss mechanic that forces you to stop gambling after getting specific amounts of win or losses, and you're sure to either avoid losing more money for that particular run, or have your wins be saved.

There are instances where my bankroll goes over the initial amount and when that happens, I only ever take the extra off to treat myself to some food or when I feel like balling, something a little more expensive that I'd be able to use for a long time. Nothing too extravagant as I don't want to instill notions of "gambling for profit" subconsciously to my brain.

I've been addicted to gambling in the past and systems like these has helped me a ton in getting back up on my feet and actually still enjoy gambling while keeping things real and responsible. I feel like yours (OP) is better honestly, but this is what worked for me and I'm keeping it

Large youtubers and streamers like Trainwreckstv get paid for posting their affiliate links on their vids and streams, and of course, they also get paid for every signup that they get under their brackets. Other than that I don't really have any other suspected perks that they give out to users for signing up in these affiliate links, plus I think it's counter-intuitive for them to give the people who signed up using affiliate links extra perks like faster withdrawal when they could just give everyone the same treatment/benefit and make everyone's experience while playing more desirable so they can spread the casinos' name through word of mouth.

Affiliate links are nothing more than ways for people to invite more people into an establishment and compensate the inviter, in theory there shouldn't be any other benefit to the invited except for the bonuses that they are promised prior to signing up. If that wasn't the case then the casino will literally either bleed profits and go bankrupt, or be hated so much they might as well just close up shop and rename themselves to avoid receiving massive backlash.

Plus yeah, that is considered a dodgy practice if I do say so myself. You get massive perks in the first place for signing up through an affiliate link, and now you're getting special treatment as well when people who signed up organically with perhaps even more wagered money than you had to sit their asses waiting for a perk/feature to drop into their hands?

Not entirely my experience, cause for the most part I keep myself safe and sound by only ever gambling in the comfort of my home, and also only ever playing with people who I trust whenever I get invited to go out and gamble in a local casino.

A friend of mine told me about a shoot-out that happened within their area, after people who are piss-drunk decided they'd play tong-its (a Filipino card game that I don't really understand the rules and mechanics with but from what I can assume it's a derivative of poker) while they are inebriated off of gin. They played their cards, they are having fun, until someone apparently accused one of the drinkers/players of peeking at his cards, which apparently is something that is frowned upon in this game. Of course the accused denied the allegation and since they are drunk they figured fighting it out is better than actually talking things through, one of the players allegedly pulled a pen-gun/sumpak (an improvised gun made from PVC pipes) and threatened another that he'll shoot them. The other person didn't appreciate that remark and immediately pulled a gun and shot it at the other person. Luckily no one really died cause they're all piss drunk and can't aim well. But they got arrested for it lol.

I heard an acquaintance of mine say this and I shit you not, he literally said "you miss 100% of the shots you don't take"

Bro is willing to take the chance at a system that literally plays with their heads just so they can continue their indulgences. From then on I realized he is on his way to becoming addicted to gambling, if not already there. Hoping to at least stop him in his tracks before things get a little more crazy, I tried telling him that gambling's not really something you should depend on money for, or think of gambling as fair and square especially when there's literally house-edge that gives the casino a slightly unfair advantage against the player.

Sadly, my advices fell on deaf ears as he still pushed to gamble that day and honestly, I never heard from him since. I assume he's gotten himself roped in with some bad apples and probably subjected himself to an even bigger problem later down the line, but there are times when I hope that people like him find their ways out, coming from someone who was on the verge of becoming addicted to gambling,  realizing that you're fooling yourself into thinking that you'll get a win, or perhaps even get back what you lost from the same thing that took it from you was one of the most eye-opening realizations I could ever have and I wish it upon anyone who's still in too deep.

Honestly, it would be a yes for me. And this is not me acting so morally upright or whatever cause I couldn't care less about how other people feel about gambling for entertainment really.

It's not like I have a lot of money to burn either, the thing is that I just see gambling for what I think it is: Nothing but a way for you to have fun and enjoy yourself when other ways to pass the time isn't available at you fingertips. A lot of the hate that people harbor against gambling stems from the fact that they think casinos and gambling sites victimize them for profit, when they never really tell you you'd win shit, at least those that are reputable for that matter. Most casinos explicitly warn you about gambling even, just so people who see gambling as nothing but a way for them to earn extra money on weekends are deterred and informed of what gambling really is, and we still see people blaming gambling for their lives being ruined, their money being swiped, or their addictions becoming even worse. Gambling is just the means my friend, ruining your life is still very much up to you.

And that's pretty much all the qualms I have against people who gamble for profit really. The fact that they delude themselves into thinking the casino will give them a fair chance when house edge literally exists and then cry about it when they don't get what they want appalls me so much that I can sometimes see what my brain looks like from how far my eyes roll back.

What's there to not believe, the girl is literally video-d pissing on herself in the very seat that she's playing slots with. I don't think you need any further evidence lol.

Plus I don't think OP meant "avoiding casinos" as "I can't control myself so I'll stop gambling lol", I think the fact that people are something else when the gamble is right in front of their faces is the reason he's stating disgust in land-based casinos, which goes without saying is a legitimate reason. I watched Joe Rogan's podcast talking about the very girl in the vid and they talked about the other oddities in land-based casinos including people in wheelchairs literally gambling even when they're 50/50 health-wise, and some even going so far as to wear adult diapers just so they don't have to leave their seats when they feel the need to bio-break. These aren't things you'd normally do as a person.

I myself wouldn't want to play in a land casino if they allow things like these to happen. Besides the fact that this is disgusting it just paints an equivocably disgusting picture of how the world works for people who are so far gone in life and I don't think I like that type of energy in my life.

For me, honestly as long as you don't spend it on hookers, drugs, alcohol or gambling again I feel like any type of purchase you made after winning money from gambling is considered "responsible spending". It's just a low standard to meet to begin with. You got your money willy-nilly, and when other people would spend it on gambling again or the aforementioned, hoes, booze, and drugs, responsibly spending your winning your money could count as anything that would give you a prolonged sense of happiness, or at the very least something that you'd be able to appreciate or enjoy for a very long time. Easy come easy go is also a part of the equation that brings people to spend their winnings on short-lived things. From winning these games they fall under the heuristic that in the future they'd be able to win as much if not more again, so just splurge it all right now and deal with the consequences later. Of course it's stupid, but it's a method to their madness, and it's one hell of a method.

I say you did good OP. Honestly I myself haven't really spent any of my winnings on tangible stuff, and since I only ever win (at least the usual) enough to get all my losses from prior sessions back, I use it as refill for my bankroll so I don't have to dig into my pocket to top my gambling bankroll. I find that this is the most economical way I could play honestly.

Doesn't this like take the fun out of sportsbetting? Don't mean to piss on your lemonade but I just thought that the fun out sportsbetting comes from the fact that you're betting on your favorite team hoping they'd win, and knowing at the same time that no matter what the odds say the opponents have just as much chance to win as yours, if not more. Giving people stuff like sure match predictions such as this is no fun. You're basically doing this for the money at this point, and it's not like there's anything wrong with it as well I mean money is cool, but apart from the fact that it takes the fun out of gambling, you're literally relying on gambling for money at this point, which is something that I don't really like. I don't buy your shit either. No testimonials, no way to really prove that you're able to do what you claim to do. I don't get how any of this works, what algorithms/programs do you use to be this certain that you'd give your subscribers wins within the parameters you set? You're basically selling snake oil at this point and even the people in this forum's getting skeptical about what you're trying to tell them. Not good for business I should say.

And even if what you say is true, what's in it for you? Do you ask for payment? How are you getting anything from this? I don't take you as a Samaritan that would just do good deeds out of the kindness in your heart, for crying out loud you're literally cheating the system with what you're trying to sell lol.

Bro just said "gamble wisely" in an unnecessarily intricate way. I don't buy that shit.

And enough with all these "gamblers should be wise" or whatever, the fact of the matter is that people will gamble however way they want. I too have been very eager to drive responsible gambling in this forum, but not to the extent that I'd rub it in everyone's faces or whatever. It doesn't work when you do it that way anyway. if you want to really inspire people to not gamble like pigs, you might wanna take a more laid back and suggestion-based approach. Make these people think that it's their idea that they wanted to be more responsible with gambling. That way they feel way better than if you had forced them to do so. It's just that easy. There's nothing wrong with telling people how to gamble or to be more responsible when it comes to gambling and all that crap, but the fact of the matter is that that people nowadays, and I see this all the time, have started to rub their morally-high suggestions to people's faces as if to say "I'm better than you for gambling responsibly, so you should listen to me and cut the crap already." Which is so annoying.

Suggest but don't be so assertive. People don't like being ordered around especially by someone they don't even know. The sooner you understand it the better. and for the love of God don't do this again lol. Not to judge but the more you want to sound like you're smart or whatever, the more you're sounding like an average redditor at r/atheism.

The problem is that you think of gambling as another way for you to earn money. Which is why you think of gambling as something fraudulent. If you perceive gambling as yet another way for you to entertain yourself when the other options out there just don't seem to work I don't think you'd have the same outlook in life. I don't mean to victim blame but the fact of the matter is that every house/casino must have their edge or what you may think as a finger on the scale, otherwise they'd run themselves out of business. At the end of the day casinos are companies that feeds employees and fattens the pockets of its executives so they have a business model to complete.

The problem lies within the victim mindset of "gambling site/casino bad cause they have edge and they don't give me money ooga booga" which is just preposterous. Every casino that I've been with doesn't advertise or smother you with "Hey I'd make you fucking rich in a heartbeat so bet all your shit on me". And you might argue bonuses and deposit perks but that's nothing, especially when you consider that for other business models especially in the entertainment industry they also offer BOGO deals which work in the same melody as these deposit bonuses. But going back I never saw casinos advertise themselves/market themselves beyond the typical shtick of "you'll have fun here" and nothing else. The part where you think you'll make money from them lies solely upon your poor judgement skills. Not here to whiteknight on Casinos cause truth be told gambling is not even in my top 5 things to do while I'm free. Just tired of seeing shit like these when the decision to bet and play came from you in the first place.

One way to look at it. But for me, gambling on local brick-and-mortar casinos definitely poses threats to users as most of them act as gateway to other types of addiction, which unfortunately includes getting high and addicted off of drugs.

When you're gambling and you're stressed or you're with people who are just as stressed and desperate for the adrenaline rush as you are, you'll start finding happiness in other things that are just nearby. With a large density of people and money involved local casinos have the highest propensity for introducing drugs to future users, as most of them either make it their base of operations, selling the drugs to hapless gamblers as well as those who need their energy boost for that all-nighter gambling session, or just an outright way to get high and lose track of yourself and the world cause apparently the casino's bright lights aren't enough for them lol. I think this is how the guy got mixed in with some bad apples, cause ain't no way he's getting all his drugs out of a whatsapp contact from the internet lol.

All the more reasons for you to know where your lines should be crossed and what limits you should never go beyond of. Soon as you do that you're safe from any form of addiction and you're also saving your lungs from excessive second-hand smoking that you'll get when you gamble, so all in all it's a massive win-win situation for you!

I don't know. Not a lot of women in the industry as of yet, and it's not like people/women are going to go out of their own ways to reveal their genders and rub it to people's faces just to prove a point, at least I hope.

But I do know that there are women gamblers in the industry, and from what I have seen I don't think they are as any better from male gamblers as what you guys might think. The fact of the matter is that women are more driven by their emotions, it just so happens that they are also analytical which brings about the notion that women are more as you put it, "conservative" and as I said earlier, there's not enough data to support the argument that women gambles just as much as men so we are left to conclude/infer that they don't gamble as much. But  in paper if you put them in the same situation as a guy who's susceptible to gambling addiction and nine times out of ten they'd also fall victim to it just as quick as a men would.

Gambling addiction doesn't choose genders to victimize, people will eventually gravitate to unhealthy options like succumbing to gambling addiction once all their other options turn moot. Which is why you should always check yourself no matter what. Your emotions can be a powerful tool when you gamble as it lets you know when to go or when to stop but at the same time if you well up in these negative moods you'll find yourself chasing wins you can never get back. So be very careful my friend, whether you're a girl or a boy.

Possibly some normal distribution shenanigans where data wouldn't make sense on its own but would start showing some patterns when you compare it with a larger sample size. Although honestly this will be the first time that I have heard of it, and if not for the probable statistical relevance that this could bring I'm immediately going to can it and call it bollocks lol. Cause there's no real rhyme or reason as to why every game for that matter would favor giving the dub to crowd favorites on the first half of the week and the underdogs on the latter when the distinction between the two isn't even based on any level of technicality in the first place. It's like the whole shit is screaming bullcrap to me but I'm trying so hard to try and make sense of it lol.

In any case I might try this strategy just for the hell of it, and since it's going to be a mini-experiment of sorts I would say I'd look at a sample size spread out between 6 weeks just to make sure that there's just enough data that we could put a pin on it in the earliest possible time without interfering with the supposed normal distribution hoobla that I just talked about previously. I'll let you guys know most likely.

Hardly possible. Getting retirement money from a regular 9-5 which is inarguably way better than gambling your whole life away is practically impossible nowadays already, what more would it make of the very thing that relies upon sheer luck? I mean if you're looking for retirement from getting gambling winnings might as well wish you have wings to fly up from where your head's probably at right now.

Here's one thing that I would like to let you know. No one gets retirement money from gambling their whole savings away, and no one who gambles ever retire. I've seen people old enough to be considered ultra-senior citizens still muster the last of their strength to crank the slot machine's lever, why? Beats me honestly, but I digress. The thing is that you'd spend so much money trying to reach that retirement money goal you're looking for that you're practically just better off saving that money instead and finding a decent job so you don't have to rely on other people's fortune to survive until your retirement. There's no such thing as getting retirement money from gambling, as even those who win literal hundreds of millions of dollars from lotteries statistically lose their shit (and by shit I mean money) in 4-5 years because of their subpar financial literacy. It's just the way things go. If you want to find the capability to retire you'd never see it in the gambling world.

I made it a point to never touch anything "AI-powered" when it's still in its beta stages as it's either going to cost me my job, or my money. But Binance's AI trading bot's pretty good if I do say so myself. The only massive bummer for me is that it probably generates its inferences and predictions based on the market as well as the predictions/positions locked in by successful traders within their database, which means they are collecting data without everyone's permission to make a trading bot. And that is a massive if but if that would be the case then I guess Binance will need to have some explaining to do.

I guess the concept saves itself cause it's free and it doesn't cost the user any extra fees besides what they would already need to pay. But at the end of the day, this is basically creating a copy-trading bot without the traders knowing that they are in fact being used to study the market, which is a massive mistake if I do say so myself.

I guess we'll just have to wing this concept for now. It's not like the crypto industry's big on copytrading or AI trading bots nowadays anyways. For me this is a gimmick to the professional trader, and a great training wheel for those who are just learning the ropes. Possibly at the expense of the successful trader(s) that they are collecting the data from.

This just goes to show that the world is becoming more and more receptive and accepting of the crypto industry. They know that it's here to stay and best way to deal with it is to actually work with it closely, which is why more and more large-scale companies are starting to adopt crypto as a payment/financing option. But in my opinion, global adoption of crypto wouldn't really happen if the micro-infrastructures like small-businesses and establishment refuse to take the chance to adopt cryptocurrencies for themselves. In third-world countries this is especially more essential since impoverished people couldn't be expected to buy stuff wholesale, or at least in the same way that regular middle-class to high-class income earning families could. Crypto would need to penetrate this sphere as well to really hit the "decentralized and for everyone" slogan home and include everyone in its economy. Plus it would be a massive bummer for everyone if massive AAA companies are to take control of this market yet again.

All in all though, this isn't a bad first step honestly, we're looking at the makings of a massive crypto revolution that may bring about global adoption within our lifetimes, that's a massive win for me anyday of the week. Just hoping that the power's still within the people's hands when that happens though. Cause what good is global adoption gonna do if the outside market doused in capitalism's still going to dominate the crypto market anyway.

You're so correct about this. The fact of the matter is that for sports, I don't think there's any real need for people to have one "unified" thread where they talk only about that particular sport, It's going to clutter the discussion for one, and it's going to become even more confusing to track replies to your comments.

For other topics on the gambling discussion board though, we definitely need to have a talk. The fact is that there's so much clutter topics on the gambling board from people who are either merit farming by posting "reflections" talking about things that are already obvious in the first place, or people who are posting nonsense so they can reach their post quotas on the signature campaign that they signed up with. It gives the gambling discussion board a bad rep, and for the most part it becomes a cesspool of useless posts and information whereas more important topics in the board like specific sports discussions, as well as thought provoking topics are curbed on the wayside cause these people couldn't contribute to anything other than piling shits and trashes.

OP made a good point but made a bad example. I think we all agree on the fact that we want this forum to be as productive and informative as it could possibly be especially for people who are looking for info about crypto and crypto gambling, so perhaps something like this could be done to make every facet of the forum smart and productive as well.

I don't think you can just build immunity to money lol. what you probably are trying to say is become more financially responsible basically.

You have to have the same greed and desire to become rich and have enough money as when you started in this journey, otherwise you'd lose sight of what your goal is and how you'd like to achieve it. Consequently, you also have to be very smart about the temptations to spend money and living lavishly especially when you're just starting off and are just experiencing the first few trappings of the finest things in life. In any case what you really just have to worry about is spending more than what you're capable of recuperating, and how to manage your money to make it work for you. Once you got this whole system operating upon itself you're basically set to go and you can make your money generate more of itself, effectively creating a passive income earning system that will consistently give you moolah.

Immunity to money shouldn't be the thing you strive for, imagine being impervious to the very thing that you're looking for lol. You just have to be very intelligent and conscious about your financial decisions so you don't dig your own grave spending and taking stuff that wouldn't serve you well.

For the most part, it's the promise of profit and nothing else.

Thing is that everything else that you could think about as possible reasons why you would invest would only fall secondary to the love for money. Let's just put it this way: You're working not because you want to "earn career advancement" or "learn a skill or craft", if you were you would've gone someplace else that provides that primarily without the dangling promise of giving you money in the process. This tends to also be the trend for trading and investment. You want to earn money or at least are looking for the prospect of earning a lot of money, especially if you're more on the crypto side of investment/trading.For newbies, you might wanna go find a real reason to invest and trade, simply "learning the nooks and crannies of the market" wouldn't do cause at the end of the day you could achieve that learning from other people's trading journeys, and the best part, you wouldn't have to lose money in the process!