Yeah but it sucks for the club if the player gets back injured and unable to play for a couple of weeks or more.  And I'm not really a fan of international football but I do enjoy the World Cup and the Euros.  But mostly it's just the EPL for me and some UCL.

But yeah...  And I don't if it's just me but don't you guys get the feeling that most matches are usually low scoring after the players have returned from international break?

Oh...  I won at Belgium GP?  Is that in Superbru or the prediction contests in Games and Rounds?  I don't seem to remember winning or somebody telling me that I won.    Still good to know tho.  I should've put more effort in this pool tbh.  It's just the paticipants are really good and it made me lose hope after 5 races or so.

I very may well just do it...  If I'm not lazy.  Lol.  And if there aren't any events during a weekend I usually watch fight replays at YT or MMACore and wherever I could find them.  I also watch the EPL which I used be a huge fan of.  I still am but I haven't been watching it as much as I used to.  And there's also F1.  But my interest has been waning as of late too tbh.

Here's a fight reply that was uploaded in the UFC's Brazilian recently.  What a banger.

UFC Free Fight:  Pantoja vs Moreno 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsqA3rke8Zg

Enjoy...

Didn't continue watching the race after the first 5 laps when Verstappen pushed Leclerc off the track, went off the track himself and he didn't give the position back to Leclerc.  If Verstappen tried pulling off a move like that against Hamilton pretty sure they would've crashed and be off the race as Hamilton wouldn't take any shenanigans from Verstappen.  Lmao.

These guys need to toughen up if they want to go toe to toe vs Verstappen imho.  Hamilton showed how it can be done.  And it's gonna be more entertaining for the fans.  

2023 F1 Las Vegas GP Race Results

1   Max Verstappen   NED   Oracle Red Bull Racing   50 Laps
2   Charles Leclerc   MON   Scuderia Ferrari   + 2.070s
3   Sergio Perez   MEX   Oracle Red Bull Racing   + 2.241s
4   Esteban Ocon   FRA   BWT Alpine F1 Team   + 18.665s
5   Lance Stroll   CAN   Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant Formula One Team   + 20.067s
6   Carlos Sainz   ESP   Scuderia Ferrari   + 20.834s
7   Lewis Hamilton   GBR   Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team   + 21.755s
8   George Russell   GBR   Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team   + 23.091s
9   Fernando Alonso   ESP   Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant Formula One Team   + 25.964s
10   Oscar Piastri   AUS   McLaren F1 Team   + 29.496s
11   Pierre Gasly   FRA   BWT Alpine F1 Team   + 34.270s
12   Alex Albon   THA   Williams Racing   + 43.398s
13   Kevin Magnussen   DEN   MoneyGram Haas F1 Team   + 44.825s
14   Daniel Ricciardo   AUS   Scuderia AlphaTauri   + 48.525s
15   Zhou Guanyu   CHN   Alfa Romeo F1 Team Stake   + 50.162s
16   Logan Sargeant   USA   Williams Racing   + 50.882s
17   Valtteri Bottas   FIN   Alfa Romeo F1 Team Stake   + 85.350s
18   Yuki Tsunoda   JPN   Scuderia AlphaTauri   DNF
19   Nico Hulkenberg   GER   MoneyGram Haas F1 Team   DNF
20   Lando Norris   GBR   McLaren F1 Team   DNF

Here are the highlights of the race.

2023 Las Vegas Grand Prix - Race Highlights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9qSwDxF6YI

Am I in profit?  From sports betting?  Yup, of course I'm not!  Lolol.  But I had that one year of having a good run at betting the EPL.  It was during 2017...  I thought I could do it as a side gig for extra cash but then the next couple of years I proceeded in giving back the books the money that I've won.    So no.  Don't try to make sports betting as a form of 'work' kids.

It's fun tho cos it makes watching the matches more exciting.

^  It was decent for just a fight night event in the Apex...  9 finishes out of 14 match ups.  I'd say it delivered and the results are a lot better than many of the past events this year.

Anyway here are the results.  I think 155 and 170 should be on the look out for this guy Orolbai.  I was surprised he beat up Uros Medic the way he did on short notice...  Pure dominance.

Brendan Allen def Paul Craig  Submission R3
Michael Morales def Jake Matthews  UD
Chase Hooper def Jordan Leavitt Submission R1
Payton Talbott def Nick Aguirre  Submission R3
Amanda Ribas def Luana Pinheiro  TKO R3
Myktybek Orolbai def Uros Medic  Submission R2
Joanderson Brito def Jonathan Pearce  Submission R2
Jose Johnson def Chad Anheliger  Submission R3
Christian Leroy Duncan def Denis Tiuliulin  TKO R2
Mick Parkin def Caio Machado  UD
Jeka Saragih def Lucas Alexander  KO R1
Ailín Pérez def Lucie Pudilova  UD
Trey Ogden vs Nikolas Motta  No Contest
Rafael Estevam def Charles Johnson  UD

And here's the post fight press conference.  Enjoy.  

UFC Fight Night:  Allen vs Craig - Post Fight Press Conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4FEJYRFWZU

Looks like it isn't RBR for the weekend.  Ferrari has been the fastest for most of the weekend except FP3.  And Verstappen's line is now at 1.40 - 1.45 depending on what book you look at.  Still the guy most likely to win according to the books but if Leclerc keeps calm and the team gives him a good game plan, he could end up winning it imho.

And I've always thought Ferrari and Merc were slightly faster on the straights due to their PU and Red Bull faster on the turns due to the Newey factor and better aerodynamics.

Oh..?  That sucks.  I wonder what's it gonna look like for Sainz to finish top 3 and top 6 on the grid.  They've been the fastest for almost all sessions of the weekend so far...

*checks the lines*

Ah no value.  :/  What prolly could have value tho is 'car to set fastest lap' at 3.45 for Ferrari.    Could be worth a small bet there as Sainz will surely be pushing it the whole race.

Here are FP3 and quali results.

F1 Las Vegas GP FP3 Results

1      George Russell   GBR   Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team   1m34.093s
2   Oscar Piastri   AUS   McLaren F1 Team   1m34.491s
3   Logan Sargeant   USA   Williams Racing   1m34.645s
4   Max Verstappen   NED   Oracle Red Bull Racing   1m34.643s
5   Sergio Perez   MEX   Oracle Red Bull Racing   1m34.706s
6   Alex Albon   THA   Williams Racing   1m34.726s
7   Fernando Alonso   ESP   Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant Formula One Team   1m34.788s
8   Lewis Hamilton   GBR   Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team   1m34.853s
9   Valtteri Bottas   FIN   Alfa Romeo F1 Team Stake   1m34.908s
10   Kevin Magnussen   DEN   MoneyGram Haas F1 Team   1m35.067s
11   Lando Norris   GBR   McLaren F1 Team   1m35.089s
12   Nico Hulkenberg   GER   MoneyGram Haas F1 Team   1m35.112s
13   Lance Stroll   CAN   Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant Formula One Team   1m35.253s
14   Esteban Ocon   FRA   BWT Alpine F1 Team   1m35.297s
15   Zhou Guanyu   CHN   Alfa Romeo F1 Team Stake   1m35.881s
16   Charles Leclerc   MON   Scuderia Ferrari   1m35.908s
17   Carlos Sainz   ESP   Scuderia Ferrari   1m35.939s
18   Yuki Tsunoda   JPN   Scuderia AlphaTauri   1m36.087s
19   Pierre Gasly   FRA   BWT Alpine F1 Team   1m36.485s
20   Daniel Ricciardo   AUS   Scuderia AlphaTauri   1m37.778s

F1 Las Vegas GP Quali Results

1      Charles Leclerc   MON   Scuderia Ferrari   1m33.617s   1m32.775s   1m32.726s
2   Carlos Sainz   ESP   Scuderia Ferrari   1m33.851s   1m33.338s   1m32.770s
3   Max Verstappen   NED   Oracle Red Bull Racing   1m34.190s   1m33.572s   1m33.104s
4   George Russell   GBR   Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team   1m34.137s   1m33.351s   1m33.112s
5   Pierre Gasly   FRA   BWT Alpine F1 Team   1m34.272s   1m33.494s   1m33.239s
6   Alex Albon   THA   Williams Racing   1m34.634s   1m33.588s   1m33.323s
7   Logan Sargeant   USA   Williams Racing   1m34.525s   1m33.733s   1m33.513s
8   Valtteri Bottas   FIN   Alfa Romeo F1 Team Stake   1m34.305s   1m33.809s   1m33.525s
9   Kevin Magnussen   DEN   MoneyGram Haas F1 Team   1m34.337s   1m33.664s   1m33.537s
10   Fernando Alonso   ESP   Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant Formula One Team   1m34.422s   1m33.617s   1m33.555s
11   Lewis Hamilton   GBR   Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team   1m34.307s   1m33.837s   
12   Sergio Perez   MEX   Oracle Bull Racing   1m34.574s   1m33.855s   
13   Nico Hulkenberg   GER   MoneyGram Haas F1 Team   1m34.265s   1m33.979s   
14   Lance Stroll   CAN   Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant Formula One Team   1m34.504s   1m34.199s   
15   Daniel Ricciardo   AUS   Scuderia AlphaTauri   1m34.683s   1m34.308s   
16   Lando Norris   GBR   McLaren F1 Team   1m34.703s       
17   Esteban Ocon   FRA   BWT Alpine F1 Team   1m34.834s       
18   Zhou Guanyu   CHN   Alfa Romeo F1 Team Stake   1m34.849s       
19   Oscar Piastri   AUS   McLaren F1 Team   1m34.850s       
20   Yuki Tsunoda   JPN   Scuderia AlphaTauri

^  Yup the UFC would prolly give Aspinall some respect and match him up vs the winner of Jones vs Miocic which we all already know is gonna be Jones.  Lol.  And pretty sure Aspinall made a bunch of many for taking Pav on short notice and saving the event in the process.  Giving him Blaydes hext wouldn't just not make sense but wtf would Aspinall take the risk of getting injured?

Anyway here are the weigh ins and the results.

UFC Fight Night:  Allen vs Craig - Weigh In
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk2dU3oY_m0

UFC Fight Night:  Allen vs Craig - Face Off
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLGHor6GOA8

Brendan Allen (186) vs Paul Craig (186)
Jake Matthews (170.5) vs Michael Morales (171)
Chase Hooper (155.5) vs Jordan Leavitt (155.5)
Nick Aguirre (136) vs Payton Talbott (136)
Luana Pinheiro (115.5) vs Amanda Ribas (115.5)
Uros Medic (171) vs Myktybek Orolbai (170)
Joanderson Brito (145) v Jonathan Pearce (145.5)
Chad Anheliger (134.5) vs Jose Johnson (136)
Christian Duncan (186) vs Denis Tiuliulin (186)
Caio Machado (250) vs Mick Parkin (262.5)
Lucas Alexander (148)* vs Jeka Saragih (146)
Ailin Perez (136) vs Lucie Pudilova (135.5)
Nikolas Motta (155) vs Trey Ogden (155.5)
Rafael Estevam (128)* vs Charles Johnson (125)

And last call for the Multi Master.

UFC Fight Night 232:  Multi Master Challenge
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5473979.0

I was about to make a post saying how I'm excited for the next fixtures thinking it was gonna be this weekend.  :/  Due to them being after the international break, some of them could become a bit more unpredictable.  And I hope nobody gets injured or gets a knock or something.

Anyway, some good match ups in there are...

City vs LFC:  A race to the top.
Chelsea vs NUFC:  Midtable battle
Sheffield vs Bournemouth:  Relegation battle
Spurs vs Aston Villa:  Battle for top 4
Fullham vs Wolves:  Battle to be at midtable

FP2 was delayed due to some man hole cover missing.  Lmao.  As it's a new track, this doesn't look good.  How many more shenanigans are there for the track?  I hope everything is good and ready for the race...  And not just that, I hope everything will be safe for the drivers.

All in all, watched a bit of FP2 and I gotta say the view of the buildings with the lights are good.  Kinda like a GT game.    Anybody play GT here?

Here are the results for both FP1 and FP2.

F1 Las Vegas GP FP1 Results

1      Charles Leclerc   MON   Scuderia Ferrari   1m40.909s
2   Nico Hulkenberg   GER   MoneyGram Haas F1 Team   1m43.446s
3   Kevin Magnussen   DEN   MoneyGram Haas F1 Team   1m44.261s
4   Max Verstappen   NED   Oracle Red Bull Racing   1m44.397s
5   Esteban Ocon   FRA   BWT Alpine F1 Team   1m45.365s
6   George Russell   GBR   Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team   1m45.497s
7   Carlos Sainz   ESP   Scuderia Ferrari   1m45.824s
8   Yuki Tsunoda   JPN   Scuderia AlphaTauri   1m45.908s
9   Sergio Perez   MEX   Oracle Red Bull Racing   1m46.793s
10   Valtteri Bottas   FIN   Alfa Romeo F1 Team Stake   1m47.147s
11   Pierre Gasly   FRA   BWT Alpine F1 Team   1m48.253s
12   Lewis Hamilton   GBR   Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team   1m48.513s
13   Daniel Ricciardo   AUS   Scuderia AlphaTauri   1m48.650s
14   Zhou Guanyu   CHN   Alfa Romeo F1 Team Stake   1m48.822s
15   Lando Norris   GBR   McLaren F1 Team   1m48.947s
16   Lance Stroll   CAN   Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant Formula One Team   No Time Set
17   Oscar Piastri   AUS   McLaren F1 Team   No Time Set
18   Alex Albon   THA   Williams Racing   No Time Set
19   Fernando Alonso   ESP   Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant Formula One Team   No Time Set
20   Logan Sargeant   USA   Williams Racing   No Time Set

F1 Las Vegas GP FP2 Results

1   Charles Leclerc   MON   Scuderia Ferrari   1m35.265s
2   Carlos Sainz   ESP   Scuderia Ferrari   1m35.782s
3   Fernando Alonso   ESP   Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant Formula One Team   1m35.793s
4   Sergio Perez   MEX   Oracle Red Bull Racing   1m36.085s
5   Valtteri Bottas   FIN   Alfa Romeo F1 Team Stake   1m36.129s
6   Max Verstappen   NED   Oracle Red Bull Racing   1m36.183s
7   Nico Hulkenberg   GER   MoneyGram Haas F1 Team   1m36.489s
8   Lance Stroll   CAN   Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant Formula One Team   1m36.496s
9   Lewis Hamilton   GBR   Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team   1m36.663s
10   Alex Albon   THA   Williams Racing   1m36.688s
11   Lando Norris   GBR   McLaren F1 Team   1m36.864s
12   George Russell   GBR   Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team   1m36.890s
13   Kevin Magnussen   DEN   MoneyGram Haas F1 Team   1m36.917s
14   Oscar Piastri   AUS   McLaren F1 Team   1m36.987s
15   Pierre Gasly   FRA   BWT Alpine F1 Team   1m37.134s
16   Esteban Ocon   FRA   BWT Alpine F1 Team   1m37.241s
17   Yuki Tsunoda   JPN   Scuderia AlphaTauri   1m37.412s
18   Zhou Guanyu   CHN   Alfa Romeo F1 Team Stake   1m37.656s
19   Daniel Ricciardo   AUS   Scuderia AlphaTauri   1m37.680s
20   Logan Sargeant   USA   Williams Racing   1m38.140s

Weigh ins are gonna be live in 4 hours guys...  For those of you who care for the event.  Lol.    Seriously it's not that bad, there are good match ups in here.

UFC Fight Night:  Allen vs Craig - Live Weigh In
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CedojRc1Kfc

I got Allen to win but there's something about Craig.  He's like the luckiest fighter in the UFC.  He seems to get in favorable spots to use his grappling and get a sub.  :/

Some vids...

UFC Free Fight:  Allen vs Silva
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75xskRoqCg8

UFC Free Fight:  Craig vs Shogun Rua 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75xskRoqCg8

What's a raid?  

And they're running the race late at night so yeah, it wouldn't be surprising to see the track that cold.  And it's winter in the desert.  :/

Anyway, here's the schedule.

2023 F1 Las Vegas GP Schedule
Track:  Las Vegas Strip Circuit, Nevada



Nov 17, Friday:  Practice 1  20:30 - 21:30
Nov 17, Friday:  Practice 2  00:00 - 01:00
Nov 18, Saturday:  Practice 3  20:30 - 21:30
Nov 18, Saturday:  Qualifying  00:00 - 01:00
Nov 19, Sunday:  Race  22:00

^  A very fast track with possibly very cold tires.  What could possibly wrong?

Wdym too good to be true?  You guys saying that there's def no chance Layer Zero is gonna push through with the airdrop?  What the both of you are saying make no sense.  It's like you're clueless on what's going on.  Lol.  I mean I get it, the devs could do the SUI route but because of how unpopular that decision was, I think the guys at Layer Zero will just go with the good ole classic airdrop.

It's just a question of when and how to filter out the botters and the cheats.  We'll prolly see it before the year ends.  I hope I get in.  *crosses fingers* 

Lol.  Never ever become a long term holder of unknown altcoins like those in your list.  You just never know what the devs would do.  A lot of you were prolly not around yet when one dev team took all the ICO stash and changed the project's website showing just one word.  It was the word 'penis'.  It was hilarious thinking back about it now.

But short term, sure...  Get into it. 

And another thing I noticed that moves up or down higher on average are the tokens in Fantom...  That's def good for short term trades.

Ok guys as how we do it with these sentiment threads, I locked the poll at the middle of the month to avoid the results getting skewed towards how the market looks at the end of the month.  So we got 24 guys who feel like it's already a bull market, 6 people voted that it's a bull trap and three of you guys who doesn't know what to feel about the run up.

Looking at the chart, it looks good and any drop as long as 31k - 32k holds and becomes new support should tell us that it could already be a bull market.

But it's just weird that the interim title holder isn't next in line to take on the champ when he returns.  I guess the UFC wanted both the legacy fight between Jones and Miocic and also earmark either Aspinall or Pav for the next shot at the title.  It's going to be a very intriguing match up between Jones and Aspinall.  I'd bet on the underdog whoever it may be.  If it's close to a coin flip then it's Jon Jones.

Anyway here's a short vid for 296.  Can't wait to see Pantoja back in there again. 

UFC 296:  Edwards vs Convington - Shots Fired
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLFN1Tb_tkM

Ey guys...  Heard about this memecoin called GROK?

Before talking about it, first if all let me say that I'm not holding any.    But it's worth talking about as this thing could move and with huge volume.  So that tells us that there's a following.

So what is GROK?  Well it's a memecoin based off of Elon Musk's bet in the AI market to compete with ChatGPT and he calls it GROK, hence the memecoin.  And whenever Elon Musk is tweeting about GROK the memecoin GROK just pumps like crazy and we're not even in a full on bull market yet.  :/

I guess what I'm saying is...  One of the things to look out for is the Elon meta...  And it's still strong from the looks of it.

^  It's all about the dev team's timing and their read on market sentiment.  TIA's team read the room well and prepared their airdrop so that they could do it as the market is rising.  ARB devs on the other hand prolly misread the market and also tried to time the top.  But really the market was starting to falter by the time they did their airdrop.  As I said, if they started airdropping around Jan or Feb then ARB prolly would've gone from 1 USD to 5 USD in a week or something.

...  At least that's what I think.  And it's not really far fetched imho.  Now where does this put Layer Zero?  I think they should airdrop now before sentiment changes.  If they do it like ARB then good chance it's gonna happen like ARB.

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