No idea if that's fair also, but every decision is controversial at this point, and generally from what I'm reading and hearing, there's no way this decision could be overturned (even if apparently this is the first time it has happened in so-and-so number of years). Mercedes sending complaints is just formality, I doubt Hamilton will even want to take this away from the Dutchman.

I'm like you. I don't really do F1 at all but because my son does (and he likes Verstappen but that's kinda duh for me haha) I occasionally see it on TV. I find a lot of similarities with the rulings and decisions actually, kinda like football. Accidents and "weird things" like today's safety car drama are not regular, but their occurrence is regular, and results stand no matter how unlucky it seems to be for drivers affected. I always quote to people: if a beach ball caused a goal in football to be scored, it still stands. And that's how I explain sporting rules.

Nice game, F1. Nice game.

Weird Leicester game for sure! I was playing a different system on a long many leg acca and took over 2.5 goals in this, didn't expect it all to come from one side, nor to all come relatively late in the game... and I've to say, Newcastle have themselves to blame for giving a cheap penalty to open the floodgates.

Still ended up losing the acca on the final leg -- Over 0.5 goals in Burnley-West Ham... only 1.15x to boost everything else but well, well, well, a scoreless game. Surprised to see some people got the exact score on this!

But yeah, so far a good week for all favourites, most of us should get close to max slam points on this week... pity about Spurs missed game though, that and the one before cost a slam point or two for those like hahay with many correct outcomes!

Got nothing riding on Everton but would be great to see them share points tonight... think the odds were slightly for the home team though.

I guess he means penalty wins since he's talking about BB, which was what happened in 4 games yesterday... I imagine it would have to be counting odds on "last to score" + "penalty" + "1x2 win" to get a rough odds outcome for a "win a game from penalty" odds. Bet special request on ClubTalk, slaman29, it worked for me once haha and I think there was at least one other time SB built a special just on request (that I was online to see).

Speaking of derby favourites, one market I used to take was red cards on derbies (Liverpool-United which most people don't really see as a derby but it technically is, or Liverpool-Everton with Gerrard and Carra was a great affair for this, if I look back)... today with a Super Boost you could take a sending off @3.76 on tonight's Madrid derby... feels like good value to me, so I put one down here for old time's sake.

Yeah, I've been a long time fan of Fati (not sure about Gavi, though his EURO performance was absolutely scintillating I have to admit I don't really know how well he plays in regular games) and I'd rather see these guys grow and generate the next era of glory for Barca. A club I've always admired.

You're right about Osasuna today, and if the odds were prettier, I'd take them on easy... but match already underway and odds don't look like they're plunging any time now... unless we see Barca play like shit (and this isn't the unlikeliest). Let's see!

No disrespect to Dybala but he's nowhere close to a replacement for Salah. I've heard this rumour for a bit too, also Gavi but Bellingham is the one I feel is the likeliest -- but as I mentioned elsewhere, all Liverpool buys so far have been super stealth. Announced when no one expects, certainly the last few ones all took me by surprise.

Liverpool does need 2 strikers though, for good cover and replacements. All their main 3 are now at their peak, and possibly wonderful for many more years but we still need to think of the future. Jota's pretty good Firmino replacement but we don't have a like-for-like for Salah and Mane. Origi and Mina don't look up to our high standards for regular football (yet).

Damn rdbase man. The day we all decide Nunes doesn't know how to lose, she does.

To be fair, the 8/1 odds weren't THAT insurmountable either. I kind of wish I'd accepted an offer to put money into my MMA betting "account", cause I'd have put a tenner (knowing the way I throw my money away there).


Round 2 submission too, that must have been some kind of odds for a R2? Is she going to lose featherweight next?

Leeds actually took the lead, and Chelsea needed TWO penalties to make it out of this alive. That's 3 games in a row now they've let in more than goal when they had the stingiest defence in all of England. Boat's a-rocking, Tuchel -D

Anyway, @dittoup has a massive pick which I'm absolutely following in Scandi football. A rare handicap pick but I can't ignore over 20/1 odds for the final game of the season for Sarpsborg to just finish this Eliteserien season on a high.

100 units at Sportsbet on Sarpsborg (1:0) to WIN against Brann @20.80. Other odds: 20.
Units advantage: 80

Yeah, my son (who's the one more interested in F1 than I am) keeps insisting this will be the outcome, but I've told him you can't do that in the sport. Even the other outcome (a teammate to take out the other car, or even another team to do so) would draw a huge investigation and any hint of deliberate intent will result in penalties -- essentially giving the title away.

I don't particularly like either guy but I'm sure they'd both like to win this fair and square.

Just please don't fail to live up to the hype because this race is getting so much coverage! Have a good race everyone!

Great points OP, some I've touched on myself on past threads. I do agree: the rights to privacy, and anonymity, must be respected, and must be possible. So Bitcoin's recent technology and most recent upgrade is in this direction, as it has been for the past 3 years since the scalability debate settled.

But for my personal use, because:
- I am a freelancer with some clients who couldn't work without my identity
- I am a taxpayer who does want to serve my social dues

These and other reasons that fit my situation and circumstance require me to not be anonymous at exchanges, with my home tax jurisdiction.

Nice going all of you on the daily Christmas/Advent prizes. I haven't really had time to go through them though I suppose most of them would be too difficult for me to manage with work and limited time (not to mention limited bankroll haha).

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Nice job man! Agree with Trofo, mix and stick with a strategy that works. Premier League I don't refer to much at all as I follow every match day, and am fairly confident of my picks (except when it's midtable or bottom of league clashes, then I do tend to stick with form).

I'm not super familiar with this league but yeah, I generally put my picks on form, and that's worked a total treat in Serie A so far (though of course for the draws like today's Venezia effort impossible to predict).

Regards to scoring, that's also a form thing for me (although I have been wrong to keep predicting Chelsea running out of steam they just find ways to score so many each game) -- same goes for all top 4 teams in Serie A, knocking goals in for fun, so I don't like putting 1 or 2 on the heavy offence. That's total luck though I have to agree (who can say for example last week Venezia scores 3 when in 15 games before that only could score 12???).

I definitely don't think it's possible but it doesn't make me less interested to understand how an unexpected ATH (for them) would work out to their end. He thinks 1150 and 92k are both possible, so it should at least make for some wild theories, which hey, is what we're sometimes here for no?

The science of speculation's pretty special to me heh.

Didn't realise I'd took yellow cap last round, but still some distance to get to the top. I'm really enjoying the season everywhere so far, but we're not even at halfway mark yet so plenty of fights and games left this month alone.


Yeah I've not been convinced about the keeper for a while but I actually think guys like de Jong have been really underperforming, and as a result a lot of the burden's been on their young guys.

Read a tiny rumour about Gavi linked to Liverpool but I hardly pay attention and I know Klopp always does stealth buys, plus Gavi already tied down recently.

Wow Arsenal, thanks for holding still for the last 15 mins... and then getting a corner in 94th minute to give us a 22 bust haha... 21 was hit on 82nd minute, and then I thought, yeah, for sure, this has to be a bust. But neither side did anything much, at least not according to stats. Switched over as soon as Liverpool's game closed out and saw the corner awarded.

Close but no banana, unfortunately. What a game that must have been...

Damn man, that was a good pick, too bad Watford couldn't even get a yellow or you'd be in the black for this one!

Mine already down the drain anyway after a scoreless first half, and it was a shame since many bits of this already hit in the first half. Too much for me to expect goals in every game, the wet slippery pitch not helping our game:

@JimmyTheIrishman: Betbuilder working out for you? Leeds took the lead from a penalty, which I hoped stupidly would hold as I've got them on an outright haha.

Shame, it's not that I think Villareal suck that badly, but they're going to be the Porto of seasons past in the last 16... a free pass to the QFs for whomever meets them. Happy to have them prove me wrong, unless they meet Liverpool heh.


Well they got their answer in the second half, but I can't see them getting so lucky again. I'm still a tiny bit upset Atalanta didn't go through, but at least they get quite a bit of quality joining them in Europa hmm?

Terrible of me not to have updated here in a while but it's been a really difficult period of being busy with work and not really having time to hunt  for good odds. Wolves against City would have been my pick but the game's already underway 0-0 at HT with Wolves a man down from their biggest goal threat being sent off (ouch).

No time to add a betslip here but my pick today is Leeds to take advantage of Chelsea shakiness in defence.

100 units at Sportsbet on Leeds to WIN vs Chelsea @11.30. Other odds: 10.80
Units advantage: 50

Yeah, it's one of two things I "rely" on when weighing in on the confidence of my predictions. And every time we see such thin trading volumes, can't help but think the bears/bulls are waiting in the wings. Used to feel that weekends are when they let the dogs of war out but as we can see today...


This being the other thing for me: 200MA. It hasn't always done as expected this year but I generally expect support around it or a strong bounce if broken -- in a rally anyway.

Indeed LTU. Just read about it myself this Big update on the Spurs game. A bit of bad luck for Spurs but also now other teams will be stricter in this holiday period.

If not for snow against burnley... Anyway yeah, no possibility to reschedule the game, meaning that the disciplinary body will now determine a result without the game being played.

Although that has yet to be decided, the norm is for the responsible team to be penalised with a 3-0 loss... Rennes might have been more flexible but apparently Spurs did not talk to them early. Lesson for all teams I guess...

So if this is the case, then Spurs will take the loss and exit this competition. Tough! But hey, maybe Conte will be relieved.

Yeah this was a total Hail Mary comeback to get me an exact score too. I really don't like putting 2-1 scores for these tight games but they seem to be the right way to go... Though a penalty in last minute of injury time is a true gift. Ranieri will be pretty frustrated by that.

Out today till evening so will miss the early games. Hope Wolves do us a favour and steal points, also hope Chelsea continue to leak goals... But we have our own job to do dispatching the Villains.

Cold weather play. Great for gegenpress haha.