Sassuolo - Lazio
1. Match line - Draw
2. Both to score - Yes
3. Number of yellow cards in the game - 4-5

Real - Atletico
1. Match line - Home
2. Both to score - No
3. Number of yellow cards in the game - 6 and over


24' minute

1) Who will receive the ball first?  Steelers
2) Will the Vikings cover the -3 point spread?  No
3)  Game total 44?  Over
4)  Highest scoring Quarter?  3rd
5) Steelers total points?  Even
6)  Vikings total points?  Odd
7)  Ben Roethlisberger to throw for 240 yards?  Under
8 )  Kirk Cousins to throw for 275 yards?  Over
9)  Najee Harris to score a TD?  No  
10)  Alexander Mattison to score a TD?  Yes

Final Score prediction  24-21 Steelers

15)  Dustin Poirier
14)  Amanda Nunes
13)  Santiago Ponzinibbio
12)  Kai Kara France
11)  Sean O'Malley
10)  Dan Ige
9)  Dominick Cruz
8 )  Tai Tuivasa
7)  Bruno Silva
6)  Andre Muniz
5)  Miranda Maverick
4)  Alex Perez
3)  Darrick Minner
2)  Randy Costa
1)  Gillian Robertson

Last time I bet on a Poirier match I made a big boo boo out of it, not sure I'm going to dip my toes into this weekend, unless I see some offers I can't refuse heh heh.

And I'll be adding my picks to this one too. Might do it randomly this time and see if that gets me better luck than usual... it really feels like a coinflip in MMA doesn't it?

Yeah, leea, I notify on this thread so it's a great reminder every time you post. Thank you =)

And what a night it was. Two pushes but it's okay.

I didn't watch anything except Liverpool, but kept an eye on the City game, oh we came close. If not for Walker's red card, we could have had a few more corners near the end. Overall, Champions League tonight was on fire... so many games were at 15-16 at 70 mins! Only 2 low busts featuring probably the weakest teams (lineups included):

PSG-Brugge: 21 (too bad)
Leipzig-City: 19
Milan-Liverpool: 15
Porto-Atletico: 21 (too bad)
Ajax-Sporting: 20
BVD-Besiktas: 18
Real-Inter: 18 (only 1 min extra time, damn!)
Shakhtar-Sheriff: 15

Well, there goes my evening. Bit bets on City, and also all my multis, I knew it was kind of stupid to count on them but when you still have KDB, Mahrez, Grealish, Foden, Fernandinho, Stones (and damn why argue about a penalty you'll never gonna get, just get on with the game already)... you'd think well, that team can still win right?

Anyway, I thought we had hopes actually as the tide was turning but Walker got himself sent off and it's got to be over from here on...

^Great minds think alike, Slaman29, except I've only got City as PART of my acca heh. I went for the big favourites expected to play second strings: City, Liverpool and Real. And then dumped Atalanta in from Europa, and Oxford in from League one football. All in all about 42/1. A bit stupid to go for one, never mind all 3 big teams but I don't know, UCL's always proven that experience matters.

Of course I expect to lose, just going to enjoy the show tonight, and hope for loads of goals. Work sucks, so football is my salve.

Ajax would have been on the ticket too if they only managed 15/10 odds but 13/10 feels pretty bad value for me (as they also somehow know how to draw).

Hey Karl, everyone. Pizza predictions were like all my other price predictions: far, high, wide, not at all pretty. To borrow a few phrases from football missed attempts

Can't help being overly optimistic in my predictions, but let's see if I can't get lucky with pizza guesses when I get around to it (also, by the way, my Google Doodle is all about Pizza today!).

Wonder if Laszlo ever gets a shiver buying pizza with Bitcoin huh?

Indeed, I have missed out on so much, it pains me. On the bright side, it's like getting baptised for the first time to see posts like this.

Feeling good about December you guys? I'm a little disappointed (maybe even outraged) that not more people are converting to the bad news. I want my bargain December...

Wholly in agreement, especially the final bit about the more knowledge you have, the larger your portfolio share in Bitcoin -- although I have to say, my own personal journey has been slightly different as a freelancer -- I used to get paid chiefly in altcoins when I was the one seeking jobs out, and then it became majority Bitcoin as I charged clients. But for the last year, more and more clients prefer to pay in stablecoin, and on many different networks, but I definitely convert everything I can save after selling to Bitcoin.

And if I look objectively, I haven't gained as much new knowledge over the last couple of years than I have experience.

Guess what I'm trying to say is, experience counts towards that portfolio trend too

Nice going Mbitr! I went to bed thinking it would definitely be someone above 51k, but hey, above 50k isn't bad at all, lest we forget where we were when this thread and competition was thought up.

And nah, I don't think most of us here are too upset about not hitting 6 figures. Bitcoin has every right to extend bargain season for another... six months? (hope springs eternal).

RIP MR. Goxx

Hail and long live El duderino_

Freebitco.in offers markets on Bitcoin and Ethereum, quite regularly -- just check out their Betting page and filter Category "Cryptocurrencies". A bit limited as they're mostly long term bets but put your bets in early and you can get quite a bit from the time multiplier. It's P2P betting. Just checked and only have monthly price bets.


Fairlay is another direct p2p betting that used to have a lot of price betting (just checked and it's empty now).

Yup. Easily. I saw all the post match comments, pretty strong some of them coming from players too, but if they insist it's bad refereeing and can't take responsibility for not seeing out the game. Not that I disagree at all the ref could have been better, and ruined the result, but it's football and you can't get stuck on one bad ref or your mentality's down. Yeah, maybe ref was arrogant but he's going to be the same ref every team will get. Some days the luck's with you, other days not, but your game management is always in your own hands.


I'm really, really glad I didn't start taking them on this season. The signs were there last season -- this was such a value team to bet on before Covid but this game is a reminder of why they're so shaky to rely on. As you said, dominating and yet allowing so many goals. The game was over in 20 minutes as a contest.

Nice pick Steve, not sure I will follow though, even if it's sacrilegeous not to;)

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I hadn't bet on them as much early season for sure, and yes I totally agree with you about Serie A and your BTTS go-to. I still don't know the league so much but I admit they took me by surprise, seeing them play in Champions League in Liverpool's first appearance after so long in 2018... Napoli and Roma playing highly offensive, counterattacking football.

That also coincided with the way Italy's national team was also transforming thanks to the same Italian backbone attack from Napoli and Lazio -- so these were the teams I began to follow (and Lazio because I really liked an ex Red).

I don't know who really started the trend but Napoli probably in my observation started this trend, but for sure Atalanta is the one catching everyone by surprise by taking that tactic and bringing it to a whole new level. May your joy in Serie A begin again

Didn't watch, but I always said the unsung hero of fight competitions (boxing, muay Thai and I guess by extension MMA) is the ref. I've seen too many times a passive ref allow a fighter to get unnecessarily injured, and a couple of times a really active ref possibly save career-threatening injury.

But it's always hard to blame the officials too when you deal with this guy, who, if you say hasn't submitted in 10+ years, would cause all kinds of outcries if ref intervened too early.

Same question I had, was hoping he'd pop up here and alert us all to the new bastard of the pool You've done a tremendous job climbing up too though. This pool is crazy tough, took a few risks these last 2 matchweeks but Leeds disappointed me against the grain, and then when I chose them to draw, they won, haha. Oh well!


To be fair, Vardy and Maddison were both doubts for the game, and bookies adjusted a bit, Villa were actually the slight favourites in the game (so those of us who backed them actually backed the bookie, though I did so because I thought Steven Gerrard would enjoy a bit of joy against Brendan Rodgers, cool connection over there, Rodgers being ex Liverpool, then ex Celtic)

You're right I just looked it up, Hawk-eye only introduced in 2013 in EPL. In my mind, for some reason, I thought it was soon after all those ghost goals of early 2010s but yeah now that you mention it, it took some big, big bad calls at international level for this tech to be implemented.

It's one of the few digital techs I've really had no issues with. Doesn't interfere with the game, actually helps resolves decisions faster and more accurately, and is totally in the spirit of the game.

Of course, tech is not perfect, remember last season Covid restart? Can't remember which game now but a goal so clearly crossed the line and hawkeye didn't see it when everybody and video did haha.

^High-pressing United almost got us our Blackjack today, just 1 point short of the promised land, only 1 goal but a truckload of corners (and giving away a decent amount too in the end).

Aspas, as industrious as always, responsible himself for giving us many points in the La Liga game (1 goal, 1 card, few corners), 15 at 70th minute for an almost perfect run... but progressed for zero points until 86th minute corner

So in the end we have to settle for 2 pushes (20 and 18) but that's good in my book!

As did I, as it usually is. It was the best value bet for me yesterday as I said in this post

BVB don't know how to do anything but try to score and when they fail, the frustration tends to give goals away too. 2 goals inside 10 minutes definitely helped, as did Rose's sending off maybe?

Nothing surprising about today's matches though, no? Hertha Berlin just can't get it right.


They just need to mature as a club -- football is practical and pragmatic, so you can still keep your core and your philosophies but be pragmatic about it, by defending leads for example. Liverpool had a hard time too in the wilderness, struggling to keep players who felt they could only get glory elsewhere. Can is one So Dortmund knows what it needs to do, just whether or not the club's hierarchy buys into it or is happy churning out talent for profit.

So United's new look gegenpressing seems to be getting them immediate results stat-wise. 7 corners to the one for Palace, and a number of close calls. They do look tired heh, but if they continue the second half in this fashion, should get the win -- but I hope Viera's got a plan and hope Palace snatch a counter as they're typically able to do.

Sort of flattering to see another team try to do that, no surprise with Rangnick at the helm, the surprise is seeing him start Penaldo and him running back to defend ha!