I agree with this opinion, there are reasons why most people prefer to gamble in secret. From experience, some of these reasons will suffice here;

First, when family and friends don't support gambling, the gambler will prefer to gamble in secret to avoid misunderstandings with family or friends.

In addition, most gamblers must have shown a negative attitude after losing a bet and then vowed never to gamble again. Since they are addicted, they prefer to gamble in secret not to make it open to friends he promised that he will not gamble again.

Furthermore, it is more convenient to gamble in secret, especially in sports betting. Someone can easily and conveniently place a bet at home instead of going to a shop.

The above reasons justify that keeping gambling a secret depends on the personal idiosyncrasies of the gambler. However, in my thinking, it is best to gamble in secret since it will be bad to exhibit obnoxious behavior in public after losing a bet and that will make people attribute any misfortune to you to gambling since they know you are a gambler but when people don't know they find it hard to relate gambling to any misfortune that may happen to the bettor.

I don't agree with this view. No doubt, gambling is a game of luck and so one can win at any time notwithstanding the number of picks involved but then experience shows that the more the picks, the more the risk involved, and then the possibility of winning is slim and verse versa.

For instance, a person who selected two picks in a ticket has a higher success rate than a person who has selected 15 picks in a ticket. This is because a person who has selected only two games will certainly select the best two picks for the day thereby minimizing the risk and expanding the possibility of winning.

Personal observation shows that gamblers who stake on only one game have an 85% success rate whereas gamblers who accumulate more games have a 35% winning rate.

It has already grown since the ban of Mixers on Bitcointalk, with some of the forum's reputable members and many more having already transferred their accounts there. FYI, traffic to Bitcointalk increased when the signature campaign launched in 2011. Nobody expected Altcointalk to reach the level of Bitcointalk, but it is now on the right path to compete



Mixers are not illegal and from what I've read the altcointalk forum is not hosted on the U.S jurisdiction so it's safe to say the forum is on a safer space than Bitcointalk.

We need to pay attention to these questions, does experience matter in gambling specifically football betting? Is our concern about knowing if following expert prediction is wrong or not or about having a greater chance of winning? If after looking up an expert prediction we still fall back to our thinking what's the need for it in the first instance? Is the statistics or H2H records only accessible to experts?

Experience doesn't matter when making predictions about the outcome of a football result to be specific. If experience does then the old gamblers should have more winnings but then I can tell you that even a newbie can have a higher success rate than an old gambler or even an expert. In my understanding, what counts is luck and not experience. The guide that may be provided by an expert might even be a reason for losing a bet.

Even though it is not wrong to follow an expert prediction but a high winning rate is not guaranteed which is what matters. So, relying on an expert prediction is not the best. Look up stats as a guide since everyone can have access to stats not only the experts. That should serve as a better guide. With that, you can easily know rivals and avoid such games if possible or you can know the possible and near-perfect option to select.

The unpredicted nature of gambling makes me even doubt the possibility of having an expert. The person who parades himself as an expert is, maybe good at analysis games but then does the analysis determine the outcome? Most times, no. An expert is as good as you and sometimes you are even better just by following your instinct.

I remember when I saw a prediction on a website but I doubted the possibility of the outcome of what was predicted not minding the analysis given by the expert but decided to follow my instinct. Luckily, I won and what was predicted by the expert failed. What this means is that expert prediction is not always accurate and experience shows that when you depend on expert prediction you tend to lose more.

The reason is that most expert predictions are not free even though it's not 100% safe and then after paying for the picks, the bettor must stake the game and sometimes with a very high stake considering the assurance that was given. After all these efforts, the game doesn't play and bettor ends up losing more than expected.

In summary, I agree that it is always good to make our predictions because there won't be a blame game at the end and the money that would have been used to pay for picks can be utilized into another venture or even saved.

Gambling is a game of uncertainty and the probability of losing is always higher than the probability of winning irrespective of the odds, small or big. Odds do not determine who wins and who doesn't but then gamblers have always held this perspective that betting on smaller odds is the safest way to win in gambling specifically in sports betting.

However, if betting on smaller odds guarantees more wins people will only stick to betting on games with smaller odds and this can chase bookies but then bookies are even proliferating which means statistically the bookies are winning in the tussle. It hits harder when a person loses on small odds because placing a bet on smaller odds means staking with a reasonable sum of money to get value and when the outcome is not positive, it can easily drive the bettor into some form of negative behavior.

Thus, I will always advocate that people should stake only with money they can comfortably lose without having to worry irrespective of the odds. This is important since odds do not guarantee who wins the game hence, the onus is on the gambler to control his stake each time he gambles.

Matter of time can also be applied in many contexts. If casinos are banned, accounts made after 2012 will be gone; in fact, 80% of user activities will be substantially reduced, and Altcointalk will become the new Bitcointalk.

Dude did you read what I posted earlier? Bitcointalk was paying $1.3/month in 2011. If the traffic on Altcointalk increases the payrate will also increase.

The history will remain here, but the majority of people will go to the highest paid forum, leaving here as a historical archive. One more drastic action from theymos and this place is toosed.

You did the calculations, saw the increase in numbers, and still said I was wrong; you're pretty bad at data analytics if you think that way. Since the close of the Forum ad campaign, there have been 4-10 more organized Sig campaigns, proving my point.

On Bitcointalk lowest start, the major and first payment Sig campaign on Bitcointalk was paying $1.3 cent/month. You'd be lucky to get someone to give you $2-$10 back then, when traffic was similar to that of altcointalk.

Altcointalk lowest payment is $30 per week. Imagine what they'll pay if they ever reach the traffic levels of Bitcointalk. Not forgetting that Altcointalk Sig were paying much lower than the current payrate so we can literally say as the payrate on Bitcointalk dropped ( due to the ban),the payrate on Altcointalk increased. I agree with Poker Player it's just a matter of time.

He spent most of last season as false 9 and with Anthony and Sancho running down the LW and RW, he didn't need to drop deep to receive passes like he has this season because there is literally no distribution coming from the wings as Anthony and Sancho both lost their places in the team this season and Casimero and Bruno, who are supposed to provide services from the midfield, are struggling with match fitness.

Poor teamwork was more responsible for his drop in form and early-season knocks too

It wasn't as big and flashy as it is on altcointalk; it was a little smaller in width and a little longer in length, with no animations or flashy graphics. Well, determining which services were legitimate was another reason the ad was halted, as some of the advertised projects turned out to be dubious over time, and finally, the ones with a dubious background were always the highest bidder, making it difficult for thymos for some bTC the forum didn't even need.

It was an excellent decision because it resulted in more signature campaigns since it was the only way to advertise here.

If they are found guilty for the second time and given another potential 10 point deduction this late in the season, it will do them more harm than the early one they received in November. I'm amazed they broke so many rules, starting with overspending on their stadium reconstruction and now what FFP? I'm not shocked to see Nottingham Forest on the list. After all, this is a team that brought in nearly 25 new players last season, which was impossible to achieve without breaking the rules.

In any case, neither team will be missed. Everton fought and won the last two relegation battles, so maybe it's time to finally go to the championship. 10 points deduction each from both teams will see them occupy 20th and 19th on the table.

It matters to him because if we're not here today, he'll have no choice but to close the forum and go on to other things. I'm sure he had no idea what the "after mixer ban" would do to the forum, and he certainly didn't expect altcointalk to swiftly rush in to take advantage. Most people, including myself, expected the mixes' promotion to transfer to the darknet, but that was not the case. I don't use altcointalk, but their activity appears to have jumped by more than 100% and is still increasing. Another one-sided action from theymos, and the forum is over.

Maybe we're going to be stuck here with old topics and more bumps.

Bitcoin ETF was expected to partially tackle the No. 1 problem by increasing adoption; the more demand, the higher the price increase. We've reached the point where no one needs to knock on the door of the next-door neighbor to introduce them to Bitcoin; we're meant to be at the point where people come to Bitcoin. As a community, I believe we are not raising enough awareness to solve the case of number 1.

Price down= Panic sell. ( Buy high , Sell Low). My crappy rules. 

So we've been protesting to the wrong people and on the wrong board (reputation), while Theymos is only a few seconds away to edits/modifies in less than 24 hours. For a long time, this is how the DT should have been.

@mikeywith You wrote beautifully; I wish I had some Smerits, but I'll bookmark your post and return when I do. Excellent points.

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Ratimov has never abused the system in the way that JollyGood has. There are hundreds of threads here and there against JollyGood, and his judgement is awful, yet he keeps accumulating votes and growing stronger. If we're being honest, JollyGood isn't fit to be on the system. I'm glad my most recent instance provided him - 3 Votes.

Why bother voting when the system is already compromised? The powerful continue to become stronger, while the weak continue to weaken. The system is unbalanced and must be scrapped. At this point, the only way out is to moderate the system.

This is one of many occasions that the ETF has come close to being approved, but it never was. I assume so many people didn't believe this was going to work, and the market movement was very low because the Bitcoin community's faith was similarly low. I'm not one of those moonboys but yeah my hope was high on this one. We may start see rapid movement from the 4th quarter according to some analysis.

Nobody ever abandoned their good car; they still have it, but the ban on mixers only presented them with an alternative (jalopy) that also drives, so it's acceptable to say they now have two cars instead of one. And if good car is ever stolen, they will have something to fall back on at home.

The ban on mixers on BTT opened up opportunities for everyone to earn money elsewhere while still having a presence here. ATL forum is the new found gold.