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Damn LTU, in my old age my memory has really really played tricks on my mind. I just looked at the Copa pool and I saw my name there, but could have sworn I don't remember much about it at all until reading through the thread. And yes of course it was World Cup, not anything else, since we only started the pool things in 2018. Those were the days, so long ago haha:) Pretty cool it lasted so long, let's see if Serie A and La Liga pools can continue to grow in popularity too!
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@arallmuus @icopress Yep, Europa is United's to lose. I'm betting on whoever progresses on the other end of course. Can't stand United winning... sorry Red Devils.
I thought I was the only one who hate man utd with everything I've got. They've proceeded from the semi-final to the final all thanks to Roma Inconsistency, I'd rather see Villareal clinch the title than watching Manutd lifting it and I wouldn't want them to play Arsenal in the Final either, they are the worse club in London, they've been 10th in the league since Michael el faraday died from electric shock. Pathetic club. I think if you're a Liverpool supporter, then you are by default set up to hate United. Fairplay to them for knocking us off our perch in the 1990s but let me assure you, seeing them lift trophies is every bit as painful as not winning one ourselves. And while it's nice to rub it in the faces of our Merseyside rivals when we lift trophies, it's personally sweeter for me to see the rubbish coming out of United fans when we win =D I know it's all good fun and banter in the end but where I come from, you can almost kind of stereotype the person from the team they support -- and I grew up in the era of United dominance, from the Treble era... and of course Arsenal, and then later Chelsea and City, Galacticos etc. Liverpool weren't as "vogue" but I agree. This season, Utd did have quite good luck with Europa and should really not have had such an easy time against Roma. |
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Which is why it always becomes a bit of a challenge for me to know who will be drafted where since it is not really that much of a deal for me so I just randomize these things. I do the same for NBA drafts as well, unless there is a generational talent level player, I rarely ever hear them beforehand.
I'm curious now to know also if the sport has the same kind of rules elsewhere in the world where it is played (Canada and Mexico I know also play it, but strangely if you look it up online, not much is said about Mexican rules). Do they also do a draft or do they even use the same formats? I always thought it a little weird we have those baseball for example very popular in the far east (but understandable given the N American influence over there) but American football itself hasn't taken roots the way rugby has (I mean, Japan seems to have a league but I've not met a single person from there who's played it). Morning guys, it’s Man Utd vs Liverpool today. Normally I’d be confident of my boys LFC getting a good result here but I have to say, not feeling it today. I’m predicting a Man Utd win unless they rest players due to their EL semi final 2nd leg against Roma.
Prediction Man Utd 2-0 LFC
I put a ridiculously big bet (by standards of what I generally bet anyway) on LFC today... against my own judgment. I'm hoping our boys will be fired up for this one because if beating United doesn't stir up fire in them, we really don't deserve Champions League or even Europa. |
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Never bet on your own team when you know it's up against a team that has better form and better chances to win. Right now, United's form is on fire. Winning every game, drawing maybe one. Liverpool slipping up time and again. But away, bookies have them as the very slight favourites. Less value, but I'm a dumb guy, so a 500 unit ML bet at Fairlay on Liverpool to WIN @2.58. Other odds: 2.46 Units advantage: 12x5 = 60 And let's do a Super Boost 100 units at Sportsbet on correct score 1-2 @11.28. Other odds: 9.20 Units advantage: 192 Edit: bets are off. Match got cancelled. Let's be mean and do another bet against Barca, shall we? It's HT now, 0-0, and I took Valencia at 95/10 with Super Boost at Sportsbet. It's actually 12/10 now if you want to take live;) Bet ID: 608ef6824219f71998bcac78 No units advantage. I'll do all calculations tomorrow! Eh Wow, not long after as I posted this. Valencia scored. 49th mins haha. You missed it guys =p And then of course Messi hits back, RIP my underdog. Running advantage after 329 bets: +22,406 (+252)
All-time cumulative: +59,964
Running units after 327 bets (401W|276L): +11,988 (-100) |
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I guess I saw it somewhere in some topic. Is this something from sportsbet.io? Lately I have unsubscribed from that thread of multi master so really don't get much news from sportsbet. I do visit their ANN sometimes but lost my interest to respond there.
Anyway, good luck with your bet. It's still 0 - 0 so on the pool you have a good chance but again it's fine to sacrifice those points if you win a bet 🤣
Yeah, a new challenge on this link (well, hardly new now that it's entered the 46th edition -- I believe one every day since it was launched 13th March). They do run a lot of promos so can be hard to keep track but their ANN's where you'll hear about everything if you visit, you don't even have to respond just watch;) And yep, got my win thanks to AeG. Small happy joy joy =) Night lads. Looking forward to Liverpool - Utd tomorrow LFC_Bitcoin? I've cleared my evening! |
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No one gone for Villa, imagine they win tonight 🤣. By the way, 19 players gone with 2 - 1 win for Everton! I would be happy if they win by 3 - 1 or even lose the match, it's a tactical wish consider the position I have in the pool LOL
I went for a live Villa DBB at about 25/10, just moments before they scored... then of course got pegged back. I'm watching live text scores with some interest too because of the Blackjack challenge -- currently at 11 points with 30 mins to go, so we need a flurry of corners or cards I guess to see his through. Not looking very hopeful but yeah a Toffees win screws me in betting. I went for 0-0 so am already on 1.5 points, I suppose I won't mind losing those points for some betting wins. |
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Leeds have one of the dramatical and passionate fans in the world they had one of the deadliest rivalries with Chelsea in the 90s, the matches between these two clubs never end well. . yeah Watford was the first but yeah I only suggested a perfect replacement should their contract ends next season.
Indeed. Something about English clubs in any case, from my general observation, that tends to appeal a bit more to us in the Commonwealth. Perhaps it's because football is as big here as it is there. Perhaps it's just the common language that meant we used to get free FA cup live shows on regular tv in late 80s til 90s, until Sky took over everything haha... But of course if it ends up being Leeds, I'll be wanting those jerseys just as bad =D @arallmuus @icopress Yep, Europa is United's to lose. I'm betting on whoever progresses on the other end of course. Can't stand United winning... sorry Red Devils. |
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The league will be won by Manchester City, the runners-up will be Manchester United but the chase for 3rd and 4th place finishes will go to the end. Maybe it will go the last game of the season before we know the other two teams are that will qualify for the Champions League. Liverpool and West Ham are in contention alongside Chelsea and Leicester but it looks likely that Leicester City might be the 3rd team.
Yeah if the Foxes win just two more games I think it's. In the bag for them. The manner with which they won their last one will also be a boost to morale, whereas Liverpool still only have a glimmer of hope even if they beat United. Not conceding 4th now but it would be quite disrespectful to hope Chelsea and West Ham drop so many more points in the last handful of fixtures. We just need to fix our games as have been dreadful. Brighton currently leading so again just goes to show how frustratingly unpredictable every team sans City have been this season. Bielsa woll be using the rest of the season to hopefully test out personnel. No point in burning out the rest of the season just protect Bamford and keep fitness levels up is all. |
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Is it just me or does Aguero look fat out there. Lol. I’m not sure if it’s my stream or what but the rest of the players look fine. I mean seriously, he looks stocky and his legs look bigger than they did before.  And it’s pretty interesting Pep played him at the no. 10 role with Jesus up front leading the attack. Am on mobile but I had to try and find a decent stream to see for myself after seeing this haha but nah he has always looked a tad chunky when not on the field... Can't really tell though but he opened the scoring and does the job. Kinda like Suarez or even Cantona at times I remember. A bit chunky looking but still twisting and squirming like gods haha. I do remember watching Lukaku at United and swearing he looked bigger and bigger and my son (the fan) kept insisting I was wrong until one day you simply couldn't deny it anymore! |
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It's actually still called Euro 2020. I made the mistake myself but looked it up and it was after all decided to retain the original name so as not to cause confusion ha.
I always bet on Copa, and even Afcon... Good value bets always to be found on smaller countries but who recently have very competitive squads thanks to rich vlub experience in the Europe Big Fours...
We did have a euro pool as I recall or was that World Cup now? Either way definitely joining if there is enough interest!
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We have so many other things that are actually affecting the world's climate and health that Bitcoin mining is only a very insignificant fracture of it.
Yeah, I'm also pretty sure the way electric cars are charged is through burning fossil fuels mostly. That's how the electric grid is powered anyhow. Only a small portion of it is using renewable energy. As for Bitcoin, and the huge debate over whether its using too much. Well, the title of this thread is correct. Those mining will be looking to reduce costs as much as possible, and for large scale operations then renewable energy through hydroplants, and solar panels are probably going to be the future of mining. Although, Bitcoin definitely does incentivizes renewable energy, the amount that doesn't is still pretty insignificant when you consider multiple other industries. It is true, relatively speaking mining is quite expensive. In terms of the amount of power that is required. When you add it up, it is pretty significant. However, its much more dramatized that the actual figures suggest. Thought I would point this out but guess it's not such a hidden possible avenue of inquiry after all. A lot of new studies showing that powering electric and other types of renewables aren't as clean as thought of. Not to mention the growing pile of spent solar panels in places I used to work... They basically lose effectiveness after five years or so especially on older tech panels. With no thought as to how to dispose of them properly. Not that I'm anti renewable. It is the future, we just can't rush into it. But sectors like Bitcoin mining will certainly push efforts to understand renewables and make them more responsible. All good. |
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Nice picks JollyGood! Certainly the wise options for predictions but betting wise I have gone quite a different direction. Palace to win around 95/10 is what I am counting on and the match is an hour away so it might even rise to 11/1 or thereabouts.
Also I would pick handicaps or DNBs for Villa and Fulham... Just biased there though. Need Chelsea and Everton to drop points if Liverpool wants a peek into UCL spots heh. We have to of course beat United but I fancy our chances there to be honest... Ignoring how we let Leeds and Newcastle ruin our past two games...
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Well, the lesson obviously needs to be hammered into me haha. Wasted some good upsets in my pivks yesterday too.
City should win today quite easily, but Palace reminded Leicester Zaha is still a painful striker to deal with and I feel City losing hurt the odds but still worth taking a punt.
On mobile now so not easy to update so will do the calculations and maybe another pick later but my pick today...
100 units at Fairlay on Palace to WIN at 9.42. other odds 8.80.
Units advantage: 62
Running advantage after 327 bets: +22,154 (+62)
All-time cumulative: +59,712
Running units after 326 bets (401W|275L): +12,088 (-100)
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Predicting prices and years sort of lost its lustre for me even if I do engage in self fantasy every now and then.
For me, it's quite simple. I either hit a price target or a time target, and neither are near me at all.
But for the sake of entering my prediction, top is 200,000 at 2025. Very simple 6 months after next halving. The effect every halving is hard to ignore.
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The problem isn't their quality, mostly it's their price. When you buy a younger player, you can still sell him later and earn a lot of money. These players come with high initial fees, but can be perceived as investment as well.
Old players have no resell value, they demand big contracts and signing bonuses because of their quality and it's often better for a club to buy a slightly worse young player than a slightly better old one - even if it sounds weird.
When these players turn out good, it's great. But more often than not they turn out to be bad investments.
Fair enough, but for clubs like Manchester United anyway, they usually buy players for direct impact and results (from what I can see despite all the different managers they have adopted Ferguson's approach). After Ronaldo, they haven't been good at reselling people who were even young enough to get good prices and we'll see it again with Pogba haha. And who can blame clubs who want to buy results? Like you said, buy new guys and you risk losing investments anyway. I'd go as far to say as that you can't even really guarantee "old" players will bring the results desired. I'm a huge fan of Suarez, and I thought Barca were wrong to do what they did to him, so happy he found a good club at Atletico. Also happy Chicarito (don't like United but can't fault good guys like them) still can punch above his weight in MLS but even gold star players like Zlatan didn't always work out. Robbie Fowler didn't really work out on his return to Liverpool, for example. So I still say, and I know this is naive, that you should never spend a lot of money, regardless of age. Markets can sometimes force your hand but it usually evens out (buying VVD at sky high prices after selling Coutinho for even more crazy prices, for example). Hoping my club continues their strategy of buying. We got a good player in Jota, we didn't really get good ones in between (I did think Minamino needed time though) but we just have to keep at it. Keep the gems and offload the rest. |
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Leeds has the most history in the EPL to be known as the underdogs that never gave up.
And they were just incredible to watch, and dirty, which was kind of something of an English football thing for us watching in Asia. Man, the late 90s were something, except of course for United and Arsenal heh. I'll def have a look before commenting on this thread, I'm trying to read a bit about baseball (MLB) so just want to get to grips with the format of the MLB season... but I have to really admit NFL is making me very confused. The draft in particular, I probably need to find a nice video to explain before I dive in. @arallmuus: Nice win, nice win. Fair play, United. |
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Same here, I was considering googling a bit and making an informed decision but then decided to just pick them blind. Not that I am winning these freebies even when I know what I am doing  Can't complain though I won once at least and I am sure there is a lot of players out there without even that. ======= Same thing with our Sportsbet sponsored Premier League pool. First price is now 0.1 BTC and looks very juicy, even our consolation prizes awarded for 6-10 finish are 0.01 BTC which looks really good. Can't remember what was the entry but probably around 30$. I did look up the names in the draft for the first pick but when we had to do the second pick on the refresh, I just stabbed at some semi-instinctive, semi-guesstimate pick. If I win, then I definitely need to do random more often;) And phew, Bitcoin. I know you've been betting in the same BTC amounts but I've had to adjust my bets just to keep me from going overboard (since I am earning in BTC but paid in fiat values ha). It is really nice to be locking in profits last year though and that prize money just looks incredible now. Entry was actually around £40 which translated to around $53... I checked the entry fee it was actually 0.0045 btc Come on Real, save football by winning number 14.
Brother, you always know how to say the things that my politeness tells me not to sometimes haha. Hate to say it too but I'd rather them Madrid royalty and Zidane take the stage too in Istanbul. @BitcoinHunt3r Well bloody done! |
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Thank you Granada. This was a poor season for me in many ways. Yes still very much in profit but it was pretty tough without the requisite underdog bets, so this is typical of my strength ha ha. Roma even almost made it, 2-1 at HT and then whoops capitulation to 5 second half goals. Ah well, can't win them all. Have I learnt my lesson? Not really =D 100 units boosted, insured Celta Vigo, Lafnitz, Belouizdad, Meizhou Hakka, Brisbane Road @18.09. Other odds: 16.88 Bet ID: 608b0712cafbcb2f43d85fd8 Units advantage: 121 Running advantage after 326 bets: +22,092 (+121)
All-time cumulative: +59,650
Running units after 325 bets (401W|274L): +12,188 (+2040) |
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That is one way of looking at it. I think I like it that much just because there is always that chance that weaker team will use their one good chance and walk away with all points. But it sure hurts when your favorite team is on the receiving end of that one chance  Hopefully this is enough upsets for today so my Man Utd bet will come true. I was thinking to take that Man Utd match line or both to score and of course Roma just scored an equalizer. It's my favourite part of football, too. The cruelty with which your team can rise all the way to the top by killing giants, and then have it all taken away in the end... or by rolling on undefeated for seasons long and then fall into a patch and lose against derby rivals for the first time in decades (lol Everton). And of course, I totally love that underdogs in football get 20+ odds as soon as the favourites start getting overhyped. Just need to hit a few of them a season to make it profitable haha. I made 2 underdog picks today. Granada and Roma (6/1, which actually climbed to 7/1!). So it seems we are on opposite ends of this game! United just equalised so all is safe so far;) Granada made it on efficiency, from my perspective they held the ball for maximum ten minutes during the match, but made it to score two goals
will be more than interesting, and I would support the underdog now, Sevilla to the title
That's not the first time Granada or any underdog won converting their goals with their only shots! I know because Liverpool is this season on the receiving end of that ha ha sobs ha ha. |
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