This is what I hate the most (well, at least among the things I hate the most) in football. That you seldom do right by these fouls to players that just get up and dust themselves off -- but those who fall and exaggerate everything get the decisions. How does this not reward simulation, yeah? Yet another decison-making nonsense, review, no review. The ongoing circus that is VAR.

@Joca97:  Nice on you to get  3 points,  I went for a slim Villa win (2-1) and bet on a Newcastle win.  Should have known better.

I have to remember to come by this pool more often, but you know, ever since realising how shitty I am here, I don't really come back and bet any more, although, I was really tempted to add Lazio and Atalanta to my parlays for 1H 1x2 (1.8x each), and am angry as lazio is 2-1 ahead damn, and 2-2 now after the restart ha!

Just really hard to follow the Covid news for Serie A which has also affected my parlays (especially cause I stupidly used freebets on them).

GL with tonight;)

Referencing OP I don't think the bears were quite done yet. Too soon to say the move to 61k's stalled (or rather, we might even say it's been successful). Even if we do break ATH I'm not sure we'll get the momentum we need to enter 60k territory yet.

Definitely does seem like Biden's stimulus package is getting some traction, but strange not bigger than you'd expect eh? He's signed it so it's a done deal, right?

Arsenal got us the goods but both parlays failed because our chosen underdogs only managed to draw level with the home team. Still a great away goal each to take a slim advantage to the next leg at home, but I doubt we'll get such good odds again, oh well!

Toons and Villains take on each other, both having only won once in the last five games. Superboost please, and a "guaranteed" Atalanta hom win?

100 units at Sportsbet on Newcastle and Atalanta to WIN @5.71. Other odds: 5.55

Units advantage: 16

Nice win for Arsenal eh boys? I only didn't actually make anything from it because I tied it with a Rangers win, and then another with a Milan win -- both underdogs drew ha!

On issue of site: SB was very slow in accepting my bets yesterday, but only for a short period. All good and clean now. I find if it doesn't accept after a few seconds, just reopen the page and try again -- faster than waiting for it to accept.

I've been having a rare run of good luck in my 5-leg parlays actually, 3rd straight day of winning them all without insurance, but should mention that the 2nd one had a game called off;)

@dittoup Steve isn't just effective, effective is Steve =p

@CLS63: Well done! Where else can you find such generous freebets eh?

First in, thanks for the invite OP! And to Sportsbet for keeping this MM alive, so much nostalgia here =)

Angela Hill is the pick for me to watch, but I've sprinkled in a fair number of upsets (based on odds anyway!).

Leon Edwards     
Ryan Spann 
Gavin Tucker 
Jonathan Martinez
Matheus Nicolau
Darren Stewart
Angela Hill
Charles Jourdain
Rani Yahya
Nasrat Haqparast
Cortney Casey 
Gloria de Paula 
Jason Witt

123 total strikes

These are the easiest predictions we'll ever get on the forum, and crazy to get over $220 now, thanks jeremypwr and Sportsbet!

Game 1:  19’  2-1 to Southampton
Game 2:  62'  2-1 to Arsenal

That's how it goes, my friend. But 3x the offer is what I call good value either way, it's all about odds and extra money on the table to be made. And having your ambassador lose is ok, many fights and years left in the guy, no problem, we look ahead and to the future.

I'm definitely going to have to consider looking more into MMA now, maybe can fill up my time when football takes a vacation;)

I personally have two exit conditions: one is time-bound, one is price bound. Whichever reaches first will trigger my exit. But this is always reassessed with personal situation and likely, when my age is something of concern.

I assume big players are even more strict with conditions and that's the same for any big fund. They have value targets and time-bound limits. All up for reassessment. So if they do leave BTC, it won't be any time soon. But fair concern indeed.

Nah, they're working on shit a lot for sure. Betslips took a while and it's here now. I'm sure they'll find a more permanent way for them -- probably fixing the odds/outcomes on the slips first (for example, your boost won't show).

Oh, and sorry about your corner bets. 2 corners the entire game for PSG =p

And shout out to Steve for fixing my promos page, I now can see them =)

@Betwrong: I've been playing with super low odds and having quite "reasonable" hits on 3, 4 or 5/1 even on huge favourites in 10-leg parlays. Then yesterday, I thought, hey why not add the SuperBoosted Chelsea-Atletico women's?

Heh, Saints totally overpowered in the end. No Ings, no magic?

Anyway, Rangers are looking so irresistible now, and would love playing the underdog. With everything won already in Scotland, they'll give it their all in Europa!

100 units at Sportsbet on Rangers and Arsenal to WIN @6.09. Other odds: 5.80

How about trust in Arsenal? 100 units on Arsenal and AC Milan to WIN @10.67. Other odds: 10.55
Bet ID: 6049f622ea6f25f75c2795a3

Total Units advantage: 41

^^ Yeah, I know it's silly to say but was wondering myself if not playing at Anfield was actually a good thing for us because they did seem to play more calmly. Then again, it's a huge difference playing with Fabinho in midfield, so clearly more stable at the back. Nice to see Mane and Salah together again of course, and scoring again minutes apart.

4 more games to Istanbul, we can do it!

BTW guys, there's a free competition that starts next week: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5321499.40

I've entered. You don't need to do anything except declare a bankroll and post bets you normally make anyway. So that's what I'm doing, sharing betslips I made there, and if I win, I win!

LOL Trofo yeah, yeah I know.  But as leea pointed out above, sometimes you just get lucky;) I know for sure I've won big out of pure luck and choosing outcomes or numbers on nostalgia (won my big trip with sportsbet for choosing my fav player's jersey number, for example). My problem when playing very close to the games is overthinking, especially on parlays. Single games okay, same as event based picks (first scorer, corners etc). But you're a lucky bastard that's for sure =p

@rdbase: I'm up for some kind of long-term MM for all the Europe leagues. We could do it like, who finishes higher (points) and do a 1 x 2, like say:

West Brom vs Fulham
Inter vs AC
etc etc.

There's still about 10 games left in all the leagues;) could be fun!

Or a fantasy league MM. Player vs PLayer and see who earns the most fantasy points (can just use ESPN or some other site I don't know who offers fantasy). Can still be 1x2;)
e.g.
Salah vs Lukaku
Alisson vs Henderson

Then we could do it every week;)

Thanks for the responses, vennali. I've pinged a couple of people now to see if they might like to join, and it's not like it takes additional betting too, so why not, right? I'd love to be the Maharaja, it would be really cool to also award additional points or something for actualy commentary and rationale behind the betting though;)

I've registered btw, declared a bankroll of 20 mbtc;) I don't expect to win as my style is highly detrimental to short term gains (I go for long odds and parlays, so have even a win rate of < 30 % but rely on big value bets to carry me) but still, who knows?

Some sadness for this thread, haha.

Anyway, looks like my 41/1 bet on Barca died in HT (actually already won my cards and corners overs, Messi scoring, and only needed Barca to score 3 more goals lol) but needed them to also win both halves, which Messi unfortunately did not do when his penalty was saved. 1 wonder goal, and 1 missed penalty. Damn.

Meanwhile, Liverpool do look in control but I'd feel a lot better if we could just score 1 goal. 30 mins to play.

Come on Harko! 3 more goals from Barca, right? Haha.

I know it's almost challenging destiny or however you want to call it haha but yeah, in 2020 I was just praying for so long that sub 10k levels would stay as long as possible. Even when we crashed to 3k I was fine, I mean psychologically I'd been mentioning long ago my mind priced BTC at $4k, for some reason. And it was only in 2020 mid onwards that I was ready to up that mental barrier to 10k so that's my new "worst-case scenario price" right now.

Sigh, you're right.

1. On what's lost, that's always been known (depending on estimates, but it's not changed much since 2015/16). As you said, the bulk of those "lost" coins happened in the first few years.
2. Also not a figure that's really changed. I believe long-term holders don't tend to add a lot, if I consider myself one, then I've only managed to grow at the same pace dollar wise, which BTC-wise means a slower and slower accumulation (just saving $10 a year ago and doing the same now is already a drop from 300,000 then to 20,000 sats today, sob).
3. This is the one that's going to rock the boat! Because they ain't done buying yet, and new big investors ain't done coming!

THANK you! I ended up going for a Betbuilder, it finally materialized, but I thought if Barca qualify then they have to win at least 4-1 (to get through) so I thought ok let's play a more likely betbuilder and get them to win 3+ goals plus other things haha. Ended up with a 41/1 bet.

Then, I waltz through anyway and place bets on Lazio and Gladbach to qualify. Why am I being so stupid? Because I love a good upset;)

Really wish we could retrieve shareslips, btw! Hate that once you leave the screen it disappears (did anyone also notice clicking share gives you different options now?)

^^Didn't get that promo either, and haven't got a promo since Nov 2020 so my region must be super restricted

I'm actually just going to sit back tonight and enjoy watching the games. A decent bet on Liverpool ML, and then $5 each on these ridiculous outcomes (hey, why not, right?). Any of you also got crazy ideas or bets? I mean, it won't be the first time we see a massive upset at Last 16 stage right?

Just noticed screenshot wasn't full, these bets are basically on Barcelona to win at least 3-0 (couldn't find outrights to qualify actually), Lazio to qualify and Gladbach to qualify.

Damn you Dortmund haha. Thought you'd do better at home after winning away but actually could have lost it as well. Not enough to take us home, Juve.

Was a nice way to cash in on City losing but Southampton are a different proposition altogether. Still, we like wasting money so why not?

100 units at Sportsbet on Saints to WIN @17.11. Other odds: 16.36

Units advantage: 75