Yeah guys, plenty of time to join the Sportsbet pool. I promise, the discussion there is of very high quality, as is the competition...


Yeah, that's definitely the bookies seeing a lot of interest from Nostalgia gamblers -- I'll put my hands up and admit I'm one. My heart of hearts, I don't seriously think of them as CL material just yet, but they could pull of what Leicester did IF they can survive the shock of Prem League in their first season back. Even so, staying 2 or 3 seasons up doesn't mean a thing every reboot as Watford and Bournemouth proved, who both lasted five amazing seasons but eventually just ran out of ideas last one.

Season before last Leeds were flying for most of the start but couldn't maintain their stamina in the final bit of the season, and we only need to look at Norwich to see what a jarring shock it can be to enter the Premier League after a time away...


Why thank you! I look at Sportsbet specials a LOT, but didn't see this in futures immediately. I always put a few beer money bets like this and then end of season I either get a lot, or forget I even had anything;)

Well that Iceland match was in real danger of losing both our single and our hedge parlay, but in the end, Sterling's penalty saw us through -- though Gomez somehow conspired to almost let Iceland share the haul, phew!

I'm going for another "easy" one today.

Game 1: Switzerland vs Germany. Germany WIN @1.86. Betcoin odds: 1.84
Game 2: Spain vs Ukraine: Spain WIN @1.42. Betcoin odds: 1.40
Game 3: Malta vs Latvia. Latvia WIN @2.33. Betcoin odds: 2.22
100 units parlay at FortuneJack @6.15. Betcoin parlay: 5.72
Bet ID: 11377534

Odds advantage: 43

It'd definitely be a disadvantage to me! As it is, there are weeks I won't change my picks because of time, and those 10 "free picks" I definitely use up over the season, so yeah, I agree. If you want to have more than 1 account, power to you, and more for me to win in the end ha ha;) I think in fact, one might have the disadvantage of overconfidence if having more than 1 pick. Makes you a bit less careful I would say.

@Trofo: Now THAT is a disadvantage I overlooked... I can certainly imagine a scenario where you could be tied with an account on points with 1 more game to go, and pick the same one as the one you've tied in on one account, and pick aother result with your other account! So I might humbly suggest here my earlier recommendation: allow multi accounts but declare the main account for free bet winnings only for that one!

@pamoldar: I'd do the sidebet but I'm also Liverpool and toke has lost his appetite for it heh.

Seriously, I no longer look at tips as well, except for those who actually give me a good analysis, as that's entertaining. Pro tipsters are ok, but the crypto ones especially don't even seem to be giving analysis or even an inkling of bankroll strategy. I'm happy with my niche personal space of doing big odds and hitting it with very low frequency.

Pity about Iceland too, but my "hedge" parlay shone through yay!

↑ Yeah actually I do recall reading Matt's BIP from this thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4463840.0

Not technical myself so can't speak to viability, but this BIP does concede a lot of gaps and seems to me, Notable to me in that it didn't actually get thrown down.

The github hasn't been updated in over 2 years though. Perhaps the need hasn't approached critical level.

Depay to Barcelona seems like finally a sensible transfer right now, but still not sure what to make of it when we know now Messi is still going to be in the mix, and therefore, still the core of that disjointed team. Suarez out does appear to also be the right step in a rebuild. Can only eish Barca well. Who knows? Bayern redux.

Who else here is celebrating yet another Magic moment from Steve? To be fair, it was super close for 3 of the games, all needing the solitary goal to win, so this wasn't a stroll in the park (and we needed an injury time penalty, AND a miss from Iceland to get England going!).

Long live Steve!

Oooh, why not? What are the odds and where can I find them haha! I mean, Champions maybe not, but if we see the Big Six fumbling again (and I have a feeling they will) I don't see why Leeds can't steal a CL spot in their first season up. I do feel they'll be more like Leicester though, almost relegated in the first season before smashing their next. PL is a huge step up, needs orientation.

Let's go for the favourites today and give them a parlay. Sportsbet's gone and done a nice one and I'm still way in profit for following them.

100 units at Sportsbet for England, Belgium, France & Georgia to win at 8.00. Betcoin odds: 7.78
Bet ID: 5f51da1644d1fd282f3720a6

Odds advantage: 12

100 units at Fairlay on Iceland to WIN vs England @11.68. Sportsbet odds: 9.80

Odds advantage: 188

Total odds advantage: 200 (so nicely rounded!)

Running advantage after 430 bets: +14,519 (+200)
All-time cumulative: +36,519
Running units after 428 bets (72W|356L): +12,816.15 (-100)

Nothing personal against second accounts, though the 50 a week prize should go for only 1 stated account... Feels slightly unfair for others who only have the one chance, but again, I'm not going to complain. I wouldn't have the time to make more than 1 pick as it is.

Wonder what it would take to get 30 signups. Prize is already SO good.

Been a while since FJ got any promos going on for sportsbetting. The 4+1 deal was pretty decent, and waiting to see if we'll get back our beloved MajSev back haha, this time if I win freebets I'm going to be a bit less adventurous and go for 3/1 odds maybe instead of going so high.

Also... New dice not as fun as old... And will we ever fix the Wednesday 0.7% edge that I've asked about before? It itching to do something with my balance;)

I'll ended up taking it too, and then just "insured" it with a favourite parlay that included England winning haha. If I get a bit more stupid in a few hours I might even do a few more. I mean, I bet on Poland without even reading up, I found out too late Lewandowski's not even playing as they'd given him an extended rest. Sometimes I honestly wonder how I would really bet if I actually spent more time researching haha.

Eff me man, I really need to research shit before this. Especially games where the team lineups aren't even serious. To be fair, Netherlands BARELY won this one haha.


Me too man, me too. I don't go 100x or even 50x but just love the matches where you know the ookies hugely overfavour the underdog! Remember, I'm not a good tipster at all, but I do love betting on those longshots.

Sportsbet has a weekly multi, on the favourites, boosted odds. That's always good value for me, for example.

Sorry about Poland. Iceland today? Hahahaha....

Scotland got it lucky I have to say. No clear shots on goal, basically a game the Israelis could have gone to win in the first half. Then the plucky bois got their penalty. Love Robbo of course so of course I'm happy haha. They got to do better than this though if they want to further their ambition past group stage.

Ah yeah, all that talk about Leeds. It's nostalgia really, that was the youth of the Prem League, almost around the time I also first started following it, when my heroes were still young and my age, and when Leeds were stylish and punching it up in the Champions League! Leicester they were not though, and I'm happy to see opportunities like these where it's not just the megarich playing with coins and bills on the pitch;)

Whoopsie Stonks, guess this time Bitcoin decided to follow the stockmarkets again yeah? Way of them to go so high and then take THAT tumble yesterday (or was it the day before now? Everything's blurred to me now).

Don't worry though, still doesn't mean much in the long term. Equity reacts on crashes is all.

Plus, you'll often be asked to KYC anyway and if your IP address and actual access location don't match, it's another can of worms. It's not a very fair case at all in most circumstances with ToS and it's well known, so yeah. If you can't play it normally, you shouldn't. VPN should be a way to protect your privacy, rather than using it to circumvent ToS.

Nice call on Germany's defensive lineup, ty, I'm still curious as to why they did that, given the blazing form of their front line. Perhaps it's all about risk management on Day 1 against the strongest opponent in group.

I'm still uninterested in most of the odds, and probably willing to gamble with the upstarts in the groups. Kazakhstan odds are quite good for me today. Poland at almost 9/1 anyone?

Um, thanks Latvia. You did try 10 shots on goal to none, but should have put in that penalty haha. Oh well.

OK so Netherlands should win nicely today but Lewandowski's had such a strong season, I think it's worth a punt for an upset by the Poles, yeah?

100 units at Sportsbet on Poland to WIN vs Netherlands @8.49. Fairlay is @8.45
Bet ID: 5f51d9fa44d1fd2d4837209f

Units advantage: 4


Note: I've now just rounded up decimals. Headache haha.

Yup, I was just saying how the odds don't look so interesting for me, I at least avoided taking too many parlays, a lot of them would have lost with all those nonsense results, 5 games ended in draws! I might even just take a bet a day this entire weekend! Iceland still trying to tempt me heh heh.