He played with Crazy Time with $35 bets... that's far away from careful gambling. I wonder how big his bets were when he played with a $35k balance?

It's an interesting story about the guy who won a lot, spent some on his house and gadgets, and then returned most of it because he wanted to win even more. He had a nice balance, and I believe he thought he would rock the house with that balance, but that didn't happen. Something similar happened to me many times, with smaller amounts. I go x5 from my deposit and instead of continuing to play the same, or even better withdrawing most of it, I raise bets and just bust the entire balance. Well, that wish to win even more and more (greediness) can really make a mess in our minds. When we sober up from that feeling, it's already too late.

I like that "my money, my rules" term, it's like that. People should be free to do whatever they want with their money. I guess we can apply "easy come, easy go" here as well, when we earn money in some easy way we usually spend that money pretty fast. Claiming some airdrops can be pretty simple & easy.

There is always something smart that can be done with money, but the desire for easy money through gambling is very tempting, especially for those who love risk. I guess there are a lot of them here, a lot of active gamblers in one place... I am one of them, and I busted some money on gambling a lot of times that came from some work. There are no regrets, I guess I wanted that in that moment and that's it. Maybe we are all lunatic gamblers.

Before everything else, I think that most of us are addicted gamblers... but it's ok as long as we control it, as long as we know our limits it's ok. I don't believe that people lose all the time, gambling life is full of ups and downs for all of us constantly, so we all win and lose constantly, but if a bad period comes we will experience extreme losses.

It's not so bad when we lose money if we can afford to lose it. Problems come when we lose money we can't afford to lose, so if people play with "borrowed money" they can get into serious problems.

So it's up to us (individuals), if we can control our gambling desires we will not get into some serious issues, but if we can't then it's just a matter of time before some big problem will emerge.

I couldn't find my old login, so I created a new account. It's still an old coin poker interface and I don't see anything new here, it's still the same and working fine for me. I played some freerolls and I was surprised with the gameplay to be honest, it's pretty slow and people play like it's a paid tournament... I haven't seen anyone force all-ins through the game just like that, the game is careful and players seem to be playing the freerolls differently these days.

Anyway, it's good to see CoinPoker here again, and I hope we will see some nice Bitcointalk promotions in the future.

You are right, it's hypocritical of Elon to say that working from home is immoral while he's building AI & robots. Billionaires seem to go crazy at some point, probably a lot of money goes to their heads and they get some weird ideas.

There's nothing wrong or immoral in working from home on a laptop, if the work is such that it can be done that way, why not? I think it's silly to talk about whether someone will be more productive in the workplace or while working from home, we are all different... I believe that people who feel comfortable and know how to organize their time can be just as (if not more ) productive while working from home. Again, it depends on the person, we are not all the same. Elon talks a lot and says a lot of smart things, but sometimes (like now) he gets a little carried away.

Many people like to place bets they can't cover. I guess they are somehow convinced of their win, for all sorts of reasons, but whatever that reason may be it's wrong to gamble with money you can't afford to lose. Many people, including myself, have experience with some crazy bets, with amounts that are big for us, but that's something we can do when we are young and alone... It's the period of life when we can allow ourselves to be crazy and explore things. But as we get older our limits for gambling and doing crazy things are getting lower, I couldn't imagine myself doing something like that. The risk is huge, I have family and I wouldn't dare to risk their future because of anything, and what kind of example I would be for my kids?

$1000 freeroll tournaments every 6 hours is an incredible promotion, this is how the greats get into action. Surely they will change it at some point, except for freeroll they didn't add anything else, but we can expect some crazy GTD poker tournaments.

When we fold it's hard to see cards, but it's ok on the bigger screen. When you switch your seat just right-click on the seat you wish and press "sit here".

I played my first free roll this morning and was +300 place among +1800 players. I missed this one at 3 pm by minutes, but I will probably play tonight at 9pm. See you at the tables and good luck.

I never thought about how long it would take me to claim my lottery prize, I guess it depends on how much the prize really is... Maybe it would be good to organize everything properly before accepting the prize, a new bank account or maybe more accounts, some in foreign currencies. When you think about it, it might be wise to invest most of the money right away in some things that will generate additional profit, while also protecting against overspending. And if we organize that before receiving the prize it will minimize the chance of becoming greedy with so much money.

It's one thing to talk about it, but getting a huge amount of money from once affects the human psyche a lot. That's why this waiting period even sounds reasonable, it's always better to be patient and slowly get into some new things.

Well, we can't blame anyone... Everyone is free to believe what they want and do as they see fit, but casinos are not the ones who are giving away massive wealth just like that. You said it yourself, casinos promise the potential to get rich quickly... but that potential comes with conditions and huge risks. I guess it's exactly what we learn the hard way, we can't trust in gambling so much to risk everything we have, or even worse to borrow money to pursue a dream of getting rich by gambling.


We all learn at some point what gambling is, but that learning comes at a cost. But anyway, I don't think we can say that gambling is bad for society, it can be bad like many other things around if people get into it with high expectations and without proper knowledge.

Too much of anything is bad in some way, so "Bad to society" can be pretty much everything. Gambling is not "bad", but when people push too much and force their gambling habits they will cause problems, for themselves and their families.

The problem is that many people have too high expectations when it comes to gambling, and while chasing those expectations, they slowly fall into a hole that is difficult to get out of. Education is important, but most of us learn things the hard way...

I also received the mail with some free spins, but unfortunately Pragmatic is off-limits for me: "Sorry, the game is not available for your jurisdiction. , all over the screen. Something like this has happened to me many times, I get free spins for some Pragmatic slot and can't play them. Only one or two casinos offer another option, usually some BGaming slot.

Well, definitely a nice win from free spins Malcovi2, it doesn't happen often, but when it does it's a pure pleasure when we manage to take some profits from free spins.

Welcome back to the forum. I played on CoinPoker in the early days, that was a long time ago, like decades ago. I think I have the username and password written down somewhere, but I need to check that. Anyway, I will try to log in back and give it a try... Since I didn't play in a long time I hope I will see some improvements.

Maybe finally the right place to continue the Bitcointalk private poker series.

"Jontay Porter receives lifetime ban from NBA for violating gambling rules" - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5493370.msg63962337#msg63962337

Biggest Sports Betting Scandals - https://www.gosubetting.com/blog/betting-guides/biggest-sports-betting-scandals/

We can find many more articles about cooperation between gamblers and players. One thing is for sure, the big names reach the newspapers and usually from the strong world leagues, but there are many more in the lower leagues, which are not followed by everyone and which slip under the radar.

So it's not a question of whether they can cooperate or not. The question is how much it really happens in all sporting events, can we even make any assumptions about it? For example, does this happen in 10-20% of all games worldwide? Maybe more or less?

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Need for money, you said that right. We know that we can't do anything good without money so we work to get it, but it's never enough.

Well, there are places where we don't need money, but in those places, we need to have "real skills" if we want to survive. You don't go to live in nature without knowing many different things, from hunting to working with different tools. I watch some serials about those things on TV, except knowing many things and trades I think those people need to be mentally prepared to endure in the wilderness.

I have 36k, and I asked myself the same thing last night... I understood it in the same way as Potato, depending on the amount of these points we will get some MWIN tokens with airdrop, one day.

I missed Rocky promotion, and it looks like the story is heating up, so is it too late to get in? Maybe Rocky is the next big thing in the meme coins world.

You have to look at the bigger picture... a lottery winner is not an expert in gambling, he probably played the lottery every week for many years, and x amount of tickets are involved. So once he won it's not like he was an expert, he just pursued his goals. I guess we can say the same about people who chase crazy big odds in sports betting (I know a few of them), so parlays with 5+ games (sometimes even more) with odds over x100 (and x1k) rarely win, but people who chase it win from time to time. And do we need to mention slots? After losing so many spins (probably losing entire bankrolls as well) people hit something nice and big, at least some people. So people share their big wins, but you need to ask yourself how they got there... it sometimes happens that someone who bets for the first time wins a lot of money, but this rarely happens.


I made a lot of reckless bets in my life... well it changes my gambling style for a while, that's certain, but sooner or later I come back to my gambling styles. And yes, thise bet make me a bit uncomfortable, but I chill it out pretty fast. There's no point in regreting about the spoiled milk.

As I wrote, I think that even when it starts working, no one will dare to try it. I am open-minded, but there were too many similar attempts in the past, so this is not the first time we have seen someone just appear with some "like" new idea and similar presentation. None of that came to life, so I doubt this will work either.

I agree that the OP should have an attitude, but instead of insulting someone's intelligence, he should focus on his work. This topic of his and the way he talks don't convince me that anything good will come out of this. I leave some chances for the possibility that I may be wrong, but I guess we will see about that. If anyone shows up and decides to give it a try...

Most of us like to combine casino games with betting on sports. I guess we can say they are two different things in so many ways. Casino games are always available, table games of all sorts, slots, original games, all of them are available 24/7. The gameplay depends on you, you can play it faster and more aggressively for extra excitement, or you can take it slow. I think most of us mix those two from time to time, from moment to moment. You need to have basic knowledge and you are ready to go and play any casino game, if you get lucky enough you can win nice amounts. Sadly without luck, we will just bust our bankroll, or some part of it.

Sport betting on the other side provides a different kind of excitement. We need to wait game to finish, so the waiting period is a lot longer, and there are not always good games. But with some nice knowledge about the sport you plan to bet on you can have more chances to win, but there are no guarantees in gambling.

I completely agree with you, this is most likely a scam. If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck...


That may be the only truly imaginative thing about this scam. Poor presentation and a pretty common scam, but at least he came up with the idea about the "Bitcoin Entropy Betting System":


We can only imagine how BTC's entropy will choose the winner. I guess he will not find any players here... nobody will even dare to try this one.