Gambling includes plethora of games, various sports to bet on but doesn't it all boil down to money in the end? More the money involved, more the thrill.

Suppose, as title says — you had infinite amount of money, would you still gamble?

Personally, I can't see myself giving two fucks when I don't care for money in first place. Would you?

I have observed that if you increase your needs, the new 'increased need state' becomes your new norm after a while. For example, if you didn't have car before but then you purchase it, use it regularly and then when you don't have it anymore — you'll miss your car, you'll feel like you can't live without it even though you managed to live without it before.

Do you agree with this observation? Would you agree that it's better to not increase your needs in first place?

There is this one old age thread, which didn't have much discussion so here is quick refresh. What do y'all think? Is it doable? Does this forum needs it?

I personally liked shoutboxes on forums I have been on, it's good for quick chat.

...Is it fiat payment methods? Is it that casinos holding users money? — these two are top of my head, you tell me more.

So, why not remove whatever those things are that makes casinos necessary to be regulated? Meaning — stick to crypto deposits, don't hold users funds (i.e, become non-custodial).

Does that get rid of casinos requiring to be regulated am I being ignorant about scheme of things?

So I was looking to purchase Amazon india giftcard with btc and went through several sites like bitrefill, coinsbee, cryptorefills, coinsgate, topup-balance — it's out of stock on every single one of them, which is bit weird.

Do you know any other site where I can purchase Amazon.in gc and importantly it's in stock?

There is this thing on YT where interviewer asks the old people for what they have learned in life and what advise they would like to give to young ones, so the young ones may learn from them and potentially save themselves from expensive learning lessons.

The purpose of this thread is similar. For those who have been gambling for a while, what lessons have you learned that you would like to share with new gamblers, so they may save themselves from potentially expensive learnings too.

We can argue sports betting is about knowledge a person has about sports but at the end of the day, a person who merely goes with favorite, will also get his picks often right. So is sports betting actually about knowledge?

Edit: So many people are misunderstanding the word, 'favorite' here. What I meant here is oddmaker's favorite. Suppose, a competition is held between two teams 'A' and 'B' with odds 1.2 for former and 2.0 for latter, then former is favorite, and bettor can bet on this favorite without having iota of knowledge about sports itself and still likely win the bet.

I understand the payout will be less, but here we are saying, getting the pick right without having knowledge about sports whatsoever.

Hope I have made myself clear enough.

So, some users when they quote stuff from some website they put the url in 'quote author'.

Like this,

Steve Smith (c), Sean Abbott, Alex Carey,  Ben Dwarshuis, Nathan Ellis, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Aaron Hardie, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Spencer Johnson, Marnus Labuschagne, Glenn Maxwell, Tanveer Sangha, Matthew Short, Adam Zampa. Travelling reserve: Cooper Connolly.

Now, IMO it looks unclean, could it work something like URL tag, where you can hide the URL link and give it a name so it doesn't look ugly?

For example, this is how it should be where website link is hidden under 'Cricket Australia'


Note: Redirection icon by Hidemaru from freepik.


What do you think?

I just read this topic — Survey: Understanding Gamblers and Their Feelings

..and top result is to win money. Now, I have been at this phase before trying to win money with gambling and I fell face first that I find this idea absurd these days.

Now, those voters, have you been successful with making money with gambling?

As the title says, 'regulated casino' term has been thrown around a lot but I never really understood what is meant by it, hence this question.

Does regulated casino mean — user funds are secured? Does it give user a legal recourse in case things go haywire with casino? Does it mean games are provably fair?

One thing I know though, is that on regulated casinos KYC is required, if casino doesn't require kyc from start, it can be asked anytime. Tell me more.

I haven't bet in a while, looking to get back into it.

I am looking for no-kyc casinos, better if non-custodial otherwise crypto deposit options work fine. I am aware of some casinos promoted here, like Stake, Duelbits, but you can be asked for kyc here afaik, do correct me if I am wrong.

I remember making bets on directbet decade ago, it was such a smooth stuff. Is there still any casinos that work same way?

To say, I find myself being more generous in crypto, can spend dollars here and there like it's nothing whereas in irl I'd think twice before purchasing a higher priced items at a grocery store.

I feel it's like cash and paying online kinda thing, if you don't know what that is, it's quoted below:

The cashless effect describes our tendency to be more willing to pay when there is no physical money involved in a transaction. It means that we are more likely to purchase something on a credit card than if we have to pay for it with cash.

Source: Cashless Effect

T20 Cricket World Cup 2024 starts shortly and to make it more engaging we are hosting a contest on SuperBru — make your picks, be in top 3 at end of tournament and take the prize.

Prize pool: $100 (minus transaction fees)

Prize distribution:

1st place:  50% of prize pool
2nd place: 35% of prize pool
3rd place: 15% of prize pool

If there is tie between two contestants, the percentage allocated to those two ranks will be combined and divided evenly between them. For example, if 2nd and 3rd place tie then both contestants will receive 25% of total prize pool.

Now that you heard about the prize, Join the pool through link given below and comment your SuperBru ID from your Bitcointalk account to be accepted (must be of Member rank or above to be accepted).

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Anyone can participate in discussion in this thread whether participating in pool or not but this thread is self moderated to remove spam, if any.

Join the pool before world cup starts, and make your predictions before matches start. Good luck, have fun!

So there is this app/website called defi which gives 6-8% return daily. My brother invested in it 10k INR, withdrew 12500, he received 10K out of it, as for withdrawal there was 20% fees.

I'm glad as his capital was back, now since this app gives 6-8% return daily, he made another extra 70k INR quickly, tried to withdraw, stayed pending for long period. Contacted their customer support, they said if you give us referrals we will give your withdrawal. Lol.

Website link for research purposes: https://definftly.com/ (this site is scam, do not anything there).

My brother was joined into this program by another relative of mine, there is very little to be surprised that that relative could have suggested this to get referral reward or to get his own withdraw.

Crypto teaches you few things, so to me, on very first glance the site looked like scam, whether it be a UI or hefty returns, told my brother it's scam but my brother had already invested in it, plus he weren't been through enough scams to judge what was it on first glance. Anyway, glad he got his invested amount back.

Take lessons as you may, I felt about sharing this story.

p.s: Wanted to post this in India sub, then I thought it's proper here. Idk. Suggest/report if you think it this should be moved elsewhere.

I was just playing Hi-Lo, making small dollar bets, if it's 5 number card I select higher card and win, if it's 10 number then I go with 'low' and win.

Then I was greeted with Ace card, minimal possibility for equal card right (i.e, Ace), so I go all in, and guess what happens, the result is Ace means I lost the bet.

Then I have all sorts of thoughts blaming casino, like do they manipulate the result of the game when user goes all in. I am sure they are all fair, it's just that the possibility of losing the game may be minimal but it's never 0.

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Sometimes I'm able to remove it, sometimes I'm not. What's up?

I didn't make this thread self-moderated when I posted and now I want to as I feel there are few comments that shouldn't be there. Should op be allowed to make thread self-moderated after posting? I.e, able to edit thread later on to make it self-moderated, what do you think?

I was reading coinconfessions, and it occurred to to me that most of those who are in crypto go through a phase where they make lots of money, but eventually lose it all or most of it due to wrong decisions taken due to having lack of financial knowledge.

Some start fresh with lessons learned and make it back, for some having huge unexpected money come and gone creates a downward spiral that they feel hard to get out of, almost like they were better off not having this unexpected wealth come in first place.

I just came across this Twitter handle and found it pretty relevant and entertaining. You might too: https://twitter.com/coinfessions

Feel free to comment if something hits you right in the feels and you feel like commenting upon It; it surprises me how relevant some of confessions were to me, and how we are all pretty much same.