I like watching Patricia Mamona from Portugal. She is a great athlete in my opinion and she is really hot xD
I wish the football competition was taken more serious on the Olympics. Normally only youngsters participate, and it's really hard to bet lol

I'm making a parlay with Verdasco, Kurumi Nara and Isner. I think they are in great form, and should win their games. Specially Isner and Kurumi Nara. I actually already had a parlay just on them, but then made another one with Verdasco.

I also won a bet with Begu today, she played really well vs Puig, and I will probably bet on her vs Babos as well. She really serves well in my opinion.

Total odds for the parlay: @2.12

That was really unlucky. I know this is a competition, but I really like seeing wins in high odds parlays. I still remember sanerin win around @50 or something like that, and then around @20 in the same competition. I think no one ever got a parlay at those odds in this competition, but I know there was at least one more around @30. Yolanda222 got a decent one already:
https://directbet.eu/BetStatus.cshtml?BetID=DB7YL4PF5AXrpAyE2UsbfmyarXrirnSxfX

Good luck to your next parlays. I wont even try, I'm happy when I win parlays with 3 selections @3 xD

I'm going for Barcelona v Leicester today. Even if Leicester did well in the Premier League, they are of course not in the Barcelona level, so I expect a win for Barcelona. Also I expected it to be over 2.5

Barcelona v Leicester
Barcelona @ 1.22
Over 2.5 Goals @ 1.49

I don't believe in the "turn into a Profitable Activity" part. Maybe in poker or sports betting, but definitely not in pure casino games. Unless you do it with bonus money, then it might work, otherwise you will win in the short run, but lose in the long term, so that is not a profitable activity.

I do believe in most of the things in that article, like bankroll management and a good mind set. That is key to prevent you from going bankrupt fast, and maybe stay in the game long enough for a short term win. But again in the long term, there is nothing you can do.

I think it's fair, but I can't be sure of it, because I don't know the system very well. Although I do believe that there are many users, or even competition, that would probably expose casinos if they were not being fair I guess. Also I never saw anything really unexpected happening to me in casino games. Sometimes I win, sometimes I lose, and most of the times I lose of course, but that's normal. In my case I'm actually being lucky, because for now I do have some profit, but is mainly because I use mostly bonus money, like the 70mBTC participation prize from the Tipster Championship. It's free money, so whatever I get from it it's profit lol

When I use my own money, I follow strict bankroll management rules, and withdraw my initial deposit as soon as possible. Sometimes I lose it all, otehr times I lose only a part of it, and some times I get lucky. So I guess I do trust the system right now.

The best thing that happened to me was when I played at betcoin.tm. I went from 0.1 to 3 BTC, but it wasn't in one single day or bet.
I was doing well on craps and some sport betting, and then mainly on roulette. But it took me a couple of weeks to get there. It was a really lucky phase for me and it never happened again. I had some luck on direcbet, in the roulette, but I just went from 70mBTC to 190mBTC or something like that, with the participation prize they gave me from the Tipster Championship competition.

I don't think that works. People may say whatever they want, but the main reason people gamble, and that is well reported in psychological and sociological studies, is the illusion of controlling an unexpected event, and the pleasure that comes from that. Of course that there are many other variables, but that is base behind gambling success. You go to a casino or talk to a gambler, or even look the the threads on this forum, and you will see people discussing strategies for gambling, when everyone knows but prefer to ignore that there is something called house edge, and you are expected to lose in the long run, and although you can win in the short run because you are lucky, it will definitely not because of your amazing strategy.

So if you put something like the flip of a coin, the margin or illusion is smaller, it will be harder to convince yourself that you have a strategy to win and control the flip of a coin. Although even there you will see people discussing martingale and other betting strategies.

So flipping a coin, playing roulette or craps or dice or whatever, will be the same, but it will feel worse because it's harder to fool yourself on such a simple game.

(I exclude poker and sports betting, because there is strategy involved there, although the base is the same, trying to control the unexpected, but you do have a small chance of doing that, but luck still plays a large role even in these games)

I also had a bet on under 2.5 in the APOEL game. That was really bad luck, it's not the same as betting that there will be no more goals after the 80min. You have 20min left to play, and if a team is not satisfied with the result, they will take more chances and goals will likely to come in.

But a game having more than 3 to 5min discounts is not vary common, and 3 goals after the 90 min is even more rare. Even 3 goals in 9 min is rare lol
Everything went wrong on that game, and i'm pretty sure that is something that happens 1 in 100 games, or probably even less likely. Market was obvious closed, so houses were not even given 1.01 odds, because that would result in a loss for them in the long run. So that was a loss at odds bellow 1.01 :/

Yep, that APOEL game was really bad luck. Hopefully it will not happen again any time soon lol
Things ended up well at the end of the day with some live tennis games going well. I was thinking that entry for the competition was dead already, but it's still alive xD

Talking about bad luck today...
First I had a bet live on Zeballos to win 2-0, and he goes to the tie break, is winning 5-4 on tie break, just needs to score two more points on his two services, and just gives it away. It happens I know, but it's still bad luck, but what happened next in the same day is really bad luck I guess.

In the APOEL vs Rosenborg, I had a bet on under 2.5, the game is 0-0 at 90min, and three goals go in on 90+1, 90+6, 90+9

Oh well, better days will come I guess :/

omfg you what just happened on APOEL vs Rosenborg game? I had a bet on the under 2.5, things were doing well, and three goals after the 90 minutes go in??? (90+1, 90+6, 90+9) Three goals and 10min discounts that is just not normal...

Oh well at least it did not mess my parlay, because I bet on under 3.5 there, let's hope BATE Borisov win the game and I'm still in profit.

I'm also making a parlay for today.

Dundalk v BATE Borisov, Draw No Bet BATE Borisov
Dinamo Tbilisi v Dinamo Zagreb, Draw or Away
APOEL v Rosenborg, Under 3.5 Goals
Total odds: 2.29

I'm also betting individual bets on two of those games,

Dinamo Tbilisi v Dinamo Zagreb, Draw No Bet Dinamo Zagreb @1.6
APOEL v Rosenborg, Under 2.5 Goals @1.92

I think teams will be cautious on the APOEL v Rosenborg, because one early goal for any of those teams could be decisive.
On the other games both BATE Borisov and Dinamo Zagreb are playing well and are experienced on European competitions, so I expect them to win their games.

I don't believe beginners are more lucky than the rest. That is a very weird concept to me, like if someone is managing luck, and beginners are given more at start. That just doesn't make sense, since luck is random f course.

Anyway, I do believe that a beginner state of mind is in most situations no affected by fear, simply because they haven't experienced loss etc. So they just go with the flow and if they are getting lucky they take the best of it, since they risk it because everything is doing well. A more "experienced" player, that has faced loss several times, probably seems to stop sooner when they are ahead because they are afraid to lose.

My favourite casino games are roulette and craps. Roulette is quite easy to find, but craps is quite hard, at least with decent odds.
Outside the pure casino games, I like poker and sports betting.

I'm not sure I understood your "edit note", but if you are looking for promotions etc, I would recommend the Tipster Championship. I usually participate in this competition, and already got to the prizes twice. If you enjoy betting I really don't see any reason not to join, since you are betting and at the same time competing to win prizes. On worst case scenario you get a participation prize of 70mBTC which you can spend at the casino, but if you "get lucky", the top7 prizes are quite decent in my opinion.
It has already started, but you can still register here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1248467.0

Yes I saw it, it didn't went well, but I guess that's one way to use the multi entries. If those bets went well, and at those odds, he would had a great start, and then he could just try to manage with low odds and some "normal" bets. Nothing is lost though. I know this is very early, but I'm seeing some new "faces" in the top7 right now after the first day, like Patrick349 and Want0sell, that are doing some good odds bets. I think this competition will be interesting.

I was checking the leaderboard after I made my first bet and I saw that 98789 (1) is making an offensive approach in this competition.
Really great odds on your bets.

Good luck man!

It actually happened to me both online and on a real casino. Although on the casino I only had like 20 rolls total, but still it was a lot of bad luck I think.
I hardly play slots, but I'm sure on a loss with them. I have no idea what the house edge is, I think it varies, but i don't think they are worth it :/

LOL that looks really fun. I haven't tried it yet because I didn't really wanted to register for an account. Have you played it? And if so, is it against other players in real time, or can you pause it, or play for turns etc. Because if it is in real time it will just take forever to end lol
I will probably give it a go, I really love monopoly.

The fun in gambling is the thrill of risking something to try to win. It's the pleasure of thinking you can control the unexpected which of course you can't. And it always works, because if you lose you will probably blame the casino or say that it's not your fault, you had bad luck, and when you win you will say that your skill was flawless and you will be happy with it xD