I have a doubt regarding the extra point system, but first I would like to confirm that I can still receive any prizes from the side competition only at the end of the main competition, as it already happened in the last edition.

Now the doubt regarding the normal point system:

I know I already used my joker, and since I want to keep the benefit I know I can't double my points again, but my question is if I can "steal" the joker from my opponents. Let's say that today I have the "Highest number of wins during the day". I can't get my points doubled but if I win this, that means that my opponent didn't win the challenge so no one will get their points doubled, is that correct?

Yep that was tough luck :/
I was sawing my opponents bets and it seems that he got really unlucky in some of his bets as well, like these two, also lost by the same game.
https://directbet.eu/BetStatus.cshtml?BetID=1947KajfwwxwRinSQqp6QcayRWGU17KPT5
https://directbet.eu/BetStatus.cshtml?BetID=165kJSTAj3DsbuHBs7gkjoN2zqeSrA5ETz

Or this one. Just one goal and with a missed penalty:
https://directbet.eu/BetStatus.cshtml?BetID=1BstXejQuqETpFYTtY3Q2BmPEjhNYSMCxr

Better days will come I'm sure, and this really looks like the best contest so far. I don't remember seeing a top4 above 100% ROI and still in the middle of the competition.

I'm glad I've passed to the next round. I had a really bad start but manage to get a rush on the last three days.
I really like the new extra point system, we can't really relax because one good day of bets allied with a daily challenge win, can turn the tables.
I really enjoyed the battle in the group C

There was only one thing I "didn't like". Like the admin said, some groups were less active, and that resulted in easy points for some players.

My suggestion is:
Why not a league? Just one group instead of 6 and then the top 16 will advance to the playoffs? This way everyone would be in the same situation, and players in inactive groups would not get an advantage.


Anyway, as usual I'm really enjoying thi competition!
Waiting to see who my opponent will be on the next round xD

As the admins of the competition normally say, you can see everything related to the side competition in the second post of this thread (discussion thread). Here is the link if you want:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1256522.msg13026765#msg13026765

By the way, congrats on leading both the main competition and your group of the side competition!

I think they are completely different things. When you play a game, it's for the game itself in my opinion. The motives can varie from the type of game, maybe you like action, maybe you like a story, maybe you like role playing, maybe you like puzzle, etc etc, but when you gamble, I don't think you care to much about what you are doing, you can flip a coin, you can play dice, or make a bet. When you gamble you look for the excitement in risking something to try to win something back, and I don't think you care that much about the activity from which you are getting that thrill.

Quite interesting games for tomorrow. I will take my chances on Man City v Everton, Chelsea v Leicester, West Brom v Tottenham. City and Tottenham, are doing great in the premier, and I expect both of them to win, specially Tottenham, because I'm sure they don't want to waste their effort in being right now the only team that defeated City, so they will keep the pressure on City by winning their game I think. As for Chelsea, it's not that they are doing great, but Leicester is having so much trouble when playing away, that I expect them to lose again.

Man City v Everton
Man City @ 1.46

West Brom v Tottenham
Tottenham @ 1.68

Chelsea v Leicester
Chelsea @ 1.53

Two great games for tomorrow, Juventus v Udinese and Napoli v Roma. I don't think Udinese will score against Juventus because they are having trouble scoring and Juventus has the best defense so far, so it should be a good bet. As for Napoli v Roma, I think although both teams are playing well, Roma is really struggling when playing away so I will bet on Napoli to win.

Juventus v Udinese
Both teams to Score? No @ 1.62

Napoli v Roma
Napoli @ 1.97

hmm I don't think that works like that, and if you want to go that way, Toulouse also won vs PSG when they played home. Actually they did not lost home yet, so it wont be an easy game. I will still go for Monaco, because they are doing very well, but it's not close to 100%, but since the odds are @2.42, I think there value in that bet.

I think I will go for Dortmund today. They have a few losses vs current "top5" teams, and they will sure have some trouble vs Hertha. But those two losses were when playing away, so I really think they will win this one, since they are playing home. The odds are low, so I will probably use it in a parlay.

Some interesting games for today, Nice vs Lyon and Toulouse vs Monaco. Monaco is playing very well away, but Toulouse is very strong at home. It's a great test for Monaco, as I'm not sure they will be able to keep this good form the entire season. Anyway I will go for Monaco.
As for Nice, I'm pretty confident they will win this one. Interesting season this year. PSG fans are missing Ibahimovic for sure.

Today I'm going for the game Las Palmas v Espanyol. Both teams are struggling, but Las Palmas is playing at home, and is slightly better than Espanyol in my opinion, so I will go for them.

Las Palmas v Espanyol
Draw No Bet, Las Palmas @ 1.52

Today I'm going for Fluminense vs Flamengo. I confident on a win for Flamengo, they are quite strong both home and away, so I expect them to win this one. The draw no bet seems like a good chance to @1.6, but I will risk it this time.

Fluminense v Flamengo
Flamengo @ 2.1

I'm so tired of Argentina, they keep messing up my bets. Another loss with them, and look at those odds :/
Didn't expect the draw from the USA. They seemed to be in great form, and started well, but the game was way more balanced than I would expect.

I'm not sure I'm understanding this. If it's based on a learning AI doesn't that mean that a player that knows the AI pattern of behaviour, or how it is evolving, could exploit that and predict the outcome of a bet? If it's not random, and it follows a pattern then you just have to know that pattern and you will keep winning I guess, because you know what the AI will decide. If it works like this, then I don't know how you can bring this idea to gamble.

Going for a few games today and will make a parlay with them.
Murray is doing great as usual so I expect him to win in two sets vs Johnson. I know he gave him trouble in the Olympics, but I don't think it will happen again. The other bets on my parlay are on a few favourites that I think should win their games, Dimitrov and Kyrgios

Tennis Parlay
Pospisil v G Dimitrov, Dimitrov
Kyrgios v M Zverev, Kyrgios
Johnson v Murray, Murray 2 - 0

Total odds: 1.76

I have one doubt, if we change lets say for Entry 2, but were already using Entry 1 at start, will the bets from both entries count to the minimum bets required? Hope it does because if I make the chance close to the end of the group phase, it would be unfair to be forced to make 21 bets on last days.

i'm making a few bets for would cup qualifying games again. This time I will go for England to win, Germany to win nill, and Uruguay to win.
The hardest ones on these games will probably be England and Uruguay. Let's see how it goes.

Yes I agree with you, the odds for Chelsea are pretty decent. Leicester is having a lot of trouble and I don't think they can win. As for scoring I don't know either. Not saying that Chelsea defense if that good, but they are not conceding that many goals and Leicester is having trouble scoring.

Never heard of this site before. It's a interesting concept. Not a thrilling game, but still nice for a "lottery".
Quite a decent number of wins in the website considering the low odds. It's not easy to guess 1 in 16, and I counted 8 wins out of 40, so it's on that page at least the winnings were better than 1 in 16.

I'm glad changes will be made if the group activity stays the same. I think anyone from Group C or D, would get 8 points if they were on Group A, so yest, it's a big disadvantage for us, if things stay the same.