Unfortunately, my prediction of Hamilton as the winner didn't work out, but with a bit of luck I guessed the podium, just in the constellation of Hamilton, Verstappen and Alonso. But it was a bit different, but that's how it is.
Otherwise a decent race, Ferrari was even better than expected and Mercedes confirmed their performance from Friday and Saturday, so on to the next race.
Finally I saw a Ferrari strategy that worked out well for them as they both ended the race before Perez which was the maximum they could do during this race.Perez once again showed how a mediocre driver he is and I would agree on Redbull changing him for Ricciardo if possible,I am sure Ricciardo would not be as mediocre as him with this excellent car he has to drive but unfortunately the Perez contract does not permit it. If you found all podium places correctly you get a nice additional 2 points bonus and in a race like that with Russell and Stroll out of the top 10 those 2 points are of vital importance,personally I did not well for the second consecutive race and I am losing steam in this predictor pool of F1 this year. |
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Friendlies game are the worse of the worse to bet on,Germany losing to Poland is just an example of why the big teams do not care much and they only try different setups and way of plays so they can see how effective they are to implement them in real competitions.If you want to lose money then go ahead and bet on friendly games,it is a known fact that the casinos and sport bookies make the most of their money from friendly games,the odds are somewhat different also,the over and under goals are different also so it is difficult to win here.Some people have net huge wins in some occasions but those have been very specific cases in 99% betting on friendlies is a waste of time.
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Bayern Munich is still very strong despite the loss of Robert Lewandowski and Manuel Neuer, but their domination in the Bundesliga is no longer the same, moreover Thomas Tuchel is not so quick to integrate existing players so he needs adaptation next season. The arrival of several new players will help the team become better and we also know that Bayern Munich's finances are still quite strong compared to other teams in the Bundesliga. Dortmund as Bayern Munich's strong challenger in the 2022-2023 season, actually had a great opportunity, but unfortunately they had to lose their chance in the last game and even that happened at home. So I believe that Bayern Munich's ability is still quite strong in the Bundesliga next season and it's just that they need to adapt. I would like to see Dortmund and Leipzig give Bayern Munich a big fight for the title. I also believe that the next season might be the best chance for them to do so. The coach is a fairly new one. He will need some time to get set with the squad. This is a chance that these two teams should take. Obviously, I don’t think it is going to be easy. The squad of Bayern Munich is still the best in the Bundesliga in my opinion. But we know that if there is a problem in coaching, the team can actually lose the matches that they should not be losing. So if the coaching is bad, that is the only chance that Dortmund and Leipzig are going to get to win the title. But the biggest thing is both of them will have to be consistent. If they are inconsistent like they were in the last season they do not have any hope. Dortmund,that funny team who had the title completely in their hands which they just needed to beat a mediocre team like Mainz in their home and they could not,they had the biggest chance to win the Bundesliga this very past season yet they didn't manage to do so disappointing all fans.Based on that I would completely leave out of the title fight this upcoming season for Dortmund,that was a huge psychological blow and as long as the players are the same the ones coming in into the upcoming season it will be extremely difficult to recover in a psychological level after what they have done in the last game of this last season. As for other teams they are not consistent enough and Leipzig is one of such inconsistent teams that do not play every single game as a final as that is the only way to beat Bayern Munchen to the title. |
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Many people find it difficult to accept who they are and the bad habits that they have, accepting a habit is the first step that will determine if any help offered to you will work. As a gambler, will you find it offensive if you are referred to as a gambling addict? will you easily accept it or try to give excuses like some other people do, saying that they are not addicted to gambling when the signs are clearly there. Do you think identifying as an addicted gambler will make people stereotype you. The answer is different for every gambler here.
We live in an online era where not even my closest friends know that I gamble,only my wife knows because I have told her and she is OK with it as long as I don't overdo it,she consider that 100 dollars weekly spent gambling as entertaining for me,kinda like going to the movies and every thing is OK within family walls.In my work they don't even remotely know that I can be a gambler let alone an addicted and this because I never talk about gambling at all there even when my colleagues talk about sport games I listen to them when in reality I am the expert that should be talking about them as I have been betting on such games from quite a lot of time  .So for people who feel bad being stereotyped by other people I let them know that as long as you do it online no one can stereotype you at all. |
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There was a Safety Car which marked the 50 anniversary of the first Safety Car which was exactly here in Canada in 1973 but unfortunately the Safety Car did not change anything as both Verstappen,Hamilton and Alonso entered the pit the same time during that Safety Car.
What looks like another error was again Ferrari leaving both their drivers out with medium tires which would be a very difficult choice when they will got stopping as all other cars are with hard tires so when they will came out they will have a lot of traffic in front of them.Perez is doing his long haul race and he may as well end in the podium.
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The work of the last two managers at Chelsea has really made the job of rebuilding and making Chelsea a very competitive club once more to be a very big task. It was started by how clueless Graham Potter was with his style and ultimately ended with Frank Lampard's gambling style of of football.
However I have a strong opinion that Mauricio Pochettino will definitely make everything work again at Chelsea. He has the potentials to turn the club's fortunes around I believe he'll definitely do a good job at Chelsea come next season and beyond
Pochettino's task next season to make and change the Chelsea team for the better will not be easy even though some people may believe that Pochettino has the ability to make Chelsea better. Because apart from the players who have to follow Pochettino's own direction and style, the team must also provide better players for Chelsea so that there will be more significant improvements for Chelsea next season through their new coach. Even though Mauricio Pochettino needs time to build Chelsea to get back into the Premier League title race, but I personally still believe that Mauricio Pochettino is able to make Chelsea perform better than when Chelsea were coached by Potter and Lampard. Because after all, we will certainly be aware that getting a title is not easy and only coaches who have high luck can achieve achievements quickly. So in essence, Mauricio Pochettino could be the right choice for Chelsea to return to good form and at least be able to compete in the top six in the Premier League standings next season. I think that whoever coach to have come to Chelsea would surely be having better results than Lampard who screw it up in the worse possible way in the last games he managed Chelsea.For me Pochettino is a great coach and at Chelsea he surely has great players to work with which I think during summer he has enough time to implement his game play into this team and I honestly expect a very strong Chelsea since the very first game of this upcoming Premier League season.Chelsea is not taking part in any Euro cups and as such their full focus will be preparing for the Premier League season. |
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The wheater in Canada is very cloudy but no rain. If you want you can watch the live stream of Ferrari Challenge race 2 for free, no copyright from Youtube's Ferrari . here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StwJdt323J8I think it can be actually better, much better to have that suspence and in the mid of the race and unexpected rain can me amazing, all the drivers rushing into boxes to pick inters and after a few laps again dry. I would love a race where most of the laps are run with extreme-full wet tires.That would make sure that we would see the drivers skills more than any car performance as the laps would be like 10-20 seconds slower and in such a time it is needed a lot of driver skill in order to win the race,we have seen in some races some drivers have been able to drive a 1-2 seconds faster lap times than most other drivers and that have been wonderful,we have seen drivers with not the best cars winning the races. |
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We can't compare Pele, Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, or other similar players with Neymar, they played for their national teams for a long time and they earn many achievements also compared to Neymar these players had much better performance and they had more stability while a player like Neymar can't have weeks of good performance and then just like this year, he can disappoint while the team.
I think the generation of golden players in Brazil is over and that's why they couldn't earn many achievements recently in the world cup.
The truth is that the likes of Brazilian Pele, Ronaldinho and Ronaldo were the best players of their football days infact Pele is still regarded as the greatest player to have ever graced the beautiful game of football. However I'm of the opinion that they were able to achieve all they achieved with national team of Brazil because of the high quality players in Brazil as of that time. Neymar on his though have high profile teammates but they can't be compared to this golden generations of Brazilian football Those are truly wonderful players from Brazil but how can someone like me who grew up with the best duo attacking of the Brazilian national team,Romario and Bebeto not being mentioned when the greatest players of Brazil are being mentioned.Sure these guys could not do that dribbling that Ronaldinho,Ronaldo and Pele could do but they were brilliant in creating great chances out of nowhere and scoring a lot of goals.Neymar is not anywhere near them in my opinion,as he has not achieved anything with Brazil,different from all other players mentioned here. |
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With the hangover from ETH still holding down the market, most of the people I know who were GPU mining during the last bubble in 2021 have given up mining. Even those in areas with insanely cheap power that could still be mining profitably are no longer interested and don't see it as their opportunity to easily get rich anymore. This fatigue is usually when I see the market changing. I will admit I've also shut down my miners that were barely profitable due to heat in the summer not making it worth the cooling effort. In my experience, times like now when mining seems like a lost cause is when it's the most profitable looking back.
Mining on new video cards now resembles a useless use of a valuable resource, and miners turn them off from mining. Old video cards give little profit and such mining is used to accumulate coins, but 10-20 cents a day for each video card seems like a small investment. It may seem so but 8 video cards for 1.60 dollars daily now when translated in crypto rewards is not that little,especially if people are firm believers that crypto will reach soon another new all time high.It is very much worth it if these people mine ETC for 1 month,ETHW for another,then jump and use unmineable pool to be paid in any currency they wish for by doing the mining in their favorite currency i.e mining ETHASH algorithm and getting paid in SHIBA INU or other low value tokens like FUN token,so tons of options to put the cards to good use for the people who know what they want to achieve. Think back to mining shitcoins in 2019. Some coins went up and then a lot of projects closed, and the same will happen with the projects that we are mining now. I ask all miners to be careful and not forget past experience. Unfortunately, many coins for mining on video cards will die. As far as I know Nicehash is still available and a couple of other pools who offer payouts in Bitcoin and even though 1.60 dollars daily maybe little in Bitcoin,if you keep doing it day by day you can collect a very nice amount until the next bull run which many are expecting in Q4 2025 and by doing so they also remove the risk of the coins they mine that they may go away,Bitcoin is sure to not go away as the absolute king of cryptocurrencies and it is always a nice idea to try and collect as much as we can. |
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Next season is actually a pretty good opportunity for Juventus to develop, especially in Serie A even though Juventus is also included in the European Conference League Qualification. But Juventus generally have more time to focus more on Serie A because next season Juventus will need to prove to everyone that their abilities are still above average. And also still able to compete with the championship teams in Serie A.
The problem for Juventus is how they build their team for next season because several core players will definitely leave this club, and it will be a doubt whether they will be able to perform even better next season, and even if they only play for the Conference League it is not a certainty they will get easy resistance there considering that this team needs adaptation by being abandoned by their core players, it would be better for Juve to focus on domestic, but if they can also perform well at International why not but of course keeping it good in many tournaments will be difficult if the material the players don't support it. Juventus biggest problem is their coach as already underlined by their fans,they don't want anymore the actual coach.They want a new one as they have great players already and they want a coach to be able to harmonize better these players and not get eliminated by Sevilla in the Europa League as honestly the players of Juventus are better than those that they faced at Sevilla yet they were not able to overcome and eliminate them.Another problem is that they have been not consistent enough and to be a serious contender for the title this last season.They need something different for the upcoming season. |
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The wheater in Canada is very cloudy but no rain. If you want you can watch the live stream of Ferrari Challenge race 2 for free, no copyright from Youtube's Ferrari . here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StwJdt323J8Just two hours to go from the race and only cloud weather is not going to give us a beautiful race,who knows maybe it will be but I highly doubt it that anyone can challenge Redbull during normal conditions in a track which suits them well,they both have top speed and great aerodynamics which would make them to easily win this race.We desperately need the rain as have been discussed already otherwise we risk to watch another boring race.Very cloudy weather though can translate easily into rain as rain comes from clouds so I still remain hopeful for this race. |
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If I can give you an advice you better invest the money in some side business or at least buy some real estate property which you can milk money from it in the long term,as that "Rich dad,poor dad" teaches us is better to invest in real estate because it is an asset and not an liability.If we continue gambling we would lose it all in the long run no matter how sharp of a football bettor you may be,you cannot predict the future as that is what we do when we gamble.That is a good amount of money that you have won so why lose it again.
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Rain and a Piastri who made a red flag appear made it easy for Verstappen to win the Pole Position this time,adding two poles to his name in this legendary track,last year and this one which of course have something in common and that is both such poles come into rain.
I expected a bit more from McLaren but I am confidently seeing that they are improving in qualifying in these last 2-3 races but something I am not seeing materialize in the races,I think most likely I would wait until Silverstone when that "all new car" will be on track delivering.
Yeah Piastri couldn't control his car at the exit of that corner and crashed into the wall unfortunately. He did a really good job by qualifying for Q3 anyway of course. Q3 finished early as the track conditions got far worse due to heavy rain. Verstappen is still starting in pole position and it wasn't that hard for him to make it to there either. Hulkenberg was surprising in Q3 as he secured the 2nd place. However he got a grid penalty later on so he is starting in 5th place instead. This is still good work though. Sainz has also lost 3 places and he is starting behind Leclerc. When it comes to Leclerc it was a really poor session for him unfortunately. Ferrari again made a mistake with tyre strategies this time. Because while Verstappen was on softs Leclerc also wanted the same from his team. But Ferrari didn't do it and Leclerc couldn't make it to Q3.  I did not know the penalties and thought Hulkenberg to start 2nd to resemble Alonso second place last year.The fifth place is still good enough and I think the grid positions now that even Sainz will start behind Leclerc make it even more interesting.Also what I need to see is if Mercedes has the highest top speed of all cars here,it will not be of much help to win the race but anyway it is a good start of recovery,in the last 2-3 races I have seen quite some improvement from them.I have put them 5-6 in the predictor pool but I am not going to change them as I have already netted 3 points with Verstappen pole and EBP points. One thing is sure though,we need that f*cking rain to be present during all race otherwise we will see a boring race completely dominated by Redbull. |
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Latest news headline on different news outlets The consequence of betting addiction are so huge that it not only affects the individual but also impacts everything around them. Besides having a bad reputation, and facing ban, Ivan's career is already over. Although there are critics of the ban by the FA, in my opinion, it doesn't hold any water. The deed has been done, and even if they overturn their judgement one thing is sure; he has a gambling problem. It is already out there and will be there forever. As you are reading this, it's quite common for many of us to have a friend or family member similar to Ivan. How did you become aware that your friend is struggling with gambling addiction, and what actions have you taken to help them to over it? It is easy to become addicted especially if you browse the gambling websites daily,you like slot machines as they are the strongest driver to bring anyone to addiction.This Ivan guy placed sport bets at least and honestly the sport bets took him some months and I don't think that is real gambling addiction.The real gambling addiction is when you cannot stay without gambling for a short period of time,I have suffered this myself in 2019-2020 when I become slot obsessed at that time and could not think about anything else.I don't have a friend addicted as I have only a couple of close friends which do not gamble nor are addicted,while personally I came out of addiction thanks to my self determination which I start putting a limit on every session I took,it took sometime to achieve it,in fact it took a couple of years but setting limits did set me free. |
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In today's final match, my favorite is Spain by a small margin. Looking at the semi-finals of the Nations League, I saw Croatia better, but the opponents they played were different. Croatia played with a relatively easy team like the Netherlands. But Spain played with a strong giant like Italy. Therefore, semi-finals cannot be a measure by itself.
Portugal and France were previously champions in the Nations League. Now it's Spain's turn. Europe's biggest winners take turns. I'm sure Germany and Italy will also be champions in the coming years.
Croatia is always at the top places in tournaments like this, but they can't win. I think they will suffer a similar fate again. They are losing their golden generation. I'm not sure if they can achieve similar success with new players.
It is going to be an interesting final Croatia vs Spain,Spain did not do well in the last World Cup but they got and beat Italy and are coming to the final tonight to me as slight favorites.I say slight favorites because Croatia has been so many times in a final recently and they have never managed to win any of it so for them tonight it is going to be a special game,it would be even more special if we take into consideration the age of the senior players which most likely won't be able to play in any major tournament again and as such they will try as hard as they can to win this Nations League this season. |
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The qualifying session was under serious level of rain and this even caused Q3 to end earlier. Verstappen still managed to take pole position easily by a quite big time gap with the others. Hulkenberg was the most surprising name of this session because he is going to start the race from the second position. He had a really nice lap time and the heavy rain in the last minutes helped him secure this position as well.
This session was just a nightmare for Perez on the other hand. Because he couldn't even make it to Q3. He was struggling too much in Q2 and he couldn't use his last chance for a better lap well either. I hoped to see him capturing a good position to start honestly. The curse on him still continues as he had a really horrible weekend in the previous race in Canada.
Hulkenberg sounds like Alonso of last year when he started second with a car similar to Hulkenberg in terms of performance last year in Canada.The race though was not that wet last year and the predictions for the race now are also not that wet,I hope that we have rain,massive rain just enough like the one in Q3 yesterday and we are going to see a super beautiful race with a lot of unpredictable things happening. Perez made a mistake in the Q2 as he tried with the intermediate tires when he still had a chance to do a lap with the softs before but he did not bother and now will start 12th place.Ferrari also screwed up again their strategy with Leclerc,so the starting grid is very interesting for the race of tonight (it is in night time European time). |
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Norway only have Haaland and Odegaard, the rest are just weak players where their market value didn't even reach at least 5 Million Euros. If there's no player can give a good pass or assist for Haaland, Haaland performance will looks bad too. Opponent club just need to keep an eye to Haaland because there's no Norway player have better execution than Haaland.
2 players can't beat 11 players, so it's why good to bet on Norway's opponent club because people got influenced if Norway is a strong club.
Norway is not the strongest team, but I think you underestimate the level of their players too much, Solbakken plays in Roma, Serloth in Real Sociedad, Aursnes in Benfica, maybe not the most important players in the team, but still they are professionals. The Scottish team also has non top players, so it's not worth saying that Norway is much weaker because of this. Sometimes one leader can lead the whole team, Haaland is still too young, but maybe he has yet to do it. I think that it is something that Norway has to fix,they have good attackers and the fact that they were only able to score from the penalty spot yesterday night means that they have not found yet the perfect formula to start scoring goals and to harmonize the team forwarders together.I agree,Haaland is still young at just 23 years old but he has a lot of experience in his shoulders already so age should not be a limiting factor in this team,I think that Norway coach needs to be replaced and to get someone who can harmonize the team players better as you cannot just lose your game in just 2 minutes when you are winning,even weaker teams do not permit that,so they have to change something. |
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Just when I thought that finally a night without surprises as I was watching Norway leading up to the 85th minute and I thought that it was going to be a sure win but Scotland turned immediately things around in just two minutes with two goals in 87th and 89th minute which was the first surprise of the night.
The second one was Belgium not being able to win at home against Austria,I think Belgium was also the biggest surprise of tonight games from the Euro qualifiers as honestly for me Belgium is in a much better shape than Austria and even Austria goal was a Belgium own goal unfortunately which cost them the three points tonight.All other games come as predicted.
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Qualifying session has started and I'm really wondering how much it will rain during it. We have seen much bigger times in FP3 due to rain. If we see that it rains and stops during the session this can make us watch a really different qualifying from normal times. It still seems difficult to get past Verstappen and win pole position though. Because he was still great in FP3 under rain as he got the 1st place anyway.
I'm expecting a good performance from Mercedes drivers at the weekend as well by the way. They might be able to maintain the good look in the previous race.
Rain and a Piastri who made a red flag appear made it easy for Verstappen to win the Pole Position this time,adding two poles to his name in this legendary track,last year and this one which of course have something in common and that is both such poles come into rain. I expected a bit more from McLaren but I am confidently seeing that they are improving in qualifying in these last 2-3 races but something I am not seeing materialize in the races,I think most likely I would wait until Silverstone when that "all new car" will be on track delivering. |
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I just did a random pick for this round of F1 as I still believe we will have 1 chaos race and it seems that Canada might be that one. Also , after Ferrari won LeMans , I went with Lec to get another podium , followed by a victory and 1-2 podium for Ferrari with both Max and Lewis having a DNF as I didn't take neither of them for top 10. Instead , I went with Perez to take 3rd place and also the fastest lap of the race. Going that route you either win big and make a lot of coming up in the standings in the pool or otherwise you get out of the fight for a prize here with that type of prediction.I saw that the last session of the practice was completely in rain and the time was 1.23.1 for Verstappen topping the standings while for the second practice the top guy was 1.13.x and I think if the race will be in rain tomorrow maybe it will truly be that race,that chaotic race which would finally see another winner except Redbull drivers which have dominated completely so far. For me though I have gone to the standard prediction of top 1-2 Redbull,3-4 Ferrari,5-6 Mercedes,7-8 Aston Martin and 9-10 Alpine . |
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