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1101  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Do you have a "gambling problem" which you can sometimes control for years? on: December 17, 2023, 05:33:56 PM
Currently I believe I have no problem with gambling as I am in control of my spending in most gambling sessions. Of course, there are times when I am so caught up in the excitement that I make an additional deposit, but it happens very rarely.

Sometimes I feel that this problem is for those who have a lot of money to gamble and they usually overspend it and then when they lose money they complain about gambling and their losses.


To reduce the attraction to gambling I do sports. Sport allows me only to spend time with the benefit of my health, but also has a positive effect on the psyche.

When we are free and have nothing to do, then we only think of gambling.
If we can keep ourselves busy, then we will not play excessive gambling and this will keep us away from getting gambling addicted.
Things that involve the physical exercise like sports is much better to spend time and spend free times in those activities. When I am free I usually go to gym and which give me a lot of time busy.
1102  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod] on: December 17, 2023, 12:30:34 PM
New Zealand won by a huge margin of 49 runs. New Zealand were under a lot of pressure after losing wickets at the start. Will Young and Latham both batted till 25 overs in a good partnership.

That match was won by New Zealand against Bangladesh and in this match, the rain came to an end the happiness but somehow the match was played.

Anyway, if we look at the players of New Zealand who possibly do these all things so must take the name, Will Young, he played very well and he also made a century which helped New Zealand for the win. He also did very well fielding and if they didn't give him the award of man of the match, I thought cricket was not fair. this man played very well. What a game play by him.
1103  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Gambling should be play with care on: December 17, 2023, 11:46:45 AM
Although there are many temptations that are difficult to avoid, as you said, by strengthening mentally and always trying to think positively, you can avoid these temptations. just think about the harmful effects of gambling if you do it excessively. gambling naturally does not overdo it is not a problem. with a strong mentality and also self-awareness in gambling it will limit our gambling activities, as well as reduce the risk of losing a lot of money. do not let savings be destroyed just because of gambling that is not necessarily clear that it will give victory.

No matter how strong you are with your mind and emotions, gambling is such a play that will make you move out of your boundaries and you won't even realize it.
I know many gamblers think that they will be playing gambling with care and responsibility but when they start playing, its hard to remember all those golden rules of gambling. Many people make emotional mistakes while they gamble.

Yes it's true, it's not strange to see gamblers who are careless with their actions, they can spend a lot of money in one game session expecting to win but in fact they lose and they continue gambling until they can spend their money in one game session, when it's true what you said, it's better to end it and come back tomorrow, who knows tomorrow is the lucky day.

I a gambler is spending too much money in one game, then it means that he is not aware of the money management in gambling or he is too desperate to win that he wants to risk a major portion of his money in a single game. Remember, if anyone makes this mistake, he or she will most probably lose and only a few chances that he will win by taking some aggressive moves.
1104  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod] on: December 17, 2023, 10:39:58 AM
As the match was reduced to 30 overs due to rain, New Zealand are batting aggressively and their target is to get over 250 runs in 30 overs. Since the opponent is Bangladesh, giving a target of 250 runs will be impossible for Bangladesh and Bangladesh cannot bat on a target of 250 runs at the New Zealand venue and must be ensured. Bangladesh did well in the beginning, but in the end, Bangladesh is not able to take advantage at all and is giving close to 10 runs per over. As a result, if New Zealand takes runs like this in the remaining overs, it will surely go above 250 runs easily.
New Zealand started batting with a target of 25 runs, but New Zealand did not seem to be able to score 25 runs. New Zealand is already losing wickets fast. Right now New Zealand have scored 236 runs in 29.3 balls for the loss of 5 wickets. However, if Bangladesh can bat a little better today, it may be possible to win against New Zealand. But hope Bangladesh can perform well and win today's match against New Zealand.
NewZealand outstanding performance against Bangladesh and won the 1st ODi match by 44 runs by DLS method. The player of the match is Will Young for his amazing batting performances scored a century 105 runs in just 84 balls and set a good total of 240 runs for Bangladesh in 30 overs. Bangladesh only manage to score 200 runs by loss of 9 wickets in 30 overs and lost match by 44 runs. From Bangladesh Anamul Haque played good inning of 43 runs in 39 balls but his strike rate it not too good and Afifi Hossain only scored 38 runs in 28 balls but failed to chase down the target. Josh Clarkson outstanding bowling performance picked 2 important wickets.

New Zealand lost their seven-wicket and the player who came to bat in this seven-wicket was played very poorly but some players made runs like Will Young and Tom Latham.

The other player just made zero runs or one run. Rachin Ravindra, and Henry Nicholls both failed to make runs. The both players made zero runs and both used just 2 balls. Josh Clarkson, The vice-captain Tom Blundell made just one run and after one run they lost their wicket.

Adam Milne also made one run but he was not out because the innings was finished. Mark Chapman made 20 runs but it is not good runs, they don't had any advantage of those 20 runs.
1105  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion on: December 17, 2023, 09:44:55 AM
In West Indies vs England 3rd T20I match, finally england afford to win against WI this time as they already lost in 1st & 2nd T20I match against West Indies. WI did same performance as before where Nicholas Pooran made 82(45) and scored 222 run as target but nowadays england can't develop themself and continuesly giving poor performance. Even this time in 3rd T20, england had high possiblity to lose again cause only few balls left for big score but Harry Brook is the man who did 31(7) and made great contribution behind archiving victory of England. Although can't deny the contribution of Philip Salt 109(56) who did his first T20 century behalf of England.

Yesterday's match was won by England against West Indies, this is the first match that won by England against West Indies in this T20 series.
Phil Slat is the man of the match and he played very well, he made a century in just 50 balls, which means he multiplied by 2 their balls and he scored the answer of multiply by 2 of balls. In simple words, he made 100 runs in 50 balls, and also he took two catches that helped England to win this match, and maybe this is a match that changed their record.

They played well, that's why they had a great victory, the player of the match is Phil Salt, he completed his century and he also took catches of big players, he is the best player in England and when he starts so he always led England to the win.
1106  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod] on: December 17, 2023, 08:47:12 AM
It was huge upset at the Asian Cricket Council Under-19s Asia Cup. In India's case they were not in good form anyway, as they had lost a group phase match against Pakistan earlier. But wins against Afghanistan and Nepal enabled them to qualify for the final. But then, Pakistan (who had defeated India) went down against United Arab Emirates. And the irony is that most of the UAE players are Pakistani citizens. No one would have imagined that UAE and Bangladesh would be the two teams playing the final match.

The unfortunate thing happened in the both Semi-Final because we are all think that the final was played in between Pakistan and India because Pakistan had a match with UAE, and the UAE team is very small and didn't have any good record in the past, but we had an upset.

Today is the final match of UAE U19 and Bangladesh U19. and literally, not too many people had an interest in seeing this match because two small teams played the match and those people who have seen this match are just wasting their time, and as you all know this U19 Asia Cup only we can see on Asian Cricket Council official YouTube channel .

There they did livestream and not too many people see this stream they have a watching of 100k, I know this is reasonable number but if you have previous stream so you know that Pakistan team and Indian team matches always crossed 1 million in the live stream so 100k didn't have any value in front of 1 million.
1107  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Do you have a "gambling problem" which you can sometimes control for years? on: December 17, 2023, 07:06:48 AM
I already know that gambling is a luck base stuff and anything based on luck is not in your control, so I play with care when I play and I'm not always playing so I don't have a problem with it. It is difficult to stop gambling addiction and it is worse when you are having it as the source of income then you will find it difficult to quit.

For someone to quit gambling by themselves, it means they are not so much involved in it and so they can still control themselves. This is the reason to gamble with what money you can afford to lose and not to heavily involve yourself with the hope that it will favour you at the end. We know numbers of posts here on people who have taken away their lives because they lost hugely and probably money that they borrowed. But if you are gambling responsibly, you won't have gambling problems and to stop will be easy for you to only discourage yourself that you have not been winning is enough.

Gambling addiction is not so easy to get rid of as some people think that individual can himself get rid of his gambling addiction problem. He is gambling addict because he is unable to control over his emotions , he is unable to stop himself from gambling so he need some cure , some external help which can help him to recover back to the normal situation.

Gambling is only profitable and entertaining for those who are moderate to gambling and who knows how to control their finances in gambling. If we are unable to save our money in gambling then I am afraid gambling is not for us.
1108  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion on: December 16, 2023, 02:01:51 PM
Today will be the third match of England vs West Indies T20 series.

Today is the golden chance for the West Indies to win the match and then win the T20 series. This is a golden opportunity for the West Indies team to make history and they won't get an easy chance for this.

We have still three matches left in this T20 series and West Indies have to win anyone of them to have the series in their name. But they should keep it for the last T20 and try to win today.

West Indies won the first match by four wickets and the next by 10 runs. I don't know how will England play today's game as it is do and die for them. Also, if they lose, what excuses will they have for this bad performance? Since the 2023 ODI World Cup, there seems to be some series problem with the West Indies team.

Moeen Ali: 'No excuses' as England's white-ball fortunes continue to slide
1109  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Prove me wrong: Gambling is both more relaxing and entertaining than trading! on: December 16, 2023, 01:43:39 PM
With gambling, you chose on who to bet when to bet , once you do you you wait for the outcome at a fixed time!
With trading you chose your pair coins, you have to wait for the price to reach what you think it's an entry point and then set limits , watch the damn numbers even for days, even if you cash out in profit there can always be a regret you haven't kept the position opened.

So prove me wrong (if you think I am), what am I missing?


You may be right in your analysis but one thing is for sure. Trading is more certain than gambling meaning you are more in control of your trade to close them when in profit as compared to the gambling results which are luck based and no one have control over the win and losses.

For me, if i win money, then i become relaxed and it is also entertaining for me, no matter it is trading or gambling, As money makes you relax and you only feel fun when you are on the winning side.

So, from this point of view, Gambling has less chances of winning as compared to the trading but still, if you can make money from gambling, nothing is more relaxing and entertaining than gambling.
1110  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Women's Cricket Prediction & Discussion - T20 & ODI on: December 16, 2023, 01:16:48 PM
Today, there was total two matches of this ICC Women T20 World cup qualifier competition.

Other than this, today is the first ODI match between South African women and Bangladesh women, and at this time, both teams played well and the 13 overs were passed so we cannot say that who can win this match.

South African women's team try to take the wicket of Bangladeshi women but I don't think so that they will get succeed in this mission too early. Bangladesh played very well and I am sure that if they maintain this run rate so they can likely to win this match. Let's see if they maintain that or not.

Shamima Sultana lost her wicket and made 34 runs. She was looking good before she was out by Marx. A good total by the Bangladesh team can put the South African team under lot of pressure.
1111  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Who says you can't be a millionaire in sports betting? on: December 16, 2023, 09:16:08 AM
Pursuing to become a millionaire in sports betting with that method will just create a delusional thinking and will be out of focus. In sports betting, it's better to have consistent wins instead of always dreaming a huge money winning in return with only the use of a small bet.
Yes, it's the same as when we work and get the money. As I know, the professional gambler is just a worker who gets the money daily. I have rarely heard a professional gambler just make a big money on 1 night. they sure didn't get rich overnight but gradually and the same as work on the main office. If we heard a gambler just won and to be millioner on one night, it's certain he's not a profesional gambler, but a person who have luck and maybe will get lost and poor again when he continues gambling. In fact, Someone who makes gambling as a job just to earn a little money but daily just to meet his living needs.


Professional gamblers for sure have sponsors to support them in their game, for sure they are skilled and talented which is why they are considered professional which is why some companies sponsor them. Sure they cannot be rich overnight but if you have the funds and can continue to play, you could still get rich in a long period of time, the downside is no matter how much you win, you will still split it with your sponsors. With that, you can say you can make a living with gambling, but you won't be a millionaire with that method cause gambling still rely on luck despite on your skills and talent, you just reduce the risk of losing with your skills.

Getting a sponsorship for a gambling is a separate thing and we cannot say that if a professional gambler or a popular gambler is getting a sponsorship money therefore he is making a lot of money through gambling. Correction, he is making money through the sponsorship and not through gambling.

If anyone is making a lot of money through gambling then I will like him to make money only from gambling and then tell to people about it, getting the money from sponsorships and all such stuff will not count in gambling.

Yes some maybe some lucky gamblers who can make millions in gamble and betting but they are very few of them and the majority of the gamblers are either in equal loss or profit equation and majority of them are in loss.
1112  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod] on: December 16, 2023, 08:02:01 AM
Pakistan middle order collapsed on the 3rd day. 6 wickets gone for only 200+ runs, the current situation is bad for Pakistan. They would need 70 more odd runs to avoid follow on and the last known batter they have is Saud Shakeel. If he gets out then Pakistan would be in big trouble. I wasn't expecting Babar Azam to bat so poorly, he only got 21 runs today.

Pakistan came at the last minute and got all out under the pressure of the wicket. In fact, I think Pakistan team players do not have the endurance to play Test matches, because they could not stay on the field for a long time. Nathan Layon took 3 wickets alone, Pakistan managed to score only 271 runs in the last minute under the pressure of Australia bowling. In the first innings, Pakistan team is behind a lot and going into the next match, Pakistan team will surely face a lot of pressure.


The Pakistan team has been all out in the test match against the Australian cricket team. The all batsmen of Pakistan didn't play well.  Imam Ul Haq is a very slow player, he takes too many balls to make just some runs, can you imagine he made 68 runs in 199 balls, how many balls he played and he make just some runs, this is a mistake by the PCB chairman that they selected him. I think Ireland's team test batting is much better than Imam Ul Haq's. He is not an active player in making runs.

Also Abdullah Shafique didn't play well in this match against Australia. He made just 42 runs, which is good runs but as he used to play balls, he should made at least 60 or 70 runs but unfortunately, he lost his wicket, He missed his half-century by 8 runs.
1113  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Do you remember when Twitch banned gambling? Now they allow nudity! on: December 16, 2023, 05:48:13 AM
Here we can see the double standards of Twitch's developers. Gambling was condemned as something outrageous, but nudity is fine as family friendly content...

Why do you think gambling has been being treated in a different manner by Twitch?

This is not a double standard but the only standard for twitch and other centralized platforms. The problem is that these are centralized bodies and they can make whatever decision they like or think is good for their own self. We, as an audience, have no rights other than to boycott the Twitch in case we feel that they are making double standard rules and allowing things like porn that may be bad for society.

By then, how many people will boycott? the number will be very few, so less that it won't have any effect on the Twitch platform and user base. This is why we need these platforms to be replaced by the decentralized ones where the decision will be taken by the public.
1114  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod] on: December 16, 2023, 05:12:34 AM
Pakistani were feeling comfortable after reducing UAE19 for this target, but their collapse brings them down, and now they are leaking themselves with Indian also fail to give their best and all out for the 188 which chased by Bangladesh team easily, and now they are going to have final spot.

Pakistan team can win if when they have a lead so they should use it, firstly, in 60 balls 51 runs were needed for Pakistan to win and at that time Pakistan lost 8 wickets but somehow they managed some runs and after that, Pakistan needed 36 runs in 50 balls and in between this a bowler did a no ball which gave the lead to Pakistan and then that situation was coming when they had a lead of 14 runs so they should maintain that but after some balls, Pakistan needed 24 runs in 25 balls.

That was the point where the game started intense and in the last over Pakistan needed 12 runs in 6 balls but after two balls Mohammed Zeeshan lost his wicket and the last wicket came and after two again Pakistan lost the wicket of Ubaid Shah and Pakistan team lost the match because Pakistan team has been all out.
1115  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Do Owners of betting companies bet? on: December 16, 2023, 04:54:06 AM
I can see your point, however when it comes to lotteries and other similar gambling games it is stated very clearly that anyone which is part of that business or their family cannot participate on it, and if they do they will not be paid the prize they could have received.

This is done as a way to avoid those employees manipulating the results in their favour, and since the owner of a casino is in a position similar to that, it should be better for them to not do this, as a way to avoid the temptation of manipulating the results on their favor as well.


How are you sure that the family of the casino do not participate in the lottery? Sometimes i  think that even if they do not participate the lottery is always given to some near and dear ones, it is hardly a fair lottery. This becomes even more true when we consider the manual lottery, where there is no check and balance.

Also sometimes these lotteries scam us by collecting the minimal amount of money to participate in the lottery but when it comes to the time of results, they give it to some dummy numbers (people) and since we do not have visibility on how they calculated the winner's among the participants, we can only settle and tell ourself that we were unlucky on another lottery.
1116  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod] on: December 15, 2023, 02:20:58 PM
Big big upset happening at the Asian Cricket Council Under-19s Asia Cup. Pakistan struggling against United Arab Emirates, after the latter set them a target of 194 runs. Pakistan are 173-8 and they need 21 runs from 11 balls with just 2 wickets remaining. Last 5 overs have seen just 12 runs being scored and one wicket fell during this period. Mohammad Zeeshan is at the crease along with Ali Asfand and they are struggling against the combination of Omid Rehman and Ayman Ahamed. If they can stay cool under pressure, then UAE can pull this off.

I can't believe my eyes, as two upsets happened in the two semi finals of the U19 Asia Cup.

UAE defeated Pakistan by 11 runs and in the other match Bangladesh defeated India by 4 wickets. Everyone would have thought that India and Pakistan are favorite to win their semi finals and both the teams may meet in the final of the U19 Asia Cup final, but not to be. Both UAE and Bangladesh surprised us and win their matches.

The big final between the two teams will be played on Sunday in Dubai.
1117  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Gamblers trickily claims they wins the bet while they never did. on: December 15, 2023, 01:53:40 PM
Don't be deceived, not every gamblers who actually claims that they won really won.
Some falsefully speculates that they won just because they want to pave an ease to those who has been advising them to quit or limits gambling simply because the gambler has been unlucky to win instead he keep betting over and over without a good bankroll management in their gambling carriers.
They basically do this because they feels disturbed and inconveniences of the people's opinions and advices towards the gamblers unprofitable gambling experiences

When I first read your post, I thought you were talking about the gamblers who may deceive the gambling sites but that is obviously not possible.

Yes, the gamblers may tell other that they have won so no one stops them. But this false statement won't last long, because the family will demand from the gamblers if he won money, why not spend on them but in fact they will see that the gambler is actually making use of the household money and the claim of win is just a false statement.

For outside people and friends, other than those who live in the gambler's house, he may tell the falsely that he is a successful gambler and wins more than he loses. Those people may believe him because they do not live in his house and they never know how he lives and carry out his day to day expenses.
1118  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod] on: December 15, 2023, 12:01:20 PM
In the first semi-final of the Asian Cricket Council Under-19s Asia Cup, UAE-U19 gave a target of 194 runs in 50 overs. The target once seemed so easy and achievable for the Pakistan-U19 because of their recent form, but it appeared that the target was enough to trouble this team. Pakistan-U19 is now 7 wickets down, and they need another 65 runs to win the match. UAE-U19 has more chances of winning this contest.

The match of Pakistan vs United Arad Emirates was almost won by Pakistan, but UAE bounced back and but still i think that the final of the Asia Cup will be played between Pakistan and Bangladesh U19 team.

Because on the other side Indian team was playing like United Arad Emirates, even United Arab Emirates played better than India, and United Arab Emirates have a competition with a very good team so we can say that United Arab Emirates can't be played well because they had not a good team that can face Pakistan but India is a wonderful team, and they had a very good record and they face Bangladesh so how shameful is this for India because no.1 team will lose with a poor team who had not to get a chance to qualify for the big events sometime.

Both the semi-finals can be watched live on the Asian Cricket Council YouTube channel.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/@AsianCricketCouncilTV
1119  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: A gambler takes his own life after a loss. on: December 15, 2023, 11:46:46 AM
Honestly, I am very sad to learn about this unfortunate incident, this is one of those things that happen in gambling and it just gives gambling a bad name  and make it look like a taboo for anyone to engage in it, why on earth will a full grown man like this take his own life simply because of a loss of $3000, people loss up to $20,000, $50,000 in gamblimg and still move on with their normal lives, if $3000 was too much for him to lose in gambling, why did he stake it?

I don't think it will give gambling a bad name in the sense that gambling took a life of a person. I guess no, this does not happen. In fact the gambler himself is responsible for what he did. There are moderate gamblers too who gamble for years and years and yet they will never dare to take such steps which may cost them their lives.


This is such a bad news, and I hope that we all can learn even more lessons from this, always gamble with not more than you can afford to lose, gambling is risky, to be on the safer side, gambling primary for fun and let the profit be secondary, this is something Ive seen other users say here, and I am still joining them to say same thing.

Yes, this incident can be a lesson for other gamblers, especially the ones who are new and do not know how far this gambling can take them and how it can influence our emotions to take such bold steps.
1120  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod] on: December 15, 2023, 06:32:43 AM
Pakistani pacers attacked on UAE U19 team, and the United Arab Emirates batsmen have been confused and nervous by seeing the bowling of Pakistani pacers.

Just another wicket fell of the United Arab Emirates, and this wicket was hit by Amir Hassan, and now the other remaining batsmen conform losing their confidence, and if the Pakistan team puts pressure on them so I am sure that UAE can't make runs and they came in under pressure, Pakistani pacers can only save Pakistan in this match.

The batsmen of UAE try to hit boundaries and that's why hit up the bat and ball on the bat but not the middle and the ball goes too up but lands in the safe hands of fielders.

The match of Pakistan v UAE was very interesting and Pakistani bowlers played very well against UAE batsmen and if you note so you see that Aryanish hit cover drives again and again to just Mohammed Zeeshan he didn't hit any cover drive against other bowlers, but when Mohammed Zeeshan come on bowling so he just hit cover drive but Mohammed Zeeshan also knew him so he set boundaries where he can't hit a cover drive and just now, he tries to hit cover drive but fielder comes and by chance, the fielder dropped the catch of Mohammed Zeeshan the fielder name is Riaz.
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