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1141  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod] on: December 12, 2023, 03:15:00 PM
9th Match, Group A, ICCA Dubai, December 12, 2023, Asian Cricket Council Under-19s Asia

Pakistan Under-19s vs Afghanistan Under-19s

The match is ongoing between Pakistan Under-19s vs Afghanistan Under-19s. Afghan U19 won the toss and chose to field first. Pakistan U19 team has more strong players named Shahzaib Khan, Azan, and so on. In the last match, Azan reached the figure of an outstanding century. I hope today's match will be the favorite of Pakistan U19. Best wishes to the Pakistani Under-19 team. Best of luck!

The match of Pakistan and Afghanistan is clearly goes to Pakistan according to the current match situation of them. If Afghanistan doesn't lose their main wickets then they would have a chance to win but they lose their wickets again and again.

Anyway, let's check the top order and if you see top top-order batting of Pakistan so you must know how Shumyl Hussain did batting in the style. He played very well after the two matches, in the last two matches his performance was not good and he just came to the ground to give his wicket to the bowler of the other team.

Shamyl Hussain was also the man of the match making 75 runs in 54 balls and also took one wicket for 8 runs.
1142  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Has anyone here started with a decent bankroll in sports? on: December 11, 2023, 04:02:36 AM
TBH, I never calculated the percentage of my profit or loss while betting on sports betting, but I had the same experience as @dothebeats, but I forgot a little about my budget, but as far as I remember, at that time I had a budget of around $100 betting on TI 2022 and at that time I only choose single bets and can get consistent wins with profits of around $450 or more.
like it is very impossible to get consistent wins like I have experienced but this is real and I never calculated what percentage of my overall profit was because I initially bet because I liked that type of betting and getting a winning streak made me bet more often on sports betting.

I could go back to the history of my betting results in 2022 to calculate the percentage but it would be a waste of time.

If your budget was 100$ for betting, did you place bets using full 100$ ? If this was the case than you must be very lucky to made profits from it as you could have easily lost that bet and hence lose all of your gambling portfolio.

Also there is no need to go back in history and see the betting results. You lose or you win and you cannot change the history, so rightly said, why waste time ?
1143  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Low cost but effective solutions to gambling addiction on: December 10, 2023, 05:20:57 PM
One of the solutions which is recommended by most gamblers on this forum for gambling addiction is "Therapy" . Professional help in the form of therapy. It is good and very effective but how many persons can actually afford it? There is a fee for each session that lasts for a duration of 60minutes. And there are more than one session. Therapy for gambling addiction is expensive. How can those who are unemployed afford it? How about the college student? Or the person receiving minimum wage. What are the other low cost but very effective solutions to gambling addiction. And typically how long will it take before the addict starts to feel more in control and less withdrawal symptoms?
Will totally appreciate your responses. Thanks.

What I know is that those who are in therapy for gambling addiction seem to have a severe level of addiction. Now I also know that the payment is expensive; that's true. But my only question is: how did the person you are talking about lead to addiction?

What is that? Has he been a gambler for a long time, and has he reached a point where he loses a lot of money gambling? Also, if an addict cannot afford the fee for the therapy service, his close family and friends can help him get therapy.

I never heard about any therapy for gambling addiction nor i have known if there exist any therapy centers where the gamblers are being treated who are addicted. Do the gambling addicts get healthy again and leave gambling after being treated at these centres???

Of course, these therapy centres (for whatever purpose) are never cheap and one has to pay a good lot of money as it is always thought that only the elite class go to such rehabilitation centres.
1144  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod] on: December 10, 2023, 02:47:20 PM
A dominating performance thus far from the Pakistan U-19 team against India U-19. India posted a good total. Sachin Dhas batted beautifully till the end, giving the Indian team a respectable target to defend. Zeeshan was the pick of the bowler from Pakistan; he took 4 wickets. In response, Pakistan U-19 batters remain calm and composed. A brilliant batting display from Azan and Shahzaib brings Pakistan to a touching distance from the victory. Azan scored a hundred in this game. Pakistan needs only 34 runs in 7 overs to win the match.

Pakistan team won the match with beauty, The Pakistan team played their best, and they did very well in all the types that exist in cricket means they played well in bowling, fielding, and batting. Pakistan did wonderful batting.

Anyway, if we talk about the Pakistani batting lineup so sadly we again can't see Shumyl Hussain to bat because he again lost his wicket too early in today's match against India and yesterday against Nepal, but Pakistan U19 don't feel aspects of his because other batsmen play so good that so they don't feel his bad form and has no major impact on the match. Let's see if will we see his batting against Afghanistan.
1145  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Gambling and Behavioral Change!!! on: December 10, 2023, 11:46:12 AM
I don’t think regret as an emotion is only felt when someone does something wrong and wishes not to do it anymore later on. Regret can be felt even when you do a good deed and not necessarily a bad or illegal one. You can regret going to a family function because of the events that followed. That doesn’t mean going to the family function is bad.

Yes, Regret is something which can be for positive or negative events but in most cases, it is meant for not achieving anything or doing something that should not have been done, so the loss could be avoided.

But I think there shouldn’t be any regrets in gambling as one knowingly makes the decision to partake in gambling knowing fully well the outcome could go either way.

That is why i always emphasize that gamblers should be aware of the gambling pros and cons and should be aware that where they can win, they can loss too. Most of the gamblers who regret after gambling are the ones who do not know this fact or in some cases, even if they know the disadvantages of gambling, they do not take it seriously and become overconfident that they cannot lose.

1146  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod] on: December 10, 2023, 10:49:48 AM
In the second match, Nepal is in a very strong position against Afghanistan. Nepal won the toss and asked Afghanistan to bat first. They are 44/3 after 9 overs, with Gulsan Jha and Hemant Dhami among the wickets. The first match didn't went well for Nepal. So this is an opportunity for them to make a comeback in this tournament. 

Afghanistan team can easily win this match against Nepal because as you all know this is an impossible thing that Nepal can win against Afghanistan because Afghanistan is a huge team even most biggest countries of cricket fear playing against Afghanistan because their team is too strong and they can do anything and most of the time, their people can also do something, means in the Asia Cup of 2022, when Pakistan vs Afghanistan played a match and Pakistan won that match so Afghani crowd has been angry and because of their anger they almost break all seats of Dubai stadium so Dubai cancelled their visa and that's why those people can never come again in Dubai. Anyway, let's see what happens in today's match.
1147  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion on: December 10, 2023, 10:20:58 AM
Ireland VS Zimbabwe

Yes, it does seem like today's Zimbabwe vs Ireland match will be quite competitive, especially considering the performance in the past two matches. With one win each, both teams are evenly matched. Both teams have their strengths, and it will be fascinating to witness how they perform in the third T20I. Looking forward to an exciting and competitive game!

Today is the first match of India vs South Africa. This is a T20I series, and in this series, both teams will play three times in T20 format, This is a very long tour of the Indian team to South Africa because this tour ends on 3rd January so you can also say that this is a tour of one month and in this tour they played T20Is, ODIs, and the test matches so that's why this tour is too big, and by the way, Indian team never won a single T20 match in South Africa against South Africa.

So let's see if will India create history and walk with history. Also, the performance of the South African team was very good in the World Cup, so it will be a challenge for the Indian team to win in South Africa.
1148  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod] on: December 10, 2023, 09:48:57 AM
Asian Cricket Council Under-19s Asia Cup arranging a pretty tournament. 5th Match, Group A, ICCA Dubai, December 10, 2023. Pakistan U19 won the toss and chose to field first. Now the Indian U19 score is (21.5/50 over) 80/2. It's a very poor score for Indian U19. Adarsh Singh is still on the pitch. His score is 28 from 52 balls. If he saty more than 15 overs then India reach the score is 300 runs. Best wishes for India.


The match of Pakistan vs India in U19 was started a long time ago, and almost one inning was near to end, Pakistan U19 team won the toss and chose to bowl first which was a good decision because if they knew how we should needed so they have, means if they know how they should maintain run rate so they play like that with a different strategy, and the second reason that this decision is good by Pakistani U19 team captain is that as you in previous match of Pakistan bowling attack is very good, they can took wicket of Indian batters again and again.. So let's see who will win this match.
1149  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Cricket match prediction discussions on: December 10, 2023, 09:08:31 AM
I completely agree, currently Pakistan is second most populated country in ICC but sadly in last 2 decades they are badly going down in stability and economically which is having many issues for them but no one going to accept ground realities which are bringing more problems for them in last two years we are having too many changes which are bringing more problems so with this all I have no positive signs for them in cricket with mostly other games are also ended.

Today is the biggest match that has taken place in cricket history, these countries match we say that this is not a cricket match it is more than a single cricket match, everyone is excited for this match from cricket, this match is Pakistan vs India, and today is also Pakistan vs India but the teams are under 19, and according to the current situation Pakistan U19 team play very well, Pakistan bowlers do very well bowling in this innings,  India crossed 200 with struggle and I know that Pakistan batting is too good as you seen on yesterday's match against Nepal.

The point is we cannot deny the presence of Pakistan cricket and ICC needs the Pakistan team to remain in such a form to be able to play and lose in big tournaments against India.
1150  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod] on: December 10, 2023, 06:47:10 AM
At this point, two matches are ongoing in the Asian Cricket Council Under-19s Asia Cup. In the first match, India are at 40/1 against Pakistan. Arshin Kulkarni was nabbed by Amir Hassan, but now Adarsh Singh and Rudra Patel are trying to stabilize the innings. In the second match, Nepal is in a very strong position against Afghanistan. Nepal won the toss and asked Afghanistan to bat first. They are 44/3 after 9 overs, with Gulsan Jha and Hemant Dhami among the wickets. The first match didn't went well for Nepal. So this is an opportunity for them to make a comeback in this tournament. 

The match between rivals India and Pakistan is underway and India have lost 2 wickets for 51 runs. They have been put into bat by the Pakistan captain. Arshin Kulkarni got out at 24 but the other opener Adarsh Singh is playing at 19 and needs to bat throughout the innings.

So far the Pakistan bowlers have bowled according to the field and Amir Hassan & Mohammad Zeeshan took one wicket each. Both India and Pakistan U19 team has won one match each, so a win for any team today will grantee their place in the next round of the Asia Cup.
1151  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Slot games are a waste of time and money (most of the time) on: December 10, 2023, 06:31:10 AM
Hoping to get a big win from the free spins given in the slot game, I think it's very rare to get a big win, and sometimes it will be very difficult for us to get free spins, we need a lot of capital to be able to get the free spins and that doesn't necessarily mean the payout. You get a big win and the jackpot is the same, but you will really feel the victory if you get the jackpot compared to the prize you get from the free win.
from my experience almost all of my big wins come from free spins and what I know is that free spins give you the opportunity to get big win or jackpot but it all still depends on how big your luck is and to do free spins you dont need big budget depending on you also dont need to buy a spin bonus to do this because usually in slot games every once in a while a few spins will give you a free spin but usually it not give you a big win.

what is certain is that this slot game has the opportunity to get jackpot and you can get it when you enter the free spin round, but it is very risky because you spend money quickly and if you feel unlucky, would be better to just avoid it rather than losing a lot of money.

If big wins come only from free spins then everybody would be trying their luck through free spins and do not gamble at all. Also, not all gambling sites will offer free spins. And you do not need to spend any money in order to try out free spins.

I think there is no specific game where you can win big. If can be anything from the basic gambling games like dice to the games like slots etc. Even with the bet, you will get odds like 4x or 5x sometimes, meaning your money will be 5x if you bet on that team, but usually the higher the odds, the less likely the chance of a win but upsets do happen in sports.
1152  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: First winning can be a trap on: December 09, 2023, 05:23:48 PM
The first attempt of gambling by anyone that the result comes out to be a win can be a trap if one is not careful and conscious. Have noticed people who plays gambling on their first attempt and win thinks gambling is very easy because they were lucky to have a win in the first attempt,  whenever it happens like this with beginners they still want to play  more and as they continue it is just a simple strategy to lose all they won in their first attempt,  it is important new gamblers shouldn't tricked to play more expecting to continue to have more wins.

I do not think this is possible in real gambling because the house edges and everything is the same no matter you are playing the first game on the site or have played many games, the luck factor and the probability factor stays the same.

Yes, if the gambling sites have a demo feature, then you might experience more wins and an easy earning environment where you will feel that winning in gambling is easy and hence you can make easy money but as soon as you step into the real gambling world (from the demo section), you will realize that winning is not as easy as you have experienced or thought when you were playing at the demo version.
1153  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod] on: December 09, 2023, 05:08:12 PM
Today is the third match between West Indies and England, and this is also the last ODI match of this series, after this match T20 series between the both same teams will start from 13 December to 22 December.

Anyways, we should think about today's match and who will win, if we check the previous matches of both teams so one match was won by West Indies and the second match was won by England, and when West Indies won they had a very good victory and when England won so they also had a very convincing victory, so let's see both teams have good results in their previous matches. It is hard to predict the winner of today's match.

Maybe England would win in my opinion as they are a more experienced team than West Indies.
Today's match is very important for both the teams because in the last two matches both teams have won 1 match each so both teams are on equal score.  So the team that wins today's match will be ahead.  And that team will be qualified to play next step.  So both the teams will be trying to win this match so this match could be a close fight as both the teams will try to play well. But yes I agree with you that England is slightly more likely than West Indies to win the match
West Indies once won the match against England by 4 wickets but in the next match England won the match against West Indies by 6 wickets. So it can be assumed that England's preparation is very good but they unfortunately lost the first match. So come the third match England can play well again and beat West Indies. The match has not yet started but after the start the first 10 overs of the team batting first can be a possible guess as to which team is most likely to win. So I wait for the game to start to guess a possible guess

The match of West Indies vs England will start after some hours. Both teams are stronger, and West Indies should win this match against a big team because if they start to win matches again as they win matches in the 19s so they should not need to play qualifying rounds to qualify in the biggest tournaments, and direct ICC pick them for the biggest tournaments.

Anyway, in the first match of this ODI series, England batted first, and then West Indies won the match and in the second match, West Indies batted first and they lost so this time pitch is also the same so you can understand that toss might play an important role in this match.
1154  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Online Casino Crypto gambling on: December 09, 2023, 04:54:04 PM
Of course there are many gamblers who bet on bitcoin and not only bitcoin but now there are many sites where you can gamble using crypto. Most of the time they are played with dust. I have a friend who always bets on cricket but now it is convenient for online gamblers. On the other hand online gambling is now related to everyone and you can gamble without any government legal hassles. So there is no need to research the legality of your country you can organize gambling at home if you want.

Yes, one of the advantages ( or disadvantages for the government), state people can know easily bet and gamble in countries and places where the gambling is prohibited and it is only possible because of the online gambling.

If you are intelligent enough you can gamble at your home using a VPN and no one in the world can know that you are involved in gambling .One more thing is that you will be using cryptocurrencies in those online gambling sites and not your credit cards so your information never get leaked.
1155  Other / Off-topic / Re: Do you regret also for ever knowing about gambling? on: December 09, 2023, 01:43:09 PM
I bet many people have this regrets right now and that's because they are in losses bigger than they have ever won from gambling, many have dreams and hopes on gambling as their sole provider or their means of changing their life but on their gambling journey for few years they have learned that such dream is not always possible for every gambler.

I do not find anyone who is regretting that he came to know about gambling. I think it is such common these days that there would be hardly anyone who does not know that gambling exists or who does not know how to gamble.

Yes, people regret that they put their live savings in gambling and lost. Also they regret that they do not have good luck in gambling like other successful gamblers but no one regrets that they know about gambling.


While growing up I found out that they are warning us because of the possible manipulation that gambling has in one's life, it's easier to strongly believe only in gambling and shun everything else out of your life, until it destroys you, but if my old man is still alive today I will like to tell him that I found my own way with gambling, I gamble without it having any bad effect on me, because I choose to be a responsible gambler and anyone can do it too, if they aren't greedy.

Well, when people warn about gambling, they also tell that we need to gamble responsibly and do not blindly put everything in gambling. Now it is the duty of the gambler to keep his mind and eyes open if he wants to gamble. Remember if he takes risk and wins something, the money will be his and if a person does not gamble, again it is his decision.
1156  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod] on: December 09, 2023, 11:44:16 AM
Group A remains as the toughest group with India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nepal. Only top two team from group through league matches would go forward to semi-finals.

Yesterday was the match of Afghanistan and India, and India won that match easily, they chased the target in just 37 overs.
According to Indian batting if Afghanistan gave the target of at least 260 plus so then the match was gone on the last ball and maybe Afghanistan will won that match but their batsmen didn't play well, I am saying this all because Indian batting is so poor, when batsmen made 70 so they use 100 balls.
I know this ODI so they can waste balls but if is there a huge target and they play like that so they can't win.
1157  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Women's Cricket Prediction & Discussion - T20 & ODI on: December 09, 2023, 10:42:22 AM
The second T20I match between India Women and England Women will be played tomorrow at the Wankhede. The first match ended in a rout for the Indian women and they need to quickly recover from it. In order to salvage the series, they need to win both the remaining matches. And a series defeat at home would be humiliating for the Indian women, especially after all the progress that was achieved over the years. Anyway, the good news for India is that their strike bowler Renuka Singh Thakur is back in form. She picked up 3 wickets in the first match.
I believe India could make a comeback in the second T20. In the first T20 England got two players Wyatt and Sciver-Brunt scoring 70+ runs. For India strong scoring came from Verma 52 runs. Few more players should've contributed big runs. Also 197 runs isn't easy to chase. India reached 159/6, and this time India might bat first trying to set good target whereas in the first T20 India women won the toss and decided to bowl.

Today is the second match of the Indian women vs England women's cricket team, the previous match of the same team was played on 6 December, and now 3 days have passed and they again met on the same and the same team.

In the previous time, England won the match, and India lost it so I know Indian women their best to win the match, England's team is confident because they were able to lose against Indian women on the 6th of December, which means Indian women team are angry this time, and should have revenge today.
1158  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Do you believe you can win on sports betting by analyzing a betting lines only? on: December 09, 2023, 06:51:38 AM
Some people also think that the bookie's chances of winning are much greater than the bettor's, well I don't think so either.
 

I think it's a wrong perception to think that way, bookies aren't the house like a casino where they had games and you play against the house. Bookies more like a facilitator of our bets and bookmakers job are the making lines and odds that would attract even actions, but adjustments are always their as balancing is always the main goal.

Why balance the action? This is to ensure that bookies accept as maybe bets as they can so they can increase the juice they'll ba making.

For example, team A had +2.5 vs team B -2.5, both have odds of 1.90, so regardless on what team will win, bookies will always pocket 10% of the total bets from the winning bets.

Also this is not like the bookies will win or lose based on the luck. They have the odds in place and in most cases, no matter which team wins or loses the bookies are in profit. Since bookies give less odds to the favourite team, so even if bookies have to give money to the gamblers, it is not that much because the odds are low.

Although it requires a little bit of math to understand, but being a bookie is a profitable business as compared to being a gambler. but not everyone can become a bookie because it needs a lot of initial capital which the ordinary gamblers do not possess.
1159  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod] on: December 09, 2023, 05:27:19 AM
Today match is the between Pakistan and Nepal. Pakistan won the toss and first decided bowling. Nepal batsman makes 10 run in 2 over and Pakistan no any wicket against Nepal. And the next ball Pakistan bowler out the Nepal batsman in the third ball of the 3 over. This is the first achievement for Pakistan team.

Pakistan won the match and the main player who possibly this victory is Mohammad Zeeshan. First, he took six wickets of the best player in Nepal and after the wickets, he came to batting and he made too many runs in just 8 balls, he hit 20 runs in 8 balls.

This is his biggest achievement by him. By the way, I see him for the first time and I have don't idea that he is an all-rounder but my doubt is clear, he is not just an all-rounder he is a superb all-rounder who can make runs and take wickets in just seconds.

Nepal batsman makes 152 run in 58 over and 10 out.

The Nepal team gave the target of 152 runs, some people think that this is the normal target. If you don't remember what happened in 152 targets, so I will remind you that in the 2021 World Cup Pakistan vs India match, the Pakistan team bowling first and the Indian batsmen couldn't stable to play and give the 152 runs, and Pakistan chase that easily with zero wicket loss so maybe history will repeat but Pakistan lose three wickets in this match.
1160  Economy / Gambling / Re: How to self exclude from anonymous gambling sites on: December 09, 2023, 05:07:55 AM

The locking (staking) is done with one single click of a button, and it's practically speaking, equivalent to activation of self-exclusion on an online gambling site with a click of a button (and yet not all sites offer it unfortunately).

For example, you stake (lock) $200 of your crypto, and that's all crypto available for you - then you can't play/gamble/risk it for at least 21 days ... do it 15 times a year time after time, and you would be excluded for a long time.

The only drawback with this method is Atomic doesn't offer this on USDT so some "gamblers" might not like this idea because they trust stablecoins more than other crypto coins, but this is FYI.


Another drawback of this method is that Atomic Wallet is not trustable in the first place as there have been recent problems with this wallet. So i would not recommend anyone to use Atomic Wallet for staking, Yes they can do staking on other wallets too.

Also if you think that a person has no control over his emotions to restrict himself from gambling, then i am afraid he cannot stay away from gambling even if he put his fund in locked staking. Of course, you cannot put all your money in staking, the one left with you without staking, you will still use that money to gamble.

I think this is more of a mind game, where if you are serious, you won't put more money into gambling, even if it is not staked or locked. One needs to be strong enough that he does not require external restrictions to prevent his money from gambling.
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