From playing at online casinos to sports betting, last year was a bust for me. I think I only won around 35% of my total bets. Luckily I am not the same person anymore that does revenge bets which were proven to further widen my losses in the past. Late in the year, I lowered the amount of bets further and I do not have daily bets anymore.

Hopefully, this year is a better one. So far I am 1-1 with a slight loss. Maybe we should focus on a few sports only so we will have more time to research and analyze games.  

I think so. Bitcoin has already gone to the bottom. Although it didn't take long before people and various institutions realized to start buying the dip. There are too many investors and newbies that want to buy bitcoin at the lowest price. Do we have some people here that expected bitcoin to drop to $10k or even lower? But what if bitcoin won't drop again to $15k? We better accumulate bitcoin by dollar cost averaging it. This is also the same reason why I am not affected by the movement of bitcoin. If it drops, I have the chance to lower my buying average and my future earnings will be higher too.

I voted for Binance and Kucoin. All centralized exchanges have the chance to follow the route of FTX. But I also believe that many centralized exchanges learned from the past and are improving their services. They are trying to become transparent to their users to avoid fear and stop their investors from withdrawing their funds. Binance established itself as the biggest and is becoming uncontested when it comes to daily trading volume. I also followed the rise of Kucoin from its humble beginnings to becoming one of the top and solid exchanges in crypto.

I believe Anthony Davis and the rest of the injured players can return within this season which means the Lakers are still alive. But I also doubt their ability to reach deep in the playoffs. They really need a change before the All-Star period if they want to compete with the likes of Boston, Denver, Milwaukee, and the other title-favorite teams. The Lakers' approach this season though is conservative when they were reluctant to offer their future first-round picks. Lebron on the other hand seems to lose his magic spell in recruiting other players and convincing them to accept low salaries.

It is not just Al Haymon that ruined many potential fights since boxing became a big sport. But I agree with you. In the first place, Al Haymon created PBC to become a separate organization like the UFC. Its intent was to create its own championship belts too. Many of its fighters are influenced by Floyd Mayweather Jr. which means focusing only on the business aspect rather than building a legacy.

PBC is just new to boxing and is less than 10 years of operations but it already destroyed and prevented a lot of big fights. PBC prevented us from seeing the huge AJ vs Wilder clash when they were both undefeated and the winner could've been the first-ever undisputed heavyweight in this 4-belt era. PBC also didn't respond nor sent counter-offers to Bob Arum of Top Rank in order to stage Crawford vs Spence for the welterweight undisputed belts. There are too many potential fights I can mention but these 2 are the biggest and could've been historic fights if PBC is cooperative and not scared and selfish. 

Yes, Yarde is lucky and privileged to receive tips from someone that is in the future Hall-of-Fame and someone that fought Beterbiev 3 times in the amateurs. Although there were changes already as Beterbiev improved. But somehow they didn't fight like kids since they were already in their 20s at that time. Anyways, we will soon find out since the fight is already in 3 weeks' time.

I find it weird for the article comparing Beterbiev to a Trojan. Didn't the Trojans lose to the Greeks as they were being outsmarted?

For somebody with no trading experience, it is better to study first the basics of trading. And then you study the movements of some selected coins like bitcoin. You better stay away from jumping to different coins because charts are not enough to determine the movements of their prices. Look at the history of the top 5 coins in Coingecko and check their charts. You will notice that they can drop deeper than 15%. Bitcoin alone who's considered the most valuable and safest among cryptocurrencies dipped from $60k down to $15k late last year.

It might feel easy to think about earning thru trading. So the best way is to experience it for real. I am not a fan of demo trading accounts so put in $100 and do actual trades while learning the basics.

There are no guarantees. So far it is bitcoin and a few chosen altcoins that continue to remain steady at the top. Bitcoin is of course the safest among all cryptocurrencies. Ethereum's future may not be that secure after it shifted to POS. BNB is also at risk after the sudden collapse of FTT due to the fraudulent activities of FTX, another huge exchange like Binance. And let us be clear that bitcoin is a currency, it may stabilize in the future just like the US dollar. But for now, bitcoin still has a big room for growth as there is only a low percentage of the world population that owns a portion of it. 

I played chess a lot when I was a kid but I stopped when I entered college. Last year I tried to follow it again with the purpose of betting but then again life became busy and I really do not have much spare time for it. The only names I cannot forget in today's chess are Magnus Carlsen and Ding Liren. So I won't bet on chess tournaments these days only because I am not so updated as to who are the top players these days and their playing styles which matter a lot when it comes to betting.

Well, Kawhi Leonard was a proven elite or even recognized as the league's best player at the time when he left Toronto. The Clippers gambled a lot just to satisfy his demands including his rumored residence that is far from Los Angeles which result in some of their delayed travels, etc. Although he was probably worth it that time, Clippers' management doesn't care if Kawhi would play or not or if he plays with limited minutes because they just want to see him healthy during the playoffs.

Now, Clippers is becoming like a joke of an organization. Kawhi seems like he is not in his prime anymore. Maybe they can still reach the playoffs but what they are showing these days are not enough to go deeper.

I think Tank remained focused in this fight. Otherwise, he could've easily canceled this fight with no problems at all as he is the PPV guy here. 

I would be impressed if they gave Hector Garcia a minimum of 2 months to prepare. With less time to prepare while Tank was obviously training already, it is hard to imagine an upset. Although I would love Hector to score an upset.

PBC people and its partners always try to hype Tank's PPV events to their loyal followers. Here's the face-off where Tank tried to scare Hector Garcia. https://fb.watch/hT_cJYUb-2/

It didn't took long before the Philippines won a belt. But this was unexpected as most of the country are rooting for the likes of Casimero, Donaire and Magsayo to grab the nation's first belt this year. Melvin Jerusalem captured the WBO minimumweight belt earlier today in Osaka, Japan. Jerusalem landed a perfect thunderous straight right on now former champion Masataka Taniguchi's face who fell hard and was not able to recover.

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So Dana White and his family seem to remain intact unless his wife will change her mind. He and his wife Anne talked it out, exchanged apologies, and settled their differences. So Dana and his wife had been together since they were very young. It probably helped them both especially Anne to forgive and apologized as well. Otherwise, Anne would've been swayed by different rights and women groups to file a case and divorce Dana which would probably endanger the UFC. Anne's statement probably ends this issue sooner than later.

I was already annoyed by Errol Spence and PBC since the days when they aren't responding directly or indirectly nor proposed counter-offers to Bob Arum and Terrence Crawford before. Now Spence is becoming more annoying. He actually has overdue mandatories to all his 3 belts but because he is a PPV fighter and PBC is one of the biggest promotions in boxing, these sanctioning bodies are reluctant to impose a serious mandate on him without getting the approval of PBC who's likely to get Spence approval as well.

Stanionis is supposed to get his shot at the real WBA belt. The same with Boots who already won an IBF eliminator since early last year. Vergil Ortiz had been the WBC number 1 for a time and should be given a mandatory status too or maybe an eliminator against Thurman. Too many good names are involved in Spence yet he continues to remain silent or post nonsense something in public. And I honestly do not understand why he won't take Thurman who's IMO the weakest of these names.

This is the negative side of a team that depends mostly on a single player. Teams like Milwaukee and Denver will be easily at the bottom of the rankings if Giannis Antetokounmpo and Nikola Jokic are out. I don't think the rest of the roster can really compete well. Unlike the other teams like Boston and Memphis, they are surrounded by too many talents that they can perform well even with the absence of one star.

Denver is on top of the west and is even competing to lead the overall ranking is surprising to me. We are still half of the season anyways and there are a lot of swings that happens since the start of the season. But somehow after winning back-to-back MVPs, I like to see Jokic getting a ring.

5 winning streak now for GSW. They are performing decently even without their 2 starters. And it is also clear that Steph and Wiggins can return this season so the experts are already anticipating the team to get a spot in the playoffs. This team is proven over time and they are indeed a different beast once they enter the playoffs. Due to their wide experience in the finals, their upcoming young players' confidence continues to grow each day as they are mentored by the very best of this decade.

The odds I posted earlier was taken from BK8's NBA outright. Maybe some other sports betting sites have different odds but they aren't that far and they will become more and more close as the season progress.

While I agree that Makachev is a beast and a special talent, the champ hasn't demolished yet any big names that are idolized by the fight fans except for Oliveira. There are many fans that prefer to cheer for the underdogs. Most fight fans also prefer striking skills rather than ground and wrestling skills. Makachev should be able to handle Volkanovski in his first title defense. But it will be interesting how he feels fighting as the champion in an opponent's backyard which is the opposite when he took the belt from Oliveira in front of his fans.

If Dustin Poirier and Justin Gaethje win their next bouts, they will probably get a shot on Makachev as well. They will be taken into the ground but these guys might land their bombs first to test Makachev's chin, something Oliveira handled but not before badly getting hurt.

This is the current NBA championship odds at the start of the year. GSW is still the 3rd team favorite to win the title. It is because once the current active roster can maintain at least a 50/50 or 40/60 win rate they are still very capable of earning a spot in the playoffs once Curry, Wiggins, and co are back into their regular roles. The odds also favored the teams that have deep playoff experience rather than the teams that are performing well in this regular season. Fair enough, the playoffs are a whole new level compared to the regular games where sometimes defense and hustle are not fully activated.

I haven't seen the fight nor did I do a review on the full replay yet. But I did read and heard from a lot of people on social media that Franco deserved the win. Today I reviewed the punch stats and I am surprised that Ioka seems to have edged Franco. Based on the unbiased per-round punch stats, I have it 115-113 or 7 to 5 in favor of Ioka. Although there are times that jabs can be as good or even better than power punches, I just considered that generally, power punches weigh more than jabs. So I gave Franco rounds 4, 6, 7, 11, and 12 for a total of 5 rounds only. I agree that a rematch should happen or if not, let them face the other champions and stars in their division like Chocolatito, Estrada, and Bam.