Recap on my bets on this weekends round in the United Rugby Championship:

It worked out with 2 from 4.

My predictions won but I made those two losses wrong, The points difference didn't workout


Stormers only beat the Dragons by 8 points
Connacht beat Benneton by 19 points.

I might rethink my point spread betting for next week....

B U M P

I have been sporadically colouring my copy and have been meaning to post up the 4th page
I completed.



Also everyone who has bought a book has been sent a few BCB stickers, these are limited
to 100 and all remaining sales will have some stickers included. I will update the OP later.

Hi Tennis posters

Obviously in the ATP and WTA there are no tournaments happening. We can be sure most
of the players are hard at work training for the new season.

There are still lower tournaments happening at Challenger and ITF levels, just wondering if anyone
is betting on these?

Also is or has anyone done the simulated betting?

52 for me please Betnomi!

Thank you

Thanks for the links, yes it's easy to do an online search but I was hoping to get some
suggestions from UI UX designers here on the forum.

I see from those 4 links the first recommendation from 3 of the sites is a "general" design
book - 1. The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman are they just copying each
other or is that book really the "Bible" of design?

52 please K - thank you again!

Indeed Timelord they were!
At a time when the Soccer world cup is on I find it difficult to watch that sport after watching
Rugby and especially those two games last weekend and all the Autumn Internationals I got
to see. There can be really bad games in Rugby but they are in a minority where as IMO really
good games in Soccer are a minority.

Anyway last night's games in the URC threw up wins for my predictions but I didn't put a wager
on the Sharks, I wanted to do a point spread but the lowest I could get on Rollbit was -21.5,
lucky because they only beat the Ospreys by 15 points.

Munster on the other hand were very good and covered my +3.5 bet by beating Edinburgh by
21 points, I definitely think they will be on a winning roll from now on.

I have 2 more bets on for today, -11.5 on the Stormers to beat the Dragons @1.71 and a straight
ML win by the Lions to beat Scarlets @ 1.23

Connacht v Benneton - Connacht will win today but to get some value I have Benneton +11.5 @ 1.63

Hi all, I think/hope this is the correct board to post this in

My son is a few months in to a UI UX design course online and wants some related BOOKS
for Christmas but we have no idea what to get.

A bit of background: he has been working in Data Analytics for a few years and wants to add
UI UX Design to the portfolio.

My first thoughts on this would be that the area is a fast moving one and that ^somebooks
would become obsolete fairly quickly ^{I could be wrong though.}

I guess there are a lot of designers in this board so hopefully you have some suggestions.
any input is much appreciated.

52 - aoluain

Rugby Union

Round 9 in the United Rugby Championship kicks off tonight with 2 games:

Cell C Sharks v Ospreys - these two are close enough on the table but I'm backing the
home team for this one with a point spread. Sharks are massive favourites 1.06 - 8.4...
maybe a point spread on the Ospreys would be a consideration too?

The second game tonight is Edinburgh at home to visiting Munster. I think I'll go with a
Munster win. I think they have their game back on winning ways. Odds are 1.75 - 2.14.

I'll go with a +3.5 on Munster @ 1.65

Thanks Betnomi, I'll take #

49

Hey Mopar, wow I'm not usually lucky with the raffles but very happy to have a winning spot!
Well done to all the other lucky winners, thank you again for hosting this.

Can you hold mine also for a future shipment?

Thank you in advance.

Yes it's a betting pool.
The advantage is obviously as the OP says that many heads are better than one so
everyone can input various ideas and data to create a strategy.

I don't think it would reduce the chances of getting addicted though.

On the plus side I could imagine that discipline and budgeting would be stricter which
would be a good thing.

Yea sounds good but not unconventional

absolutely, this move by the EU to ban privacy coins has nothing to do with money laundering,
it's just the go to excuse to ban something which gives us control over our property.

and in the mean time we have the corrupt Christine Lagarde ^{head of the EU Central Bank}
able to side step any accountability for her shady dealings in the past and still hold one of
the top institutional positions in the world.

Yea while it does fall short of making Bitcoin legal tender, it's a massive step forward and
could be seen as a stepping stone to the legal tender status.

Another positive is that it's Brazil, largest country in South America. It's also another
government softening it's view on Bitcoin.

On the down side there will be more regulation. It's important in times like this that
we can be reminded that we should seek out decentralised options for entry and exit points.

Well betting on draws in Rugby is non-sensical, it rarely happens, I get it though when
betting on Soccer though, draws are the norm.


Ouch, that was a missed opportunity.

Did you get a wager on Australia against Wales? that was another missed opportunity!

Did you get a message requesting your postal address from mx12.levins?

You are next in line Timelord!

I'm ok with either Danes suggestion of smoothie picking the winner or with an open
voting system.

I would like to offer one of the remaining Bitcoin Colouring Books to the prize pot >
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5406385.0

What happens in the highly unlikely event that I win? maybe I pass the book to my
personal pick?

They are interesting stats, it seems like he has reached a kind of limit and cannot progress
towards to top 10, or maybe that other players are doing more than him and have overtaken him
like Tiafoe who leapfrogged him into 19 position, this does seem like if he has the talent he needs
to work harder and possibly develop other aspects of the game to rise with other players.

It's altogether very interesting and really comes down to finer details like the mental side
of the game.

The thing is, I have heard some people on the past saying if they could go back in time
to 2010, 2011 and 2012 they would have sold everything and bought Bitcoin.

Let's face it, we all know Bitcoin is only going up in the medium to long term so
what is the problem with doing NOW what many people will be regretting they
did when Bitcoin hits $160k and more?