Bitcointalk's FIFA World Cup Pool Discussion Thread

[hilariousetc]

I've gone for a risky 0-0 in the England game in play now. Think both teams could cancel each other out and doubt many others went for that score so probably need to take some gambles if I'm to get into the top five. I think it will be a low scoring game if any goals at all and couldn't call it with the outcome so played it safe with the draw. Could see the game going all the to penalties. Still got my joker left and will have to use it on the Croatia/Russia game now.

Edit: spoke too soon. England 1-0 up.

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[panjul07]

Yesterday was a good day for my prediction, had 1-3 on Uruguay vs France and it gives me 158 points (including bonus points) while on other match I had a perfect correct score of 1-2 on Brazil vs Belgium (gained 318 points including bonus points) too bad I did not use Joker on it.
For today matches, I had 0-2 on Sweden vs England. It is 0-2 already and if it remains the same till the end then I will get 580 points because I use the joker on this match.
For the last QF match, still confuse to predict. I have set 2-0 for Croatia previously but I want to edit it with 3-1 for Croatia.

[tokeweed]

England thru the semis!  Yessss!

[hilariousetc]

Anyone get that 2-0 right?

England thru the semis!  Yessss!

I hope they face Croatia in the semis. Lets see how they do against a half-decent team who have been one of the best so far in my opinion. Would like to see either team face Belgium though. Let's see how well England do against a full strength Belgium team with something actually on the line. Something tells me it won't be a mere 1-0  .

Really need to get a correct score to have a chance of winning something. Joker is on the Croatia/Russia match so double points would do nicely for that.

[buwaytress]

Anyone get that 2-0 right?

England thru the semis!  Yessss!

I hope they face Croatia in the semis. Lets see how they do against a half-decent team who have been one of the best so far in my opinion. Would like to see either team face Belgium though. Let's see how well England do against a full strength Belgium team with something actually on the line. Something tells me it won't be a mere 1-0  .

Really need to get a correct score to have a chance of winning something. Joker is on the Croatia/Russia match so double points would do nicely for that.

Panjul seems to have gotten that 2-0, with a joker too, so he climbs the ranks. The top 5 doesn't seem to have budged much though, but everyone got a few points so I guess most people backed England (including myself). Sweden really had a few cracks on goal though, and Pickford's twice now probably the guy most deserving of MOTM for keeping them in the game.

Part 1 of my parlay achieved, now for Croatia to go through. Russia were the lowest odds team to win the WC, I wonder how many Russians put small fivers on that bet!

England vs Belgium. Mouthwatering indeed, and the Red Devils have my backing. France is awesome but there's just something so attractive about Belgium at the moment. And what a display of Premier League stars, don't you think?

My joker got used up on Suarez and co, so no real point in me making crazy predictions on Russia.

[BitcoinSupremo]

I had England 0-0 too but I cannot say I am not happy that they have gone to the semi final. They are playing well, it is the first time that they are playing as a group and not as individual superstars like they have done in the past, and well in the past they have been eliminated in the early stages of WC. I have my jolly on Croatia game but I am not quite calm knowing that the referee whoever might be will undoubtedly favor Russia.

[hilariousetc]

Need Croatia to win 2-1 and it's 1-1 with a few minutes to go to half time. Really need this win with my joker to likely take me into the top five. I think there will be more than one more goal in this game though.

I had England 0-0 too but I cannot say I am not happy that they have gone to the semi final. They are playing well, it is the first time that they are playing as a group and not as individual superstars like they have done in the past, and well in the past they have been eliminated in the early stages of WC. I have my jolly on Croatia game but I am not quite calm knowing that the referee whoever might be will undoubtedly favor Russia.

I still think they've played very average at best throughout. Sweden were poor as were most of the other teams they've played. I'd really like to see them play a truly strong team before I give them their due and if they can get past the semis then they'll get that with either France or Belgium's A team.

[LTU_btc]

I'm officially out of competition, thanks to Mario Fernandes who scored goal and made result 2:2. Now I'm only 15th instead of being close to top 5. I started this competition quite well, but now my positions is getting worse and worse on every matchday.

[Barcode_]

I'm officially out of competition, thanks to Mario Fernandes who scored goal and made result 2:2. Now I'm only 15th instead of being close to top 5. I started this competition quite well, but now my positions is getting worse and worse on every matchday.

It just shows everyone who took part in this world cup pool is quite good in analyzing and predicting football matches result, if you take a closer look at the score of the top 12 players in the leaderboard, there is still a chance for anyone to make it into the top 5 spot with an exact score prediction plus the joker card which doubles the points. There is still 3 matches left with 2 jokers card available to be use and who knows if there might be someone who can catch up from behind and make it into the top 5 spot at the end of this world cup tournament.

[Trofo]

I'm officially out of competition, thanks to Mario Fernandes who scored goal and made result 2:2. Now I'm only 15th instead of being close to top 5. I started this competition quite well, but now my positions is getting worse and worse on every matchday.

It just shows everyone who took part in this world cup pool is quite good in analyzing and predicting football matches result, if you take a closer look at the score of the top 12 players in the leaderboard, there is still a chance for anyone to make it into the top 5 spot with an exact score prediction plus the joker card which doubles the points. There is still 3 matches left with 2 jokers card available to be use and who knows if there might be someone who can catch up from behind and make it into the top 5 spot at the end of this world cup tournament.

Shouldn't there bit 4 matches left. In world cup there is always a game for the 3rd place as well. So we will be able to predict that one as well.

[Barcode_]

Shouldn't there bit 4 matches left. In world cup there is always a game for the 3rd place as well. So we will be able to predict that one as well.

I am also not sure if there will be a 3rd place match for us to predict in this world cup pool, but after I checked my prediction brackets, it seems that the system did not require me to make any prediction for the 3rd and 4th place for the teams in this world cup tournament, so I just assume that there will be only 3 matches left for the prediction round instead of 4 matches.

[buwaytress]

Two correct scores in the QFs weren't enough to push me into top 10 even, just too bad I didn't have a Joker on any of those but yeah as Barcode says, I actually still have a chance to get into a winning spot... as long as I continue to make bold predictions AND get the Joker on them. So that's going to be my strategy haha. No use predicting a popular score at this stage since the top 10 will likely have a few picking them.

Just wish I could have done better. Noticed a few of you also predicted draws for Russia judging from the points movement.

[hilariousetc]

I'm officially out of competition, thanks to Mario Fernandes who scored goal and made result 2:2. Now I'm only 15th instead of being close to top 5. I started this competition quite well, but now my positions is getting worse and worse on every matchday.

I'm only 570 points behind fifth place and you're only one place behind me so we can still probably get in the top five if you get a couple of correct scores and utilise your joker well. I got absolutely robbed by that Russian equaliser in the 115th-minute. So close. It would have probably taken me into fourth place since I used my joker. Glad Croatia went through though. Them and Belgium are the only teams I can make money on this tournament now. Got a feeling it'll be a England vs France final now  . Can't lose on a Belgium/Croatia one though.

[BitcoinSupremo]

I got also 400 points on Croatia game although I had 1-1 exact result, and had Joker on them, didn't get the full 700 point but I don't know where I am in the table should be above 15, yeah 16 I am with 650 points behind 5th place. I have put a joker on one of the semi finals which will give me 800 points and maybe I will have a chance. Anyway I guess in a more realistic view I am out of the tournament like many others.

[SyGambler]

hehe damn now I need like 2 or 3 jokers on every single match in order to be in the top 5 , currently at 19th place but I keep forget to add the extra bonus predictions before the game start so missed a couple hundreds of points
anyways this competition is fun no matter if I win the prize or not , it's cool to see people competing and sharing their betslips and as long as I'm profiting from betting on WC you can win the reward here 

at the moment have only one bet for the coming matches which is 2 units on France to qualify at X1.80 , Belgium surprised us last game but France is still the best team in Europe these days with solid young players so will go for that 

[Trofo]

at the moment have only one bet for the coming matches which is 2 units on France to qualify at X1.80 , Belgium surprised us last game but France is still the best team in Europe these days with solid young players so will go for that 

I like your tip and will play the same if I manage to get odds like that or better. I am thinking of playing both to score and over 2.5 goals on Croatia - England match as well as a small bet on Croatia to go trough. I never allow myself big stakes on "my teams", you can never be objective enough. It will be a great match to watch and I look forward to "polite exchange of opinions with England supporters". We are very happy that we are playing against them in this stage and judging from the headlines in English press they like their chances as well

[SyGambler]

at the moment have only one bet for the coming matches which is 2 units on France to qualify at X1.80 , Belgium surprised us last game but France is still the best team in Europe these days with solid young players so will go for that  

I like your tip and will play the same if I manage to get odds like that or better. I am thinking of playing both to score and over 2.5 goals on Croatia - England match as well as a small bet on Croatia to go trough. I never allow myself big stakes on "my teams", you can never be objective enough. It will be a great match to watch and I look forward to "polite exchange of opinions with England supporters". We are very happy that we are playing against them in this stage and judging from the headlines in English press they like their chances as well

the price I got is from betfair mate , now in bitcoin rush it's X1.75 and in sportsbet it's X1.74 but since they have price boost I tried boosting the price and it gave me X1.81 so in case you want to go for it check out sportsbet and do the boost for it

[panjul07]

hehe damn now I need like 2 or 3 jokers on every single match in order to be in the top 5 , currently at 19th place but I keep forget to add the extra bonus predictions before the game start so missed a couple hundreds of points
anyways this competition is fun no matter if I win the prize or not , it's cool to see people competing and sharing their betslips and as long as I'm profiting from betting on WC you can win the reward here 

at the moment have only one bet for the coming matches which is 2 units on France to qualify at X1.80 , Belgium surprised us last game but France is still the best team in Europe these days with solid young players so will go for that 

Yap that's better mate, and I believe you have made bigger profit than the possible prizes on this competition. Am I right?  I made really nice profit on Belgium vs Brazil match as I placed a bet on Belgium to win HT/FT with odds x5.4 in my local sports bookie.
I was so confident with Belgium to win as I think Brazil still have problem in scoring goals and I was right And I will still continue to bet on Belgium for the Semi-Final match and hopefully this is the year for Belgium to get their first WC title.

[SyGambler]

hehe damn now I need like 2 or 3 jokers on every single match in order to be in the top 5 , currently at 19th place but I keep forget to add the extra bonus predictions before the game start so missed a couple hundreds of points
anyways this competition is fun no matter if I win the prize or not , it's cool to see people competing and sharing their betslips and as long as I'm profiting from betting on WC you can win the reward here 

at the moment have only one bet for the coming matches which is 2 units on France to qualify at X1.80 , Belgium surprised us last game but France is still the best team in Europe these days with solid young players so will go for that 

Yap that's better mate, and I believe you have made bigger profit than the possible prizes on this competition. Am I right?  I made really nice profit on Belgium vs Brazil match as I placed a bet on Belgium to win HT/FT with odds x5.4 in my local sports bookie.
I was so confident with Belgium to win as I think Brazil still have problem in scoring goals and I was right And I will still continue to bet on Belgium for the Semi-Final match and hopefully this is the year for Belgium to get their first WC title.

yeah world cup been lucrative so far , even all the soccer tipsters that I follow were able to profit overall so can't complain 

added another 2 units bet on England to qulaify at X1.68 ( bitcoinrush price ) , basically I'm backing both of the favors to meet in the final
usually I hate backing the favors but it's the semi final and things are more serious now , I guess we won't see any surprise in the semi final unlike the previous stages

[LTU_btc]

I'm only 570 points behind fifth place and you're only one place behind me so we can still probably get in the top five if you get a couple of correct scores and utilise your joker well. I got absolutely robbed by that Russian equaliser in the 115th-minute. So close. It would have probably taken me into fourth place since I used my joker. Glad Croatia went through though.

Theorically it's still possible. But it's not enough to spend joker well. We also need that players above us wouldn't get points for their predictions and it's not likely to happen I think.