Sportsbet.io's English Premier League Football Pool Discussion Thread

[Trofo]

Trofo did you survive Sunday shopping?

It was a close call. I managed to skip about hour of shopping on pretense to watch our baby girl. We went to the cafe where I bribed her with cake and lemonade to let me watch Liverpool in peace. They could have at least scored some goals to make it more interesting. Financial damage is still being assessed, I am hoping I will not be forced to sell my car to cover credit card bills  I am only joking a little bit here, there is a grain of uncomfortable truth in that last sentence.

I want it to be noted that I am considering selling the car before selling BTC or giving up my betting bank. Priorities, you got to have them 

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[buwaytress]

@LFC, hope you do better than either City or Liverpool at keeping a lead on the summit. It's really going to have to be wins all the way from here onwards for the Reds. The good news is we host the last 2 Big Six at Anfield (Spurs and Chelsea) so I'm confident of those games. It's the banana peels like Everton or Watford coming up I'm more worried about.

I'm watching tonight but I actually don't know which game is showing on my package. Hopefully the Wolves one.

buwaytress it seems you should stop predicting big wins for Liverpool they are very blunt these last games. Time to predict 0-0 so they can score a lot?

@slaman Actually, you might have a point. Maybe I will switch from 3-0 and go for 4-0 after all for the next few games

I want it to be noted that I am considering selling the car before selling BTC or giving up my betting bank. Priorities, you got to have them 

@Trofo Now I know I truly never walk alone!

[LFC_Bitcoin]

@buwaytress - I think we just need to take it one game at a time. Let’s beat Watford & prepare for the Derby. If we match City’s results then we’ll be Champions.

[o_e_l_e_o]

Hey man, if I’m to win I want it to be fairly. May the best man win?

I've been called a lot of things, but rarely the "best" man. Game on!

I think I have totally won 5 or 6 times yellow cap, and yet still cannot do anything about me slipping down this top 5.

I think I've only won 1 or 2 yellow caps, I'm just seem to be consistently getting good scores each week. I'm sure my luck is due to run out soon enough.

[buwaytress]

@buwaytress - I think we just need to take it one game at a time. Let’s beat Watford & prepare for the Derby. If we match City’s results then we’ll be Champions.

You're right my friend. I'm going to predict 4-0 tonight, enjoy the game and let football take care of itself. I hope we rest Bobby and give Shaq a start for a change. Salah was rated poorly back on the right but I actually thought he did well in familiar territory.

By the way, does anyone else feel weird that we have 3 ex Liverpool managers playing in the same league now that Brendan Rodgers is managing Leicester? Credit to Roy for making Palace look seriously good, Rafa for getting the best out of Rondon and the Magpies on the usual shoestring budget. I'd love for him to get them to Europa next season, but maybe not too late to see Rodgers do that for the Foxes?

[buwaytress]

So the formula works. I just need to predict 1 goal more than my usual 3-0, and we get the biggest win of the season. Could easily have been more, Salah was superb, so strange to see his name missing from the goals for assists. Clean sheet, no injuries, no cards, 5 goals to cut the difference to City to 6. And Watford weren't a bad team at all.

City getting a soft penalty, they must really feel the stars were shining on them, but to be fair, we've also had a 1-0 game from a penalty.

@LFC you're just tearing up the leaderboard, aren't you? panjul breathing down your neck with his yellow cap. I'm actually bottom... those below me aren't making their picks anymore.

[tokeweed]

@buwaytress - I think we just need to take it one game at a time. Let’s beat Watford & prepare for the Derby. If we match City’s results then we’ll be Champions.

I think it'll go to the wire (and I hope it does, it'll make for a more exciting end of the season).  And it will depend on how both clubs handle the pressure now.

[Trofo]

It was a great presentation from Liverpool after few mediocre games. They need few more games like this to catch City on goal difference front. This season looks really tight and could be decided in the last game so every small detail could prove crucial in the end.

A question for you big Lpool fans. If somebody offered you to lose against Bayern in the next Cl match but to guarantee you that Lpool will have 1 point more then City before last game in Premier League, would you take it?

[LFC_Bitcoin]

A question for you big Lpool fans. If somebody offered you to lose against Bayern in the next Cl match but to guarantee you that Lpool will have 1 point more then City before last game in Premier League, would you take it?

We would only need to beat Wolves then at Anfield to be Champions. I’m in my early 30’s, I’ve never seen us win the title so 100% yes, I would take that deal right now.

@buwaytress - Great performance, what a win. Me & my younger brother were there in the Kenny Dalglish Stand so we got a great view of the 3 goals in the second half. Had to squint to see the first two goals
Saw then on highlights, Mane’s 2nd wow.

I tell you what will be a HUGE statement of intent - go to Everton a win. That would make us favourites to be Champions I think. I don’t have tickets for this game. My next one is Spurs at the end of March.

I think it'll go to the wire (and I hope it does, it'll make for a more exciting end of the season).  And it will depend on how both clubs handle the pressure now.

I’m desperate for this toke

[Trofo]

A question for you big Lpool fans. If somebody offered you to lose against Bayern in the next Cl match but to guarantee you that Lpool will have 1 point more then City before last game in Premier League, would you take it?

We would only need to beat Wolves then at Anfield to be Champions. I’m in my early 30’s, I’ve never seen us win the title so 100% yes, I would take that deal right now.

Had a feeling you would say something like that. I actually hope Lpool will secure the title before that last game. Wouldn't be too surprised if Wolves take some points from that game. Damn Wolves cost me a lot of money (betting) and points (both in our pool and in Fantasy) with their performances this season. They play really well against top teams and then lose games vs. relegation teams. Will try to avoid them for the rest of the season 

[buwaytress]

@LFC: I had a "glorious" view from telly (did I mention I finally coughed up money for a proper subscription? Too bad not in English), but the entire game was just a reminder of old attacking Liverpool. I mean Milner out of the blocks tackling Foster almost for a chance at goal? What a relief to finally be on edge of seat but because we missed so many chances after putting a few away. Mane goal of season, he deserves it that guy. And yeah! I put in 0-4 for Everton in our pool already. Won't mind missing it for 6-0 heh heh.

@Trofo, I'm like LFC, a good half decade older probably, but my adventure with Liverpool only began in the Houllier era. In time to see their Haul of Five, wonderfully young to enjoy Istanbul, and just so, so many great memories but I ache for the only title I haven't seen them lift. If we win it, I'll probably even make the trip to Merseyside just for that so YES, if you offered me the Bayern loss... I'd take it no hesitation.

And if you followed my other thread... you'll know Wolves lost me SO many parlays too. Frustrating to see, really. But actually it was Fulham earlier in the season that lost me a bit of money. Newcastle is the one making me bank actually, not least because they beat City at 17/1. My favourite bet all season haha.

[tokeweed]

I think it'll go to the wire (and I hope it does, it'll make for a more exciting end of the season).  And it will depend on how both clubs handle the pressure now.

I’m desperate for this toke

Lololol.  Omg how hilarious would it be for Man United fans to read that.  Anyway, I'm leaning towards City, but I'm not really a hardcore City supporter tho.  So I'm not really into the 'you vs us' thing.  I just enjoy betting on football and watching it.

And I got a soft spot for Klopp, so I'd still be happy for you guys if you get your first EPL trophy in how long...?  25 years?

[buwaytress]

@toke, 25 or 50 years, it doesn't matter for anyone who's below 40 years old or so, because I was 10 when we last won it, and it wasn't even the Premier League yet. Basically, it's all about memories we don't have, the stories we've heard from others, the stories we get to read about now there's Internet and all, but back in the day, it was the occasional pictures you'd see, a precious scarf from the 70s and 80s an uncle has in the room.

United love to see how desperate we are, sure, they loved it when we almost got there twice in the past 10 years, but we're also loving how many of them would rather lose to City and let them win then see us get 1 more.

I think you've to play football and experience a humid, dank, loud, burning, urine-stenched up stadium past midnight with your throat hoarse and knowing tomorrow's going to be a bad day at school to really enjoy this masochist pain of being the perennial overachievers - and I experienced all that with my local hometown team long before I knew who Liverpool were

To each his own, enjoy the game as we know how to. But would we want to win this with a sauntering victory? Ask City which memory they loved best and they'll say it was when Aguero scored the goal they needed to win the league by goal difference. So yeah, let's decide this on the final game, final minute!

[tokeweed]

^  Yup.  2011.  Such a delightful victory that was.    And against bacon face too.  

Anyway...  Please hold.  I got 1 - 1 for this match at our betting pool.  Lol.

Edit:  LOOOL!!!  AUBA PEN SAAVED!

[LFC_Bitcoin]

Well a shit weekend score for me in the pool, o_e_l_e_o & panjul closing on me rapidly.
Liverpool had an impotent 0-0 draw & now City are 1 point clear at the top.

Fuck this weekend!

[o_e_l_e_o]

Ooft. Only 7 points separating the top 4. All to play for!

[Trofo]

Fuck this weekend!

Couldn't agree more. It was terrible weekend for me as well. That includes our pool, Fantasy football (fuck Auba & Pogba), side bet for Lpool to finish above City and betting. I almost finished it on a high note with one long shot (4 EUR for winnings of almost 2000 EUR) accumulator ticket but missed one game (I needed R. Sociedad not to lose).

Ah well, at least CL is near that one is usually much better for me  

[buwaytress]

@tokes, you seem to be the happiest of them all.

And yes, since you're all on the same mood, I'll share the sentiment for a terrible EPL weekend. Auba the idiot lost me a 9/1 parlay on Saturday. Liverpool lost me an 11/1 parlay on Sunday. All we needed was Auba to score the goal gifted to him on a platter.... and more verve from the Reds. Maybe Virgil needs to play striker for a bit.

@Trofo I've never tried for anything more than 40/1... but 500/1? You ever hit one of those? I'm actually looking at my betting performance this season and after over 7 months, it appears I'm hugely in profit from single longshot bets... and about 20% down from my usual parlay tactics.

[Trofo]

@Trofo I've never tried for anything more than 40/1... but 500/1? You ever hit one of those? I'm actually looking at my betting performance this season and after over 7 months, it appears I'm hugely in profit from single longshot bets... and about 20% down from my usual parlay tactics.

Actually I did, granted only few times in about 10 years of almost daily betting. I'll just put up some extreme examples which will stay in my memory forever.

First I have to explain how I go about choosing my pairs and stake for the tickets. I start by browsing trough all the all available games from sports I like to bet on (mostly soccer & tennis) on a given day. That usually ends up with about 10-15 games on which I bet minimum stake (usually less then 1 EUR). This selection is based entirely on the feeling. After that I immediately eliminate few games and start looking trough statistics and other info like line ups for the remainder. Usually 6 games survive this selection. It has to be 6 games because I get much better odds when playing 6 games in local betting site. On this, I bet small stake of about 5-10 EUR. In the last step I chose one single bet or double in which I have most faith and bet large amount of money on it. Depending on my feeling of that given ticket and current financial situation this bet could be anything from 50-1000 EUR. Odds are always between 1.7-3.

I keep statistics only for the high stake bets and i usually manage to end years with small but satisfying profit. I have managed to win tickets from first selection few times in my life and they were greatly celebrated. First time was when I just started to bet online and I don't remember exact odds but I won all three tickets and got more than 3000EUR on stake of about 100EUR. With the way I manage bets that means that ticket with biggest odds was probably 0.5-1 EUR for win of about 2500EUR.

One time, I missed one game to win ticket with odds of 64000. Meaning for 1 EUR I would receive 64000EUR. That one I have kept stashed somewhere. Too make matters worse that game had odds of 1.4 and they missed 2 penalties. I had guessed correctly several games with odds of more then 5 on same ticket.

Sorry for a bit of a rant. Hopefully I managed to explain things properly and not confuse you guys too much.

[tokeweed]

@tokes, you seem to be the happiest of them all.

And yes, since you're all on the same mood, I'll share the sentiment for a terrible EPL weekend. Auba the idiot lost me a 9/1 parlay on Saturday. Liverpool lost me an 11/1 parlay on Sunday. All we needed was Auba to score the goal gifted to him on a platter.... and more verve from the Reds. Maybe Virgil needs to play striker for a bit.

@Trofo I've never tried for anything more than 40/1... but 500/1? You ever hit one of those? I'm actually looking at my betting performance this season and after over 7 months, it appears I'm hugely in profit from single longshot bets... and about 20% down from my usual parlay tactics.

Hmmm?  Did I get more points than everybody for the week?  I don't really check anymore.  Lol.

...  And quit the parlays.  They're mostly sucker bets, trust me.    But yeah I get it, they're fun.