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

[CLS63]

I'm also going to take part in the pool absolutely. I'm very happy that I won one yellow cap last season. But my target in this season is going to be winning yellow cap together with finishing the pool in top 10. I'd also respect and obey the decision made about the pool entry fee.

[tokeweed]

I'm happy with the 3 mbtc pool fee, and if there are new people wanting to join and they feel they're priced out because of that, I guess we could ask but I seem to recall the fee not really being an issue when we asked people before (and that was when BTC was a bit more than it is today).

@tokes sure. I'll take you on. You'll have to remind me if I forget though.

Cool.  And yeah sure, I'll remind you but wouldn't it be embarassing to remind somebody with such a small bet?  Lmao.  I usually remind people if I'm on the losing end.  But when I'm winning, I usually just wait.  I think I've had a couple winning side bets that haven't been paid.  Lol.  But it's alright, really nothing to squabble over.

So yeah, nice to be back in here.  I see this pool has become a success with a growing number of people joining every season.  I think this thing has been running for 5 seasons now?  Time flies...

[Ulven]

Hello friends, I think you are very excited before the season starts, so I will be there with you hoping that more participants will join the pool.
Last season, I didn't get any hats all season, but I won enough bets.
I think next season I will be in the top 10.

[hilariousetc]

I'm fine with 0.0025 BTC if it's not too much for other users. Yeah, BTC now is falling crazy, but I expect that in the end of season rewards may look very sweet .

I use the Spanish Dazn but it doesn't have English commentary. The Canadian one does and I used that before but I kept running into proxy issues so I went with the Spanish one once my subscription ran out. It might be ok now though or may just depend on the proxy you use. Try find someone in Canada and see if you can get them to create you an account. You can't sign up for it with proxy but once the account is created it's using a proxy is usually fine. You can pay pay as you go monthly and they even used to do one month free trial so you can give it a go and if it doesn't work just cancel it after a month. I have both the German and Spanish Dazns and they're both well worth the money. I split them with a friend as well as two people can watch at once. Between them both I have all the boxing, all UFC fights and pretty much all the biggest football leagues inn Europe.

Canadian DAZN doesn't have EPL. There is Fubo.TV in Canada with EPL, Serie A and more sports, it costs about $15. But I haven't tried it, so I'm not sure is it possible to sign up there and use it with VPN. German and Spanish DAZN with all their content would be great, but absence of English language is big disadvantage.

They must have lost the rights. They had it a year or two ago but I've been with the Spanish one for the last season. Commentary isn't a deal breaker for me. I usually just listen to music instead. You could probably just find a radio station that is covering it I suppose.

I will most probably be on vacation during August as always but I think @hilarious won't say no to someone who at the worst will pay 5-10 September at max (just like last year I think) but I prefer to pay much sooner than that this year hopefully.This is to say that I too am taking part in the upcoming pool and damn how I am eager to compete again after missing the final prize place for just 2 or 3 points I don't remember well,and it felt really great to be the leader of the standings for a couple of weeks in the beginning of the tournament.

I can give people a grace period up to a certain point like I did last season. Maybe I could allow some users to pre-pay but you may have to make up the difference if the price changes drastically before I fix the amount to btc.

I'm happy with the 3 mbtc pool fee, and if there are new people wanting to join and they feel they're priced out because of that, I guess we could ask but I seem to recall the fee not really being an issue when we asked people before (and that was when BTC was a bit more than it is today).

@tokes sure. I'll take you on. You'll have to remind me if I forget though.

So yeah, nice to be back in here.  I see this pool has become a success with a growing number of people joining every season.  I think this thing has been running for 5 seasons now?  Time flies...

The pools have grown with every season so far so I'm hoping we can keep the tradition going. Hoping for at least 50 users this season.

[LTU_btc]

And who says Fullham goes down?  I got 10 bucks for fun that says they won't..  Give me 3 to 1.  I guess that's more than fair?

I expect that they will go down. And Norwich will get promoted lol. In recent years it's difficult to imagine different scenario.

Commentary isn't a deal breaker for me. I usually just listen to music instead. You could probably just find a radio station that is covering it I suppose.

Football and music in background - well, that's interesting combination. And for commentary radio isn't needed. Flashscore app commentary for all EPL and for other main leagues.

[buwaytress]

@tokes $10 may not be a lot of money but right now it's > 1 mbtc haha.

They must have lost the rights. They had it a year or two ago but I've been with the Spanish one for the last season. Commentary isn't a deal breaker for me. I usually just listen to music instead. You could probably just find a radio station that is covering it I suppose.

It appears so. Commentary never really used to be a dealbreaker for me either, I guess the particular local language I hear just sounds so foreign plus I do understand some of it and it seems to be poor quality anyway, they're really just mumbling through and using the same repeat phrases over and over. It goes something like this every 5 minutes:

jongen, jongen, jongen, ay yay yay yay yay to mean practically anything like "boy, boy, boy, oh man what a miss, oh that was bad, oh bad pass"

Radio + broadcast also works bad for me with roughly 5 seconds delay haha.

The pools have grown with every season so far so I'm hoping we can keep the tradition going. Hoping for at least 50 users this season.

It's been one of the real subforum successes to my eyes too. Active and an actual lot of pretty decent bastard expert commentary.

Oh and I guess 3mbtc isn't a bad fee considering we're now sub-20k BTC (ouch).

[hilariousetc]

It appears so. Commentary never really used to be a dealbreaker for me either, I guess the particular local language I hear just sounds so foreign plus I do understand some of it and it seems to be poor quality anyway, they're really just mumbling through and using the same repeat phrases over and over. It goes something like this every 5 minutes:

jongen, jongen, jongen, ay yay yay yay yay to mean practically anything like "boy, boy, boy, oh man what a miss, oh that was bad, oh bad pass"

Radio + broadcast also works bad for me with roughly 5 seconds delay haha.

Most commentary and even technical analysis is bullshit. I'd rather have a glass dildo shatter in my arsehole than have to listen to anything Michael Owen has to say. He's one of the most dullest men on the planet.

And to sync up the radio you can just pause the football until it's in time. Probably a bit of a faff but that's why I'd rather just listen to music. You're really not missing much on the commentary. There's only the odd time it's useful for when they're checking something on VAR and you're not sure what's going on or something has happened on the pitch that you're not sure about. A month or so ago they stopped the game for some reason and I had no idea what was going on but it turned out a fan in the stand was having a medical issue so they were getting medics to him. Had to google it after.

The pools have grown with every season so far so I'm hoping we can keep the tradition going. Hoping for at least 50 users this season.

It's been one of the real subforum successes to my eyes too. Active and an actual lot of pretty decent bastard expert commentary.

Oh and I guess 3mbtc isn't a bad fee considering we're now sub-20k BTC (ouch).

It's probably going to keep falling as well, especially if Celsius goes under which I think is very possible. If they manage to come out of this unscathed I've be very surprised. Lots of people are getting spooked by all these recent events and cashing out into fiat which is obviously having a massive knock on effect and is probably going to get a lot worse before it gets better. The fee will be between £25-£50 regardless though. I messaged jeremypwr about getting confirmation on the sponsorship and free bets so when I hear back I'll get the sign-up thread up and running.

[buwaytress]

Most commentary and even technical analysis is bullshit. I'd rather have a glass dildo shatter in my arsehole than have to listen to anything Michael Owen has to say. He's one of the most dullest men on the planet.

Ha fair enough. I do enjoy that 'noise' though, specially if it's in a good part of the stadium. Owen really isn't pretty though, was always a choir boy and while Carragher's possibly my all-time favourite Red, I can't really bear listening to him. The banter on Sky sometimes though, I enjoy every now and then. Roy Keane's an idiot half the time and then brilliant another half (nothing to do with the football action of course).

It's probably going to keep falling as well, especially if Celsius goes under which I think is very possible. If they manage to come out of this unscathed I've be very surprised. Lots of people are getting spooked by all these recent events and cashing out into fiat which is obviously having a massive knock on effect and is probably going to get a lot worse before it gets better. The fee will be between £25-£50 regardless though. I messaged jeremypwr about getting confirmation on the sponsorship and free bets so when I hear back I'll get the sign-up thread up and running.

Yeah. It's incredible to read how companies like 3AC are staring down total liquidation when they were as big as it gets. Just goes to show anyone can be successful in a bull market. The list of names of companies going bust is only going to lengthen. There's just this HK firm valued at $3B last month, and just finished raising 80 mill weeks ago, now going bust because BTC dropped 35%? I understand leverage but if they're facing all kinds of spiralling nonsense now makes me wonder just how much gambling these companies really do.

Thanks for taking care of this (and to jeremypwr and Sportsbet, of course).

Think we could tag on a request for Champions League? Qualification starts next week, if you can believe it (qualifying of course, pool group starts September but that's actually little less than 3 months away).

[Igebotz]

When will the next pool begin? I missed it last season because I was not properly informed; this season promises to be exciting and entertaining. Guys, let me in, this is where I belong.. 

[CLS63]

When will the next pool begin? I missed it last season because I was not properly informed; this season promises to be exciting and entertaining. Guys, let me in, this is where I belong.. 

I messaged jeremypwr about getting confirmation on the sponsorship and free bets so when I hear back I'll get the sign-up thread up and running.

hilariousetc posted this about the beginning date of the pool the last time. Don't worry, I'm following the topic closely. If you'd like I can send a PM to you when the pool starts to accept participants. 

[hilariousandco]

When will the next pool begin? I missed it last season because I was not properly informed; this season promises to be exciting and entertaining. Guys, let me in, this is where I belong.. 

All you need to do is keep an eye on this thread. I'm just waiting for confirmation from jeremypwr. Trying to get 0.2 for the pot so we can have 0.1 as the first prize. Will probably have the fee as 0.0025 so if we get 50 people that will be another 0.125 for the pot so hopefully over 0.3 in total.

[casperBGD]

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Trying to get 0.2 for the pot so we can have 0.1 as the first prize. Will probably have the fee as 0.0025 so if we get 50 people that will be another 0.125 for the pot so hopefully over 0.3 in total.

that would be great
people obviously got e-mail from Superbru that Premier league is now active, so wanted to jump as early as possible

although, looking at transfer window, next season could be resolved pretty fast, with City left alone on the top

United is a mess now, could they be worst than last season, it will be a hard task, but they are capable to do it, as it now stands, bring Ole back, they had quite success with him, comparing to results after he left

[swogerino]

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Trying to get 0.2 for the pot so we can have 0.1 as the first prize. Will probably have the fee as 0.0025 so if we get 50 people that will be another 0.125 for the pot so hopefully over 0.3 in total.

that would be great
people obviously got e-mail from Superbru that Premier league is now active, so wanted to jump as early as possible

although, looking at transfer window, next season could be resolved pretty fast, with City left alone on the top

United is a mess now, could they be worst than last season, it will be a hard task, but they are capable to do it, as it now stands, bring Ole back, they had quite success with him, comparing to results after he left

I don't think it will be that easy for City as Liverpool is still as strong as it was before Mane moved to Bayern Munchen during the transfer that happened as of recently.They,Liverpool need to not lose points with weaker teams as in the end that is what costed them the Premier League last year,they kept fighting until the end but could not do more than the second place,City is a great team so if let to run away in the beginning stages then we are going to see a really boring Premier League season this year.

The fee of 0.0025 or 50 dollars right now is reasonable,hopefully we get many people to join and get that prize pot bigger and fatter.

[LFC_Bitcoin]

@hilarious

Sportsbet will come back to us & confirm everything soon. Don’t worry about sponsorship etc, they’re busy with major projects atm.

Just to confirm, as always I will be playing this season.

[SATWAT]

@hilarious

Sportsbet will come back to us & confirm everything soon. Don’t worry about sponsorship etc, they’re busy with major projects atm.

Just to confirm, as always I will be playing this season.

As I already posted few days back I also want to be informed about this, but I need few more updates what is this superbru and is this paid service or free and is this working for all countries because if they have not allowed me then I can't join this pool for next season so please if anyone able to give all updates this could be appreciated, thanks.

[hilariousetc]

@hilarious

Sportsbet will come back to us & confirm everything soon. Don’t worry about sponsorship etc, they’re busy with major projects atm.

Just to confirm, as always I will be playing this season.

Yeah jeremypwr said they were busy but I'd like to get the thread going ASAP so we've got at least a month to promote it and get as many sign ups as possible.

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As I already posted few days back I also want to be informed about this, but I need few more updates what is this superbru and is this paid service or free and is this working for all countries because if they have not allowed me then I can't join this pool for next season so please if anyone able to give all updates this could be appreciated, thanks.

Superbru is free to use worldwide. It's just a site we use to input our predictions and keep track of the leaderboard.
It's a great site and very easy to use. Sign up now and check it out if you want.

[buwaytress]

^Not to mention Superbru also has a prize pot on its own (also free). Of course, next to impossible to win, but it's an additional incentive to put your picks in. Hope you sort your account out or make a new one @Welsh heh heh.

Anyway, 2.5 mbtc is a cool entry fee for me. Not even $50 for an entire season of fun... a bit annoyed at letting slip in the final third last season but ready to go again.

@LFC_Bitcoin Think we might even be playing an entirely new formation? So many question marks, but excited. Saw they Anfield new sections also already coming up!

[Trofo]

@LFC_Bitcoin Think we might even be playing an entirely new formation? So many question marks, but excited. Saw they Anfield new sections also already coming up!

Are you guys celebrating somewhere? Just read that Salah signed a new deal with Liverpool and since you guys aren't writing about it I guess you must be celebrating.

Good move from LFC to secure Salah, especially now that Mane left. New guys shiuld bring plenty of pace and explosivness to the attack as well. Should be another neck to neck battle with City for first spot. Don't see anybody else challenging them.

[Welsh]

Are you guys celebrating somewhere? Just read that Salah signed a new deal with Liverpool and since you guys aren't writing about it I guess you must be celebrating.

Good move from LFC to secure Salah, especially now that Mane left. New guys shiuld bring plenty of pace and explosivness to the attack as well. Should be another neck to neck battle with City for first spot. Don't see anybody else challenging them.

Trofo is now my number one rated journalist. Who would've thought I'd hear this type of news from Trofo themselves. I usually take a break from football, all the transfer speculation, since Liverpool usually get their business done early, and I honestly wasn't expecting any more transfers, and I certainly wasn't expecting Salah to sign yet.

Thought it would be next season. What brilliant news. Anyway, when are we putting in payments for the new season? It's like six week away isn't it? I need to fill in all my predictions in advance .

[LFC_Bitcoin]

@LFC_Bitcoin Think we might even be playing an entirely new formation? So many question marks, but excited. Saw they Anfield new sections also already coming up!

Are you guys celebrating somewhere? Just read that Salah signed a new deal with Liverpool and since you guys aren't writing about it I guess you must be celebrating.

Good move from LFC to secure Salah, especially now that Mane left. New guys shiuld bring plenty of pace and explosivness to the attack as well. Should be another neck to neck battle with City for first spot. Don't see anybody else challenging them.

Yes boys!

It’s certainly a relief, Salah might be 30 but how much would it cost in a transfer fee to sign somebody else who can replicate his goals & assists numbers? A lot I would imagine. I still think we need a top class midfielder but we will see, lots of time left in the transfer window.

Hopefully good things for LFC this season.