⚽ Sportsbet.io ⚽ Spanish La Liga ⚽ Football Pool Discussion Thread 2023/2024

[casperBGD]

you can count me in, as well
Valencia beat Villareal today, so this could be a better season for us, last one was a pretty big disappointment

regarding champions, this season could bring Barca back on a title road, but it is still early to put something on that

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[LTU_btc]

You can already count me in to both pools. Can't wait for the next season. I hope it will be better season for Barca and now things doesn't looks so dark as before previous season.

[Trofo]

This is some quick turnaround, I guess you guys loved Copa pool Usually we need a week to get to 10 participants, if we continue like this we will fill that by the end of the day.

I am hoping to increase participants for this year to 20-25. That is actually perfect number for me, last year Premier league was sort of too big for my liking. Not that I am gonna limit participation, just saying 20-25 is a sweet spot for me.

[Juggy777]

This is some quick turnaround, I guess you guys loved Copa pool Usually we need a week to get to 10 participants, if we continue like this we will fill that by the end of the day.

I am hoping to increase participants for this year to 20-25. That is actually perfect number for me, last year Premier league was sort of too big for my liking. Not that I am gonna limit participation, just saying 20-25 is a sweet spot for me.

@Trofo depending on Bitcoin prices if I’m able to spare money for this I’ll join, as I’m out of job these days saving money is becoming difficult so it’s a 50 - 50 for me.

However I would like to support you’ll even if I can’t make it by sharing the redesigned OP in Facebook, other forums so let me know when it’s ready and hopefully that shall help you achieve your goal of 25 members.

Lastly if anyone has a good Reddit account with higher Karma that’ll be an excellent place to share, my account is with low karma hence it won’t last long there so if anyone has a aged account with high karma do spread the word there.

[Trofo]

However I would like to support you’ll even if I can’t make it by sharing the redesigned OP in Facebook, other forums so let me know when it’s ready and hopefully that shall help you achieve your goal of 25 members.

Lastly if anyone has a good Reddit account with higher Karma that’ll be an excellent place to share, my account is with low karma hence it won’t last long there so if anyone has a aged account with high karma do spread the word there.

Thanks for advertising offer but please don't do that. This is about our gambling community here on bitcointalk. I don't want newbies joining in just for the chance at high ROI. I want to expend our regulars number with genuine people here from bitcointalk that actually like to put some money on their opinions. When you add all the sponsorship money and free bets I could easily expand our pool to 200 or even 1000 people just by posting info on some bookie chats but that goes against my idea of what this pool should be and I would not put extra effort with all side competitions for anonymous money grabbers.

[Trofo]

Ok guys, it is time to kick start this pool. If you were playing last season La Liga pool and COPA America pool, you already know everything. If you did not you'll get the hang of it quite quickly, so no worries and ask anything that I forgot to explain.


Sponsor:
I am happy to announce that our main Sponsor for this year is Sportsbet.io
The deal includes:
1. 40 mBTC cash for pool rewards (around 1600$ at the moment)
2. 0.5 mBTC free bet for every participant, in other words you get half of entrance fee back as free bet on Sportsbet.io when the tournament starts
3. Free bets for weekly competition. If you played COPA pool you know what I am talking about. I am thinking of having one competition for both La Liga and Serie A pools.
We may still have another additional sponsor. Waiting to hear from them.


Escrow and payment address (same as last year)
I am escrow for the funds on below mentioned address. In order to participate in the La Liga pool please pay 0.001 BTC (around 40$ at the moment) to below address and send me a tx via pm so I know who sent the money. Be sure to include your Sportsbet and Superbru usernames in the same PM. After day or two check the paid participants part to see if I added you there for extra security. Thank you.

BitcoinPRBuzz.com's Spanish La Liga Football Prediction Pool Escrow address:
1Jz6CJsgZJNWDBjDEchpgbBhckTxsfA1Cg

Example of text to include in PM for registration:

Code:

TX id: ldjslghldashgldkahglaihapjsfčoasfčadfj_this_is_fake_tx
Superbru user name: Trofo
Sportsbet user name: Trofo

Rewards:
Depending on number of participants, I'll reward first 3 or 4 people. Exact numbers will be made public after first round of games but it will be something in line with:
1. 50%
2. 30%
3. 10%

Highest yellow cap: 10%

Still open to suggestions, so if you have something to say now is the time. After first game starts everything is locked in I'll edit the op later on.

[LTU_btc]

Already sent BTC couple minutes ago  . It's cool that we will have Sportsbet as sponsors this year. Already can't wait to compete with old rivals .
When you will start collecting money for Serie A pool? Not my league, but still it was fun to throw some money last season .
P.S. Why you don't use SegWit?

[Trofo]

Already sent BTC couple minutes ago  . It's cool that we will have Sportsbet as sponsors this year. Already can't wait to compete with old rivals .
When you will start collecting money for Serie A pool? Not my league, but still it was fun to throw some money last season .
P.S. Why you don't use SegWit?

I'll kick start Serie A pool later today. Don't worry if you guys don't see participants part of OP updated during this first week, I am on vacation so leaving that part for when I get back, around 10th of August. That is the time when I will make actual Superbru pool and start sending invites.

Last year I decided to not use SegWit because there were several people sending money from different bookies/some other services and I was quite sure several did not accept SegWit addresses. This year I went with same addresses since I don't have access to my "escrow wallet" while on holiday. I agree it should be SegWit since it got way more supported in the meantime, will be from next year


If somebody wants to save a bit on transactions and intends to join both La Liga and Serie A pool let me know. I will pay double fee for one pool and that person will pay double fee for the other.

[icopress]

I'll kick start Serie A pool later today. Don't worry if you guys don't see participants part of OP updated during this first week, I am on vacation so leaving that part for when I get back, around 10th of August. That is the time when I will make actual Superbru pool and start sending invites.

I am also determined to participate in the pool .... If there is no objection, I will pay the registration fee by the time you return from vacation, and I would really appreciate it if you sent a short mass notification in the spirit of "time to pay" after returning from vacation. And a parallel question, is it possible to pay the fee for Serie A and La Liga in one payment? This is due to the fact that the minimum withdrawal amount to Sportsbet is 2 mBTC. ^{[thanks in advance]}

[Trofo]

And a parallel question, is it possible to pay the fee for Serie A and La Liga in one payment? This is due to the fact that the minimum withdrawal amount to Sportsbet is 2 mBTC. ^{[thanks in advance]}

It is not possible to pay for them in one transaction from Sportsbet, pools have their own different escrow addresses and I have to have a correct amount on both of them when pools start.

I already mentioned a workaround for this which works fine. You just agree with somebody else to pay double for one pool and that other one pays double for other pool - effectively saving on transaction fee or enabling using Sportsbet no fee option. You asked first so you are now my fee buddy.

You pay 2 mBTC for La Liga covering your and my fee
I will pay 2 mBTC for Serie A covering my and your fee

Agreed?


This solution has an added benefit of cheaper tx when sending rewards so by all means try to employ it, there will be more money for all of us. Just make sure to let me know who you are paying for in the PM with details.

[icopress]

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My short memory ... thank you for reminding me about this payment option and thank you for your offer, I will accept it and can pay today. One question ... When you withdraw funds from your Sportsbet account, are transaction costs deducted from the main account or from the withdrawal amount?

[buwaytress]

Hey guys, so happy to see this and Serie A return, and Sportsbet doing us a huge one and sponsoring both. Me, I'm happy to have the tiny pride of being the first sponsor for all the original pools, but couldn't be more pleased to see a proper brand backing all of these awesome threads and pools.

I love the community here, but let's see if we can help grow La Liga (and Serie A) to the same levels of awesome bastardity as EPL;)

@Trofo you need to edit this post and OP to reflect the new sponsor's name on the escrow address =)

And yes SegWit pls. Let's all help make legacy obsolete =D

[Trofo]

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My short memory ... thank you for reminding me about this payment option and thank you for your offer, I will accept it and can pay today. One question ... When you withdraw funds from your Sportsbet account, are transaction costs deducted from the main account or from the withdrawal amount?

Pay whenever it is convenient for you, I will not pay before I get home next week probably. We have a deal.

I have no idea about fees on Sporsbet, they never took a single cent for fees on my withdrawals. But somebody, I think @jeremypwr mentioned that 2 mBTC is limit for no fees. I was always withdrawing at least 20 mBTC and thought that it is no fees no matter what. If it is important to you ask live support, they should be able to answer that one from the head But since we made a deal and you'll pay 2 mBTC in one tx it should not apply to this case.

@Trofo you need to edit this post and OP to reflect the new sponsor's name on the escrow address =)

And yes SegWit pls. Let's all help make legacy obsolete =D

SegWit is in from next year Have no access to the wallet while on holiday so decided to use the same address and start collecting on time as more important.

Can't edit that post, has to stay unedited for accountability. I make it a rule to never edit "important pool posts" since OP gets edited a lot and they are actually serving as contract. Had no idea that forum works that way, I wrote a post before changing the OP and it got the old title. I thought when I change title in the OP all posts had new title. Obviously not the case, will keep in mind for future.

[icopress]

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I paid ... I want to add that my question was related to the fact that I had never withdrawn such a small amount from my account, so I asked, and by the way, what jeremypwr said makes sense, since I just noticed that the minimum amount withdrawal 1mBTC. In any case, let's see how many mBTC will be credited, although I sent a little more in case there are any commission costs. Have a nice week

[tomahawk9]

3. Free bets for weekly competition. If you played COPA pool you know what I am talking about.

in Copa we wanted to try different competitions every matchday but that one was a short tourney. This time is 38 games 😨

i say we stick to one single format for the whole season, a format that doesn't reveal most of your weekly pool predictions (exact score, 1X2 result, or number of goals). Something like a SB multi master with goal scorers perhaps? or a betbuilder like 'team to score 1st goal + X + Y' in one random game every matchweek...what do you think, Mr. Trofo? anyone?

anyway, i'll send the btc soon

[icopress]

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My 2 cents ... I think it would be more expedient to opt for the weekly Superbu statistics. The thing is that most of us will participate in three pools of predictions and so that this hobby does not take too much time, I think we should limit ourselves to only standard practice. ^{[Although I have no objection if Trofo has time for this]}

[Trofo]

3. Free bets for weekly competition. If you played COPA pool you know what I am talking about.

in Copa we wanted to try different competitions every matchday but that one was a short tourney. This time is 38 games 😨

i say we stick to one single format for the whole season, a format that doesn't reveal most of your weekly pool predictions (exact score, 1X2 result, or number of goals). Something like a SB multi master with goal scorers perhaps? or a betbuilder like 'team to score 1st goal + X + Y' in one random game every matchweek...what do you think, Mr. Trofo? anyone?

My 2 cents ... I think it would be more expedient to opt for the weekly Superbu statistics. The thing is that most of us will participate in three pools of predictions and so that this hobby does not take too much time, I think we should limit ourselves to only standard practice. ^{[Although I have no objection if Trofo has time for this]}

First of all don't call me mister. I accept only Sir and only if you are able to write it at least 10 times in single post preferably each time with different ego boosting adjective ie. kind, beautiful, superb … 

These side coemptions take some work but I decided to do them in order to add little bit more spice/interaction to our community. This pools should be about community foremost and I believe they serve their purpose.

It will be one competition for both pools together which means we are talking 20 games each week. I see no problem of making public our pick for one or two games in this format. I will be choosing top derby that week. Still considering if it should be one game with more markets or two games with just main markets. I will then keep the same format for whole season and just change games every week.

For instance, two games:
Winner
under over 2.5
cards
Tie breaker: first goal

or one game:
Winner
under over 2.5
cards
corners
BTS
Tie breaker: first goal

Thoughts?

Happy to announce we have another supporting sponsor for our pool which added additional 5 mBTC to the pot. Our very own:
@buwaytress -- "contact me for blockchain - and crypto-centric content strategy, ghostwriting, and financial compliance consultancy. Also available for pro bono consultancy for non-profits."

Give him a hit if you need any of the services listed above, great guy.

[casperBGD]

Kind beautiful Sir Trofo (was that even good enough) ,

I think that it is best to have more markets from a single match, but it would be good not to have Barca/Real each round, do others as well (Valencia would be nice)
nevertheless, would skip BTS, does reveal a bit about score, maybe even under/over goals, first sub side is maybe better (first team to make sub/draw if halftime)

[jeremypwr]

But somebody, I think @jeremypwr mentioned that 2 mBTC is limit for no fees.

Sportsbet has lowered the minimum withdraw amount to 1 mBTC; so there shouldn't be any issues with fees 

[casperBGD]

could not help it to think that we are overthinking fees at the moment, with 1sat/byte you can send transaction within few blocks


it was an issue in January/February, but last two months are really bringing BTC fees down, and I have send my entry fees for $0.09 with an automated mobile wallet (that do not have many options to adjust fees - expect slow, medium, fast transaction), it seems that $0.09 is not worth thinking about fees, but maybe I am wrong

nevertheless, good thing that Sportsbet lowered minimum amount to withdraw without fees, kudos to them