Friendly wagers in Bitcointalk

[Harkorede]

I guess it about time to have the thread after all, I'm sure it's going to another be another big thread over time, and for those suggesting escrow that's not bad thing, having an escrow over an eight months side bet of 2mBTC seem rather not worth it if you ask me, if you just don't trust someone there's no point of side bets, and side bets are just often to spice up the competition level generally amongst the Gambling Discussion, I'm sure they some of them would take 100 mBTC - 1 BTC, and would still trust each well enough to not need an escrow, I remember an infamous 0.1 BTC bet between two top members of this forum over the last United States Presidential election.

Even though there is some delay I have created the topic as I promised. I hope that it becomes a topic that everyone can benefit from.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5466920.new#new

By the way I have missed the side bet for the USA presidency. Is there any chance for you to share a link when you are available? This topic has really attracted my attention.

It was a bet between suchmoon and eddie13, I happened to be following their conversations a lot on the US politics then and some of their other posts too or would I call it debate, as the case always was whenever "Cryptohunter" (I can't remember if that was the actual username) gets involved, or often just contrast opinions on a lot of situations, not just that of the two mentioned personnel per se, but there are was always a lot for me to read on here about diverse perspective to several situations/actions from them, a lot of which are mostly against some very absurd justification for apparent immoralities/abuse and/or awful ideologies. I would spend a lot of hours on here just reading through several pages of these posts, highly enlightening tbh.

Here is the link the to the thread made for the reference of the bet agreement and terms from both parties;
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5208356.0

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[South Park]

As a regular poster in the gambling discussion section here and also a big sports fan, I frequently engage in bets with my friends and relatives on many occasions and sport events. For example last week my cousin insists that Haaland will win the upcoming Ballon d'Or award, while I'm also confident that Messi will secure his 8th trophy easily in this edition.
From that I noticed that we don’t have any friendly wagers here in gambling section which I haven't observed before, So let me give you an example of what we can establish if you like it:
So by following several sport threads here such as LaLiga. Lets say one user posted his opinion and analysis about the next match between RMA against RSO and he thinks that RMA won’t win that match, another user reply to him and disagree with him…. From that both users can agree to do a friendly wager or a bet between each other and set a value for the bet, and after the match is over the user who lost that bet should pay up to what they both agreed on.

It should be a fun thing only with small amounts and hopefully everyone keeps his word, I know many people would say that it’s better to just bet on a casino but I think it’s more fun here and also sometimes you can agree on better returns.
What do you think about this? I hope it’s not breaking any rules here.

It is not as common as I think it could be but I still see it happening often enough, we have had bets on who will be the next US president, pools, fantasy leagues and other direct bets among the forum members, and as far as I know such behavior is not breaking any rules on the forum or anything like that so there is nothing wrong with it, and without a doubt gambling against fellow forum members can be quite exciting, however there is not enough action to sustain your gambling urges, unless you are fan of a bunch of sports and you decide to participate on almost any relevant thread on this section of the forum.