Will you still bet on the next Pope next time?

[Smartvirus]

You can see how huge amount of money was wiped out after people thought Cardinal Pietro Parolin will be the winner but the winner Robert Francis Prevos which has 1% chance to 28% of Cardinal Pietro Parolin became the next Pope. People lost greatly and betting sites are so happy about it. This is one of the reasons we should not bet with the amount of money that we can not afford to lose because we can lose the money.

Oh sh!t, this did find a way into gambling!! I’m greatly surprised at this development and I think quite frankly that this shouldn’t be. For some reasons, I. Think it could impact the conclave by some means which might be either positive or negative.

It isn’t without expectations that a lot of money would go into such gambling as, it’s a once in 20-30years bet. With the rest of the world looking on, some could want to gamble who they feel would be the best for this position but, religion doesn’t credit whom we might think does it now,,, Long live the papacy.

[Hispo]

It would be a while to have that kind of bet right now, knowing that the current pope is young and possibly healthy. I will still bet on the next pope if there will ever be one. In a way, I know that a lot of people have made money having that kind of 1% odds, and it just goes to show that the conclave is not affected by issues or things in the mainstream media.

It was basically unpredictable, more unpredictable than any football match one could have betted on in a normal day, actually. I think this was nothing but a good opportunity to waste money as there was no actual analysis to be done on the next pope to be elected to replace Francis and only a minority of people pocketed actual money out of this.
Even if for some reason this pope decided to give up on his position and the conclave was called to select a new pope, I would rather not to participate in this kind of betting.
Better just to stick to normal sport betting on those disciplines we already have some experience in and try to perform the best we can.

[PX-Z]

What fun am I going to get by putting myself in-between the squares, guessing who the next president would be? when third world war will begin?

Never heard of bookies for betting the start of ww3 lol. Odds and prices will sky rocketing on that because its pretty hard to guess.

County's president is pretty much normal and it can be predicted based on popularity pool, surveys, etc. that is pretty much available on country's tv networks, so odds will not be that higher.

[sunsilk]

It would be a while to have that kind of bet right now, knowing that the current pope is young and possibly healthy. I will still bet on the next pope if there will ever be one. In a way, I know that a lot of people have made money having that kind of 1% odds, and it just goes to show that the conclave is not affected by issues or things in the mainstream media.

It had given me an idea about this type of bet. So, if we're up for the fun then it surely is going to take a while until we see the next one. Is there any stat where we can see that these people who bet on the winner of this papal voting?

These bettors who have won are legends. No one has ever thought that the one who's gonna win is out of the choice of the majority.

I think it's even less than 1% of the chance that Pope Leo XIV is going to be the proclaimed new leader of the catholic church and pope of Rome.

[alegotardo]

You can see how huge amount of money was wiped out after people thought Cardinal Pietro Parolin will be the winner but the winner Robert Francis Prevos which has 1% chance to 28% of Cardinal Pietro Parolin became the next Pope. People lost greatly and betting sites are so happy about it. This is one of the reasons we should not bet with the amount of money that we can not afford to lose because we can lose the money.

I confess that I was impressed and both concerned at the same time by the number of peolpe betting in something that, in my opinion, this goes beyond the limits of what I consider that an entertainment... betting on religious, spiritual, cultural matters, wars or diseases isnt something that I consider moral... especially in religion that shouldn't never be treated as something speculativ.

You believe that the fact that the most people bet on the wrong name is just a detail "secondary", but for me this is a "almost divine sign" that there're many people placing on wrong values ​​where they shouldn't... whenever someone bets with out conscience and on such sensitive issues, the expected result is really defeat.

You have ever thought that creating an "expectation" for the vote on the next pope since Leo XIV has just taken in, is almost inhumane? They are almost transforming an historical and spiritual event into a circus, where the odds seem to have more importancy than the meaning of this very important event.

My answer is: "It server you"
You can't play around with faith, much less bet money int this! Worse than the financial loss is the loss of morale.

An sorry for my words, but I needed to talk.

[terrific]

That's one of the events that I cannot trust.
The bookies tells you someone who's been loved by the people and in the end, he didn't won the papal conclave.
For a few pennies, maybe it's worth it to bet the minimum next time if that time still comes.

What you need to understand is that just because the bookies put small odds on certain candidates does not mean they will win. Also, that will vote does not care who is the poeple's favorite, and we can see from the recent result that they prioritise who they think will lead the catholic church the best.

Yeah, of course.
They won't win on guarantee.
It's just that they're influencing the books so that people will make the odds lesser to the ones they think will be voted outrightly.
But even so, they might not just list those the actual ones that's about to win and we've seen how it went.

[Onyeeze]

You can see how huge amount of money was wiped out after people thought Cardinal Pietro Parolin will be the winner but the winner Robert Francis Prevos which has 1% chance to 28% of Cardinal Pietro Parolin became the next Pope. People lost greatly and betting sites are so happy about it. This is one of the reasons we should not bet with the amount of money that we can not afford to lose because we can lose the money.

This is one of the reasons I condenm the predictions in a thread that was established by the one user, for me it's unacceptable by using such for predictions of gambling, because the way Christians do their things is not the way gamblers do their own things, so we need to know that their's a boundary between normal gambling and pop selections, now, all those people that people thought that will win, or have the chances to become pop, none of them is being selected, so for me, we should not include such again as gambling, because people will bet on it and have a massive loss, it's better for we to make our predictions directly to gambling that things we don't know or understand it's culture or bases

[shasan]

You can see how huge amount of money was wiped out after people thought Cardinal Pietro Parolin will be the winner but the winner Robert Francis Prevos which has 1% chance to 28% of Cardinal Pietro Parolin became the next Pope. People lost greatly and betting sites are so happy about it. This is one of the reasons we should not bet with the amount of money that we can not afford to lose because we can lose the money.

Basically it is gambling, and in gambling, chance can't be selected in a 100% perfect way, and there might be several factors for which the chance can be changed at any time. As it is gambling 1% chance can be the winner while a 99% chance can be a loser, which I have seen a lot of times. I saw I was going to be a winner, but finally I became a loser. SO, undoubtedly, people will bet on the next Pope.