🐳 Whale.io 🐳 Ligue 1 Football Pool Discussion Thread 2025/2026 🐳

[Trofo]

Welcome to Ligue 1 football pool thread. This is new addition to my pool of football pools   So let us see how familiar you guys are with the French league.

Main sponsor:
Our sponsor here is whale.io Make an account there so you are available for weekly rewards for best round.
1. 1500$ paid to the escrow address in BTC at the end of the pool. Sponsorhip has been negotiated via icopress so he is the one that will provide the funds.
2. 50$ free bet for each week yellow cap winner


How this pool works
For prediction, we will use Superbru page and we will have complementary discussion topic here on the forum for participants only. Superbru has been around for years and they are very good at providing custom pools for all kinds of sports. The idea of the game is to predict correct scores from all the games which gives you max points (3). If you get outcome correct but not the score there is still some points awarded (1-1.5). The winner is the person with most points at the end of the season.


Buy in
This is a paid pool and buy in is set to 0.25 mBTC, just over 30$ at this moment. This seems like a very fair price for a whole year of prediction fun + nice prizes boosted by our sponsor. All the collected money will be used for prizes.

Funds:
We have 5.5 mBTC from buy ins (22x0.25)
and 1500USD sponsorship from whale, to be paid in BTC when pool ends as per rate at that day, facilitated by icopress

Rewards
1. 40%
2. 25%
3. 15%
4. 10%
5. 5%
Highest yellow cap - 5%

Remarks:
*There is no sharing of the prizes, Superbru has implemented tie-breakers and I will use their final table as basis to pay out rewards
*All the fees will be paid from 1. place reward


Escrow and payment address
I am escrow for the funds on below mentioned address. In order to participate in the Ligue 1 pool please pay 0.25 mBTC to below address and send me a tx via pm so I know who sent the money. Be sure to include your whale.io and Superbru usernames in the same PM. Thank you.

whale.io Ligue 1 Football Prediction Pool Escrow address:
bc1qa6jxcmrze5udzw70zj92cecpvdm7zv6nmy798v


note: this is temporary escrow addy for this pool. If you play my La Liga and Serie A pools you will notice it is the same one. I am currently on vacation without access to that wallet so can't provide dedicated one before I get back home. This probably makes it even better since you can now pay for all 3 pools in tx. I will move the money on dedicated escrow addy when we start the pool so I don't mix funds from different sponsors but that is just a technicality which will save us something on tx fees in the end.

Links to important posts (for accountability, they will never be edited while OP is always changing)
Amount of money on escrow and rewards split
Escrow consolidation and sending funds to separate address for this pool


Yellow cap recap

Round	User	Points
1	icopress	15,5
2	KTChampions	13,5
3	Leea-1334	14,5
4	Upgrade00	19,5
5	el che	8,5
6	el che	10,5
7	Baby_Shoes	11,0
8	morvillz7z	11,5
9	Z-tight	14,0
10	Baby_Shoes	5,5
11	Z-tight	12,5
12	paco92x	13,0
13	SaintLoup/cryptofrka	12,0
14	Z-tight	12,0
15	el che	12,5
16	Kanapka	14,5
17	buwaytress	13,0
18	Trofo	14,0
19	Strongkored	11,5
20	darxiaomi	16,5
21	Renato297	9,5
22	buwaytress	12,5
23	KTChampions	11,0
24	KTChampions	18,5
25	Kanapka/paco92x	11,0
26	Leea-1334/slaman29	7,0
27	KTChampions	13,0
28	SaintLoup/cryptofrka	16,5
29	LTU_btc/Harkorede	11,0
30	SaintLoup	12,0
31	Harkorede	12,0
32	Z-tight	11,0
33	SaintLoup	23,0
34	buwaytress	7,0

[icopress]

Trofo, thank you! Banners coming very soon!

I think this is the first French league pool launched here! Yay!

Main sponsor:
Our sponsor here is whale.io Make an account there so you are available for weekly rewards for best round.
1. 1500$ paid to the escrow address in BTC at the end of the pool. Sponsorhip has been negotiated via icopress so he is the one that will provide the funds.
2. 50$ free bet for each week yellow cap winner

I just paid the entry fee for me and Jayce! Good luck to all! 

[morvillz7z]

I'm in! What are nine more predictions per week, right?   

The entry fee is negligible and should not deter people from joining the competition.

I don't think there are many people here that closely follow Ligue 1... feels like a level playing field, wide open and up for grabs.

Anyways, it's good to see all of Europe's top 5 football leagues represented via prediction pools.

[Trofo]

I'm in! What are nine more predictions per week, right?   

The entry fee is negligible and should not deter people from joining the competition.

I don't think there are many people here that closely follow Ligue 1... feels like a level playing field, wide open and up for grabs.

Anyways, it's good to see all of Europe's top 5 football leagues represented via prediction pools.

Basically what I was thinking as well. When I am playing so many pools, what is one more

Really interested to see who will come on top of this one.

[Upgrade00]

I'm in too. The entry fee is quite affordable on this one and it's a good addition that the sponsor amount will be sent in at the end of the season.

I don't think there are many people here that closely follow Ligue 1... feels like a level playing field, wide open and up for grabs.

I agree with this. I only know about 6-7 clubs in the league and rarely watch their matches so this will be very challenging.
The playing field may not be so level, we may have some players who are very familiar with it.

[buwaytress]

Oh I am so, so going to be badly fked by this new pool. Of course I'm playing, just give me a bit of time to pay up. Can't say I follow it any more than German football (it's actually English>La Liga > Serie A > Championship that I follow, in that precise order) but there's nothing like winning even more bragging rights versus familiar faces. Game on, I say!

[LTU_btc]

When I thought that if someone is going to make Ligue 1, I was sure that I'm going to skip it - it's already enough pools for me. But how I can skip football fee here, especially when buy-in is just $30. Let's f*cking gooo!
It's only a bit scary to imagine how Superbru page is going to look for me during weekends. If my maths is correct, we will have to make 60 predictions during weekend, if we count Bundesliga on Kicktipp too.

[Z-tight]

Count me in friend. I am not a big fan of the French League, is there even anyone who is, i mean, PSG always win it, lol. However, this is going to be fun, predicting on teams i don't watch and lastly, it is Whale.io, so that is enough reason to be a part of this. Thanks for launching this, good luck guys, let's f**king go!!!

[famososMuertos]

"Buy in
This is a paid pool and buy in is set to 0.25 mBTC"/Quote OP

O.25mBTC: no bad, for placing 1x2 bets... I don't speak French very well. Is Ligue 1 French? Anyway; "Bonjour", ah! A Big Mac hamburger in my country costs that much at McDonald's, by the way.   

[icopress]

"Buy in
This is a paid pool and buy in is set to 0.25 mBTC"/Quote OP

O.25mBTC: no bad, for placing 1x2 bets... I don't speak French very well. Is Ligue 1 French? Anyway; "Bonjour", ah! A Big Mac hamburger in my country costs that much at McDonald's, by the way.   

I totally agree! But with the difference that the league also has Marseille, Monaco and Lille who can fight equally for the title.

Considering also that we have $50 bonuses for each round, it looks even more attractive!

By the way, Whale has another sponsor pool! The conditions are approximately the same!

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5504134

[slaman29]

Cross League Pool, I have to consider that one but @Trofo can I pay with USDT instead? I PM you already so you don't forget

I already bothered buway for another pool I should bother different people

Finally, a league I used to follow is now officially in Bitcointalk Pool!!

[paco92x]

Basically what I was thinking as well. When I am playing so many pools, what is one more

Really interested to see who will come on top of this one.

Trofo, count me in on this one too. I'm seriously starting this new football season with La Liga, Serie A, Fantasy EPL, and now the French league. Not quite a fan of the league, but where there are good rewards, I'm always in.

Thanks to Trofo and Whale.io for creating this pool.

[Trofo]

Was thinking this new pool would start slowly but there is already 7 of us in it. Those numbers are comparable with Serie A at this point which is quite good. I guess people like to try out their luck at something new and smaller buy maybe helped as well.

[darxiaomi]

What an insult to this fellow participant, hiding this contest and not tagging me, do you think i cant talk french? Well you are right, you think i dislike ligue1 and said is a farmer league? You are right, but you know what? Im gonna take part of the farmers league prediction contest, i bet on soy beans, wheat and corn..... oh well that were not the teams, sorry.

[BABY SHOES]

Many say that the French league is a farmers' league...

Never mind... haha... when is the deadline for payment for this pool? I will try to participate in this audition, but I will probably pay at the end before the league starts.

I am interested because the cost is less than .ooo5.

[slaman29]

Guess who's already in and joined

Thank you very much @Trofo for helping me out here. Small problems big member solutions

As for me, I selected Nice to support. I was in past few years active in Ligue 1 discussion but only because my beloved Messi went there. No, I didn't follow MLS after he moved there lol

[Trofo]

Many say that the French league is a farmers' league...

Never mind... haha... when is the deadline for payment for this pool? I will try to participate in this audition, but I will probably pay at the end before the league starts.

I am interested because the cost is less than .ooo5.

Deadline is the kick off in the first game. If that is a problem contact me privately and we will work something out.

That is the time when I like to have everything settled properly.

What an insult to this fellow participant, hiding this contest and not tagging me, do you think i cant talk french? Well you are right, you think i dislike ligue1 and said is a farmer league? You are right, but you know what? Im gonna take part of the farmers league prediction contest, i bet on soy beans, wheat and corn..... oh well that were not the teams, sorry.

Many people approached me and begged me to not tag you here, we are all afraid of your prowess in Superbru pools and wanted to have one without you 

Kidding aside, didn't tag anyone yet. Wanted to see who will manage to find their way here without being held by the hand.

[@Whale]

Kidding aside, didn't tag anyone yet. Wanted to see who will manage to find their way here without being held by the hand.

We posted some links and asked ico to send out invites!

Hope this was helpful! 

[Strongkored]

I found this pool with my own way 

Is this the first time Ligue 1 has had a pool?
I'm joining this pool, the fees are cheap, and the free bets are quite tempting.
I'll send the fee soon and let you know via PM.

Participating in some pools this season is very challenging, so hopefully this goes smoothly.

[Trofo]

I found this pool with my own way 

Is this the first time Ligue 1 has had a pool?
I'm joining this pool, the fees are cheap, and the free bets are quite tempting.
I'll send the fee soon and let you know via PM.

Participating in some pools this season is very challenging, so hopefully this goes smoothly.

Smooth ride all the way, don't worry 

Yeah this is first time Ligue 1 pool has been run on forum so let's see how it goes and how many participants it will attract.