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Quote from: dwyane36 on July 12, 2023, 11:49:30 AM

Quote from: zuzie on July 08, 2023, 04:44:20 PM

After almost 2 years I never got a promotional email from Betfury but recently they have been actively sending promotional emails, why?

Since last year I've also noticed that Betfury has begun to send promotional mailings about events and various promotions more often, although there was no such thing before. Personally, I don't really like it when websites/services send promotional mailings to my email. So I just disabled the option "receive email promos" in the settings of my Betfury account.

It's good when Betfury have a setting to disable email subscriptions because usually these settings are done at the beginning of registration and if you want to disable it by unsubscribed from email sometimes it doesn't work properly so it doesn't work and we receive continuous promotional emails and to be honest it's quite annoying to see emails promotions come in every day, and luckily I didn't get the promotional email maybe because during registration I didn't check to receive promotional emails, which might be a loss if betfury also provides some kind of giveaway code via the promotional email as some casinos do, without subscribing to emails then no chance to got the giveaway.

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Quote from: cabron on July 12, 2023, 01:21:11 PM

Quote from: Coin_trader on July 12, 2023, 12:55:15 PM

Quote from: virasog on July 12, 2023, 12:35:21 PM

For a moment, even if we believe that gambling is not profitable, how about investing in a gambling token like BFG and making money as its price will rise over time as Betfury grows?

The way my investment on this token progress. I would say that it’s pretty bad investing on casino tokens while the total token supply is not fully diluted because BFG price never grow back everytime new BFG tokens emit to the circulating supply. I invest a lot on casino tokens like BFG, OWL, TFS and FUN tokens around 2021-2022 and none of them bring back my investment even on breakeven point despite I purchased when the price dip.

I use already some of my utility token investment on gambling to be on breakeven and exit while. I get more returns on gambling itself rather than buying casino tokens. I think investing on casino bankroll is much better investment rather than token utility since the profit is so slow and not guaranteed while bankroll investment promised passive income even with small percentage.

A breakeven would be good because it will make investors see they may profit in the upcoming bull market. They did make some changes to the casino but seem not enough to attract more clients. The team realized by now that launching a casino is just the start, the promotion is a continuous marketing promotion.

Breakeven is not actually good on my case since I invested a lot of waiting time on this that make me loss the opportunity to invest on other project that makes me some profit. I’m only breakeven on this token because I gamble my BFG tokens to recover my losses but my investment is already down by huge percentage by just hodling. So I don’t really advise going long term on casino token like this since the hype is already over while there’s a lot of competitors that already existing in contrary when the web3 casino hype started.

I might consider buy back again on this when they release a conrete roadmap focusing on the BFG tokens utility since there’s nothing new feature for BFG tokens that will gain value because the team is not allocating the majority of profits on BFG buyback while they are using the tokens big time for marketing.

Imagine the stress brought up by market fluctuations also for waiting for long time but in the end you get nothing then provably this is really not good since for longest time your money sleep without getting any returns. If you just spend it up on other coins maybe at this time you can earn a lot than receiving nothing.
They just need to have concrete plan and huge updates since if there's no action taken by them then maybe we cannot see a real deal with this token and might other investors will just leave and find another coins or tokens that have much better potential to invest.

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Quote from: babygun on July 12, 2023, 06:22:11 PM

Quote from: Coin_trader on July 12, 2023, 01:26:30 PM

Breakeven is not actually good on my case since I invested a lot of waiting time on this that make me loss the opportunity to invest on other project that makes me some profit. I’m only breakeven on this token because I gamble my BFG tokens to recover my losses but my investment is already down by huge percentage by just hodling. So I don’t really advise going long term on casino token like this since the hype is already over while there’s a lot of competitors that already existing in contrary when the web3 casino hype started.

I might consider buy back again on this when they release a conrete roadmap focusing on the BFG tokens utility since there’s nothing new feature for BFG tokens that will gain value because the team is not allocating the majority of profits on BFG buyback while they are using the tokens big time for marketing.

There is still a chance that the BFG tokens get a huge price boost and reach a new ATH (chances are small but they do exist); but before that happens, we will need to get more features (like extra cashback or an extra spin or a prizewheel or ...) or know about the plans they have with the tokens. I never invested in buying extra BFG tokens; I just gathered them by gambling and I am still happy with the dividend that I am getting daily.

All those things you mentioned, can only lead to no upward price action, or more likely that will trigger a short lived pump for the BFG token, which can or will return back to the initial price of even lower..

The only way to trigger a genuine pump that can lead to a new all time high, and be sustained, is by development and implementation.
That is coming up with new ideas, developing and implementing them, most especially in the area of usecase, creating new and really exciting usecase for the token is what will guarantee the BFG token creating a new all time high pretty soon..

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Quote from: babygun on July 12, 2023, 06:22:11 PM

Quote from: Coin_trader on July 12, 2023, 01:26:30 PM

Breakeven is not actually good on my case since I invested a lot of waiting time on this that make me loss the opportunity to invest on other project that makes me some profit. I’m only breakeven on this token because I gamble my BFG tokens to recover my losses but my investment is already down by huge percentage by just hodling. So I don’t really advise going long term on casino token like this since the hype is already over while there’s a lot of competitors that already existing in contrary when the web3 casino hype started.

I might consider buy back again on this when they release a conrete roadmap focusing on the BFG tokens utility since there’s nothing new feature for BFG tokens that will gain value because the team is not allocating the majority of profits on BFG buyback while they are using the tokens big time for marketing.

There is still a chance that the BFG tokens get a huge price boost and reach a new ATH (chances are small but they do exist); but before that happens, we will need to get more features (like extra cashback or an extra spin or a prizewheel or ...) or know about the plans they have with the tokens. I never invested in buying extra BFG tokens; I just gathered them by gambling and I am still happy with the dividend that I am getting daily.

We never know what will be the offer or the updates that BetFury may bring to boost the value of their coin, and like what you mentioned is always be good to accumulate more coins when playing those perks that you received from the dividends small but still passive, and when the market be good for this coin, we never know how much will be the value and how good the profits might be.

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Quote from: Coin_trader on July 12, 2023, 01:26:30 PM

Breakeven is not actually good on my case since I invested a lot of waiting time on this that make me loss the opportunity to invest on other project that makes me some profit. I’m only breakeven on this token because I gamble my BFG tokens to recover my losses but my investment is already down by huge percentage by just hodling. So I don’t really advise going long term on casino token like this since the hype is already over while there’s a lot of competitors that already existing in contrary when the web3 casino hype started.

I might consider buy back again on this when they release a conrete roadmap focusing on the BFG tokens utility since there’s nothing new feature for BFG tokens that will gain value because the team is not allocating the majority of profits on BFG buyback while they are using the tokens big time for marketing.

There is still a chance that the BFG tokens get a huge price boost and reach a new ATH (chances are small but they do exist); but before that happens, we will need to get more features (like extra cashback or an extra spin or a prizewheel or ...) or know about the plans they have with the tokens. I never invested in buying extra BFG tokens; I just gathered them by gambling and I am still happy with the dividend that I am getting daily.

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Quote from: Coin_trader on July 12, 2023, 12:55:15 PM

The way my investment on this token progress. I would say that it’s pretty bad investing on casino tokens while the total token supply is not fully diluted because BFG price never grow back everytime new BFG tokens emit to the circulating supply. I invest a lot on casino tokens like BFG, OWL, TFS and FUN tokens around 2021-2022 and none of them bring back my investment even on breakeven point despite I purchased when the price dip.

I understand your feelings and situation but think it in another way around. What if you never invested in the bull season of 2021 and mid of bear season in 2022 but invest at the bottom of the bear market? In that case, you would be feeling like you have bought the coins at the real depth and now you will gain super profits in the next bull season.

Nevertheless, be hopeful that all these coins will reach their all time high again, and even if not, you can sell them at breakeven or a less profit depending upon your buying price.

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Quote from: cabron on July 12, 2023, 01:21:11 PM

Quote from: Coin_trader on July 12, 2023, 12:55:15 PM

Quote from: virasog on July 12, 2023, 12:35:21 PM

For a moment, even if we believe that gambling is not profitable, how about investing in a gambling token like BFG and making money as its price will rise over time as Betfury grows?

The way my investment on this token progress. I would say that it’s pretty bad investing on casino tokens while the total token supply is not fully diluted because BFG price never grow back everytime new BFG tokens emit to the circulating supply. I invest a lot on casino tokens like BFG, OWL, TFS and FUN tokens around 2021-2022 and none of them bring back my investment even on breakeven point despite I purchased when the price dip.

I use already some of my utility token investment on gambling to be on breakeven and exit while. I get more returns on gambling itself rather than buying casino tokens. I think investing on casino bankroll is much better investment rather than token utility since the profit is so slow and not guaranteed while bankroll investment promised passive income even with small percentage.

A breakeven would be good because it will make investors see they may profit in the upcoming bull market. They did make some changes to the casino but seem not enough to attract more clients. The team realized by now that launching a casino is just the start, the promotion is a continuous marketing promotion.

Breakeven is not actually good on my case since I invested a lot of waiting time on this that make me loss the opportunity to invest on other project that makes me some profit. I’m only breakeven on this token because I gamble my BFG tokens to recover my losses but my investment is already down by huge percentage by just hodling. So I don’t really advise going long term on casino token like this since the hype is already over while there’s a lot of competitors that already existing in contrary when the web3 casino hype started.

I might consider buy back again on this when they release a conrete roadmap focusing on the BFG tokens utility since there’s nothing new feature for BFG tokens that will gain value because the team is not allocating the majority of profits on BFG buyback while they are using the tokens big time for marketing.

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Quote from: Coin_trader on July 12, 2023, 12:55:15 PM

Quote from: virasog on July 12, 2023, 12:35:21 PM

For a moment, even if we believe that gambling is not profitable, how about investing in a gambling token like BFG and making money as its price will rise over time as Betfury grows?

The way my investment on this token progress. I would say that it’s pretty bad investing on casino tokens while the total token supply is not fully diluted because BFG price never grow back everytime new BFG tokens emit to the circulating supply. I invest a lot on casino tokens like BFG, OWL, TFS and FUN tokens around 2021-2022 and none of them bring back my investment even on breakeven point despite I purchased when the price dip.

I use already some of my utility token investment on gambling to be on breakeven and exit while. I get more returns on gambling itself rather than buying casino tokens. I think investing on casino bankroll is much better investment rather than token utility since the profit is so slow and not guaranteed while bankroll investment promised passive income even with small percentage.

A breakeven would be good because it will make investors see they may profit in the upcoming bull market. They did make some changes to the casino but seem not enough to attract more clients. The team realized by now that launching a casino is just the start, the promotion is a continuous marketing promotion.

Maybe the reason why they are now sending emails. We'll find out in the Bullrun if they also are going to pump this token or if the team itself will dump the BFG.

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Quote from: virasog on July 12, 2023, 12:35:21 PM

For a moment, even if we believe that gambling is not profitable, how about investing in a gambling token like BFG and making money as its price will rise over time as Betfury grows?

The way my investment on this token progress. I would say that it’s pretty bad investing on casino tokens while the total token supply is not fully diluted because BFG price never grow back everytime new BFG tokens emit to the circulating supply. I invest a lot on casino tokens like BFG, OWL, TFS and FUN tokens around 2021-2022 and none of them bring back my investment even on breakeven point despite I purchased when the price dip.

I use already some of my utility token investment on gambling to be on breakeven and exit while. I get more returns on gambling itself rather than buying casino tokens. I think investing on casino bankroll is much better investment rather than token utility since the profit is so slow and not guaranteed while bankroll investment promised passive income even with small percentage.

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Quote from: LUCKMCFLY on July 10, 2023, 06:01:11 PM

I think that a casino with a particular game, whatever the strategy, the casino will always have the advantage, that is something that cannot be denied, however, if a player uses the martingale it is a very reckless strategy, I do not recommend it Under no circumstances, because things can get ugly when it comes to playing like this, you can also win, but I think that the risk is not worth it, even when another type of strategy is applied, because the chances of winning are the same for a player As I have said, the advantage of the casino is always Evident.

Casino does have the advantage, the house edges favor the casino but does all this mean that we leave gambling, or we cannot take advantage and win money from gambling? There are people who got rich from this gambling and with all these odds favoring the casinos.

By the way, martingale is also not a good strategy but still people even win from this strategy too.

For a moment, even if we believe that gambling is not profitable, how about investing in a gambling token like BFG and making money as its price will rise over time as Betfury grows?

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Quote from: dwyane36 on July 12, 2023, 11:49:30 AM

Quote from: zuzie on July 08, 2023, 04:44:20 PM

After almost 2 years I never got a promotional email from Betfury but recently they have been actively sending promotional emails, why?

Since last year I've also noticed that Betfury has begun to send promotional mailings about events and various promotions more often, although there was no such thing before. Personally, I don't really like it when websites/services send promotional mailings to my email. So I just disabled the option "receive email promos" in the settings of my Betfury account.

All casino send promotional email by default. I don’t remember any casino that I play that doesn’t send promotional email since this part of teir marketing to have a default push notification via email. I don’t find it unlikeable since it’s a bonus which most of the gambler really like to receive as additional life line via gambling.

Maybe you are not gambling often times that’s why you hate receiving promotional offer exclusive on your account.

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Quote from: Mahdirakib on July 12, 2023, 10:58:48 AM

Quote from: zuzie on July 08, 2023, 04:44:20 PM

After almost 2 years I never got a promotional email from Betfury but recently they have been actively sending promotional emails, why?
I know a few years ago Betfury had a security problem they asked users to change passwords is one of the reasons they not actively spread promotions via email? actually there is no problem but I'm just curious maybe there's something we need to know or may experience a drop in traffic.

BetFury has never stopped sending the promotional email to me. Most of the time they send promotional email everyday, occasionally there is a few days gap between the messages. Maybe there is a drop of traffic on the casino. Betfury representative recently showed their intention to resolve the affiliate related issue with BTCGOSU. Otherwise Betfury team is trying to attract gamblers of two other big crypto casinos as those casinos have reduced the bonuses recently.

Well, I didn't receive email again either, I don't know at what point they could have configured the emails, but I still have the bfg tokens and I don't really like having them, because they are not giving many benefits, and that is something that It seems to me something bad, because I entered with the intention that things would be better, but perhaps I entered and bad luck was with me because it stopped being a boom, so I have learned that when there are native tokens it is best to buy from the beginning to take advantage when it goes up and has a peak to sell, because they never grow in price again, that's like a hype, and we don't see anything to make things better but they stay that way.

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Quote from: zuzie on July 08, 2023, 04:44:20 PM

After almost 2 years I never got a promotional email from Betfury but recently they have been actively sending promotional emails, why?

Since last year I've also noticed that Betfury has begun to send promotional mailings about events and various promotions more often, although there was no such thing before. Personally, I don't really like it when websites/services send promotional mailings to my email. So I just disabled the option "receive email promos" in the settings of my Betfury account.

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Quote from: zuzie on July 08, 2023, 04:44:20 PM

After almost 2 years I never got a promotional email from Betfury but recently they have been actively sending promotional emails, why?
I know a few years ago Betfury had a security problem they asked users to change passwords is one of the reasons they not actively spread promotions via email? actually there is no problem but I'm just curious maybe there's something we need to know or may experience a drop in traffic.

BetFury has never stopped sending the promotional email to me. Most of the time they send promotional email everyday, occasionally there is a few days gap between the messages. Maybe there is a drop of traffic on the casino. Betfury representative recently showed their intention to resolve the affiliate related issue with BTCGOSU. Otherwise Betfury team is trying to attract gamblers of two other big crypto casinos as those casinos have reduced the bonuses recently.

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Quote from: LUCKMCFLY on July 10, 2023, 06:01:11 PM

Quote from: o48o on June 22, 2023, 07:58:34 PM

Quote from: abel1337 on June 11, 2023, 10:26:14 AM

That's how casino counter the martingale strategy. Most of the bankroll won't keep up if they experience 20x losing streak. You need to have a ridiculous amount of capital to keep up with a very small base bet if you experience that kind of losing streak. This is why I don't do martingale only strategy on a casino since I've lost so much money just by doing it. It's an effective strategy but the risk of it will certainly drain all your bank rolls. I suggest to just use different strategies when you are doing a gambling session or mix some strategies.

I disagree with your point. Casino's don't need to counter martingale strategy, nor it's effective. It's mathematically proven to be not a good strategy by any means. It's based on gambler's fallacy and human's inability to understand probability or big numbers.

People can say that they understand how probability works, but we are intuitively wired to not grasp it. So we want to use it as we see more meaning into it. It's just as effective as any other method. All based on luck and probability

I think that a casino with a particular game, whatever the strategy, the casino will always have the advantage, that is something that cannot be denied, however, if a player uses the martingale it is a very reckless strategy, I do not recommend it Under no circumstances, because things can get ugly when it comes to playing like this, you can also win, but I think that the risk is not worth it, even when another type of strategy is applied, because the chances of winning are the same for a player As I have said, the advantage of the casino is always Evident.

sports betting is the only option in my opinion that can make profit in the long term if people have good knowledge about sports betting and also do not have house advantage in sports betting, so it is possible that in the long term a person with high knowledge about gambling manage to beat the bookmaker leaving with profit, but it is a long learning path until people manage to have some strategy to make money with sports betting and there are few people who manage to make these profits

now when it comes to gambling that depend on luck, there is no strategy that can beat the bookmakers, but there are people who manage to be very lucky to hit a large multiplier and with that get big profits, but these are very rare cases. rare, and if those people who won a lot keep playing then there will come a time when they will have lost everything they managed to win, it is very difficult for people who play the games of chance that depend on luck to control themselves and have a good money management

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Quote from: babygun on July 09, 2023, 10:14:05 PM

Quote from: zuzie on July 08, 2023, 04:44:20 PM

After almost 2 years I never got a promotional email from Betfury but recently they have been actively sending promotional emails, why?
I know a few years ago Betfury had a security problem they asked users to change passwords is one of the reasons they not actively spread promotions via email?
actually there is no problem but I'm just curious maybe there's something we need to know or may experience a drop in traffic.

A lot of sites have had security problems but I don’t think that is again the case as they would have communicated about that. Haven’t received any email from Betfury recently so curious if it would only be to selected players? Haven’t been so active on the site also so that is maybe why.

At this point, I see this as just a normal part of regular life and there is nothing wrong with it. I mean not the getting a security breach part, of course we would like to never see that as a possibility, but at least the attempt on it is normal.

I have seen so many casinos get "hacked", some of them just had cold wallets so the hot wallet was emptied and they were capable of going further because hot wallet was lesser than their entire profit, so they just used some more from the cold wallet and kept making a profit, on the other hand we are talking about someone who was capable of making this an exit scam and some casinos just went away saying they got hacked, and that was a bit more serious situation in the end.

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Quote from: o48o on June 22, 2023, 07:58:34 PM

Quote from: abel1337 on June 11, 2023, 10:26:14 AM

That's how casino counter the martingale strategy. Most of the bankroll won't keep up if they experience 20x losing streak. You need to have a ridiculous amount of capital to keep up with a very small base bet if you experience that kind of losing streak. This is why I don't do martingale only strategy on a casino since I've lost so much money just by doing it. It's an effective strategy but the risk of it will certainly drain all your bank rolls. I suggest to just use different strategies when you are doing a gambling session or mix some strategies.

I disagree with your point. Casino's don't need to counter martingale strategy, nor it's effective. It's mathematically proven to be not a good strategy by any means. It's based on gambler's fallacy and human's inability to understand probability or big numbers.

People can say that they understand how probability works, but we are intuitively wired to not grasp it. So we want to use it as we see more meaning into it. It's just as effective as any other method. All based on luck and probability

I think that a casino with a particular game, whatever the strategy, the casino will always have the advantage, that is something that cannot be denied, however, if a player uses the martingale it is a very reckless strategy, I do not recommend it Under no circumstances, because things can get ugly when it comes to playing like this, you can also win, but I think that the risk is not worth it, even when another type of strategy is applied, because the chances of winning are the same for a player As I have said, the advantage of the casino is always Evident.

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Quote from: zuzie on July 08, 2023, 04:44:20 PM

After almost 2 years I never got a promotional email from Betfury but recently they have been actively sending promotional emails, why?
I know a few years ago Betfury had a security problem they asked users to change passwords is one of the reasons they not actively spread promotions via email?
actually there is no problem but I'm just curious maybe there's something we need to know or may experience a drop in traffic.

A lot of sites have had security problems but I don’t think that is again the case as they would have communicated about that. Haven’t received any email from Betfury recently so curious if it would only be to selected players? Haven’t been so active on the site also so that is maybe why.

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After almost 2 years I never got a promotional email from Betfury but recently they have been actively sending promotional emails, why?
I know a few years ago Betfury had a security problem they asked users to change passwords is one of the reasons they not actively spread promotions via email?
actually there is no problem but I'm just curious maybe there's something we need to know or may experience a drop in traffic.

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Quote from: BitcoinHunt3r on July 05, 2023, 02:05:31 PM

Quote from: o48o on July 05, 2023, 12:05:38 PM

Current gamblers of Betfury, can i ask what countries are you living in? I understand f you don't want to answer but i am interested that where in the world you need to live to be comfortable to keep account and money in betfury? I mean surely all of their users are not all from china? Because i can't figure out where the money keeps coming in. Or are you in forbidden countries list and using VPN? And if so, aren't you afraid that your account could get frozen for it?

I am from Asian region and my country is one of the restricted by Betfury, I know this because I just checked it on their page. I don't know if there is an update since I created an account, but the fact is I have an account here and ever deposit/withdraw even though I'm not active again. When my country is included in the restricted list then I never deposit/hold large amounts just want to test something new or interesting promotion, even if I won something big I was ready with the risk, but usually we have another way to anticipate.

By the way, there is no need to use VPN to access Betfury because they have provided mirror sites, yeah you already know what is the purpose of the mirror site right? yeah it broke through without restrictions Cheesy

However I do not recommend you using the illegal method unless you are ready with the risks like me.

That is the same thing I do as well. I do not care if my nation is on that list or not because I know that I am taking a huge risk and I am fine with that. Some people worry about it too much but if you live in the nation I am living, ALL casinos ban us, so if I want to follow those rules then I would have to stop gambling. I am not saying ignore that, it's a rule and they are telling you that you can't do that and that's a very reasonable rule as well.

All I am saying is that we should all be aware of the rule and if one day they ban us because of this rule we should be understanding of the situation as well. If they ever ban me, I would just take my leave and understand the position they are in and I will not make a scene out of it, will be fully cooperative.

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