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Quote from: tokeweed on July 06, 2018, 05:33:07 AM

It's just the top three that's paying tho, right?

4th and 5th will be getting a portion of the prize too the amount allocated for the last two places are the same as the entrance fee. Not bad for a last prize it could also be a free entry for the epl pool Cheesy

I have Uruguay to win against France. On the other match I have Brazil atm but i'm having second thoughts of changing it to Belgium.

Edit : Rip my prediction lol after I post this France scored a goal. Hoping for Uruguay to score at least two after the HT break.

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^ It's just the top three that's paying tho, right?

And I think after the quarter finals, if I don't get back in form, then there's no chance to be in the money again... This is the most crucial part imo.

I'm gonna take a chance and predict Brazil vs Belgium X - X and make that my joker. Grin

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Quote from: Welsh on July 04, 2018, 02:34:06 PM

I'm just hoping England don't royally fuck up this chance to get into the final. Sweden were far from perfect in their game against Switzerland, and I know the same can be said about England. However, I think England have the players capable of getting wins when they aren't exactly the better team on the day. Harry Kane has been doing extremely well recently.

Quote from: panjul07 on July 04, 2018, 02:18:05 PM

As the result, I'm down to 18th position IIRC. Almost zero chances to boost my position into at least top 5.

Hey, pull up a seat. I've been keeping the fire stoked for a while down here! Let us bask in our inability to predict scores Cheesy

Well if anyone wants to join me in mid-table mediocrity, I've also got some seats already warmed up Wink

I've put my Jokers on my heart's favourites, I should get at least 700 points if any of them hits, since my favourites aren't tourney favourites. In fact, bookies have my favourite as the ones with worst odds (Uruguay), can you believe Russia's tipped higher than them now?

Anyway, Trofo well done on top spot. Fewer games left to hold onto, I still believe anyone can break into top 5 but we'll probably already guess the standings by Semi Finals.

My bets for today: Suarez to score and Uruguay to win outright:
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Finally more world cup matches coming up today, France have already eliminated one of the strongest team from south america which is Argentina, and today France will face Uruguay, it seems France are all geared up to kick all south america teams out of this world cup tournament, I think this would be a tough match for France as Uruguay defense record is pretty good in this tournament, but I still don't believe Uruguay is good enough to stop France from progressing to the next stage of this tournament.

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Quote from: BitcoinSupremo on July 04, 2018, 02:41:24 PM

I am near you too in 16th position. Anyway it is fun to be part of the tournament and I predicted almost all quarter finals DRAWS. I put a joker this time which if hit right will give me 750 points so my only hope is to find the right correct score in the joker game to climb up some positions. It is just for fun as I think it is 100% sure I cannot reach top 5 now.

Yeah, I've decided to just go for some extreme scores, and hopefully get lucky. I'm looking forward to participating in the premier league betting pool though as I think I'll likely perform a little bit better there as I tend to watch premier league games, and very rarely watch international games unless it's Wales or the World Cup every 4 years.

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Quote from: Welsh on July 04, 2018, 02:34:06 PM

I'm just hoping England don't royally fuck up this chance to get into the final. Sweden were far from perfect in their game against Switzerland, and I know the same can be said about England. However, I think England have the players capable of getting wins when they aren't exactly the better team on the day. Harry Kane has been doing extremely well recently.

Quote from: panjul07 on July 04, 2018, 02:18:05 PM

As the result, I'm down to 18th position IIRC. Almost zero chances to boost my position into at least top 5.

Hey, pull up a seat. I've been keeping the fire stoked for a while down here! Let us bask in our inability to predict scores Cheesy

I am near you too in 16th position. Anyway it is fun to be part of the tournament and I predicted almost all quarter finals DRAWS. I put a joker this time which if hit right will give me 750 points so my only hope is to find the right correct score in the joker game to climb up some positions. It is just for fun as I think it is 100% sure I cannot reach top 5 now.

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I'm just hoping England don't royally fuck up this chance to get into the final. Sweden were far from perfect in their game against Switzerland, and I know the same can be said about England. However, I think England have the players capable of getting wins when they aren't exactly the better team on the day. Harry Kane has been doing extremely well recently.

Quote from: panjul07 on July 04, 2018, 02:18:05 PM

As the result, I'm down to 18th position IIRC. Almost zero chances to boost my position into at least top 5.

Hey, pull up a seat. I've been keeping the fire stoked for a while down here! Let us bask in our inability to predict scores Cheesy

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I had really bad predictions for the round 16 matches, got 158 points only on 8 matches. I was just too confident for some teams to win the match in normal time but all of them ended with draw and gave 0 points (3 matches). As the result, I'm down to 18th position IIRC. Almost zero chances to boost my position into at least top 5.

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I am so sad that England equalized in last minute of added time while I had my prediction 0-1 for England to win and it was a goal which could have been saved if England would have been a bit more focused in these last minutes of the game. Still I am happy though as I placed a bet for England to win the game in the beginning of this thread where I got a reply from hilarious who thought to be impossible and if they would be in 1/8 would have been great, well here they are now.

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Quote from: hilariousetc on July 04, 2018, 05:28:31 AM

England have the easiest route into the final by far now. Sweden in the next round then the winner of Russia and Croatia, and I think this is partly why I just can't get excited by them. They've a very average side and have only played other poor to average teams and a Belgium b-team who they couldn't even beat. I think we'll struggle with whoever we get in the next round or two, but in the final it'll be one of Brazil, Belgium, Uruguay or France which I don't think would be pretty if we get that far. The games between those four teams will be very interesting and I couldn't really predict who will go through at this point so the tournament is still up in the air for me along with the predictor. If someone can get a surprising score right with a joker it could easily take you into the top five.

England have enough quality players to be performing better than they are, but I guess that says a lot about where they are right now. They aren't playing the most dazzling football right now, but they are still winning in the end. I thought England deserved to win against Columbia even if they didn't perform the best.

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It seems that the fight for the 4th and 5th spot on the leaderboard is getting more and more intense as everyone points is pretty close to each other, I think there is still 3 jokers left till the final match of this world cup tournament, and if there is anyone who could successfully predict the correct score for the next few match with the joker apply, there should be a huge chance to be able to get into the top 5 of the leaderboard.

Yeah I was 2nd the other day & now I’m 7th. It just shows how 1 or 2 good or bad predictions can radically alter your position in the table. It’s all good fun though win or lose.

Definitely makes the tournament a lot more interesting, hilarious has done a great job of helping create a little community here in the gambling section which is free of sig spamming & shit posting (I don’t think anybody who hasn’t paid is allowed to post in these pool threads).

Very refreshing.

Yup. The competition just got a lot tougher. My point and click strategy doesn't get as much points anymore. Lmao.

And yeah, I hope our little group grows, and play other sorts of games like our own little monthly poker tourney or a football fantasy league betting pool.

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Quote from: buwaytress on July 04, 2018, 02:23:10 AM

Oh well done Trofo! I was so tempted to call both draws as well, after remembering the penalty shootouts of two days ago, but then I switched them to 2-0 Sweden and 3-1 England. Don't ask me why, I have terrible gut instincts. Do I recall correctly you used your joker on the Croatia game?

My Jokers till now:
1. didn't know it exists
2. Brazil - Costa Rica 2: 0 Correct 404 points
3. Denmark - France 1:1 predicted ended 0:0 but got nice 336 points anyway
4. Spain - Russia predicted 3:0 - got zero points

So no Croatia anywhere, i try to put my biggest bets on pairings where I can use brain instead of hart to make decisions

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England have the easiest route into the final by far now. Sweden in the next round then the winner of Russia and Croatia, and I think this is partly why I just can't get excited by them. They've a very average side and have only played other poor to average teams and a Belgium b-team who they couldn't even beat. I think we'll struggle with whoever we get in the next round or two, but in the final it'll be one of Brazil, Belgium, Uruguay or France which I don't think would be pretty if we get that far. The games between those four teams will be very interesting and I couldn't really predict who will go through at this point so the tournament is still up in the air for me along with the predictor. If someone can get a surprising score right with a joker it could easily take you into the top five.

Quote from: LFC_Bitcoin on July 04, 2018, 04:09:11 AM

I don’t think anybody who hasn’t paid is allowed to post in these pool threads).

A few have tried. They should read the op.

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Quote from: Barcode_ on July 04, 2018, 03:11:42 AM

It seems that the fight for the 4th and 5th spot on the leaderboard is getting more and more intense as everyone points is pretty close to each other, I think there is still 3 jokers left till the final match of this world cup tournament, and if there is anyone who could successfully predict the correct score for the next few match with the joker apply, there should be a huge chance to be able to get into the top 5 of the leaderboard.

Yeah I was 2nd the other day & now I’m 7th. It just shows how 1 or 2 good or bad predictions can radically alter your position in the table. It’s all good fun though win or lose.

Definitely makes the tournament a lot more interesting, hilarious has done a great job of helping create a little community here in the gambling section which is free of sig spamming & shit posting (I don’t think anybody who hasn’t paid is allowed to post in these pool threads).

Very refreshing.

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It seems that the fight for the 4th and 5th spot on the leaderboard is getting more and more intense as everyone points is pretty close to each other, I think there is still 3 jokers left till the final match of this world cup tournament, and if there is anyone who could successfully predict the correct score for the next few match with the joker apply, there should be a huge chance to be able to get into the top 5 of the leaderboard.

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Quote from: Trofo on July 03, 2018, 04:53:29 PM

Quote from: hilariousetc on July 03, 2018, 04:04:14 PM

Football's coming home lol. Got the score correct on that game as well with the 1-1. Had the earlier game at the same score as well so shame Switzerland couldn't equalise. Really need some correct scores to have any chance of getting into the top five. Anyone else just get the 1-1?

Yep, it was a great day for me in our challenge. Got both scores correct and one bonus in every match. This managed to launch me on top of our league and i started the day on 7th place.

I think I got them correct because I wanted to play Sweden to win and Colombia not to lose today but didn't have funds on any site and didn't have time to deposit them. Therefore, both game ended just as I predicted

Oh well done Trofo! I was so tempted to call both draws as well, after remembering the penalty shootouts of two days ago, but then I switched them to 2-0 Sweden and 3-1 England. Don't ask me why, I have terrible gut instincts. Do I recall correctly you used your joker on the Croatia game?

I finally won a bet yesterday, though could have made more if I wasn't afraid to go for Sweden's straight win. I switched off the game after a while - the worst game of the knockouts so far. England was pretty yawnable if you ask me, although extra time was end-to-end at one point. Why couldn't they just have played like that, saved us the nerves of shootouts, and given me a winning bet?

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Quote from: hilariousetc on July 03, 2018, 04:04:14 PM

Football's coming home lol. Got the score correct on that game as well with the 1-1. Had the earlier game at the same score as well so shame Switzerland couldn't equalise. Really need some correct scores to have any chance of getting into the top five. Anyone else just get the 1-1?

Yep, it was a great day for me in our challenge. Got both scores correct and one bonus in every match. This managed to launch me on top of our league and i started the day on 7th place.

I think I got them correct because I wanted to play Sweden to win and Colombia not to lose today but didn't have funds on any site and didn't have time to deposit them. Therefore, both game ended just as I predicted

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I felt that the VAR could of been used a few times in the England vs Columbia game. Especially, the "head butt" incident.

Quote from: hilariousetc on July 03, 2018, 04:04:14 PM

Football's coming home lol.

Well, I seem to have some super power of some sorts right now, because whoever I predict to win ends up losing. So, I'm taking bribes to predict Sweden to win Wink

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Football's coming home lol. Got the score correct on that game as well with the 1-1. Had the earlier game at the same score as well so shame Switzerland couldn't equalise. Really need some correct scores to have any chance of getting into the top five. Anyone else just get the 1-1?

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Quote from: LFC_Bitcoin on July 03, 2018, 09:47:09 AM

My predictions were crap yesterday, I got Neymar 1st goal for bonus points & I think that was it.
Had Sweden 1-2 Suisse too & it’s currently 0-0 *sigh*
I need to smash it with a joker in the 1/4 final or something.

I had Sweden 1-1 but I should have learned to not play against Sweden, they eliminated my country team Italy by playing only defensive football, did the same with almost all the teams of the tournament and yet they are in the quarter final. My bad and everyone else who played against them.

Edit: Thought I got England 0-1 only to be ruined in 94 minutes, this world cup has been so full of bad luck for predicting correct scores.

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