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February 23, 2013, 02:28:24 AM
#77
Gonna put up the English Premier League games for tomorrow?

wanna bet on the fulham-stoke for a bit of fun but not sure if i'll wake up in time to place a bet since its at 6:45am

I'll bet it for you, if you can't, since I'll be up by then.
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Coinlancer.io ICO | Oct 14th
February 23, 2013, 01:21:18 AM
#76
Gonna put up the English Premier League games for tomorrow?

wanna bet on the fulham-stoke for a bit of fun but not sure if i'll wake up in time to place a bet since its at 6:45am
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February 22, 2013, 05:16:17 AM
#75
Wow, people really made a lot of money on hockey yesterday. Almost all of the bets were winners, even with some surprising results in certain games (Detroit what are you doing??). Congrats.

I see your point. I'm guessing you're the only person working for the book? That can definitely be difficult, so I understand where you're coming from.

At the moment I'm the only one working on lines and payments, but I get some help elsewhere. We don't exactly generate enough profit so that we could hire people to work for us, but maybe some day... That's why I'd like to keep the betting options to the most popular games that I know get action every day. We're slowly increasing the numbers of bets and leagues though.

whats the cut off time for u guys,  ex-   4:00 or 4:05, thanks guys gals

i sent the wagers with tor , will that be a problem?

For the NBA and NHL, five minutes past is fine because games don't actually start before that. For football and such, it's exactly at the announced time. Of course it's better to bet early than late if it can be helped. Transactions through Tor are fine as long as they get through in time.
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February 22, 2013, 02:03:23 AM
#74
i sent the wagers with tor , will that be a problem?
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February 21, 2013, 07:35:10 PM
#73
You guys do make some good points. The thing is, if we add NCAA, then there needs to be enough action on those games to make posting them worthwhile, and I'm not so sure if that is the case. Like you said, it's already easily more than 10 additional games per day to keep track of, and some people will still be disappointed if their favorite team isn't included.

It already takes a lot of time to update NBA and NHL due to the large number of games being played every day, and a lot of teams playing back-to-back. So I'm kind of hoping that people interested in basketball will find something interesting in our NBA selections. Another thing to consider is the unpredictability of NCAA games.

Football is much easier to do in the sense that there is usually a limited number of games being played each week, so we can make odds available to play much earlier and they reach a much larger audience.

I see your point. I'm guessing you're the only person working for the book? That can definitely be difficult, so I understand where you're coming from.
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February 21, 2013, 07:25:47 PM
#72
whats the cut off time for u guys,  ex-   4:00 or 4:05, thanks guys gals

As long as the transaction gets 1 confirmation before -- or soon after game time -- then it's good. There's some time where I paid 5 mins after the starting whistle, and i've been paid.
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February 21, 2013, 06:47:20 PM
#71
whats the cut off time for u guys,  ex-   4:00 or 4:05, thanks guys gals
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February 21, 2013, 05:45:56 PM
#70
You guys do make some good points. The thing is, if we add NCAA, then there needs to be enough action on those games to make posting them worthwhile, and I'm not so sure if that is the case. Like you said, it's already easily more than 10 additional games per day to keep track of, and some people will still be disappointed if their favorite team isn't included.

It already takes a lot of time to update NBA and NHL due to the large number of games being played every day, and a lot of teams playing back-to-back. So I'm kind of hoping that people interested in basketball will find something interesting in our NBA selections. Another thing to consider is the unpredictability of NCAA games.

Football is much easier to do in the sense that there is usually a limited number of games being played each week, so we can make odds available to play much earlier and they reach a much larger audience.
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February 21, 2013, 04:45:43 PM
#69
Have you guys put in any consideration of adding college basketball games? I know totals aren't found on some sportsbooks, but most have spreads.

Sorry for the delay. I think we are able to add more leagues to our selection, so the question is... what or which leagues? I know NCAA basketball is very popular, but like you said I can't guarantee that all games and selections will be available every night. I'll take a look into it anyway.

Don't forget NBA returns tonight with 9 games, we'll have those odds online very soon!

[edit] Forgot to mention that we've added more goal and goal scorer selections to our Champions League games!

It's late enough in the College hoops season that it might be worth waiting till the tournament opens up to start hosting bets.

Why do you say that? As a bookie, in the long run he's going to make money from it no matter what. More games equals more chances to win money.

It would be an interesting experiment allowing him to see what teams generate betting interest and the tournament cuts the number of teams down to a more manageable size. In think part of the problem with going full bore on College Basketball is there are just so many games, even if you try to limit it to the televised Division I games, more just seem to keep crawling out of the woodwork.

I agree in that aspect. As a bookie, Paul could seriously get messed up if he offers lines for some obscure cbb games that rarely people bet. A pro bettor would be all up on that—if the lines were correct. The way with televised games, however, Paul could be like "Hey, I'm only allowed bets on games that are on ESPN or on the ESPN family of networks." Something like that wouldn't be too bad. It's approximately 8-10 games per day.

He could take another route, too, and instead take action on only top 25 teams until the tournament. Then there's no way he could add more games because it's only top 25 teams. Then all of course he could determine how he would like to go, depending on the action, the amount, and his profit.
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February 21, 2013, 04:40:52 PM
#68

It would be an interesting experiment allowing him to see what teams generate betting interest and the tournament cuts the number of teams down to a more manageable size. In think part of the problem with going full bore on College Basketball is there are just so many games, even if you try to limit it to the televised Division I games, more just seem to keep crawling out of the woodwork.
But I want to bet on New Mexico State Baptist Technical College vs University of Massachusetts  School of Bartending and Automotive Repair for the Blind & Deaf.
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February 21, 2013, 04:33:32 PM
#67
Have you guys put in any consideration of adding college basketball games? I know totals aren't found on some sportsbooks, but most have spreads.

Sorry for the delay. I think we are able to add more leagues to our selection, so the question is... what or which leagues? I know NCAA basketball is very popular, but like you said I can't guarantee that all games and selections will be available every night. I'll take a look into it anyway.

Don't forget NBA returns tonight with 9 games, we'll have those odds online very soon!

[edit] Forgot to mention that we've added more goal and goal scorer selections to our Champions League games!

It's late enough in the College hoops season that it might be worth waiting till the tournament opens up to start hosting bets.

Why do you say that? As a bookie, in the long run he's going to make money from it no matter what. More games equals more chances to win money.

It would be an interesting experiment allowing him to see what teams generate betting interest and the tournament cuts the number of teams down to a more manageable size. In think part of the problem with going full bore on College Basketball is there are just so many games, even if you try to limit it to the televised Division I games, more just seem to keep crawling out of the woodwork.
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February 21, 2013, 10:16:03 AM
#66
Have you guys put in any consideration of adding college basketball games? I know totals aren't found on some sportsbooks, but most have spreads.

Sorry for the delay. I think we are able to add more leagues to our selection, so the question is... what or which leagues? I know NCAA basketball is very popular, but like you said I can't guarantee that all games and selections will be available every night. I'll take a look into it anyway.

Don't forget NBA returns tonight with 9 games, we'll have those odds online very soon!

[edit] Forgot to mention that we've added more goal and goal scorer selections to our Champions League games!

It's late enough in the College hoops season that it might be worth waiting till the tournament opens up to start hosting bets.

Why do you say that? As a bookie, in the long run he's going to make money from it no matter what. More games equals more chances to win money.
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February 21, 2013, 03:25:44 AM
#65
Have you guys put in any consideration of adding college basketball games? I know totals aren't found on some sportsbooks, but most have spreads.

Sorry for the delay. I think we are able to add more leagues to our selection, so the question is... what or which leagues? I know NCAA basketball is very popular, but like you said I can't guarantee that all games and selections will be available every night. I'll take a look into it anyway.

Don't forget NBA returns tonight with 9 games, we'll have those odds online very soon!

[edit] Forgot to mention that we've added more goal and goal scorer selections to our Champions League games!

It's late enough in the College hoops season that it might be worth waiting till the tournament opens up to start hosting bets.
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February 20, 2013, 08:46:15 PM
#64
man barca looked like shit. good to hear about bundes
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February 20, 2013, 08:37:37 PM
#63
Yes, in general, but we recommend users pay at least the default transaction fee when making late bets. Our official rule is that a bet needs to have at least one confirmation before match start (or at least soon after it). This doesn't usually take more than a couple of minutes to happen.

There have been a few cases when we've got very large bets hours afterwards, even after a match had ended, and there is currently no way to check for possible double spending on these, so those bets have to be voided for security reasons.

We hope we can add at least Bundesliga soon to our selection. We've rearranged our site, offering more bets, but for the moment that also means that parlay bets are offline due to the increased number of bet options. Maybe our parlay system wasn't really good enough to begin with anyway.
hi
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February 20, 2013, 08:15:10 PM
#62
yes.  The wagers time is recorded by the bitcoin clients wallet. The transaction can be verified at blockchain.info.
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February 20, 2013, 06:55:10 PM
#61
will the wager still get thr  if i send it  a couple minutes  b4  deadline
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February 20, 2013, 11:03:08 AM
#60

Yes, but we didn't get such a bet yesterday. Instead we had 0.20000315, which was read as "03, 15" and that bet didn't win. Another bet was 0.2000055, which seems to include only one selection. I'll refund both of these for now. I know the system is a bit complicated but that's the cost for not needing an account to play.

Thanks for the feedback everyone, keep playing!

[edit] Wait a minute, maybe it's just my client that cut off the last zero on that parlay selection. In that case it's a winning bet!
I see I got credited for it, thought I screwed it up somehow. The last zero got cut off because of the .001 transaction fee I'm gonna guess. Any way around this to avoid confusion?

 It'd be sweet if the Bundesliga and Serie a leagues were added if/when economically feasible.

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February 20, 2013, 06:12:27 AM
#59
How about something like games only on national television? That wouldn't be too hard, and that's the games most people bet.

Yeah that could be one way to do it. Just don't want people to get disappointed if their game isn't playable. We're updating the site again, so let's see if we can add that.

You need to use a different address for each match.  I am using the bitcoin wallet and when I send coins, the label part is auto filling in because I have labeled that address already.  This is very annoying as it makes keeping track of your wagers in the transaction log more time consuming.  

Yes, this is the downside of our system. It's not really possible for us to create 100+ new bitcoin addresses every day because it takes a lot to maintain them.

Now, if you would get NHL Team totals, first to score prop and puck line then I would not need to bet anywhere else. Currently bit365 offers NHL team totals and more options then blockbet Sad

We're adding more goal selections to the NHL today. However I don't think it's smart for us to try to add every option just because somebody else is doing it too, we try to stick to the most popular bets and avoid cluttering up the site.

just to make sure i'm doing the parlay right, say I want BTC.2 on options 31 and 50, the amount to send would .20003150, right?

Yes, but we didn't get such a bet yesterday. Instead we had 0.20000315, which was read as "03, 15" and that bet didn't win. Another bet was 0.2000055, which seems to include only one selection. I'll refund both of these for now. I know the system is a bit complicated but that's the cost for not needing an account to play.

Thanks for the feedback everyone, keep playing!

[edit] Wait a minute, maybe it's just my client that cut off the last zero on that parlay selection. In that case it's a winning bet!
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February 19, 2013, 07:53:25 PM
#58
just to make sure i'm doing the parlay right, say I want BTC.2 on options 31 and 50, the amount to send would .20003150, right?
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