Topic: Sportsbet.io Betting discussion thread rev - page 236. (Read 54988 times)

I really like this page to track results and watch live esports.
https://www.rivalry.com/matches

Maybe there are better sites out there, if so, somebody please share them. I am new at this as well but getting hooked to CS:GO:)

I said I won't play it, I picked anyway an hour ago. I have no idea what I picked or even where to track the results so I'll just imagine I already lost and will check it periodically.

The lack of normal sports brings the worst out of me

The funny thing is that probably nobody knows what this is, I wonder how many people went with all the favorites.

I also did mine just few minutes ago. I do know about CS and their teams but in LOL, I don't have any idea but I do have the idea that LOL and DOTA are two games where underdogs really surprise the betters. I have lost like 3-4 bets in LOL And DOTA these two days betting on the favourites.

I have picked the favourites mostly to see how teams perform and will get serious in next MM if it happens.

I have also done my picks. 2 weeks ago I had no idea about the teams but I have started betting on Esports and picked up few things in the meantime. I even picked few matches as per gut feeling for the CS:GO matches. LOL is too hectic for me too watch but I got used to CS. It is watchable and best of all there are some very good live odds to pick when you get a feeling for the game.

First match starts in 2-3 hours so if you haven't done your picks....hurry up.

I guess time for this thread to wake up since the multi master is back.
The difference is, this one is e-sports edition.

I have already done my picks however no f**king idea about anything lol. But fees good to put something for few matches. We will have fun again.

I think this will announced later because we are forced to have all events cancelled or postponed so right now nothing to have cheer just wait and watch when this world start to laugh again.

So...who has won the contest?

Hey Ralle14,

Yeah I remember that! we opened up for the Euro2016: We had a office party that friday night when France played (Can't remember haha)

Good times.

Steve.

This is my story.

It is a success story, but not related to Sportsbet.io. It was Christmas Eve in 2015. We sat with the family and ate a classic German meal, roast goose. After eating, I found the gift from my brother under the Christmas tree, who gave me a paper wallet with a certain amount of Bitcoin. I heard about it for the first time and there was a policy-discussion with my family about cryptocurrencies. It was very exciting, because even my grandfather found the idea of ​​decentralized currencies very exciting, because he has experienced the global economic crisis and sees the basic problems in the monetary system for it. Afterwards I read into the topic and I was enthusiastic pretty quickly. I bet the total amount on the wallet with my brother that Bitcoin's price will explode. I won, of course. The amount of BTC I got from my brother for winning the bet was just peanuts, because of course, the performance has multiplied the value of the wallet. That was my most successful bet so far.

I remember depositing like BTC0.01 and running it all up to BTC1 betting all-in. It took me like 10-13 bets to do it and it was probably my greatest lucky streak ever. That was way back in the early days of emerging Bitcoin sportsbooks when Bitcoin was still sub-$500. An amazing experience I will remember forever
Also this made me realize that in games of luck like sportsbetting there is no system to win. Knowledge of sports doesn't matter. It all boils down to sheer luck. If you are lucky you win. That's all there is to it.

Hmm, sad circumstances for sure, but calling such a bet  "immoral"  sounds a bit to harsh for me, because the bet had zero impact on the outcome of the event. But I get your point, that nevertheless you can't enjoy you winnings.


Can remember exactly on an Friday evening around 7 years ago:
I was about to participate at a garden party which is located a little bit abroad with no store nearby. Therefore I met me with 2 friends in the city beforehand to buy some stuff for the barbecue (and beer obviously).
Afterwards on the way to the bus station a mate wanted to place a bet on Bundesliga matches spontaneously as we were passing by a betting kiosk. So we entered the shop, sat down to a table and he began to write his betting slip. While we were waiting for him to finish this, a random swearing guy came over and showed us his slip. He bet on 5 draws in football games, claimed to have 4 right  predictions already and the score of the only left game in 50th minute is 3:0, but unfortunately as stated he predicted there a draw too.
We politely declined his offer, because we didn't even know if he was telling the truth about the finished games. They seemed to be completely arbitrary chosen, can't recall the exact matchups but it was something like  Nigerian league or second division of Japan teams I never heard before.
Thereupon he proved us that the finished games in fact ended up in draws and literally begged us to buy the slip for 1€, the initial bet was one Euro too. At the end we were buying it regardless of the negligible chance of winning it, the odds seemed to be more than fair. Finally we to took a bus to the party, checked the result in ~70th minute, still a 3:0 hence we forgot about it.
Several hours later someone checked the final result and yelled: "it ended 3:3, we won the 320€" We were kind of half-drunk already, so of course no one believed him for the moment and he was trolling anyway very often. But after he showed us his phone, we were convinced. The evening were very nice and much fun already, but this was a crowning moment for sure.  
My 2 friends and me shared the winnings equally, such that everyone got a little bit more than 105€ (what was huge at the age of 18/19).  

Edit: decider game https://www.kicker.de/1434193/ticker/lille-osc/fc-sochaux

Everyone know I love cricket so much and betting on that and I love to betting sometime almost impossible result. Steve must be know from my betting style.

It was 2 years ago, Zim vs Afg match when I was mostly betting on Bet365.

It was World Cup qualifying round match between Zimbabwe vs Afghanistan

Zim made 196 runs and once Afg were 155/3 in 33 overs and Afg were required just 42 runs in 17 overs and they had 7 wickets in hand.

Bet365 did offer the odds of 30 when 4th wicket fall in 34th overs, I don't remember why I did bet on that odd for 50$ but I did and match start changing from that over and at the end Afg were required 3 runs in last over and they had only last wicket left, Dawlat Zardan got out in 3rd ball of last over and zim won like unbelievable match from once it was looking impossible to win. I did won like 1500$ it wasn't even 1/5th of my biggest win but it was so satisfying because I did bet on almost impossible looking match on my instinct.

That's my 1 of the cricket betting satisfying story. I have so many big losses stories too where I did lost big bet like once it was 99.99% winning bet but will tell that any other time.


Here is scorecard of that match https://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-scores/19993/zim-vs-afg-7th-match-group-b-icc-world-cup-qualifiers-2018

Loving the stories 
No big wins for me unfortunately, but no big losses fortunately!
My first ever win was a long way back - the league cup final 1985 - Sunderland v Norwich. Feck me - a long time ago.
We had a football tour  in school and we played 2 matches against some local schools in London and then watched the league cup final at Wembley. We all put our final score picks in with the coach and he went to the bookies for us.
Being rather young and rather short and being in a standing only area - we couldn’t see anything ! We spent the whole first half being jostled around and avoiding men having a piss! A few of us were also in need of a bathroom break and so cleverly we waited until half time ended and went to make it too the toilets.It took 30 mins to get back to our standing area !! We missed the only action of the game - a goal and a missed penalty !
The only positive was that I won a princely sum of £20 or so from the bookies.
A very eventful day and fond memories - lol

I actually put a bet on Trump back then I always try to leave emotions out when doing a bet and only looking at the value. And since for me the elections were 50/50 more or less, I decided to be a sinner and place the bet. Living in Europe, I followed the coverage until 3am and Clinton was leading. I thought, well I love to lose this bet. Waking up the next day, to my surprise, it was Trump who won and I felt divided. I won quite a good amount, but it felt strange of course.

I often bet on cycling and there are some nasty crashes from time to time, where the cyclists get seriously injured. In the past I would take advantage of that and place live bets accordingly, but nowadays I refrain from doing that, since I find it immoral.
A friend of mine placed a live bet against some cyclist who crashed in the Tour of Poland last year. That cyclist died and my friend still feels bad for placing that bet.

I have a small surgery on March 11th so no way for me to go if selected but I will share the story anyway.
Great chance for people to see the PL game live, don't miss it if you can go.
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It was 15 years ago but I remember it like it was yesterday. College times, where beer money is always stretched hard.
Liverpool was about to play Olympiakos in CL group stage, last game, needed a 1-0 win or win with 2+ goal difference to progress.
One of the tickets I played that day was a single bet on them winning the CL, I do not remember the placed amount but the winnings were 150 Euros - which was half of my monthly students salary at that time. I think odds must have been around 50 because my usual bets at that time were around 5-7 Euros and this was a shot in the dark so I must have placed a lower than usual amount.

So, I sit to watch the game, Rivaldo free kick, Kirkland in no man's land. Liverpool needs 3 goals to progress. I take the ticket, shred it to 8 pieces, throw it in the trash and continue to watch the game.
Liverpool turns it around, Pongolle 1-1 soon after the break, then Mellor for 2-1 moments after entering the game and finally the 'OOOH YOU BEAUTYYYY' Gerrard moment for 3-1.
While I was watching the game my mom was eating oranges and throwing the remains in the trash can. They were early oranges, these that you cannot really peel off easily so there are pieces of orange that remain on the 'skin' - don't know the proper name for it.
So, I search the little trash bin, find the 8 pieces of my ticket, all sticky and dirty from the orange juice. I tape it together and place it in a drawer. It looks horrible.

Bayer, Juve and Chelsea were stressful but Liverpool was always either in lead or drawing. Ticket was safe in the desk.

Fast forward to Istanbul, this time I am watching with friends. For some moronic reason, I do not defend the ticket - I guess the odds on Milan winning were just too small to do it.
1st minute, Maldini 1-0. 10 minutes before HT, Crespo 2-0. 45th minute, Crespo 3-0. I do not smoke but I'm watching with friends, remember? So, I take a lighter from the table, I light up the corner of the ticket. BUT - it is taped from the Olympiakos game - so it burns for a while, gets to the tape and the tape just melts and the ticket does not burn out. One corner is missing though. I am frustrated, take it, squish it in my hand and throw it out of the window.
We continue to watch, Gerrard scores for 3-1. Minutes later, Šmicer, 3-2. I run out of the building, I hear yelling while I'm searching for the ticket. The window is a backyard one so I find the ticket, friend yells out of the window that it's a penalty for Liverpool and that Alonso is taking it. I remember being furious it isn't Gerrard, friend shouts from the window that Dida saved, I remember looking at the ticket thinking OH YOU MOTHER FUCKER when I hear screams GOOOALLL. I run upstairs, just in time to see the replay of Alonso putting in the rebound.

So, Liverpool wins on penalties and the ticket at this point looks like something from a devastated building. I go to claim it the next day, the woman just looks at me and says 'Well, we had a few torn ones with Liverpool winning but this is next level. Congratulations.' I was lucky that the ticket number was fully visible so she paid me out without too many questions.

Beer was good for a while, but ultimately the stress around it was huge

eh, sorta embarrassed bout this one but since others are sharing.  bet on the us election, back in 2016.
i bet Hilary Clinton 1.4 with not doing much research, or even living in the us.
well, donald trump won, obviously, so it felt like i lost twice.
my passport isnt uptodate but this is so cool if Sportsbet

I won a horse treble once, I picked 3 winners, it was £10 stake & returned £1,600. It’s not as exciting as some of your stories but I was very happy on that particular day.

Cool stories so far, we should get a vote on each (I'd vote with merits if I had any!).

I actually don't really have super interesting stories but I'll share here anyway. AND not to compete, as I already had that lovely Doha trip, I'd love for someone else to experience Sportsbet hospitality (as if I'd win anyway heh). EPL VIP room in London though!!!

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2016. Seeing English bookies offering all kinds of big bonuses for 1st-time player on boosted odds. Europa League with Klopp. Bet the max of a tenner on 3 different bookies with odds ranging from 8/1 to 15/1 on Liverpool. Winning all of them, betting all the bonus money again on Liverpool each time til the final. Split my money in 3, one on Sturridge to score first, one on Liverpool to win it all, and one to keep.

Lost a third as we lost in the final, but Sturridge scored, and I made several hundreds from just $30. Paid off my trip to Anfield, tix at the Kop for the first time to see us beat Villareal in the semis.

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Oh and of course, predicting 23 goals in a night of European football because Jamie Carragher was my favourite Liverpool player of all time =D And fulfilling a dream of seeing Liverpool win a match and lift a trophy!

This was unfortunately, nothing to do with gambling but I remember that when we were still in school, our English teacher who also happened to be a mathematics teacher teaching probability (not in our class but he liked to say a lot of links related), was teaching us about some funny stories about probability.

And suddenly, a really bright lightning came outside, we were next to a football field, with just a bare empty land and only 1 tree, it seemed the ligtning struck near the tree so it was so bright many of us including the teacher saw it.

Then he said, there was an english phrase saying Lightning never strikes twice. And then he said but it was just a saying,,, it was actually of course possible. And inf act the likelihood of it happening was higher than of any of us winning the lottery.

Then as soon as he said it. It happened again. And the whole class went crazy.

Hard to describe exactly but the way everything happened with so many witnesses:)

One of my memorable story was a few years back and surprisingly it was with sportsbet.

This was happened at the start of EURO 2016 I only had a couple dollars worth of btc on my account I eventually lost my bets but thanks to some luck my ticket was picked in their promotion and won 0.1 btc. After that I continued playing since the promotion is still going tried to earn as much tickets as possible every single day hoping to win one of the prizes at the end of the promotion I was able to win nearly $1,000.

When I first joined the promotion I wasn't expecting my ticket to be even picked because promotions are very rare back then and when there's a good promotion the whales are expected to win.

Same with me, please ignore my entry since I might also ran in to some visa problems.