Topic: Squares -- Sports Gambling Thread (altcoins accepted) (Read 1116 times)

I'd be happy if anyone would be willing to give me other ideas on how to make this game better... I'm open to anything, so it doesn't have to be square

I'm thinking about making another table below the sports one that would be something to the extent of the last minute and character (?) of Bitcoin's halving block hash... giving us a weird looking 16 x 10 table, but willing to listen to any other ideas if people have them.

- In other news, Game 4 is coming up tonight, so if you'd like to bet just a mere .0002 BTC you could possibly get back 100X that if you are a gambling man

Sounds like a square idea 

*tomorrow night's game

Still can grab some squares before tonights game if you would like to play  


**Edit: tomorrow night's game... lol

Cool... Looks interesting 

Match is opened again tonight for .0002 BTC per square... so .02 BTC, or around $10 per table for the Cleveland vs. Golden State game. If anyone would like to play let me know!

Just an update... I won the first squares match between me and jwinterm, but the thing is is that it's not fun if we just play between our selves! ... so let me know what would interest you guys in betting on some matches with whatever altcoin you prefer...

I'll redo the table and spoof up the game as needed... so let me know what you guys have in mind.

Jwinterm and I are going to do a trial run on here... if anyone is following this thread and would like to participate, you can buy out my squares, but if not, I'll be playing Jwinterm...

Of course 0.1 XMR isn't a lot right now, so it's not that big of a buy in... so if you are interested, please feel free to contact me or luigi about getting some squares.. remember, winner takes all! (10 XMR; or 10 XMR worth of any crypto of your choice).

Tip off starts @ 9 P.M. eastern.  If you'd like to not deal with these squares and would like to place a formal bet with me and have me act as a bookie, I will take your bets up to a certain amount (haven't decided what I want to set that as of now).  Spread has the game at GSW = -7  |  OKC = +7.  Please post in this thread or PM me if you are wanting to make a wager on this game or possibly another game.

Thanks everyone, and good luck! 

For game 7 tonight I'll take 0-4 for the Warriors and 0-9 for the Thunder at 0.1 XMR per square, for a total of 5 XMR.

I agree and I can do that... How about this...

I have gone ahead and bought out the board, and will go ahead and pay luigi when needed, but I need people to give me what game they want to bet on exactly (X vs. Y; Game _), and also need to see if there is a general interest in something like this.  I know jwinterm would be interested (I think) but this is kinda pointless since this is supposed to be a "pool" and that is the whole point/thing that is fun in all of this...

As for now, I'm going to propose we lower the stakes to BTC.05 pool pot for now, making each square BTC.0005 to *maaayyybeee* spark a couple other people's interest in throwing in a yolo bet and test out the waters with the whole process.

I want this to be a thing the community enjoys, this in no way is some attempt to take peoples money... there is no advantage I have over the other guy...  If there is general interest in something like this in the altcoin community, then I say lets do it.  If you happen to feel more comfortable with another escrow (sorry luigi) and want to propose we use someone else that has had a lot of experience in escrow situations, then I say lets do it.

I just really enjoy these pools, and do them all the time with friends and that sort of thing; which then got me thinking why not just do this here?  So here we are... ... but if there is just generally no interest, then that is perfectly fine too and I'll figure it out from there.

This is probably easiest and should be zero sum.

Very nice! I'm following this for sure

Use 0.1 BTC and bet a mbtc on every square, and allow more than one person to buy the same square, then split winnings proportionally to how many tickets each winner had on that square.

Or just offer to buy the board out of whatever isn't bought when it's time to close betting.

Yeah... I haven't really figured out what to do if that happens... this might be a little tougher than I thought  well shit...

Any ideas?

Interested. It will suck for Luigi if not all squares are filled and he has to send back everyone's bets. Or does escrow just get to keep all the bets if that happens

Confirmed.

Match 1) phishead wins
Match 2) phishead wins
Match 3) jwinterm wins
Match 4) Friday June 10th GSW @ CLE : 9 PM