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| Oct-03-15 | | MarkFinan: <SETTLEMENT DATE: Oct-03-15
PROJECTED PAYOUT: -- (1:1)
World Cup R7,G3: Svidler - Karjakin
Draw
LOSE 2100c$
[discard ticket]>
And here's my proof I wasn't bothered about winning (it HAD to be a victory today). I have 2 similar tickets as well. Saying that, I wanted to be a contender up until the <last> day, I thought Svidler would have wrapped it up today, otherwise I would have gone with Karjakin....as usual! And if I had you'd all be looking up at me, Sith lords included. Lol. |
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Oct-03-15
 | | FSR: I have no idea what <gauer> just said. Bookie, do you know what time the leaderboard will be updated? I wish that CG.com had implemented its idea of giving you a button to update the leaderboard whenever you wanted (presumably right after you'd paid off all of the day's bets). |
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| Oct-03-15 | | sydbarrett: Please update the leader board penguin sir. Lol I will humiliate Fred with no further words, just with my numbers. ;) |
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| Oct-03-15 | | sydbarrett: Please update the leaderboard, penguin ol chap. I want Fred to feast his eyes on my amassed power. Hahahhaha |
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| Oct-03-15 | | sydbarrett: Fred do you want my white-black-draw chip... I'll eat to you free... You were right about the "foresighted" part of the purchaser... I have need for it... For I saw far greater riches as targets, and seized them... |
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| Oct-03-15 | | sydbarrett: Sorry about poor typing. I just woke up and am playing with using my cellphone |
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| Oct-03-15 | | sydbarrett: Congratulations on being alive and healthy again Mark. The Loanshark may look and talk mean, but in truth, he is a magnanimous soul. Does anyone else know the winning graphic for cashing in $8000ish+ winning tickets is? I've seen it 3 times in the past few days.
That's enough posting for today. As much as I enjoy sharing insight into my historic rise, I prefer betting and winning even more. |
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Oct-03-15
| | FSR: Bookie, your "First Check" bet lacks the "NONE" line called for in the instructions. |
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Oct-03-15
| | FSR: OMG, if <Syd> wins the leg he will be even more insufferable than usual. Look for him to demand that time in these parts be expressed in terms of <B.S.> and <A.S.>: "Before Syd" and "After Syd." <Syd>, do you realize that Karjakin was dead lost in Game 3 and that if he had lost you'd now be residing in the toilet? Svidler could have won with 27.Rfe1! or, better yet, 28.Qc3! |
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| Oct-03-15 | | sydbarrett: It's called "knowing your opponent." Karjakin clearly studied Svidler thoroughly, and he knew Svidler's deficiencies enough to KNOW that Svid would miss it. It's what a good player does. He was playing for a WIN, like all ubermensch do, not a draw. Draws are for fools |
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| Oct-03-15 | | sydbarrett: One last comment, if I may.
Come at me, brothers and sisters. hahaha! This giant ocean protects my solid crystal kingdom. Nuclear booby traps are awaiting you if you make the ill-advised choice to traverse it. I strongly suggest you all surrender, beg for my clemency, and KNEEL. |
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Oct-03-15
 | | Penguincw: < gauer: ... to watch out how much you're paying into things like the chessbookie's interest juice > FTR, the Chessgames Bookie account currently sits at 51,099 chessbucks. Most of it was from juice, but that account has placed bets and therefore winning/losing some chessbucks on some bets, such as for Sinquefield Cup Rd 1: Carlsen - Topalov LIVE BETTING. < Are you guys able to control the floor and ceiling bets to something other than around 2-5 (for most starting floors) through 200-300 (for most ceiling) floor-ceiling wagers? > The minimum bet is determined by the # of lines. I did a test in the preseason, and I believe it's 5 cbs for 1-8 lines, 3 cbs for 9-15, 2 cbs for 16-40 lines, and 1 cb for 41+ lines. The maximum bet determines on the user's credit rating. The more chessbucks you've wagered, the more the system will allow you to bet. It also depends on your net worth. The rest of your post, I'm not quite sure what you're saying. < FSR: Bookie, do you know what time the leaderboard will be updated? > I believe it's approx. 9:45, 12:45 and 16:45. >
< I wish that CG.com had implemented its idea of giving you a button to update the leaderboard whenever you wanted (presumably right after you'd paid off all of the day's bets). > I'd like that too (the option to manually update the leaderboard), but I believe it takes a lot of effort to update the leaderboard. I believe I've suggested to changing it to fit my times, when I'm mostly likely to be on and payoff bets. Regardless of the day of week. 11:00, 18:00 and 23:00 is good for me. However, I believe the leaderboard update at 12:47 takes into account all the bets I've paid off today. < FSR: Bookie, your "First Check" bet lacks the "NONE" line called for in the instructions. > Whoops, just added that. Thanks.
Uh, in case anyone's wondering the status World Cup R7: Pick Three. I'm still awaiting to hear from <cg>. However, I don't think a few hundred cbs is going to make any difference. If they really knew the money, just wait after midnight, and then take out a loan. One last note:
< 10. refutor 3,253 > Oh my, what happened. 10th place is at just +1253, which is a <historic low>. |
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Oct-03-15
| | FSR: <sydbarrett: Congratulations on being alive and healthy again Mark.> You're a little behind the times, Syd:
<259. MarkFinan -3,241> |
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Oct-03-15
| | FSR: <Penguincw: ... One last note: < 10. refutor 3,253 > Oh my, what happened. 10th place is at just +1253, which is a <historic low>.> Probably even that is misleading, since there are a lot of loser bets that haven't been disposed of, especially for "WINNER" and "In-Play Winner." Maybe the bettors are getting better than they used to be? |
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Oct-03-15
| | Penguincw: < FSR: ... Probably even that is misleading, since there are a lot of loser bets that haven't been disposed of, especially for "WINNER" and "In-Play Winner." Maybe the bettors are getting better than they used to be? > Interesting that you mention that. There's actually this option where I can discard all bets that are certain to lose, but still keep the bet open. For example, for World Cup: WINNER, anyone who has bets on anything other than "Karjakin" and "OTHER", I can make the tickets "loser", so their net worth will be affected, and they can go ahead and discard. However, once the winner is determined, I can payoff the bets, and the winners get their money (with the proper odds). I asked <cg> about that, and while there's no harm, if I do it for one bet, I kinda have to do it for all bets, so it's probably easier to leave it 'till the end. Also, since users will have a low net worth, their max. bet and loan will be smaller, so it actually hurts them, if anything. |
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Oct-03-15
| | FSR: The last two games show how much luck there is in the ChessBookie Game. Karjakin threw away a half point with one move in Game 2, and then Svidler blew a full point in Game 3. A ton of chessbucks were won and lost thereby. A lot of people, including me and even the mighty <Syd>, would have seen our net worth devastated if Svidler had won Game 3, as he should have. |
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Oct-03-15
| | Penguincw: https://web.archive.org/web/2015100... Alright folks, that's the leaderboard going in what might be the last day of the Summer 2015 leg (but I also said that yesterday, and it wasn't). If anyone's wondering should they go all in or not, I say, <do go all in>. If the match makes it to tiebreaks, I will only have <one> bet: the winner bet, of course. I believe I've already decided that that'll be the only bet. I'm not going to have a bet asking for armaggedon, or first blood, or whatever. Just one bet. Although I'm pretty sure no one wants the match go into tiebreaks, since unless the match wrapes up very quickly, I might not be able to beat the 16:45 deadline, so that might mean you'll have to wait 'till Tuesday morning to see the final standings. Ah, so much suspense this leg, whether this or wondering whether the bookie will put out another bet. I like keeping people on their toes. :) |
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| Oct-03-15 | | sydbarrett: Luck, you say? Speak for yourself, knave. For the gifted precious few, there is also *foresight*. As an example, let me give you more good news. In the "select all that apply" aka pick the draws bet, I put $366 on game 4, and $99 on game 1 (which is nothing). So... if old feeble devotchka Svidler somehow draws Killer Karjakin, I will harvest $2000+. You can all now proceed to place your bets, if you can see through your tears... |
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Oct-03-15
| | FSR: <Syd> Yeah, I'm sure you foresaw that Svidler would smash Karjakin in Game 1, and that Karjakin would blunder Game 2 away. Not. And you're lucky that Karjakin made it this far; he was in grave danger of losing his match to Eljanov. You're a perennial Karjakin-humper. That approach has served you pretty well so far, but not because Karjakin has been playing so great. He hasn't. |
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| Oct-03-15 | | sydbarrett: Trust me, I had alternative B, C... to Z in place if Karjakin stumbled uncharacteristically. Naka, Giri, Ding, just to name a few on that one "Cup Winner" bet, would have won me thousands as well, just not the $9000 Karjakin will grant me. I adapt for many outcomes, mon cherie... As the greatest testament of this of all, even if Karjakin perishes tommorrow morning, I am confident I will still win... ;-) |
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Oct-03-15
| | FSR: Yes, Syd, you are a veritable legend in your own mind - the greatest ChessBookie Player that ever has been or will be. And sorry to break it to you, Karjakin is not going to win the World Cup. "OTHER," in the person of Peter Svidler, is going to do so, and from what you've said I gather that you don't have a bet on OTHER. |
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| Oct-03-15 | | sydbarrett: Oh no, what shall you bet to defeat me? There is a $6000 gap to overcome for the closest victims. What is Syd thinking?? Can you crack the code in time?! |
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| Oct-03-15 | | gauer: < FSR: I have no idea what <gauer> just said. > ChessBookie Game Help Page gives some examples of what it thinks are recommended wagering strategies, in addition to (some of) a few "rules of thumb" that I've tried to follow (by experience, and yes Mark, I'd been in a similar boat in previous legs of mistakenly typing in a wager with an extra '0' on a wager or so... - enough to kill a player's chances in a leg in some cases). However, I'm also not inclined to share <all> of my betting strategy secrets. Suffice to say was that a month ago, my thinking was that perhaps a previous World Cup winner might win another one. With that much $$$ sitting in the pool until the leg's end, the leaderboard is sure to perhaps succumb to wildly fluctuate with changes. Who's wondering how many players are going to be wagering conservatively or liberally in the last round, especially the top few sticking around with the extra $$$ ammo! |
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Oct-03-15
 | | perfidious: <FSR> That crazy scenario is what we call a bad beat in poker. |
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| Oct-03-15 | | Dr. Overlord: Hello guys! I was wondering: I know that Penguincw is the bookie, but who is the loanshark? Hehehe. And BTW, sydbarrett is remarkably good at this game. I'd like to know his secret strategy, cheers. |
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