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Am I able to bet multiple points at once through twitch predictions? (Mobile)
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When a steamer does a prediction and I wanna bet points, I can only tap the 10 points button and if I wanna bet say 500, I have to tap it 50 times (it goes up by 10 points each tap). Is there a way to bid a bunch of points at once? (MOBILE)
Top Comment: UPDATE: With the recent twitch mobile update, you are now able to select a specific amount of points to bet when choosing red or blue.
Zoom keeps freezing. I bet you won't be able to figure this one out lol!
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Okay this is a doozy...so if you can figure it out, I will forever be in your favor lol. So my wife works for a hospital as a credential trainer. She teaches nurses on the Epic System. She works from home (we live in a new apartment that was built last year) and needs to teach remotely using Zoom. When she is sharing her screen and teaching it freezes for like 30 seconds, then comes back and does that several times through out the session. We have literally tried everything to figure out what it is. Some troubleshooting for your information:
- I use zoom on my laptop and share my screen I do not have this issue.
- She used a different computer from the hospital and tried it, but still had the same issue.
- We got a new modem, but still had the same issue.
- She tried teaching at different locations like her parents house or onsite at the hospital and both of those locations had no issues, Zoom was working perfectly fine.
- It is not the internet connection at our apartment because she hardwired using an Ethernet cable and still had the same issue. We preformed an internet speed test and all of the speeds were high.
We are thinking it has to do with the VPN, since she works for a hospital the security is super high...so maybe Zoom is having trouble communicating with the internet of our apartment plus the VPN security firewall is getting clogged up? I have no idea. She thinks it is the apartment itself, but then why does my Zoom have no issues? If it was the apartment layout/tech wouldn't it be affecting me as well? Btw all other video applications work for her no problem as well. Microsoft Teams works perfectly fine and does not have the same issue. This issue has been going on for months now and we are stuck. We tried calling comcast our internet provider and the hospital and we have troubleshot with them all...and they can't even figure it out. Hoping someone can provide some insight on this, thanks!
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Not a network guy so I don't have an exact answer for you. But I think you're on the right track with the VPN. I have a friend who has a Zoom account through the university he works for and he often has Zoom troubles due to all the security features the U has set up.
So this sounds like way outside the scope of anyone on the net is going to be able to help you out with because they don't know all the details of your wife's VPN/network settings. You probably need to reach out to the IT department for the hospital and have them get it figured out. And if you've already tried that, then try again (and again) since they are probably your best bet. Since your wife is working from home for this hospital, it's on them to troubleshoot this, even if it ends up being some kind of network issue inside your apartment. It's a PITA that the IT department wouldn't have to deal with outside of a pandemic, but that's the cards we're all working with.
When Yano Toru is able to sell a DVD, you bet he's the Winner
Main Post: When Yano Toru is able to sell a DVD, you bet he's the Winner
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Sell of the year.
I'm willing to bet they would be able to even change her ult music to "never gonna give you up"
Main Post: I'm willing to bet they would be able to even change her ult music to "never gonna give you up"
Top Comment: Or Miku
Best way/platform to bet NBA futures and cash out?
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So, Ive only ever placed a few small sports bets in my life, and that was in a sportsbook in Vegas for like 20 bucks or something. I get the general gist of how it works, but I have a more complicated bet Im trying to place and was hoping for some advice. Im looking to place bets in the 5-10k range.
Basically, I follow the NBA fairly closely and dont typically look at betting odds, but several of the lines on NBA futures bets (odds to win the championship) seem pretty out of line with reality to my mind. I suspect that lines are going to shift quite a bit by the time we get to the 1st/2nd round of the playoffs.
What Id like to be able to do is place bets on a couple teams, but I also would like to be able to either cash out the bets after the lines change as we get into the playoffs, or offset the bets with a bet on the field against that team.
There seems to be three options Im aware of: casino sportsbooks, online sportsbooks, and polymarket. A casino sportsbook is the easiest/most straightforward/least hassle, but it doesnt seem like Id have the ability to either cash out the ticket if the line moves, or offset the bet by placing another bet on the field. In other words, if I was betting on say Boston, Id like the ability to either cash out the bet or place a bet on the field against Boston, but it doesnt seem like casino sportsbooks offer either of those things? Ideally Id prefer to just deal with a sportsbook since I have a lot more confidence in dealing with them, them paying out, not having to deal with a lot of hassle, etc.
2nd, online sportsbooks seem to offer the ability to cash out (or maybe depends on the site?), although it seems like you pay a pretty big premium to cash out based on what I read -- if, say, I placed the bet today at +300 and the line later was +120, what sort of premium roughly should I expect to pay to cash that out? It doesnt seem like online sportsbooks offer the ability to place a bet on the field against a particular team either, and from what I understand theyre a lot more hassle to deal with (creating an account, withdrawing money, etc).
Lastly there's polymarket, which does seem to allow you to sell your "shares" at any time, which would negate the need for cashing out/hedging, but its also the most complicated/riskiest/most hassle from what I can tell. I would need to get USDC.e, make an account, find someone willing to make a market/take the other side of my bet, etc. There's also some risk it seems in dealing with crypto (what if USDC.e implodes, or polymarket implodes, etc), getting my money out/back, and so on. Im also not 100% sure I understand how markets are made on polymarket for things like sportsbetting -- can anyone explain that better? Im also not sure if the size of my bets would move the line -- they seem to show total volume of various bets, and there seems to be pretty healthy sized volume, but it doesnt seem like theres maybe all that much daily volume/liquidity -- I dont know how easy it would be to sell my shares at a later date for market prices for example.
Anyhow, any advice would be appreciated!
Top Comment: I think the majority of good advice you will get here involves not dropping 10k on an nba future bet with the intent to hedge or cash out
ELI5: how does the “mafia” operate for taking sports bets?
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How do they determine what odds they offer and hedge that they’ll profit from it?
Top Comment: Regardless of whether they are legal or illegal, things like sports books operate very simply. You don't have to know what the real odds are. All you have to do is adjust the odds you offer until the amount of money bet on either side of any given proposition is equal. Let's say that you have a proposition where one of two things happens: either team A wins or it doesn't win (let's ignore ties for right now, although the process works fine if there are ties). The way you run your sports book is, let's say you think there's a 50/50 chance either way. You start by offering a payout of $1.90 (total) per $1 wagered for people who were correct about the outcome. Obviously this means that you make 10 cents per dollar wagered regardless of who wins. All the people who wagered and lost don't get anything, and you only have to pay out $0.90 of each dollar the losers paid you to the winners, since the winners who get $190 if they bet $100, already gave you that $100. When you take the two bets on either side, you are paid $200 immediately and then you only have to pay out $190 to whomever won. Now let's say you guessed the odds were 50/50 but a lot of people think you were wrong. Let's say team A is the favorite. You know that the collective wisdom thinks you were wrong because you notice more people are wagering that team A will win than that they will lose. You don't want to lose money, so you quickly lower the payout you are offering for team A. You keep lowering that payout until there are, once again, equal dollars bet on win or lose. And because you're trying to make a profit and you make more money the more that people wager, you are simultaneously increasing the payout on team A losing (or Team B, their opponent, winning) so that people still want to bet on that proposition. After all, the only way you can make a profit now if A wins is by getting more people who bet on B and lose. Since we live in the 21st century, you are able to automatically keep track of every single bet you have ever offered and adjust odds on the fly, potentially even after individual bets (although I doubt anyone does this except for very large bets). And if you notice you are getting a lot of bets on one side, you can actually use the proportion of bets placed on either side to get a really good estimate of what odds/payouts will equal out the book. Basically, it's really simple. You just adjust the odds you're offering so that you will make a profit regardless of who wins and who loses. You genuinely don't have to know anything at all about who's actually more likely to win. You let your customers tell you.