Is the GIOL forum worth the risk (with poll)?

mbynwa

U4EA wrote: »

Is crossing a road worth the risk?

You actually go out of the house.........im too scared to, it's a big bad world out there.......*runs away* :eek:

foofi22

U4EA wrote: »

Is crossing a road worth the risk?

If Lucy Pinder is on the other side holding a packet of Haribo between her breasts, then yes.

U4EA_2

foofi22 wrote: »

If Lucy Pinder is on the other side holding a packet of Haribo between her breasts, then yes.

What if it's William Hill with a free BOGOF £5SNR between his breasts?

under-the-thumb

U4EA wrote: »

What if it's William Hill with a free BOGOF £5SNR between his breasts?

I will have some of that, money and breasts.:eek: Good times.

As for the op, I can see where you are coming from, but in my opinion I dont see that many risks. If you mess up you only have yourself to blame. I have done it in the past to the tune of £200+. It concentrates the mind when that happens.
As for should this board be here, well just look at how many people have made a lot of money and helped there own financial situation. Like I said on the debate on should gambling be banned. Matched betting has enabled me to help a neighbour to go from being within days of having their house taken away, to now getting ahead with their mortgage and having their first holiday in a fair few years. The look on the kids faces when they were told they were going away was priceless. Anywhoo, without this board I would not really have known too much about matched betting, and therefore would not have been able to help my neighbour/friend his wife and kids.
Now I may have found the info out somewhere else, but may not have done. So in my eyes this board is perfect where it is and should always remain open.
Yes some lose money, but on the whole, if you dont mess up and dont use a bluesq signup code you should be fine.

Zanziba

Half of all people who mess up lose some cash and the other half win because of it...

It cancels out overall... in fact the more errors you make the less the variance (statistically speaking) unless you make no errors at all.

I clicked the "I am a MB god button" as there should be a button that says "I have made mistakes and hence won an extra £500+" to make the voting fair.

U4EA_2

Zanziba wrote: »

Half of all people who mess up lose some cash and the other half win because of it...

It cancels out overall... in fact the more errors you make the less the variance (statistically speaking) unless you make no errors at all.

I clicked the "I am a MB god button" as there should be a button that says "I have made mistakes and hence won an extra £500+" to make the voting fair.

I think I have made 3 mistakes so far. One cost me about £2 and the others all worked in my favour to the tune of about £19 (total) I think.

As I said, I am NOT complaining!

AddictedMoneysaver

Is the intention of this thread to....

a) Try to get this section of the MoneysavingExpert forum closed
b) Try to annoy people on this forum
c) Try to encourage a casino section of this forum to be created

Can't get my head around whether your post is compaining that casino threads can't be created and discussed or whether you're complaning that this section of the forum exists as you seem to be making both points in your post which kind of contradict each other?!?

Anyways.. i'm off to see if I can find any piccies on the net of Lucy Pinder holding a packet of Haribo between her breasts.....

vetfred

I think I'm not going to google "Lucy + Pinder + Haribo" for fear my wife will throw me out. Which is a shame as it sounds intriguing and I don't know who or what either is.

jellybubble

Maybe "I've lost x% of my total mb profits so far" would provide a more interesting poll. I'm yet to make 5G in total:)

You could even have a -x% category for zanziba.

Mind you I think I might jinx myself if I contributed to that poll.

Nothing is totally risk free and so far I've lost some money because of my own mistakes. I'm a bit nervy though because I feel I must be due an unusual match abandoned scenario* or a bookie withholding winnings/going bust situation.

After a while of having the profits - and very small beer ones for here - I've spent some and also got used to seeing myself as having a certain amount of modest savings. I would be very upset if I lost a large (to me) amount now I have to say. I'd just have to remember if I hadn't played this game I wouldn't have had the money in the first place.

* I did have a cricket match abandoned recently after a very short time and was lucky that due to bookie/exchange differences in settling I actually ended nicely in profit. Could so easily have been the other way round though....

under-the-thumb

vetfred wrote: »

I think I'm not going to google "Lucy + Pinder + Haribo" for fear my wife will throw me out. Which is a shame as it sounds intriguing and I don't know who or what either is.

Both are wonderous things. The mrs loves Haribo, cant get enough. I love Lucy Pinder, so maybe if the 2 have any kind of affiliation it could be an activity for both the mrs and I to get involved in.:cool::D