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[tawasal]

If this game is successful I was thinking about a whale casino in the future where all your points from past games accumulate and bets are unlimited.

good idea, but i think the game is already succesful. 

[grey ghost]

good idea, but i think the game is already succesful. 

 

It hasn't yet stood the test of time though. It's only been going for a couple months.

 

So we shall see.

[baumer]

Wtf....Riddick drops softly on Sunday and most films drop more than 45%. Faaack.

[grey ghost]

ONGOING BETS:

CLOSE PAY OUTS IN BIG AND IN BOLD!!!

1) The Mortal Instruments DOM O/U Twilight OD (35.9) (bet 100 points)
(Films over) (CJohn under)

 

2) Insidious 2 O/U 30 m OW (bet 50 points)

(ShawnMR over) (Scott Pilgrim vs The Forum under)

 

3) Insidious 2 O/U 30 m OW (bet 50 points)

(ShawnMR over) (Empire under)

 

4) Prisoners OW O/U Riddick OW (bet 100 points)

(TMP over) (grey ghost under)

 

5) Insidious 2 O/U 30 m OW (bet 50 points)

(ShawnMR over) (Punishment under)

 

6) Insidious 2 O/U 75 m DOM (bet 100 points)

(KingKong over) (Punishment under)

 

7) Cloudy/Meatballs 2 OW O/U Hotel Transylvania OW (42.5 m) (bet 100 points) 

(ShawnMR over) (Olive under)

 

8) Cloudy/Meatballs 2 OW O/U Hotel Transylvania OW (42.5 m) (bet 100 points) 

(ShawnMR over) (Films under)

 

9) Cloudy/Meatballs 2 O/U 145 m DOM (bet 50 points)

(KingKong over) (grey ghost under)

 

10) Cloudy/Meatballs 2 O/U 145 m DOM (bet 50 points)

(ShawnMR over) (grey ghost under)

 

11) Thor 2 O/U 25% higher DOM than Thor 1 (bet 100 points)

(tawasal over) (KingKong under)

 

12) Gravity O/U 30 m OW (bet 100 points)

(Blankments over) (CJohn under)

 

13) Runner Runner O/U 20 m OW (bet 75 points)

(CJohn over) (baumer under)

 

14) Escape Plan O/U 15 m OW (bet 75 points)

(baumer over) (CJohn under)

 

15) Insidious 2 O/U 17.5 m OD (bet 50 points)

(ShawnMR over) (CJohn under)

 

16) Riddick O/U 60% drop the 2nd weekend (bet 50 points)

(CJohn over) (KingKong under)

 

17) Insidious 2 O/U 17.5 m OD (bet 50 points)

(ShawnMR over) (baumer under)

 

18) Riddick O/U 60% drop the 2nd weekend (bet 50 points)

(baumer over) (KingKong under)

 

19) Insidious 2 O/U 17.5 m OD (bet 50 points)

(ShawnMR over) (grey ghost under)

 

20) Riddick O/U 45% drop the first Sunday (bet 50 points)

(baumer over) (WINNER IS KingKong under) 

 

21) Riddick O/U 45% drop the first Sunday (bet 50 points)

(baumer over) (WINNER IS grey ghost under) 

 

22) Cloudy/Meatballs 2 OW O/U Hotel Transylvania OW (bet 50 points)

(KingKong over) (CJohn under)

 

 

(OTHER WINNERS LISTED IN OPENING POST)

Edited September 11, 2013 by grey ghost

[grey ghost]

NEW RANKINGS:

(tied scores ranked based on higher stakes)

 

 

1) CJohn - 1800 (350 at stake)

2) ShawnMR - 1250 (400 at stake)

3) Scott Pilgrim vs The Forum - 1125 (50 at stake)

4) Olive - 1000 (150 at stake)

5) Sucker Punch - 975 

6) Empire - 950 (50 at stake)

7) Punishment - 850 (150 at stake)

8) Cmasterclay - 850 

9) Delfinasu - 850 

10) tawasal - 750 (100 at stake)

11) DespicableMEnions - 750 

12) Kalo21 -725 

13) #Alpha - 700 

14) KingKong - 675 (350 at stake)

15) mahnamahna - 625 

16) Films - 600 (300 at stake)

17) Blankments - 575 (100 at stake)

18) TMP - 525 (100 at stake)

19) grey ghost - 475 (150 at stake)

20) lab276 - 450 

21) baumer - 400 (250 at stake)

22) glassfairy - 350 

23) ChD - 300

Edited September 11, 2013 by grey ghost

[Shawn Robbins]

I'll bet 100 points to three people that Insidious 2 makes more than $25m this weekend (incl. Thu).

[CaptainJackSparrow]

I will bet 100 points to three people that Insidious 2 will open to over 30 mil.

[baumer]

25 mill seems awfully low.  

 

I'll take the 30 million bet Kong.  

[Shawn Robbins]

I'm feeling pretty confident about Insidious topping $40m this weekend.

[CaptainJackSparrow]

I'm feeling pretty confident about Insidious topping $40m this weekend.

Same here, 45 mil. Go big or go extinct.

[lilmac]

You guys into spread betting?

[grey ghost]

You guys into spread betting?

 

Sure, I don't see why not.

 

But can you give me a brief example?

[Shawn Robbins]

Same here, 45 mil. Go big or go extinct.

 

Thursday night = not a good start for us.

 

I do think Friday business is going to significantly pick up, though. At this point I'm hoping to break even on my Insidious bets.

[baumer]

Friday the 13th could be huge for business...like really huge.

[CJohn]

Insidious is going to have a massive drop on Saturday.

[Shawn Robbins]

The potential Sat drop has always reminded me of that drop from The Omen back in 2006.

 

-63.7%. From a Tuesday.

[CaptainJackSparrow]

Why was the Omen so frontloaded?

[Shawn Robbins]

Why was the Omen so frontloaded?

 

It opened on Tuesday, June 6, 2006. Or... 6/6/06. They really pushed that in the marketing and it resulted in a $12.6m opening Tuesday. The best ever at the time.

[CaptainJackSparrow]

Cool, why was the Devil Inside so frontloaded?

[Shawn Robbins]

Cool, why was the Devil Inside so frontloaded?

 

Social media era. It pretty much capitalized on its PG-13 rating, the teen audiences pouring in for the first horror movie in months, and the huge Latino appeal it carried. Word of mouth killed it, though. I never saw it, but, apparently the ending spread like a bad virus after opening day.