world cup damage report - did anyone actually finish this thing up?

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five weeks. 104 games. ive had a bet on nearly every single day of it and i've just sat down and done the actual numbers and im down about £640 on the tournament.
and the final was the perfect ending wasn't it. had argentine outright from before a ball was kicked, plus messi to have a hand in a goal because obviously i did. they had two shots in 120 minutes. TWO. neither of them on target. sat there watching spain knock it about like a training drill knowing every quid was gone a good hour before it actually was.
so i strt to wonder as my timeline is nothing but winning slips and every single person i know has been skinned. did anyone here actually finish the world cup UP? not one lucky punt. up over the whole thing.
 
ill save everyone some time. no. nobody finished up. five weeks of daily bets isn't gambling, its a subscription. the margin gets you in the end whether the results go your way or not, that's the entire design of it. and the lads posting winners are posting the one slip that landed out of forty. you don't see the other thirty nine
 
amigos i am not sleeping properly since sunday. is the second time in my life and the first one i was too young to enjoy it properly.

and here is the funny part, i dont put one euro on spain. never i bet my own country, is bad luck, my father say this to me and i keep it always. so five weeks i am watching and thinking, if only i put one hundred euro before the start... but no. is ok. i take the trophy instead of the money
 
your timeline is all winners because nobody screenshots the losing slip. that's not a conspiracy its just what people choose to post. i had a fiver on spain in the group stage and cashed it out for eight quid because i got bored waiting. thats my entire tournament
 
American perspective and it's a bleak one. All three host nations went out in the round of 16 - us to Belgium, Mexico to England, Canada to Morocco. So the entire domestic audience here lost interest in the outcome about two weeks before the outcome happened.

What I'd flag is where the action actually went. A lot of people I know weren't on a sportsbook at all this tournament, they were on the event contract platforms, because the framing over here is still that those are financial products rather than gambling. Same bet, different regulator, different lawyer. And no, that didn't make anyone money either.
 
put £5 on spain to win the final because their kit is nicer and got about £8 back. so technically i finished the world cup up?? 😅 im aware this isnt the same thing as what you lot are doing
 
First tournament since about 1990 i haven't put a single slip on over a counter. Shop shut on the 30th like they said it would, so it was that or nowt.
So i've been doing it on the phone like the rest of you. And ill tell you what i noticed, since everyone's counting. I had eleven bets on this world cup. Eleven. In a shop id have had four,because four is how many times i could be bothered walking down there and back. That's not me being sentimental about the place, that's just the number.
Down about ninety quid. But reading all your comments makes me sorta winner apparently..
 
chapman on an app. genuinely thought id be dead before i saw that 😂 welcome to 2026 grandad, the waters warm
 
we went out on pens to egypt so my tournament finished on the 3rd of july mate. did the lot in the group stage like a mug and then watched three weeks of it for free, which is honestly the healthiest i've been in years

and congrats Ricardo, they were a proper side well deserved
 
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