Betting on Politics: Predictit is NOT Dead

I have friends who did on overseas sites.

I think the biggest challenge in navigating an event like this is taking the emotion out of it.

Like I can pretty easily bet against the Cleveland Browns, but I’m so emotionally invested in a presidential election that I don’t know if I can trust myself to make rational decisions. Which is of course why its so juicy to begin with.

I’d like to think I would have pulled the trigger on Biden +400 or whatever, but I had bet my entire roll before the election started. Dem popular vote was literal free money.

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sort of…

i sold two stacks at .50 and bought one back at 0.20, but i didn’t ride it

Anyone know if the PI clean sweep market would resolve yes if we get it in january? I’d kinda assume so as its at like $.25 but who knows with these idiots.

it won’t resolve unless it’s a no before those two races

OK thanks. Wondering if I should cut bait but yeah its $100.

I assume the whole market resolves at once? So my No R/R balance of power bet won’t pay out until after the run offs, even though it’s dead

I had bet my whole roll, basically, and was still trying to get more down on Biden at +185 and couldn’t get action. Like I was basically willing to dip more into my poker roll than I was originally comfortable with, because I knew it was essentially a lock.

correct

this was an accident btw, i put the orders in during the laggiest part and then tried to pull them

biden -1400 bovada

I’ve got a longshot on the networks calling it tonight after the AZ / PA dumps. Let’s gooooooo

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Anybody?

I really want to buy a bunch of NOs, I really had no idea PI was this ridiculous despite everybody shouting it from the rooftops.

Biggest challenge is being online for like 18-24+hours straight because some of these betting windows were for mere minutes.

Why am I able to unload Montana shares for a .01 refund? Biden in Montana is completely and totally dead, right? I’m not missing something?

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welcome to predictit where sometimes you can get 1% rakeback on your losses

thanks for reminding me to put that offer btw

and LOL us for punting.

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You can sell, but there’s no buyers

Trying to unload my long shot that they’d call it tonight, I think that chance is washing away

My 1c MT share sales got filled earlier today. Texas too. Actually I may have gotten like 2-3c for Texas

2 markets I’ve gotten it today so that is incorrect. Montana maybe not though, it’ll be hard.