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For the past few months I’ve been working on a betting website (with a little help of my friends) , which is now ready to for the official announcement to the wider audience.

Saloon.tf hosts bets for all major leagues and competitions from all over the world.

We’re using parimutuel betting known mainly from horse races, which means that instead of using fixed predefined odds beforehand, the payoff odds will be calculated by sharing the lost items among the winners.

The main reason for doing this is that I can’t go bankrupt unable to cover payoffs if I set wrong odds or underestimate amount of players involved. The other thing is that I will avoid accusations of doing Black Sox coming from the upset users as I don’t have particular interest in any of the sides winning and you can trust me to do my best to prevent 322 though it may not be entirely possible.

Odds can minimally change during the time, which is why I’ve decided to let users switch their picks (as long as the status isn’t locked), so they can react for changing payout values.
Items’ values are updated using trade.tf’s API just before distributing them. You’re able to place all genuie, vintage and unique keys, cosmetic items, paint cans and metals in your bet as long as they fit in the price range between earbuds and refined metal.

Huge part of betting is watching the games and we want to help you enjoy that displaying casts from BlackOutGaming.TV, TeamFortress.TV and other orgs!

So in the end, the website can be used for betting on the results of premiership and d1 officials?

I really like the idea because i am sure that there is tons of people who will use it. Everybody is some sort of a gambling type person in his different way and if you mix it with the game you play the most..this would be just perfect for the community and the website owners :D Keep it going CHERRY!

I got captched…

Anyone got an idea how long is it gonna take until they cool down?

I’ve beaten you once again VALVE!

Oh my god great work, please keep it up!!!

yay finally I can lose even more rares

Hopefully you’ll be able to sort out the problems.

Just wanted to say that the bot accepted it’s first tradeoffer!
Well tbh it didn’t accept shit, but it got an error saying:

You have logged in from a new device. In order to protect the items in your inventory, you will be unable to trade from this device for 7 days.

So it works I guess :)

I was slowed down a little, by Steam throwing “internal server” errors at me, but I managed to get through it by encoding steamid with unicode instead of sending it as a number/ascii string. I don’t know why they did it this way, but Valve’s Valve I guess.

Ah, last thing.
I am looking for a graphic designer, so if you want to help me with this project add me. Coders are welcome too.

EDIT: Accepted trade offer using cookie stolen from my home PC: http://i.imgur.com/tmZfnj0.png

if steam keeps busting shit unintentionally that you’re making for this, how likely is it that they’ll intentionally bust shit once it’s made?