Congrats forbidden! My friend lost his AWP Asiimov on that NiP game and lost his M4A4 Asiimov on another bet too lolol...

To those that came across rare skins, how much $ have you sunk into unlocking the cases?

I've opened around 10 cases overall over the past year, all shit skins except one in the middle which was a battle scarred ak redline. Made up for all the keys.

Most my other rare skins = trading/betting

It all depends. It seems as though you can either get lucky or unlucky. A couple of my buddies actually just spent the money to buy the skin itself instead of trying to open cases which might be the best way to get the ones you want.

Seriously don't open any cases if you want to get something good. Take that key and use it to trade up. I opened about $350 worth of cases cause I wanted to open a knife but that didn't turn out so well :P I did get a couple weapons here and there but nothing that would cover my costs. A buddy has spent $700++ and has not even come close.

Looking into trading up if you want rare skins and items, it takes longer but it's worth it as there is a sure chance you'll get what you're looking for. Also never buy anything straight from the market, you can find better deals when using keys on csgolounge or on /r/globaloffensive trade.

I just recently started betting and have made a lot more profit than I do with trading. Trading takes a long time especially if you're looking at a 1-2 key return each trade. You get lucky and make more if you trade the right items.

Here's my chart and I just started betting about a week ago. I've made more profit than I have trading but it is a lot riskier. I take what I win and sell them for keys but keep some for other bets.
http://i.imgur.com/cCEZVx1.png

If you want to know how to get into trading and what items to look for I can right up a better post.

I've broken even with trading but with betting I'm in the black ;). I'm really close to getting a karambit fade.

when i asked my friends how much they've spent they're too ashame to admit it lol
yeah trading looks like a lot of work...I just want a cool knife skin but don't wanna pay $200 for an in-game item

It's honestly not too much work, post a trade and wait pretty much. Just takes a bit longer.

Lots of knives for < 200 and there are some you can get for $40

^ Twitchy you never play anymore!

no time to game lately, i will be back on steam soon enough

This weekend is going to be a great weekend for cs matches to watch because of the G3 tournament. Although most games are happening in the middle of the night.

Great way to scope out how the teams are playing and to also build some bank for ESL if you plan on betting.

Thank you Epsilon :)

I am surprised it was 62% to 38% for HR and got totally stomped. Easiest bet evar :fullofwin:

Yea very good odds for Epsilon ;) Next match should be about the same against NiP or might even be closer to 50/50.

Won most of the big bets today but also had a bunch of the underdog bets where they were < 20% and lost all of them lol.

That C9 vs Titan match was insane. Great comeback, thought I would lose my skins :(

Profits so far hoping to hit $300-$350 by the end of ESL ;) I don't really do big crazy bets but smaller calculated ones

My buddy just put in a bet for 200$ in skins on Epsilon vs NiP. It was 65% - 35% right now for NiP but Epsilon can win it... I am kind of scared to do that haha

I would do it, my cousin put a really big bet down too.

I've only got about a $50 return on them.

So close to that kara fade :(

3 of us combined around 350-400$ worth of skins won on the Epsilon vs NiP game this morning with 64% NiP to 36% Ep :fullofwin:!!!!!

Damn the cloud9 and NiP series was intense. Wish cloud9 would of came through.

I still cant get over that Dignitas / Cloud 9 ending

Maybe I'll go get a new mouse soon and start playing again.

Starting to get bored of playing games that don't require a quick mouse.

Team Revscene in the next IEM Cologne? lol

Thanks for the ez skins Fnatic. *wasn't sweating at all there at the end

Btw any of you guys play ESEA? Think it's worth getting if you hover around a badge/LE rank?

The deathadder is great for csgo. I've also read that the newer logitech ones are good too.

I like ESEA because you don't really run into any cheaters and overall the people who play ESEA play a little bit more seriously than just MM. You can run into pros sometimes as well. Use this if you plan on signing up please :D ESEA

Here's the best/luckiest Counter-Strike play ever

edit: sorry super old

hiko was so clutch during the c9/titan match!

i'm stuck on silver elite master and can't rank up.... its been awhile.
not sure if i suck or i'm running into cheaters, i usually just assume i suck

Don't think there are very man hackers down in Silver Elite. If you need a boost out of it let me know.

Right now is especially hard to play in the lower ranks since a sale just happened. You'll run into a lot of new smurfs.

i guess i just suck then lol