Posts like this are the real reason Goldie posted this thread. As you can see from his response in CG's disbandment notice, the man has a very serious gambling problem:
Goldie has started literally dozens of pools on the VE forums and he rarely wins. He's taken out a third mortgage on his nation and some loan sharks are looking for him. Evidently he now wants to expand his pools to people outside the alliance in hopes of bigger payoffs.
We ask that everyone refrain from enabling his addiction while we get him the treatment he needs.