That result will cost us a six figure payout but we have done well out of the elimination of Italy, so there is a silver lining to the cloud. |
The average bets in this market are around £20-50. We've had a sequence of three-figure bets from the internet, shops and telephone all with Hull connections. |
The gamble started in South Wales and moved down towards London from there. |
The odds are that Sven can survive this latest embarrassment but you wonder just how much more humiliation the FA will be prepared to put up with. |
The Tory decision wouldn't seem to have done Ken Clarke's hopes a great deal of good and we think David Davis now has the clear edge over his opponents with Liam Fox - whose odds we have halved from 12/1 - potentially his main challenger |
This is already the biggest betting Test series ever, with up to a record £50m riding on the outcome of the five-match series, |
This is already the biggest betting Test series ever, with up to a record 50 million pounds riding on the outcome of the five-match series, and with the unprecedented interest in the outcome of the final match we are expecting cricket punters to bet over a million pounds in a single day for the first time as the game gets underway. |
This time last year, you could get 6-1 for Tiger to win the Open, but he is coming into this year's event bang in form and our customers are backing him as though defeat were out of the question, ... If he wins, the industry will take a multimillion-pound hit. |
This time last year, you could get 6-1 for Tiger to win the Open, but he is coming into this year's event bang in form and our customers are backing him as though defeat were out of the question. If he wins, the industry will take a multimillion-pound hit. |
Up until the injury we were consistently taking substantial bets for England but now the support has dried up - although we do face seven figure liabilities for an England victory. |
We are left with a low-profile bunch of authors. This is an average rather than an extraordinary year. |
We are looking at potentially our biggest patriotic payout since England's rugby union players won the 2003 World Cup. |
We cannot now see beyond these five as serious candidates, despite having taken bets for some thirty contenders in all |
Whoever takes over will be inheriting a much loved position and an opportunity to become a broadcasting institution. |
With the Aussies needing only to avoid defeat in the final two matches to retain the Ashes, punters reckon that they will play safe -- and that, combined with the likelihood of the weather taking a hand early on in the game, swings the balance of probabilities towards the draw as the most likely outcome. |