01.05.14 Thursday Morning

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Football

With just two weeks of the Premier League season left we still don’t know for sure who will win the title (Man City 5/6, Liverpool 6/5, Chelsea 14/1), who will secure the final top four place (Arsenal 1/200, Everton 25/1), who will grab the last top six spot (Tottenham 1/7, Man Utd 4/1) or who will be relegated (Cardiff 1/33, Norwich 1/12, Fulham 1/6, Sunderland 3/1, Villa 10/1).

As usual we’ll have in-play spread betting and fixed odds betting prices on all the weekend’s top flight games as well as live betting on hundreds of other games across other global leagues. And remember our sports room is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The Premier League action starts at 12.45pm as a West Ham side long ago contemplating their summer holidays taking on a Tottenham team looking to secure their own trips abroad in the shape of a top six finish and European football next term. The Hammers are 3/1, Spurs are 5/6 and the draw is 13/5.

There are then five 3pm kick-offs with our spread betting Supremacy prices as follows; Villa/Hull 0.1 – 0.3, Man United/Sunderland 1.5 – 1.7, Newcastle/Cardiff 0.35 – 0.55, Stoke/Fulham 0.2 – 0.4, and Swansea/Southampton 0.1 – 0.3.

At 5.30pm Manchester City face arguably their toughest obstacle between them and a second Premier League title in three years when they play Everton at Goodison Park. City are 4/6 favourites to pick up the win, Everton are 15/4 and the draw is 14/5.

On Sunday Arsenal entertain West Brom at 1.30pm with the Gunners 1/4 for the win, the Baggies 10/1 and the draw 9/2. Chelsea face Norwich in the 4pm kick-off with the Blues strong 2/11 favourites to beat the crashing Canaries, who are 14/1. The draw is 6/1.

On Monday night Liverpool face a tough trip to Selhurst Park to take on now-safe Crystal Palace. Liverpool are 3/10 to take all three points, Palace are 9/1 and the draw is 17/4.

Elsewhere we’ll have our usual full range of live and non-live coverage on the rest of the English League and non-league games, Scottish leagues, European leagues and other world leagues.

Ahead of the summer action in Brazil, we’re also now live with a selection of World Cup spread betting tournament specials such as Total Goals, Yellow Cards, Red Cards, Corners, Total Goal Minutes, Headed Goals, Headed Goal Minutes, 90 Min Penalties Scored, Shootout Penalties Scored, Time of Fastest Goal and Time of Fastest Red Card.


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Horse Racing

It’s a big week of racing with three days of the Punchestown Festival still to go in Ireland and the Guineas Festival at Newmarket on Saturday and Sunday.

To give you the inside track on the runners and riders in the 1,000 and 2,000 Guineas we’ve teamed up with Timeform to offer a free guide including analysis of the form and some expert opinion from those in the know. View your free Guineas e-guide here.

As for the races themselves, Kingman is the 5/4 favourite from Australia 10/3 and Toormore 13/2 in the 2,000 Guineas while Rizeena at 7/2 leads the betting in the 1,000 Guineas from Tapestry and My Titania, both 15/2.

Don’t forget that in addition to our each-way and accumulators, you can now place forecast and tricast fixed odds bets on horse racing with Spreadex. Click the following link to find out more on forecast and tricast betting.

See all our latest horse racing spread betting and horse racing fixed odds betting prices here.

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Snooker

The World Championships at Sheffield moves on to the semi-final stages with defending champion Ronnie O’Sullivan in imperious form as he smashed Shaun Murphy 13-3 in the last eight.

The Rocket now plays Barry Hawkins in a repeat of last year’s final in the semis. Our traders have Ronnie 1/9 favourite to progress with Hawkins 5/1. In terms of our 10-3 Frame Supremacy spread betting (10 points for the win and a further three points per frame won by) our quote is O’Sullivan/Hawkins 22.5 – 25.5.

Mark Selby was also impressive in his 13-5 quarter final victory over Alan McManus. The ‘Jester from Leicester’ will now play world number one Neil Robertson, who was made to work hard for a 13-11 victory over Judd Trump in the quarters.

In terms of the Outright fixed odds betting, O’Sullivan is 1/2 favourite, Robertson 3/1, Selby 6/1 and Hawkins 14/1.

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Rugby 

We’re down to the penultimate weekend of Aviva Premiership action and our live betting games are Bath v Northampton tomorrow (Friday), Sale v Leicester on Saturday and Exeter v Harlequins on Sunday. We’ll be non-live on the other fixtures.

We’ll have in-play and non-live betting on all the other big games from the French Top 14, RaboDirect Pro12 and Super Rugby.

Our prices are also now live for the Heineken Cup final on May 24. Defending champions Toulon are 8/11 with Saracens 5/4. Our Points Supremacy spread betting quote is Toulon/Saracens 1 – 4.

Our rugby league betting coverage starts with St Helens v London Broncos in the Super League tonight. The Broncos have lost 10 out of 10 so far this season and the spreads point to a big St Helens win with the Points Supremacy price St Helens/London Broncos 40 – 43.

On Friday it’s Leeds v Wigan with Leeds 4/7 for the win, Wigan 6/4 and the draw 16/1.

We’ll also have coverage of the rest of the games in the Super League and the NRL plus Australia v New Zealand tomorrow morning.
  
See all our latest rugby spread betting and rugby fixed odds betting prices here.

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Golf 

It’s a busy weekend of golf as we offer fixed odds betting and spread betting prices on no less than five separate tournaments.

On the PGA tour big names including Rory McIlroy, Phil Mickelson, Justin Rose, Lee Westwood, Jim Furyk and Zach Johnson line up for the Wells Fargo Championship at Quaii Hollow Club, Charlotte, North Carolina.

The European Tour stays in Asia for The Championship at Laguna National in Singapore, previously known as the Ballantine’s Championship.

Elsewhere we’ll be covering the Insperity Invitational at the Woodlands, Texas, the South Georgia Classic at the Kinderlou Forest Golf Club, Valdosta, US and the North Texas LPGA Shootout in Irving, Texas.

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Cricket

In the Indian Premier League, Kings XI Punjab are top of the pile with five wins from five so far ahead of Chennai Super Kings, who have won four out of five, and Rajasthan Royals with three wins from five.

In the outright betting we have Chennai and Kings XI joint favourites at 9/4 with Royal Challengers Bangalore at 11/2. In our 50-30-20-10 spread betting Outright Index we have Kings XI favourites at 30.5 - 33.5, Chennai on 28 - 31 and Bangalore and Rajasthan both 11-14.

Our next live betting will take in Chennai v Kolkata Knight Riders tomorrow (Friday). Chennai are 4/7 for the win and Kolkata 11/8.

We also have long-term fixed odds prices out for the 2015 Cricket World Cup winner. Australia are 10/3 favourites, South Africa 9/2, India 5/1, Sri Lanka 13/2, Pakistan and New Zealand 8/1 and England 9/1.


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Darts

The Premier League of Darts moves on to Birmingham for week 13 as the players fight for play-off places.

Phil Taylor renews his rivalry with former arch-rival Raymond van Barneveld, who will be buoyed by his win over Adrian Lewis last week.

Our traders have Taylor at 4/7 for the win with van Barneveld 3/1 and the draw 4/1. For our 10-3 Leg Supremacy market (10 points for the win plus a further three points per leg won by) we have Taylor/van Barneveld 5 – 8.

Our 10-3 Leg Supremacy prices for the other matches this evening are; Chisnall/Thornton 0 – 3, van Gerwen/Anderson 8 – 11, Lewis/Wright 0 – 3 and Taylor/Chisnall 8 – 11.

See all our latest darts spread betting and darts fixed odds betting prices here. 

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Tennis 

We are now offering in-play betting on more events than ever before, with our live fixed odds and spread betting service taking in around 10,000 matches throughout 2014.

This week we’ll be covering the ATP Taipei, ATP Munich, WTA Estoril and ATP Estoril.

Our long term outright fixed odds prices for the second major of the season, the French Open, see Rafael Nadal as 6/5 favourite, Novak Djokovic 15/8, Stan Warwinka 13/2, Roger Federer 14/1, David Ferrer 20/1, Andy Murray 40/1 and Tomas Berdych 50/1.

In the women’s side of the draw Serena Williams is the 6/4 favourite followed by Na Li at 6/1, Maria Sharapova 7/1, Victoria Azarenka at 8/1, Simona Halep 11/1 and Agnieszka Radwanska and Ana Ivanovic both 28/1.

See all our latest tennis spread betting and tennis fixed odds betting prices here. 

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Boxing

Our boxing coverage this weekend takes in three big bouts in the US in the early hours of Sunday morning UK time; Floyd Mayweather Jnr v Marcos Maidana, Adrien Broner v Carlos Molina and Amir Khan v Luis Collazo.

Mayweather is the strong 1/14 favourite against Maidana, who is priced at 15/2 for a shock. The draw is 33/1 and Fight Minutes are 30 – 31.5. Broner is an even shorter 1/33 against 10/1 Molina with the draw 10/1 and Fight Minutes 17 – 18.5.

Khan faces a tough test against Collazo but is still 4/7 favourite with Collazo 2/1 and the draw 25/1. Fight Minutes are 27 – 28.5.

Closer to home, the build-up continues for Froch v Groves 2 at Wembley Stadium on Saturday, May 31st.

Our traders have Froch the 4/7 favourite, Groves a 6/4 shot and the draw 25/1. Fight Minutes are priced at 26 – 27.5 meaning our traders think the fight will again finish at around the end of the ninth round or beginning of the tenth.

See all our latest boxing spread betting and boxing fixed odds betting prices here. 

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American Sports

We’re now offering player goal minutes on in-play games in the National Hockey League throughout the play-offs.

For both the NHL and NBA we’ll have live betting on televised matches, non-live coverage on the other games plus some series spread betting specials on the play-off clashes.

We’ll also have coverage from the ongoing MLB season.

See all our latest american sports spread betting and american sports fixed odds betting prices here. 

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Politics

The Scottish Independence Referendum takes place on September 18th and our traders reckon it’s going to end as a ‘No’ vote.

That’s 1/3 to be the outcome while a ‘Yes’ vote is 9/4.

We also have prices on the next General Election. For Most Seats we have Labour 4/6, Conservatives, 6/5, UKIP 100/1 and Liberal Democrats 150/1.

For Overall Majority we have Labour 11/8, Conservatives 3/1, UKIP 100/1, Liberal Democrats 200/1 and No Overall Majority 11/8.

We also have markets live for who will be the next Prime Minister after David Cameron.

Ed Milliband is 8/13 favourite followed by Boris Johnson at 12/1, Theresa May at 14/1, Yvette Cooper 14/1, Phillip Hammond 20/1 and George Osborne and Michael Gove both 25/1.

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*Prices subject to change.