02.01.14 Thursday Morning

James Milner stays late to help clear up after training. But what happens next?

 



Football
The Premier League clubs turn their attentions to the FA Cup third round this weekend where we’ll have in-play betting on 18 of the 32 ties, including the pick of the bunch as Arsenal host north-London rivals Spurs at 5.15pm on Saturday.

Don’t forget you can also choose from a number of bets covering a group of 24 selected matches across the third round including Total Goals, Cross Goals (home team goals multiplied by away team goals) and Homes/Aways Supremacy.

We’ve also now released further World Cup betting markets including Group spread betting indices and a range of other fixed odds markets.

Will England get out of their tough group? England’s 25:10:5 Group Index price is 10.25-11.75 and their fixed odds price to qualify is 4/6.  

Click here to see our football spread betting and football fixed odds betting prices.

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Horse Racing 
New Year’s Day provided the perfect example of why some punters like to play our 99s Distances horse racing spread betting market, when the six races at Fakenham made up at a massive 207 lengths (23, 14, 57, 22, 57 and 34).

For those betting on the usual Distances market, which is capped at a maximum of 30 lengths per race, the make-up would have only been 149 from a spread of 47 – 53.

So our 99s Distances (where the make-up is capped at 99 lengths) ensured buyers were able to enjoy a much greater return. Remember not all spread betting firms offer this market!

We also offer plenty of further markets that our spread betting competitors don’t, including individual race card markets, aggregate card makets, Favourites x 10, Favourite Rush, Favourite 50 Ups, Favourite Ton Ups and Squared Numbers – not to mention a full fixed odds service!

Aggregate Card Markets combine all our usual Card Markets across different meetings in a day in one overall spread for you to play on.

E.g. Our Aggregate Card Winning Distances would be the total of all the distances won by, across all races at all nominated meetings in one day. This principle applies to other Card Markets such as Double Numbers, Favourites, Starting Prices, 2nd to 3rd Distances etc.

It also applies to some of our newer Card Markets including Favourites x 10 and Squared Numbers.

As a reminder, our full range of fixed odds horse racing prices includes accumulators, multiples and each-way betting.

Click here to see our horse racing spread betting and Horse Racing fixed odds betting prices

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Cricket
The fifth and final Test begins in Sydney at 11.30pm UK time tonight (Thursday) as England seek to avoid a 5-0 Ashes whitewash.

Australia are strong favourites to complete the tourists’ humiliation with a fifth win at 5/8, with England 3/1 and the draw 15/4.

Ahead of the match you can still bet on our series markets including the likes of Series Runs, Fours, Sixes, Extras, Ducks, Wickets, Ton Ups, 50 Ups, Catches, LBWs, Bowleds, Stumpings and Run Outs.

Elsewhere we’ll be covering all the action in the Big Bash from Down Under as well as the 4th New Zealand v West Indies ODI and the Pakistan v Sri Lanka first Test.

Click here to see all our latest cricket spread betting and cricket fixed odds prices.

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Darts
With the PDC World Darts Championships done and dusted, attentions turn to the BDO version.

The fun and games begin on Saturday with coverage on BBC1, BBC2 and BBC Interactive.

As usual we’ll have in-play spread betting and fixed odds betting on the matches, but looking at the outright prices we have Stephen Bunting 2/1 favourite ahead of Scott Waties at 3/1. Further back we have James Wilson at 10/1, Wesley Harms 12/1, Tony O Shea 18/1 and Robbie Green and Martin Adams both 20/1.

Click here to see all our latest darts spread betting and darts fixed odds prices.

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Tennis
With the tennis season back up and running, the big names in the game are warming themselves up for the Australian Open at the ATP Doha.

As usual we’ll have in-play spread betting and fixed odds betting on all the matches as we progress through the quarter-final stage today (Thursday).

As for the Australian Open outrights, defending champion Novak Djokovic, who has just appointed Boris Becker as his new coach, leads the way in the betting at 5/4, followed by world number one Rafael Nadal at 5/2, Andy Murray at 13/2, Juan Martin Del Potro 12/1 and Roger Federer 16/1.

In the women’s event, Serena Williams is 10/11, Victoria Azarenka 4/1, Maria Sharapova 7/1 and Na Li 12/1.

Ahead of the new season we also have a Grand Slam Performance market based on 25 points awarded per Grand Slam won plus a 100 bonus if a player wins all four events.

Djokovic’s spread is 35-39, Nadal 32-36, Murray 14-17, Del Potro 5.5-7.5 and Federer 4-6.

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

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Golf 
This weekend we’ll be covering the Hyundai Tournament of Champions from Hawaii.

The tournament features only players who won a tournament during the previous calendar year.

We have Adam Scott as the 9/2 favourite, Matt Kuchar a 7/1 shot, Dustin Johnson 8/1, Webb Simpson 9/1, Zach Johnson 14/1, Brandt Snedeker and Jordan Spieth 16/1 and Bill Haas, Ryan Moore and Harris English all 20/1.

Click here to see all our latest golf spread betting and golf fixed odds betting prices.

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NFL
The NFL season has now reached the ‘wild-card’ stage where the third-seeded division winner hosts the sixth seed wild card, and the fourth seed hosts the fifth with the winners going on to compete in the divisional playoffs.

We’ll be in-play on all four matches with our Supremacy prices Indianapolis/Kansas City 1-3, Philadelphia/New Orleans 1-3, Cincinnati/San Diego 5.5-7.5 and San Francisco/Green Bay 2-4.

We’re also live on Alabama/Oklahoma 16-19 in the NCAA.

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

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Rugby 
The Six Nations is only a month away and we have our outright fixed odds prices live. Wales are 15/8 to retain their title, England 9/4, France 11/4, Ireland 6/1, Scotland 33/1 and Italy 100/1.

Looking at club affairs this weekend, we start with three live games tomorrow (Friday) with Northampton/Harlequins 8-11 in the Aviva Premiership and Ulster/Munster 5-8 and Ospreys/Scarlets 8-11 in the RaboDirect Pro12.

We’ll have eight further live games on the Saturday and Sunday from the above leagues as well as the Top 14.

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

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Snooker
The Masters, billed as snooker’s most prestigious tournament, is back at Alexandra Palace on January 12th and already we have our first round and tournament winner prices available.

Defending champion Mark Selby is 13/2 to successfully defend his crown while Ronnie O’Sullivan is 5/2, Neil Robertson 6/1, Ding Junhui 7/1 and Judd Trump 9/1.

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

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Politics
We are now live with our fixed odds prices on the next UK General Election.

For Most Seats we have Labour 4/7, Conservatives, 5/4, UKIP 100/1 and Liberal Democrats 150/1.

For Overall Majority we have Labour 5/4, Conservatives 3/1, UKIP 100/1, Liberal Deomocrats 200/1 and No Overall Majority 11/8.

Click here to see all our latest politics spread betting and politics fixed odds prices.

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Specials
We have fixed odds outright prices for the latest series of ITV’s Dancing on Ice.

Ray Quinn is the 13/10 favourite, Hayley Tamaddon 3/1, Sam Attwater 13/2, Kyran Bracken 8/1 and Suzanne Shaw 11/1. Former England and Arsenal goalkeeper David Seaman is a 150/1 outsider.

Click here to see all our latest specials spread betting and specials fixed odds prices.

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