15.05.14 Thursday Morning

The Premier League is done and dusted for another season, but why not relive the season highlights by reading our blogger's Top 10 Spread Betting Moments of the 13-14 Premier League Season.

On Saturday Arsenal bid to end their nine-year trophy drought when they take on Hull in the FA Cup final at 5pm. The Gunners are strong 4/9 favourites with Hull 13/2 and the draw 3/1. As of 4pm on Thursday, we were standout industry best price Anytime Scorer on Giroud, Podolski, Ramsey, Cazorla and Wilshere.

Also at 5pm on Saturday, the Spanish La Liga title is decided as Atletico Madrid travel to Barcelona needing just a draw to be crowned champions with Barca needing the win to finish top. Barca are 8/11 for the win, the draw is 13/5 and an Atletico win is 7/2.

Roy Hodgson announced his provisional England squad on Monday and our World Cup fixed odds and spread betting tournament outrights are live now. To win the tournament England are 28/1 and to reach the final they are priced at 12/1. On our 100-75-50-25-10-0 Spread Index (based on 100 points to the winner, 75 to runner-up, 50 to losing semi-finalists, 25 to losing quarter-finalists and 10 to losing last 16 teams), England are priced 16 - 19.

As far as the group is concerned England are 12/5 to win Group D and 4/6 to qualify to the knockout stages. For the 25-10-5 Group Index (based on 25 points for winning the group, 10 for finishing second, 5 for finishing third), England are 10.25 - 11.75.

Our World Cup spread betting tournament specials include selections 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.

We have launched our new Cricket In-Play Match Centre to enhance your live cricket fixed odds and spread betting experience with Spreadex.

As well as showing a ball-by-ball update on the action and providing a Scorecard displaying, wickets, number of 4s, 6s and wides, the Match Centre also shows live graphs of each teams' run rate, Worm (which plots the total runs as they are accumulated across overs) and Manhattan (which shows the runs per over across the innings in a bar chart).

See the Match Centre in action for yourself in today's latest live Indian Premier League clash when Rajasthan take on Delhi at 3.30pm. Rajasthan are 4/6 for the win with Delhi 6/5.

For every IPL game we'll have a range of Player Performance markets (a spread based on points awarded to players on the following basis; 1 point per run, 10 per catch, 20 per wicket and 25 per stumping) and spread betting specials (Total Sixes, Total Fours, Total Wides, 50 Ups, Multi-Wides, Multi-Sixes, Multi-Fours etc.) available before the start of the game.

During the matches themselves we'll be in-play with a host of fixed odds, spread betting and binary markets to play on.

We also have long-term fixed odds prices out for the domestic English T20 tournament, the Natwest T20 Blast, which starts on Friday, May 16th. Hampshire are 5/1

Our long term fixed odds prices for 2015 Cricket World Cup winner have Australia as 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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The highlight of this week’s racing is the Dante Festival from York. After today’s drama in the Dante Stakes, punters will be looking ahead to the Yorkshire Cup at 2.30pm tomorrow.

The Dante Stakes, ran at 2.45pm today, saw hot favourite True Story ridden into third as The Grey Gatsby came home first ahead of Arod.

The result saw the Godolphin colt drift from 11/2 second favourite for the Derby at Epsom next month to 14/1. Australia remains the 6/4 favourite ahead of Western Hymn at 10/1 and Orchestra and Geoffrey Chaucer at 11/1.

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 this link to find out more on forecast and tricast betting.

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With the second major of the season, the French Open, less than two weeks away the big names of the game are continuing their clay preparations as they compete in the ATP and WTA Rome event.

Tonight’s live games include David Ferrer v Ernests Gulbis and Philipp Kohlschreiber v Novak Djokovic. Ferrer is 1/3 for the win with Gulbis 9/4 in the first game while Kohlschreiber is 9/1 to cause an upset with Djokovic the strong 1/18 favourite to progress.

As far as the outright betting goes for the French Open, Rafael Nadal is 10/11 favourite, Djokovic 9/4, Stan Warwinka 7/1, Roger Federer 16/1, Ferrer 20/1, Kei Nishikori 25/1, Andy Murray and Tomas Berdych both 40/1.

In the women's side of the draw Serena Williams is the 7/4 favourite followed by Maria Sharapova at 4/1, Na Li at 6/1, Simona Halep 10/1, Victoria Azarenka 16/1, Ana Ivanovic 22/1 and Agnieszka Radwanska 28/1.

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

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It's a busy weekend of golf betting with our fixed odds and spread betting prices taking in action from five different tournaments.

On the PGA tour it's the HP Byron Nelson Championship from the Four Seasons Resort in Irving, Texas while on the European Tour it's the Open de Espana from the Catalunya Resort in Girona, Spain.

We're also betting on the Regions Tradition from Alabama, US, part of The Champions Tour, the LPGA Kingsmill Championship from Virginia, US and the BMW Pro-Am from Wentworth.

If that's not enough for you, we also have long term fixed odds prices available for the US Open, Open Championship, USPGA Championship and the Ryder Cup.

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We're down to the semi-finals stage in the Aviva Premiership with Northampton Saints taking on Leicester Tigers tomorrow night (Friday) and Saracens hosting Harlequins on Saturday.

Northampton are 8/13 for the win with Leicester 11/8. The draw is 16/1. Our spread betting Points Supremacy market has Northampton/Leicester 2 - 5. For the second semi, Sarries are 1/4 for the win, Harlequins 3/1 and the draw 20/1. Our Points Supremacy market is Saracens/Harlequins 8 - 11.

We also have live and non-live betting on a host of RaboDirect Pro12, French Top 14 and Super Rugby clahses.

Our rugby league coverage features live and non-live betting on all the clashes in the Super League and NRL.

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The regular season of the Premier League of Darts draws to a close tonight with two of the remaining semi-final spot still to be decided in Brighton.

Michael van Gerwen and Raymond van Barneveld are definitely through and then two from Phil Taylor, Gary Anderson and Peter Wright are set to join the Dutch pair.

Our spread betting 10-3 Leg Supremacy market prices (spread based on 10 points awarded for a win plus a further 3 points per leg won by) for this evening's matches are; Lewis/Chisnall 3 - 6, Anderson/van Barneveld -1.5 - 1.5, Taylor/Thornton 10 - 13, van Gerwen/Wright 8 - 11.

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

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On Sunday Juan Manuel Marquez takes on Mike Alvarado in California in the early hours of Sunday morning UK time.

We have 40-year-old Marquez as the 2/5 favourite with Alvarado 2/1 and the draw 20/1.

Closer to home, the countdown continues for Froch v Groves 2 at Wembley Stadium on Saturday, May 31st with both fighters having their say in the media in the build up to the big night.

Our traders have Froch the 4/7 favourite, Groves a 7/5 shot and the draw 25/1. Fight Minutes are priced at 25.75 - 27.25 meaning our traders think the fight will again finish at around the end of the ninth round or beginning of the tenth.

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

We also have live betting on the World Championship as Finland take on Belarus at 6.45pm.

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 with live betting on San Diego at Cincinnati today at 5.35pm and NY Yankees at NY Mets at 12.10am in the early hours of tomorrow morning.

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

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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 6/4, Conservatives 11/4, 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 8/11 favourite followed by Boris Johnson at 12/1, Theresa May at 14/1, Yvette Cooper 14/1, Phillip Hammond 20/1 and George Osborne, Michael Gove and William Hague all 25/1.

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