20.02.14 Thursday Morning

A fan attempts a 95-foot Putt at half time in the Basketball. But what happens next?

 



Football

After Manchester City and Arsenal were casually dismissed by Europe’s finest in midweek, can Spurs and Swansea restore some British pride in the Europa League tonight?

Tottenham travel to Dnipro in the Ukraine for a 6pm kick-off (Dnipro/Spurs Supremacy 0.1-0.3, fixed odds Dnipro 11/8, draw 21/10, Spurs 21/10) and Swansea host Napoli at 8.05pm (Napoli/Swansea (h) Supremacy 0.3-0.5, fixed odds Swansea 5/2, draw 9/4, Napoli 11/10).

The weekend’s Premier League action kicks-off with league leaders Chelsea playing Everton at the Bridge at 12.45pm. Our Supremacy price for this one is 0.95-1.15 (fixed odds Chelsea 8/15, draw 14/5, Everton 5/1).

There are then five 3pm kick-offs: Arsenal/Sunderland 1.45-1.65, Cardiff/Hull -0.1-0.1, Man City/Stoke 2.2-2.4, West Brom/Fulham 0.7-0.9 and Southampton/West Ham (h) 0.05-0.25.

The 5.30pm TV game sees out of sorts Man United host battling Crystal Palace. Will the Eagles be able to make the most of United’s dodgy home form and get on the scoresheet? We have Palace Total Goal Minutes at 36-44.

The weekend is rounded off with three top flight matches on Sunday; Liverpool/Swansea 1.75-1.95, Newcastle/Aston Villa 0.35-0.55 and Tottenham/Norwich (h) 0.35-0.55.

In the Champions League so far it’s been four wins out of four for the away sides and we have the visiting teams all as favourites for the next four matches in the last 16 next week; Dortmund/Zenit (h) 0.55-0.75, Man Utd/Olympiakos (h) 0.25-0.45, Chelsea/Galatasaray (h) 0.4-0.6 and Real Madrid/Schalke (h) 1.2-1.4.

Don’t forget about our 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

It’s less than three weeks to Cheltenham and our Antepost fixed odds prices are live with Bobs Worth leading the betting for the Gold Cup at 2/1 ahead of Silviniaco Conti at 10/3 and Cue Card at 15/2.

For the other Championship races, Hurricane Fly and The New One are 3/1 joint favourites for the Champion Hurdle, Sprinter Sacre is 4/5 favourite for the Queen Mother Champion Chase and Big Bucks is 9/4 favourite for the World Hurdle, despite losing in the Cleeve Hurdle last month.

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.

As well as fixed odds we offer a full range of horse racing spread betting markets including Card Markets covering individual races, meetings and groups of meetings on a given day.

For a reminder of how our Aggregate Card Markets work, these 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 new Card Markets including Favourites x 10 and Squared Numbers. We have added a new rule to explain these markets; rule w) on page 16 of our Sports Spread Betting Rulebook.

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

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Rugby 

After a week’s break, the Six Nations returns this weekend with the first action from Cardiff as Wales host France at 8pm on Friday.

Despite Warren Gatland’s men going down to defeat against Ireland in their last outing we still have them as slight favourites over les tricolores 2-4 on the Points Supremacy.

On Saturday it’s the early potential battle for the wooden spoon as two sides with two defeats from two so far go head to head at the Satdio Olimpico. We have the hosts as slight favourites here with the Points Supremacy 3-6.

Then at 4pm it’s England’s first game at Twickenham after matches at France and Scotland. Ireland may have recorded two wins from two so far, but our traders have Stuart Lancaster’s men as favourites here with the Supremacy England/Ireland 4-6.

We’ll also have in-play betting on domestic action across the Aviva Premiership, the Super Rugby and RaboDirect Pro12 and French Top 14.

Switching codes to Rugby League, our live betting starts tonight (Thursday) in the Super League for Wakefield/Bradford 9-12.

We’ll be in-play on further Super League matches as well as the Carnegie World Club Challenge from Down Under as Sydney Roosters play Wigan Warriors at 9am on Saturday.
  
See all our latest rugby spread betting and rugby fixed odds betting prices here.

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Golf 

The format switches to matchplay for the big names of the game as this week’s betting focuses on the WGC Accenture Matchplay in Tucson.

We’ll have spread betting 10-3 Supremacy markets and fixed odds prices on every match-up. To quickly view the prices on every pairing on one page of our desktop site each day, just click on ‘View Coupons’.

The first round match-ups began yesterday (Wednesday) and ahead of the event we had Rory McIlroy leading the betting on our Outright 100-75-50-33-20-10 spread betting Leaderboard with a spread of 20-23 (12/1 on the fixed odds).

Sergio Garcia and Matt Kuchar were available at 18-21 (22/1 and 25/1 respectively on the fixed odds), Jason Day, Jordan Spieth and Bubba Watson at 17-20 (18/1, 22/1 and 22/1 respectively) and Henrik Stenson, Hunter Mahan and Webb Simpson all 16-19 (22/1, 22/1 and 28/1 respectively).  

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

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Cricket

With England appointing Paul Collingwood into their Twenty20 team set-up will it give the side more chance of success at the T20 World Cup, which starts on 16th March?

Our traders are not convinced as we’re currently industry joint-best price for England to win the tournament at 12/1.

Elsewhere, we’ll be in-play on the South Africa v Australia 2nd Test, Bangladesh v Sri Lanka 2nd ODI and the West Indies v Ireland 2nd T20.

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

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Tennis 

We have vastly expanded our in-play tennis coverage to take in more matches than ever before.

We will now cover more live matches than previously in the top ATP and WTA events plus offer live betting on Challenger tournaments not previously covered in-play.

All in all we anticipate we will be offering in-play spread betting and fixed odds betting on around 10,000 matches over the next year.

This week’s latest live betting takes in the ATP New Delhi, ATP Marseille and WTA Dubai.

We also have long term outright fixed odds prices available for the second major of the season, the French Open. Rafael Nadal is 8/11, Novak Djokovic 9/5, Juan Martin Del Potro 18/1, Andy Murray and Australian Open champion Stanislas Wawrinka both 22/1.

In our outright fixed odds betting for the Davis Cup, Switzerland are even money favourites, France 9/4, Czech Republic 5/1, Germany 14/1 and Great Britain 18/1.  

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

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Darts

It’s week three of the Premier League of Darts tonight (Thursday) in Belfast with Phil Taylor in the unusual position of taking two drubbings in succession after losing 7-0 to Michael van Gerwen in week one and 7-3 to Adrian Lewis last week.

Our traders still have him as favourite against Peter Wright however at 8/13 for the win, with Wright 5/2 and the draw 4/1. Our 10-3 spread betting Supremacy price is Taylor/Wright 6-9.

Our 10-3 Supremacy prices for the evening’s other games are; Anderson/Thornton 1-4, van Gerwen/Chisnall 9-12, Lewis/Newton 9-12 and van Barneveld/Whitlock 10-3.

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

Or click here to find out more about darts spread betting. 

Motor Racing 

The new F1 season starts on March 16th in Melbourne with the drivers in for a real test of their skills given some fundamental changes to the performance and set up of the cars.

The new, more environmentally-friendly and less noisy turbo V6 machines are in the midst of their latest round of testing in Bahrain, which could give more of an indication of what to expect from the coming campaign.

Ahead of the testing, Sebastian Vettel was again the red-hot favourite to take the title at 13/8 to continue his dominance of the sport.

Lewis Hamilton is 7/2, Fernando Alonso 11/2, Nico Rosberg 17/2, Kimi Raikkonen 11/1 and Jenson Button 12/1.

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

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Winter Olympics

The Winter Olympics is drawing to a close after two weeks of excitement on the snow and ice.

As far as our Most Gold Medals fixed odds outright betting market is concerned, we have Norway the 5/4 favourites followed by USA at 7/2, Russia 17/2, Canada 14/1 and Germany 40/1.

USA are the favourites to get most medals in total at 2/9, with Russia 9/5, Norway 18/1, Canada 66/1 and Germany 300/1.

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

Or click here to find out more about Winter Olynmpics spread betting. 

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.

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

Ed Milliband is 8/13 favourite followed by Theresa May at 12/1, Boris Johnson 14/1, Yvette Cooper 14/1, William Hague 20/1 and Phillip Hammond 20/1.

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 current series of ITV’s Dancing on Ice.

Ray Quinn is the 1/7 favourite, Hayley Tamaddon 9/1, Beth Tweddle 14/1, Sam Attwater 28/1, Suzanne Shaw 25/1 and Kyran Bracken 40/1.

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

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