20.03.14 Thursday Morning

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Football

Liverpool’s stunning form, Chelsea’s blip at Villa and Man City’s possible fixture pile-up have all helped to make this an incredible Premier League title run-in. And that’s not even mentioning Arsenal.

Our traders have City as 13/10 favourites, Chelsea 15/8, Liverpool 3/1 and Arsenal, who are on the same points and games played as Brendan Rodgers’ side, 12/1 outsiders.

The Gunners can cut those odds if they can get three points in a vital clash against leaders Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in Saturday’s early kick-off. Our Supremacy quote for this one however favours the Blues at Chelsea/Arsenal 0.5 - 0.7.

There are then six 3pm kick-offs with our football spread betting Supremacy prices as follows; Liverpool/Cardiff (h) 1.4 - 1.6, Everton/Swansea 0.85 - 1.05, Hull/West Brom 0.3 - 0.5, Man City/Fulham 2.3 - 2.5, Newcastle/Palace 0.5 - 0.7 and Norwich/Sunderland 0.2 - 0.4.

At 5.30pm Manchester United face another stern test as they travel to a revitalised West Ham. We still have the Red Devils as odds-on favourites here at 8/11 for the win. The draw is 13/5 and West Ham are 7/2.

At 1.30pm on Sunday, Spurs face a Southampton side with little left to play for this season. We have Spurs at 11/10 for the win, the draw 9/4 and Saints 5/2.

The 4pm game sees Aston Villa, fresh from their big win over Chelsea, host Stoke. Villa are 11/10, the draw is 21/10 and Stoke are 10/3.

We’ll also have in-play and non-live fixed odds and spread betting on all the other English and Scottish domestic action as well as other global league matches.

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Cricket

The ICC World T20 is underway in Bangladesh with the minnows currently fighting for the right to join the seeded teams in the main part of the competition, formed of two groups of five nations.

If you want to find out more about the tournament read our blog: 10 things to expect from the 2014 ICC World T20.

England face New Zealand, Sri Lanka, South Africa and the winner of qualifying group B. So do you agree with our traders’ England World Cup Tournament specials markets? We are predicting England’s Total Tournament Runs to end up being between 660 and 680.

We will have in-depth in-play spread betting and fixed odds coverage of every game including Specials such as Multi-Wides, Multi-Sixes, Multi-Fours, Player Performance spreads (based on 1 point per run, 10 points per catch, 20 points per wicket and 25 points per stumping) and our popular Joy of Six market where we award 25 points per six scored by a named group of players in the match.

We also have long term tournament specials which will be update regularly after matches, including Total Tournament Runs, Tournament Fours, Tournament Sixes, Tournament Wides, Tournament Run Outs, Tournament Ducks, Tournament 50 Ups etc.

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

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Rugby 

We will be covering nearly 30 matches in-play across both codes this weekend, starting with Warrington v Wigan tonight (Thursday) in what is a repeat of last season’s Super League Grand Final.

Wigan were victorious that day at Old Trafford, but who will come out on top here? Our traders have the Points Supremacy Warrington/Wigan 8-11.

Our rugby league coverage takes in other Super League clashes over the coming days as well as southern hemisphere NRL.

Meanwhile our live rugby union betting will take in some important clashes across the Aviva Premiership, RaboDirect Pro12, French Top 14 and Super Rugby from Down Under. We’ll also have coverage of the Japan Sevens.
  
See all our latest rugby spread betting and rugby fixed odds betting prices here.

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Golf 

Tiger Woods was the surprise withdrawal for the Arnold Palmer Invitational – a tournament usually key to the world number 1’s preparations for the Masters, which takes place next month.

14-major winner Woods has been struggling so far this season with a back injury, which saw him fail to finish the Honda Classic and fall out of contention in the WGC-Cadillac Championship in Miami.

With doubts over Tiger's fitness Rory McIlroy currently leads the way in the betting for the Masters at 7/1.

As well as our usual in-depth range of in-play spread betting and fixed odds betting options on the Arnold Palmer, we’ll also be covering the Mississippi Classic and the Founders Cup.

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

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Tennis 

Our vastly expanded tennis service, which will see provide in-play betting on around 10,000 matches throughout 2014, this week takes in the ATP and WTA Miami.

The big tennis news this week was Andy Murray’s surprise split from coach Ivan Lendl.

Murray’s drop in form of late has been indicated in our updated long term outright fixed odds prices for the second major of the season, the French Open. Rafael Nadal is 8/11, Novak Djokovic 15/8, Stan Warwinka 16/1, Juan Martin Del Potro and Roger Federer 22/1 David Ferrer 25/1 and Murray now a distant 33/1.

Murray’s plight has also affected the Davis Cup outright fixed odds betting. Switzerland are even money favourites, France 9/4, Czech Republic 5/1, Germany 14/1, Italy 16/1 and Great Britain now 22/1.
 
See all our latest tennis spread betting and tennis fixed odds betting prices here. 

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Darts

The Premier League of Darts moves into week seven tonight (Thursday) as the tournament makes its first ever appearance in Leeds.

Peter Wright, beaten in the PDC World Championship final by Michael van Gerwen at Alexandra Palace on New Year’s Day, is unbeaten so far in the Premier League.

He’s 6/5 favourite to beat Raymond van Barneveld, who himself is 7/5. The draw is 10/3. Wright edges it on the 10-3 Leg Supremacy with a quote of 0-3.

The 10-3 Leg Supremacy prices for the evening’s other matches are; Chisnall/Whitlock 1-4, Lewis/Thornton 4-7, van Gerwen/Anderson 8-11, Taylor/Newton 9-12.

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

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Baseball

The 2014 Major League Baseball season gets underway this weekend with the L.A. Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks playing a two-game series in Sydney, Australia.

The MLB has staged season openers abroad in previous seasons, usually in Japan, but this is the first time the season opener has been staged in Australia, as the sport looks to grow its popularity in new areas.

As usual, throughout the season we will be offering a range of live and non-live baseball spread betting and baseball fixed odds prices.

We currently have our Regular Season Wins spreads available for all teams. Teams must play 160 games for bets to stand.

Dodgers lead the way on 92-94 and the Diamondbacks are further back on 80.5-82.5.

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

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Boxing

60,000 tickets have been sold and the hype is already building for Froch v Groves 2 at Wembley Stadium on Saturday, May 31st.

Froch was the controversial winner in round nine first time around after surviving an onslaught from Groves in the early rounds and with many observers feeling Groves should have been given more time to continue.

So who will prevail in the second showdown? 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 ninth round.

We also have prices on Manny Pacquiao’s rematch with Timothy Bradley on Sunday, April 13th in Las Vegas.

We have Pacquiao 8/15, Bradley 6/4 and the draw 22/1

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

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Politics

After one or two surprises from George Osborne’s Budget yesterday (Wednesday), have the fixed odds prices been affected surrounding 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 fixed odds prices.

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