Sports Betting Blog

Lewis Hamilton is now 1/3 with William Hill to win the F1 drivers championship at the second time of asking with Massa offered at 9/4. Despite no points Hills make Ferrari the marginal favourites at 5/6 to win the constructors, with McClaren at 10/11. Lewis is 6/4 to win in Japan and 9/4 to fail to win any of the final three GP’s.

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William Hill rate Spurs at 10/1 to be relegated and 16/1 to lose the next five games. That said Hills odds suggest that Ramos will stay and he is 8/13 to still be the Spurs manager on the last day of the season.

HILLS NOW MAKE CHELSEA 10/11 favourites to win the Premiership title with Man U 5/2; Arsenal and Liverpool both 6/1; Man City 50/1; Villa 50/1, Portsmouth 250/1, Hull 1500/1.
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Bookies William Hill have slashed the price of Christopher Biggins being the next presenter of Countdown from 33/1 to 1/2 following a huge run of bets for the 59 year old panto king. “Gambles such as these are rarely wrong and we would be astounded if Biggins does not get the call up. We could easily be closing the book shortly,” said Hill’s spokesman Rupert Adams. Rory Bremner is the 4/1 second favourite with Eammon Holmes a 6/1 shot. (more…)

The shock result of Hull over Arsenal has saved the bookmaking industry millions.  With all the other heavy favourites winning, it only needed Arsenal to complete many accumulators. After Arsenal went 1 up, the price for a Hull victory was matched at 599/1 on Betfair.  The correct score of 2-1 was matched at a high of 699/1.  (more…)

The adage ‘if at first you don’t succeed”.’ proved true for Raven’s Pass at Ascot this afternoon when the miler finally struck gold against his closest rivals in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot.

John Gosden’s-charge has finished behind market leaders Henrythenavigator and Tamayuz a total of three times this season, but stormed home to victory today, and in the process transposed the 2000 Guineas winner as at the head of the Breeders’ Cup mile betting. (more…)

Rainbow View was slashed to 7-4 from 3-1 for the 1000 Guineas by William Hill today after a superlative victory in the Group One Fillies? Mile. The daughter of Dynaformer has firmly cemented her place as Winter favourite for the first Fillies? Classic of the year after her victory today, and Hills also make her 9-2 (from 8-1) favourite for the Oaks.
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Bookies William Hill have cut the price of Jessie Wallace being booted out of Strictly Come Dancing from 5/1 to 11/4 and she is now the second favourite to be the first out on Saturday. “There can be little doubt who the most unpopular contestant is and punters are keen to get their claws into Kat!” said Hill’s spokesman Rupert Adams. (more…)

DESPITE GORDON BROWN’S belief that he can maintain his role as Prime Minister and that Labour can hold on to power, William Hill have opened a book on how long the Conservatives will be in power from the day of the next Election – and offer 25/1 that they will win and remain in government for over 15 years.

Hills also offer 14/1 that the Tories will govern for between 10 years 1 day and 15 years; 7/2 between 5 years 1 day and 10 years; Evens for up to five years.’The Conservatives are such hot favourites to win the next General Election that we have opened a book on how long they will remain in power once they take over’ said Hill’s spokesman Graham Sharpe.
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Horse racing 9 horse accumulator wins at William Hill.

2008 has been a red letter year for punters with William Hill as big winner after big winner has hit the jackpot with Britain’s ‘luckiest bookies!’ On Friday afternoon an internet punter scooped over £200,000 picking nine-horse accumulators!

The lucky punter ‘ a regular with Hill placed his bets across Friday’s racing at Newbury, Newmarket and Ayr, combining nine selections in doubles, trebles, four-folds, and five-folds. Despite only cheering home five of the nine, the auspicious guy still managed to scoop an incredible £203,330.71! (more…)

Real Madrid head La Liga outright betting after just two weekends of the Spanish season, priced 2.280* ahead of Barcelona posted at 2.600*. The Catalans’ odds haven’t moved much despite the fact that they are yet to win a game, but if that drought continues, then new manager, Josep Guardiola, will start to come under pressure, and we may see Barca’s title prospects diminish. Get up to 60% better La Liga betting odds for all the action in Spain this weekend exclusively at PinnacleSports.com.
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Ayr plays host to Europe’s richest sprint handicap on Saturday when the Ayr Gold Cup gets underway at 3:30pm on Saturday. There is a large field of 27 runners in what is a very open race, with five horses currently at the top of the market. Advanced and Confuchias are the current joint favourites at 8/1 with BGbet and VCbet respectively, closely followed by Hogmaneigh and Valery Borzov. Those two horses are both 9/1 at BetWithRed and VCbet respectively, with Tajneed also favoured at 10/1 with BGbet. (more…)