Re: Apparently there's a football tournament in Russia
301Ha. 1-0. More or less guaranteed once I’d opened my big cake hole.
Exactly. Bookmakers respond to where the money is being laid. If people bet on France their odds will shorten. Why people place money varies. Professional gamblers try to find a value bet. However on big events people tend to vote on sentiment. Hence England always being amongst the favourites to win tournaments notwithstanding only ever winning one tournament, at home, over fifty years ago.pembsexile wrote:There is some serious madness going on in the betting world for this World Cup. I think the professional punters will have a field day with the semi's.
France are the favourites over Belgium, 6/4 against 2/1. Really? England are favourites over Croatia as well, 13/10 against 5/2.
What I don't understand is that before the quarters with 8 teams left England were joint second favourites beside France and behind Brazil. Now we are in the semi's, with Brazil gone England are still second favourites behind France now. How do they work that one out? All I can think is that they are responding to the serious money which is going on France.
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