4th March 2010

AFL

Punters were no doubt impressed with the Western Bulldogs 57-point demolition of Hawthorn last week as they have been well backed to win not only this week against Port Adelaide in the NAB Cup semi final but also to take the 2010 flag.

Biggests bet taken this week has been $5000 and $2400 @ $1.36 to defeat Port along with one wager of $3500 @ $6.50 to go all the way with their 1st Premiership since 1954.

Since 1st markets were posted on the 2010 competition the Bulldogs are the most popular side (in $ terms) to take the title. Biggest bets apart from this week have been $5000 @ $7 (twice), $2500 @ $7, $2000 @ $7 (twice) and $1500 @ $7

They are responsible for 22.8% of all investments in the flag market.

Here's the breakdown as a % of total investment

Western Bulldogs        22.8   
Hawthorn        19.5   
St Kilda        14.1   
Brisbane        11.2   
Geelong 8.1    
Collingwood     7.5    
Carlton 6.8    
Adelaide        3.7    
Sydney  3.4    
Essendon        1.5    
Nth Melbourne   0.06   
Port Adelaide   0.06   
West Coast      0.06   
Fremantle       0.03   
Richmond        0.02   
Melbourne       0.01   

CRICKET

AUST V NZ

TAB Sportsbet customers are certainly relishing the last 2 tour matches of New Zealand despite the fact Australia have gone down, albeit narrowly, in both.

Turnover on Sunday's 20/20 and Wednesday's ODI were very similar once again proving the theory that a competitive match will always attract interest.

Celebrations on Wednesday started very early for one punter who invested $12500 @ $1.30 (to win $3750) that Shane Watson would score Over 12.5 runs. He in fact knocked up 14 runs in the opening over of the innings resulting in a collect and a 30% return for a 4 minute wait.

He then placed $10000 @ $1.30 on Ricky Ponting to score Over 12.5 and $13000 @ $1.36 on Cameron White to do the same.

Both resulted in easy collects with Ponting reaching 44 off 56 balls and White 33 off 49.

At this stage he was up a tidy $11,430.

After probably partaking in a quick bite to eat, or lie down, he returned to invest $17680 @ $1.50 on Brendon McCullum to score Over 12.5. The Kiwi opener was coming off an unbeaten 116 in the 20/20 match Sunday so he was in form.

McCullum casually proceeded to score 45 off 43 balls resulting in a total win of $20270 for the customer in a little over 4 hours.

Not so happy was the customer who invested $50,000 on the Aussies at different stages of the match. First bet was $20000 @ $1.15 when Watson and Haddin were scoring freely, That was follwed by bets of $10000 @ $1.45, $10000 @ $1.43 and $10000 @ $1.40 as the Aussies moved to 275 after 50 overs.

Kiwi supporters that stuck by their side would have been rewarded withn as much as $6 given about them and still being $3.30 outsiders when Tim Southee was run out leaving them still 30 runs short when Shane Bond strode to the crease.

It's all history now as Bond struck 2 boundaries in the second last over before Scott Styris drove Doug Bollinger over the mid-off fence to take the match.

Australia has been listed as $1.40 favs for Game 2 in Auckland on Saturday. New Zealand are $2.80

NRL

Wednesday afternoon saw TAB Sportsbet take a $10,000 wager on Nth Qld to win their first NRL Premiership since entering the competition back in 1995.

The bet was placed at the odds of $26 and is the first serious money placed on the Cowboys since betting was opened on the 2010 season back in December 2009.

Nth Qld last made the semi finals back in 2007 and before that in 2005, the year they made the Grand Final beaten 30-16 by Wests Tigers.

If successful the customer will collect $260,000 for his troubles.

This $10,000 wager puts the Cowboys still only 8th in the order of popularity (in $ terms) for teams to win the Premiership.

Penrith and Souths continue to attract interest with another $5000 @ $21 taken for Penrith on Monday and $1000 @ $11 for the Bunnies on Thursday.

SUPER 14

Interest in a couple of matches in Round 4.

$3000 and $1500 @ $1.90 Chiefs -16.5 v Reds Friday 
$3000 @ $1.90 Lions +22.5 v Brumbies Friday
$6000 and $3000 @ $1.90 Blues +12.5 v Crusaders Saturday
$5000 @ $1.90 Stormers -5.5 v Highlanders Sunday
$5000 @ $1.90 Hurricanes -3.5 v Cheetahs Sunday

25th February 2010

AFL

Carlton has been the biggest mover in AFL futures betting after their loss to Sydney last Friday night.

TAB Sportsbet customers were unimpressed and immediately moved on the Blues in both Wooden Spoon and Miss Final 8 markets.

Biggest bet was $20,000 @ $2.15 to Miss Final 8, which they made easily last year (although 7th) with 52 points. They are now into $1.90 for this market with all but $1500 of the total market investment on them.

In Wooden Spoon betting they trimmed from $67 into $41 after one bet was taken of $1500 @ $67.

Richmond remain the most popular side in Spoon betting with over 85% of all investments on the Tigers. Biggest bets have been $20,000 @ $3.75, $3500 @ $4.25 and $2000 @ $3.50

Geelong mature age rookie James Podsiadly has been the subject of a long priced move to take this season's Coleman Medal. Podsiadly kicked 1.1 in last week's loss the North Melbourne after a number of goals in an intraclub match the week before.

One customer has backed the Cats 2009 VFL best-and-fairest winner to win $187,500 in 4 bets totalling $350 to be AFL's leading goal scorer this year. In doing so he has firmed from $1001 - $201.

Bets have been $100 @ $1001, $100 @ $501 and $150 @ $251

Geelong line up against Richmond this Saturday in Yea

CRICKET

TAB Sportsbet customers were seen blockading Sydney Airport on Wednesday morning in an attempt to keep the West Indies from leaving the country.

Tragically for them they were once again unsuccessful after undertaking the same efforts when Pakistan departed earlier this year.

Betting against the Windies and Pakistan has been an absolute fill-up this Summer with an approximate return of over 220/1 in their 15-win unbeaten streak.

All done with a minimum of fuss and only a small amount of concern.

Australia has been listed as the $1.42 favourite for Friday's opening 20/20 match against New Zealand ($2.80).

TAB Sportsbet will introduce betting on individual over runs totals for this match. Customers will be able to choose from 0-5 runs, 6-10 runs or 11+ runs in each over of the 20/20. Betting will close on each over as the bowler approaches the stumps to deliver the 1st ball of the over. Betting will be available through all channels Phone, Agency and Internet for these markets.

NRL

Penrith have been all the rage in the last week at TAB Sportsbet in a number of 2010 futures markets.

Penrith defeated Parramatta 32-12 in the "Battle of the West' last Saturday night which triggered an avalanche of money for the Panthers.

One bet of $5000 @ $21 to win the Premiership was followed by bets of $7500 and $5000 @ $5 to finish Top-4 after 26 rounds, a position last filled by them in 2004, which was also the last time they played semi final football.

A customer thinks 2004 will be revisited by placing $10,000 @ $2.10 Penrith to make the Final 8 this year.

Souths continue to also be popular right across the board firming into $11 (from an opening quote of $17) to take the Premiership and are now the side holding the most amount of investment for that market.

Such is the general public support for the Bunnies they command a total 17% of the hold on the Premiership market but the largest bet taken on them has only been $1000. Truly a side of the people.

Most popular sides in Premiership betting are Souths, Bulldogs, Wests Tigers, St Geo Illawarra, Parramatta and Melbourne. In total these sides represent 80% of the total market investments.

Sides with little or no support are Newcastle, Warriors, Sydney Roosters and Cronulla. They command less than 4% of investments so far.

CHARITY SHIELD

TAB Sportsbet has installed Souths as the $1.75 favourites for Saturday's Charity Shield against St George Illawarra.

The Dragons are outsiders at $2.05 in what many believe is the traditional start to a NRL season.

Both teams have gone near full strength sides with Souths big name off-season signings of Dave Taylor and Sam Burgess named to start for the Bunnies along with comeback player Rhys Wesser at fullback.

St George Illawarra have also named their No 1 starting backline including 2009 Top tryscorer Brett Morris.

This will be the 27th Charity Shield with the Dragons (St George and St George Illawarra) winning 14, Souths have been successful on 9 occasions with 3 draws.

LIVE betting throughout the match.

WORLD CLUB CHALLENGE

TAB Sportsbet has today listed 2009 NRL Premiership winners Melbourne Storm as the $1.75 favourites for the upcoming 2010 World Club Challenge against Leeds Rhino's ($2.05) on Monday morning at Elland Road, Leeds.

The 2 sides met in the 2008 WCC with the Rhino's winning 11-4.

Last year they went down 28-20 to Manly in the corresponding match.

18th February 2010

ELECTION BETTING

Today TAB Sportsbet announce their customers can walk into a TAB outlet in Victoria and put their political caps on to back who they think who will not only lead the nation after the next election, due this year, or who will lead the state after the next election.

Labor supply both favourites with the status quo remaining, federally, at $1.2 and at a state level at $1.22

NSW as seen as not as good with the current Labor Government listed as the massive $4.50 outsider to control the state after the next election.

NAB CUP ROUND 1

Collingwood goes in as favourite against St Kilda Friday night and have been very popular in NAB Cup winner betting this week. Bets include $1000 @ $8.50 over the weekend and $1000 @ $8 taken Thursday

North Melbourne face defending AFL premiers Geelong but one loyal fan thinks that will not be a problem. The Roos are $31 into $21 over the past week and support includes one bet of $3000 @ $31 to go all the way in the pre season competition.

Nothing separates Sydney and Carlton in overall NAB Cup betting but the Blues will go into Saturday night's match at Blacktown as a slight favourite. Sydney, who are yet to win a NAB Cup match under coach Paul Roos have been backed from $51 to $17 to take the Cup.

Fremantle and Melbourne are basically expected to make up the numbers during season 2010 but one Dockers fan has placed $1500 @ 46 that his boys can squeeze into the final 8.

Hawthorn toyed with Richmond last week in their opening NAB Cup match and are now overall favourites at $4.50.

Biggest bet of the week has been on the Hawks to take the 2010 flag with a $5000 investment at $10. They are now $8

ODI GAME 5 Aust v W Indies

You would've thought punters are avoiding the West Indies like the plague in the current series being down 3-0 butone has stood tall by placing $10,000 on them to take Game 5 on Friday in Melbourne at the odds of $4.25

Largest bet on the Aussies so far is only $2000 @ $1.20

SUPER 14 ROUND 2

TAB Sportsbet customers certainly embraced the expanded coverage offered in round 1 with particular interest taken in the new "Next Conversion" markets.

These markets will be available for the Highlanders v Blues, Reds v Crusaders and Hurricanes v Force matches.

Only interest so far in round 2 has come for Blues in their clash with Highlanders. Bets of $4000 and $3000 (twice) @ $1.90 now sees the Blues into outright favs at $1.80 and Highlanders out to $2.

Gutsiest play of the week goes to the customer who has plonked 3 bets of $5 at $1001 on no points being scored in each of the Highlanders v Blues, Reds v Crusaders and Bulls v Brumbies matches.

Good luck to them!

Will be exciting to watch 3 matches hoping no-one scores.

NRL SEASON 2010

TAB Sportsbet released its 2010 Dally M markets midweek with 2009 winner Jarryd Hayne equal favourite with Jonathan Thurston at $11. In first markets last season Hayne was rated a $67 chance and as much as $34 when markets closed at Round 18.

Souths big off season signing Englishman Sam Burgess has been marked a $34 chance and already is the best backed player in front of Hayne.

Four (4) players sit atop the betting for leading tryscorer at $15 including last year's winner Brett Morris along with twin brother Josh, Penrith's flyer Michael Jennings and Manly's try scoring freak Brett Stewart.

Customers may also bet on the team which will supply the Dally M and Top tryscorer winners.

In finals betting Souths are all the rage with another bet this week of $6000 @ $1.65 to make the final 8 this goes with others including $3500 @ $1.70 and $4300 @ $1.65. The Bunnies are responsible for 36% of all monies invested in this market and are in from $1.80. Melbourne are also popular with bets of $10,000 and $5000 @ $1.40

Punters are also keen on the Rabbits to finish Top 4 with bets including $4000 @  $3.25

Melbourne have been well backed to take the Minor Premiership with one bet of $10,000 @ $10

11th February 2010

ODI – Aust v West Indies

Despite poor crowds and an apparent decrease in interest of 50 over Cricket TAB Sportsbet can report punters are still as keen as ever to take part in the event.

A look at the comparisons between Games 1 and 2 of the current series sees that only $100,000 separarted the holds on both matches with Game 1 being the highest hold.

This was not surprising due to the West Indies collapsing early during Game 2 with the match all but over (according to the market) after 10 overs.

Taking in the "new star" of the game 20/20 it held the same as Game 1 on Friday night when Australia squeaked home over Pakistan.

That hold may have been exaggerated by the fact Pakistan were as short as $1.05 with just on 8 overs remaining and Australia $8.50 before a couple of quick wickets saw the Aussies into favouritism. A number of larger wagers were taken on Pakistan at the short odds.

It goes to show that the longer the match remains a contest, the higher the interest and therefore the higher the turnover.

TAB Sportsbet has once again posted Australia as a $1.22 favourite for Friday's Game 3 in Sydney with West Indies $4.10

Despite a 1st ball failure in Adelaide Chris Gayle is the $3.25 to top score for the West Indies in Sydney.

At this stage money is running 10:1 in favour of Australia

ALL Stars

TAB Sportsbet customers are undecided on who win win Saturday night's inaugural All Stars match at Skilled Stadium.

NRL All Stars were posted as $1.65 favourites in first markets Wednesday with the Indigenous All Stars at $2.15 with money split evenly by Thursday afternoon.

No large bets at this stage but interest should be high come Saturday as supporters get to see their favourite players back in action and alongside upcoming foes for season 2010.

Try scoring freaks Israel Folau and Jarryd Hayne, who now comes into the starting side after the injury to Billy Slater, have been listed as $11 equal favourites in the first tryscorer market in front of a swag of players at $13 including Wendell Sailor in his farewell match.

TAB Sportsbet will offer in excess of 20 individual markets on the All Stars match with LIVE betting throughout.

Super 14

There are plenty of new bet types for the start of the Super 14 season.

Customers who like to bet during the game will have no shortage of options.

We will offer the usual head to head and line throughout the game but at half time we will open more markets.

At half time there will be: (Betting allowed over the internet until play restarts for 2^nd half markets).

2^nd half head to head

2^nd half line

2^nd half Over/Under

2^nd half line/ou double

2^nd half tri bet

2^nd half 1^st scoring play

There is also a new market called will the next try be converted – yes or no?

TAB Sportsbet will be live on all matches except those played in South Africa.

The Brumbies are Australia’s best hope of claiming the 2010 Super 14 title.

Matt Giteau returns along with the addition of Wallabies captain Rocky Elsom.

The Brumbies last won in 2004 and are $5 to repeat that effort.

One customer has had $1,000 at $17 on the Force to be the Top Australian Team in the Regular season.

The Brumbies are red hot favourites at $1.40 in that market.

The Crusaders are favourites at $3.50 to win their 4^th title in 6 years.

After missing the Final last year early money suggests plenty of confidence in 2010.

The Crusaders opened $4.50 and the first bet we wrote was $2,000 at that price.

The Waratahs are the best backed team so far at $13.

The biggest bet has been $1,000 at $13 but the money has just been constant.

After a poor season in 2009 they will be looking to make the Final as they did in 2008.

Money is strong for the Waratahs to claim the Minor Premiership at $12.

NAB Cup

West Coast will start favourite over Essendon in the opening game on Friday night.

The Bombers have been backed from $26 to $18 to win the NAB Cup.

TAB Sportsbet will be betting live on all games of the pre-season tournament.

We will also be betting on the winner of each quarter.

Of the 8 teams in action this weekend Adelaide are one of the teams expected to perform well.

We have had money for them today at $9 with a bet of $1,000.

They will be an anchor in multi’s for plenty of punters at $1.35 to beat Port.

Geelong are $5.50 favourites to win the NAB Cup as they did last year.

The Cats opened $4.50 and with the loss of Stokes we cant lay them.

Sydney Swans have firmed from $51 into $13.

They have never performed well in the NAB Cup but the money suggests otherwise.

One customer has had $500 at $51.

They will also have the adavantage of picking from basically a full list and a longer pre-season under their belt.

The Swans play Carlton in the first round in what should be a sell out in Western Sydney.

BIGGEST BETS

West Coast $1000 @ $21

Hawthorn $1000 @ $11

Sydney $500 @ $51

Collingwood/Collingwood NAB/Flag double $400 @ $143

Collingwood/Western Bulldogs NAB/Flag double $400 @ $91

Larger punters seem to avoid the NAB Cup due to the uncertainty of players and the amount of game time they may/will play.

They will however invest on matches where sides are deemed to be playing substandard squads and bet against those teams accordingly.

A-League

Sydney FC will be looking for a win over Melbourne to claim the Minor Premiership.

They are favoured to do so at $2.30. Melbourne Victory will only need a draw to finish the regular season in 1^st place.

Melbourne are $1.58 to be Minor Premiers.

Newcastle Jets opened $2.20 but a bet of $17,000 has seen them firm into $2.05.

They are hosting Adelaide who should be motivated by trying to avoid last place.

21st January 2010

Australian Open

Mens:

Tomic lost in Round 2 of the Australian Open for the 2nd year as a $5.50 outsider. Cilic was supported with $30,000 at $1.13.

Tomic was $2,001 at the start of the Open and $501 before Round 2. We took $100 at $2001 before the start of the tournament. Next year he may even push Hewitt for our top Aussie hope.

Hewitt is now our worst way in the Mens but that is no surprise. Some of our punters can be pretty patriotic. One customer placed $1,001 on Hewitt at $101. He started the tournament $67 on Monday and we have taken plenty of bets ranging up to $500 at that price.

Baghdatis is always popular and after opening $201 started the tournament $67. Now $51. He was $10 down 2 sets and a break against Ferrer. Ferrer was $1.03.

Big Bets this week

$10,000 Federer at $3.50 Open Winner $20,000 Field $1.36 v Federer $10,000 Nadal at $6 Open Winner.

$557,000 Nadal at $1.01 to beat Peter Luczak.

Womens:

Justine Henin who was forgotten by punters is now into $4.50 3rd pick. She was $7.00 before a tough win over Dementieva. Henin was $1.90 outsider in that match.

Sharapova was a shock first round loser. She was $1.18 in losing to Kirilenko and $8 to win the title.

2nd Seed Safina was $34 when we opened and $26 at the start of the tournament. With Sharapova gone her drawn opened up and she was cut to $13.

Next Game Winner

Betting on who wins the next game in the Australian Open tennis matches has been a hit this summer. It is a new product we have introduced that has captured the attention of many keen punters. Federer was $1.05 to hold his serve in Game 5 of the First Set in his Round 1 match. One customer had $14,754 on Federer to hold. He was broken and went on to lose the first set.

A-League

$17,000 Sydney FC at $2.65

$11,480 Gold Coast at $2.30 $10,850 Gold Coast at $2.30

NFL

NY Jets were the only outsiders to win last week. They were cut from $21 to $7.50 as they moved ionto the Final 4. At the start of the Playoffs the Jets were not expected to go far quoted at $41.

Early money suggest punters will be happy to see the Jets run come to an end. Indianapolis are $1.30 and hugely popular through multis.

ODI

Early money is running 2:1 in favour of the Australia cricket team. Australia $1.40 – Pak $2.80.

One customer must think the pitch may play tough early. They had $400 on No runs scored in the 1st over of both Innings at $8.

Big Bash

Victoria will start favourites in the Big Bash Twenty 20 Final. South Australia were as short as $1.75 but after a stumbling loss to NSW are $1.95.

14th January 2010

Live Betting

Serena Williams was red hot favourite at $1.11 to beat Aravane Rezai $6.00 in Sydney today.

After opening the tournament $5.00 Williams became the $3.00 favourite after Henin withdrew.

With Rezai up a set, 5-3 and 30-15 Williams was $8.00 to win the match with TAB Sportsbet.

Rezai was two points from victory and $1.05.

One customer had $500 at $8.00 on Williams.

Earlier in the week Safina was down 5-0 against Radwanska and was $4.00. She went on to win the set and the match after starting $1.65.

South Australia remained unbeaten with a win over Tasmania in the Big Bash. They were $1.60 at the start of the game but after posting a small total they were $3.60 at the break. They managed to take early wickets and go onto win the game.

Cricket:

Some punters were not happy to see Hussey make an early exit in the 1^st session.  

Various bets were placed on Under 2.5 wickets being lost in the 1^st Session of the Hobart.

$10,000 at $1.57 Under 2.5 Wickets

$10,000 at $1.50 Under 2.5 Wickets

$10,000 at $1.48 Under 2.5 Wickets

Big Bets

$20,000 Draw at $3.40.

$5,000 Draw at $3.25.

$7,000 Australia at $1.65

$2,000 Pakistan at $7.00

NFL

$26,000 NY Giants +8.5 at $1.90 v San Diego.

$3,000 Indianapolis at $3.50 to win Super Bowl.

$1,500 Dallas at $7.50 to win Super Bowl.   

7th January 2010

Sydney Test

Australia got to $11 when Pakistan were cruising at 1/50 chasing 175 runs.

That is the same price Australia reached at tea on Day 5 against India in 2008.

Michael Clarke took 3 quick wickets on that occasion to win the match.

The biggest bet on Australia was $10,000 at $5.00 on Day 3.

Pakistan were as short as $1.03 with one customer outlaying $2,000 to win $60.

One customer had $20,000 at $2.85 on the draw before a ball was bowled and the rain was tumbling down.

Australia will start even shorter in Hobart at $1.63.

The draw is longer at $3.60 and Pakistan $5.00

Henin winning will be a wipeout

Two customers are hoping Henin’s strong start to the year continues.

They have placed multi bets on various combinations of Henin winning Brisbane, Sydney and the Australian Open.

If she does win all three that will be 17 straight wins.

The two customers will collect $444,000 for an outlay of $12,800.

They took Henin in Brisbane at $4, Sydney $6 and Australian Open at $7.50.

One customer has placed $3,000 at $24 on Henin (Bris) / Henin (Syd) to collect $72,000.

$2,000 at $30 Henin (Bris) / Henin (Aus Open) to collect $60,000.

$350 at $180 Henin to win all three tournaments to collect $63,000.

Another customer placed $2,000 at $24 on Henin (Bris) / Henin (Syd) to collect $48,000.

$4,000 at $30 Henin (Bris) / Henin (Aus Open) to collect $120,000.

$450 at $180 to win all three tournaments to collect $81,000.

Another customer had $10,000 Henin to win the Australian Open at $9.

NFL  

After losing in week 13 and 14 the Dallas Cowboys slumped to $51 to win the Super Bowl.

A win over New Orleans kept their season on track in the following week and into $21.

They have scored 41 points in the final two rounds of the regular season without conceding a point.

After such convincing wins we have been forced to wind them into $9.

They are $1.42 against Philadelphia who they thrashed 24-0 last week.

New Orleans have been a surprise packet starting the season $26 to win the Super Bowl.

After winning 13 straight games Dallas started their three game losing streak heading into the Playoffs.

Indianapolis remain favourites at $4 but are another team starting to stumble.

They started the year with 14 straight wins and $13 but have lost their last two.

Both New Orleans and Indianapolis were big outsiders last week after resting players.

A-league

Wellington have been well supported to beat Brisbane.

$12,500 Wellington at $2.30 to beat Brisbane and another $5,000 at $2.30.

Sydney FC who are equal favourites to win the A-League opened outsiders against Perth. 

That price was snapped up early with a bet of $15,000 at $2.60.

6th January 2010

2nd Test - AUSTRALIA vs PAKISTAN

Australia

Opening Price - $1.65 Staring Price - $1.90

Start Day 4 - $7.50 Biggest Price - $11.00 (just before Pakistan lost their 2nd wicket today) Biggest Bet - $10,000 at $5 (Day 3 Aust 5/240)

Pakistan

Opening Price - $5.50 Starting Price - $5.00

Start Day 4 - $1.08 Biggest Price - $6.50 (Before a ball was bowled) Shortest Price - $1.03 (2nd session today) Biggest Bet - $30,000 at $1.60 (Today just after lunch)

Draw

We held $17,000 on the draw today. The draw was into $11 when Hussey and Siddle were at the crease. Opening Price - $3.50 Starting Price - $2.85

Start Day 4 - $34 Shortest Price - $2.25 (before a bowl was bowled at lunch) Biggest Bet - $20,000 at $2.85. 11.30am Sunday.

Hold

Exceeded $1 million on the result and the biggest holding Test of the summer.

Unlucky

Spare a thought for the customer who had $2,000 at $1.03 Pakistan to win $60.

17th December 2009

Cricket

Australia were the rage before the 3^rd Test with the biggest wager $45,000 at $1.38.

Australia returned to their starting price after declaring at 520.

We took one bet of $36,000 at $1.36.

Brisbane International and Hopman Cup Multi

$160 @ $65 Clijsters (Brisbane) / Kazakhstan (Hopman)

$80 @ $130 Henin (Brisbane) / Kazakhstan (Hopman)

Clijisters and Henin dominate the betting with Ivanovic $8 the best of the other chances in Brisbane.

Kazakhstan are $26 to win the Hopman Cup.

Big Bet of the Week

One customer outlaid $167,000 at $1.03 on Cleveland to beat New Jersey Nets.

Cleveland were never headed and held them at bay for the entire game.

Le Bron James top scored with 23 points to lead his team to a 10 point win.

NFL

One customer expects Pittsburgh to turnaround a form slump against the Green Bay Packers.

Pittsburgh lost 13-6 to struggling Cleveland last week to make it 5 losses on the trot.

$30,000 Baltimore -9.5 @ $1.85 v Chicago

$5,000 Baltimore -9.5 @ $1.85 v Chicago

$18,000 Pittsburgh -1.5 @ $2.00 v Green Bay

$17,000 Cincinnati +7.5 @ $1.90 v San Diego

$16,000 Denver -11.5 @ $1.90 v Oakland

$15,000 Washington @ $2.35 v NY Giants

A-League

Sydney FC have firmed from $3.65 into $2.85 to win the A-League Grand Final after beating Wellington.

Melbourne also firmed to $2.15 after winning 3-0 over Central Coast.

Gold Coast were the big drifters going to $6.50 from $4 after losing to Newcastle.

10th December 2009

Green Bay Packers looking for 5 straight

Punters came from everywhere when betting opened on the NFL Round for this weekend.

Green Bay who have won their last 4 were the centre of attention with a string of bets at the line.

The Packers travel to Chicago to meet the Bears on Monday morning.

The teams last met in Week 1 with Green Bay winning 21-15.

$27.5k Green Bay -2.5 @ $1.90 v Chicago  

$6k Green Bay -2.5 @ $1.90 v Chicago

$5k Green Bay -2.5 @ $1.90 v Chicago

$7k Green Bay -2.5 @ $1.75 v Chicago

$22k Houston @ $1.45 v Houston

$20k Dallas -2.5 @ $1.95 v San Diego

$17k Minnesota -5.5 @ $1.85 v Cincinnati

$15k New England -12.5 @ $1.90 v Carolina

Australia v West Indies

The improved performance of the West Indies in the 2^nd Test wasn’t a surprise to one punter.

After they won the toss and elected to bat we received a bet of $10,000 at $13 on the West Indies.

Australia were still $4 to chase down the target at the start of the 4^th Innings with the Windies $5.

On Day 5 we took over $500,000 on the draw. The longest price of the draw on Day 5 was $1.60.

3^rd Test – Perth

Australia - $1.36

Draw - $5.00

West Indies - $7.00

Boxing Day Test

Australia $1.58

Draw $3.25

Pakistan $6.50

World Cup

After drawing Germany, Serbia and Ghana in Group D the Socceroos have gone from $41 to $67 to win the World Cup.

Australia are $2.85 to Qualify for the Round of 16 and set up a potential clash with England.

Their best chance of a win will be when they play Ghana.

If Australia can manage a draw against Group D favourites Germany they are every chance to Qualify for the Final 16.  

Australia are $7.50 to not even score a goal in the tournament.

Game 1:

Germany $1.55

Draw $3.55

Australia $6.50

Multi Betting Heart Break

One customer outlaid $68 across two multi bets with a potential collect of $34,349 looking likely.

After correctly selecting six winners in the UEFA Champions League the only leg remaining was AZ Alkmaar.

AZ Alkmaar started $3.75 outsiders against Standard Liege and leading 1-0 and well into injury time this punter looked set to collect over $34,000.

With seconds remaining Standard Liege goalkeeper found himself at the other end of the field to head in a remarkable goal.

With the score ending 1-1 one TAB Sportsbet customer is still thinking what might have been.  

6 Leg Multi:

Wolfsburg v Man United -     Man United  3.20 (WON)

Maccabi Haifa v Bordeaux -  Bordeaux 2.85 (WON)

Juventus v Bayern Munich - Bayern Munich 3.00 (WON)

Besiktas v CSKA Moscow - CSKA Moscow 2.45 (WON)

Atletico Madrid v FC Porto – FC Porto 4.50 (WON)

Standard Liege v AZ Alkmaar - AZ Alkmaar 3.85 (LOST)

Bet - $20

Odds - $1,161

Collect - $23,226

5 Leg Multi:

Wolfsburg v Man United -     Man United  3.20 (WON)

Juventus v Bayern Munich -  Bayern Munich 3.00 (WON)

Maccabi Haifa v Bordeaux -  Bordeaux 2.85 (WON)

Marseille v Real Madrid -      Real Madrid $2.20 (WON)

Standard Liege v AZ Alkmaar - AZ Alkmaar 3.85 (LOST)

Bet -$48

Odds - $231

Collect - $11,123

3rd December 2009

IBO CRUISERWEIGHT TITLE FIGHT

TAB Sportsbet customers certainly relished last night's fight with over $1.25m invested.
Those still celebrating were the ones who availed themselves of the $67 about Danny Green scoring a first round knockout.

Six (6) separate bets were taken of $100 @ $67 and another of $150 @ $67
Some customers were also lucky enough to secure $41 about a first round knockout during the round. Nice work considering it only lasted 122 seconds.

Largest bet taken yesterday on Danny Green was $5000 @ $3.25 with bets of $1500 and $1000 @ $5 taken on him winning the fight by KO/TKO.

Follwing a steady stream of money for Roy Jones Jnr, which saw him firm from as much as $1.40 into $1.30 Green fans backed him from $3.50 into $3 by the time the bout had started.

Losing bets on Jones Jnr included $30,000 @ $1.33 (3 times) and $15,000 @ $2.35 to win by decision.
2 customers may have had a long wait to collect but I'm sure are still celebrating after Green was the final leg of a Multi.

The bets were $1,000 @ $13.20 and Included Melbourne to win NRL Grand Final, Geelong -8.5 in AFL Grand Final all into Danny Green winning.

A LEAGUE ROUND 17
Sunday sees Perth and Brisbane doing battle with strong support for the home side.
One bet of $11,000 @ $2.40 was recorded for the Glory and they remain at that quote.
One bet of $10,000 @ $1.95 was taken for the Under 2.5 goals option

NFL
NY Jets are the best backed team of the round.
Buffalo snapped a 3 game losing streak with a win last round but are friendless this week.
19k NY Jets @ $1.67 to beat Buffalo
8k  NY Jets @ $1.67 to beat Buffalo
7kNY Jets @ $1.67
15k NY Jets -1.5 @ $1.85
11k NY Jets -1.5 @ $1.85
Live betting available from 12.20pm EST Friday.

Cricket
Australia are the multi anchor of the weekend for punters at $1.20.
After a crushing win inside 3 days anything but an Australian win hasn’t been given a second thought.
“One customer had $7,000 at $13 on the West Indies in the first Test but hasn’t been sighted since.”
Australia have only lost once in their last 11 Test matches at Adelaide.
Currently money is running Australia 65%, Draw 15%, Windies 20%
Mitch Johnson and Ricky Ponting are expected to perform and are both $8 favourites for the man of the match.
Ponting loves Adelaide Oval where he averages 62 runs.
Ponting to score over 48.5 in the 1^st Innings at $1.90 has attracted early interest.

26th November 2009

NFL

It's Thanksgiving in the States and TAB Sportsbet customers are giving thanks (so theysay) for the odds posted in Week 12 if the interest levels are any indication.

In the early hours of Friday morning Detroit (2-8) host the Green Bay Packers (6-4) in an all NFC North clash with early shoppers keen to be on the Cheeseheads. Bets of $23,000 and $8,700 @ $1.18 were followed by attacking the -9.5 point line with $15,000 @ $1.90 and $12,500 @ $1.80

Later on TAB Sportsbet will bet LIVE on both the Dallas (7-3) v Oakland (3-7) @ 8.15am followed by Denver v NY Giants @ 12.20pm. Both sides are 6-4 this season. LIVE betting, as usual, will be on Result, Line and Points Over/Under and bets must be placed via phone on 133390 or in agencies.

Only interest in the Dallas/Oakland match is $10,000 @ $1.85 Dallas -11.5 while the Giants are all the rage over Denver.

Bets include $15000, $12000 and $10000 @ $1.36 with the -6.5 line proving too good to refuse with $10000 and $5000 twice @ $1.95

St Louis meet Seattle for the second time this season with the Rams after a better result than in Week 1 after being shut out 28-0. Punters think the result will be the same with bets of $15000 @ $1.65 on Seattle along with $29,000 @ $1.85 on the -2.5 point line.

Plenty of other big betting matches such as $22,000 @ $1.90 on San Diego -11.5 v Kansas City, $12000 and $10000 @ 41.65 on NYJets v Carolina plus $23,000 @ $1.85 on the -2.5

2 outsiders have attracted early money with both Houston (v Indianapolis) and New England (v New Orleans) popular.

Houston have had $10,000 @ $2.70 along with $22000 and $10000 @ $1.90 on the +4.5 point line.

Monday Night Football pits the so far undefeated New Orleans against AFC East leaders New England who look to stretch the MNF record to seven in a row. New England are rated a chance by one bet of $10,000 @ $2.20.

One customer wants points to be scored with a bet already of $12,500 @ $1.80 on there being Over 53.5

IBO CRUISERWEIGHT TITLE FIGHT

Sydney is the place to be next Wednesday night when Roy Jones Jnr and Danny Green step into the ring at Acer Arena for the IBO Cruiserweight Title fight.

Money is running 9:1 in favour of Jones with the Green Machine supporters silent at this stage.

Bets on the American include $5000 @ $1.40 (5 times), $4000 (twice), $3000, $2900, $2400 and $2000 (twice) all at $1.38

Most popular option in the Method of Result is Jones by KO/TKO despite the fact Danny Green is yet to taste defeat by that method.

CRICKET

Australia won the toss and elected to bat in the 1st test which signalled a long spell in the field for the visiting West Indies team.

After Shane Watson shouldered arms early to be out LBW (much to the delight of punters who took the $6 about that being the method of 1st dismissal) the Australians went along to be 1/114 at lunch

One punter keen to see wickets was that one who placed $10000 @ $1.85 and $10000 @ $1.75 on Australia score Under 470.5 runs in their 1st innings. He would not have been happy to see the Windies drop a number of decent chances during the 2nd session. That all turned around during the last session when Australia were 5/290

Michael Hussey was dropped on 34 with a customer celebrating that big time. They had $16,000 @ $1.65 that Hussey would score Over 39.5 runs

TAB Sportsbet punters who backed Michael Clarke to score Over 40.5 runs squeaked home by the barest possible margin when he was dismissed for 41 runs late on day 1 of the 1st test.

One bet of $10,000 @ $1.70 saluted as did ones of $3000 @ $1.75 and $1.60

16th November 2009

NFL Week 10 - Indianapolis v New England

One customer is still in shock after investing $10,000 on New England at $1.01, only to see them lose in the final minute.

Live betting with TAB Sportsbet saw Indianapolis drift to $13 as they trailed 34-28 in the final stages.

Indianapolis were behind for most of the game but managed a remarkable comeback.

New England looked unbeatable; with two other bets of $2,000 placed at $1.01.

Indianapolis started the game $1.70 favourites.

12th November 2009

AUSTRALIAN MASTERS

TAB Sportsbet has slashed the price of Tiger Woods winning the 2009 Australian Masters after the world number 1 opened with a 6-under 66 today.

Woods started the day as a $2.50 favourite and attracted one wager of $50,000 @ $2.30 after he had birdied 2 of his opening 5 holes (12th & 14th).

His price really tumbled in as he attacked the front nine (his back nine) recording 5 birdies in the first 8 holes and in fact touched as short as $1.50 before drifting to $1.60 after his only bogey of the day on the Par 4 9th.

Other bets on Tiger today included $10,000 @ $2.15, $5,000 @ $2.10 and $12,000 @ $1.60

One customer will be happy at this stage after investing $20,000 on Tiger @ $2.60 on Tuesday.

On the other side of the fence, at this stage, are those who bet against a Tiger victory in the Tiger v The Field market. Bets of $30,000 and $16,000 @ $1.50 have been taken on The Field option.

Tiger's price will be determined by the efforts of the afternoon players.

One TAB Sportsbet customer is ruing the late charge by Tiger Woods in his opening 6-under 66 today.

The customer had placed 10 separate wagers on individual hole-by-scores and sat at an incredible 7 for 7 strike rate as Tiger strode to the Par 4 4th hole.

Winning bets included

$10,000 @ $1.73 for Par on 10th
$8,000 @ $1.90 for Birdie on 12th
$10,000 @ $1.75 for Par on 13th
$10,000 @ $1.50 for Par on 2nd
$7,500 @ $1.57 for Par on 2nd
$10,000 @ $1.50 for Par on 3rd
$8,300 @ $1.60 for Par on 3rd

His wager on the 4th was $10,000 @ $1.47 that Woods would score par but his perfect record came unstuck as Woods birdied the hole to move to 4-under.

Woods birdie was one of only 7 scored by the first 84 players to play it today with it averaging 4.21 mid afternoon. He was $3.90 to achieve birdie.

The customer redeemed himself by investing $10,000 @ $1.50 on a Par for the 5th but again came unstuck with a $8,300 bet @ $1.73 for Par on the 7th.

Tiger again scored birdie to move to 6-under for the day with him again defying the averages with only 11 birdies scored from the opening 72 players. He was $3.75 for birdie here.

TAB Sportsbet will be offering a price on Tiger's score for each individual hole throughout the tournament.

Customers will have the chance to take $2 about Tiger scoring birdie on the 1st hole tomorrow with a TAB Sportsbet special offer.

Just be in a TAB outlet between 11.30 and 12.30 tomorrow and listen for the release on SKY Racing.

TAB Sportsbet has opened the Round 2 market for the 3-ball of Tiger Woods, Craig Parry and Rod Pampling due to tee-off at 12.20pm Friday.

Tiger Woods is $1.50, Pampling $3.75 and Parry the outsider at $5.75

In today's 1st round Tiger shot 66,  Parry 70 and Pampling 71.

When betting on a 3-ball the player to shoot the lowest score in the group wins. If players shoot the same score dead heat rules apply.

TAB Sportsbet is offering markets on Tiger's individual hole scores with LIVE betting on the Winner and Tiger v Field markets.

NFL REPORT WEEK 10

Best backed sides this weekend

$25,000 @ $1.90 on New England +3.5 v Indianapolis
$22,000 @ $1.90 on Oakland v Kansas City
$20,000 @ $1.85 on St Louis +14.5 v New Orleans
$20,000 @ $1.85 on Baltimore -9.5 v Cleveland
$20,000 @ $1.85 on Pittsburgh -6.5 v Cincinnati