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Centrebet Capers CRICKET Our Indian cricket punters have been very active on the fourth Ashes Test which begins today (Thursday) and most have been eager to back the draw with heavy rain predicted at Trent Bridge. Last weekend we accepted a bet of $60,000 from Mumbai punter on the draw at 3.00. That was after another two of his compatriots had placed $USD 10,000 on the same option at 3.20 and 3.10. The money has continued to come for the draw with other significant bets including $USD 20,000 at 2.80 and another $16,000 at 2.70. The draw is currently 2.50 but as in the previous Tests there is money coming all three ways with another Indian placing $50,000 on Australia at 2.30 and an English client placing £8500 on the Aussies at the same price. Just to prove that patriotism has been thrown out the door during this series the two biggest bets for England to date, $30,000 and $10,000 (at 4.00) have come from Australians. AUSTRALIAN RULES The West Coast haven't done much recently to dispel the theory that they are no good away from home. The 64 point defeat suffered by the Eagles at Geelong on Saturday again raises question marks over them. As much as 2.50 was given in some quarters for Geelong and they were backed in to 2.15. We were trying to keep on the right side of the Cats but did take a bet of $9000 with 10½ point-start. The West Coast had a bet of $18,000 placed on them by a Victorian punter at 1.67 but it would be fair to say that they were hard to lay. All three favourites won again on Sunday and many punters would have been breathing a huge sigh of relief when Richmond came from six goals down to beat Hawthorn by 4 points. Hawthorn were 1.15 at half time in that match when they led by 31 points and one punter will be wondering where it all went wrong after placing $4000 on the Hawks. Clear cut premiership favouritism awaits the winner of the West Coast v Adelaide game and all the early money has been for the Eagles. We opened them at 1.65 and nearly $60,000 in bets has seen the price dwindle to 1.53. Melbourne are another side who have their destiny in their own hands but we cannot find anyone interested in the Demons at 1.53 to defeat Essendon on Sunday. Maybe their two freakish wins in the last two rounds have frightened punters away but Essendon's season is over and Melbourne are capable of beating any team on their day. RUGBY LEAGUE Wests Tigers supporters had plenty to cheer about last Friday night when they defeated the Bulldogs 54-2. The Tigers carried a fortune into the game to cover a spread of 7½ points and although the Bulldogs led 2-0 early, that was the end of any good news as far as the Bulldogs go, who were second favourite's to win the comp a few weeks ago. They are now out to 6.00 to even make the finals. Souths delivered a possible finals knock out blow to the Roosters and punters when they won 17-16 on Saturday night. The Roosters were backed as if the result was already known but it was Souths, the favourite side of all bookies, who prevailed. One of the season’s biggest win bets was taken on Sunday when a client plonked $40,000 on Manly to beat Cronulla at 2.60. Manly and the punter were out of business early as the Sharks ran in try after try to win 68-6. Manly have only won one of their last nine games but a win against the Warriors will be enough to get them into the finals. The money suggests that will occur as in the first two days of trading, close to $45,000 has been placed on the Sea Eagles at 1.80 while we have taken less than $300 for New Zealand. Tigers fans think they can roll the Storm in Melbourne but we are not so sure. The opening price of 2.25 for the Tigers was quickly snapped up with two bets of $5000 and the support has continued at 2.20. Ben Walker and Luke McDougall have been two of the main reasons why Souths have been winning and the Rabbitohs will have to try and beat the Cowboys on Sunday without either. It looks like the punters agree as we cannot find a taker for Souths at 2.65. RUGBY UNION A relatively even betting affair saw South Africa go the post as 1.72 favourites on Saturday night. The early money came for the visitors, with two bets over $10,000 at the 1.80 and 1.77. While the South Africans were well supported throughout the week, late Saturday afternoon the Wallaby faithful opened their wallets and all the early trends reversed. New Zealand hosts the winning South Africans in Dunedin on Saturday. The book opened with the visitors getting a 10½ point-start and 4.25 for a victory. This has been deemed to be a little heavy in favour of South Africa with the early money coming one way. We had an early bet of $15,000 at the +10½ at 1.90 followed shortly by another $10,000 at the same price. We also saw a little over $3000 at the 4.25 for South Africa, thankfully this has been offset by some support for the locals at the 1.25 and -9½ at 1.90. GOLF Tiger Woods won his fourth title at Firestone after a 17-foot birdie putt on the 16th which would inevitably give him a one shot win over Chris DiMarco. The win at the NEC Invitational was his fifth of the season and opened over a million dollar gap on the PGA money list from his nearest rival Vijay Singh. Oddly enough we laid a $12,000 wager against Singh at 2.50 and $2000 bet on Phil Mickelson at 13.00 to top the money list to a client who backed Singh to win over $150,000 to take out the NEC. Needless to say the win by Woods was a good result towards that book as he is now 1.30 favourite to take out the money list. However, the pay-off was that he was also well supported to win the NEC including two separate bets of $5,000 at his opening quote of 3.35. Wins don't come easy anymore on the PGA tour both for players and Centrebet. As mentioned Woods was a poor result and the backing of Singh is well documented. Kenny Perry was backed to win a similar amount to Woods at 34.00 and DiMarco was backed to win $60,000 at 26.00 at the completion of round one. And who were the three players chasing Woods on the final day? We’re not sure what crystal ball our golf punters are using but we’d love like to have a lend of it for this week’s lotto numbers. FORMULA ONE The only excitement to come out of the Turkish Grand Prix was the after race stoush between Mark Webber and Michael Schumacher. Webber eventually had to withdraw from the race with tyre problems but not before he had become involved in a tangle with Schumacher when he tried to overtake him even though he was a lap behind. The race itself was won by favourite Kimi Raikkonen, his fifth race of the season. It didn't really help his overall standing much as Fernando Alonso finished second which means Alonso still has a lead of 24 points in the Championship. Raikkonen qualified quickest and was backed from 1.65 into 1.57 after drawing pole position. Some of the bigger bets included €8000 (1.60) and $6000 at the same quote. Runner-up Alonso carried his share of support including two bets of €1000 at 4.75 while Juan Pablo Montoya also had a bet of €1000 placed on him to win at 6.50 and €4000 to finish on the podium at 1.55. With five races remaining it is now a two driver race for the title, Alonso is 1.15 and Raikkonen is still a faint hope at 4.50. IDOL Chris Luder remains favourite at 4.50 to win Australian Idol following this week’s shows but while there continues to be support for 'The Fifth Wiggle' there has been an interesting trend behind him. Five females are next in line and all have had backing, particularly Milly Edwards (6.00) and Natalie Zahra (8.00). Natalie has had two bets of $250 and another of $200 placed on her while Milly attracted a bet of $400 at 7.00. Rocky Loprevite was backed to win close to $15,000 last week at 13.00 and 11.00 but will have to rely on the public to get a wildcard to stay in the competition and is now a 26.00 pop. Already we have seen a huge increase in the level of betting no doubt due to the good ratings associated with judges bagging the contestants. In New Zealand Idol, Nik Carlson remains favourite but has eased out to 3.75 as we see continued support for Keshia (4.00) and Steven (4.50). We are also betting on the next elimination where Jesse O'Brien is the favourite at 3.75. ELECTIONS New Zealand National leader Don Brash has blown out to the longest price of the campaign following the release of a tax relief package. Prior to Monday’s release we had taken close to $12,000 from NZ for Brash to be the next Prime Minister at 2.55 but even though the tax cuts looked very good on paper, the money came for Helen Clark. An Australian client placed a total of $16,000 on Clark at 1.45 and that was followed by a $20,000 wager from NZ at the same price. The betting has now settled at 1.40 for Clark and 2.70 for Brash which seems a stable market as we have seen interest in both candidates at those prices. Nearly $200,000 has already been wagered on the NZ election and with still three weeks to go we can expect that total to multiply many times. There is also a general election coming up in Norway on September 12 and nearly $100,000 has been wagered on that one to date. Kjell Magne Bondevik is the current PM but he looks to be on shaky ground as his Coalition partner, Carl Hagan has said he will not support him. That has seen the Bondevick lose popularity with punters and he is on the third line of betting at 6.50. Jens Stoltenberg is now the hot favourite at 1.25 and while there has been plenty of money from Norway for him (biggest bet 60,000 NOK at 1.40) there is an Australian client who this week placed a total of $26,000 (130,000 NOK) on Stoltenberg at 1.30. Ema Solberg has plenty of support from Norway though and while she has been a drifter from 4.00 out to 5.50 this week we have taken two bets of 5000 NOK amongst the numerous numbers of bets. Until next week, good punting For
further information contact Gerard Daffy at Centrebet on 02 9206 8715 or
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