19th January 2012

DOUBLE - $4,000 at $68 to win $272,000

Roger Federer / Caroline Wozniacki to both win Australian Open

BIG BETS

$12,000 at $1.83 Central Coast v Adelaide (A-League)

$5,000 at $21 Western Bulldogs (to make the Grand Final)

NRL TOP 8

It is the most open season on record – the Tigers are the shortest team to make the finals at $1.40.

$10,000 at $1.60 Newcastle (Top 8) NRL

$9,500 at $1.65 Bulldogs (Top 8) NRL

BACKING TOMIC IN THE RUN

BERNARD TOMIC is fast becoming a great betting proposition during his matches.

He started $1.60 against Fernando Verdasco but got to $8 after trailing by two sets.

Again a warm favourite ($1.33) against Sam Querry was $2.40 after dropping the opening set.

Australia’s top-ranked male will once again start favourite ($1.68) in his round 3 match against Alexandr Dolgopolov ($2.20).

Punters will be watching him closely and be set to pounce if he drops the first set.  

AUSTRALIAN OPEN - TOMIC

$51>$41 – WON Kooyong Final (14 January)

$41>$34 – BEAT Fernando Verdasco (16 January)

$34>$26 – BEAT Sam Querry (18 January)

Opened $51 on 13 September 2011

$1,000 at $41 after he won the final at Kooyong.

There are literally hundreds of bets between $50 and $100.

Bernard Tomic is already commanding the same level of interest that Lleyton Hewitt had when he made the final in 2005.

ACADEMY AWARDS

George Clooney has firmed from $1.65 to $1.50 for best actor (The Descendants) after his Golden Globe award. “The buzz surrounding Clooney in Hollywood is gaining momentum on a daily basis – he looks very hard to beat.”

Meryl Streep is also $1.90 to $1.70 for her work in Iron Lady. “Streep is popular but we are happy to risk her as the competition does look stronger amongst the women.”

NFL – CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS

$1.65 San Francisco

$2.15 New York Giants

$1.28 New England

$3.50 Baltimore

THE Divisional playoffs last week produced two stunning upsets with Green Bay and New Orleans both beaten.

The Packers, who were favourite ($3.00) to win the Superbowl, were upset by the New York Giants.

One customer is hoping for another big upset this weekend. They have $1000 at $26 and $3000 at $17 on Baltimore Ravens. They will collect $77,000 if the Ravens win the Superbowl.

FOURTH TEST

$1.75 Australia

$3.50 Draw

$4.50 India

The early betting trend doesn’t surprise. 95% of the money has been for Australia.

Aussies for $26 to clean sweep the series.

The draw has been kept safe on a deck that is expected to favour batsmen.

TENDULKAR 100^TH CENTURY

$3.50 Adelaide

$1.28 Not this series

Despite failing to score a ton this series punters keep lining up to see Tendulkar’s 100^th International century.

He is $4 into $3.50 to score a century in the Adelaide Test. The toss in Adealide will be critical and if India bat first you could see them piling on some runs.

12th January 2012

GOLD COAST CENTRE OF A-LEAGUE PLUNGE

TAB Sportsbet customers are banking on Wellington’s poor away record this weekend when they meet Gold Coast.

Gold Coast have firmed from $2.10 to $1.95 with $15,000 at $2.10 and $4,000 at the same price.

BROICH BACK!!

Brisbane Roar have firmed from $1.75 to $1.65 to win the clash. The biggest bet has been $18,000 at $1.75 which was followed by $8,000 at the same price.

TAB Sportsbet punters are very forgiving of Brisbane Roar and this week is no different.

In other betting this round Central Coast Mariners have been backed from $1.60 to $1.50 to account for Newcastle.

AUSSIE OPEN – WOMEN’S A LOTTERY

Sam Stosur has drifted from $7 to $16 after losing in the second round of Brisbane and first round of Sydney.  

Petra Kvitova is hard to fault and the logical favourite. Serena Williams has gone from $2.75 to $4.50 since withdrawing from Brisbane last week.

ALL EYES ON TOMIC  

Bernard Tomic is $41 to win the Australian Open and the fifth most popular player in betting.

Novak Djokovic accounts for 70% of all bets on the Men’s winner – he has been a massive plunge. Punters are not willing to risk backing Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal with question marks over their fitness. Murray found form winning in Brisbane but has failed to win a Grand Slam.

Djokovic money trail:

$27,000 at $2.50  (1 Nov)

$25,000 at $2.50  (12 Oct)

$20,000 at $2.75 (17 Nov)

$10,000 at $2.80 (31 Dec)

We did take $5,000 on Nadal at $7 in the past week, he has since drifted to $7.50.

Double – $2,000 at $19 Djokovic / Clijsters

Double - $375 at $660 Tomic / Stosur

AUSTRALIA TO WRAP UP SERIES IN PERTH

70% of all money on the result market has been for the Aussies. If the money is correct they will wrap up the Test series which was $2.25 before the first Test.

Some of the bigger wagers include $10,000 at $1.70 and $7,000 at $1.70 but there is no shortage of four-figure bets.

Given the venue, the draw is long-odds at $5 with very little interest. “Everybody is expecting a result and we can’t lure any punters in on the draw.”

There is no money to indicate Michael Clarke will replicate his form from Sydney. He is $7 to have the highest innings of the match but punters are reluctant to have any part. Michael Hussey is the best backed in that market at $11.00.

RYAN HARRIS is expected to have immediate impact when he returns to the Australian team. He is $5.00 equal favourite with Ben Hilfenhaus to take the most wickets in the match.

Result

Australia $1.70

Draw       $5.00

India        $3.50

PUNTERS TIP TENDULKAR TO WAIT FOR RECORD

Punters are taking the value and backing Sachin Tendulkar to make his 100^th International century in Adelaide.

They expect him to fall short of the milestone at the WACA but hit-back on a batting friendly Adelaide deck.

Tendulkar 100^th century

Perth             $3.50

Adelaide         $5.00

Not this series $1.65

RAVENS ALL THE RAGE

Baltimore has been the best backed team for this weekend’s Divisional Playoffs.

Moments after opening we took a bet of $75,000 at $1.33 followed by another bet of $16,000 at the same price.

One customer even placed a multi - $50,000 at $2.92 on the Sydney Sixers (to beat Adelaide Strikers) into Baltimore. The Sixers won their Big Bash clash on Tuesday night and that now leaves the Ravens to win for a collect of $146,000.  

However, statistics are not on Baltimore’s side; they have lost both playoff games they have hosted in the last nine years.

In both of those losses they started favourite.

Baltimore bets:

$75,000 at $1.33

$14,000 at $1.33

Head to Head - Monday 5am

Balimore $1.25

Houston $3.75

6th January 2012

NEW AUSTRALIAN OPEN FAVOURITE

Petra Kvitova has reopened as the new favourite to win the Australian Open at $4.25.

In a huge rise to fame, Kvitova was $251 this time last year to win the Aussie Open.

“In 2011 she won Wimbledon and made her mark as one of the top players on the WTA Tour.”

Serena Williams was the clear favourite for the 2012 title at $2.75 but has drifted to $4.50 after pulling out of Brisbane.

Sam Stosur has only drifted slightly after her shock loss (she was $1.08) on Wednesday. She lost to Iveta Benesova who is rated $1,001 to win the Aussie Open.

BIG BASH

HEAD TO HEAD

Hurricanes $1.60

Heat          $2.30

BETS:

$15,000 at $1.65

$30,000 at $1.60

The Hurricanes are yet to taste defeat after four matches of the Big Bash and are considered a lock by punters.

They have been heavily backed to beat the Heat who are yet to register a win.

“It wouldn’t surprise if the Heat cause an upset, anything can happen in this form of the game.”

A-LEAGUE

One punter clearly isn’t concerned about Brisbane’s lack of form. They placed $20,000 at $2.25 on the Roar to beat Adelaide United as soon as betting opened.

The Roar drifted from $3.50 to $3.65 to win the A-League Grand Final after drawing to Perth.

Central Coast, also backed with $15,000 at $2.45 to beat Sydney, are now clear favourite for the title at $3.

TEST - $50,000 on Australia at $2.20 pre-game.

Clarke and Ponting both paid $6.50 to make a 1^st innings century, while Hussey was $7.

The run chase sets the stage for Tendulkar to make his 100^th International century – he will start his innings $4 to do so.

TEST SERIES

Before 1^st Test

Australia         $2.20

Drawn Series  $3.75

India              $2.60

Clean Sweep

Australia were $26 to win the Test series 4-0 with little support. After winning the 1^st Test in Melbourne they firmed to $9 and will half their quote with a win in Sydney.

15th December 2011

GOLF

One TAB Sportsbet customer is certainly riding on the coat-tails of Greg Chalmers and his current purple patch of form.

The Australian Open & PGA champion was the last leg of a 14-leg Multi this afternoon and all he had to do was shoot a lower 1st round score than his playing partners Robert Allenby and Matteo Manassero.

Of course his previous 13 legs all had to be successful as well but he accomplished that feat by combining 10 US College Basketball games and 3 NHL matches with prices ranging from $1.30 to $3.25

Chalmers was a $2.60 chance to win his group with Allenby favourite at $2.60 and Manassero $3.25.

He duly completed his part by shooting an opening round of 2-under (69) while Allenby shot +2 (73) and Manassero +5 (76)

The bet was $5 at the odds of $2,994.28 returning a tidy sum of $14,971.40

1st December 2011

BOXING

TAB Sportsbet customers were certainly on the mark in last night's WBC Crusierweight title fight when they backed Krzysztof Wlodarczyk to take the bout.

The Polish fighter was backed from a $2.25 outsider to start the bout as the $1.70 favourite.

"It was a good 'go' and our customers were vindicated with their faith in the Pole," said TAB Sportsbet Glenn Munsie. "He came here with an impressive 45 wins (32 by KO) and took on one of our best in Danny Green, a man who had only been knocked out once in a 35 fight career."

Money had run steadily in favour of the visitor and was at at 2:1 ratio throughout the day forcing him into being the favourite. This had changed after the first 10 rounds with him looking in trouble and was more than likely behind on points as they entered the 11th round.

In Live betting Green was a $1.12 chance at the start of the 11th round with Wlodarcyzk out to $5 as Green looked to hang on and get the title on a decision.

This was to be the last round as Wlodarcyzk ended it all by knocking Green down with a right cross that could also signal Green's last appearance.

A KO win by Wlodarcyzk also ran the favoured option having firmed from as much as $3.15 to start the bout at $2.10

RBA DECISION

Mortgage holders throughout Australia will be cheering if TAB Sportsbet's RBA Interest Rate Decision market for next Tuesday (Dec 6th) is proven correct.

The current (and very well backed) favourite is that Interest Rates will Decrease by 0.25%

This option opened at $3 back on Nov 8th when first markets were posted and has steadily firmed to be now the dominant $1.65 favourite.

A Decrease by 0.25% is now responsible for 50% of all monies invested.

Just on $55,000 has been invested on the outcome of the RBA in what has proven to be a very popular form of betting with TAB Sportsbet customers.

"We have now covered the last 4 or 5 RBA decisons and the interest has increased dramatically each month. Not only that but they have been proven correct on most of them so it augurs well for everyone." said TAB Sportsbet's Media Manager Glenn Munsie.

'There are not many people in the country that are not affected by these decisions and as in all betting markets you can get a very good feel as to what is happpening by just following the market moves."

"It's never going to be a market that attracts huge individual bets but those in the range of $500 - $3,000 have been commonplace."

"When you consider we can only offer this market to our NSW customers the level of activity is huge."

The second most popular option is No Change with 40% of the total investment. Bets taken today include $2,000 & $,1500 @ $2.60

Savvy financial news followers have been able to secure amazing odds about all options in the market since it opened on Nov 8

23rd November 2011

A-LEAGUE
 

Season 2011/12 of the Hyundai A League is setting new records at TAB Sportsbet as customers embrace the competition like never before.

Fox Sports show each match LIVE and with that opportunity turnover on the 2011/12 season is up 80% on 2010/11.

After Round 7, TAB Sportsbet had written a total of 110,198 single bets, a staggering increase of 90% on the same rounds last year.

Multi bets, incorporating A League options, are also up an amazing 125% to a total of 65,769 so far this season.

Larger bets are also becoming more commonplace with customer confidence high in that regard.

Round 8 is no different with a couple of matches attracting attention.

Below is a list of the larger bets placed so far this week.

Central Coast v Melbourne Heart

$7,500 @ $1.92 on Central Coast v Melb Heart

$5,000 @ $1.87 on Central Coast v Melb Heart

$5,000 @ $1.80 on Central Coast v Melb Heart

$3,400 @ $1.87 on Central Coast v Melb Heart

$3,000 @ $1.87 on Central Coast v Melb Heart

$3,000 @ $1.87 on Central Coast v Melb Heart

$10,000 @ $1.90 on Under 2.5 goals C Coast v M Heart

Brisbane Roar v Perth Glory

$13,000 @ $2.73 on Perth Glory or Draw

$10,000 @ $2.50 on Perth Glory or Draw

$4,500 @ $2.65 on Perth Glory or Draw

$2,500 @ $2.50 on Perth Glory or Draw

Brisbane Roar sits atop the table after 7 rounds with one punter keen on them to go back-to-back in 2011/12.

They placed $20,000 @ $5.00 on Brisbane after Round 1 this year.

13th October 2011

Big Bets

$35,000 at $2.80 Texas (World Series winner)

$25,000 at $2.50 Novak Djokovic (Aussie Open)

$20,000 at $5 Brisbane Roar (A-League winner)

$11,000 at $23 France (RWC winner)

Roar all the rage in A-League

One person liked the look of the Brisbane Roar in winning their first round match against the Mariners.

First thing on Monday morning they placed $20,000 at $5 to win the Grand Final. That was enough to bring them into equal favourite with Melbourne Victory at $4.50.

The Roar were $6.50 before winning round 1. The Jets have firmed from $13 to $10 after winning a high-scoring game against the Heart.

Gold Coast might surprise at odds this week when they play the Central Coast - $3,000 at $4.75. $4,000 at $2.05 on Gold Coast or the draw.

Kangaroos to send Lockyer out a winner in Australia

Australia are a short-priced favourite ($1.28) to beat New Zealand on Sunday in Newcastle.

One customer thinks NZ’s defence will hold Australian tryless - $100 @ $101 (No Australia Try)

Punters warm to Wallabies

There has been little support for the Wallabies since they were shock losers to Ireland early in the tournament.  

However, punters are looking past their poor record at Eden Park and backing them to make the final.

They opened $2.90 and are into $2.80, while New Zealand have drifted from $1.38 to $1.43.

It is not tipped to be easy for the Wallabies, with punters preferring to take them by the winning margin of 1-12 at $3.60.

Not the semi final punters expected

France ($2.85) and Wales ($2.05) both caused upsets last week to progress through to the final four teams.

France were at their biggest price ($23) to win the Rugby World Cup before kick off against England. One customer showed plenty of courage after placing $11,000 at $23 to collect $253,000.

Wales were as much as $126 to win the tournament with one bet of $200 at $101.

MLB

$35,000 at $2.80 on Texas Rangers to win World Series before game 4 against Detroit. They held a 2-1 lead when the bet was placed.

Another customer secured had $800 at $17 (opening odds) to collect $13,600.

In the National League, Milwaukee are playing St Louis.  

Aussie Open

$25,000 at $2.50 on Novak Djokovic to go back-to-back and win the 2012 Australian Open. He was $8 to win the 2011 Aussie Open.

Djokovic has only lost three matches in 2011, but two of those he retired injured. The fact he is prone to retire is obviously not a concern for this punter.

The world number one, dominated the major events this year – winning the Australian Open, Wimbledon and US Open.

Moto GP

Casey Stoner is the short-priced ($1.30) favourite to claim his fifth-straight Phillip Island title.

If he can win, he will need Jorge Lorenzo to finish outside the top 3 to claim the Championship.  Lorenzo is $1.18 to finish in the top 3.

There is also a (Stoner out) market with Pedrosa the favourite at $1.85 from $Lorenzo $1.95.  

Dawson ($1.70) favourite to beat Hopkins ($2.05)

Chad Dawson is expected to beat Bernard Hopkins by decision when they this weekend.

Even though Hopkins is 46-years-old, this looks like going the distance.

Dawson by decision is $2.10, while Hopkins is $2.60.

3rd October 2011

NRL

Manly have opened the $7 favourite for the 2012 NRL Premiership.

The first bet taken on the market was $10 on the 2011 Premiers.

The Sea Eagles started the Grand Final well backed at $1.47 with NZ Warriors $2.75.

Big Bets

$100,000 at $1.55 Manly

$50,000 @ $1.50 Manly

$50,000 @ $1.99 Manly / Warriors U/20

$40,000 @ $1.85 Manly -5.5

Manly opened the 2011 season $17 and were $26 after losing their first round match.

One customer stepped in with $25,000 at $2.65 before Manly's victory over Brisbane.

1st Try Scorer

Once again the 1st Try Scorer market has proven to be the most popular option on the Grand Final with TAB Sportsbet customers.

60,811 individual tickets were sold to customers on the 1st Try Scorer market - average bet was $10.

Brett Stewart was $9.

Clive Churchill Medal

TAB Sportsbet offered live betting up until the 50th minute of the Grand Final. Glenn Stewart closed the $2.50 favourite after opening $9.

30th September 2011

AFL/NRL GRAND FINALS

Multis this week:

$10,000 @ $9.12 – Warriors / Warriors (U20) / Auckland.

$12,000 @ $4.62 - Cats / Warriors

Long range multis:

$20,000 @ $29.75 – Pies / England (2 June)

$20,000 @ $8.60 – Pies / Manly (24 June)

$5,000 @ $60 – Manly / England (5 Aug)

NRL Grand Final

The Warriors will be hoping to break a trend of favourites winning NRL Grand Finals. The favourite has won the last four - the last outsider to win the ‘big one’ was Brisbane in 2006.

2010 – Dragons $1.67

2009 – Melbourne $1.57

2008 – Manly $1.85

2007 – Melbourne $1.45

Head to Head

Manly     $1.50

Warriors  $2.60  

Manly opened $1.50 and touched $1.55 before one customer placed $100,000 at $1.55 on Wednesday.

Money is running 3 to 1 for the Sea Eagles (without the $100,000 bet money is close to split).

Manly -5.5

$40,000 @ $1.85 Manly -5.5

$12,000 @ $1.90 Manly -5.5

Best Price

Manly $26 (after round 1)

Warriors $26 (before beat Tigers in Finals)

Opening Price

Manly $17

Warriors$15

NRL Premiership Big Bets

Manly - $25,000 @ $2.65 (last Friday)

Warriors - $40,000 @ $15 (before season started) and $7,000 @ $9 (26 Aug)

FIRST TRY BONUS!

Between 12noon and 3pm Sunday, we’re giving a 25% bonus on all players in the First Try Scorer market.*

Customers can get on at their local TAB, tab.com.au or 133 390.

AFL Grand Final

Collingwood will not only start as outsider but also their longest price in a match since round 9 last year. They were $2.25 when they lost to the Cats. On that occasion they were also friendless in betting drifting from $2 to $2.25.  

Head to Head

Collingwood $2.00 (opened $1.80)

Geelong $1.80 (opened $2.00)

The market has flipped completely since betting opened on Saturday. This is largely to do with the level of support for the Cats.

Overall money is favouring the Cats at a staggering 6 to 1.

Grand Final Bets: Bets over $10,000

Geelong:

$16,200 @ $2.00 (Sun)

$15,000 @ $1.95 (Mon)

$44,000 @ $1.80 (Wed)

Collingwood:

$2,100 @ $2.00 (Wed) Biggest bet

Premiership Bets: Bets over $10,000

Collingwood:

$15,000 @ $3.00 (11 Feb)

$11,500 @ $2.25 (11 April)

$10,900 @ $2.25 (11 April)

$21,800 @ $2.25 (16 April)

$10,900 @ $2.25 (18 April)

$10,000 @ $2.00 (14 Jul)

$10,000 @ $1.95 (15 Jul)

$10,000 @ $1.85 (4-Aug)  

$12,000 @ $1.85 (9-Aug)  

$10,000 @ $1.80 (25-Aug)  

$10,000 @ $1.75 (2-Sep)  

$23,000 @ $1.80 (5 Sep)

Geelong:

$2,000 @ $5 (2 Sep) BEFORE RD 24

$4,000 @ $4.25 (8 Sep) BEFORE BEAT HAWKS

$4,800 @ $4.00 (9 Sep) BEFORE BEAT HAWKS

$4,500 @ $2.75 (13 Sep) AFTER BEAT HAWKS

$4,500 @ $2.75 (16 Sep) “ “

$3,000 @ $2.50 (17 Sep) “ “

$3,725 @ $2.35 (18 Sep) “ “

$5,350 @ $2.35 (19 Sep) “ “

$4,000 @ $2.25 (23 Sep) BEFORE BEAT WEST COAST

AFL Premiership Odds – Best price

Collingwood – $3.00 (opening price). The last time the Pies were $2 to win the 2011 AFL Premiership was before round 17; since then they have been odds-on.

The Pies are now a longer price now than they were before they won last week - $1.95.

Geelong - $8.50 (before round 1) they opened $8. The Cats were $5 before the round 24 clash with the Pies. Following that they were into $4.25 and clearly the team punters wanted to be on.

BEST ON GROUND BONUS!

Between 11am and 1pm Saturday, we’re giving a 25% bonus on all players in the Norm Smith Medal market.*

Customers can get on at their local TAB, tab.com.au or 133 390

MULTI

A TAB Sportsbet customer has jumped straight to the top of the list for the best multi of all-time.

The multi punter placed $4 at $6,412.50 on a 5-Leg multi which consisted of UEFA Champions League matches. They have collected $25,650 for their efforts.

All legs were placed on the half-time correct score markets:

Time of goal in brackets.

• Napoli 2-0 v Villarreal (14 & 17) - $8

• Manchester United 2-0 v FC Basel (16 & 17) - $3.75

• Real Madrid 2-0 v Ajax (25 & 41) - $4.50

• Lyon 2-0 v Dinamo Zagreb (23 & 42) - $5

• Bayern Munich 2-0 v Manchester City (38 & 45 +1) - $9.50

It wasn’t all smooth sailing with three of the teams scoring just before the half-time break.

With a huge weekend of sport and racing ahead, many punters will be trying to emulate the record priced multi.   

The wager was placed in an agency. Customers can now take a 20-leg fixed odds sport multi at any NSW or Victorian TAB or a three-leg racing multi is also now available. The minimum investment for a TAB Sportsbet multi is $1.

27th September 2011

Brownlow Medal winner - Dane Swan

Opening price: $7 favourite (January)

Best price:      $21 (during his trip to Arizona in mid-June)

End of rd 24:   $11

Starting price: $7

There was a late surge of support for Dane Swan just before the start of the medal count - he firmed from $10 to $7.

Most punters wanted to be on his team mate Scott Pendlebury, who was $6.50 to $4 on Monday. During the early stages of live betting Pendlebury was as short as $1.55.

Chris Judd was an easing favourite on the day. He was $1.75 for most of Monday morning before easing out to  $2.10 by the start of the count.

Nick Dal Santo went under the radar and was $7.25 to finish in the top 3. He started $26 to win the Brownlow Medal.

Nice collects

$200 @ $75 on Franklin (Coleman) / Coll-Gee (GF quinella) / Swan (Brownlow) to collect $15,000.

$50 @ $201 on Swan/Dal Santo (Brownlow quinella) to collect $10,050.

$10,000 @ $3.25 (place) on Dane Swan (Brownlow winner) to collect $32,500.

Most Popular Markets

Brownlow Medal winner - 50%

Top 5 - 8%

Quinella - 7%

* Percentage of overall hold across all markets.

Victorians love the Brownlow Medal

While there is plenty of National interest on the Brownlow Medal, it is clearly Victorians who have a love affair with the event.

At TAB Sportsbet 90% of bets on the Brownlow Medal were made using Victorian accounts or at Victorian TABs. The remaining 10% of bets were made with NSW accounts or at NSW TABs.

Increased interest on the Brownlow Medal Winner

There was 75,612 individual tickets sold on the winner of the Brownlow Medal. An increase of 21% on last year.

1st September 2011

AFL - Gold Coast v Hawthorn

TAB Sportsbet customers think that there is something more certain than the sun rising tomorrow morning and that is the Gold Coast Suns keeping within 75.5 points of Hawthorn when they clash at Metricon Stadium.

It’s well documented that Hawthorn has rested 8 of their topline players.

TAB Sportsbet allocated the Suns a mammoth 75.5 point start on Wednesday and the money started almost immediately.

As at 5pm Friday $200,000 has been placed on the Gold Coast +75.5 forcing the price from $1.90 into $1.24 which is a record low price in Line betting at TAB Sportsbet.

Hawthorn, on the other hand, has only $559 invested at -75.5 and has drifted from $1.90 to $4

Gold Coast also has support to win the match firming from an opening quote of $13 to be now $6 with Hawthorn drifting from $1.01 to be now a $1.12 chance.

Support for the Suns stretches across all markets such as Halftime Leader, 1st to 25 points, Half/full Double and Quarter by Quarter leader.

One highly optimistic Suns supporter has even placed $30 on the Gold Coast winning the match by 100+ points.

The odds $1001

Newcastle v Souths

One punter expects the home ground advantage to be enough for Newcastle to win. $33,000 @ $1.90 on Knights.

A month ago they looked assured to be in the finals and were $1.10.

Souths on the other hand were $13 to make the top 8 after losing to the Warriors in round 20.

Top Point scorer

Look for Chris Sandow to extend his 4 point lead over Benji Marshall in the race for highest point scorer. He was $41 at the start of the year.  

Chris Sandow $1.57 (184)

Benji Marshall $2.40 (180)

James Maloney $34 (172)

Top Try Scorer

Nathan Merritt $1.22 (21 tries)

Ben Barba $4.25 (19 tries) - was $8 last week.

Top 4

The Tigers were $67 before they beat North QLD in round 20. Hardly anybody gave them a chance except a couple of customers who had $10 on them.

AFL Round 24

It is rare you see Collingwood double figures for anything. This week they are $21 to be the highest scoring team of the round.

Hawthorn are $1.90 (highest scoring team) as they line up against the Gold Coast. Gold Coast have been well backed to cover 75.5 start with multiple bets of $5,000.

The customer who had $155,000 @ $2.25 on the Pies to win the minor premiership will have a bank to play with this weekend.

Fremantle No. of wins

After Freo beat Sydney in round 17, one customer thought they were a sure thing to win another game. They have lost six straight.

They had $20,000 at $1.20 on them to win 10 games or more. They are stuck on nine wins and need to beat the Bulldogs on Saturday.

It looks bleak as the Dockers are $7.50.

AFL Wooden Spoon

The Suns opened $4.25 to finish with the spoon, punters quickly snapped it up.

One customer has: $40,000 at $3.

They will be cheering Port Adelaide ($2.50) to beat Melbourne and hope Hawks ($1.02) do the job on Gold Coast.

To Make Grand Final

Hawthorn $15,000 @ $2.25

Swans

After causing the 2^nd biggest upset of the year against the Cats the Swans should make light work of the Lions.

At least that is the way TAB Sportsbet customers see the game. Biggest bet $80,000 @ $1.15 on Swans to win.

One customer thinks history can repeat - $200 @ $405 Swans/ Wests Tigers premiership double. Just as they did in 2005.

Deutsche Bank Championship

Dustin Johnson is expected to be in the finish one again this week, he is $17 to go back-to-back.

Brandt Snedeker finished with a final round of 10 under last week, he may be one to watch. He is $31.

Adam Scott is $17 despite finishing well back in the Barclay’s. Jason Day is $19.  

World Athletic Championships

Usain Bolt opened $1.45 but as the field fell away he got to as short as $1.05.Winner Yohan Blake paid $8.

Ibrahim Jeilan ($51) caught everybody by surprise in winning the 10,000 metres.

Your Lucky Day

Saturday you can get double the price on Maluckyday to win this year’s Melbourne Cup. Plus if he doesn’t start, we’ll give you your money back.

From 11am Saturday 3 September

Liability $1million

TAB Sportsbet No.99991

Max bet $50

Single bets only

Maluckyday is currently $15 to win the 2011 Melbourne Cup. He returns in the Chelmsford Stakes over 1600 metres on Saturday.

Miss Universe

TAB Sportsbet’s NSW customers can place wagers on the 2011 Miss Universe title which will be held in Sao Paolo Brazil next Monday week September 12^th

Australia’s representative is Scherri-Lee Biggs is a 20yo model and Communications student from WA. She was born in South Africa.

She is on the 3^rd line of betting at $10 behind Miss USA ($8) and Miss China ($9)

Shcerri joins former Miss Universe Australia winners such as Jennifer Hawkins, Rachel Finch, Laura Dundovic, Erin McNaught and Jesinta Campbell.

11th August 2011

NRL

The events of the past few days was enough for one customer to place $3,000 @ $9 on the Roosters to finish the year with the most losses.

Run home: St George Ill, Cronulla, Parramatta, Melbourne.

Most Losses:

Gold Coast $1.40 (15)

Parra $4.50 (14)

Roosters $6.50 (14)

Canberra $15 (14)

Cronulla $67 (13)

F/A does not count. Dead heat rules apply.

AFL

TAB Sportsbet's AFL customers are seeing season 2011 as the perfect foil to repel any GFC dramas.

Favoured sides continue to win with ease and they now see backing all 8 winners in a round as the norm.

One customer this week has placed $5500 on doing just that by selecting all Round 21 favourites in a Multi.

The sides are Collingwood, Hawthorn, Carlton, Brisbane, Essendon, West Coast, Sydney and Geelong.

The price in backing all 8 winners this week is $5.99 for a potential return of $32,945

UPDATE

Betting on Round 21 has been quite quiet until 10 minutes ago when one TAB Sportsbet customer has certainly changed all that.

The customer has just invested $100,000 that Essendon will defeat Western Bulldogs this Saturday night.

The bets placed were $53,332 @ $1.75, $26,666 @ $1.70 and then completed their betting with the remaining $20,002 @ $1.68

Essendon is now into $1.65 with Western Bulldogs out to $2.15

AFL SPECIAL

Good Heavens

Get $5 about St Kilda to lead or draw at the end of any quarter in the match against Collingwood

AFL/NRL/RWC MULTI

One TAB Sportsbet customer is hoping that the three fancied sides in this year’s AFL, NRL and Rugby World Cup can go all the way.

They have coupled all 3 in a Multi and placed $13,100 on the treble at the odds of $9.15

A potential collect of $119,865 awaits if all 3 can take the silverware.

NFL

The NFL pre-season starts on Friday with Philadelphia and Baltimore sure to attract plenty of interested punters.

These two teams have been well backed to win the Super Bowl.

The Patriots are favourite at $6 but have had little support.

Market opened in February.

Philadelphia - $21-$10

$5,000 @ $17

$500 @ $17

Baltimore - $17-$15

$4,500 @ $17

San Diego - $15-$11

$4,000 @ $13

ODI CRICKET

SL v Aust

Series:

Australia $1.45

Sri Lanka $2.70

Australia has firmed from $2.10 to $1.45, to win the best of 5 series, following an impressive win in game 1.

Game 2

Australia $1.85

Sri Lanka $1.95

Australia have opened favourite for the first time this tour.

26th July 2011

NRL

On the back of their 24-19 loss to Canberra last night the St George Illawarra Dragons have lost outright NRL Premiership favouritism for the first time since Round 8 2010.

The Dragons have been joined at the top of the market at $3.25 by Melbourne who incidentally were $5 equal favs with them before being stripped of points at Round 8 last year.

St George Illawarra opened as $5.50 2011 NRL favourites when first markets were posted in October 2010. That $5.50 is the largest price they have been.

Melbourne opened on the 3rd line of betting at $9 behind Sydney roosters $8 and the same price as Brisbane and Souths (both $9). They were their longest price of $13 at round 4.

AFL

A mounting injury toll at the Western Bulldogs, which could see more than a handful of top line players unavailable this week, has resulted in a concerted move for West Coast in their match this Saturday.

Opening at $1.87 each of 2 at lunchtime yesterday little action was seen until last night.

Bets of $5800 and $5000 (twice) were taken on the visitors but the majority of money arrived this morning.

$10000 and $5000 @ $1.85 forced the Eagles into $1.80 but that didn’t stop the flow with another $5000 taken at the reduced quote.

Since the last $5000 @ $1.80 more than $15000 in smaller wagers has been taken.

In all just over $50,000 has been placed on the West Coast as compared to only $240 on the Dogs.

West Coast is now $1.80 with Western Bulldogs $1.95

Tour de France

Cadel Evans started on the 3rd line of betting at $14. Alberto Contador started the favourite at $1.75 from Andy Schleck $2.90. Schleck was installed favourite after stage 1. We changed the favourite for the overall winner a total of six times.

It wasn't until after stage 16 that Cadel Evans was made favourite for the first time at $1.95.

After Andy Schleck's stunning effort in winning stage 18, he then became the new favourite.

Evans was the $1.50 favourite before the individual time trial last night. We had a market for Evans to win a stage which was $3.50. He did that early on winning stage 4. 42% of all investments on the winner were for Cadel Evans. That compares to the next most popular, Andy Schleck at 22%.

21st July 2011

Two customers have picked the eyes out of the European football over the past few days.

One customer successfully picked a five-leg multi early this week, then backed it up with another four-leg effort yesterday.

Then a different customer has also collected big after results went their way.

They had the same four legs in the UEFA Champions league, then had a draw at half-time in the Paraguay-Venezuela match.

$200 @ $437.60 to collect $87,520.

18th July 2011

Multi punter turns $5 into $22,680

This is the best effort we have seen at TAB Sportsbet.You would almost think the customer had Monday's paper.
In the four-leg AFL multi, the biggest price was only $9. It shows you don't have to bet big to win big.
AFL multi:

$5 @ $4536 = $22,680

Travis Cloke $8 (1st Goal Scorer)
Jack Riewoldt $7 (1st Goal Scorer)
James Podsiadly $9 (1st Goal Scorer)
Draw at end of any quarter $9 (Swans v Fremantle)

8th July 2011

Origin III wrap

QLD opened $1.68
NSW opened $2.15

QLD started $1.53
NSW started $2.50

Game three was a record hold on an Origin match at TAB Sportsbet.

Sales – $4.2 million (previous record was Game one 2011 - $3.9 million)
Tickets – 148,028 (up 88% on game 3 last year)
Live - $350,000

Most popular markets (tickets)

1st Try scorer 39,183 tickets (26%) Average bet size $11
Head to Head (11%)
1st Try scorer/Margin double (9%)
Margin (8%)
Last Try scorer (7%)

Biggest Bet

$150,000 @ $1.60

Unlucky

$7,200 @ $6.50 QLD 19+

Multi punters still alive after QLD win

QLD’s victory has given two multi punters something to cheer in the Super Rugby Final.

One choose to be patriotic, sticking with their state in an all QLD margin double.

The other was happy to bet big on both favourites winning.

$30,000 @ $2.43 – QLD / Crusaders to collect $72,900

$1,900 @ $10.15 – QLD 1-12 / Reds 1-12 to collect $19,285

Multi punter on a roll

One punter has landed three multi bets in under a week.

They have collected $115,560 after spending $2,160.

No doubt an avid soccer fan after betting across: Norway Tippeligaen, Sweden Allsvenskan, Irish Premier League and the FIFA Women’s World Cup.

The most recent winning multi was strictly on the FIFA Women’s World Cup.

The confidence must have been high as they included Sweden at $5.25 to beat USA.

Sunday: 7 legs

$500 @ $78.35 to collect ($39,175)

Monday: 7 legs

$500 @ $47.49 to collect ($23,745)

Wednesday: 4 legs

$1,160 @ $45.37 to collect ($52,640)

Australia $2.60
Sweden $5.25
Under 3.5 goals $1.90 (Brazil v Equatorial Guinea)
Under 2.5 goals $1.75 (North Korea v Colombia)

16th June 2011

RUGBY LEAGUE - SOO II

Poor result for TAB Sportsbet

NSW $2.25 into $2 by kickoff

Qld $1.65 out to $1.80 by kickoff

NSW 1-12 best supported option in 80 Min Margin

NSW 7-12 best supported in 80 Min Winning Margin

Series market now Qld $1.68/NSW $2.15

Biggest bet riding on Series $40,000 @ $5.50 on NSW to win Series

Match facts

Sales – $3.611m

Tickets written 139,394 which was 48% up on Game 2 last year (Game 2 last year was played while the Soccer World Cup was on) but still an increase on all but one of the matches played in either 2009 and 2010 series

Live – $212,000

NSW were best price of $3.20 when down 8-0. Qld were $1.30 at the same time

Gallen was $8 MOM but had been as much as $11 in 1^st markets posted. One of the most popular players for the match

Minichello was $17 last try but we had a 33% bonus from midday till KO on gameday. Punters got $22.61 about the Blues Fullback.

Cameron Smith $26 to score 1^st try

Most popular markets

1^st Tryscorer 41,172 tickets         (29.53% of total) Average bet size $9.09

Head to Head                            (10.96%)

1^st Tryscorer/Margin double         (9.22%)

Margin                                      (8.69%)

Last Tryscorer                           (7.82%)

Bets were recorded from customers in the following countries

Japan

Malaysia

New Zealand

PNG

Singapore

United Kingdom

14th June 2011

RUGBY LEAGUE

One customer thinks NSW can win back-to-back games and take the Series.

Moments ago the confident punter placed $40,000 @ $5.50 on NSW to claim the 2011 Origin Series.

If successful they will collect $220,000.

Series Winner

NSW $4.50
QLD $1.20

Game II

Money today is just favouring QLD but includes one bet of $35,000 @ $1.65.

Bets on NSW today include: $5,000 @ $2.25 and $4,800 @ $2.20.

AFL

Joel Selwood’s 4 match suspension for striking was enough for one TAB Sportsbet customer to plunge $10,000 on Carlton’s Chris Judd to go back-to-back in 2011 and take another Brownlow Medal.

The customer placed the bet this afternoon in a suburban TAB and took the $3.75 on offer for the Blues’ captain to make it his 3rd Brownlow.

Selwood was looked upon as a major threat for this season’s Medal and was rated an $8 chance before falling foul of the match review panel for his off-the-ball strike on Brent Guerra.

Judd remains as the $3.75 favourite following the bet after trimming in from $4 last week and heads the market from Marc Murphy ($7), Scott Pendlebury & Jobe Watson ($9) with a trio of players Gary Ablett, Lance Franklin and Dane Swan at $21

Collingwood has been popular today in Flag betting with bets of $5,000 (twice) and $4000 taken at $2.25

27th May 2011

State of Origin Game 1

Hold $3,955,000

An increase on Game 1 of 2010

Just under $400,000 was invested LIVE on the match

Total of 146,567 individual bets on the match

Of these and incredible 30.2% were on the 1^st Tryscorer market only which highlights the popularity of that market with TAB Sportsbet customers

Average bet size $11.33

The Head to Head market only had 11.39% of the individual bets taken on it but still was responsible for $1,000,000 being invested on Wednesday alone

Most popular markets (as per individual bets) were

1^st Tryscorer

Head to Head

1^st Tryscorer/Margin double

Margin 80min

Last tryscorer

Player of the Match

Biggest bets

$100,000 @ $1.80 on Over 35.5 points

$40,000 @ $1.55 on Qld (Pre match)

$30,185 @ $1.12 on Qld (LIVE)

$30,000 @ $3.25 on Qld -6.5/Over 35.5 points

$25,000 @ $1.85 on Under 24.5 points

$25,000 @ $1.75 on Under 24.5 points

$25,000 @ $1.66 on Under 24.5 points

$25,000 @ $1.60 on Under 24.5 points

$20,000 @ $2.05 on Qld/Qld half/full double

$20,000 @ $1.50 on Qld

$16,280 @ $1.50 on Qld

$15,000 @ $3.50 on Qld -6.5/Over 35.5 points

$15,000 @ $1.87 on Under 37.5 points

14th April 2011

TAB Sportsbet thinks its bye bye Saints

TAB Sportsbet is giving punters who backed St Kilda to win the AFL premiership a refund on their investment. “With the Saints season in disarray leading into the bye, we reckon punters who backed them in the premiership market deserve their money back,” said TAB Sportsbet’s Gary Davies.

“We've got plenty of avid Saints fans at the TAB who are all in mourning thinking that the premiership window might just be shut. “With our offer any bets placed on the Saints to win the flag are still 'live' should they come good after the week off, but, you'll be refunded your original stake so you can take the money and run, back another team or for the true believers load up again on them at the $26 currently on offer!”

The offer is for single bets placed between October 4 last year and last Sunday (April 10) on St Kilda to win the 2011 premiership. Customers need to simply present their ticket to their local NSW or Victorian TAB by 20 April, (before St Kilda’s next game against Brisbane on the 21st April) to collect their refund voucher. Multi bets are excluded from the offer.

TAB account customers will have their betting accounts automatically topped up. All original bets remain live, and in the event that the Saints turn their season around and win the flag, customers will be paid out in full at the end of the season at the odds received when the bet was initially placed.

1st April 2011

Monster Multi: $4,000 @ $39.31 (collect $157,240)

MLB LA Angels v LA Dodgers                             LA Angels win 5-1

NBA Sacramento +1.5 v Phoenix                        Sacramento wins 116-113

NBA Cleveland v Miami 1^st Half Und 100.5 pts      Cleveland led 52-43 at halftime

NBA Golden State +10.5 v Oklahoma                  Oklahoma wins 115-114

NBA Houston -6.5/Under 203.5 v New Jersey       Houston wins 112-87

Lions Number of season wins

$60,000 @ $1.50 – Brisbane Lions (Under 7.5 wins)

Brisbane are $5.50 to beat the Western Bulldogs on Sunday.

The Lions are now into $4 to claim the Wooden Spoon. Gold Coast remain favourite at $2.75.

Minor Premiers - Collingwood

This morning we took $155,000 @ $2.25 on the Pies finishing 1^st in the regular season. They are now $1.90.

Manly v Souths

It is a home game for Souths at Bluetongue Stadium but that won’t worry Manly.

Manly have won all six matches at the venue and by a margin of 16 or more on every occasion.

Manly are $3.40 to win by 13+ already the most popular option.

One customer jumped at the $2.05 about Souths on Tuesday when betting opened - $20,000 @ $2.05.

Miami Masters

Roger Federer attracted the interest of one punter with $20,000 @ $5 to win the Masters event.

He could face a possible showdown with Nadal in the semi’s and Djokovic in the Final.

ICC World Cup

India $1.60

Sri Lanka $2.30

Two punters are sitting pretty after betting before the start of the tournament.

$30,000 @ $4.00 India

$12,000 @ $6.00 Sri Lanka

US Masters

There has been plenty of betting activity in the upcoming US Masters, but there has been little interest for Tiger Woods.

Woods is currently favourite for the event which starts next week, but that may change before they tee off in Round 1.

Aaron Baddeley is the best backed Aussie at $51.

Big Bets: US Masters

$6,000 @ $10 Mickeslon

$5,000 @ $21 Nick Watney

$4,000 @ $21 Lee Westwood

$2,700 @ $26 Rory McIlroy

$2,500 @ $41 Matt Kuchar

$2,000 @ $31 Luke Donald

$2,000 @ $41 Justin Rose

$1,200 @ $34 Luke Donald

Big Bets:

$155,000 Collingwood @ $2.25 (Minor Premiers)

$60,000 Brisbane Lions @ $1.50 (Under 7.5 wins)

$20,000 Souths @ $2.05 v Manly

$15,000 Syd Roosters -5.5 @ $1.90 v Wests Tigers

$10,000 Collingwood @ $2.15 (Top Vic Team)

$8,000 Gold Coast +8.5 v Canberra

$8,500 Port Ad @ $1.50 v WC

$8,000 Port Ad @ $1.50 v WC

$6,800 Sri Lanka @ $2.80 (ICC World Cup Final)

$6,600 Melbourne @ $1.75 v Bulldogs

$1,800 Collingwood/St George Ill @ $14.00 and $1,000 @ $14

$500 Melbourne Demons @ $34 (Flag)

$500 Swans @ $34 (Flag)

TAB Sportsbet Specials

Riewoldts – St Kilda v Richmond

$10 for Jack and Nick to kick 10 or more goals

Open Friday 4pm

Max bet $50

TAB Sportsbet No. 99951

Limited time

Inglis Sails – Souths v Manly

$4 Greg Inglis to score a try

Open Friday 4pm

Max bet $100

TAB Sportsbet No. 99961

Limited time

Only Fools and Horses – Golden Slipper

$6 Sepoy

Open Friday 6pm

Max bet $50

TAB Sportsbet No. 99971

Limited time

21st March 2011

NRL

The upset

Cronulla started $4.25 outsiders (St George Ill $1.22) but there was a push for an upset late last week.

Two customers fancied the unlikely result with bets of: $9,000 and $5,000 @ $5.25 placed on a Cronulla win.

One customer didn't have to sweat with $55,000 on Cronulla +14.5 @ $1.90 (last week) to collect $104,500.

The Dragons down 16-0 (were +10.5 @ $3) The late try gave some punters a reason to cheer the late four-pointer!

NRL Winner

The Dragons went into Round 2 as $5 favourites, while Cronulla were rank outsiders at $101.

It caps of another week full of upsets (Penrith $2.60, Brisbane $2.65, Manly $4 and Cronulla $4.25)

For the 2nd week running the Monday Night outsider has won, carrying on the trend from 2010.

LIVE

As a customer placed $1000 on St George Illawarra T $1.55 in the 20th minute of their clash with Cronulla tonight it pushed TAB Sportsbet's hold on the match past the $1,000,000 mark.

This hold typifies the punting popularity of Monday Night Football at TAB Sportsbet.

Week in and week out TAB Sportsbet will hold in excess of $1,000,000 on the Monday night match regardless of the teams which step out.

Even tonight we saw the defending premiers St George Illawarra pitted against their neighbours Cronulla, who were coming off a belting in Canberra last Sunday.

Cronulla were well supported both straight out, firming from $5.25 into $4.25 by kickoff and very popular with the +14.5 point line.