Monday, May 04, 2009

The buck stops here

Hype, press releases, speculation, twitter, blah blah blah.....

Any time you want the objective cold hard facts, you have to go to a bookie. They have no emotion and they're rarely wrong.

GIRO ODDS to win to show

Basso, I 2.65 1.30
Leipheimer, L 5.50 2.05
Cunego, D 9.00 2.65
Menchov, D 11.00 3.25
Armstrong, L 11.00 3.25



Tour de Frane odds Win (1-3)
Contador Velasco, A 1.80 1.18
Armstrong, L 4.00 1.70
Schleck, A 10.00 2.85
Evans, C 13.00 3.00
Leipheimer, L 20.00 4.75
Valverde, A 20.00 4.75
Menchov, D 22.00

Maybe wearing the polka dot jersey will make up for Lance Romance having to stand one step over to the left. Maybe not.

3 comments:

JMP said...

Source please? I have decided to fund my MBA studies by making contrarian bets on cycle races, but first I need a bookie/betting forum. Eagerly awaiting your advice...

Lucky said...

I think that was either Unibet or Ladbrokes. Batfair also has a cycling betting exchange.

Unfortunately the American government doesn't think that you're grown up enough to be able to bet on sports and all American IP address of blocked from placing wagers.

Also despite the WTO finding to the contrary you can't wire any money or use a credit card for any of those buisness either.

Land of the free and all that.

JMP said...

Perhaps Unibet.com can suggest a VPN provider for me, and I can use my foreign passport to wire money via HSBC into a betting account? Or is ban on ALL transactions of this type from US soil, even if done by non-citizen? Hmmmm... Didn't USA arrest/detain executives of British online wager firm (that was legal in Britain) when they landed in USA for vacation, in order to intimidate the foreign betting services into denying access to their services by US citizens? Land of free indeed!