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Week
In Review -- Feb 20th
The Winter Olympics in Torino,
Italy took centre stage this week, along with
the NBA All-Star game with regular NBA games
having a break over the weekend and NHL having
a two week break. Olympic Ice hockey in particular
has seen tremendous action and has also seen
a few upsets as well. The biggest upset by far
was on Saturday with Switzerland outplaying
the tournament favorites, Canada. Canada was
a big -1000 to win the game in regulation and
they had plenty on people taking the short odds.
One of our customers was prepared to bet $20,000
to win $2000 and found out the hard way that
sometimes upsets do happen when Switzerland
won 2-0.
NBA All-Star weekend kicked off
on Saturday with the novelty events like the
3 point shootout and the Slam Dunk Competitions.
Our bettors always find these events popular
in particular the Slam Dunk contest. Josh Smith
from Atlanta was an even money favorite to win
the event, and attracted most of the betting
support which resulted in his odds dropping
to -125. Little Nate Robinson from the New York
Knicks however upstaged everybody at the odds
of +230 to claim the Slam Dunk title. Dirk Nowitzki
from the Dallas Mavericks won the 3pt shoot-out
at odds of +230 and was well supported from
the betting public. Sunday was the East vs West
All star game with most of our bettors wisely
taking the plus points on the East. In a game
when you know players aren’t really giving
everything they can, taking plus points is a
smart thing and they got the money in a 122-120
win by the East.
College Basketball was much better
this week for us, and the excitement of March
Madness just around the corner is starting to
show with the amount of money starting to be
wagered on the big teams like Duke, Villanova,
Memphis and Connecticut.
Charlie Wi denied Thailand’s
Thongchai Jaidee to win the Maybank Malaysian
Golf tournament on the European tour. Charlie
Wi was in our ‘field’ price and
was a good result for us, but Jaidee would not
have been received very well by us with a couple
of $1000 wagers placed on him at 12/1.
Rory Sabbatini outlasted the
field to win the Nissan Open at large odds of
40/1. For two weeks in a row one of our customers
has picked the winner of the PGA Tour event!
This week we didn’t have too many other
people bet on Sabbatini, but still it was another
good week in golf for our customers.
Until next week,
Shane Catford
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