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Week
In Review -- March 13th
At last the NCAA Basketball regular
season has concluded and the teams are finalized
for the main ‘March Madness’ event.
This year proves to be as open as ever with
many teams capable of going all the way. If
this weeks action is any indication to us here
at www.betcris.com, then the ‘Bracket’
matches will be a record betting event with
many new customers signing up and ‘Betting
their opinions’. Betting at halftime of
the games seems to be growing at a rapid rate
with the advantage of having already seeing
your team perform in the first half, yet still
being able to place a bet on the outcome of
just the second half.
While it was a good week for
us, it wasn’t without a few big winners.
The biggest of all was a gentleman who placed
a $1500 6 team parlay to win $99,000 as well
as a $2200 6 team parlay to win $100,000. The
common last winner needed was Kansas to win
in one parlay, and Kansas +3.5 in the other
parlay, playing against Texas on Sunday. When
we graded Kansas the winner 80-66, our jaws
dropped very quickly and we had to pay our player
$199,000 in one hit.
NBA was thankfully better than
last week, with a few results going our way.
NBA totals though were a big hit with our customers
especially those who were on the right side
of the big swings with a few game totals falling
in the middle of the numbers posted.
Luke Donald from England broke
through for his first PGA Tour victory of the
year this week to win the Honda Classic. Donald
was a decent 12/1 and outlasted the tournament
favorite of David Toms at 7/1. With the tournament
lacking the big name players like Woods, Mickelson,
Els etc betting was far from brisk with many
customers deciding to concentrate on the US
Masters event in two weeks time.
Jimmie Johnson came through and
won the UAW Daimler Chrysler 400 but surprisingly
lacked the support from the betting public.
Johnson was odds of +650 at the start of the
race but had little support with many of our
players opting to bet Greg Biffle 5/1, Kasey
Kahne 9/1 and Mark Martin 16/1.
The World Baseball Classic has
entered the second round and thankfully for
us at least we have started to do a little better
at it. I think maybe the results have helped
us a lot more than anything though with games
like Canada beating the USA especially unpredictable.
Teams like Cuba and Korea have also provided
some big upsets so the finals should prove to
be very entertaining and unpredictable.
Until next week,
Shane Catford
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