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Week
In Review -- Feb 27th
Its goodbye to the 2006 Winter
Olympics and we will be sad that they have finished
here at www.betcris.com. It was a terrific event
for us with surprisingly great action and following
from our customers. The best and biggest event
by far was the Men’s Ice Hockey, and the
biggest disappointment from the bettor’s
point of view was Canada and the United States
teams. Combined both countries could only win
four matches between them which was not expected
at all considering Canada was a even money favorite
to win the Gold medal before the tournament
began.
Sweden eventually outplayed Finland
for the Gold medal and Czech Republic beat out
Russia to claim the Bronze. The Final match
betting was huge with well over $250,000 being
wagered on it. We opened Sweden at pk-115, and
eventually closed off betting with Finland being
the slight pk -115 favorite. From our point
of view we could not be happier with the action
the Winter Olympics generated and it just gave
us a glimpse of what the World Cup Soccer could
be like starting in June this year. We can’t
wait!
Another great event which concluded
on Sunday was the WGC Accenture match play Championship.
A great format for bettor’s with straight
up golfers going head to head in a knock out
format. Australian Geoff Ogilvy upstaged the
field and went on to beat Davis Love III in
the final at +115 odds and lots of support from
our customers. Betting on the match-ups all
week was spectacular with our best result being
when Chad Campbell dethroned Tiger Woods in
the third round. The first round however had
‘every man and his dog’ betting
on Tiger Woods to beat Stephen Ames at huge
odds of -320 to closing odds of -400! I think
a lot of Tigers motivation was provided by comments
Ames made about Tigers accuracy before the match,
and all of our customers thought Tiger wouldn’t
be very happy about it. Tiger proceeded to roll
off 9 straight perfect match play holes to claim
the victory.
NBA got back into action this
week after the All Star game. Many favorites
won this week and needless to say, the customers
that we have which bet money lines did very
well. College basketball was a mixed bag for
us this week with a couple of our bigger customers
hitting some huge parlays early in the week.
Two customers alone won well over $300,000 in
the first two days of the week so that is always
hard to overcome.
Arena football continues on its
winning ways for our customers, with not enough
action to counter the sharp players we have
who bet it. With not enough action, it makes
it hard to balance our action, so some line
movements in Arena Football can be very severe.
If we can break even in a sport like Arena Football
and keep our customers happy by providing the
sport to bet on, then we would be more than
happy. I hope everybody enjoyed a few winners
this week.
Until next week,
Shane Catford
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