I just wanted to make a brag post about a nice bet that just came in on Big Brother eventhough I’ve never watched a single episode of the current Celebrity Big Brother. In the main series last year I also made a nice score mainly backing Rachel for top 4 and then getting her the winner at 16/1. This was thanks to some reliable polls and forums so was looking forward to seeing how they compared in the celebrity version.
Well i’d never even watched the show but the polls and forums were continuously telling me that Verne was not popular and probably wouldn’t get enough to win. I was so surprised that he was odds on to win so early in the series so I was dying to lay this bet. I’d backed LaToya early doors as thought she was good outsider value and also backed her to be top female but this failed and was starting to have doubts. I put more money on Terry to win and also Ulrika at a later stage and a tiny bit on Coolio so money was quite spread out.
Then at final 5 stage 1.5 odds for Verne to win was just amazing value to lay so tried to get on but couldn’t get matched and had to settle for 1.58. I had a sneaky peak at the top 3 odds and saw that Verne was lingering at 1.08 but there was little money in the market so was hard to get a bet at the stakes I wanted to play. Yes laying at 1.08 will give you a massive return for a tiny bet so I just couldn’t resist this bet and eventually got 1.07 matched. It cudda been so much more but I cancelled half of the stake and didn’t want to be too greedy, after all the odds are that for a reason aren’t they? I was calmly happy to see that he exited in 4th place as predicted.
This more than recouperates my losses from x factor and adds to my wins from the original Big brother.