Brett Wetterich outlasted the 50/1 Trevor Immelman ton win the Byron Nelson Championship on Sunday by one stroke. Wetterich was part of our field price of +150, which considering it contains usually about 80-100 players, is normally good value. People seem to like to bet the bigger prices though with the field always a good winner for us.
The US Open is only now a month away and the world will be watching how determined Tiger Woods is to win this event since the death of his father. Tiger is priced at 5/1 which is one his best prices in recent times, but I have a feeling that he will be very focused and trying to win this event for his father.
Apart from the golf this week, I can?t really say we had too many other winning sports as our customers seemed to be ?tuned in? and betting winners with regularity.
In a surprising twist this past week, we were swamped with media phone calls and emails about two of our ?Prop? bets that we offered. The first was our ?Hurricane Prop? which included either yes or no of a category 3, 4 or 5 hurricane to hit the USA mainland. Yes at -500 was immediately bet down to -550 with approx $20,000 in action. It really is surprising the action some of these ?prop? bets generate and especially how many new and different customers we find. The other even bigger ?Prop? bet we offered which seemed to have every media outlet in the USA calling was the ?Da Vinci Code?. With all the press the ?Da Vinci Code? has and the fact that it touches so deeply into the Religious community, we decided to offer a proposition on how much money the new film will generate on its opening weekend, Friday 19th, Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st of May. We also offered a proposition of how well the film will go against the figures of ?The Passion? because of its religious nature. I can honestly say that I didn?t expect the reaction to be so big from either the media or our customers. So far we have already received nearly $100,000 in bets!
Baseball and NHL this week was definitely a week for our players. I could report many of our players that had huge weeks playing baseball alone, from one player who won $500,000 to many who won over $100,000. For every bad sport, thankfully there is a good one, and NBA was that. While the results weren?t the best to start the week, NBA returned a good result for us over the week.
Stay tuned for the Soccer World Cup as it starts on June 9th, and with the event being in Europe, I expect the money wagered to be by far the biggest event ever bet on.
Until next week,
Shane Catford
BetCRIS.com
The US Open is only now a month away and the world will be watching how determined Tiger Woods is to win this event since the death of his father. Tiger is priced at 5/1 which is one his best prices in recent times, but I have a feeling that he will be very focused and trying to win this event for his father.
Apart from the golf this week, I can?t really say we had too many other winning sports as our customers seemed to be ?tuned in? and betting winners with regularity.
In a surprising twist this past week, we were swamped with media phone calls and emails about two of our ?Prop? bets that we offered. The first was our ?Hurricane Prop? which included either yes or no of a category 3, 4 or 5 hurricane to hit the USA mainland. Yes at -500 was immediately bet down to -550 with approx $20,000 in action. It really is surprising the action some of these ?prop? bets generate and especially how many new and different customers we find. The other even bigger ?Prop? bet we offered which seemed to have every media outlet in the USA calling was the ?Da Vinci Code?. With all the press the ?Da Vinci Code? has and the fact that it touches so deeply into the Religious community, we decided to offer a proposition on how much money the new film will generate on its opening weekend, Friday 19th, Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st of May. We also offered a proposition of how well the film will go against the figures of ?The Passion? because of its religious nature. I can honestly say that I didn?t expect the reaction to be so big from either the media or our customers. So far we have already received nearly $100,000 in bets!
Baseball and NHL this week was definitely a week for our players. I could report many of our players that had huge weeks playing baseball alone, from one player who won $500,000 to many who won over $100,000. For every bad sport, thankfully there is a good one, and NBA was that. While the results weren?t the best to start the week, NBA returned a good result for us over the week.
Stay tuned for the Soccer World Cup as it starts on June 9th, and with the event being in Europe, I expect the money wagered to be by far the biggest event ever bet on.
Until next week,
Shane Catford
BetCRIS.com
