PJ goes for second Mercury Music Prize; can a dark horse upset in proposition betting?

September 6th will see the awarding of the 19th annual Mercury Music Prize, bestowed upon the individual performer or group from the UK or Ireland who released the best album of the preceding year. Nominees and winners are chosen by industry professionals, and acts from all genres of music are considered.
Though Wikipedia claims that the [...]

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Betting the Man Booker Prize: Putting the “book” in “bookmaker”

How about a literary bet? This year’s field for the Man Booker literature prize looks to be a hard-fought one, indeed, and shockingly enough mostly features books with a sense of humor. In fact, with Howard Jacobson’s longshot (8/1 to win at bet365 online bookmaker) straight-up comedy novel “The Finkler Question” leading the trend, five [...]

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Considering the odds to win gold on Golden Globe Awards

The precursor to the Academy Awards movie awards, the Golden Globe Awards, go off on January 17th. Naturally, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association event represents one of the year’s biggest occasions for proposition betting. Below follow the odds on nominees winning in certain categories as provided by Bet 365 online bookmakers, along with gut reactions [...]

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Top prop dropped, or the bet you didn’t make at Bet365

In Bet365’s intriguing “To win match” Eurovision proposition bets, Denmark (at 8/11) is a slight favorite over Lithuania (1/1). With second-round favorites Greece and Norway plus Hungary all deploying studboys – not to mention better songs – Lithuania’s Sasha Son is working from a disadvantage already. Combine this with Sasha’s placement directly after the Greek titan Sakis Rouvas, and things don’t look great for the Lithuania bid against Finland’s contender for the finals.

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Handicapping Eurovision Song Contest 2009: 2nd semifinal

Ready for part two of the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest, the fantastic competition wonderfully described by one anonymous news scribe “the annual extravaganza of music and camp”? Right, then, LiveBetsDirect.com presents another round of its fearless predictions!

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