Archive for the tag "betting"
Watch These Seats Tonight
Here are some seats worth keeping an eye on tonight. These are the closest seats we found on Betfair, some on a knife-edge:
Posted: 21 August, 2010 in Australian Values.
Tags: australian election, Australian Politics, betting, betting markets, betting odds, Bonner, Corangamite, election, Forde, gambling, government, Herbert, La Trobe, markets, odds, Petrie, politics, Solomon, swinging seats
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Last Dance Last Chance
Well, here’s the Crash. It’s closing fast but apparently not quite fast enough. Centrebet claims …
Posted: 20 August, 2010 in Australian Politics, Australian Values, politics and government, values.
Tags: australian election, Australian Politics, betting, election, market, odds, politics
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Half-hourly Betting Changes for 20 August
Thought this could be a bit of fun, to see how the punters’ moods are changing throughout the day
Posted: 20 August, 2010 in Australian Politics, Australian Values, politics and government, values.
Tags: Australian political values, Australian Politics, betting, betting market, election, market, odds, political values, politics, updates
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Seats to Watch on Saturday
These are seats to watch tomorrow night, according to the betting markets. The outcome – hung or not – could hinge on these two:
Posted: 20 August, 2010 in Australian Politics, Australian Values, politics and government, values.
Tags: Australian political values, Australian Politics, Bennelong, betting, election, gambling, government, hung parliament, La Trobe, Labor, Liberal, Lindsay, markests, minority government, Northern Territory, NSW, odds, politics, Solomon, Victoria
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Markets in Free Fall
Paddy Power has expanded its betting options in the last couple of days to include Labor seats won. They still have 76 – 80 seats as favourite. Just.
Posted: 20 August, 2010 in Australian Politics, politics and government.
Tags: australian election, Australian Politics, betting, betting markets, election, election betting, gambling, gaming, odds, politics
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Abbott to Pull All-Nighter
Harking back to his days as an undergrad Tone swears he will get his essay in (“Why I wan ter be Priminister”) before Saturday’s deadline, pulling an allnighter
Posted: 19 August, 2010 in Australian Politics, Australian Values, fun, History, politics and government, values.
Tags: australian election, Australian political values, Australian Values, B team, betting, Bob Hawke, Centrebet, election, election betting, federal election, gambling, Gough Whitlam, government, IASBet, LuxBet, Malcolm Fraser, market, odds, Paul Keating, political values, politics, sportingbet, Sportsbet, values, WBX
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Towards a Well-Hung Australia
So here’s how it looks for the outcome of the election if the people with connections and political savvy and heaps of money to risk were deciding the vote
Posted: 19 August, 2010 in Australian Politics, Australian Values, environment, Immigration, politics and government, values.
Tags: asylum seekers, Australian government, Australian greens, Australian political values, Australian Politics, Bandt, betting, betting market, gaming, government, Greens, house of representatives, hung parliament, Labor Party, labor seats, Liberal Party, minority government, National Party, Oakeshott, odds, politics, pollytics, possum, refugees, senate, statistics
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Barnaby Joyce for Foreign Minister!
One doesn’t know why, but Barnaby is one of the options in the market for Foreign Minister. What if he made Foreign Affairs as exciting as his Finance stint?
Posted: 18 August, 2010 in Australian Politics, Australian Values, fun, politics and government, values.
Tags: australian election, Australian political values, Australian Politics, Australian Values, Barnaby Joyce, betting, diplomacy, diplomat, election, federal election, foreign affairs, Foreign Minister, Joyce, Julie Bishop, Kevin Rudd, Malcolm Turnbull, market, odds, politics, Rudd, Steven Smith, Turnbull, values, war
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It’s a Cliffhanger!
We have a nailbiter, yes, but it’s not the overall result which still looks pretty much assured. The real cliffhanger is …
Posted: 17 August, 2010 in Australian Politics, Australian Values, politics and government, values.
Tags: Abbott, Adam Brandt, australian election, Australian greens, Australian Politics, Australian Values, bellwether, Bennelong, betting, cliffhanger, coalition, Eden-Monaro, election, election betting, federal election, gambling, Gillard, graph, Greens, John Alexander, Labor, Liberal, Lindsay Tanner, market, Maxine, McKew, odds, political values, politics, Press Club
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The sound of inevitability…
“You hear that Mr. Anderson?… That is the sound of inevitability… ”
Inevitability. Betting market looks like a straight line out the door for Abbott.
Posted: 16 August, 2010 in Australian Values.
Tags: Abbott, australian election, Australian Politics, Australian Values, betting, election, federal election, gambling, graph, market, odds, political values, politics
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Abbott One Chance in Four
If the election outcome were decided on the betting markets then a rout of the Coalition of disastrous proportions would be looking like a foregone conclusion
Posted: 15 August, 2010 in Australian Politics, Computing, Internet, politics and government, values.
Tags: Abbott, australian election, Australian Politics, Australian Values, betting, election, federal election, gambling, graph, market, odds, political values, politics
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Australian Election Odds 14 August
The market has clearly blown out on the Coalition. But what has happened in the last few days to cause this? Just the other day Abbott was proclaimed
Posted: 14 August, 2010 in Australian Politics, Australian Values, Culture, Life, politics and government, values.
Tags: Abbott, Action Contract, australian election, Australian Politics, Australian Values, betting, budgie, butterfly effect, election, election odds, federal election, gambling, graph, market, odds, political values, politics, smuggler
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Blowing Up
Things are not looking very good for the Magic Costumed One. The graph is beginning to resemble a …
Posted: 13 August, 2010 in Australian Politics, Australian Values, politics and government, values.
Tags: Abbott, Action Contract, australian election, Australian Politics, Australian Values, betting, breach of contract, budgie, election, federal election, gambling, GetUp, graph, law, legal, liar, lie, lying, market, odds, political values, politicians, politics, refugees, smuggler
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Call Me a Liar
Latham-infested Action-Contract-Man, as he got down and dirty amongst hoi polloi in the Not-a-Debate, lied that he would be straight with the Australian people
Posted: 12 August, 2010 in Australian Politics, Australian Values, Iraq, legal, politics and government, values.
Tags: Abbott, Action Contract, australian election, Australian Politics, Australian Values, betting, breach of contract, budgie, election, federal election, gambling, GetUp, graph, law, legal, liar, lie, lying, market, odds, political values, politicians, politics, refugees, smuggler
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Action-Contract Man Unsmuggles the Budgie
The pundits say the election is Abbott’s to lose but from the betting it’s still actually Labor’s to lose. Meanwhile Action-Contract Man unsmuggles the Budgie
Posted: 9 August, 2010 in Australian Politics, Australian Values, comedy/humour, Economics, politics and government, values.
Tags: Abbott, Action Contract, Action-Contract Man, australia, Australian economic values, Australian economy, Australian political values, Australian Values, betfair, betting, betting market, budgie, budgie smugglers, campaign, Centrebet, coalition, Economics, economy, election, election campaign, federal election, gambling, Gillard, IASBet, Labor, Liberal, LuxBet, market, National, odds, political values, politics, Rudd, speedos, sportingbet, Sportsbet, statistics, Superman, values, WBX
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