They must just be the hippest brand in poker. Now Bodog entices us degenerate gamblers with some odds for WSOP side bets.
Thursday 15th May 2008
If I had a pound for every time I had to write about some sick prop bet, I’d be rich. Then I would go and gamble it away on some sick prop bet myself. Now Bodog have caught on to the fact that poker players ‘like the action’ by offering odds on some side bets for the World Series.
Bodoglife.com is now taking bets on a variety of possibilities at the World Series of Poker, including the following markets:
Will a player win 2 or more bracelets in the 2008 WSOP?
Yes 2.10
No 1.71
Will the record for youngest winner of a WSOP Las Vegas Bracelet be broken at the 2008 WSOP?
Yes 5.50
No 1.10
Which of these Poker Bloggers will win the most money in the Main Event of the 2008 WSOP?
Shane ‘Shaniac’ Schleger 5.50
Paul ‘DrPauly’ McGuire 17.00
Justin Bonomo 4.00
Andrew ‘Good2cu’ Robl 8.50
Daniel Negreanu 3.50
Thomas ‘Goodnightmoon’ Fuller 11.00
Brian ‘sbrugby’ Townsend 5.50
Taylor ‘Green Plastic’ Caby 8.50
Eric ‘Rizen’ Lynch 5.50
Ray ‘smokkee’ Gallardo 61.00
Which of these “Celebrity” poker players will win the most money in the Main Event of the 2008 WSOP?
James Woods 6.00
Jennifer Tilly 6.00
Don Cheadle 10.00
Tobey Maguire 15.00
Ben Affleck 10.00
Ray Romano 15.00
Jason Alexander 15.00
Norm MacDonald 10.00
Montel Williams 7.50
Shannon Elizabeth 6.00
Brad Garrett 15.00
Sully Erna 15.00
Jose Canseco 31.00
Lennox Lewis 31.00
Hank Azaria 31.00
Yevgeny Kafelnikov 6.00
Boris Becker 10.00
Penn Gillette 31.00
Will a female player make the final table of the $10,000 2008 WSOP Main Event?
Yes 5.00
No 1.12
Prices correct as of Thursday 15th May, and are in the decimal system, so if you back £1 onto a bet which pays 5.50, your total return would be £5.50. Now, I’m off to go and have a flutter!
