Titan Bet US Open Money Back Special

Andy Murray is starting the defence of his US Open title on Monday 26th August and to mark the last Tennis Grand Slam of the year, Titan Bet are offering a Money Back special if Murray can retain his title.

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Latest Next Everton Manager Betting

Victor Chandler have installed Wigan's Roberto Martinez as favourite for the next Everton manager. Spokesperson for Chandler, Charlie McCann said he expected Everton Chairman Bill Kenwright to make his move in the next 48 hours now the football season is over.

Wigan's Chairman Dave Whelan won't stand in the way of his manager, so getting permission or trying to prise Martinez away from Wigan is never going to be an issue.

Chandler have Martinez at 9/4 favourite, it is no shock to see the Spaniard leading the betting, but I get the feeling that this is based on nothing other than speculation and the fact that Martinez gets linked with just about any vacancy outside of the top 4 or 5 sides these days.

Martinez is also favourite on the betting exchanges, currently trading at around 3.6 on Betfair. This suggests to me that no major move has been made, as the exchange betting markets generally tell the story when things start happening behind the scenes.

Another difference of opinion sees Chandler make Phil Neville second favourite at 5/1.Neville can be backed at 16/1 on Betfair, with Jurgen Klinsmann, Alan Stubbs, Neil Lennon, Malky MacKay and Vitor Pereira all at shorter odds. All in all it appears no one really knows what's going on here.

My own personal take on this, is I would be looking for better value than what Martinez is. This is the sort of right sized job for someone like Ole Gunnar Solskjaer or Michael Laudrup.

The downside to backing Solskjaer is that Kenwright might feel he is again potentially grooming Manchester United's next manager, something I think he would be keen to avoid.  

While with Laudrup, although he has shown no desire to get away from Swansea, he surely looks a good fit for Goodison Park. He is available at around 30/1 on Betfair - I've had a couple of quid on him at those odds.

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World Snooker Championship Betting

This Saturdays see the start of the Betfair World Snooker Championship, and the return to snooker of Ronnie O'Sullivan after his self imposed sabbatical. It is also the start of another betting extravaganza with 17 continuous days of top quality snooker to look forward too.

This year sees the start of Betfair sponsoring the tournament, to market, sorry mark this, there is a Betfair Golden Cue on offer for the top break this year, as well as £10,000. Let's hope all runs well at the Crucible between 3pm and 5pm on the three Saturday's the tournament runs for (any regular Betfair users will know what that means).

Current world number 1, Mark Selby isn't even the bookies favourite, despite already winning the UK Championship and The Masters over the past 6 months. This is probably down to the fact that Selby has only managed to make one world final (losing 18-13 to John Higgins in 2007), so hasn't the track record when it comes to this longer format of the game.

On the whole, the bookies can't separate four men in the betting, Mark Selby, Ronnie O'Sullivan, Judd Trump and Neil Robertson.

O'Sullivan seems (on the whole) to be just about favourite at 5/1 to 6/1, quite surprising since he has been out of snooker for so long. 2010 champion Neil Robertson is second favourite at 11/2 to 6/1. Some bookies have them as joint favourites, but on the whole the majority have O'Sullivan priced up at half a point, or one point shorter than Robertson - with the exception of Ladbrokes who have Robertson as favourite.

Mark Selby then comes in third favourite at 11/2 to 13/2, but again (like with Robertson) - showing just how open this tournament looks on paper - some bookmakers have Selby as joint favourite with Ronnie.

Judd Trump makes up the top four quartet, he is 13/2 to 7/1, like Selby, Trump has one final appearance, losing 18-15 to John Higgins in 2011. The field is then all in double figures.

For each-way bets, all the main online bookmakers are paying out on half the odds for a top two finish, basically getting to the final (to state the bleeding obvious).

Some bookies are giving incentives to try and gain our custom. BetVictor will refund all losing outright winner bets (up to a maximum of £50.00) placed pre tournament if defending champion Ronnie O'Sullivan wins the world title.

Ladbrokes are also offering money back as a free bet if O'Sullivan wins the title, up to a maximum of £25.00. As well as this they are also money back on losing match bets if your player loses in the deciding frame, again as a £25.00 free bet.

While Paddy Power are offering money back on losing outright match bets if a century is scored in the last frame of that particular match (bets have to be placed pre match and maximum refund is 100£/€).

Free bets can be used to bet for free on the snooker with. All three of the bookmakers listed above are offering free bets that can be used here, as well as new tournament sponsor, Betfair. Alternatively cash made from matched betting can be used, either way it is a bet for free.

Latest Relegation Betting

Working on the assumption that Reading and QPR are already relegated (according to the online bookmakers' odds), Wigan's defeat to Manchester City on Wednesday leaves them as 11/8 favourites with the bookies to join them and be the third team to go down this season.

Wigan are now three points behind Aston Villa, Stoke City and Sunderland, but they do have a game in hand on all three. Of the three, only Villa (-24) have a worse goal difference than Wigan (-21), Stoke are -13 and Sunderland -8.

This basically means that Stoke and Sunderland have a one point advantage over Wigan and Villa, as level points would see Stoke and Sunderland safe on goal difference.

The fact that Wigan need to win their game in hand just to achieve parity, and that they need to finish on more points than either Stoke and Sunderland, is probably what is making them favourites for the drop.

Villa's form has picked up a bit lately, but with a young inexperienced side I wouldn't be laying them to go down at odds of 4.4, as they currently are on Betfair.

Stoke City are another side not used to fighting a relegation battle. There is a perception that they are perhaps too good to go down, but I wouldn't be buying into that as they are on such a poor run, they are under serious pressure and as I already said, they are not experienced when it comes to relegation fights.

Norwich are another team who should be looking over their shoulders. For a good few weeks now I've got the impression that Chris Hughton has been trying to draw his way too safety.

Sunderland will be revived by their recent 3-0 win over Newcastle, but they are still in the thick of the relegation fight. I suppose they have a manager with a good fight in him if nothing else.

Latest Relegation Betting

Reading - 1/150
QPR- 1/50
Wigan - 11/8
Aston Villa - 3/1
Stoke City - 9/2
Sunderland - 13/2
Norwich City - 9/1

The 9/1 on Norwich looks like it could be value. As I have already said they have been in a negative mode now for a few weeks. If all of a sudden they find themselves in the bottom three and in need of a win, could they be relied upon to get it?

It all depends on Wigan though. They are currently four points behind the Canaries, so have a bit of work to do to put real pressure on Chris Hughton's men.

US Masters Betting

It's (apparently) spring time, the clocks have gone forward, and the US Masters is upon us again. I always regard this tournament as the starting gun for a summer of magnificent sport, and on paper the Masters looks to have the potential to be a great appetizer for the next few months.

This will be the 77th Masters tournament, former Green Jacket winner Sandy Lyle is the lucky man who gets to hit the first ball this year. Of the 93 man field, the top 50 and those within 10 shots of the leader will make the cut this year, as opposed to 44 in the past.

The course has four par 5's and this year is 7,435 yards long. All this points to suiting the big hitters, but there is a lot more to winning the Masters than a big booming drive.

Statistics are important when picking a winner. For example, American players are the form players at the moment having dominated the US PGA tour over recent months. Martin Laird's win last week was the first non American winner on the US circuit this year.

Also only a small group of players have won on their first couple of visits to Augusta, Charl Schwartzel being the last, who won at his second attempt in 2011. Schwartzel is 28/1 to repeat that win this year.

2011 was also the year Rory McIlroy chucked away a four shot lead and capitulated on the back 9 of his final round. I know that he bounced back and won the 2011 US Open a few months later, but I believe the burden of pressure he will put on himself to right that wrong could hamper his chances.

It's being billed as Rory V Tiger, and quite sensibly Rory played that down yesterday by comparing his record to Tiger's and pointing out that their records are so different, that the two men just can't be compared.

I thought this was a smart ploy by McIlroy, the last thing he needed was to (innocently) say the wrong thing and have the media stoking things up between himself and Woods. It showed maturity from McIlroy, that he is thinking about his conduct and (presumably) his game, which is a good sign after his early season struggles.

In the betting, Tiger Woods is the favourite, mainly at 4/1 or 9/2, he is as short as 3/1 with one layer.

I believe the odds for a Woods' win is a tricky one for punters. On current form it looks a great bet, but on current 'major' form, he could never be backed at 4/1.

From a positive perspective, over the past few months Tiger has looked like the Tiger of old. He looks comfortable with himself again, like he has put all his troubles behind him and has finally moved on.

He is winning tournaments again, he is back at the top of the rankings and his putting has improved no end recently. There is also four par 5's on this course which will suit Woods, and he has won here 4 times previously. So 4/1 is a good price on him?

I'm not so sure, if he was 8 or 9/1, I'd say he's definitely worth a shot, but 4/1 looks too short to me. It's a tempter on current form, but I'd definitely be taking a cautious approach to Woods who hasn't won a major since 2008. Could that extra bit of pressure to win a major and complete his rehabilitation prove too much of a burden? Even for the great Tiger!

US Masters Betting (selected few, with best prices)

Tiger Woods 9/2
Rory McIlroy 12/1
Phil Mickelson 21/1
Justin Rose 20/1
Keegan Bradley 25/1
Adam Scott 25/1
Charl Schwartzel 28/1
Lee Westwood 28/1
Dustin Johnson 28/1
Louis Oosthuizen 28/1
Bubba Watson 40/1

This year most bookmakers are paying out for a top 5 finish (1/4 of the odds) in the each-way betting. Sportingbet, Paddy Power and 888Sport are all being more generous and paying out on 6 places, so it makes far more sense to bet with one of those if you are doing each-way bets.

Of those bookies, there is currently a Paddy Power Free Bet of £50.00 available to new customers who wish to open an account and take advantage of their 6 places in the each-way betting, the free bet can be used to bet for free on the Golf with as well.

Next Manager To Leave Post Latest Betting

It came to no surprise to me tonight to see that Tony Pulis leads the way in the next manager to leave his post betting. He isn't favourite though, 'No Manager to leave before the end of the season' leads the betting and is odds on favourite with Skybet, at 4/7.

Tony Pulis comes in next at 9/4, then it is Harry Redknapp at 16/1, Paolo Di Canio 20/1, Rafa Benitez 20/1 and the rest at 50/1 and beyond.

Skybet are currently the only bookie offering odds on this market, and judging by the odds it looks like they believe it to be a two horse race.

I can only assume that they are looking at the situation with Stoke and thinking that the board might hit the panic button and do what Sunderland did, basically hope that a new manager can give them that short term lift and propel them too the win or two that will surely see them safe.

Working on that theory is there really any difference with Chris Hughton at Norwich? And he is 50/1. Roberto Mancini is also a 50/1 shot. If Manchester City lose heavily tomorrow night (in the Manchester derby) and then crash out of the FA Cup in the semi-finals, what chance he might go when their season is all but over?