Could never understand his popularity in the first place so this is brilliant news . Freddie back in third place with Rodrigo not far behind though so potentially a four horse race.

I'm glad Rodrigo is higher than Charlie but don't understand why Sophie is first

I am very pleased to hear this.
I hope Charlie continues to slip.
(Quite surprised that Sophie is favourite, though - I don`t know how she`s managed that.)

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Originally posted by Yellow Rose:
I'm glad Rodrigo is higher than Charlie but don't understand why Sophie is first

Given those three as a choice i would prefer her over those two.

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Originally posted by brisket:
I am very pleased to hear this.
I hope Charlie continues to slip.
(Quite surprised that Sophie is favourite, though - I don`t know how she`s managed that.)

Agree with your post.

The odds are so close between the top 5 at the moment. At this stage of BB7 and BB8 we had clear favourites who went on to win - take your pick this year!

I still think it will be Siavash, but Rodrigo could be the real dark horse.

I actually don't understand those figures - could someone explain who is favourite, second third etc please?

I love it when the bookies get it wrong.

Charlie is going to pull out all the stops now with his sob story..utter wanker.

yeah!

Freddie is now fav to win on Betfair and his odds are shortening across the board . I noticed some of Sophies odds are lengthening so close between the 5 of them.

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Originally posted by Cold Sweat:
The odds are so close between the top 5 at the moment. At this stage of BB7 and BB8 we had clear favourites who went on to win - take your pick this year!

I still think it will be Siavash, but Rodrigo could be the real dark horse.

I have bets on both!

You cannot beat the good ol' sympathy vote!

Freddie to win (again)!

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Originally posted by Cold Sweat:
You cannot beat the good ol' sympathy vote!

It's not sympathy though because most Freddie fans like the guy as a person .

I don't know why people seem to think the bookmakers are some kind of oracle here. It's weird.

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Originally posted by Free Thinking:
I don't know why people seem to think the bookmakers are some kind of oracle here. It's weird.

Because Free-of-Thinking, the bookies reflect money placed by punters and those same punters vote on the phone and reflect the opinions of others that vote. The correlation is not exact but more often than not they are right.

Is it even worth trying to save Marcus at this stage?

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Originally posted by Cold Sweat:
Is it even worth trying to save Marcus at this stage?

You can try, Marcus wants to leave anyway but i'm sure his fans will give it a good go trying to save him .

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Originally posted by Flossie:

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Originally posted by Free Thinking:
I don't know why people seem to think the bookmakers are some kind of oracle here. It's weird.

Because Free-of-Thinking, the bookies reflect money placed by punters and those same punters vote on the phone and reflect the opinions of others that vote. The correlation is not exact but more often than not they are right.

Bookmakers reflect the opinion of those who have the most money to waste on betting as well as - in general - those who bet. They may well waste their money on eviction votes as well, but then so do many others who don't bet at all.

They will 'change horses' all the time as the fashion changes, as things change in the house. Maybe they can finally get in right just before an eviction, unless it's close or quite a few HMs are up. I always thought Hira was the most likely to be evicted last week, but she wasn't always the most favoured in the the betting. People who bet are really guessing what the general opinion of the audience is. Another thing they can't predict is tactical voting (or lack of) and whether people will switch their allegiance to a particular HM.

Ive been waiting on them two slipping and climbing for 10 weeks

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Originally posted by darloboy07:
Freddie is now fav to win on Betfair and his odds are shortening across the board . I noticed some of Sophies odds are lengthening so close between the 5 of them.

What does shortening and lengthening mean, in betting terminology?

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Originally posted by jennywren:

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Originally posted by darloboy07:
Freddie is now fav to win on Betfair and his odds are shortening across the board . I noticed some of Sophies odds are lengthening so close between the 5 of them.

What does shortening and lengthening mean, in betting terminology?

Shortening means the odds increase, lengthening means they decrease. On Oddschecker if the odds are in blue that means increse, red means decrease.

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Originally posted by jennywren:

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Originally posted by darloboy07:
Freddie is now fav to win on Betfair and his odds are shortening across the board . I noticed some of Sophies odds are lengthening so close between the 5 of them.

What does shortening and lengthening mean, in betting terminology?

ask a penis surgeon

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Originally posted by darloboy07:

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Originally posted by jennywren:

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Originally posted by darloboy07:
Freddie is now fav to win on Betfair and his odds are shortening across the board . I noticed some of Sophies odds are lengthening so close between the 5 of them.

What does shortening and lengthening mean, in betting terminology?

Shortening means the odds increase, lengthening means they decrease. On Oddschecker if the odds are in blue that means increse, red means decrease.

OK, what does odds increase and odds decrease mean?

For those like me who don't understand betting stuff at all, how can we tell which is best and which is worst?

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Originally posted by jennywren:

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Originally posted by darloboy07:

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Originally posted by jennywren:

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Originally posted by darloboy07:
Freddie is now fav to win on Betfair and his odds are shortening across the board . I noticed some of Sophies odds are lengthening so close between the 5 of them.

What does shortening and lengthening mean, in betting terminology?

Shortening means the odds increase, lengthening means they decrease. On Oddschecker if the odds are in blue that means increse, red means decrease.

OK, what does odds increase and odds decrease mean?

For those like me who don't understand betting stuff at all, how can we tell which is best and which is worst?

Increase means they go up, decrease means they go down.


Sophie has dropped down to second on Oddschecker level with Siavash .