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Politics + Reality TV betting
Hi Neil
Just signed up to your twitter and tipster site. Its a good read
You talk a lot about politics on there and seem to know your stuff , yet on the results section your stats for politics are pretty shocking. I reckon your due a win tho on this so whats your top 3 tips for upcoming political markets - ps i think Hilary is to short now against Trump at 1.2. Did you get on her when she was a bigger price?
I know there not huge markets but do you bet on reality shows like strictly and x factor? And any tips for this ?
Thx
Paul
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Thanks MP. Glad to hear you like it. I certainly spend way too much time on Twitter but it's reassuring to hear that people actually read and like the Tweets.
On the subject of political betting we haven't done too much of it on our tipping site. The main reason is we have about 10,000 people who ever look at the free stuff and about 2000 that look at it regularly so if we put a bet up we would imagine maybe 300 people all rushing to get a bet on and with these markets the bookies would often be very quick to change the prices and to maybe not lay any big bets. We've always tried to focus on markets where the customers can get on. The results on politics show 261 pts has been bet and our average bet is about 18 pts so basically we have suggested 15 bets in three years. We are losing 10.5 pts on those bets so that is around half a bet. Obviously we haven't done as well as we'd liked, we want to win every bet, but I think "shocking" may be a little extreme. It's a pretty small sample and we are virtually breaking even.
I personally have felt Trump is way too short for a long time and I still think he is. The fact that almost all states are meaningless contests and it just comes down to around six swing states means US elections are pretty easy to predict and this one has been a bit dead to me as a betting event for a while.
Right now we are living in massively interesting political times but the bookies hardly ever have any interesting new markets. I haven't seen anything for a while.
I never watch reality TV so I hardly ever bet on it. Do you have any good tips for me?
I never watch