XMAS number 1 without x-factor

[GaNgStA kEeKs]

Originally Posted by DAN DAN

I seen to have 100/1 on Soulja boy on Betfair, all this stuff confuses me you know.

Basically means we are fucked DD

Melua looks a shoe in with their odds @ 1.05

[DAN DAN]

Damn

[DAN DAN]

No accounting for fcuking taste then is there?

[stereoman]

Yeah it looks like it. Today's Bettingzone Market News:

1115: Bookies William Hill have almost surrendered to the inevitable and have slashed the price of X Factor winner Leon Jackson having the Christmas No 1 from 1/6 to 1/20.

His nearest challenger is Katie Melua and Eva Cassidy at 10/1, with Christmas favourites by the Pogues and Mariah Carey still in the hunt at 20/1.

"We understand that the single is flying off the shelves in HMV and we need a Christmas miracle to save ourselves a monster payout," said Hill's spokesman Rupert Adams.

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Um. How much money did they take!? Can't have been that much considering it was already huge odds-on. Surely they haven't been getting punters to bet a combined £1 million to win £100,000 have they!? Pinch of salt....who's going to feel sorry for William Hill!?

[Beanie]

Current sales(for anyone interested):

X Factor - 115k
Eva/Melua - 32k
Leona - 15k
Pogues - 14k
Soulja - 13k
Mariah - 12k

So basically, both markets done and dusted.

[stereoman]

The top five in midweek remained the same tonight.

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