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Maybe you bet on surfing, maybe you don’t. Maybe it’s a geographical thing (sorry USA!), maybe it’s a philosophical thing.
It does add a certain excitement to an event or a year, howevs, more than Fantasy Surfer and its promise of a trip to Hawaii ever could.
Actual skin in the game.
Cue accelerated heart-rate. Cue weeping/cheering children as daddy brings home, loses, the family bacon.
Recently, the Vegas markets, yeah Vegas, all markets are created by machines spinning algorithms not people, dropped odds on the 2018 world title.
Ain’t no surprise, but how about we go shopping.
Favourite, John John Florence, 3.5-1: How confident are you John’s going to win three titles in a row? Stats say it’s almost a sure thing. Throw a hundred on it, wait a year and you might get $350.
4.40-1, Gabriel Medina: Three years since his world title, he’s almost on par with John. The ice man with eyebrows that’ve been plucked and drawn back on at a more rakish angle. Who weeps.
7-1, Filipe Toledo: Don’t tell me this doesn’t give you a shiver of the possibility of a big return. There’s nothing dim or hazy about Filipe, who could, without a surprise to anyone, win half the events on this year’s tour: Snapper, Rio, Keramas, J-Bay, Surf Ranch, France, Portugal. Wait, two-thirds of the tour’s events. Peel off a thousand bucks for an almost 10k return.
10-1, Jordy Smith: Big, beautiful Jordy turns thirty, wraps milestone year in a title. Can it happen? The markets say it’s not a long-shot but a mid-level fantasy, like a three-way with a couple of sixes.
41-1, Kolohe Andino: What’s that do for a boy’s confidence, when machines tell you you’re a virtual impossibility to win a title? But what point wallowing in the past? Is this the year of Kolohe Andino’s great, sweeping triumph? It could be yours, at an attractive 41-1-, if you’re a believer.
Other odds:
13-1: Julian Wilson.
17-1: Owen Wright.
19-1: Mick Fanning.
19 -1: Kelly Slater.
21-1: Italo Ferreira.
31-1: Adriano de Souza.
31-1: Joel Parkinson.
Click here to view the market! And to potentially throw away your money. Or maybe win a little more.
At the risk of pissing off sponsors and listeners Top Bet has the most up to date odds – Ladbrokes is easy to use and pretty solid with odds and you can create a separate account so easy to hide from loved ones…..not that I do that honey….
ADS and Parko at the same 19-1 shot … ADS all day of that pair
damn. I wonder if the TAB or Lottoland will also start putting odds on for each event.
One thing the WSL is not is a conspiracy theory. They couldnt even conspire to put on a Pipe contest.
Dastardly and Muttley. One of my favorite cartoons growing up.
https://youtu.be/RXKJolS9Atg
Got me thinking whether surfers are already throwing/fixing heats, betting on their own performance etc.
Watch, closely. And word on the street, or at least the gambling industry, is the WSL is going to introduce betting, in a big way, at Snapper.
Occy will be creaming his pants.
No wonder Richie got out of the casino cage….errr….I mean judge’s booth!
Not enough big bets being thrown to make it worth while for a surfer to throw a heat – there are hacks but that’s not it
Or someone will catch a left during the pipemasters .
or get a 6.5 for an air at Ehukai
Lightning strikes white lightning again ? What are the odds ?
Nineteen to one!
Turn eleven dollars into two hundred!
Still wouldn’t take away the pain .
Now I get why you’re a bitter guy.
make no mistake, this industry owes me big time 😉
Is there a work around for betting outside of Oz?
The Visible Panties Network…may… offer a solution. https://www.choice.com.au/e…
copy that.. gambling sure brings out the Libertarian in me
You don’t know the script? Of course that one guys going to win, it’s all scripted until that other guy starts winning, then it’s of course he’s going to win, it’s all scripted.
Will Vegas drop odds on each event?
If so, what would odds look like for the inaugural WCT Surf Ranch event?
Yeah, odds on each event. Fish around on that same link and you get Snapper odds. Filipe and John at six, Gabriel at eight, Joel at 17, Conner at 51…
Is Kelly surfing his own event? He’s got quite a bit of practice there…
Yeah! That’s where I was heading with this. The skewing effect of having the house key.
The house key don’t buy back-to-back oops, howevs.
It does when you’re the only one who knows where your camouflaged wind machine is, and the winds get chin scratchingly gusty during your tub time, and not Felipe’s.
The odds should be their jersey numbers.
Unless Kelly finally decides to pull the trigger and declare himself Grand Dictator of the WSL or Brilliant Genius of Humanity, he’s not winning the Title.
It seems unlikely, but unlikelier things have happened! I can’t help feeling there’s a bit of magic/luck left. I can’t accept that Slater might just fizzle out. The greats can always conjure something for their final flourish!
There is a 0% chance Slater will ever win another title. Did you watch Snapper, Margarets, and Bells last year? He’s obviously still got some game, but there’s no way he can compete with the current world’s best (John, Gab) across 11 events.
Yeah I don’t believe it either, I just want to believe!
Let’s dream a little. Gets through two heats at Snapper, makes the semis at Margs, quarters at Bells, avoids Rio, semis at J-Bay, wins Teahupoo, again, semis at his Ranch. It ain’t a stretch for Kelly to be in the game swinging into Pipe. Unlikely, yes, but…zero? You…you…realist!
Zero
So you’re saying Kelly and I have the same chance?
He’s past his Michael Jordan on the Wizards stage at this point.
I was just gonna say, does Vegas offer odds on him not winning? Because that’s a bet I’d take!
40-1 on Gaby? That seems insane, especially when Joel is only 31-1? Joel has higher odds of OD’ing on Balter before the season is done. I’ll take those gabs odds all day
It’s just over 4/1, mate. Otherwise I’d be re-mortgaging for it.
Ohhh I read 4) 40-1… Like they were being listed, but I guess he’s 2) on this list, so either way I’m dumb.
Italo. Ferreira.
You putting money on it?
My money is forever on Italo. Literally and figuratively.