Irish Open 2009 Outright Betting Market OpenTop Pros Vie For Favouritism at 2009 Irish Open This April |
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Paddypowerpoker.com has launched the outright betting market for its Irish Open 2009 which is sure to get some players licking their lips at the opportunity to beat the bookie. In two of the last three years the winner of the event — Neil Channing in 2008 and Vincent Melinn in 2006 — backed themselves to the tune of £50,000 and €47,000 respectively.
Here’s a selection of the odds on offer at the time of writing (with six players currently vying for favourite):
Sorel Mizzi --125/1
Soren Konsgaard -- 125/1
Roland de Wolfe -- 125/1
Neil Channing -- 150/1
Ciaran O’Leary -- 150/1
Christer Johansson -- 150/1
Padraig Parkinson -- 200/1
John Duthie -- 200/1
Stuart Rutter -- 200/1
Arnaud Mattern -- 200/1
Mickey Wernick -- 250/1
Noel Furlong -- 300/1
Teddy Sheringham -- 300/1
Many more markets will be added over the coming weeks so be sure to click the ‘poker’ link at PaddyPower.com to check on them and see how the prices are moving.
As the Irish Open preparation ramps up, paddypowerpoker.com are running weekly Irish Open ticket-only satellites every Thursday evening at 8:05 p.m. with at minimum of two tickets worth $4,700 ticket, offered each week. Players can qualify daily for the Thursday satellite for as little as $2.20.
The number of Irish Open packages, worth $6,500, awarded in the existing Sunday and Tuesday satellites is growing week-by-week as players scramble and to get to into not only the tournament but also the Sole Survivor competition which will see the qualifier lasting longest in the tournament get a $100,000 sponsorship deal for a year.
Finally, while players are crunching the probability of their middle pin draw hitting after the turn paddypowerpoker.com has been busy calculating some of the more unusual statistics of the Irish Open. These include:
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