US Bookies Hit For Six On Black Sunday

Wednesday, December 07, 2005

Punters Joy - Us Bookies Woe

The gamblers dream headline goes like this - Black Sunday stuns bookies for millions

12 out of 16 favourites won and covered the handicap during last weekend's NFL games played on sunday and monday.

American football bettors cleaned up apparently, costing the US sportsbooks millions of dollars in winning tickets. Wonderful news. Gambling is a game of chance and sometimes I gather, the matador does not always win. A famous betting weekend, nicknamed Black Sunday by the American bookies.

Sports Interaction Vice President Anthony Munnelly said
"We're calling it "Black Sunday". In my time in the industry I have never seen a Sunday like it.

It's very unusual to see that many favourites cover at any one weekend, especially in this era of parity.

I'm happy for our customers, they won their money fair and square and good luck to them. But when I'm writing my letter to Santa later this week I'm going to ask for some underdogs to starting biting, before I end up on standing on the street wearing a red hat and ringing a bell."
Gamblog Comment - UK bookies have not had a great year either. Profits are down due to favourable results for punters, which led Paddy Power, Ladbrokes and William Hills to issue a warning to whoever cares, that profits will be down in 2005.

Boohoo the bookies cry - "my usually fat satchel full of gamblers money is nearly empty".

I bet the bookmakers win it all back sooner rather than later, in the UK and across the pond no doubt.

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