Novelty Christmas Betting
Every year the same thing happens – we hit December and suddenly the whole world seems to get just a bit more jolly. Office parties are held, furtive kisses are exchanged under strategically placed bunches of mistletoe and newspaper journalists suddenly become preoccupied by the number of repeats that will be shown on television. Fortunately, sports betting fans aren’t excluded from the festive fun, because Paddy Power always has a range of novelty Christmas betting markets that never fail to entertain…
Christmas Engagements
With all of that mistletoe hanging around it often happens that people get a bit more romantic than they might at other times of the year, so Paddy Power has a market that allows you to bet on couples who just might announce their engagement between 25 December and 1 January. Colin Farrell and Alicja Curus-Bachleda head the market at 9/4, Cecilia Ahern and David Keoghan are second favourite at 5/2 and Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Reena Hammer are third in the betting at 4/1.
Irish Text Messaging
Sending text messages has become a primary mode of communication for many people, but how many texts will be sent in Ireland on New Year’s Eve? If you think you can answer that question (to the nearest 10 million or so) then you could have a bet on it. The market at Paddy Power offers odds for Under 30 Million (8/1), 30,000,000 to 40,000,000 (3/1), 40,000,001 to 50,000,000 (2/1), 50,000,001 to 60,000,000 (7/4) and Over 60 Million (3/1).
Top Selling Toys
If you have kids then you’ll already know that Christmas without toys is about as inconceivable to them as Easter without chocolate. This year you can bet on which toy you think will be the best-seller in Ireland. The favourite right now is the Go-Go Hamster at 6/4, and this is followed by the Battle Strikers Tournament Set (7/2), the Transformers Bumblebee Helmet (9/2), Bop-It (11/2) and the Vtech Vmotion System (10/1). Why kids ever needed anything other than a Meccano set or a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, we’ll never know…
Top Selling Celebrity Books
The final novelty Christmas betting market that we want to mention allows you to bet on the top selling celebrity book. Yes, ‘tis the season for many celebs to cash in on their fame before they return to the obscurity from whence they came. The good news for sports betting fans is that the first and second favourites actually look quite interesting.My Championship Year by Jenson Button is the 3/1 favourite and My Comeback: Up Close and Personal by Lance Armstrong is 4/1 second favourite. From there we get to books by Ant & Dec (5/1), Jeremy Clarkson (6/1) and Frankie Boyle (8/1). Jamie Oliver is in there too somewhere, but fortunately our time on this topic is fast running out…
Now we don’t expect anyone to bet massively on any of these novelty Christmas betting markets, but they certainly have plenty of entertainment value and could potentially help you to win a bit of extra cash in time for the credit card bill crashing onto your doormat in January. We reckon Go-Go Hamsters are a fairly good bet in the Top Selling Toy market if the amount of media coverage they have received is anything to go by, but to be honest we haven’t a clue, so you’re on your own. Visit Paddy Power today and see if you can pick yourself a festive winner or two.
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