The Brits Are Kicking Up A Betting Storm

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How can it be that the greatest gambling weekend in the world is apparently in England this weekend? Well, because those crazy bastards across the pond are absolutely fired up to gamble on anything and everything like who’s the most handsome British homo. But tomorrow, well, it’s something special for the madcap punters. With England’s cricket, rugby and football teams all playing international matches on Saturday plus the first big chase of the new National Hunt season taking place at Cheltenham, bookies are predicting a national betting frenzy. Paddy Power says it will be one of the biggest betting weekends ever. Then they said this:

“Everyone will be watching something and you can guarantee they will be having a tenner here and there. We know how popular the first scorer, most runs or a flutter on a horse is at the moment.”

And now we’re completely confused. Horse fluttering sounds so…dirty.

Patriotic Punters Ready For Monster Gamble [UK News]

Bets From Across the Pond: Silly Point

READ MORE: Ashes, Cricket

Cricket is positively un-American. You run back and forth for five days and the game still ends in a tie. Terminology like “gully” and “backward square leg” and “googly” rightly turns most people off, but the English are lapping it all up at the moment, as their national side takes on the Aussies in the Ashes. Held every two years, the Ashes is the biggest fixture in international cricket. The Poms haven’t won for nearly 20 years, making the Aussies favorites, but this year’s best-of-five series is currently tied 1-1 and now England is the second best team in the world (behind Australia) it has got the country’s hopes up. Allegedly, the second match in this year’s series was one of the most thrilling ever played. News to us: we don’t have enough time to figure out the mind-boggling rules (“leg before wicket” — what?), never mind sit around and understand a whole game.

Ashes odds [Oddschecker]