{"id":2788,"date":"2017-11-27T13:58:57","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T13:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/?p=2788"},"modified":"2017-12-15T14:31:15","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T14:31:15","slug":"rak-su-course-x-factor-glory-according-bookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/news-events\/rak-su-course-x-factor-glory-according-bookies\/","title":{"rendered":"Rak-Su on course for X Factor glory according to Bookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long-time favourites Rak-Su are odds-on to be crowned X Factor winners this weekend, according to Bookmakers.<\/p>\n<p>The general public have been getting behind the Watford-based R&#8217;n&#8217;B quartet of&nbsp;Ashley, Jamaal, Myles and Mustafa from the start, and have always been amongst the favourites for the title.<\/p>\n<p>A group has only ever won the title once, and that was Little Mix &#8211; back in 2011 under the tutelage of Tulisa, but now Simon Cowell is in-line for his fourth overall title after previously taking the honours with Steve Brookstein, Leona Lewis and Ben Haenow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rak-Su are odds-on, and that is little surprise, they have been impressing week-in and week-out and their fans &#8211; who are dubbed the Rak-Pak &#8211; are really getting behind them, they are 1\/2 generally but could be shorter than that come Saturday night, in terms of probability the Bookmakers are making them 66% likely to win,&#8221; said OddsMonkey spokesman Peter Watton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, you can&#8217;t rule the other two out in Grace Davies, who is with Sharon Osbourne, and Kevin Davy White, mentored by Nicole&nbsp;Scherzinger &#8211; both have had victories on-route to the final, and Grace has never been in the top-two betting wise the whole series.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But Kevin is the really interesting one from our point of view, he was as long as 50\/1 &#8211; that means at the start the Bookmakers had him down as having a less than 2% chance of winning, but now that is nearly 20% with him being 9\/2 &#8211; but as we said, all the money is for Rak-Su and it will take an extraordinary result for them and Simon not to win.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>X Factor winner odds:<\/strong><br \/>\nRak-Su 1\/2<br \/>\nGrace Davies 3\/1<br \/>\nKevin Davy White 9\/2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-time favourites Rak-Su are odds-on to be crowned X Factor winners this weekend, according to Bookmakers. The general public have been getting behind the Watford-based R&#8217;n&#8217;B quartet of&nbsp;Ashley, Jamaal, Myles and Mustafa from the start, and have always been amongst the favourites for the title. A group has only ever won the title once, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":""},"categories":[74,1640,2703],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[3407,3294,115,2876,3146,3138,2036,2880,2868,2566,3137,3135,1717,3144,2531,2855,2458,3408,2685],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2788"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2893,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788\/revisions\/2893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2788"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}