{"id":4296,"date":"2018-07-12T12:48:38","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T11:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/?p=4296"},"modified":"2018-07-12T12:48:38","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T11:48:38","slug":"bookmakers-breathing-easier-after-england-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/home\/bookmakers-breathing-easier-after-england-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookmakers breathing easier after England exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst Bookmakers across the land were getting behind England, they are also breathing a huge sigh of relief after The Three Lions were dumped out of the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Bookmakers had been sweating on an England win, having seen them go from 18\/1 shots into second favourites at one point and as low as just 4\/1.<\/p>\n<p>Industry wide England winning would have been the biggest pay-out in history for one winner, and now the Bookmakers are very much in credit when it comes to Russia 2018.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Industry wide, Bookmakers would have been looking at around \u00a3250million loss, and possibly even more had England won the final,&#8221; said OddsMonkey spokesman Peter Watton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The betting on the final itself would have broken records, and whilst that would have been welcome &#8211; the chances of an England win were looming large on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But it is not all good news for the Bookies as Harry Kane, who is set to finish top-scorer, will cost them a few quid that is for sure &#8211; but it is fair to say that England losing is a big win for the Bookmakers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h5><em>OddsMonkey are the\u00a0leading Odds Experts, and specialise in analysing\u00a0odds and betting markets.<\/em><\/h5>\n<h5><em>Spokesman Pete\u00a0Watton is available for further comment or one-on-one interviews on this subject or anything connected with a betting market \u2013 for more information please contact\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:press@oddsmonkey.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press@oddsmonkey.com<\/a>\u00a0o<wbr \/>r call\u00a001916404262<\/em><\/h5>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2792\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/pressreleasebanner.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 865px) 100vw, 865px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/pressreleasebanner.jpg 865w, https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/pressreleasebanner-300x120.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/pressreleasebanner-768x306.jpg 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"865\" height=\"345\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst Bookmakers across the land were getting behind England, they are also breathing a huge sigh of relief after The Three Lions were dumped out of the World Cup. Bookmakers had been sweating on an England win, having seen them go from 18\/1 shots into second favourites at one point and as low as just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":4297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":""},"categories":[5046,74,1640],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[113,115,1535,6371,2283,6369,6368,2739,207,3478,1731,6370,2685],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296"}],"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=4296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4298,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296\/revisions\/4298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4296"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}