Celebrity Big Brother.

Hardeep getting a hard time.

Wannabies, hasbeens and nobodys watched by people with nothing better to do.

All of the above may or may not be true; either way, betting on this, (and the full calendar of `Specials`) is the easiest money to be had on here.

What goes around...

Sir Joseph Bazalgette, Victorian engineer who designed and built London's sewers system, helped clean the Thames, reduced cholera.
Basically pumped loads of sh|t out of millions of people's homes and lives....

Great great grandson Peter Bazalgette, as chairman of Endemol, popularised/sold/perpetuated Big brother and Deal or no deal.
Basically pumping loads of sh|t back in.

and Edward Bazalgette was in the band The Vapors and still does OK for himself.
A few bob, some good friends and the "right" school, go a long way

There are many reasons Specials betting is so easy, but the main two are;

There`s no meaningful form to go on, each series very much having its own dynamic, making it impossible to look at previous series to draw conclusions from. Every football match, every horse race, have untold amounts of `previous` to guide us, but that very same form is available to everyone, and it gets chewed over by every man and his dog, and the best computing power known to man, leaving the markets, by and large, efficient, very hard to beat long term. No such issues with Specials, each event being a `one-off`, leaving oodles of room for differing opinions and insights which, in turn, leads to huge market volatility; any given series might have half a dozen different favs, two or three of them odds-on, yet none of them go on to win, as the 100/1 poke steals it.

Specials events tend to last weeks and months, leaving plenty of time to trade out of mistakes. As a trader, I`ll have up to 1,000 plays per series; given that a blind monkey should guess his way to getting 50% of his bets right, it really isn`t hard to use what you`ve learnt to improve that strike rate to 51% which, over the course of 1,000 bets is all you need to end up winning. As I said; easy!

This has been running three days and, as yet, I couldn`t tell you the winner, but my `predictions`(!!!) appear nightly on the Specials forum. (Which is the most friendly, selfless and helpful forum on here, with maybe 20 long-term winning regulars all helping each other, and anyone else who wants to read and learn from them. That`s what I did, that`s all it takes.)

And don't get me stared on "the Batchelor". That MAKES me want to start casting the lightning bolts myself!

any cats in it?