Best high street prices for:

Winning Manager - Evs Simon, 6/4 Sharon, 10/1 Nicole, 12/1 Louis

Top Girl - 1/3 Grace, 9/2 Holly, 12/1 Alisah, 16/1 Rai-Elle

Top Boy - 1/5 Lloyd, 4/1 Sam

Top Group - 1/8 Rak-Su, 12/1 Cutkelvins, 12/1 S&C Price, 50/1 Jack & Joel

Top Over - 3/10 Kevin, 11/4 Matt

First Manager to lose all acts - 4/9 Louis, 2/1 Nicole, 12/1 Sharon, 20/1 Simon

5th Elimination - Jack & Joel

For the 5th live show all the Groups and Overs sang with Jack & Joel announced as bottom of the 13 minute vote

Hills were first up with prices and had J&J fav at 6/5
Just before the show started, J&J were 2.14 to back (but had been odds on, then traded as high as 2.88 before shortening back), Matt was 4 to back, Cutkelvins 5.7, S&C 7.6, Rak-Su 14, Kevin 20
J&J traded between 2.88 and 1.52 with lpm 2.16. Their lpm in the Outright was 190
Matt traded between 6.6 and 2.86 with lpm 3
Sean and Conor traded between 13 at 5.5 with lpm 7.6
Cutkelvins traded between 12.5 and 4.4 with lpm 9.2
Rak-Su traded between 38 and 20 with lpm 23
Kevin traded between 75 (+ £6 at 390 & £8 at 190) and 11 with lpm that 390
£13,420 total matched


5th Show Winner - Kevin Davy White

Kevin traded between 2.5 (highest matched, before running order and therefore pimp position was known) and 1.27 with lpm 1.65. He was trading near his lows when Dermot, surprisingly, announced half way through the vote that there was "less than 1% between the Top 2" when he obviously then shot out to 1.6s/1.7s
Rak-Su traded between 14 and 3.25 with lpm 5
Cutkelvins traded between 12 and 4.8 with lpm 6.6
Sean & Conor traded between 28 and 5 with lpm 25
Matt traded between 65 and 13 (+ £10 at 4.3) with lpm 40
Jack & Joel traded between 48 and 18 with lpm that 48
£9,052 total matched

9.0 was lovely after being declared winner - Think someones bot needs fixing. Laid most of it off at 6.0 today.

Sunday's Girls & Boys Show

At the beginning of the show Rak-Su were trading 2.5s - 2.7s, Grace mid 4s, Kevin around 6.6, Holly and Lloyd around 14
After Grace had sang (in 3rd), she drifted to 5s
After Lloyd sang (in 5th, bringing Sharon to tears) he was matched as low as 8.4
When Holly was singing (in pimp) she shortened to 10 but quickly drifted afterwards
Last prices matched at suspension were Rak-Su 2.7, Grace 5, Kevin 5.8, Lloyd 11, Holly 20. Unlike last week, the Outright market stayed suspended during the Prize Fight Sing-off

Monday morning current prices:
2.34 - 2.38..........Rak-Su       (opened last night still in 2.6s & 2.7s, shortened overnight)
4.8 - 5..............Grace Davies       (early Sunday afternoon she drifted to around 5.7 before then shortening back)
8 - 8.4..............Kevin Davy White     (early Sunday afternoon he shortened to high 5s before drifting to 6s, opened 6s last night, drifted overnight)
10.5 - 11.5..........Lloyd Macey       (opened 9s last night after winning Prize Fight but has drifted since)
32 - 36..............Holly Tandy       (hasn't stopped drifting since the show finished)
46 - 48..............Matt Linnen
55 - 70..............Rai Elle Williams       (opened 30s, drifted since)
70 - 85..............Sean & Conor Price     (matched as high as 130 during yesterday)
95 - 100.............The Cutkelvins       (matched as high as 140 during yesterday)
330 - 600............Sam Black

£1,276,340 matched, back 100.7%, lay 91.3%

Best high street prices for:

Winning Manager - 5/4 Simon (Groups), 9/4 Sharon (Girls), 9/2 Nicole (Overs), 7/1 Louis (Boys)

Top Girl - 1/3 Grace, 4/1 Holly, 8/1 Rai-Elle

Top Boy - 1/16 Lloyd, 8/1 Sam

Top Group - 1/12 Rak-Su, 12/1 Cutkelvins, 16/1 S&C Price

Top Over - 1/8 Kevin, 11/2 Matt

First Manager to lose all acts - 11/10 Louis, 6/4 Nicole, 7/1 Sharon, 16/1 Simon

7th Elimination - Sam Black
8th Elimination - Sean & Conor Price

For the 7th live show the Groups and Boys sang with the bottom two going after the 11 1/2 minute vote
No bookies were betting on this with the uncertainty of exactly how the eliminations would work. Betfair had a Double Elimination market
Just before the show Lloyd was trading 1.15 - 1.22, S&C 1.5 - 1.61, Cutkelvins 2.56 - 3.1, Lloyd 8 - 11, Rak-Su 10 - 22
Sam had £21 matched at 1.5 & £57 at 1.48 when the market was first loaded but otherwise traded between 1.23 and 1.06 with lpm 1.09. His lpm in the Outright was 380
Sean & Conor had £15 matched at 6, £3 at 5.9, £8 at 4, £5 at 3 but otherwise traded between 1.69 and 1.33 with lpm 1.6. Their lpm in the Outright was 120
Cutkelvins mostly traded between 3.45 and 2.28 with lpm 2.8
Lloyd had £7 matched at 25 then traded 18 to 5 with lpm 10
Rak-Su mostly traded 34 to 19.5 for small amounts, lpm 32
£9,281 total matched


7th Show Winner - Rak-Su

Another pimp slot and adulations given to Rak-Su. They had £160 matched at 1.8 but otherwise traded between 1.54 and 1.23 with lpm 1.3
Lloyd traded between 7 and 2.8 (+ £24 at 2.3) with lpm that 7
Cutkelvins mostly traded bewteen 9 and 3s with lpm 6.6
Only very small amounts matched on no hopers Sean & Conor and Sam. £4,812 total matched

CORRECTION to my post two up. I said Sam Black was eliminated 7th and Sean & Conor Price 8th but actually they were just both announced as leaving so we don't know who was bottom of the vote (though very likely to be Sam) but in any case it doesn't really matter as didn't impact any betting markets


9th & 10th Eliminations (order unknown) - Rai-Elle Williams & Holly Tandy

For the 8th live show the Girls and Overs sang with the bottom two going after a 4 minute vote
In Betfair's Double Elimination market, just before the show, Rai-Elle was trading 1.45 - 1.49, Matt 1.67 - 1.75, Holly 2.26 - 2.58, Kevin 3.65 - 4.5, Grace 9 - 15
Rai-Elle was matched between 1.49 (+ £6 at 1.6) and 1.2 (+ £76 at 1.16) with lpm 1.22. Her lpm in the Outright was 280
Holly was matched between 2.62 and 1.25 which was lpm. Her lpm in the Outright was 80
Matt was matched between 4 and 1.31 with lpm that 4
Kevin was matched between 7.8 and 2.54 with lpm that 7.8
Grace was mostly matched between 16 and 12 with lpm pennies at 44
£10,307 total matched


Betfair had an Elimination Combo market up which had £2,297 matched
The winning selection, Rai-Elle & Holly, traded between 5.2 and 1.5 which was lpm


8th Show Winner - Grace Davies
Just before the show, Grace was trading 1.53 - 1.75, Kevin 4.4 - 5, Holly 8.2 - 11.5, Matt 13.5 - 17.5, Rai-Ella 20 - 40
Grace, in pimp, traded between 1.9 and 1.25 with lpm 1.68 on a late drift
Matt traded between 18.5 and 3.5 (+ £13 at 3) with lpm 4
Kevin traded between 11 and 3.9 with lpm 9
Holly traded between 11.5 (+ £6 at 24) and 4 with lpm that 24
Rai-Elle traded between 75 and 12, all for very small amounts, with lpm that 75
£4,884 total matched


4th Weekend Prize Fight Winner - Rak-Su
Rak-Su (Saturday winner) v Grace (Sunday winner). Rak-Su sang first, then Grace, then a 10 minute vote. I think Betfair suspended the market a couple of minutes early
Saturday winner traded between 1.73 and 1.33 (+ £40 at 1.22) with lpm that 1.73
Sunday winner traded between 2.68 and 1.34 which was strangely the lpm (only £24 matched at that price though)
£1,664 total matched

Friday morning update

Song's announced later this morning (Cool Britannia/Best of British theme). All 6 acts will sing on Saturday, we think bottom of the vote will go, then assume the remaining 5 acts will sing again on Sunday (same theme, different theme, no theme?) with again the bottom of the vote going

1.59 - 1.61..........Rak-Su       (steadily shortened all week, 1.57 lowest matched)
4.7 - 4.9............Grace Davies
13 - 13.5............Kevin Davy White
21 - 23..............Lloyd Macey
42 - 48..............Matt Linnen
70 - 80..............The Cutkelvins

£1,634,504 matched, back 105.8%, lay 97.6%


Best high street prices for:

Winning Manager - 8/13 Simon (Groups), 100/30 Sharon (Girls), 6/1 Nicole (Overs), 12/1 Louis (Boys)

Top Group - 1/50 Rak-Su, 14/1 Cutkelvins

Top Over - 1/3 Kevin, 11/4 Matt

Top 3 Finish - 1/25 Rak-Su, 1/4 Grace, Evs Kevin, 5/4 Lloyd, 11/4 Matt, 9/2 Cutkelvins

First Manager to lose all acts / Next Elimination - not one bookie betting on this

11th Elimination - Matt Linnen

Whilst a couple of bookies were offering 7/4 Matt going yesterday morning this quickly shortened during the day making Matt fav to go
The voting window was 15 minutes and half way through Dermot announced there was only 2% between the Bottom 2 acts

Matt was matched between 2.5 and 1.28 with lpm 1.61 (drifting from lows on Dermot's reveal). His lpm in the Outright was 120
Cutkelvins were matched between 5 and 2.2 (small amount at 2.1 & 1.91) with lpm 3 (shortening from highs on Dermot's reveal)
Lloyd was matched between 60 (+ £12 at 110, £1 at 120, £1 at 130) and 9.8 (small amount at 9 and 8.6) with lpm 120. He was matched at lows when Louis announced his voice had gone
Kevin was mostly matched between 190 and 7 with lpm that 190
Grace was mostly matched between 50 and 19 with lpm 20
Rak-Su were matched between 100 (+ £8 at 270) and 30 with lpm 55
A whopping £18,594 matched

12th & 13th Eliminations (or 5th and 4th place finishers) (order unknown) - The Cutkelvins & Lloyd Macey

Betfair had a Double Elimination market. Just before the show, Cutkelvins were 1.09 - 1.1, Lloyd 1.37 - 1.41, Kevin 3.4 - 4.2, Grace 10.5 - 12, Rak-Su 20 - 28
The vote was open for 15 minutes
The Cutkelvins had £72 matched at 1.3 then were matched between 1.2 and 1.03 with lpm 1.06. Their Outright lpm was 350
Lloyd was matched between 1.76 and 1.25 with lpm 1.36. His Outright lpm was 48
Kevin was matched between 6 and 2.5 (+ £123 at 2 and £41 at 1.96) with lpm 5
Grace was matched between 14 and 4.8 (+ £40 at 2.2) with lpm 8
Rak-Su were matched between 38 and 16 with lpm 27
£26,712 total matched

Elimination Combo Market
The winning Cutkelvin/LLoyd combo was matched between 1.72 and 1.25 with lpm 1.29
£4,172 total matched

Friday morning before the weekend finale

Market been very steady this week, not much movement, well Kevin drift. Current prices:

1.45 - 1.46...........Rak-Su
4.4 - 4.5............Grace Davies
13 - 13.5............Kevin Davy White
£1,839,671 matched

Best high street prices for:

Next Elimination (3rd place)   1/2 Kevin, 2/1 Grace, 10/1 Rak-Su

To Finish 2nd     Evs Grace, 9/4 Kevin, 5/2 Rak-Su

Straight Forecast     11/10 Rak-Su/Grace, 100/30 Rak-Su/Kevin, 5/1 Grace/Rak-Su, 12/1 Kevin/Rak-Su, 16/1 Grace/Kevin, 25/1 Kevin/Grace

Winner - Rak-Su

Runner Up - Grace Davies

During Sunday afternoon Grace shortened a little, only to around 3.8 though. As the show neared she went back to 4
7:15pm  Show started, Rak-Su 1.31 - 1.32, Grace 4 - 4.2, £2,024,957 matched
7:35pm  VT for Grace's first song starts, she's 4.4 then hits 4.6 by the end of judges comments
7:43pm  Rak-Su's VT starts, they are 1.27, 1.25 by end of VT, 1.23 during the song, 1.22 after judges orgasms
8:10pm  Grace 2nd song about to start, she's 5.3 now, 5.5 end of song, then 5.7 then hits 6 by the end of judges comments
8:19pm  Rak-Su 2nd song about to start, they are 1.18, 1.17 end of song, hit 1.15 during judges comments
8:41pm  Lines closed, last prices matched Rak-Su 1.17, Grace 7.2, total matched £2,203,962

So there you have it, Rak-Su were the very first act shown on the very first audition show on Saturday 2nd Sept whilst Grace had the closing pimp section on the very same show!
On the day after the first audition show, Rak-Su were available at 20/1 with Lads/Coral and Grace 7/1 with Hills

The final 16:

Lowest & Highest prices matched for Rak-Su
Highest prices matched were on the first day of the market
1.15    £13,575
1.16    £20,003
1.17    £18,070
1.18    £13,027
1.19    £7,444
1.20    £12,040
1.21    £10,238
1.22    £9,804
1.23    £17,717
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10.0    £2,670
10.5    £2,111
11.0    £2,811
11.5    £2,117
12.0    £2,627
12.5    £3,066
13.0    £1,309
13.5    £1,483
14.0    £856
14.5    £191

Lowest and Highest prices matched for Grace Davies
Lows matched after the first live weekend where she won the Prize Fight (beating Rak-Su)
Highs matched on an infamous quiet Monday evening (2nd Oct) when Tweets were saying she was doing a charity concert during the live shows, suggesting she hadn't made the cut at Judges' Houses
2.50    £119
2.52    £1,158
2.54    £467
2.56    £1,264
2.58    £1,327
2.60    £2,451
2.62    £4,807
2.64    £1,187
2.66    £2,238
2.68    £603
2.70    £508
2.72    £4,686
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15.0    £278
15.5    £3
16.0    £426
16.5    £134
17.0    £330
17.5    £316
18.0    £61
19.0    £193
19.5    £74
20.0    £342
21.0    £117

Lowest & highest prices matched for Kevin Davy White
Lows hit on 12th Nov, highs during the first live show weekend I think, or maybe before that
5.1    £10
5.3    £40
5.6    £840
5.7    £222
5.8    £770
5.9    £2,308
6.0    £2,273
6.2    £2,386
6.4    £2,909
6.6    £2,537
6.8    £3,058
7.0    £3,214
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150    £273
160    £150
170    £82
180    £6
200    £94
250    £41
270    £4
280    £46
300    £18
400    £20

Lowest & Highest matched for Lloyd Macey
Lows matched on the 3rd live show weekend when he won the Prize Fight, highs in the early days after his audition
6.0    £2
7.6    £7
8.0    £19
8.2    £88
8.4    £18
8.6    £46
8.8    £291
9.0    £2,080
9.2    £920
9.4    £1,748
9.6    £2,310
9.8    £2,102
10.0    £5,454
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50    £913
55    £624
60    £636
65    £194
70    £173
75    £0
80    £41
85    £33
90    £7
95    £63
100    £8

Lows matched the The Cutkelvins
8.0    £56
8.2    £176
8.4    £852
8.6    £591
8.8    £2,170
9.0    £934
9.2    £1,302
9.4    £1,496
9.6    £1,648
9.8    £1,183
10.0    £4,563

Lows matched for Matt Linnen
16.0    £56
16.5    £400
17.0    £268
17.5    £825
18.0    £549
18.5    £40
19.0    £46
19.5    £177
20.0    £1,535
21.0    £1,428

Lows matched for Holly Tandy
5.0    £49
5.1    £65
5.2    £184
5.3    £328
5.4    £1,054
5.5    £1,143
5.6    £885
5.7    £475
5.8    £1,033
5.9    £1,605
6.0    £1,996

Lows matched for Rai-Elle Williams
20    £81
23    £4
24    £60
25    £141
26    £278
27    £386
28    £927
29    £1,164
30    £2,470
32    £3,858

Lows matched for Sean & Conor Price
5.6    £300
5.7    £444
5.8    £60
5.9    £32
6.0    £980
6.2    £437
6.4    £1,278
6.6    £2,398
6.8    £1,938
7.0    £3,832

Lows matched for Sam Black
22    £96
23    £427
24    £21
25    £113
26    £376
27    £46
28    £154
29    £112
30    £465
32    £572

Lows matched for Alisah Bonaobra
22    £18
23    £44
24    £56
25    £263
26    £262
27    £147
28    £630
29    £198
30    £1,819
32    £2,033

Lows matched for Jack & Joel
15.5    £4
16.0    £47
16.5    £20
17.0    £66
17.5    £60
20.0    £16
21.0    £33
22.0    £34
23.0    £4
24.0    £40
26.0    £34
27.0    £84
28.0    £50
29.0    £48
30.0    £120

Lows matched for Tracey Leanne Jefford
40    £64
42    £47
44    £99
46    £155
48    £64
50    £228
55    £54
60    £143
65    £64
70    £138

Lows matched for Leon Mallet
44    £40
50    £118
55    £21
60    £400
65    £471
70    £472

Lows matched for Talia Dean
15.5    £20
21    £20
22    £4
25    £274
26    £40
27    £502
28    £158
29    £234
30    £296
32    £305

Lows matched for Spencer Sutherland
15.0    £44
15.5    £17
16.0    £20
16.5    £50
17.5    £20
18.0    £133
18.5    £79
19.0    £149
19.5    £150
20.0    £304

Lows matched on the other 8 who made Judges' Houses:

New Girl Band
32    £4
34    £20
36    £77
38    £200
40    £313
42    £105
44    £173
46    £495
48    £510
50    £1,063

Lemonade
55    £3
80    £3
85    £4
90    £62
95    £14
100    £166

Jack Mason
12    £6
34    £20
40    £30
42    £10
46    £40
50    £11
60    £26
65    £39
70    £106
75    £116
80    £216

Berget Lewis
25    £90
28    £76
29    £81
30    £164
32    £297
34    £126
36    £91
38    £76
40    £452

Georgina Panton
8    £40
19    £40
20    £8
24    £20
25    £373
26    £69
27    £109
28    £116
29    £12
30    £595

Deanna
12.0    £8
14.5    £18
16.0    £90
16.5    £88
17.0    £148
17.5    £80
18.0    £125
18.5    £84
19.0    £337
19.5    £252
20.0    £241

Aidan Martin
17.0    £20
17.5    £48
18.0    £41
18.5    £64
19.0    £63
19.5    £58
20.0    £116
21.0    £178
22.0    £482

Slavko
50    £50
90    £10
95    £10
100    £40
120    £12
130    £30
150    £45

Other Notable lows:

Anthony Russell
13.0    £80
16.0    £200
17.0    £190
17.5    £10
18.0    £57
18.5    £100
19.0    £24
19.5    £261
20.0    £547
21.0    £205
22.0    £212

Benji Matthews
18.5    £25
25    £7
27    £6
28    £123
29    £5
30    £210
32    £304
34    £338
36    £284
38    £232
40    £755

Rebecca Grace
18    £42
22    £8
25    £24
26    £109
27    £36
28    £288
29    £64
30    £138
32    £31
34    £157

Shanaya Atkinson-Jones
20    £20
28    £5
29    £12
30    £51
32    £420
34    £102
36    £138
38    £303
40    £135

Taliah Dalorto
20    £2
34    £148
38    £49
40    £60
42    £114
46    £4
48    £97

Kayleigh Taylor
48    £4
50    £38
55    £6
60    £54
65    £68
70    £45
75    £43

I'm pleased to report not a penny was matched on Simon "Showbiz" Gross

Thanks Horse, much appreciated as ever 

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