Scottish Independence?
Usually around this time of year we start to see adverts in the media and shops reminding us how many days are left until Christmas and, apart from die-hard fans of the yuletide period, we tend not to be too interested. The politicians in Scotland will have their people believe that the vote for/against Scottish Independence is another date worth keeping in mind, and have thus announced that there are 365 days until the potentially big day.
Of course for many this isn’t by any means exciting news but, surprise surprise, we don’t have to be inhabitants of the haggis-eating, sometime kilt-wearing, porridge-eating nation (where Irn Bru is a more popular drink than Coke) to take an interest - because we can bet on it!
By now mobile betting regulars will be well aware that the most popular sports and events don’t automatically provide the most intriguing opportunities. If the rhetoric of some were anything to go by we could be forgiven for thinking that a year from now there might be a call from some quarters for Hadrian’s Wall to be rebuilt. However, the online bookmakers are pretty confident that the UK will be in exactly the same state that it is now - in fact a ‘No’ to Independence in the referendum is currently best priced through gambling4mobiles at 1/7! ‘Buying’ money at very short odds can seem a little pointless, especially when to make it worth our while we need to commit a considerable chunk of money. However, it’s not unusual, after the outcome of this or that event, to wonder why we didn’t take the (very) short odds on what we’d considered an inevitability, so this kind of bet shouldn’t be thoughtlessly dismissed by mobile gamblers (the odds are as short as 1/10 elsewhere…). The ‘Yes’ vote seems to have settled at 4/1 but is still available at 11/2.
Online operators are also of the opinion that this could be the best chance for the Yes lobby, as full independence from the UK by 2020 is even shorter, at 1/12 (13/2 for ‘yes’). Finally, the market for the actual voting turnout for the referendum makes for interesting reading - more than 64% is 8/15, less than 60% is 2/1 and 60-64% is 6/1.
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