The long awaited event is here with us and it will take six weeks for punters to engage in live betting for the event across all bookmakers. The Rugby World Cup 2015 kicks off this Friday with host England Entertaining mighty Fiji in match one. There are 20 teams in total but the big question is where you as a bettor will place your money?

As per now, many gamblers are betting on England, France, South Africa and New Zealand booking places in the semi finals with the most anticipated final match on 31^st of October sees England take on New Zealand. However, Spreadex thinks that New Zealand will be crowned the tournament’s winner.

The outright Index awards points to teach on basis of their performance and the position they are at the end of the tournament. The winner is awarded 100 points, runners up 80 points, third place 60, fourth place 50, and losers in the quarter finals are accorded with 25 points each while third place and fourth placed teams in the group stages are given 10 and 5 points respectively. On that note, All Blacks lead the platform with 74-77 points whereas host England come in second with 52-55 points.

In essence England will also face Wales (21-24) and Australia (43-46) with only two slots for advancing in the knockout stage. Hence, England must finish at least fourth overall to earn 55 points for a bettor to win. However, many believe that home advantage will propel the team to the semis.

Ireland are not expected by many buyers to reach the semis with 48-51 but punters attention is on South Africa 49-52 and France 37-40. Amazingly, USA who are in the same group with Japan, Scotland, Samoa and South Africa and have index of 1.5-3.0 can pull out a major surprise and if they finish fourth in their group a punter would earn triple his initial wage.

The tournament spread market has been awarded Total Tournament Points spread of 2430-2480 with Total Tournament Tries at 273-283. This is in comparison with three past edition with Total points of 2245 in 2011, 2478 in 2007 while 2835 in 2003. On the other hand, tries of the event were as follows; 262 in 2011, 296 in 2007 and 332 in 2003. This years’ edition can resemble that of 2003 and hence Spreadex has settled for 283 Total Tries.

With the start of the new premiership football season around the corner, William Hill has made an announcement of a £50 million jackpot in the Prem Predictor. This would be on for grabs among their customers and would in a way draw new punters to this renowned bookmaker.

On the jackpot, players and customers of William Hill will be required to place a correct prediction on the positions for all the 20 Premier League clubs in the table and with win £50 million. There is a price of £2 that is charged per prediction and a maximum of 250 entries per individuals and the whole competition allowing a maximum of one million entries.

The UK bookmaker has plans to boost their marketing and reach many customers. Punters will be allowed to access the betting website and the Prem Predictor feature that would apply through the digital spectrum through TV verticals and mobile phones. With this they hope that this feature will be able to reach many of their customers at the comfort of their homes.

William Hill made an official statement on the release of this new feature and in it they said that with the new feature they were giving their customers a chance to win the £50 million. But in an addition to this a customer or customers who will have the most right prediction by that time of the season will stand a chance to walk away with hundred thousand euros. In the event that there will be more than one entry with the same number of predictions then the amount will be shared equally among them.

In addition, if at the end of season there are more than one successful predictions and their entry then the amount will have to be equally shared among the customers with the successful predictions. But if there is no successful prediction on the jackpot then there is no winner on the £50 million. However there is a consolation price that will be offered by William Hill on those who made the most successful entries. The amount of the consolation stands at £100000.

On Saturday, Serena Williams made history after defeating Garbine Muguruza in southwest London. Muguruza, who is a promising Spaniard lost 6-4 6-4 to Williams, giving Williams four straight major wins for the second time in her career.

“It is unbelievable that I am standing here with another Serena slam.” Williams told the crowd, emulating her 2002-2003 achievement.

Given that Serena is a three-time defending champion and without a doubt if she excels in September at the US Open, she will become the first player in history to achieve the calendar-year grand slam since Steffi Graf in 1988.

At 33, Serena beats Martina Navratilova as the oldest woman to win grand slam in the Open Era by four weeks.

21-year-old Muguruza, who was appearing on the grand slam final for the first time, wept in her chair after defeat. However, she should not feel very disappointed. This is because; it is very rare for Serena to lose at the grand slam.

However, Muguruza did not walk away submissively. In fact, she made matters fascinating after losing 5-1 in the second, winning a great number of new fans with her outstanding performance at the tennis’ grandest arena.

“I would like to congratulate Serena for showing us that is the world’s No 1,” Muguruza said.

Even though Muguruza began stronger, she did not play like it due to nervousness.

On the contrary, on the first game, Williams struck 3 of her 8 double faults and the delight of those gathered at the Centre court shattered her. In fact, Williams was troubled by Muguruza’s powerful serve and groundstrokes in early stages.

However, it was a matter of games before Williams awoke her energy as she was determined to do better than last year.

“Garbine played so well,” Williams said. “It did not occur to me that the game was over because she was fighting so hard.”

After the game, the two hugged at the net, Williams bobbled in happiness as she approached her chair.

On Sunday, Roger Federer seeks to win the Wimbledon title against Novak Djokovic, who beat him in last year’s Wimbledon final.

Federer who is 33 years old, proves that age is not an obstacle if you are talented and passionate about succeeding, from his 7-5 7-5 6-4 win to reach the 10^th Wimbledon final.

Federer said,“This is one of the best matches I have ever played in my career.” He added that,“ It is amazing how happy everyone at home is for you, there was applause from the Royal Box as I walked back all the way to the locker room.”

In the 2012 Olympic final, Murray, who also won the Wimbledon in 2013, beat Federer. However, Murray’s victory fell short as he lost four times in the second successive grand slam.

Djokovic, who is the defending champion, previously marched into his 4th Wimbledon final in five years, beating Richard Gasquet in all the three sets. In 2007, Gasquet reached the semis in Southwest London for the last time.

Djokovic said, “The rematch with Federer is probably the biggest challenge I can have.”

“He loves playing here. If am not wrong, this is where he plays his best tennis. “ Djokovic said.

On the other hand, Federer is not thinking of last year’s finals. The only thing he remembers about the match is that it was unbelievably thrilling. He is ready to face Djokovic and says that it is great play him anywhere because of his success.

At 33 years, Federer is marked second as the oldest man to reach Wimbledon final after 39 year old Ken Rosewell (born in 1974)

Djokovic is pursuing his ninth grand slam title, after failing to complete his collection last month at the French’s Open.

All in all, the stage is set. Will Djokovic retain his title?

The mixed martial arts (MMA) fight between Aldo and McGregor that is scheduled on   Saturday July 11 this year is said to be the most anticipated fight of the year and will be held at MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas. The fight will be between Jose Also Junior, who is 28 by age and a Brazilian origin a featherweight champion against the Dubliner Conor McGregor who is nicknamed “The Notorious”. This fight has received much attention by the public and media as well all over the world.

Las Vegas is again in preparation to host another grand event after the boxing mega fight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather. The arena is prepared to host individuals to attend the fight between the two UFC fighters who are at the hearts of their nation. In the media tour, it was evident that McGregor constantly taunted Aldo and the stakes for this 189 fight could not get any bigger.

This week, the president of UFC Dana White told the media that at this moment the fight was getting over a million in the Pay per View buys and had great believe on the fight breaking UFC records on the PPVs. White’s comments where backed by Unibet, a European bookmaker and UFC’s official partner saying that it was possible that the fight would break records in the UFC arena due to the early activities involving the fight. Unibet further added that at this stage, it had seen 63% of the bets placed on Aldo winning the fight although the average wager in on McGregor and thus more many was staked on the Irish fighter.

Unibet added that the fight is expected to be a close one as reflected by the odds but said that Aldo is expected to edge it because of experience. Each of the fighters has their strengths that will push the fight in their favour and therefore more is needed to win this. The odds on Aldo by Unibet are set as 41/50 while that of McGregor set at 10/11. McGregor has a good TKO winning method (6/4) and thus a good striking ability and Unibet have Aldo by decision (5/2) as he does enough to win matches as seen in previous fights.

The Eurovision contest of 2015 is here with us. The contest started yesterday on BBC Three. The first semi-final of Eurovision started with 16 acts which performed live from the Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna, Austria. The second Semi-final will be on Thursday, 21^st May and will feature 17 acts while the final will be held on Saturday 23^rd May, 2015.

This Eurovision content will trigger a lot of exciting predictions, wild guesses and estimations. Experts and online betting sites are doing their best to give bettors accurate odds on who the will walk home with the crown.

Betting on Eurovision

In the past years, Eurovision has emerged as one of the biggest events in online betting. Bettors from all over the world are placing their bets on a range of betting markets. A good bookie you can place your bets on would be William Hill Sports where you will be in a position to place bets on top 10 finishing acts, top UK points, semi-finals, other region resolutions and Who’ll get the Nul Points.

This year, there are 5 top favourites who are believed to have the highest chances of finishing as winners. These countries are Australia, Sweden, Italy, Russia and Estonia. This conclusion is made from the odds presented at the Eurovision specials on William Hill sports.

Read an article about how to win money in the Eurovision song contest by the telegraph.

Favourites

Outright to the winner market, Sweden took the lead in the charts with 7/4 for Mans Zelmerlow “Heroes” and Italy represented by Grande Amore was close with 3/1 with the pop opera act II Volo. Australia has 6/1 with Tonight Again, following suit was Russia with 7/1 with A million Voices and Estonis had odds of 8/1 with Goodbye to Yesterday.

Russia still stood strong with the show on 18^th May with 5/6, Estonia had 3/1 and Finland was in third place with 10/1 with an act that was composed for people with disability. The question would be whether Russia will have a smooth sail to the finals or they will be challenged by Finland.

Get to your favourite bookie, keep track of the event and study the odds wisely for a smart bet.