Betting Quotes

Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.  ~From the movie The Color of Money

 There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune:  go there with a large one.  ~Jack Yelton

 Man is a gaming animal.  He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.  ~Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia, 1823

XFactor Voting Stats

The XFactor 2011 voting stats are here. An interesting series, with lots of ups and downs. Little Mix were 100-1+ in the early days, though looking back through the stats you can see that they had a decent sized fanbase all along.

The Final Results

Little Mix: 48.3%

Marcus Collins: 42.8%

Amelia Lily (carried over from before the freeze): 8.9%

The Final - vote freeze

Little Mix: 39.0%

Marcus Collins: 34.5%

Amelia Lily: 26.5%

The Semi Final

Little Mix: 34.4%

Marcus Collins: 24.0%

Amelia Lily: 21.4%

Misha B: 20.2%

Week 8

Amelia Lily: 23.8%

Little Mix: 22.4%

Marcus Collins: 21.0%

Janet Devlin: 18.3%

Misha B: 14.5%

Week 7

Little Mix: 26.1%
Misha B: 22.5%
Janet Devlin: 14.8%
Marcus Collins: 14.4%
Amelia Lily: 11.3%

Craig Colton: 10.9%

Week 6

Amelia Lily: 27.4%
Janet Devlin: 17.4%

Little Mix: 15.3%
Marcus Collins: 12.9%

Craig Colton: 10.6%

Kitty Brucknell: 8.4%

Misha B: 8.0%

Week 6 vote in:

Amelia Lily: 48.8%

James Michael: 26.7%

JonJo Kerr: 13.2%

2 Shoes: 11.3%

Week 5

Janet Devlin: 18.0%

Marcus Collins: 16.0%

Misha B: 12.2%

Little Mix: 11.9%

Craig Colton: 10.1%

Frankie Cocozza: 8.7%

Johnny Robinson: 8.3%

Kitty Brucknell: 7.6%

The Risk: 7.2%

Week 4

Janet Devlin: 14.7%

Little Mix: 13.7%

Craig Colton: 13.0%

Kitty Brucknell: 12.9%

Johnny Robinson: 12.2%

Marcus Collins: 10.1%

The Risk: 7.2%

Frankie Cocozza: 5.7%

Sophie Habibis: 5.4%

Misha B:  5.1%

Week 3

Janet Devlin: 17.2%

Johnny Robinson: 17.1%

Misha B: 11.8%
Marcus Collins: 11.2%
The Risk: 8.3%

Little Mix: 6.0%
Frankie Cocozza: 6.0%
Craig Colton: 6.0%
Sophie Habibis: 5.8%

Sami Brookes: 5.6%

Kitty Brucknell: 5.0%

Week 2

Janet Devlin: 23.6%
The Risk: 10.9%
Sophie Habibis: 8.9%
Little Mix: 8.7%
Misha B: 7.8%
Craig Colton: 6.9%

Marcus Collins: 6.8%
Johnny Robinson: 6.5%
Sami Brookes: 6.2%
Kitty Brucknell: 5.9%
Frankie Cocozza: 5.2%

Nu Vibe: 2.6%

Week 1

The judges vote out 2 Shoes, Amelia Lily, James Michael and JonJo Kerr

X Factor 2011 Results

The XFactor results for this year are listed here if anyone is interested:

http://xfactor.itv.com/_uploads/userassets/files/vote2010.pdf

Thoughts?

X Factor and I'm A Celebrity

What are your thought regarding this year's I'm a celebrity and X Factor shows? Do you think Wagner is in with a shot? Is Gillian on the verge of a nervous breakdown? Thoughts!!

I'm still alive!!

I've been so busy that I haven't been keeping as close an eye as I should have on the latest telly betting spectacles. Celebrity Big Brother had real betting potential too, so it's a shame that I didn't have my eye on the ball. Alex Reid had the perform story ark really. There often tends to be a logical progress to how a person is view in shows that last an extended period of time. It's of course much harder to read non-celebrity BB contestants, but there are still 'tells'. Hopefully in the upcming, and final, Big Brother, we'll be able to form meaningful initial thoughts over the first few days, and try to spot where the value is.