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Spurs’ Welsh winger wonder boy Gareth Bale is the star attraction of online bookmaker Paddy Power’s promotion for Liverpool v Spurs Premier League betting. The popular bookie has rolled out a Money Back Special for Monday night’s big match, and if it is half as entertaining as the Chelsea v Man Utd 3-3 draw, then you will be in for your money’s worth. Gareth Bale netted a brace for Spurs to see off Wigan in the Premier League in their last match. Third placed Spurs, who saw Manchester United drop a couple of points, will recognize the big opportunity to close the gap and keep themselves fully in the title hunt. Bale has just been part of the huge success that Spurs have enjoyed this season, and has netted in his last two Premier League matches.

If the Welsh wonder Bale scores at ANYTIME in the match against Liverpool on Monday night, Paddy Power will refund losing First Goalscorer, Last Goalscorer, Correct Score and Score cast single bets placed on the match prior to kick off. That is some fantastic coverage if you are looking at those markets. Especially with Bale being in good form at the moment. Liverpool’s Luis Suarez, who returns after his eight match ban is favourite at 5/1 in the First Goalscorer market, and a 1-0 Liverpool win in the Correct Score market is trading at 6/1. These bets and more can be taken with the Paddy Power Liverpool v Spurs Money Back special, where losing bets on the selected markets will be refunded if Gareth Bale scores in the match.

Online bookmaker Paddy Power offer a free £50 bet for new customers registering an account. The bookie will match the value of your first stake on a new account with a free bet, up to the maximum value of £50. A great way to get started with the highly rated bookie, some free betting cash to enjoy!

The 2012 Africa Cup of Nations got off to a great bit of excitement as joint hosts Equatorial Guinea sprang a million dollar surprise and beat Libya 1-0 in the group stage. That was in Group A, where Zambia also sprang a surprise over the hotly tipped Senegal, winning 2-1. Tournament favourites Ivory Coast fired off a 1-0 win against Sudan to open their account, with Chelsea’s Didier Drogba scoring the only goal of the game. With plenty more action to come in the group stage, online bookmaker Paddy Power have a Money Back Special running for the duration of the group stage. If a Group Match ends in a 0-0 draw, then Paddy Power will refund all losing First Goalscorer, Correct Score and Scorecast single bets placed on that match. So the highly rated bookie is offering some great coverage for your Africa Cup of Nations betting. The 0-0 coverage applies to all single bets which are placed pre-match only (live in running bets don’t count for this). The maximum coverage on the promotion is £100 so plenty of great room to work with here. The Group Stage of the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations finishes on February 1st, so plenty of football betting time yet to take advantage of this coverage.

Online bookmaker Paddy Power offer a free £50 bet for new customers registering an account with them. The highly rated bookie will match the vale of your first stake on a new account, up to the maximum value of £50, with a free bet. That gives new punters with Paddy Power some great free betting cash to get started with!

2012 Africa Cup Of Nations Outright Winner Betting at Paddy Power
Ivory Coast 6/4, Ghana 4/1, Senegal 8/1, Morocco 8/1, Tunisia 10/1

Manchester City v Tottenham and Arsenal v Manchester United betting will round off another exciting weekend of Premier League betting. From Sergio Aguero, Wayne Rooney to Robin van Persie there is a fantastic array of attacking power going to be on show. Online bookmaker Paddy Power are offering a Money Back Special on both of the massive matches if there is a high goal tally. Place a pre match First Goalscorer, Last Goalscorer, Correct Score or Scorecast bet in either Man City v Spurs or Arsenal v Man Utd betting, and if any bets on those markets lose but there are four or more goals scored in that particular match, then refunds will be paid out. So dip into any of the aforementioned markets for Sunday’s big Premier League match ups and if they lose, you will be covered by the Paddy Power insurance if there are four or more goals scored in the match.

It means that you can back City striker Sergio Aguero for example at 4/1 to open the scoring against Spurs at the Etihad Stadium, while Tottenham’s Jermain Defoe is out at 8/1. In the Correct Score market for Man City v Spurs a 1-0 win for the home side is being offered at 13/2. Over in the Arsenal v Man Utd First Goalscorer market, Robin van Persie is favourite on home soil to open the scoring at 9/2, while Wayne Rooney is trading at the same price to get on the score sheet first. In the Arsenal v Man Utd Correct Score market a favoured 1-1 draw is trading at 11/2.

So these bets and more would be covered by the Paddy Power Money Back Special for the big matches on Sunday. If four or more goals are scored remember (and remember the Spurs 1 Man City 5 and Man Utd 8 Arsenal 2 score lines from earlier in the season!), then you will get losing stakes refunded. The popular online bookmaker Paddy Power offer a free £50 bet for new customers registering an account. The bookie will match the value of your first stake on a new account with a free bet, up to the maximum value of £50. That is some great free betting cash to enjoy on your new Paddy Power account.

The 2012 Australian Open Tennis betting is chugging along nicely, with all the of big four still looking for glory in the men’s side of the draw. The biggest exit and upset so far has been US Open winner Samantha Stosur’s first round exit from the women’s draw. So we are in for another good week or so of tennis betting before the climax of the event at the end of the month. This first Tennis Grand Slam of 2012 of course, provides a whole gluttonous mass of tennis betting opportunities to indulge in during its two week period. The most popular markets are the Men’s Outright Winner, the Women’s Outright Winner and individual match betting itself. For the match betting at the 2012 Australian Open, Paddy Power have a great promotion running for the duration of the event. If your match selection loses, but the last point in the match happens to be an ace, then the bookie will refund your losing in running match stake as a free bet. So if your defeated selection goes out on an Ace point, then it will be refund time. There were six of these refunds on three alone! So great coverage on your 2012 Australian Open tennis match betting. The refunds from this Paddy Power Tennis Promotion can be used on another match at the Australian Open.

To further enhance you tennis betting experience from Melbourne Park this year, live in play tennis betting is worth looking at, and that is where Paddy Power really deliver a top notch service. Not only is their popular live in play service fantastic for your live betting, but you can also gain access to live streams of the 2012 Australian Open for the matches you are betting on. This is a tremendous service being offered by the highly rated and highly popular online bookmaker Paddy Power. You can get right into the action with the live tennis streams from the Australian Open, which will allow your live in play betting judgements to be sharper because you will have a feel for the action. It is something which is well worth taking advantage of for the Australian Open. Live tennis streams, live in in play betting and superb market prices with live in play match betting insurance!

Online bookmaker Paddy Power offer a free £50 bet for new customers registering an account. The online bookmaker will match the value of your first stake on a new account with a free bet. The maximum value of your free bet will be £50 for your welcome bonus offer, but the free betting cash is a great way to get started with your sports betting at Paddy Power on your new account.

Australian Open Betting Prices at Paddy Power
Novak Djokovic 6/5, Roger Federer 4/1, Andy Murray 5/1, Rafael Nadal 13/2
Petra Kvitova 11/4, Serena Williams 4/1, Victoria Azarenka 9/2, Kim Clijsters 13/2, Na Li 10/1

Ronnie O’Sullivan v Judd Trump snooker betting is on the cards for the second round of The 2012 Masters and it is the one we have been looking forward too. This is a rematch of the second round clash at the recent UK Championships, which Judd Trump edged in a final frame decider, before moving on to win the title. Trump is now in the main draw of The Masters for the first time and after a tight match in his first round against Stuart Bingham, he sets up another clash against O’Sullivan for a place in the semi’s. Trump was playing catch up a little bit in the best of eleven frame first round match, but then found his groove and strung together a good run of form to put himself in the ascendancy. It was not the most convincing performance from Trump, who is on a good run of form at the moment, and definitely the new hot property of the game. If he gives up the chances he did against Bingham to O’Sullivan then trump will most likely be in for a reversal. The Bristolian recognised this himself, but the first round is out of the way and he will raise his game for Ronnie O’Sullivan v Judd Trump betting. Frankly he will have too, but the confidence from the first round should put him in good stead for the next battle with The Rocket.

Ronnie O’Sullivan saw off defending Champion Ding Junhui in the first round, taking the match 6-4 after holding off a comeback from the Chinese star. O’Sullivan has dropped down the world rankings because he has been opting out of tournaments in order to spend time with his children. He is ready to play snooker but on his terms apparently and there has been talk of him retiring from the game. But he showed a pretty good amount of fight in the first round match up against Ding, and he has won this tournament four times before so he knows his way around of course. There are hesitations about his frame of mind at times and his commitment to the game, but he is still the most naturally talented player on the Tour. There is the revenge factor as well now in O’Sullivan v Trump Masters snooker betting, as O’Sullivan was smarting a bit after the UK Championship loss to Trump, which prompted talk of the Rocket retirement. Still, this is a great match to look forward too. Trump has to improve from his first round match, while O’Sullivan looked pretty comfortable with his action and not crumbling under Ding’s comeback pressure is probably something big to take note of. Trump actually holds a 3-2 head to head record over O’Sullivan, with a 60% strike rate. The winner will play the winner of the Mark Williams v Neil Robertson/Mark Allen in the semi’s.

Ronnie O’Sullivan v Judd Trump Betting Odds
O’Sullivan to win 5/6 at SkyBet, Trump to win 23/20 at Boylesports

Ronnie O’Sullivan v Judd Trump Who Will Make The Highest Break?
O’Sullivan 5/6 at Bet365, Trump 6/5 at Boylesports

2012 Masters Snooker Outright Winner Betting Odds
Ronnie O’Sullivan: 7/2 at BetFred
Judd Trump: 9/2 at SkyBet
Mark Selby: 6/1 at SkyBet
John Higgins: 7/1 at BetFred
Mark Williams: 8/1 at Coral
Neil Robertson: 10/1 at Boylesports

Online bookmaker Paddy Power have a great snooker betting promotion running for the duration of the 2012 Masters. Place a match bet (pre match betting only – live in play not applicable) and if your match selection loses the match, but there is a century break in the final frame, then Paddy Power will pay out a refund. This has already happened with O’Sullivan in this year’s Masters, as Paddy Power had to pay out lost stake refunds on Ding Junhui who lost to O’Sullivan in the first round, but because The Rocket hit a century break in the final frame, it was refund time! So great snooker betting coverage from the highly rated online bookmaker. Paddy Power offer a free £50 bet for new customers registering an account with them. The bookie will match the value of your first stake on a new account with a free bet, up to the maximum value of £50, giving you some great free betting cash to enjoy.

Online bookmaker Paddy Power are offering some great snooker betting coverage for the 2012 Masters with their Money Back Special. The highly rated bookie is following the action from the Alexandra Palace, including showing live streams on Paddy Power TV of the top snooker action, which runs from January 15th to the 22nd. The online bookmaker Paddy Power have already paid out a refund with this promotion on the first round match of Ding Junhui v Ronnie O’Sullivan, which the Rocket won 6-4. The Money Back Special? Well, if there is a century break in the final frame of the match, then Paddy Power will refund any losing match bets with a free bet. Ronnie O’Sullivan rattled off a 125 break in the final frame to beat the defending Champion Ding Junhui, and that meant that bookie Paddy Power paid out lost stake refunds on match winner bets placed on the defeated Ding Junhui. So great coverage on your Snooker match betting for the 2012 Masters with Paddy Power. The offer only applies to pre match winner bets placed, and does not apply to live in play bets on the market. So with the top potter cueing up for success at the Masters, and with the defending champion already having been dispatched, who will take the crown this year. Will Ronnie O’Sullivan hit the heights again? Will Mark Selby be able to notch up his third Masters career title, or will the rising star that is England’s Judd Trump follow up on his recent UK Championship success with victory in his first attempt in the Masters main draw.

Online bookmaker Paddy Power offer a free £50 bet for new customers registering an account with them. The bookie will generously match the value of a first stake on a new account with a free bet, up to the maximum value of £50 with their welcome bonus offer. This gives their new customers a great bit of free betting cash to enjoy on their new account, a great way to get started with sports betting at Paddy Power.

Selected 2012 Masters Snooker Betting Odds at Paddy Power
Ronnie O’Sullivan 7/2, Judd Trump 11/2, John Higgins 11/2, Mark Selby 11/2

Online bookmaker Paddy Power have a great online tennis betting promotion running for the 2012 Australian  Open. The highly popular bookie has a free bet special running for the action from Melbourne Park over the next couple of weeks, where some insurance is offered on your match betting. Bets placed on Match Winner option during Live In Play running only will be covered by the Paddy Power Australian Open Free Bet Special. If your Match Winner bet from in running betting loses, then Paddy Power will refund your lost stake as a free bet if the final point in the match happens to be an ace. That free bet can then in turn be used on another match at the Australian Open. This does not apply to pre match bets, and is only valid for live in running Match Winner bets. The promotion also only applies to the main draws of the Men’s and Women’s singles and not anything else. So there is great coverage if  you are looking to enjoy some live in play tennis betting with Paddy Power during the 2012 Australian Open. Will Andy Murray be able to break his Grand Slam duck this year, with the Scot opening against Ryan Harrison of the USA. Britain’s youngster Heather Watson has a dream start against one of the women’s favourites Victoria Azarenka, while future British star Laura Robson gets to square off against Jelena Jankovic in the first round of the draw. You can follow the Brits in action with live Australian Open tennis betting with Paddy Power over the next couple of weeks as the first Grand Slam of the year serves up some top action.

Online bookmaker Paddy Power offers a free £50 bet for new customers registering an account with them thanks to their generous welcome bonus. The highly rated bookie will match the value of your first stake on a new account with a free bet, up to the maximum value of £50, giving you some great free betting cash to get started with on your new account.

Selected Australian Open Tennis Betting Odds at Paddy Power
Novak Djokovic 5/4, Roger Federer 4/1, Andy Murray 5/1, Rafael Nadal 11/2
Petra Kvitova 3/1, Serena Williams 4/1, Victoria Azarenka 6/1, Kim Clijsters 15/2

The 32Red Handicap Chase is likely to prove the biggest betting heat of the day on a competitive card at Sandown and it’s no surprise that several of the big national hunt yards are represented.

Nicky Henderson runs two with November’s Cheltenham winner Tanks For That heading the weights and available at 9/2 with Paddy Power. The choice of stable jockey Barry Geraghty, he has plenty in common with stablemate Dave’s Dream, however, as both departed at the fourth-last behind Astracad at Cheltenham last time. Dave’s Dream (10/1 with William Hill) has still to win in handicap company over fences and remains high enough in the weights, while King Edmond (8/1 with Paddy Power) was raised 7lb for winning at Ascot last month, though regular jockey Tom Cannon again takes off 5lb with his claim and his partner has been on good terms with himself in general since the autumn.

Hold Fast could also be interesting as he’s weighted to reverse running with Newbury winner Rileyev (5/1 with Paddy Power) on better terms. The eight-year-old was having his first run for Paul Nicholls that day so is likely to improve and can be backed at 11/2 with William Hill, though he can take the odd liberty with his fences which won’t aid his cause on the tricky Esher circuit. Nomcheki‘s comeback second at Chepstow seems a long time ago now and he’s worth opposing at William Hill‘s 25/1 while Darceys Dancer (16/1 with the same firm) may struggle at this level and Pret A Thou (9/1 with Victor Chandler and Paddy Power)  likes very soft ground, which he had when just touched off in the Castleford Chase at Wetherby over Christmas. That leaves All For Free.

This is undoubtedly a step up in grade for Martin Keighley‘s six-year-old but his chase career has come on in leaps and bounds over the last few weeks. He annihilated a field of novices at Ascot and also had plenty in hand when scoring under a penalty at Ludlow five days later. He’s possibly the only one of these still on an upward curve and looks well worth a bet to complete the hat-trick at William Hill’s 9/2.

It is FA Cup betting time this weekend, starting with Liverpool v Oldham betting on Friday night. Online bookmaker Paddy Power have a very nice treat for their customers, with their FA Cup Money Back Special promotion. The highlight of the Third Round of this year’s FA Cup, is, without question, Manchester City v Manchester United on Sunday, but there are some other tasty match ups looking down the fixture list over the weekend. The Manchester derby is the big highlight, especially after Man City crushed the Red Devils in the league at Old Trafford, and with Sir Alex Ferguson’s crew on a two match losing slide, will the blue side of the city be cheering again? One of the most fiercely contested matches should be Birmingham v Wolves, as the two Midlands rivals clash at St Andrews, with Championship side Birmingham fully expectant of causing an upset. This is a tough trip for struggling Premier League side Wolves, who won’t relish too much being thrown in a rough away match, and a local derby to boot. Arsenal v Leeds United sees an interesting clash, because as we know, Leeds are capable of causing an upset in the cup. Leeds’ form has dropped away a little bit in the Championship, but they won’t need a second initiation to be right up for a trip to London to face the Gunners. After a rocky start to the new season, Arsene Wenger has marvellously turned around the fortunes of Arsenal, largely thanks to Robin van Persie, it has to be said. This should be a great match, because Arsenal will know that Leeds will give them a very tough game, and it won’t be the type of game to rest too many first teamers from.

No Premier League team of course likes those tricky away matches at lower league opposition, but that is just what Aston Villa are faced with. Villa head to the west country in Bristol Rovers v Aston Villa betting. Rovers, a League Two side, are struggling at the wrong end of the table in that division, and haven’t won in their last eight league matches. Still, there is nothing like getting away from league pressures than taking on a top flight club on your home turf. So Aston Villa, who aren’t prolific goal scorers, will have a bit of a battle on their hands here in awkward conditions. Is there a big prospect of an upset here, or will the Villains be able to grind this one out. The stand out feature in these highlighted FA Cup betting matches, is that they are going to be very hotly contested. The derby matches always adds a little extra spice to things and the red card route is where Online Bookmaker Paddy Power have gone for their FA Cup Third Round Money Back special.

If a red card is shown in any of the aforementioned matches (Birmingham v Wolves, Bristol Rovers v Aston Villa, Man City v Man Utd, Arsenal v Leeds) then Paddy Power will refund all losing First Goalscorer, Last Goalscorer, Correct Score and Scorecast singles placed on that particular match. So there could be some very nice FA Cup betting insurance for you to take here. Will there be red in the Midlands derby? Will the Manchester derby produce red again, just as it did in the league fixture? Online bookmaker Paddy Power offer a free £50 bet for new customers registering an account. The bookie will generously match the value of your first bet on a new account with a free bet, up to the maximum value of £50. That gives new customers a great bit of free betting cash to start their new Paddy Power accounts with.

Am I the only one a little baffled by the knighthood awarded to Big Brother developer Peter Bazalgette? He didn’t, after all, invent the format but merely inflicted it on the British public. Presumably, his place in the New Year’s Honours List is also for the fact that he’s been closely associated with Deal Or No Deal and Ready, Steady Cook. Somebody in Buckingham Palace or Whitehall must be a fan, though that probably proves that having nobility or a position of power isn’t necessarily a guarantee of good taste.

In all honesty, Celebrity Big Brother 2012 should probably be re-titled ‘I Want To be A Celebrity, Get Me In There!’. It speak volumes about the quality of this year’s rumoured housemates that The Only Way Is Essex cast member Sam Faiers, more shallow than a child’s paddling pool, is still the 5/1 favourite with Boylesports even though she’s already said she won’t be taking part. We are, apparently, to be subjected of three weeks of Frankie Cocozza however. Kicked off the X Factor after he was allegedly heard boasting of a coke-fuelled sex romp, the only question I would ask is why he wasn’t shown the door earlier? The X Factor describes itself as a talent show so how the apparently talentless Mr Cocozza got through the auditions doesn’t say much about those who failed. Appearing on CBB looks another pathetic attempt to gain notoreity and a few quid – is it any wonder that presenters past and present, Davina McCall and Brian Dowling, have been forced on the defensive this week?

Denise Welch has also been popular with punters (6/1 with Boylesports). Best known nowadays for her role in school soap ‘Waterloo Road‘ and as a regular on ‘Loose Women’, I still know her best as the wife of a somebody who used to be in ‘Auf Wiedersehen, Pet’  but then I am getting a bit long in the tooth. I can’t work it out, does Ms Welch or her agent really think spending three weeks, and opening herself up to ridicule,  in the company of a bunch of nobodies and never-will-bes will enhance her career? I suppose you could level the same criticism at one-time ‘Eastender‘ Natalie Cassidy, though she undoubtedly has more incentive to be locked away in the new Big Brother house. At least in there she won’t need to worry about what ex-fiance Adam Cottrell is doing to get around his restraining order. Maybe Natalie deserves a break and she can be backed at 6/1 with Boylesports, she’s only 4/1 at Paddy Power.