Anybody watch that first live semi-final gone by? Very annoyed. Work up to a blackout at around 6:30pm here which lasted for around an hour an a half and missed the first ten minutes and tuned in at around 8:10pm.
These were the odds beforehand:
Result from Wednesday's semi-final:
QF: Andreas Høivold 220,000 chips
QF: Rajesh Modha 212,000 chips
QF: Claus Marcussen 168,000 chips
4th: Tomas Martinsson
5th: Michael Jackson
6th: Ram Vaswani
Ladbrokes haven't updated their outright odds but
Stan James are willing to price it up:
Wasn't particularly impressed in the first semi-final by Marcussen who merely timed his moves right, Høivold was up, down then up again (easily the most impressive) and Modha was right jammy.
Could be a final of mostly unknowns as Mel Judah is not that much of a favourite in what's essentially a SNG. I like Martin Smyth's chances but he could easily fall by the wayside pretty quickly like Ram Vaswani did.
The Greek guy's a bit like Rajesh Modha in that he is willing to gamble but the price of 6/4 just to qualify is crap. The others seem a bit like rocks like Claus Marcussen...it'll depend who gets their timing right.