With this year's opening EPT Event, the Barcelona Open in - yes, you guessed it - Barcelona fast approaching, various sites are offering 'outright betting' on potential victors.
One of my favourite places to lose my money, PaddyPower Poker, is one of those sites, and they recently announced their available bets. Whilst bets range from 'outright winner' to 'making the final table', they also give you the chance to bet on the chances of an Irishman making the final table - well, I guess they have to live the dream.
In terms of 'Outright Winners', here are the pick of the bunch:
Gus Hansen: 50-1
Marcel Luske: 50-1
Julian Gardner: 50-1
Devilfish: 66-1
Greg Raymer: 66-1
Andy Black: 80-1
Ram Vaswani: 80-1
Joe Hachem: 80-1
And how about a flutter on some of the blondeites involved?...
Ash 'Mad M3' Hussain: 100-1
Julian 'Yoyo' Thew: 100-1
Micky 'Jimmy Sue' Wernick: 100-1
Paul 'Actionjack' Jackson: 100-1
Willie Tann: 100-1
Joe Beevers: 100-1
Simon 'Aces' Trumper: 100-1
Nick 'The Sheriff' Gibson: 100-1
Xuyen 'Bad Girl' Pham: 125-1
Ben 'milkybarkid' Grundy: 150-1
Luke 'Doc12345' Smith: 150-1
Martin 'RoyCropper' Green: 150-1
Stuart 'Foxy' Fox: 150-1
JP Kelly: 150-1
David 'dpommo' Pomroy: 200-1
David 'doubleup' McGeachie: 250-1
Simon 'SuffolkPunch' Young: 400-1
The Irish bookie is the first company to offer betting on this year’s event and is pricing up markets for each stop of the European Poker Tour which includes stopovers in London, Dublin, Copenhagen, Baden, Deauville and Monte Carlo.
Paddy Power, head of communications for the bookmakers said, "If Gaudi were still around he’d build a monument to poker. This is one of the coolest tournaments on the circuit, the one everyone wants to play and punters can keep their hand in by having a flutter on who’ll be the king of the felt in this beautiful city."
If you wish to make a bet on this year's Barcelona EPT, then please go to PaddyPower Poker by clicking HERE.
And don't forget, it's not too late to enter the Barcelona Open! If you wish to check out all the details, simply click here.