The Masters Betting Competition

[iacas]

Using these odds , let's have a little contest.

You have $100 to spend. You must spend it on three golfers in any distribution.

We'll award multipliers on the odds based on this scale:

1st place: 5x
2nd place: 4x
3rd place: 3x
4th place: 2x
5th place: 1x

If your player isn't in the top five, you lose all your money. I'll try to round up a prize for the winner, but your "bets" have to be in by midnight on Wednesday, EST.

For example, if someone chooses the winner and the fourth-place finisher with $25 bets at 20:1 and 100:1, he earns (20 * 5 * 25) + (100 * 2 * 25) = 25,000 + 5,000 = $3,000.

I have no idea whether this will work or not... My own bets (subject to change prior to the deadline) are:

• $30 - Tiger Woods (5:1)
• $30 - Davis Love III (40:1)
• $40 - Stewart Cink (66:1)

Place your bets, gentlemen (and ladies)!

[gripitandripit]

I'll take : $25 on David Toms (40:1)
$25 on Shigeki Maruyama (100:1)
$50 on Padraig Harrington (33:1)

[muda]

Great contest/game. TST needs more of this.

How about the winner gets an iPod shuffle?

My picks:

Weir 50:1 (40)
Els 8:1 (40)
Couples 100:1 (20)

[Thrash13]

Let's see here:

$30 on Chris DiMarco (100:1)
$30 on Tiger Woods (5:1)
$40 on Sergio Garcia (33:1)

These picks are definitely subject to change before tomorrow night. Good job on getting the odds, this should be fun. I will definitely be keeping DiMarco at 100:1, but I don't know as far as the other two picks go.

[iacas]

How about the winner gets an iPod shuffle?

Maybe. But that's not golf-related... We'll see.

[majorchamp]

ok, I will be the random dumbass to ask this question.

I assume this isn't 'real money' :)

[majorchamp]

In the case of fake bets :), here are my choices.

Tiger Woods: $40
Phil Mickelson: $30
Jose Maria Olazabal: $30 (After yesterdays loss, I think he wants a victory).

[mediaguru]

Ernie Els $50
David Toms $25
Darren Clarke $25

for my 2nd bet:
David Duval $34
Jack Nicklaus $33
Ray Floyd $33

[Ben]

I'm so retarded that I don't even know how odds points work. Yay for the Los Angeles Unified School District.

[iacas]

Betting is now closed.

Let The Masters begin*!

* Y'know, after the thunderstorms go away.

[iacas]

I'll take : $25 on David Toms (40:1)

Ouch!

[gripitandripit]

Ouch!

I had the biggest Masters choke since Norman in '96.

[Thrash13]

I would have been a rich man in Vegas this week. I couldn't believe DiMarco was 100:1, I was taking that one for sure.

By the way, what a tournament!! That was absolutely golf at its best coming down to a duel of two great golfers.

I have to admit, I was wanting DiMarco to win very badly, and it had nothing to do with this betting competition. But Tiger just got it done again..

Great stuff.

[mediaguru]

I love the Masters. I love to watch it wether it's a blowout or a duel to the end. I always end up saying "wow that was cool."

DiMarco came through on that final 18. Had he not shot a 41 on his back 9 of the 3rd round, Ping might have some bragging rights. Instead it's Nike....again.