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Old 03-16-05, 05:53 PM
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Amazing Race Bets Eliminated

Offshore bookie Sportsbook.com has halted betting on the show after receiving a disproportionately high number of bets on one team to win the whole shebang.

The betting site became suspicious and pulled the plug on Amazing Race wagers once a significant number of maximum bets came in over a 12-hour period from Mar. 3 to Mar. 4 from accounts originating in California and Massachusetts.

So far, only three teams have been eliminated from the show, leaving eight teams in the running--seemingly too many to make a sure bet on who the winners will be.

Unless, of course, the results of the pretaped reality show were already leaked, which is what Sportsbook.com is betting on.

Possible winners are SPOILER ALERT
Spoiler:
Uchenna and Joyce, a married couple from Houston, seem to have the inside track to victory, if "thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars" of bets can be believed.

If the couple does win the Race, they have hinted they plan to use the prize money to pay for additional in-vitro fertilization procedures, after trying unsuccessfully for years to have children. Uchenna and Joyce have also mentioned their struggles after getting laid off by, respectively, Enron and WorldCom.


In the past, sketchy betting patterns have proven accurate on a number of reality shows, including The Apprentice 2, Survivor: Pearl Islands, Survivor: The Amazon and the Aaron Buerge edition of The Bachelor.
Old 03-16-05, 07:45 PM
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In the past, sketchy betting patterns have proven accurate on a number of reality shows, including The Apprentice 2, Survivor: Pearl Islands, Survivor: The Amazon and the Aaron Buerge edition of The Bachelor.
Interesting, but I remember several instances of similar betting irregularities proving to NOT be accurate. I believe such a thing happened on the first season of "The Apprentice."

But hey, you get what you deserve if you choose to place or take bets on a result which is already know by at least a large handful of people.

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