Pics above are hilarious :lol:
Today sees the Big Brother production team pay their weekly visit to the free money counter that only they are invited to.
The nominations for this week's eviction are due for today and as a result the behind-the-scenes people will know who's up for eviction for 24 hours before it is announced live to the housemates.
In that 24 hours the prices on those nominated will be shortened due to the weight of money being placed on them.
Last week, Maxwell and Science were available at 5.8 and 6.4 respectively, Craig was favourite at 2.1 to be evicted. On Monday around teatime, Science's price came crashing down to 1/5, Maxwell's price to around 3.5, Craig's out to around 250.
The announcement was made the next day and both Science and Maxwell were told they would face the public vote.
On the run up to the actual eviction, Science's price lengthened no doubt due to the fact those who had access to the votes knew it was a very close thing and at one point Maxwell ended up favourite around 1.75 before going back to around 2.2, Science resting around 1.8.
Maxwell was evicted and those who had backed both Science and Maxwell on Monday celebrated having backed them both at 5.4 and 6.8 respectively.
It's akin to knowing the result of a horse race 24 hours before it is announced and backing the winner of the race at 40/1.
It's an absolute scandal and Betfair should hang their heads in shame for allowing it to continue. They used to have two markets - one for who would be nominated and one for who would be evicted - once the nominations were due to be given, both markets would be suspended and the eviction one re-opened when the evictees were known.
God knows why they allow the market to remain open when the result is already known to certain people.