Bets for Popular Reality TV Show ‘The Amazing Race’ Come to a Standstill
30 September 2005

This is the second time in just six months that the popular Sportsbook.com has announced that all bets on the reality TV series ‘The Amazing Race’, beginning on September 27th have been stopped. The reason is due to the fact that the company suspects the winner of the show has already leaked out, giving not so credible gamblers a rather unfair advantage.

Sportsbook.com is the world’s largest sportsbook and is also an online casino. The odds makers of the company have discovered irregular wagering patterns on the Linz Family, one of the families competing in “The Amazing Race”. Recently a huge number of bets have surfaced from gamblers in Ohio, the American state where the Linz Family resides. Furthermore, these bets have all been made at the maximum possible wager.

Only six months ago in March, the same irregular wagering occurred at Sportsbook for this same reality TV show. During that time the betting trend was focused around the contestants Joyce and Uchenna. As soon as it was suspected something suspicious was going on, Sportsbook immediately put a stop to the betting. And low and behold when the season finally came to an end, Joyce and Uchenna turned out to be the winners of the Amazing Race, proving the suspicions of Sportsbook.

The Marketing Director of Sportsbook.com, Alex Czajkowski said that unfortunately there is always risk involved when wagering for these shows, as there is always a chance that information will leak out, and some people will do everything they can to try and take advantage of the situation. Sportsbook decided to offer odds once more to their customers this year, due to the fact that vast majority of their clientele really wanted it.

Reality TV is a huge part of Sportsbook’s business, but they put fairness above wagering, and due to their latest suspicions they simply cannot accept any more bets for ‘The Amazing Race’. Nevertheless, those who are interested in joining in the Reality TV wagering, Sportsbook is offering odds on other programs including ‘The Apprentice’ , ‘The Apprentice-Martha Stewart’ and ‘Survivor’.