As many visitors are aware, Kambi's oddsmakers published a handful of Observer-themed markets ahead of Friday's show. In this post, I'll go through all of the specials that were available and point out how they'll be settled.
To start off with, it's best to say that the show was unsurprisingly not received well in Meltzer's review. It was UNDERwhelming from a betting perspective as well as every single match fell below the oddsmakers' line.
As you can see above, the 'Match of the Night' turned out to be the Finn Balor .vs. Andrade match for the WWE Intercontinental Championship.
Even though it fell short of the line, the bookies, and the punters, expected Balor/Andrade to be given more stars than the rest of the card as it opened as a 5/4 when a 'Highest Rated Match of the Night' special was put up a couple of days before the show. The eventual winner was snipped to 7/10 within the first day and remained at this price all the way through to its close shortly before the start of the PPV on Wednesday evening.
The three-and-a-quarter for Balor .vs. Andrade means that 'Exactly 3.25 Stars' will win at odds of 3/1 in the market in which clients could gamble on the 'Exact Star Rating' that was given to the match of the night.
Another market, which was available to customers leading into the show, was a head-to-head where Roman Reigns .vs. Shane McMahon and Braun Strowman .vs. Bobby Lashley opposed one another. The winning match in this square-off would be the bout that earned the most stars in Meltzer's review.
I was confident that Reigns .vs. McMahon would do far better than the bookie's line of 1.75 stars and was sure the bout would exceed whatever Strowman .vs. Lashley could do. How wrong I was. The final result saw Reigns and McMahon score one-and-a-half while Strowman and Lashley beat them by a quarter of a star.
The odds for Strowman .vs. Lashley to do better than Reigns .vs. Lashley were at 3/4 when the market opened, but customers would have found the eventual winning selection at a better price of 17/20 following Reigns/McMahon dropping from 23/20 to EVS.
A trio of prop bets will also be settled now that this week's issue has been published.
The first proposition - titled 'Joint Winners' - gave the customers the opportunity to wager on there being two or more matches with the highest number of stars in the review. The 'No' - which was 7/20 - will win that one.
Prop number two was titled 'Main Event'. The customers had to gamble on the highest rated match in the review being the match that went on last. As we know, the match that closed the show - The Undertaker .vs. Goldberg - was given a DUD rating. Or, to try and put a positive spin on it, the best match in the review didn't go last, so the 'No' won this proposition. It was a very short 1/12.
With Finn Balor .vs. Andrade being for the Intercontinental Championship, the prop market titled 'Title Match' will settle with the 'Yes' winning at 1/16. The rule of this market was for 'a match valid for any championship to be awarded the highest star rating'.
All of these markets were available from Kambi for WWE Super ShowDown. The oddsmakers frequently publish Observer-themed markets for major WWE events and have most recently put up an Over/Under market for the Chris Jericho .vs. Hangman Page match that's scheduled for AEW All Out in August. When available, you'll be able to find these markets on the link below.
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