How Kambi Settled More Of Its G1 Climax Prop Bets

For the past nine days, I've published daily blog posts where I've taken a look back at the NJPW G1 Climax 29 props and specials markets that Kambi had for the tournament.

In this post, I'll tie up all the loose ends and cover the final four props props in my notebook.

Starting with...

Before the tournament started, Kambi published a prop market in which customers could place bets on '2 or More Block Matches' ending in a draw. They had the 'Yes' at EVS and the 'No' was 7/10.

As the tournament progressed - and there not being one draw, let alone two - the odds for the 'No' declined. By the Friday ahead of the final rounds of matches, the option was 2/13.

It turned out to be the winning selection as no match in this year's tourney ended in a tie.

Hiroshi Tanahashi's fifteen points from last year's G1 was the record number of points for a G1 with ten participants per block. Kambi wanted people to bet whether or not the record would be broken in 2019 by releasing the following market.

From the start, the 'No' was favoured with a price of 1/5 while the 'Yes' was 3/1. The initial wagers came in on the 'No', but - as the tournament was in progress with Kazuchika Okada dominating A Block and Jon Moxley picking up wins at the top of B Block - the odds for there being another record breaking year looked possible.

Alas, things began to balance out by the end and the most points in this year's block was fourteen, which was earned by Kota Ibushi and Okada.

There are also a couple of Wrestling Observer star ratings prop bets that I haven't covered yet.

The first was a prop in which customers could bet on at least two tournament matches receiving the highest amount of stars in all of Dave Meltzer's reviews of this year's G1 Climax.

'Yes' was a 7/5 outsider when the market was first published in June. The eventual winner, 'No', started off at 1/2 and ended up being backed early. It was down to 1/5 by July 26th and rebounded slightly. It closed at 1/4 on the Friday before the final weekend of matches.

As covered in many posts during and after the tourney, the highest rated match was Kazuchika Okada .vs. Will Ospreay. The pair received five-and-three-quarter stars in Dave Meltzer's review of night seven. No other bout matched them for this rating, so - it was another win for the 'No'.

'No' was the winning selection in the prop which asked its customers to bet on Tetsuya Naito being the tournament participant to have the most matches rated five stars or more.

The 'No' kicked off at 4/9, but - by August 2nd - had plummeted to 1/100.

As mentioned in previous posts about the star ratings distributed for this year's tournament, Naito only appeared in one match rated five stars or above. It was in the bout against Shingo Takagi. It received five stars from the newsletter editor.

Kazuchika Okada and Kota Ibushi both had three matches of five stars or more during this tournament, so Naito fell four matches short of winning it for anybody who backed the 'Yes'. Looking at how the prices moved, it's hard to see whether anyone did!

And that's all for the daily G1 Climax props and specials markets. It isn't the end of the daily G1 posts at 12PM, though. I have one final post that'll go live tomorrow...

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