Matchbook has lines up, and presumably their fee structure makes it much easier to MM than TS does; however, it's necessary to have critical mass of traders and I have no idea if that's in play there. I've never bet on Idol, although I've bet on The Apprentice and Survivor.
I like a lot of the ideas Korchnoi points out; they seem like good, solid ways to take advantage of market inefficiencies. The other question to me is whether they're pricing large underdogs reasonably corectly. My guess is that they are not. I've never watched in a previous year, but right now it seems to me like many of the remaining 20 candidates simply don't have the voice necessary to win - it would require all of the top tier to collapse, and with a par of 19:1, laying 50:1 or even 100:1 isn't that bad if you can avoid tying up money that way...
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