pope election - anyone know if C. Martini has a shot? Pinny lowered his odds

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I noticed today that way down on the Pinny list they had C. Martini at +904
earlier today. I shopped around and found this same guy at 50-1 at another shop so I played that 50-1 sort of sight unseen thinking overlay

what is the story on this C MArtini? I think at Pinny he was over 60-1 on the first list but I cant find my print off.

The greek does not have him at all as a single he would be Field.

does he have a shot? is there some Buzz on him?

look for late steam on martini :drink:

I've done some research and while his name is not mentioned as much as others it appears he has a shot. Conservatives would like to rally around him and oppose the support for Radzinger but he has mentioned he isn't interested. He is also not in great health which can't help.

50-1 is worth a small shot.


BTW - what book offers that 50-1?

thks.

its 20-1 now but the good folks at V-wager, very under rated book imo had that as the price yesterday. I took a shot at it.

Martini was originally 105-1 (Odds below were from April 11th at Pinnacle)

Mon 4/18 All in. Others quoted upon request.
Winner is the man appearing at the central window in St. Peter's Basilica accepting the call of "Habemus Papam" after the balloting concludes.
07:00 AM
1 D. Tettamanzi +301
2 F. Arinze +535
3 C. Hummes +668
4 O. Rodriguez +703
5 J. Ratzinger +537
6 G. Battista +1470
7 J. Lustiger +2250
8 JM Bergoglio +1556
9 D. Castrillon +2603
10 G. Danneels +2712
11 J. Ortega +3491
12 C. Schoenborn +2177
13 I. Dias +2790
14 W. Kasper +10561
15 N. Rivera +10100
16 C. Ruini +5314
17 A. Scola +1249
18 C. Martini +10580
19 E. Antonelli +12500
20 G. Biffi +3300
21 A Sodano +3432
22 T. Bertone +6725
23 S. Poletto +10797
24 C. Sepe +12500
25 M. Ce +5520

in yesterday's racing post in the uk they said paddy power in the uk had taken a large bet from a woman in italy on martini at 50/1. then she asked where they had shops in england, so they thought she was going to try and get more on in their shops. they're now 9/2.

there's not much liquidity on betfair but you can get 12/1.

well I hope he wins it!

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this guy has dropped to second choice at Pinny now about 6-1.



Good Lord, do I have a shot here? (can you say a prayer for something like this or will the Holy spirit ignore it?). Id give half to the church!!!

You should take a huge ass scalp by covering at pinnacle.

trytrytry said:

this guy has dropped to second choice at Pinny now about 6-1.



Good Lord, do I have a shot here? (can you say a prayer for something like this or will the Holy spirit ignore it?). Id give half to the church!!!

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Hey, I'll hop on, even at the half the price....just got Martini +2500 at Carib. Makes me wanna drink. Betting on the pop, who'da thunk it.

One more play here:

FIELD at ABC Islands 65 to 1

27 listed. Never know when someone could come out left field. Plus, C. Maradiaga and Y. Alamino are not listed, both are at tradesports....Maradiaba last trade at 7. Seems like an overlay.

At Pinnacle now<TABLE width=650 border=0><TBODY><TR bgColor=#eeeeee><TD class=main_body_blk>18 C. Martini +666

hmmmm could that mean something

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Papal Betting odds

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=650 background=images/popehat_tint.jpg border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=content colSpan=3>The latest odds on who will be the next Pope... Popebetting.com</TD></TR><TR><TD width=378 height=322><STYLE>td{ font-family: verdana; font-size:8pt;}</STYLE><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=3 width=500><TBODY><TR><TD width=400>Joseph Ratzinger (Germany)</TD><TD>3/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Jean-Marie Lustiger (France)</TD><TD>9/2</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini (Italy)</TD><TD>5/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Dionigi Tettamanzi (Italy)</TD><TD>7/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Claudio Hummes (Brazil)</TD><TD>8/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Francis Arinze (Nigeria)</TD><TD>8/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Angelo Sodano (Italy)</TD><TD>10/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Argentina)</TD><TD>12/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Jose Da Cruz Policarpo (Portugal)</TD><TD>12/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Cardinal Francisco Javier Errazuriz Ossa (Chile)</TD><TD>14/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga (Honduras)</TD><TD>16/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Cardianl Ruini (Italy)</TD><TD>20/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Keith O Brien (Scotland)</TD><TD>20/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Cardinal Angelo Scola (Venice)</TD><TD>33/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Count Christoph von Schoenborn (Austria)</TD><TD>33/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Giovanni Battista Re (Italy)</TD><TD>33/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Ivan Dias (India)</TD><TD>33/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Attilio Cardinal Nicora (Roman Curia)</TD><TD>40/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Cardinal Dario Castrillion Hoyos (Colombia)</TD><TD>40/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Cormac Murphy-OConnor (UK)</TD><TD>40/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Giacomo Biffi (Italy)</TD><TD>40/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Godfried Daneels (Belgium)</TD><TD>40/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino (Cuba)</TD><TD>40/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Norberto Rivera Carrera (Mexico)</TD><TD>40/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Wilfred Napier (South Africa)</TD><TD>40/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Cardinal Amigo Vallejo (Spain)</TD><TD>50/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Cardinal Marc Ouellet (Canada)</TD><TD>50/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Cardinal Marco Ce (Italy)</TD><TD>50/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone (Italy)</TD><TD>50/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Cardinal Varkey Vithayathil (India)</TD><TD>50/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Ennio Antonelli (Italy)</TD><TD>50/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Juan Luis Cipriani (Peru)</TD><TD>50/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Archbishop Andre Vingt-Trois (France)</TD><TD>66/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Cardinal George Pell (Australia)</TD><TD>66/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Geraldo Majella Agnelo (Brazil)</TD><TD>66/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Miloslav Vlk (Czech Republic)</TD><TD>66/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Cardinal Edward Cassidy (Australia)</TD><TD>80/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Cardinal Severino Poletto (Italy)</TD><TD>80/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Cardinal Walter Kasper (Germany)</TD><TD>80/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Crescenzio Sepe (Italy)</TD><TD>80/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Lopez Rodriguez (Dominican Republic)</TD><TD>80/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Michele Giordano (Italy)</TD><TD>80/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Sean Patrick OMalley (USA)</TD><TD>80/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Silvano Piovanelli (Italy)</TD><TD>80/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Aloysius Ambrozic (Canada)</TD><TD>100/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Archbishop Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo (Venezuela)</TD><TD>100/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz (Russia)</TD><TD>100/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Bernadin Cardinal Gantin (Benin)</TD><TD>100/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Cardinal Desmond Connell (Ireland)</TD><TD>100/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Cardinal Edward Clancy (Australia)</TD><TD>100/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Cardinal James Francis Stafford (Roman Curia)</TD><TD>100/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Cardinal Joachim Meisner (Germany)</TD><TD>100/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Cardinal Jorge Medina (Roman Curia)</TD><TD>100/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Cardinal Julian Herranz (Roman Curia)</TD><TD>100/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Cardinal Justin Rigali (USA)</TD><TD>100/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Cardinal Karl Lehnmann (Germany)</TD><TD>100/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Cardinal Keeler (USA)</TD><TD>100/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Cardinal Lubomyr Husar (Ukraine)</TD><TD>100/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Cardinal Peter Turkson (Ghana)</TD><TD>100/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Cardinal Renato Martino (Italy)</TD><TD>100/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Cardinal Ricardo Maria Carles Gordo (Spain)</TD><TD>100/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Cardinal Rodolfo Quezada Toruno (Guatemala</TD><TD>100/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Cardinal Salvatore De Giorge (Italy)</TD><TD>100/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Cardinal Thomas Williams (NZ)</TD><TD>100/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Cardinal Turcotte (Canada)</TD><TD>100/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Diarmuid Martin (Ireland)</TD><TD>100/1</TD></TR><TR><TD 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Razafindratandra (Madagascar)</TD><TD>125/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Cardinal Ghattas (Egypt)</TD><TD>125/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Cardinal Jean-Baptiste Pham Minh Man (Vietnam)</TD><TD>125/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Cardinal Polycarp Pengo (Tanzania)</TD><TD>125/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Cardinal Roger Etchegaray (Italy)</TD><TD>125/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Jose María Rouco Varela (Spain)</TD><TD>125/1</TD></TR><TR><TD width=400>Pierre Cardinal Sfeir (Lebanon)</TD><TD>125/1


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HateTheRiverCard said:

Martini was originally 105-1 (Odds below were from April 11th at Pinnacle)

Mon 4/18 All in. Others quoted upon request.
Winner is the man appearing at the central window in St. Peter's Basilica accepting the call of "Habemus Papam" after the balloting concludes.
07:00 AM
1 D. Tettamanzi +301
2 F. Arinze +535
3 C. Hummes +668
4 O. Rodriguez +703
5 J. Ratzinger +537
6 G. Battista +1470
7 J. Lustiger +2250
8 JM Bergoglio +1556
9 D. Castrillon +2603
10 G. Danneels +2712
11 J. Ortega +3491
12 C. Schoenborn +2177
13 I. Dias +2790
14 W. Kasper +10561
15 N. Rivera +10100
16 C. Ruini +5314
17 A. Scola +1249
18 C. Martini +10580
19 E. Antonelli +12500
20 G. Biffi +3300
21 A Sodano +3432
22 T. Bertone +6725
23 S. Poletto +10797
24 C. Sepe +12500
25 M. Ce +5520

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A huge amount of money has been wagered on Ratzinger ( now +194 ). My man is Arinze.

Does anybody know about when they might decide this thing?

bulldog77 said:

Does anybody know about when they might decide this thing?

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Next week.

My mistake - they begin Monday April 18th. 115 Cardinals convene inside the Sistine Chapel to elect a new Pope.




wil.

wilheim said:

I believe the College of Cardinals conviens on April 21st with voting starting around the 25th or 26th.





wil.

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Wil,

The 1st vote will be on Monday the 18 so from that day a pope could be elected.

Thanks Wil and Con. I see the' non Italian' is up to -190. took it a week ago. Hope the money is right.

i was a little wrong in what i said:
the italian woman had £1000 on martini at 25/1, so paddy power cut him to 7/1.
a little weird when she could have gotten 50/1 elsewhere.