Bodog Sportsbook Posts Odds For Poker News Cup Main Event

Australian poker pro Mark Vos is a favorite to last the longest at the 2007 PokerNews Cup Main Event according to Bodog oddsmakers. (Bodog Beat Image)

The $2,700 buy-in PokerNews Cup Main Event gets underway in just a couple of days and the Bodog Sportsbook is getting in on the action by posting "last-longer" odds for some of the players in the event. From the looks of the numbers that are posted right now, the hometown boys are the overwhelming favorites. In fact, there is only one player whose odds are better than 20 to 1 who is not an Australian.

All sitting at 15 to 1 odds are Australian poker pros Mark Vos, who has a WSOP bracelet to his name, and Joe Hachem, the 2005 WSOP Champion, and the only non-Aussie, Italian Jeff Lisandro. Just behind them is another Aussie, Mel Judah, at 18 to 1. We're not sure why the "Silver Fox" is sitting three points back from the rest, maybe because he's old, or something like that.

Even though he has Lithuanian roots, Tony G is definitely more Australian than Eastern European nowadays and absolutely more from "the streets" than any of those. He sits at 15 to 1 with a few of the other poker players, but in our opinion should probably be given more favorable odds. You see, Tony G owns PokerNews. And since his editor-in-chief, John Caldwell, just won the PokerNews Cup $550 with Rebuys Event, one has to assume that people associated with PokerNews have the inside track; kind of like a "super-user account" for live poker. Therefore, our infallible logic says that Tony G will win it all. You heard it here folks.

Head over to the Bodog Sportsbook and check out all of the 2007 PokerNews Cup betting odds and see if you think you have an inside track on who will last longer.