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The Premier League is the worlds biggest sporting competition in terms of revenue, number of people watching, wages, attendance and pretty much any other stat you want to look at; including betting, accounting for over half of bets placed on football in the UK.

Let's face it the league is elitist and based on money, and for a long time this caused stagnation with three teams dominating the first 20 years; Man Utd, Chelsea and Arsenal. Lately, however, the league has gained a new competitive streak, most notably with Leicester winning in 2015 and then two new dominant forces arising in Liverpool and Man City, who look set to continue their battle in 2022-23, in the way United and Arsenal did 15 years ago - that is except the level is now much higher, as seen with Liverpool coming second in 2019 with an astonishing 97 points.

In the UK 70% of bets are placed on football and nearly three quarters of those wagers go on the Premier League, making this one event responsible for around half of all bets placed. Considering this if you bet on the PL you would be insane not to search around for the best offers and odds from our leading bookies. Read our detailed guide for more.

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The 2023 EFL Cup gets underway with the first round starting the week of the 10th August. The games then come quick and fast through the autumn and winter in order to complete the competition by February. That doesn't however mean teams won't want to play seriously for the silverware that could come. Manchester City have won six of the last nine finals since 2014 and have come to own the competition of late. The only other teams to win in that time are Liverpool and Chelsea. Then again this is a cup competition and anything can happen, this will be in City's mind too having been beaten in one of the biggest FA Cup shocks when Wigan overcame them in the 2012 final.

With Man City likely to dominate the Premier League again it gives added importance for the League Cup where it will be high on the list for teams like Tottenham, Chelsea, Arsenal, Spurs and Man United as a way to earn silverware to grow their teams. Equally upcoming teams like Everton, Newcastle and Wolves could get a lot out of a good EFL Cup run.

For 2023 the quarter and semi-finals are delayed due to the World Cup with the quarters now taking place in January and the Semi's in Jan/Feb, the only game held at a neutral venue is the final at Wembley on 26th February 2023.

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The final grand slam of the year takes place across 22 courts at the USTA National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, Queens, New York. The event was founded in 1881 and a originally played on grass courts until moving to the National Tennis Center in 1978 when it switched to hard courts. In fact, between 1975 and 1978 it was played on clay too, making it the only Open to have been held on all three surfaces. The USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, being typically American, boast the largest tennis court in the world, the Arthur Ashe Stadium (pictured), holding just shy of 24,000 people.

For 2022 the field for both the men's and women's is more wide open than ever, with four or five men that could easily win it, including three time winner Djokovic, four time winner Nadal and five time winner Roger Feeder. On the women's side it is even more diverse since six time winner Serena Williams has struggled to regain her grand slam form since giving birth. She is still a in the mix but with 13 or 14 players all prices under 20/1 this tells you how hard it is to predict.

Amazon have the rights to broadcast the US Open in the UK until 2022, although if you have a funded account you can stream all games live with Bet365.

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With all the majors no complete for the year it is time to see who will win the race to be crowned the PGA tour champion and winning the 2021 FedEx Cup. The player with the most points after the final event on the 28th August will become the champion.

The players in the top 125 positions in the points rankings will take part in a series of three play-off events starting with The Northern Trust in New Jersey from 8th August. The top 70 ranked players after this event will then take part in the BMW Championship in Illinois starting 15th August. Finally the remaining 30 top ranked players go through to the Tour Championship in Georgia from 22nd August.

The winner will receive a $15 prize, in addition to individual prizes from each event, plus an exception for the need to qualify for the PGA tour for 5 years.

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When we think about elite summer flat racing it is easy to jump straight from Royal Ascot and Goodwood to the St Leger at Doncaster in September. Sandwiched in the middle, however, is the Ebor Festival, held at one of the most beautiful and iconic northern England racecourses in the historic city of York.

Ebor is an abbreviation of the Latin Eboracum, the early Roman name for York. The festival was established all the way back in 1843 with the Ebor Handicap, now a heritage handicap it has been run almost every year since. It takes place on the final day over 1 mile, 5 furlongs and 188 yards and carries an impressive prize fund, one of the biggest in the world for a handicap, of over £500,000.

This is a four day event however and is not just about the Ebor Handicap. There are 24 other races at the meeting, nearly half of which are group races, made up of 3 group one races, 4 group two and three group 3. Alongside these are a further 14 handicap, heritage handicap, listed and conditions races between 5 furlongs and 1 mile 6 furlongs, that will give plenty of spectacle to racegoers and viewers alike.

With the flat season well underway and the horses entering into the peak season condition this meeting is very much loved by punters and the betting companies, and is often used to try to attract summer racing bettors - and that means good prices and decent offers are available.

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The St Leger dates all the way back to 1776; it is as much a part of classic British summer time as the Henley Regatta, Wimbledon or Royal Ascot. With no less than 28 races over four days, 7 of which are group races, including; the Doncaster Cup, Champagne Stakes, Park Stakes, Flying Childers Stakes, May Hill stakes and Park Hill stakes, this is without doubt one of the biggest racing meetings on the flat racing calendar.

The group 1 St Leger on the final day of course dominates the card. It is the longest of the British classics, run over 1 mile, 6 furlongs and 115 yards and commands a prize fund in excess of three quarters of a million pounds with over £420,000 for the winner. A mainstay of the flat racing calendar, it is perhaps not as prestigious as it once was with subsequent modern events like British Champions Day still to come, but it is still one of the most loved and watched races in the world.

Being one of the final big group races of the flat season the bookies will have tons of offers and features for this meeting. It is also a good one for punters who at this point can have more certainty of the horses in form as they hit the peak of the season.

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The Hundred is a new 100-ball cricket tournament to be hosted over the school summer holidays in England and Wales. The new format event has eight new teams of 15 players, these were drawn in a draft in April, two players were selected from each of seven salary bands (£125k, £100k, £75k, £60k, £50k, £40k, £30k) plus a central contract England player (e.g. Ben Stokes). Each team were allowed 3 overseas players and two local icons. The teams and venues are:

• Birmingham Pheonix (Edgbaston)
• London Spirit (Lord's)
• Manchester Originals (Old Trafford)
• Northern Superchargers (Headingly)
• Oval Invincibles (The Oval)
• Southern Brave (The Rose Bowl)
• Trent Rockets (Trent Bridge)
• Welsh Fire (Sophia Gardens)

There will be 56 league games played in total over 5 weeks (32 men's and 24 women's), the league matches (each team playing 4 home and 4 away games) followed by a play-off. The top two teams play each other with the winner going straight to the final. The 3rd & 4th placed teams play each other, the winner of this game plays the loser of the first play-off match, the winner of this game goes to the final.

There are several changes for The Hundred that divert from conventional cricket, such as, the removal of the traditional 6 ball over. Instead bowlers can bowl 5 or 10 balls (max 20 / game / bowler), end change after 10 balls, 25 ball power play, timeouts and more.

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Horse racing as about the individuals and always has been. Therefore, the racing league is a novel concept in that it is a team event, comparable to the Ryder Cup in golf. 7 regional teams compete with 7 jockeys each and horses provided from trainers across the regions, over 125 trainers signed up for 2022. There are six flat racing meetings over the summer with 7 races at each meeting. The 6 3yo+ handicap races at each meeting have a prize fund of £50,000 and the 2yo handicap race carries a purse of £25,000. Teams win points for their position, from 25 points for a win to 1 point for 10th place with the overall champions winning a team bonus.

• Doncaster - 04/08
• Lingfield - 11/08
• Newcastle - 25/08
• Windsor - 01/09
• Southwell - 08/09
• Newcastle - 15/09

Horses will be over 3 yo with a 0-90 rating or 2yo 0-85. The team manager decides who runs for their team in what race. Each race has 14 runners with 2 from each team.

Besides being a novel concept it is also interesting from a betting perspective with a whole host of new markets and offers available that have never been seen before. Bookies will obviously be pushing this and so expect good value odds and deals if you shop around.

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