Big Brother 10 Betting Odds and Strategy - Place a Free Bet

Big Brother is a reality show popular across several countries. The Big Brother 9 Finale was watched by 19 million viewers. A lot of betting takes place when the Big Brother season is on. Betting is perfectly legal for UK residents and in most parts of Europe although it is not legal in India and some other parts of the world. A large percentage of the bets are on predicting the name of the winner. Odds vary depending on the perceived probability of the winner. Big Brother 10 premiered on UK television on June 4, 2009.

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There are many types of bets that bookmakers are taking on Big Brother. The most popular bet is of course, about predicting the winner of Big Brother 10. Ironically while the winner will get something like £100,000 from Big Brother 10, the total number of bets on this reality show will run into millions of pounds. To predict the winner of Big Brother 10, we analyze the previous winners and their descriptions. Here're the winners from the earlier seasons of Big Brother UK.

From nine seasons, in six of them, the winner has been male while in two seasons, the winner was female. In Big Brother 5, the winner was a transsexual (born male!). Clearly, for some reason it's a major advantage to be a male when you're a participant of Big Brother. There has been only one winner above the age of 30 - Cameron Stout. Six out of these nine winners were below the age of 25. This may be because most of the audience of reality shows like Big Brother is younger. There has been only one gay winner so far - Brian Dowling and one transsexual - Nadia Almada (Born Jorge Leodoro).

Here's an overview of the participants in Big Brother 10. Our analysis is at the end of this overview.

1. Rodrigo Lopes
   Rodrigo Lopes is a 23-year-old half-Italian, half-Brazilian student. Rodrigo admits to dating both men and women and thinks that he 'may be gay'. He is 23 and a student.
2. Fredrick George Fisher
   Fredrick George Fisher is a 23-year-old entrepreneur from Market Drayton, Shropshire in UK. He belongs to a wealthy family and doesn't like it when people attribute all his success to his family wealth. Fredrick claims that he does not own a television and has never watched big brother. He aspires to be a rockstar. Fredrick comes across as a bundle of contradictions.
3. Charlie Drummond
   Charlie is a 22-year-old customer service advisor based in Newcastle. Charlie won the Newcastle heat of Mr Gay UK in 2007 and is also a part-time model now.
4. Kris Donnelly
   Kris is a 24-year-old part-time model and a College dropout.
5. Siavash Sabbaghpour
   Siavash Sabbaghpour is a 22-year-old event organizer from Iran. He wants to become a fashion designer or stylist and had enrolled at University to study fashion but dropped out midway.
6. Sree Dasari
   Sree Dasari is a 25-year-old male of Indian origin and recently came to the United Kingdom to study for a master’s degree in business. He grew up with cleaners and cooks and is not used to doing all these tasks himself. He aspires to be an actor, the Prime Minister or a celebrity of some sort. He claims that he will remain a virgin until he marries.
7. Cairon Austin Hill
   Cairon Austin Hill is an 18-year-old male. He was born in London and moved to Florida when he was just one-year-old. He returned to London recently to live with his father. He has a way with girls and his father describes him as 'Casanova'.
8. Marcus Akin
   Marcus Akin is a 35-year-old window fitter from London. He considers himself a child in a man's body and would love to be a porn star.
9. Noirin Kelly
   Noirin Kelly is a 25-year-old retail manager. She is a former All-Ireland athletics champion. Noirin Kelly is a strong believer in education. She believes her own drawback is speaking before she thinks.
10. Beinazir Lashaire
    Beinazir Lashaire, 28, was named after late Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto. She fled Pakistan when she was one-year-old with her father was a staunch supporter of Benazir Bhutto. The family received asylum in UK.
11. Sophie Reade
    Sophie Reade is a 20-year-old former Playboy model. She says her parents are unaware about her profession. Sophie would like to be President of England some day. She likes US President Barack Obama because 'his daughters are cute' according to her. Sophie hates being considered a blonde bimbo.
12. Angel McKenzie
    Angel is a 35-year-old female professional boxer and artist from south London who claims that his music was famous all over Russia at one point of time. She's an ex-rock star from Moscow.
13. Lisa Wallace
    Lisa is a 41-year-old female from Birmingham. She's a lesbian and finds Angelina Jolie attractive. She is currently unemployed.
14. Sophia Brown
    Sophia is a 26-year-old private banking assistant in London. She is 4'11" in height and suffers from lupus. As a student she considered becoming a lawyer but gave up because she thought it would be boring.
15. Karly Ashworth
    Karly is a 21-year-old part-time model and currently unemployed. She is very vocal about women's rights, domestic violence and empowerment of women. She was accepted to study art and design at Dundee University but dropped out in less than a month
16. Saffia Corden
    Saffia Corden is a 27-year-old beauty consultant and a mother of two kids. She's a single mother and is taking part in Big Brother 10 because she wants to have some direction in her life.
    

While it wouldn't be very easy to predict the winner of Big Brother 10 at this stage, there are some contestants who have a definite disadvantage. As we have analyzed, there has been only one winner so far over the age of 30. This is probably because younger audiences prefer someone their age and more glamorous. Angel McKenzie and Marcus Akin, both 35 years of age are much older than most previous winners and will find it tough to make it. Prospects of Lisa Wallace, a 41-year-old lesbian being able to win also seem dim. Her peacock appearance doesn't help either. Eliminating these three contestants leaves us with 12 names. Currently the odds for Lisa Wallance are 15/1. They are 26/1 for Angel McKenzie and 13/1 for Marcus Akin.

Rodrigo Lopes is currently the favorite with bookmakers offering odds between 3.5 and 5 for him.

There's also a side-bet about the gender of the winner. Not surprisingly bookmakers believe the winner is more likely to be male. Of the nine seasons of Big Brother so far, in six of them the winner was male. Odds for a male winner are 1.44 while they are 2.62 for a female winner.

Sree Dasari is of Indian origin and a dark horse in the race. Being from India may work in his favor. When Shilpa Shetty, a Bollywood actress won Celebrity Big Brother in 2007, it spiked the viewership of the Indian version of Big Brother - 'Big Boss'. UK has a significant Indian population and voting could swing in his favor.

Fredrick George Fisher,Kris Donnelly, Sree Dasari, Cairon Austin Hill are all straight guys below the age of 25. Most earlier winners of Big Brother UK have been straight and 25 years or younger. If the pattern continues, one of these could emerge as the winner.  This isn't to discount the female players, some of whom can have increasing popularity over the next few weeks. Sophie Reade as a former playboy model especially has an advantage. Currently the odds offered for these players are Fredrick George Fisher 15/1, Kris Donnelly 8.5/1, Sree Dasari 16/1, Cairon Austin Hill  9/1 and Sophia 9/1. With very little information available about Big Brother 10 at this point of time, the odds are much better than they will be over the next few weeks. Click here to check the latest odds for Big Brother 10 betting.

Several bookmakers offer betting on Big Brother 10. Please ensure that it is legal in your country to bet online. It is legal to do so from UK and parts of Europe but is not legal if you're based in India.