The link below gives spread betting prices.....seems some anomalies and punters can arbitrage some bets to their advantage:-
http://crookedtimber.org/2005/04/15/papal-betting-update/ No disrespect meant; latest prices Ivan Cardinal Dias is at 33-1. Odds have now shortened to the favourite Joseph Ratzinger. Although seems fair bit of money going on Cardinal Martini. Cardinal Polycarp of Portugal is at 12 - 1........ Paddy Power: http://www.popebetting.com/ Joseph Ratzinger (Germany) 3 - 1 Ennio Antonelli (Italy) 50 - 1 Cardinal Edward Clancy (Australia) 100 - 1 Jean-Marie Lustiger (France) 9 - 2 Cardinal Amigo Vallejo (Spain) 50 - 1 Cardinal Edward Cassidy (Australia) 100 - 1 Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini (Italy) 5 - 1 Juan Luis Cipriani (Peru) 50 - 1 Ignace Cardinal Daoud, (Roman Curia) 100 - 1 Dionigi Tettamanzi (Italy) 7 - 1 Cardinal Marc Ouellet (Canada) 50 - 1 Cardinal Rodolfo Quezada Toruno (Guatemala 100 - 1 Francis Arinze (Nigeria) 8 - 1 Cardinal Varkey Vithayathil (India) 50 - 1 Bernadin Cardinal Gantin (Benin) 100 - 1 Claudio Hummes (Brazil) 8 - 1 Cardinal George Pell (Australia) 66 - 1 Cardinal Joachim Meisner (Germany) 100 - 1 Angelo Sodano (Italy) 10 - 1 Geraldo Majella Agnelo (Brazil) 66 - 1 Cardinal Ricardo Maria Carles Gordo (Spain) 100 - 1 Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Argentina) 12 - 1 Miloslav Vlk (Czech Republic) 66 - 1 Cardinal Peter Turkson (Ghana) 100 - 1 Jose Da Cruz Policarpo (Portugal) 12 - 1 Cardinal Walter Kasper (Germany) 66 - 1 Theodore McCarrick (US) 100 - 1 Cardinal Francisco Javier Errazuriz Ossa (Chile) 14 - 1 Lopez Rodriguez (Dominican Republic) 80 - 1 Cardinal Lubomyr Husar (Ukraine) 100 - 1 Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga (Honduras) 16 - 1 Cardinal Severino Poletto (Italy) 80 - 1 Philippe Barbarin (France) 100 - 1 Keith O Brien (Scotland) 20 - 1 Silvano Piovanelli (Italy) 80 - 1 Cardinal Salvatore De Giorge (Italy) 100 - 1 Cardianl Ruini (Italy) 20 - 1 Crescenzio Sepe (Italy) 80 - 1 Aloysius Ambrozic (Canada) 100 - 1 Count Christoph von Schoenborn (Austria) 25 - 1 Archbishop Andre Vingt-Trois (France) 80 - 1 Jean Louis Pierre Tauran (Roman Curia) 100 - 1 Ivan Dias (India) 33 - 1 Cardinal Julian Herranz (Roman Curia) 100 - 1 Cardinal Desmond Connell (Ireland) 100 - 1 Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone (Italy) 33 - 1 Emmanuel Milingo (Zambia) 100 - 1 Cardinal Karl Lehnmann (Germany) 100 - 1 Giovanni Battista Re (Italy) 33 - 1 Michele Giordano (Italy) 100 - 1 Cardinal Renato Martino (Italy) 100 - 1 Cardinal Angelo Scola (Venice) 33 - 1 Cardinal Turcotte (Canada) 100 - 1 Cardinal James Francis Stafford (Roman Curia) 100 - 1 Attilio Cardinal Nicora (Roman Curia) 40 - 1 Josip Bozanic (Croatia) 100 - 1 Cardinal Thomas Williams (NZ) 100 - 1 Norberto Rivera Carrera (Mexico) 40 - 1 Vinko Puljic (Bosnia & Herzogovina) 100 - 1 Cardinal Jean-Baptiste Pham Minh Man (Vietnam) 125 - 1 Godfried Daneels (Belgium) 40 - 1 Cardinal Jorge Medina (Roman Curia) 100 - 1 Bishop John Magee (Ireland) 125 - 1 Cormac Murphy-O'Connor (UK) 40 - 1 Archbishop Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo (Venezuela) 100 - 1 Cardinal Roger Etchegaray (Italy) 125 - 1 Wilfred Napier (South Africa) 40 - 1 Diarmuid Martin (Ireland) 100 - 1 Cardinal Polycarp Pengo (Tanzania) 125 - 1 Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino (Cuba) 40 - 1 Cardinal Keeler (USA) 100 - 1 Agostino Cacciavillan (Italy) 125 - 1 Giacomo Biffi (Italy) 40 - 1 Sean Patrick O'Malley (USA) 100 - 1 Cardinal Ghattas (Egypt) 125 - 1 Cardinal Dario Castrillion Hoyos (Colombia) 40 - 1 Cardinal Justin Rigali (USA) 100 - 1 Jose Marķa Rouco Varela (Spain) 125 - 1 Cardinal Marco Ce (Italy) 50 - 1 Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz (Russia) 100 - 1 Cardinal Armand G. Razafindratandra (Madagascar) 125 - 1 Pierre Cardinal Sfeir (Lebanon) 125 - 1 -- Cheers, Gabe Menezes. London, England
