{"id":96357,"date":"2016-06-26T09:40:42","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T07:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=96357"},"modified":"2016-06-26T09:40:39","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T07:40:39","slug":"how-game-of-thrones-will-end-according-to-people-with-big-money-on-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/96357-how-game-of-thrones-will-end-according-to-people-with-big-money-on-it","title":{"rendered":"How Game of Thrones will end \u2014 according to people with big money on it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Note:<\/strong> spoilers for Game of Thrones season 5 ahead. That\u2019s the previous season, not the current one.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sportingbet.co.za has revealed that a significant number of betters are putting their money on no-one gaining the Iron Throne by the end of Game of Thrones.<\/p>\n<p>Its \u201c<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportingbet.co.za\/sports-specials\/1--1-1248865--1-1248873--1-1249445--1-1249582.html\" target=\"_blank\">No Ruler &#8211; Throne Destroyed<\/a><\/strong>\u201d bet has shorted from 100-to\u20131, to just 7-to\u20131 in a matter of days.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a <strong>14% chance<\/strong> that the Iron Throne is no more by the end of the series.<\/p>\n<p>According to Sportingbet, <strong>Daenerys Targaryen<\/strong> has the highest chance (<strong>29%<\/strong>) of ending up on the throne.<\/p>\n<p>Petyr Baelish (25%), Jon Snow (23%), and Arya Stark (22%) are next closest.<\/p>\n<p>You can also put money on who will win \u201c<strong>Cleganebowl<\/strong>\u201d \u2014 the expected fight between Sandor \u2018The Hound\u2019 Clegane (50% to win) and Gregor \u2018The Mountain\u2019 Clegane (58% to win).<\/p>\n<p>Note that bets on Cleganebowl are void if there is no fight before end of Final TV series. One of the brothers must die for bets to pay out.<\/p>\n<p>Other Game of Thrones related bets including who Jon Snow\u2019s mother is, and whether Stannis Baratheon is alive.<\/p>\n<p>Sporting bet is giving 17-to\u20131 odds (an almost <strong>6%<\/strong> chance) that <strong>Stannis lives<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lyanna Stark<\/strong> is given a <strong>90%<\/strong> chance of being Jon\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n<p>Sportingbet told MyBroadband that it takes numerous factors into account to calculate these probabilities.<\/p>\n<p>However, it explained that the most important step in setting the odds for markets like these is that once money starts flowing, traders need to monitor and adjust the odds to reflect the market opinion and ensure value.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More on Game of Thrones<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/169335-send-game-of-thrones-spoilers-to-your-enemies.html\"><strong>Send Game of Thrones spoilers to your enemies<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/164278-hbo-fighting-game-of-thrones-piracy.html\"><strong>HBO fighting Game of Thrones piracy<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/163172-massive-piracy-of-game-of-thrones-season-6-premiere-in-south-africa.html\"><strong>Massive piracy of Game of Thrones season 6 premiere in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/121604-new-game-of-thrones-in-sa-at-the-same-time-as-us.html\"><strong>New Game of Thrones in SA at the same time as US<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A South African bookmaker has revealed who their money is on to eventually sit the Iron Throne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163,"featured_media":94977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4555,19771],"class_list":["post-96357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-game-of-thrones","tag-sportingbet-co-za"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96369,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96357\/revisions\/96369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}